Mike Vardy

The Productivityist Podcast: The Staying Power of Sketchnotes with Deborah LeFrank

 A landscape architect, entrepreneur, graphic journalist and memory collector, Deborah LeFrank uses pens and paper to capture stories from daily life by creating sketch notes or visual stories which help her remember things and memories. I’ve known her for quite some time and I’m a big fan of her work, and she’s my guest for

The Productivityist Podcast: Zen and The Art of Work with Kourosh Dini

My guest for this episode is Kourosh Dini – a psychiatrist, writer, musician, and author. Some of his works include Zen & The Art of Work, Creating Flow with OmniFocus, and Workflow Mastery. I’ve met Kourosh a couple of years ago when we worked together for the OmniFocus set-up. I love his work and have always

The Productivityist Podcast: The Inner Game of Productivity with Alan Brown

 My guest this week is Alan Brown – a productivity coach, best-selling author of the book Zen and the Art of Productivity, and the host of Crusher TV. Alan helps people get more things done in less time and with less stress through smart productivity and brain hacks. We chatted about his experience in overcoming a

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.