Mike Vardy

The Productivityist Podcast: Kitchen Prep and Productivity Allison Schaaf

In this week’s episode, my guest is Allison Schaaf – a food, nutrition and culinary expert, and founder of meal-planning website PrepDish. It offers gluten-free, dairy-free and paleo meal plans to help people save time preparing healthy, homecooked meals. Allison was a guest on a previous bonus episode where we chatted about her approach in productivity […]

The Productivityist Podcast: Automating, Growing, and Selling with Joshua Latimer

 In this week’s podcast episode, my guest is Joshua Latimer – the man behind Send Jim and Automate Grow Sell, which help small businesses tap the power of relationship marketing. A few years back, Joshua left his job as a banker at JP Morgan Chase and decided to open a cleaning business in Michigan, which he eventually

My Monthly Theme Report: February 2017

The focus for the month of February was to work on the talks I have in my repertoire. I’ll cut to the chase: it went…okay. Here’s a summary of what happened in February.

The Productivityist Podcast: Say Hello to David Knapp-Fisher

My guest on this episode is one of my good friends, David Knapp-Fisher. We met at the World Domination Summit where we found out that we live 4 blocks apart, and have been constantly connecting ever since.

David is a father, speaker, and writer who loves connecting with people – especially the passionate and inspiring ones who lead remarkable lives. He describes himself as a guy who bumbled through school but always knew that he was smart outside of the standard school setting. He worked as a chef for some time until he realized that his passion is connecting with people.

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3 Questions You Can Ask for Greater Personal Productivity

In my years of studying productivity, I’ve found that my greatest asset is to never stop asking questions. It’s led to some of my best work. Asking yourself great questions can do the same for you. But where do you begin? Rather than have you search inward for them – or wander around the internet for them – I’ve assembled 3 great questions you can ask yourself for greater personal productivity.

The Productivityist Podcast: Claire Tompkins

This episode’s guest is Claire Tompkins (a.k.a. the Clutter Coach). Claire works with clients to organize and declutter their homes and offices, to manage their time, and get things done better. She works with artists, writers, entrepreneurs, and more as a professional organizer by creating simple, practical systems for real people.

These are the Productivity Tools I Love

I’ve long been a big believer in focusing on the approach before the application. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t use my fair share of tools to get the job done.

So I’m going to share with you the productivity tools that I love, broken down by how they help me with the three core components of my approach to personal productivity: Time Theming, Task Mapping, and Taking Stock.

The Productivityist Podcast: Giving and Growing with Philip McKernan

 My guest for this episode is Philip McKernan. He is an inspirational speaker, philosopher, writer, and filmmaker who works with entrepreneurs and leaders to live a life that benefits all aspects of their lives. This is one of the most impactful episodes I’ve ever had. We had a very refreshing conversation that covered so much