Learn and Work Smarter

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  144. 3 Productivity Traps That Even Smart People Fall For 17.09.2026 25min

  Send me a message!🤓 Automated AI agents that let you nap while your work is done for you, the latest project management software that promises you'll never be overwhelmed again... color-coded email inboxes with rules that drag every new message into its own folder so you'll never have to deal with another message. Ugh. These are some of the things that are sold to us as productivity strategies. But really, what's sold to us as the latest and greatest often makes everything worse. In ...
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  143. 3 Power Moves of Productive People 10.09.2026 16min

  Send me a message!🤓 Productive people aren't productive by accident. Their ability to get the right things done on time – without burning out – is a result of a few particular actions they take every day. In this quick, strategy-packed episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I share three productive power moves of people who get things done. The power moves are for students and professionals, and anyone who's sick of feeling busy at the end of the day but knows deep down they didn't...
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  142. Handling Work-From-Home Distractions, and Re-Evaluating Grad School (Q&A) 03.09.2026 24min

  Send me a message!🤓 Losing focus midweek when working from home? Debating whether changing grad programs is worth it? In this Q&A episode of the podcast, I answer two questions submitted by listeners of the show. Question 1: A listener asks for strategies to maintain their focus when working from home, especially during the second half of the week. Question 2: A listener, who's a working professional and a graduate student, wonders if they should change their grad program to match ...
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  141. The 2-Minute Rule: A Productivity Strategy That Really Works ... Until It Doesn’t 27.08.2026 25min

  Send me a message!🤓 The Two-Minute Rule is a popular productivity strategy that's been around since the early 2000s. It can be a terrific tool for feeling less overwhelmed, moving your to-do list forward, and generally feeling more in control of school, work, and your personal life. However, using the Two-Minute Rule in the wrong scenario can make things worse than when you started. In this episode of the Learn and Work Smarter Podcast, I explain what this powerful productivity tool...
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  140. The "Secret Code" to School + Work: Cracking the Unwritten Rules Nobody Talks About 20.08.2026 25min

  Send me a message!🤓 Like it or not, there’s a “secret code” for how to act and what to say at school and work—and not knowing it can cost you opportunities and your reputation. Saying the right thing at meetings, responding to emails the way others expect you to, understanding how to read the room ... all of these are part of the "secret code" nobody talks about. In this episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I’m sharing the truth about the “secret code” that successful students and p...
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  139. The 5 Hardest Lessons I Learned as an Entrepreneur: A Peek Inside the Difficult, Honest Parts of My Business Journey 13.08.2026 28min

  Send me a message!🤓 Starting my own business out of absolutely nothing has been the single greatest professional accomplishment of my life. Every single day, I think about where I started and where I am now — and the journey continues to amaze me. However, it hasn’t been easy. For every breakthrough, new successful idea, and client success story, there has been a lesson that tried to knock me down. In this episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I share publicly — for the first tim...
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  138. Planning All Day Study Sessions, and Tips for Job-Hopping (Q&A) 06.08.2026 21min

  Send me a message!🤓 Studying for 12 hours a day? Being a serial job-quitter? In this Q&A episode of the Learn and Work Smarter Podcast, I answer two questions submitted by listeners of the show. Question 1: A busy graduate student (who's also working full time) asks me for strategies for planning epic, all-day study sessions. Question 2: A working professional asks for advice about his job-hopping tendencies, after having had four jobs in five years. What You Learn: My advice for managing...
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  137. How to Capture Your Ideas Before You Forget Them (Micro Strategy) 30.07.2026 20min

  Send me a message!🤓 Ideas are only good if we remember them, am I right? Right. So why do we keep telling ourselves that we’ll remember something “later” when we never do? The idea that occurred to us in the shower? Gone.The thought we had lying in bed? Gone.The task we want to do later? Gone.In this micro strategy episode, I share a nifty little hack for how to capture these ideas when they occur to you (which is always when you don’t have a pen handy), and what to do with them so that you c...
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  136. Productivity Tools Are Useless (Unless You Do This...) 23.07.2026 28min

  Send me a message!🤓 Productivity tools come with big promises. Planners, apps, devices, software…they can all genuinely help you get things done – and they claim to do so. BUT, the tool itself never gets you the outcome you want. I know, the irony. In this week's episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I reveal why productivity tools are useless (yes, even the ones I love and recommend), and the mistake I see students and professionals make when they place all their hope in a shiny...
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  135. The Effort Trick (That Gets You Everything You Want) 16.07.2026 27min

  Send me a message!🤓 Don’t get me wrong – goals are awesome to have. They can inspire hope and dreams and cool visions we have for our futures. But focusing on the outcome we want (aka our goal) never gets us the outcome we want. I know, the irony. In this week’s episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I reveal why outcome-based goals are designed to make us fail, and the mistake I see students and professionals make when they set these kinds of goals. Then I share the secret effo...
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  134. Behind-the-Scenes of Real Student Coaching (Sneak Peek Access) 09.07.2026 41min

  Send me a message!🤓 Come peek behind the curtain of SchoolHabits University! Every month inside my signature study skills program, I offer live coaching on Zoom so student never get stuck navigating the program, school, their courses, or anything else on their minds. In this special episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I’m sharing a Q&A call from a few months back when the calls weren’t live. (Since then, they're all live!) Listen in as I answer a ton of questions that students ...
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  133. Study Breaks and Finishing Projects Without Deadlines (Q&A) 02.07.2026 21min

  Send me a message!🤓 In this Q&A episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I answer two questions submitted by listeners of the show. Question One: A student asks for study break ideas that will increase his focus when he returns to the work. Question Two: A professional asks for strategies for completing projects that don’t have deadlines, but that are still important to finish. What You Learn: Practical study break ideas for 5, 15 and 30-minute breaksThe one kind of activity that is...
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  132. The DO Date Hack that Makes DUE Dates Easy (Micro-Strategy) 25.06.2026 16min

  Send me a message!🤓 Most people focus on due dates -- as in, this final deadline. But the due date of a project has nothing to do with you actually getting it done. Enter the DO date. In this episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I make the case that focusing on DO dates is far more effective than wasting our energy stressing about DUE dates. In fact, DO dates make DUE dates just ... happen. What You Learn: Why focusing on deadlines is the wrong approachWhat exactly a DO date isHow t...
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  131. Why We Know What to Do But Still Don't Do It 18.06.2026 34min

  Send me a message!🤓 It’s one thing to know what to do, but it’s a whole other thing to actually DO it. This is a struggle that so many of my private clients – students and professionals – deal with. They have the information, they’ve been instructed on what to do … and yet, they still aren’t taking action. For people with ADHD, this phenomenon is even worse. There’s a reason why this is happening, and it might not be what you expect. What You'll Learn: The reason you know exactly what to do b...
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  130. How to Ask for Help in College – with Psychologist Dr. Susan VanScoyoc 11.06.2026 37min

  Send me a message!🤓 College can make students feel all kinds of ways: thrilled at the freedom, excited at the possibilities, and overwhelmed with the independence that's suddenly expected of them. In my conversation with board-certified psychologist Dr. Susan VanScoyoc, we talk about how to ask for help when college gets hard — and why most students (and their parents) are getting this wrong. Dr. VanScoyoc is the founder of Campus Confidant, where she helps families navigate the emotional...
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  129. Homework Management Tips + Starting Over as an Adult (Q&A) 04.06.2026 37min

  Send me a message!🤓 In this Q&A episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I answer two questions submitted by listeners of the show. Question One: A high school student asks for tips for actually doing the work he has tracked in his homework management system. Question Two: A young woman asks for advice about moving into adulthood when she was under-resourced as a child. What You'll Learn: Why tracking your tasks and managing your tasks are two completely different thingsThe ro...
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  128. ADHD and the Hidden Shame of Falling Off Track – And How to Start Again 28.05.2026 33min

  Send me a message!🤓 People with ADHD know this situation all too well: they start a project with enthusiasm, then lose motivation and stop halfway through, and then struggle to ever restart because of the shame and embarrassment they feel about abandoning their work. Stopping projects halfway through is hard enough. But then not knowing how to get back on track and drowning in shame is a whole other experience. That’s what we’re covering in this episode of the Learn and Work Smarter...
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  127. 5 Invisible Forces That Make You Always Feel Behind 21.05.2026 18min

  Send me a message!🤓 You know that feeling when you’re super busy, you have a million things to do … but you still feel behind and like you got nothing done at the end of the day? It’s not your imagination. In this episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I reveal the 5 secret (and oh so sneaky!) invisible forces that destroy productivity and keep you running on a to-do-list treadmill to nowhere. What You'll Learn: How most people approach productivity (and get it wrong)The...
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  126. Top 5 Secret Skills of Adulting (At Any Age) 14.05.2026 32min

  Send me a message!🤓 “Adulting” has nothing to do with age. Instead, it has to do with the ability to operate independently and function in a way that supports your goals. In this episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I reveal the top 5 secret skills of adulting that, when they’re mastered, make everything else about school and work (and life) so much easier and less dramatic. This episode is for all ages … even if you’re already a 100-year-old adult 😉 What You'll Learn: 5...
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  125. Making Your Commute Productive and Leading When You're Unmotivated (Q&A) 07.05.2026 32min

  Send me a message!🤓 In this monthly Q&A episode, I answer two questions submitted by listeners of the show. Question 1: How can I make my commute to and from work more productive? Question 2: How can I be an effective leader when I’m burned out and unmotivated? What You'll Learn: A unique commute strategy that can clear your head, increase your clarity, and improve your productivityA counterintuitive way to use your drive time to get ahead on work or school without touching your phoneWh...