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Taking Your Time - Time Hacks, Tips, and Principles

Jacques Futakingyourtime.co
Taking your time is a podcast series hosted by Jacques Fu, author of Time Hacks. You will learn tips and strategies of practical time management and discover what it means to make the most out of the moments you have. In this show, we also seek to explore the feeling and reality of never having enough time. Jacques's books, and businesses he's co-founded have been featured in news outlets such as Spectrum News, the Orlando Sentinel, and Inc Magazine, Forbes, and USA Today. Jacques will draw from his experiences balancing home and work life as well as interview guests from all walks of life that have had unique and impactful results on their schedules.
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Episodes

Gregg Pollack on Coding to Professional Cuddling

In this episode of Time Hacks, join host Jacques as he interviews Gregg Pollack, a successful entrepreneur turned psychology enthusiast and professional cuddlist. Gregg founded several companies, helping to launch the startup community in Orlando and leading into his journey into psychology. Code School which was acquired by Pluralsight for $36 million, Envy which builds web applications, and Starter Studio which is Orlando’s first tech business accelerator. Gregg shares his story of personal gr...

Aug 07, 202327 min

Luis Garcia on Making Virtual Reality More Accessible

On this episode of Time Hacks, we dive into the world of Luis Garcia, a fractional executive and founder of Collectiva. Luis shares his journey from a successful career at Full Sail University to pursuing his goals of creating his own organization and working in technology. We explore Luis's work as a fractional executive, partnering with tech startups to tackle various problems that they may not have the time or experience to handle. Most of his clients are software developers working on SaaS p...

Jul 06, 202328 min

Matt Dupree on The Changing Landscape of AI and Machine Learning

On this episode of Time Hacks, Jacques talks with Matt Dupree, AI enthusiast and CEO of AI Startup Atlas, about AI and machine learning. They discuss concerns around AI adoption and usage, specifically the potential for companies to swap out human customer service representatives for AI chatbots. They also dive into the work of OpenAI and how they're using unstructured data to train their models. Matt shares his experience in founding his own company, Atlas, which aims to change the way people u...

Jun 27, 202325 min

Dr. Laura Gallaher - NASA Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster and Scheduling Pressure

The Missing Link Book on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Missing-Links-Launching-Performing-Company/dp/1637351364/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Gallaher Edge Company Website - At Gallaher Edge, we work with busy executives to help you get your arms around the challenges in your organization. We work with you from the inside out, helping your executive team have conversations you didn’t even know you needed to have. https://www.gallaheredge.com The Evolve Leader Podcast https...

Nov 30, 202129 min

Marc Statz - 30 day challenge in Thailand with no resources

Marc Statz 3D Artist - Photographer - Creative Director at Second Wave https://secondwave.digital/ https://www.marcstatz.com/ You can check my personal youtube here if you'd like! https://www.youtube.com/rSOLVEditing/ As well as the team I lead for a couple years: https://www.youtube.com/FractalFiIms/...

Nov 16, 202134 min

10 helpful products under $20 bucks that save you time

Here are links to the products mentioned in the cast Fisher Space Pen - Non-Reflective Military Matte Black M4B- Cap-O-Matic - Gift Boxed $18 Grocery delivery Instacart.com $9.99 or Kroger.com Entryway Bowl LOL MART Food Storage Root Carving Natural Wood Crafts Serving Tray $16 Dry erase board Dry Erase Lapboards | 9 x 12 inch Large Whiteboard Set | for Teacher, Student, Children, Classroom | Reusable Durable Portable Double $10 for 3 Grady's Cold Brew Coffee, Single Can with 4 (2oz.) Bean Bags,...

Sep 21, 202118 min

Four tactical ways to achieve inbox zero and peace of mind

In today's episode, we're going to get extremely tactical and talk about how to achieve inbox zero, an empty inbox, which is a concept first pioneered by Merlin Mann. Welcome to the taking your time podcast. Hello time hackers today, we're going to get tactical and practical with our inboxes. And there is a term for this it's called inbox zero. And it was this idea that came about the mid two thousands by this. Guy named Merlin Mann. And back in the mid two thousands, it was a problem, but it wa...

Aug 31, 202114 min

Anna Eskamani - A State Representative's perspective on time management and making government more efficient for constituents.

Today, we're going to talk to Anna Eskamani, State Representative for District 47 of the Florida legislature and learn what it means to run a campaign while keeping a full-time job and how your government can save time for its citizens at scale. Anna is a bold fighter for Florida families and every day people. Born and raised in Orlando, she’s the daughter of working class immigrants who came to this country in search of the American Dream. Anna went to public schools in Orange County and then t...

Aug 24, 202130 min

Chris Brown - Making the Times Square Ball and how to always finish a show on time

Chris Brown graduated from Yale University with a Master of Fine Arts in technical design and production and has spent the last 11 years as the production manager, general manager, and now executive director at the Orlando Repertory theater, a theater for young audiences. He has worked on numerous festivals and theaters throughout his journey including a detour building the permanent Times Square Ball installation.

Aug 03, 202133 min

Bring your kid to podcast day

Today is bring your kid to work day at the podcast where I interview my son Kristof to get his perspective on time.

Jul 20, 202115 min

Rajiv Menon on your win book and time tracking gamification

Today I'll be interviewing Rajiv Menon, CEO and founder of Informulate. Listen in to hear about why you should have a win book and how to game-ify your time-tracking to take it to the next level. Welcome to the taking your time podcast.

Jun 30, 202133 min

Done is way better than perfect: How to finally achieve those challenging goals

My favorite Maxim is that done is better than perfect. What do I mean by that? That getting things done is better than trying to achieve something, perfectly, that you don't get done. Looking at the outcomes of New Year's resolutions is a great case study for seeing how successful the general public is at being able to execute and accomplish many of their goals.

Jun 22, 202120 min

Can we get by on less sleep?

It's hard to avoid in this demanding lifestyle that we have in the modern age, that sleep is this thing that sort of always comes up. We never have enough of it at the same time we wished we could get by with much less of it. We talk about it every day. We talk about the importance of getting a good night's rest and yet we don't. And yet we get less time than our ancestors did over a, a typical night doctors recommend eight hours of sleep a day, but that ends up equating to one third of your lif...

Jun 08, 202122 min

3 simple ways to spend more quality time with family

Now here in the U.S. there was a survey done by Red Robin found in that study that 70% of parents would like to find more ways to spend time with their kids. So clearly this is something that many of you out there desire to have more time, more quality time with the family and more different ways to spend time with the family. Kids and parents that's a common use case, but also a lot of these tips will apply even if you don't have kids. They can apply with spending more time with your spouse. Th...

Jun 01, 202120 min

Battling your fear of missing notifications

So this really comes from the fear of missing out, which I think is the source of all of this. The fear of missing out on events and information that you think will make your life better creates this anxiety that compels you to want to participate more and more, whether that's, you know, making sure you're being invited to parties or that you're on top of all the latest gossip and this sort of translates into the digital world. The insidious thing that happens on your phone is that you get sucke...

May 22, 202121 min

Vuong Nguyen, serial entrepreneur, on hustling, globe trotting and managing your time

Vuong is a former startup founder with some successful companies under his belt. He also is currently working at a large fintech company and has worked at other big name companies like Toshiba and Sega. Throughout all this time, I've always lived vicariously through Vuong on social media and seeing all the places that he travels and all the things that he does with friends. Please listen my interview with Vuong as we talk about his startup experiences, work, and traveling the world.

May 15, 202136 min

Would you buy someone's time?

So, would you buy and sell people's time if it were available on an open market? People are doing that now on a platform called Human IPO. But, of course, you can also sell your own time. But before we get into that, I want to remind you all that today is Mother's Day. Now, depending on when you're listening to this podcast, it might be too late. And for that, I'm sorry. Now, I want you to think about this. In a survey conducted, the AARP found that 40% of young adults spend less than one day pe...

May 09, 202118 min
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