Your past and future selves can both affect your present self. You can actually imagine your tomorrow, remember your past, and fuse both to develop a positive perspective. Today, Penny Zenker interviews Dr. Benjamin Hardy , the author of Personality Isn’t Permanent , about crafting the avatar for your future identity. Want the opportunity to have a brighter future? Discover Benjamin’s strategies for reframing your past and honing your future. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! He...
Jun 05, 2020•30 min•Ep. 111
There are so many online productivity tools out there with their own unique functionality, but of course, some will rise to the top. Platstack is a great example of a productivity tool with a clear-cut goal in mind, and is simple to use to boot! Penny Zenker is joined by Steven Kiger , who serves as the Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Platstack. Together, they talk about why, out of all the productivity tools out there, you should be getting on Platstack. Is your web browser constantly...
May 29, 2020•23 min•Ep. 121
When people talk about time management and boosting their productivity, they often underestimate the role that communication plays in ensuring their success. Good communication, most of the time, is one of the most important aspects of the job you’re doing, and without good communication, you’re left only capable of performing half the job. Steve Sims is the bestselling author of Bluefishing: The Art of Making Things Happen . He joins Penny Zenker to talk about how good communication serves to u...
May 22, 2020•44 min•Ep. 118
The importance of time management in balancing a healthy personal life with a successful career cannot be impressed enough. Time management truly is the key to ensuring that you go into each activity mentally strong and ready so that you can create the best outcome for yourself in every situation. Penny Zenker’s guest is Anna Kelley , a founding partner at Zenith Capital Group and ReiMom, LLC . Anna emphasizes certain techniques that make time management more manageable. Are you having a hard ti...
May 15, 2020•42 min•Ep. 117
Technology leaders are always looking to improve existing tech and make things easier for people on all fronts. With this, video has been drastically improved over the years while also becoming more expensive. On the other hand, innovation in audio has been keeping up with far less cost. Steven Kiger , a Partner at RocketSource , introduces a new tool they have developed to increase user experience and engagement through audio called Pulsemotiv . Learn the different ways this innovative tool can...
May 15, 2020•8 min•Ep. 110
Dave Schwartz , at a young age, was able to create something from two things he enjoyed the most, horse racing and computers, but he had to work 70 hours a week for it. In this episode, Dave joins Penny Zenker as he talks about discovering productivity by killing perfection. Learn Dave’s definition of a win and the ratio you should create for yourself to determine what is a win. Dave dives into some of the rules he follows to produce productive work and how he created the structure and system th...
May 08, 2020•33 min•Ep. 113
Productivity is often associated with the number of tasks you’ve accomplished within a certain amount of time. Yet, some fail to see the tremendous effect it has on the quality of life. To be productive, one has to be organized, and following a process certainly helps with that. Inc. Columnist and Podcast Host, Tracy Hazzard , joins this episode to share her best practices and processes in life and business to keep everything in check and organized. She talks about how her team maintains a high ...
May 01, 2020•33 min•Ep. 114
Our habits create our level of productivity and become our drive to success. Today, Penny Zenker talks with Dan LeFave , the “No Excuse” Shortcut to Success Coach and a mindset engineer. Along with creating new habits and identity, Dan shares how you can transform your life and even saving time by becoming more productive and getting inside the habit gap. Don’t miss this episode to discover the strategies and tools he uses for creating new patterns of habit and identity that drive anyone to succ...
Apr 24, 2020•31 min•Ep. 116
What would you do with an extra 50 hours? Saving precious time, TextExpander lets you instantly insert snippets of text from a repository of emails, boilerplate and other content. In this episode, Jeff Gamet , a TextExpander Evangelist talks about saving time through TextExpander and how he became an Evangelist for it. Get to know how Jeff and his team use TextExpander not only to speed up their productivity but also to save precious work hours to work on more productive things. Love the show? S...
Apr 17, 2020•32 min•Ep. 115
The point of good leadership is not and has never been creating a dictatorship where leaders rule as tyrants with iron fists. Radical as it may sound, the principle at the core of good leadership is love because if you allow that to drive the way you work and function, everyone around you will feel it, and the results can be astounding. Penny Zenker interviews bestselling author, popular keynote speaker, and seasoned leadership coach and consultant Steve Farber to answer the question, “What puts...
Apr 03, 2020•33 min•Ep. 109
Time management and productivity is so important for Carl Puillein, and in this episode, he explains why. Carl is a renowned productivity and time management coach who has helped thousands of people around the world get better at managing their time and become more productive using technology they carry around with them every day. He coaches companies and individuals around the world through his Time and Life Mastery and Your Digital Life courses. Today, he joins Penny Zenker teaches us how we c...
Mar 27, 2020•26 min•Ep. 106
New business and new business models have all given way to more unique and varied work arrangements as well, and one of these kinds of set-ups is working from home. Work-from-home arrangements can be incredibly efficient and beneficial, but done wrong, they can also lead one to unproductivity and the inability to continue working. Penny Zenker discusses some of these pitfalls and how one can remain in complete control of the situation. It’s really all in the restraint you allow yourself to keep ...
Mar 24, 2020•32 min•Ep. 108
Stress management has become such a key survival skill in the fast-paced world of the present (and probably the future). With this in mind, a lot of people have fundamental misunderstandings about stress management and productivity that should be corrected before they lead to full burnout. Danielle Robertson Rath has used her nearly 20 years of experience researching caffeine and energy drinks to give stress management advice to people as the GreenEyedGuide . Penny Zenker gets down to brass tack...
Mar 20, 2020•30 min•Ep. 107
Do you feel distant from your business or work? Do you find yourself unmotivated and longing for a goal that seems unreachable from where you currently are? If you answer yes, then this episode will help you gain clarity about the choices you’re making. Penny Zenker interviews business strategist, coach, and speaker, Lisa Danforth to share with us the tips, tools, and tricks that are going to get us in a place to be able to think and act more strategically. At the heart of it is learning how to ...
Mar 13, 2020•33 min•Ep. 105
Have you wondered if working anywhere you want is a possibility? Jonathan Green is the living proof that it is. Jonathan is a best-selling author with a passion for helping people escape the slavery of nine to five cubicle farms. In this episode, Jonathan shares his vision and his success in doing business from an unconventional work environment—on a tropical island. He tells the story of why he did that, the initial struggles he went through, and how his business eventually grew from that. Jona...
Feb 28, 2020•39 min•Ep. 104
What do you do when you think you have too much to do yet have so little time? In this episode, Jones Loflin emphasizes why time management is important. Jones is an internationally recognized speaker, corporate trainer, and author. He helped many Fortune 500 companies develop and deliver practical solutions that specifically address the complex needs of an organization such as time management, focus, motivation, and work-life balance. Prior to all of this, he served as the “Trainer of Trainers”...
Feb 21, 2020•26 min•Ep. 103
Cheryl Tan is a media trainer and video coach who specializes in teaching entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations, and corporations how to show up better on camera in order to create a greater impact in the world. She also has a Video Bootcamp live class and a podcast, the STANDOUT with Cheryl Tan show . Before running her own consulting business, she was a TV news anchor, reporter, and host for television stations in Georgia and Virginia. In this episode, Cheryl shares the story of her trial by ...
Feb 14, 2020•29 min•Ep. 102
Shareable and trackable books are tools of the future. Allowing one idea to be passed on to another and products and programs shared easily can lead to marketing magic. Today, Penny Zenker interviews Robert Evans, the CEO and creator of Tracka’Book , about how this unique app moves and brings people together. Robert explains how Tracka’Book helps you save time and money on your marketing efforts and achieve faster results. Get to know this unique app as Robert takes us through its major features...
Feb 07, 2020•25 min•Ep. 101
There is an epidemic of loneliness and disconnect today. Without relationships and purpose, we’d all be gliding aimlessly in life. An energetic soul who aims to connect the world a person at a time on purpose with purpose is Ginger Johnson – a coach, speaker, expert connector, and entrepreneur. Ginger visits the show to share with us her wisdom on setting your purpose and why doing so allows you more freedom in life than you expect. She points out the power of connecting with a purpose to not on...
Jan 31, 2020•37 min•Ep. 100
It’s important to have time for yourself every day. Doing so decrease the stress levels that we all experience at work and at home. In this episode, Alexis Haselberger joins host Penny Zenker as they discuss time management and productivity. In our daily life, balancing time for work, house chores, exercise, and other tasks is tantamount to having a healthy lifestyle. Discover how you can have more time for yourself to do the things you want to do as Penny and Alexis dive into time blocking, han...
Jan 24, 2020•26 min•Ep. 97
As people, very often we don’t realize until it’s too late that we crave deep connections with the people around us. Creating deep connections is an essential element of the social experience of humanity, but it’s hard to get to that point without doing some work. Susan Moore is a leadership development coach, and the founder of FearlessLeading.com . She talks to Penny Zenker about how creating deep connections can be done by taking a more active approach to the way you live your life. Love the ...
Jan 17, 2020•15 min•Ep. 99
Many have accepted procrastination as a social norm that allows people to do things at the last minute. However, procrastination, when tolerated, can become very disruptive, especially to our creativity. Writer, speaker, actor, and creativity and productivity specialist, Samantha Bennett shares the secrets to help us become more productive and avoid procrastination—all within just fifteen minutes a day. Before that, she first lets us in on the problems most creatives have and how we can get past...
Jan 10, 2020•26 min•Ep. 98
Everything starts with the mindset. Our minds can be our greatest tool or our greatest enemy. Today, Penny Zenker talks with Kam Knight – a coach, writer, and author of several bestselling books in the area of mental performance – about his endeavors and pursuits to study the mind and how it works. Sharing the two main “whys” that drew him to this direction, Kam also opens up about how he was able to overcome the mental challenges and roadblocks and started focusing on his original goals. Conque...
Dec 27, 2019•26 min•Ep. 96
Email can be such a challenge for people in terms of the number of emails that they receive every day. A study that was done that tells us that reading and responding to email can take as much as 28% to 35% of our work week. That’s huge! Imagine if you could get back just a fraction of that to work on the things that are most important in your business. On today’s show, Penny Zenker talks with Harsh Vardhan , the Content Manager at Hiver , a B2B product that simplifies email collaboration for Gm...
Dec 20, 2019•21 min•Ep. 95
When you’re able to get things done, your self-confidence gets better. In this episode, operations executive, speaker, and author Lee Cockerell talks about how time management plus discipline and empathy make the best leaders. Discover his early beginnings in Walt Disney and Marriott Corporation, and the lessons that he learned on strategies on simplifying work and hiring the right people who share your core values. Lee also emphasizes on choosing your priorities while you’re still young, Love t...
Dec 13, 2019•31 min•Ep. 94
Learning you have cancer can be one of the most devastating things in a person’s life. In this episode, Tim Stringer shares his struggles in battling cancer and the realization that led him to Holistic Productivity . Tim is the founder of Technically Simple , which is a coaching and consulting company that recognizes that a positive shift in one area of life can positively impact all other areas. Their approach to productivity is based on Holistic Productivity and draws wisdom from David Allen’s...
Dec 06, 2019•30 min•Ep. 93
We all have different perspectives and skepticism whenever the topic goes to productivity. Still, one thing is for sure; everyone knows its value, especially the emotional, mental, and physical reward you feel after a productive event in your life. President of W3 Consulting, Inc ., and Evernote Regional Leader for North America, Ray Sidney-Smith , defines beautifully what productivity is. He spends the time to anatomize productivity and talks about in detail his insights, understanding, and app...
Nov 29, 2019•25 min•Ep. 92
Scott Friesen is a Productivity Application Expert and owner of Simpletivity . In this episode, Scott talks about keeping things simple and doing your work at your productive best. Scott mentions by keeping things simple, you can learn to value your work more and have time to do other things instead of feeling swamped without really accomplishing too much. Scott dives into strategies on keeping yourself healthy while working and talks about how important rest and sleep are in your work. Lastly, ...
Nov 22, 2019•26 min•Ep. 91
We can make more money, but with time, when it’s gone, it’s gone. Our guest today is productivity coach Demir Bentley . Demir is the Cofounder of the Lifehack Method. He coaches thousands of clients each year with a client list riddled with high profile names like Facebook, Google, Uber, PepsiCo, and Lexar. In this episode, host Penny Zenker talks with Demir about life hacking, his passion for productivity, The Four Layers of Accountability, and setting your environment up for success. He also s...
Nov 15, 2019•33 min•Ep. 90
More than we give them credit for, clutter keeps us from moving forward with our lives. Helping you identify the things that hold you down, host, Penny Zenker, sits down with the founder of the Productive Environment Institute , Barbara Hemphill , to talk about how you can let go of the clutters that prevent you from accomplishing work and enjoying your life better. Barbara shares with us the five-step process to help us deal with the clutter that’s in the way between us and the goals, joy, and ...
Nov 08, 2019•26 min•Ep. 89
