Demir Bentley reveals the five simple steps to successfully plan and execute vastly more satisfying and productive weeks.

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1) Why nobody really plans their week—and how to fix it

2) The master key to getting ahead of your to-do list

3) How to transform your calendar into a power tool

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— ABOUT DEMIR —

Demir Bentley is an executive productivity coach, co-founder of Lifehack Method and WSJ Bestselling author of Winning The Week: How To Plan A Successful Week, Every Week.

He teaches hard-hitting efficiency techniques and proven accountability strategies that have helped clients generate millions in revenue while saving thousands of hours.

In the past eight years, he’s helped more than 70,000 professionals, including executives from Facebook, Google, Uber and PepsiCo, to prevent burnout and create more freedom in their lives.

• Book: Winning the Week: How To Plan A Successful Week, Every Week

• Website: WinningTheWeek.com

• Website: LifeHackMethod.com

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• Book: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan

• Past episode: 080: Finding and Doing the One Thing with Jay Papasan

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Shanna Hocking shares transformative mindsets to help you advance your career and achieve your goals.

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1) How daily bold moves increase confidence

2) Powerful mantras to keep self-doubt at bay

3) How to stop dreading difficult conversations

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— ABOUT SHANNA —

Shanna A. Hocking is a leadership consultant and coach, fundraising strategist, speaker, and writer. Shanna spent 20 years in fundraising leadership at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Alabama, and Duke University.

She is the author of One Bold Move a Day: Meaningful Actions Women Can Take to Fulfill Their Leadership and Career Potential. Shanna’s expertise has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, The Muse, and Harper’s Bazaar UK. Shanna was named a LinkedIn Top Voice in 2024.

• Book: One Bold Move a Day: Meaningful Actions Women Can Take to Fulfill Their Leadership and Career Potential

• LinkedIn: Shanna Hocking

• Website: ShannaAHocking.com

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• Tool: Hogan Assessments

• Study: “Stronger together: A multilevel study of collective strengths use and team performance” by Maria Christina Meyers, Marianne van Woerkom, and Robin Bauwens

• Book: I Hope This Finds You Well: A Novel by Natalie Sueook: What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know by Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey

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Ximena Vengoechea shares her viral three-phase life audit exercise for surfacing and achieving your most important goals.

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1) How to transform your life with just Post-Its and a marker

2) How to turn fanciful wishes into actionable goals

3) How to stay motivated while pursuing hard goals

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— ABOUT XIMENA —

Ximena Vengoechea is a user experience researcher, writer, and illustrator whose work on personal and professional development has been published in Inc., the Washington Post, Newsweek, and Insider, among others. She is the author of Rest Easy and Listen Like You Mean It, and she writes a newsletter about personal growth and human behavior. She lives in New York.

• Book: The Life Audit: A Step-by-Step Guide to Discovering Your Goals and Building the Life You Want

• Blogpost: “How and Why to do a Life Audit”

• Website: XimenaVengoechea.com

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• Notebook: Moleskine

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• Book: I Hope This Finds You Well: A Novel by Natalie Sue

• Book: Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg

• Past episode: 317: How to Form Habits the Smart Way with BJ Fogg, PhD

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Disney legend Duncan Wardle shares keys for tapping into your creative side.

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1) What blocks our creativity

2) How to hone your ideas with a “naive expert”

3) The trick to surfacing your best ideas

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— ABOUT DUNCAN —

As Head of Innovation and Creativity at Disney, Duncan and his team helped Imagineering, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar, and Disney Parks to innovate, creating magical new storylines and experiences.

He now brings his extensive Disney expertise to audiences around the world using a unique approach to Design Thinking, helping people capture unlikely connections, leading to fresh thinking and disruptive ideas.

Delivering a series of keynotes, workshops and ideation forums, his unique Innovation toolkit helps companies embed a culture of innovation into everyone’s DNA.

Duncan is a multiple TED speaker and contributor to Fast Company, Forbes & the Harvard Business Review. He teaches innovation Master Classes at Yale, Harvard, and Edinburgh University.

• Book: The Imagination Emporium: Creative Recipes for Innovation

• Website: DuncanWardle.com

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• Book: Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace

• Book: Virgin by Design by Nick Carson

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Dr. Janna Koretz reveals the pitfalls of letting your job become your identity and what to do about it.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why career enmeshment harms mental health

2) The power of protected thinking time

3) The root cause of workaholism–and how to cure it

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— ABOUT JANNA —

Dr. Janna Koretz is the founder of Azimuth, a therapy practice specializing in the mental health challenges of individuals in high-pressure careers. She has spent over a decade helping her clients face and overcome their mental health issues by developing a unique understanding of industry-specific nuances in fields like law, consulting, finance, and technology.

Dr. Koretz has been featured in many publications, including Harvard Business Review and the Wall Street Journal, focusing on the importance of recognizing career/identity enmeshment. She also writes and speaks on the challenges of discovering and living your personal values.

In addition to therapy, Azimuth provides a set of free online tools that have helped tens of thousands of people, including the Burnout Calculator, Career Enmeshment Test, and Values Navigator. The practice is also developing a values-based journaling iOS app, set to launch later this year, based on the popularity of its Values Navigator tool.

• Website: AzimuthPsych.com

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• Book: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

• Past episode: 873: Dr. Steven Hayes on Building a More Resilient and Flexible Mind

• Study: The Stanford Prison Experiment

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