From planner systems to no-code platforms to 3D printing, creating your own productivity tools today using analog or digital products has become easier than ever. But, how do you approach this so that you make an effective personal productivity tool for yourself, so not just scurrying down the proverbial rabbit hole?
That’s what we discuss in this week’s ProductivityCast! Creating your own productivity tools is possible, and we discuss the tools but also the strategy and methods to consider in approaching such an endeavor.
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In this Cast | Creating Your Own Productivity Tools
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Art Gelwicks
Francis Wade
Show Notes | Creating Your Own Productivity Tools
Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.
Special Theory of Productivity
General Theory of Productivity
Levenger Circa notebook system
Staples Arc
Office Depot OfficeMax TUL system
Moleskine Smart Writing Set
Scanmarker Air Pen Scanner - OCR Digital Highlighter and Reader - Wireless
Foundations of Programming (Lynda)
Airtable
Getting Things Done (GTD) System in Google Sheets Tutorial
Coda
Notion
Microsoft Sharepoint
G Suite App Maker (this has been deprecated since the recording)
3D printing services:
ShapewaysSculpteoMore high-end, engineer-level 3D-printing: 3D Hubs
iOS Shortcuts (née Workflow)
Microsoft PowerAutomate (née Flow)
Tasker (Android)
Automate (Android)
Google Routines
IFTTT
Zapier
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Voiceover Artist 0:00 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling productive life, then you've come to the right place productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity. Here, your host Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17
And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith.
Augusto Pinaud 0:20 I am Augusto Pinaud.
Francis Wade 0:22I'm Francis Wade.
Art Gelwicks 0:24 And I'm Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:25Welcome, gentlemen, welcome one and all who are listening to us today, what we're going to do is we're going to have a conversation on this episode about the topic of creating your own productivity tools. And the the topic came about from considering the idea that today with the proliferation of so many different ways in which you can create your own X or Y, whether that be in the analog world, to creating things in the digital space. We now have all of these tools at our fingertips, and I will wanted us to talk about the the wide range of these services and tools available to us, for us to make our own tools. And I think maybe some of the principles first would be the underpinning for the conversation, and then making our way into some of the analog and then digital aspects of available resources to create your own tools. So let's let's start at the, at the kind of foundational level, what are the fundamental elements that you want in a productivity tool?
Emergencies abound. But, they don't always mean you have to lose personal productivity. With some contingency productivity planning, you can stay productive even when things break, when technology fails us, and when people snap!
Also, this was recorded a while back and since then, we're glad to note that Francis has since upgraded successfully and happily to Windows 10. 🤓
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In this Cast | Contingency Productivity Planning
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Francis Wade
Show Notes
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Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF)
048 Creating a Backup Storage System – ProductivityCast
Francis Wade had Ray Sidney-Smith on his podcast to discuss backup systems:
Ep 60 Creating a Storage Decision Tool w/Ray Sidney-Smith p1Ep 61 Creating a Storage Decision Tool p2 w/Ray Sidney-SmithEp 62 Creating a Storage Decision Tool p3 w/Ray Sidney-SmithTry the Storage Decision Tool here
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Voiceover Artist 0:00 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling productive life, then you've come to the right place productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity. Here, your host Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17
And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith.
Augusto Pinaud 0:20 I am Augusto Pinaud.
Francis Wade 0:22I'm Francis Wade.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:24and Welcome, gentlemen, welcome to our listeners. Welcome to you all listening. And what we're going to do today is we're going to talk about backup plans, that is contingency planning for greater productivity. We all come into contact with situations where stuff just goes south. And we need to be able to be prepared. We need to be flexible and adaptive. We need to be dynamic in the circumstances to be able to recover from those situations. And so today we're going to talk about three umbrella areas. Pretty much when things break when technology goes wrong. And of course, when people say The app. And so those will be what we talked about today in terms of what happens when those three areas of our worlds melt down. And we have to still be productive, we still have to get things done even when the problems arise. So let's start off with the notion of when things break, and ugly. So do you want to start us off with a personal example
Augusto Pinaud 1:27to kind of start with a personal example as he wake up this morning, grab his glasses out of his nightstand and end up with half of the glasses on the hand, the legs, one of the legs is broke. So traveling this week and I have all these PC things and it throws your morning off when you now need to add something that you know is time consuming. It's not as simple as say, Okay, well I need to replace it is I need to go stop on a particular place that only open on a certain time so it throw a big wrench on your planning. And like that many of the things many of these on expected failures and some of them you can plan the contingen...
In this second part of our two-part series this week of ProductivityCast, we look at the ideas behind the book by one of our regular contributors, Francis Wade. Perfect Time-Based Productivity (2nd Ed.) is for the person who has already begun their productivity journey. It focuses mostly on task management and we talk about the ways we can gain greater insight into the way each person manages his/her tasks in order to find the best areas of improvement.
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In this Cast
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Art Gelwicks
Francis Wade
Show Notes | Perfect Time-Based Productivity
Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.
Getting Things Done by David Allen
SkedPal
Kaizen
Stickk
Perfect Time-Based Productivity: How to rescue your peace of mind as time demands increase (Second Edition) by Francis Wade (Amazon)
Perfect Time-Based Productivity – A unique way to protect your peace of mind as time demands increase (book website)
Fixed versus growth mindset - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck, PhD
Discussion of Mindset at Productivity Book Group
Howard Gardner, multiple intelligences and education – infed.org
Multiple intelligences
The Age-by-Age Guide to Teaching Kids Time Management
Zwift
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, et al.
Make It Stick - Productivity Book Group
Change management
Evernote
OneNote
Notion.so
Productive Failure in Learning the Concept of Variance
The 12 Important Life Skills I Wish I'd Learned In School
Last Chance U
Micro-goal setting
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Voiceover Artist 0:00 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling productive life, then you've come to the right place productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity. Here, your host Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17
And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith.
Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud.
Francis Wade 0:26I'm Francis Wade.
Art Gelwicks 0:27 And I'm Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:23Welcome, gentlemen and welcome to our listeners to this second part in our conversation we're having around the book, Perfect Time-Based Productivity, the second edition by our very own Francis Wade, I'm going to pass it over to you, Francis to tell us where we left off kind of a recap of our last episode. And and then where we left off in the conversation, and what we're going to be talking about in this week's episode.
Francis Wade 0:49Well, last time we talked about the fact that today's learner or today's young person, let's put it that way. People who are younger than we are, are left to their own devices. develop their own productivity system which they do they start doing somewhere in the teens and unlike us authors with gray hair they have very few signposts very few very little guidance especially with respect to the the smartphones that they're using.
This week on ProductivityCast, we have a two-part series being released to discuss Francis Wade's second edition of his book, Perfect Time-Based Productivity! In this cast, Francis explains the development of personal productivity systems in early life and how time demands can better help you identify how to spend your time wisely.
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In this Cast
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Art Gelwicks
Francis Wade
Show Notes | Perfect Time-based Productivity, Part One
Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.
Getting Things Done by David Allen
SkedPal
Kaizen
Stickk
Perfect Time-Based Productivity: How to rescue your peace of mind as time demands increase (Second Edition) by Francis Wade (Amazon)
Perfect Time-Based Productivity – A unique way to protect your peace of mind as time demands increase (book website)
Fixed versus growth mindset - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck, PhD
Discussion of Mindset at Productivity Book Group
Howard Gardner, multiple intelligences and education – infed.org
Multiple intelligences
The Age-by-Age Guide to Teaching Kids Time Management
Zwift
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, et al.
Make It Stick - Productivity Book Group
Change management
Evernote
OneNote
Notion.so
Productive Failure in Learning the Concept of Variance
The 12 Important Life Skills I Wish I'd Learned In School
Last Chance U
Micro-goal setting
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Voiceover Artist 0:00 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling productive life, then you've come to the right place productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity. Here, your host Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17
And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith.
Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud.
Francis Wade 0:26I'm Francis Wade.
Art Gelwicks 0:27 And I'm Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:27Welcome, gentlemen, and welcome to our listeners. Today, we are going to be talking about Francis's second edition of his book. Basically, we're going to talk a little bit about the ability for us to be able to do something that I think is really interesting related to Francis's book, perfect time based productivity. So Francis, do you want to tell us a little bit about your book, first of all, and then give us a bit of a preamble in terms of what we were discussing today on this cast?
Francis Wade 0:54Sure. So one of the core ideas which I've sort of run into, by mistake. I always thought there was a perfect kind of big set of behaviors out there then, and you just needed to learn them from somebody who's really smart. And that was my original thought. But I discovered that through the through leading courses that people already came into the programs with habits and practices, they're already using tools, they already have something in place.
Stress is natural. But, when that stress overwhelms us that can lead to not just reduced personal productivity. Detecting and managing burnout is a key capability for highly productivity individuals and that’s what we discuss on this week’s episode of ProductivityCast.
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In this Cast | Detecting and Managing Burnout
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Francis Wade
Show Notes | Detecting and Managing Burnout
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Good Stress, Bad Stress by Barry Lenson
Mindset by Carol Dweck, PhD
Discussion of Mindset at Productivity Book Group
“A practical guide to detect early signs of burnout.”
“Burnout Prevention and Treatment”
“What Causes Burnout and How to Overcome It”
“Overcoming Burnout: 10 steps to reignite your flame and shine brightly once more”
Ecstatic response (or, “post-traumatic growth”)
ProdPod: Episode 112: Overcoming Burnout: Rest and Rejuvenation for Sustainable Productivity
Getting More Done - Fitnesses
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Voiceover Artist 0:00 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling productive life, then you've come to the right place productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity. Here, your host Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17
And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith.
Francis Wade 0:23I'm Francis Wade.
Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:25Welcome, gentlemen, and welcome to our listeners for this episode, where we will be discussing burnout. That is we're going to discuss really the functions of what, what are the pieces of burnout? How do we define burnout? And what are some of the signs that help to detect that you are burned out or that you are seeing someone else who is experiencing burnout because I think that's sometimes very helpful. In addition, we're then going to move on to discussing how we actually manage while in burnout mode. That is, while we're feeling this Explain when we're experiencing burnout, how do we deal with being burned out while we're burned out? And then ultimately, how do we overcome burnout? How do we get out of burnout so that we can get back to being the highly productive individuals that we are? Let's start off with defining burnout. What is burnout? Who wants to try and tackle that topic? First, I think the
Francis Wade 1:22most there's an extreme form of burnout. And that's the one people relate to the most, which is when you're physically exhausted physically, mentally, and otherwise exhausted and unable to function. I think it's an extreme position to be in. I think the people who get there usually aren't able or don't have the skill to pick up the early warning signs. So they don't know that that's where they're headed until it's too late. So it strikes me as a function of not knowing the signals, not seeing the early warning indicators, and then arriving in this position on wondering why do I feel this way? What happened?
On this cast, we invited a special guest—our colleague and friend—Jim McCullen, to talk about his email-focused personal productivity system for Microsoft Outlook (and eponymous book), Control Your Day.
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In this Cast | Control Your Day Email Productivity System
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Jim McCullen
Jim McCullen considers himself a productivity hacker, always looking for ways to reduce the effort it takes to stay organized and get more things done. Jim is an avid GTDer and has built a system called Control Your Day that allows Microsoft Outlook users to apply GTD practices to manage their email, task lists and delegated work all from one virtual search folder in Outlook.
Jim published his book, Control Your Day, on Amazon which has sold copies across the world and recently published a Udemy video training series titled Control Your Day.
Show Notes | Control Your Day Email Productivity System
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Control Your Day (website)
Control Your Day (book)
Corporate Email Mastery (course)
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Voiceover Artist 0:00 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling productive life, then you've come to the right place productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity. Here, your host Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17
And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith.
Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud.
Francis Wade 0:26I'm Francis Wade.
Art Gelwicks 0:27 And I'm Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:25And welcome to our listeners to this episode of productivity cast, where we actually are doing something a little bit different than we normally do. We have a guest today to talk about a system that I've known actually for quite a bit of time now. And and so what I wanted to do was for all of us to have a conversation around learning about a system based in Outlook called control your day. And so to do that, we have the progenitor of that system, Jim McCullen, Jim considers himself a productivity hacker always looking for ways to reduce the effort. It takes takes to stay organized and get more things done. Jim's an avid GTD er, and has built a system called control your day that allows Microsoft Outlook users to apply GTD practices to manage email task lists, delegated work, all from one virtual search folder in Outlook. So Jim published his book, control your day on Amazon. And it's sold copies across the world. And he recently published a course based on that series titled control your day. And so welcome to productivity cast,Jim.
Jim McCullen 1:31Hey, Ray, thanks so much for having me today. I am excited and look forward to be able to share some of this information with your audience.
Augusto Pinaud 1:38Oh, really, really excited to have you here. I think I met Jim at least virtually many, many years ago in a time where I was leaving on a closed outlook environment.
Our podcast co-host, Augusto Pinaud, has been coaching clients on productivity for many years, and devised a tool that he uses with them to help overcome managing the high-level goals in conjunction with lower-level projects and maintenance/administrative activities of daily and work life. In this week’s episode, Augusto goes into detail on what his tool, Impact Journal, is and how to use it in your personal productivity system.
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In this Cast
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Art Gelwicks
Francis Wade
Show Notes | Impact Journal
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Special Offer from Augusto
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Voiceover Artist 0:00 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling productive life, then you've come to the right place productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity. Here, your host Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17
And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith.
Augusto Pinaud 0:22 I am Augusto Pinaud.
Francis Wade 0:23I'm Francis Wade.
Art Gelwicks 0:24 And I'm Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:26Welcome, gentlemen, and welcome to our listeners to this episode. We have a treat for you today where we're going to be focusing on the impact journal. And if you don't know what the impact journal is, then you're in the right place. So Augusta Pinaud has created the impact journal, which is a method for being able to a method and kind of a document for being able to help you facilitate focusing on your goals. And so with that, I'm going to actually turn the microphone over to Cousteau so he can kick us off and explain A little bit about what the impact journal is. And then we'll get into the conversation.
Augusto Pinaud 1:04They impact journal is one of the tools that are part of the Connect invisible dots framework, you know, and I created this tool, really in reality to us our response of what I was hearing from my coaching clients and the concept of impact. When I show this product or when I do presentations, I always begin there was a definition of what impact is because that's really what this journal is about. And impact is nothing else than the effect of influence of one person thing or action on another. What I notice on my own system, as well as the system of my client, coaching clients and people even highly productive people that I know it is that is really hard for people to keep focus on the direction of the impact they want to realize. So the impact journal is nothing else than a tool to keep people engage with where do they want to go?
Raymond Sidney-Smith 2:06I'm interested on behalf of the listeners for you to kind of flesh out for us. What was kind of the, you know, as you were working with clients, and trying to devise the impact journal itself, if you could explain a little bit about what it what it does, in terms of the the, the reading part itself kind of explains the backstory, but if you could summarize a little bit of the backstory,
The ProductivityCast team decided to make a special appearance 😂 at Remote Work Productivity Conference 2020 and we recorded a live show...with a live audience. It was a lot of fun discussing remote work productivity and our reflections after our episode, The Age of Remote Work Productivity.
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In this Cast | ProductivityCast Live from Remote Work Productivity Conference 2020
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Francis Wade
Art Gelwicks
Show Notes
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(Coming soon.)
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Voiceover Artist 0:00 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling productive life, then you've come to the right place productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity. Here, your host Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17 And welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith.
Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud.
Francis Wade 0:27I'm Francis Wade.
Art Gelwicks 0:29 And I'm Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:31Welcome, gentlemen, and welcome to everybody who is both watching us live but also listening in the podcast. Today we're doing something really interesting and I think it's gonna be fun. We are actually live at remote work productivity conference 2020. And if you missed it, you can head over to remote work productivity .co and check out the video replays. But what we're going to do today is we're going to have a conversation both as the panel here but also with live audience about remote work productivity. And I'd like to move it in three parts, as I've done in actually a panel discussion this morning that we had, but as well in just any discussion, I like to talk about strategies to the technology, and then collaboration, all three sets of practices that really pull together the functions of remote work productivity. And I'm going to start off with some of the my own thoughts here in terms of whether or not I've gotten all the pieces. So I asked this of the panelists this morning, and I'm actually curious what you gentlemen have to think is, as I said, strategies, technology collaboration, Did I get it right? Is it all the pieces and or are they the right buckets? Or, you know, what are the other ones? Now note that the panelists actually agreed with me. So I will start off right now.
Art Gelwicks 1:56You know, that's not how this works.
Unknown Speaker 2:00All right, so what were the buckets again?
Raymond Sidney-Smith 2:05strategies, technology, collaboration.
Art Gelwicks 2:09I would add probably a fourth one. And I don't have a really good name for it. So I'm going to call it psychology. Because it's it's the mentality and the mindset that has to go along with it. So you can lay out all the strategies you want, you can have the tech, but if you're not sensitive to the emotional and dq layer of it, the rest of its going to fall apart, because you're going to have a bigger issue.
This week, the ProductivityCast team discusses the tools and tricks for producing content productively. Content production is not just for marketers; it's a fundamental component of many of our job duties. So, producing content productively can really help us save time and garner a stronger reputation among our peers and employers.
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In this Cast | Producing Content Productively
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Art Gelwicks
Show Notes | Producing Content Productively
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Evernote
Dropbox
Apple Notes
Trello
Workflowy
OneNote
Notion.so
Google Drive
Ulysses
Scrivener
Google Docs
Hemingway
WordPress.org (software)
WordPress.com (hosting)
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Voiceover Artist 0:00 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling productive life, then you've come to the right place productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity. Here, your host Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17
And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith.
Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud.
Art Gelwicks 0:27 And I'm Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:24And today, we are here to talk about something that many of us have to deal with on a regular basis. And we don't actually form formalize the process many times which of course, competes with our productive output, and that is our productive output. How do we create content, whether that be for internal purposes, you know, internal memos, if you work at a law firm, you have to do legal memoranda. If you're at a company where you have documentation that needs to be kept, you're constantly having to write including probably email as well where you know, some email requires quite a bit of substantive thought process plus outbound content, whether that's for a blog, a podcast scripting, video scripting, and all kinds of other kinds of outbound. You're writing short guides or ebooks for the company, we have to write a lot of content in our daily work lives, especially in the knowledge worker age. And what we want to do today is talk about some of the the gears that are necessary to make that engine so that you don't have to have your system be so hodgepodge to be cluttered and chaotic in the process of getting your content out the door. And so let's start off with some of the challenges people have with producing content productively.
Art Gelwicks 1:42Well, I think some of the main areas that I see consistently are one getting ideas for content, evaluating those ideas and then putting them into a content production schedule. The actual creation of the content itself whether it's writing the article, recording the podcast, The review and approval, especially if you're dealing within a business environment, that can often be one of the biggest bottlenecks to your production process. And then finally, how is that content distributed to your audience?
We had the pleasure of interviewing the CEO of Radio.co and Podcast.co, James Mulvany, about Entrepreneurial Productivity for his 30 Interviews in 30 Days challenge.
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Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
James Mulvany is a UK-based entrepreneur responsible for launching more than five internet companies. Currently, he's working on: Radio.co, Podcast.co & MatchMaker.fm.
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Voiceover Artist 0:00 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling productive life, then you've come to the right place productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity. Here, your host Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17
And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith.
Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:22And today we welcome to the show, James Mulvaney. He is the founder of radio.co, as well as podcast CO, and we wanted to kind of treat everybody with this interview because we think this is going to be a fun, interesting conversation regarding entrepreneurial productivity. Welcome to the show, James.
James Mulvaney 0:42Thank you very much for having me, guys. Yeah, it's pleasure to be here.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:45Absolutely. So tell us a little bit about your, your entrepreneurial journey here because it's very interesting to hear that you have this company radio co that helps people create radio stations, basically online. And then this podcasting platform what got you into this and what led you to here.
James Mulvaney 1:02So when I was sort of 1617, I was growing up and sort of finishing school I wanted to originally I was looking actually going into radio as on air talent, you know, as a DJ. And I used to always love music and I used to love listening to the radio, you know, when I was growing up, and I recorded myself on cassette tape and playing it back and all that kind of stuff like nerdy nerdy kid stuff, right? And, and, you know, he, when he got when it got to about 18 years old, I, I decided not to go down that route as a career, but instead I was learning how to build websites and a bit about the tech industry. This was back in like 2005 2006. I then went off to university and I grew a business which was rather than being actually involved in the radio industry, I grew a business supplying services, streaming media services to the, to the industry, because it was obviously an industry that I kind of understood because I kind of worked in radio a little bit. I've done some, you know, work experience. So I sort of understood you know, the value proposition there. Although when I began, I didn't really know what I was doing technically. So I kind of just figured it out as I went along. And yeah,
