Derek Reimers is a stand up comic and while doing comedy he meets a lot of interesting people and he thinks you should me them too. Derek Interiews all kinds of artists, musicians and other creative people talking about their childhood, why they chose the path they're on and what they want to accomplish in the future. Available on itunes, Google Play and Stitcher.
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What’s Barack Obama’s #1 piece of advice for young people? “Just learn how to get stuff done.” Whether we’re young or more seasoned, we can all get better at this essential skill. So let’s find out how people do, in fact, get stuff done.
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Judson Rollins - What To Do When Work Is Like Drinking From a Fire Hose
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Is working in management consulting as glamorous as it seems? What’s the best thing you can do to improve your public speaking skills? How can you use different pricing strategies to scale up your business? Welcome back to How They Get Stuff Done. Today I’m speaking with Judson Rollins. Judson is an aviation strategy consultant and a monetization a…
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Derek Sivers - What Do You Need to Believe Right Now?
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Why does Game of Thrones cost $70,000 to watch? What happens when you choose to believe that everything is your responsibility? And why do smart people not think that others are stupid? Welcome back to How They Get Stuff Done. Today I’m speaking with Derek Sivers. Derek Sivers has been a musician, a circus performer, an entrepreneur, and a TED spea…
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Jack Ellis - How to Run a Company People-First
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Jack Ellis is the co-founder of Fathom Analytics, a privacy-first Google Analytics alternative. Jack also teaches an online course on Laravel, a popular PHP framework, and hosts his own podcast, Above Board, where he discusses running an indie and bootstrapped software company. Jack and I discuss: How he runs his company people-first What happens w…
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Floris van der Pol - Living Without a Smartphone and Reading 100 Books a Year
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Floris van der Pol is a Dutch philosopher, writer, and self-described “reading addict”. He publishes book reviews on YouTube as well as videos on reading more generally and on living without a smartphone, which he has done for years now. Floris also writes a newsletter with essays on philosophy and literature. I met Floris in a course I was taking …
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Derrick Reimer from SavvyCal - Can You Regain Your Confidence After Failing?
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Derrick Reimer is the founder of SavvyCal, a tool for scheduling meetings that both you and the people you are scheduling with will love. He's also the co-founder of Drip, a marketing automation tool, and he is the host of the Art of Product podcast. I have long enjoyed using an app to schedule my meetings. For example, I scheduled meetings with my…
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Dianna Allen - From Writing About Garage Doors to Building Two Successful Businesses
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Dianna Allen is the founder of two businesses: TERRA, a lifestyle shop that focuses on scented candles and Inventora, an app that helps businesses who handmade products track their inventory. I first heard about Dianna earlier this year—or perhaps it was last year—when my girlfriend mentioned some girl who said she was starting a candle shop and wa…
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Steph Smith - Why There Used to Be No Such Thing as “Priorities”
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Steph Smith is a growth marketer, writer, and indie maker. She works for The Hustle, helping to run one of the world’s largest newsletters. But she has lots of her own projects. She has written a book about content marketing, she runs an online course about time management, and she has a podcast about, quote, “shit you don’t learn in school”, unquo…
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Andrew Barry - How to Make (Online & Offline) Learning Suck Less
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Andrew Barry helps people teach better online. He owns and runs a training business in which he helps rapidly growing companies educate their people and their customers. Separately, he works with online course creators, helping them to create engaging cohort-based courses. Andrew also hosts his own podcast, titled “How Did You Learn That?” Over the…
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Matt Ragland - Should You Use an Analog Task Management System?
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Matt Ragland is a productivity teacher, like myself. He has worked for ConvertKit, an email service provider I use and love and for Podia, an online course platform, which I used to launch my business. These days, he helps people—and particularly makers and creators—be more productive. He does that with courses, videos on YouTube, and on his own po…
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Jonathan Stark - Getting Good at This Skill Will Change Everything
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“If you are not interested in helping your clients, then you should just stick to employment.” Jonathan Stark is a former software developer who is on a mission to rid the world of hourly billing. He is the author of Hourly Billing Is Nuts, the host of the Ditching Hourly podcast, and writes a daily newsletter on pricing for independent professiona…
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Brigitte Gemme - Cooking (Vegan Food) Productively
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“It was always in the back of my mind: what am I going to do for dinner? … Having what I’m going to cook sorted out releases my mental energy.” Brigitte Gemme is a researcher by training. She has a PhD in sociology and she worked at the intersection of government, universities, and industry, particularly on the topic of natural resource management …
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Dave Ceddia - What If You Weren’t Always Productive?
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“It doesn’t have to be perfect consistency. It doesn’t have to be every single day. If you intended to work out five days this week, but you only got two… you’re still exercising.” Dave Ceddia is a user interface developer. He builds UIs with React, a Javascript library, and he also teaches people how to use React in a book and a course, both calle…
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Janelle Allen - Don’t Use a Coach for This
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Janelle Allen helps business owners optimize their marketing strategy. For example, she recently worked with Crowdcast, a webinar platform, and if you check out Crowdcast’s website today, you’ll see that it’s so clear compared with what it used to be like. Janelle also teaches small groups of primarily service-based business owners to create and ma…
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Jesse Mecham - The Surprising Parallels Between Budgeting and Time Management
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“Email is like trying to save money, but every day walking through the mall.” Jesse Mecham is the founder of You Need a Budget, or YNAB, an app that helps you gain control of your money. Until just a few weeks ago, Jesse was also the CEO of YNAB, a company with more than a hundred employees. He has also written a book and he hosts a podcast, both o…
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Peter’s Story - From “Vacuuming Causes Stress” to Working From Tropical Islands
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Today, I’m telling you my story. Many people have asked me to share my story and to explain how I work and why I do the things the way I do. So this is a solo episode, just me telling you about my life over the past nine years. Some topics I cover: What working as an economic/litigation consultant for a top firm was like How I burned out and what b…
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Graham Cochrane - Immediately Eliminate These Tasks
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“If you only have two hours a day and you need to get paid, is posting to Instagram Stories really gonna put money in your bank account?” Graham Cochrane is an entrepreneur, podcaster, YouTuber, and business coach. In 2009, after getting laid off twice in one year, he started to teach people how to record professional-sounding music from home. That…
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Corbett Barr - This Is How You Should Measure Productivity
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“If I have something on my calendar that I’m dreading, I have to be really careful about it. If I let myself get obsessed with the fact that I don’t want to do it, then it can throw off my entire day.” Corbett Barr has been self-employed on the Internet since 2005, earning a living from blogging, podcasting, online courses, software services, and m…
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Jessica Eley - You’ll Always Feel Shitty Unless You Do This
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“If I would have heard me ten years ago, I would have been like… that lady is on something. Like, you cannot get things done like that. And yet, I accomplish so much more now.” Jessica Eley is a mindset coach for high-achievers. She helps them reach their big goals without feeling shitty in the process. Wondering what a mindset coach is? You might …
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Marina Díaz - What Happens When You Start Loving Your Mornings
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“I’d rather be really working when I’m working and really be with my kid when I’m with my kid.” Marina Díaz is a psychologist and online course creator. Her courses cover a variety of topics: one is a therapeutic writing course based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Another teaches how to build an effective morning routine—something we d…
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Steve Pavlina - This Is How You Should Think About Your Work
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Today I’m speaking with Steve Pavlina. Steve is one of the world’s most successful personal development bloggers. To date, he has had over 100 million visits to his website. Steve has also written more than 1,700 articles on a range of personal growth topics, including productivity. He offers several courses—one of which we discuss in the episode—a…
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Francesco D’Alessio - This is How You Reach Out to Influential People
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Today I’m speaking with Francesco D’Alessio. Francesco is the creator behind the Keep Productive YouTube channel, where he helps his 200,000 subscribers find the most suitable productivity tools for work and life. Like myself, Francesco is an online course creator: for example, he offers courses on the productivity tools Notion and Obsidian. France…
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Sabyasachi Sengupta - How a Good Morning Routine Can Help You Write a Book
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Today I’m speaking with Sabyasachi Sengupta. Originally from India, Saby now lives and works in Amsterdam as a business developer at ABN AMRO. He is an accomplished speaker, having won the European Championship of Public Speaking, and he speaks professionally even during global pandemics. Saby recently published “What’s Your Plan B? Turn Adversity …
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Episode 11 Conrad Holmberg: The slavaged edition
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Last time we uploaded this episode something went screwy with our software and the file was corrupted. Luckily we were able to save all the best parts of this one. Conrad Holmberg is a computer scientist, stand-up comedian and Television host. Check this one out!!!By Derek Reimers
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This week we have Coe Snyder! Coe is a comedian in Honolulu and has an awesome company called Right On The Buttons! where he makes custom buttons, key chains and all kinds of other accessories. You can find them on Facebook at Facebook.com/Rightonthebuttons. We talk about being in the boy scouts, Rick and Morty and all kinds of other things. This c…
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This week we have local drag star Candi Shell! We talk about growing up in a small town, discovering who you are and Derek learns a lot! Make sure to subscribe on iTunes, Google Music and Stitcher and leave a review!By Derek Reimers
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