How I Work

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Chris Guillebeau on why perfectionism gets in the way of success Jul 31, 2019

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My guest today is Chris Guillebeau. Chris is a New York Times bestselling author and modern-day explorer, having visited every country in the world (193 in total) before his 35th birthday. You might have come across Chris’s work into side hustles because he is the author of The $100 Startup, Side Hustle and most recently, 100 Side Hustles. And his daily podcast Side Hustle School is downloaded more than 2 million times a month.

In this chat, we cover:* Why Chris starts his day with email* Why Chris has finally put on an email auto-responder after ten years of avoiding doing it* How Chris manages a daily release schedule for his podcast - and why he doesn’t batch the recording of episodes* How perfectionism can get in the way of success* The importance of daily habits* Why Chris didn’t find time tracking a useful activity* Using waiting time productively* Tips for better travel

Learn more about Chris here, grab a copy of his books, and check out his daily podcast Side Hustle School.

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My Favourite Tip: Carolyn Creswell on her annual self-improvement routine Jul 29, 2019

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My favourite tip from my chat with Carman's Museli founder Carolyn Creswell was her annual self-improvement routine.

You can find the full interview here.

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Marcus Buckingham on the four questions he asks himself every week Jul 24, 2019

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My guest today is Marcus Buckingham. Marcus is the author of a stack of best-selling books, including First, Break All the Rules, Now, Discover Your Strengths, The One Thing You Need to Know, and Stand Out, to name a few. His latest book, Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World (Harvard Business Publishing, 2019) takes an in-depth look at the lies that pervade our workplaces and the core truths that will help us change it for the better.

Marcus has appeared on “Larry King Live,” “The Today Show” and “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and now leads People + Performance research at the ADP Research Institute and remains CEO The Marcus Buckingham Company (TMBC).

I was keen to get Marcus on the show as he is someone who challenges the status quo of how organisations operate, and I was keen to see how he had applied his advice in his own life.

In our chat, we cover:

The four questions Marcus asks himself every week
Why "do what you love" is bad advice
Why “work-life balance” is an unhelpful concept
How Marcus has reduced the amount of work he loathes and increased the amount of work he loves
How Marcus reframed how he thinks about networking and mingling to find it more enjoyable
How Marcus made firing people a less awful task
Marcus’s process for creating great keynote presentations
How Marcus thinks about the opening of his speeches
Why the annual planning process organisations use is broken - and how to fix it
Why Marcus thinks about work as a collection of projects

Find out more about Marcus via his website, get your hands on his most recent book Nine Lies About Work, and sign up to the Freethinking Leader Coalition.

Visit https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes.

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The best types of breaks to take at work (that improve your health) Jul 22, 2019

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This episode looks at the best types of breaks to take at work, according to science.

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How to make unlimited paid leave work Jul 17, 2019

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This episode looks at unlimited paid leave - and how to make it work for your business.

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A simple hack that will make all other productivity advice work better Jul 15, 2019

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This episode looks at a simple hack for making all productivity advice work better.

To assess your Chronotype, check out the Morningness-Eveningness questionnaire.

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My Favourite Tip: Nancy Duarte on her process for creating and delivering presentations Jul 10, 2019

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My favourite tip from my chat with global authority on storytelling and presentations, Nancy Duarte, on her own process for creating and delivering presentations.

You can find the full interview here.

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My Favourite Tip: Eddie Perfect on how to cope with negative feedback Jul 08, 2019

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My favourite tip from my chat with singer/actor/writer Eddie Perfect was his strategies for coping with negative feedback.

You can find the full interview here.

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Broad City's Abbi Jacobson on productive procrastination, imposter syndrome, and how a dog changed her headspace. Jul 03, 2019

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My guest today is Abbi Jacobson. Abbi is a co-creator, writer, director, executive producer and star of the critically-acclaimed Comedy Central show Broad City, with Ilana Glazer. And that’s how I first became familiar with her work. I am a hard core fan of Broad City and would go so far to say I think it’s the funniest show on TV right now (although it recently wrapped it’s fifth and final season). Seriously, if you have not watched Broad City or have no idea what I am talking about check it out.

Aside from Broad City, Abbi has done a stack of things ranging from voicing the character “Bean” in Netflix’s series Disenchantment by Matt Groenig, hosting the podcast A Piece of Work with WNYC and MoMA, in which she discusses modern and contemporary art.

Oh and she has also written and illustrated a stack of NYT best-selling books, ranging from, I Might Regret This (a memoir style collection of essays), her illustrated book, Carry This Book, and two coloring books called: Color This Book: New York City and Color This Book: San Francisco.

We cover: