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How to Finally Organize Your Digital Life Without Overcomplicating It (with Johnny Decimal)

How to Finally Organize Your Digital Life Without Overcomplicating It (with Johnny Decimal)

Episode 647 · · 48:46

We live in a world where everything is digital — yet almost none of us were ever taught how to manage digital information well. Files, notes, emails, documents, IDs, receipts… they p...

How to Flourish in a World Obsessed with Performance (with Daniel Coyle)

How to Flourish in a World Obsessed with Performance (with Daniel Coyle)

Episode 646 · · 38:14

In a culture that prizes metrics, optimization, and constant output, what does it mean to truly flourish?In this episode of A Productive Conversation, I sit down with New York Times ...

Joel Zuckerman Talks About Expressive Gratitude, Impactful Letters, and Lasting Connection

Joel Zuckerman Talks About Expressive Gratitude, Impactful Letters, and Lasting Connection

Episode 645 · · 34:18

Gratitude shows up in a lot of productivity conversations—but rarely as a practice that changes how we relate to others. In this episode of A Productive Conversation, I sit down with...

PM Talks S3E2: Poise Under Pressure in a Fractured Moment

PM Talks S3E2: Poise Under Pressure in a Fractured Moment

Episode 644 · · 51:52

This episode is the latest in our monthly PM Talks series, where Patrick Rhone and I step back from tactics and tools to explore the deeper questions that shape how we live, work, an...

Thom Gibson Talks About Work-From-Home Fatherhood, Six-Hour Workdays, and Sustainable Family Rhythms

Thom Gibson Talks About Work-From-Home Fatherhood, Six-Hour Workdays, and Sustainable Family Rhythms

Episode 643 · · 41:13

Working from home sounds simple—until kids, calendars, meals, meetings, and relationships all collide. In this episode, I sit down with Thom Gibson, a work-from-home dad and social m...

Brad Stulberg Talks About Sustainable Excellence, Mastery, and Doing What Truly Matters

Brad Stulberg Talks About Sustainable Excellence, Mastery, and Doing What Truly Matters

Episode 642 · · 40:24

This week on A Productive Conversation, I sit down with Brad Stulberg, author of The Way of Excellence, to explore what excellence really means in a world obsessed with efficiency, o...

Brad Farris Talks About Leadership, Presence, and Scaling Beyond the $1M Agency Plateau

Brad Farris Talks About Leadership, Presence, and Scaling Beyond the $1M Agency Plateau

Episode 641 · · 38:10

There are moments when a conversation slows you down in the best possible way. My discussion with Brad Farris was one of those moments—a reminder that growth isn’t just about doing m...

PM Talks S3E1: Honesty

PM Talks S3E1: Honesty

Episode 640 · · 01:04:38

This episode is the first installment of Season 3 in our monthly PM Talks series, where Patrick Rhone and I slow things down to explore the ideas that quietly shape how we live and w...

Chris Bailey Talks About Intentionality, Values, and Finishing What You Start

Chris Bailey Talks About Intentionality, Values, and Finishing What You Start

Episode 639 · · 47:41

In this episode of A Productive Conversation, I sit down once again with author and researcher Chris Bailey to explore what it really means to live—and work—intentionally. This conve...

A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE: The 12 Tips of TimeCrafting

A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE: The 12 Tips of TimeCrafting

Episode 638 · · 01:04:54

This is a reflective, solo episode where I share twelve essential TimeCrafting tips—not as rules or resolutions, but as orienting ideas you can return to whenever your days feel scat...

Productivity A to Z with Erik Fisher: Volume 2 (Part 1)

Productivity A to Z with Erik Fisher: Volume 2 (Part 1)

Episode 637 · · 54:24

In December 2024, Erik Fisher and I sit down to explore the alphabet of productivity — a tradition that started as a one-off idea and has now become an annual ritual. This year, we d...

Faisal Hoque Talks About Humanity, AI, and What Comes Next

Faisal Hoque Talks About Humanity, AI, and What Comes Next

Episode 636 · · 41:15

This time on A Productive Conversation, I sit down with someone who has spent decades at the intersection of technology, leadership, and what it means to remain truly human. Faisal H...

PM Talks S2E12: Legacy

PM Talks S2E12: Legacy

Episode 635 · · 41:45

This episode marks the final PM Talks conversation of the 2025 calendar year, and it’s a fitting one: Patrick and I explore legacy — not as something we engineer, but as something th...

Michael Breus Talks About Sleep, Chronotypes, and the Three Dominoes of Wellness

Michael Breus Talks About Sleep, Chronotypes, and the Three Dominoes of Wellness

Episode 634 · · 53:38

Most of us think of sleep as a nightly event. Michael Breus thinks of it as a lifelong pattern—a shifting, evolving chronotype that changes as we age. Every time he joins me, we end ...

Quang X. Pham Talks About Underdogs and Effort That Delivers Results

Quang X. Pham Talks About Underdogs and Effort That Delivers Results

Episode 633 · · 32:59

In this episode of A Productive Conversation, I sit down with Quang X. Pham — entrepreneur, author, and the first American of Vietnamese descent to become a U.S. Marine Corps aviator...

Chris Dalla Riva Talks About Music, Data, and the Stories Behind the Hits

Chris Dalla Riva Talks About Music, Data, and the Stories Behind the Hits

Episode 632 · · 45:44

This episode of A Productive Conversation features Chris Dalla Riva, a musician, data analyst, and Senior Product Manager at Audiomack who bridges the gap between creativity and anal...

PM Talks S2E11: Trust

PM Talks S2E11: Trust

Episode 631 · · 38:55

This latest edition of our monthly PM Talks series dives into a topic that underpins nearly everything we do: trust. From trusting the moment you’re in to trusting the systems you bu...

James Kimmel Jr. Talks About The Science of Revenge and the Power of Forgiveness

James Kimmel Jr. Talks About The Science of Revenge and the Power of Forgiveness

Episode 630 · · 48:43

In this episode of A Productive Conversation, I sit down with James Kimmel Jr., JD — a Yale lecturer, lawyer, and leading researcher on the neuroscience of revenge. His new book, The...

Hannah Bookbinder Talks About ADHD, Awareness, and Unlocking Inner Superpowers

Hannah Bookbinder Talks About ADHD, Awareness, and Unlocking Inner Superpowers

Episode 629 · · 32:13

In this episode, I sit down with Hannah Bookbinder, founder of AcademicAlly, LLC, and creator of the MyTOAD App—an innovative tool designed to help people manage time, organization, ...

Anthony Verdino Talks About Simplifying CBT and Finding Balance Through Mindful Productivity

Anthony Verdino Talks About Simplifying CBT and Finding Balance Through Mindful Productivity

Episode 628 · · 52:42

In this episode of A Productive Conversation, I sit down with Anthony Verdino — a licensed clinical social worker and author of CBT Simplified. Drawing from both his professional exp...