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The Bright Method Podcast: Realistic Time Management and Productivity for Working Women & Working Moms

Ready for a time management approach that is actually designed for professional working women – ones that help you lighten the mental load, draw boundaries with more confidence, focus on the important (not just urgent) stuff at work, and be present with friends and family?

Podcast host, Kelly Nolan, an attorney-turned-time management strategist, mom of two, and creator of the Bright Method™, delivers practical, realistic time management strategies tailored for busy professional women, working moms, and ambitious women juggling careers and home life.

We cover topics like:

How to time-block in a way that actually works and avoid common time-blocking mistakes,

How to manage the mental load around all of our roles at work and at home,

How to handle work deadlines with less stress and scramble,

How to keep distractions in check, from social media to people swinging by your office, and

How to plan in a realistic way so you can feel on top of it all and avoid overcommitment.

Whether you’re a lawyer, physician, executive, woman in corporate, professor, entrepreneur, or any woman navigating a full plate, this podcast gives you tools to design a sustainable system that works for your real life—not a Pinterest-perfect version of it.

Follow now, and let’s get you falling asleep proud of what you got done today and calm about what’s on tap tomorrow.

Copyright: © 2023

Latest Episodes:

61. Goli Kalkhoran of Lessons from a Quitter & Resisting the Desire to be the "Perfect Employee" Jul 22, 2024

Show notes

Too often, we women struggle to say no at work to keep our workload reasonable and maintain boundaries because we want to be a "good employee," which many of us subconsciously believe means we need to be the "perfect employee." As a result, we say yes to things we don't want to do, answer emails at night, are always on Teams/Slack, etc.

Let's talk about how to handle these thoughts so that we can reclaim more control of our time.

To do that, I am thrilled to have Goli Kalkhoran of Lessons from a Quitter join us. I've been a big fan of Goli and her work for a long time, so it's a true honor to have her on the podcast.

For those of you who don't know her, Goli Kalkhoran is Master Certified Life Coach, and former attorney, who helps unfulfilled professionals create a career (and life) they actually like. She is the host of the Lessons from a Quitter podcast where she uses her platform to de-stigmatize quitting and provide resources and inspiration to individuals looking to pivot in their established careers. She challenges people to exceed their own expectations and guides them through the initial steps of starting over in order to build a more intentional, fulfilling life.

Learn more about Goli's work at:

https://www.quitterclub.com/class

https://www.lessonsfromaquitter.com/quitterclub

And definitely check out her podcast, Lessons from a Quitter.

Enjoy – and let me know what you think!

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

60. Mistakes: How to Recover & Move Forward Using the Bright Method Jul 08, 2024

Show notes

If you're like me, making a mistake can wash you in shame and derail you for a period of time. Let's talk about some guiding principles that have helped me, including advice I've received from others and ways I've used the Bright Method to help me get out of that mistake shame spiral.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

59. For Parents: The One-Year Shakeup & the Divvy of Labor Jun 24, 2024

Show notes

Without any scientific data to back me up, I believe kids push parents into traditional gender norms (at least in same-sex couples) because of legitimate (though frustrating) biological reasons during that first year with a baby. Because of that, kid (and home) labor gets unevenly distributed to women, and this pattern of the labor division gets established. And then, because of the new crazy pace of life with a kid, the pattern persists beyond the first year and beyond any legitimate rationale for it.

Let's talk about this and how we can get intentional around it to at least prevent the pattern from persisting beyond any rationale for it.

This is also obviously informed by my own experience. I would love to hear your thoughts – positive or negative – around this. Email me at kelly@kellynolan.com.

And please feel free to send this episode to a friend, too! Thank you!

Other resources that might be relevant:

Time Management Tips for New Moms (Majka)

13 Strategies to Plan Maternity Leave

What Do Working Moms Do During The Summer

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

58. The Summer Episode: Three Tips about Summer Work, Travel, & Working Parent Logistics Jun 10, 2024

Show notes

Hi there! Hopefully this is the last episode with bad sound quality. (Reminder: I'm in a rental and had to switch up my sound set-up in the move – and apparently did not do well). I tried to fix it once I realized it (we'll see how I did next episode), but I'd already recorded this one.

Today, we'll talk three sets of summer tips:

First, around workload in the summer and intentional slowing down where you want to;
Second, around summer travel; and
Third, for working parents, some tips around logistics.

For more resources on these topics, check out:

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

57. Ugh An Election Year: How to Protect Your Peace of Mind Jun 03, 2024

Show notes

Just a heads up that the sound quality is worse. We're in a rental now, and I need to figure out the recording quality again. Thanks for sticking with me through it!

Turning to the substance, we all know the election is this year. Before it consumes us whole, let's talk about some practical things we can put in place to help us protect our peace of mind and sanity through it – while also being as involved as we want to be.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

56. Not Letting Overactive Loyalty Prevent Us From Drawing Boundaries at Work May 27, 2024

Show notes

Many of us (myself included) have deep loyalty to many in our lives, and sometimes, it causes us to make decisions about work that are different than what we want or tolerate situations at work much longer than makes us happy.

My dad gave me incredibly useful advice on this front when I was 25 that's stuck with me since then. Let's talk about it – with the aim of helping us reign in that overactive loyalty so we can draw boundaries at work.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

55. "You waste years by not being able to waste hours": The Critical Role Planning Plays May 20, 2024

Show notes

American culture is fixated on DOING – and those of us in it struggle to stop the doing to plan and prioritize. This quote caught my attention on that front: "You waste years by not being able to waste hours." The quote is by Amos Tversky and doesn't relate to planning, but it made me think that we do risk wasting weeks, months, and years by not planning and prioritizing where we want to go. Busyness without direction doesn't always get us where we want to go.

Let's discuss – and walk through what this means from a practical perspective.

Other episodes referenced:

Prioritization - Ep. 4 - "How to prioritize in a way that actually works"
Weekly planning session - Ep. 8 - "Your new weekly planning session"
Annual planning/Thinking Time - Ep. 33 - "Long-term planning: How to feel like YOU & create long-term plans"

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website about two weeks after the episode is published. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

54. Ever-changing schedules: If you or your partner have ever-different weeks bc of your job, this one is for you May 13, 2024

Show notes

For people with ever-different schedules, from ER physicians and nurses to pilots, this episode is for you!

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website about two weeks after the episode is published. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

53. Commutes & Non-Commutes: Transitioning from Home to Work and Back May 06, 2024

Show notes

Someone asked me on Instagram to address commutes from a time management perspective. So, let's dig into some strategies for traditional commutes & non-commutes for the days you WFH. A full transcript of this episode is available on my website about two weeks after the episode is published. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

52. [Listen before you rule it out] Hiring a House Manager with Kelly Hubbell of Sage Haus Apr 29, 2024

Show notes

Listen to at least the first five minutes before you decide whether or not this episode is for you. And I'd love to hear your feedback.

Resources mentioned:

Episode 29 of the Bright Method podcast regarding Outsourcing, including our complicated emotions around the topic
Here's where to find more about Kelly Hubbell of Sage Haus:
Website - https://www.mysagehaus.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mysagehaus/
Store - https://stan.store/mysagehaus

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website about two weeks after the episode is published. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

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