A simple guardrail to protect your morning: choose three things for yourself before you touch a screen. Backed by research on light, breathwork, gratitude, and email stress.
Reset your work habits with practical tools and strategies to be more productive and more effective. Incorporate systems and programs with sustainable behaviors and be efficient at work so you can play more!
Are You a Microwave or a Crockpot? Pick the right method for smarter decisions.
Microwaves decide and act quickly. Strength is momentum. Risk is rework.
Crockpots gather inputs and let ideas simmer. Strength is quality. Risk is missed windows.
Neither is better. Overplaying the strength is the problem.
Zombie Hours – Beating the Energy Slump
Your energy slump is a different mindset, not a defect. Your Zombie Hours can be meaningful! Most people try to force themselves into deep work...
Guardrails for Meaningful Connections
Discover how meaningful connections fuel career success, boost health, and strengthen creativity. Learn practical strategies for intentional networking, friendships, and walking meetings.
Digital Distractions: Guardrails, Not Willpower
Discover how to beat digital distractions without relying on willpower. Marcey Rader shares real strategies like the “Follow 50” rule, Unhook for YouTube, and apps like ClearSpace, Freedom, and Downcast.
Training With a Ragtime Soundtrack
This one’s not a typical productivity story. It’s a true tale featured in Speechless!—a collection of jaw-dropping speaker stories benefiting the NSA Foundation.
Designing Meetings for Neurodivergent Brains
Most meetings are built for neurotypical brains—but what happens when they’re not? Learn how to design meetings for neurodivergent people (and benefit everyone).
Stop Wasting Your Trainings: The Dos & Don’ts for In-Person Learning
In-person trainings can transform a team or completely flop. Too often, they fail because of small, fixable behaviors: leaders popping in, laptops open, or people returning to work immediately without taking the time to process.
Navigating the Return to the Office – The Future of Work
This is the fourth of four podcast episodes on the Return to the Office. For the full scoop, listen to the podcast episodes. Future of Work? Less...








