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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:

82. Protecting Time for Your Health Dec 30, 2024

Show notes

One of the most common time management pain points many women experience is trying to find time (and energy) for their own health, whether that's working out, eating how they want, sleeping, and even medical appointments. Let's discuss.

Referenced episodes:

Ep. 33. Long-Term Planning: How to feel like YOU & create long-term plans
Ep. 29. Outsourcing at Home
Ep. 9. Strategies to Get More Ease In Your Life

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.

81. Too Many Meetings! Time Management Tips When You Meetings Prevent You From Doing Your Work Dec 23, 2024

Show notes

One of the most common time management challenges working women have is that their work hours are dominated by meetings, pushing heads-down work into nights and weekends. Let's talk about what to do if this is your work life.

Referenced episodes:

Ep. 43. Five Strategies to Improve Your Meetings
Ep. 4. How to Prioritize in a Way that Actually Works
Ep. 23. Managers v. Makers (And What It Means for Your Schedule)

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.

80. Getting Clear About How You Process To-Do's & Ideas Dec 16, 2024

Show notes

Are you clear about what you do with every to-do or idea that comes your way?

Not how you actually do the thing or use the idea – just how you process it?

i.e., Do you have a system that helps you take in that to-do/idea, process it, and then bring it to life?

It's a basic question perhaps, but one that I don't think we always get clear on. And clarity here helps us in our day-to-day lives, where such much is flying at us all the time.

So, let's talk about it.

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.

79. Self-Evaluations: How to Make Your Next Performance Review A Lot Easier Dec 09, 2024

Show notes

Regardless of when your next performance review happens, let's talk about things you can do now to make writing your self-evaluation easier – and then how to use this gathered information to make your self-eval more effective.

This episode is based off of this article if you also want to see it written 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.

78. The "Years are Short" Spreadsheet: Long-Term Planning Snapshot Dec 02, 2024

Show notes

While I love the Bright Method's ability to help you plan long term (e.g., calendaring when to start your passport renewal process in three years), one thing missing from the Bright Method is a high-level snapshot of your long-term planning.

Enter Kelsey Wharton's "The Years are Short" spreadsheet.

Here's my written article about it, too.

Here's an article about the Bird's Eye View.

And finally, episode 33 is about "Long-Term Planning: How to feel like YOU & create long-term plans."

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.

77. Logistically overwhelmed by the holidays? Let's talk about it. Nov 25, 2024

Show notes

Around now is when the holiday logistics overwhelm can kick in. Let's talk about it!

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.

76. When your partner is gone a lot: How to share the home labor Nov 18, 2024

Show notes

While there are many great approaches for sharing the load at home with a partner, like Fair Play, for those of us with partners who aren't around consistently (e.g., some physicians, travel, military), those approaches don't really work. A partner can't own, e.g., taking out the trash or cleaning up the kitchen or staying on top of what groceries you need and ordering them when they're not home when those things need to happen.

So, let's talk about it. This is somewhat more of a personal share about our situation and how we manage things. I'm not saying it's totally right, and I'm more than willing to hear how you do something that works for you if you're in a similar boat! That said, I hope it's helpful – if only to normalize the struggle of it a bit!

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.

75. Acting (or Not Acting) Because of What Others Think (Wear the Mittens) Nov 11, 2024

Show notes

This time of year reminds me of a post I wrote two years ago about doing or not doing things we want to do take care of ourselves and make us happy – because of what others will think of us. Let's dig into it.

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.

74. AI & Time Management with Woody Taylor Nov 04, 2024

Show notes

Today, I'm joined my Woody Taylor, someone with far more knowledge about AI than me, to discuss AI applications at work and in our personal lives. I find all of this new and fascinating, and this discussion dove into a lot of topics that I think you'll find thought-provoking and practical. Let me know what you think once you listen!

To learn more about Woody's work, please visit his website: www.paramis.ai

Platforms mentioned:

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.

73. My Time Management Journey Oct 28, 2024

Show notes

A few weeks ago, when I asked people on Instagram what to record a podcast episode about next, three people asked me to share about my time management journey. So, here goes!

In addition, a heads up that:

My Jan-Mar 2025 program is the last time I plan to run it in a "cohort" format (i.e., you go through it with the same women for eight weeks) as I'm going to have it open more often on a rolling basis to allow people to jump in when it works for them between September and April each year.
Enrollment for the Jan-Mar 2025 Bright Method program opens this Friday, November 1 at 10am CT. You can jump on the waitlist & add it to your calendar here.

Thanks for being here!

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.

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