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The most productive podcast on the internet. Practical, step-by-step episodes on running the Full Focus System — goal setting, weekly previews, and daily focus — so you can banish distractions and get the right stuff done.
The most productive podcast on the internet. Practical, step-by-step episodes on running the Full Focus System — goal setting, weekly previews, and daily focus — so you can banish distractions and get the right stuff done.
Long-form conversations with leaders, thinkers, and high achievers about ambition without burnout — how real people succeed at work without losing what matters most at home.
Latest Episodes
October 19, 2026
You can work really hard on the wrong stuff. In fact, most people do. Unfortunately, work can look and feel productive without being productive. Most wasted effort happens because tasks pass two of the Priority Filter’s tests but fail the third. When that happens, you’re stuck…
October 12, 2026
The average professional carries dozens of items on their to-do list, and not all of them are worth doing: you’re only doing them because someone asked, it caught your attention, you noticed it needed doing, or you’ve always done it. When our to-do lists are too long, we think…
October 5, 2026
The Improviser follows curiosity wherever it leads (usually leaving a trail of half-finished projects behind them). They’re creative problem-solvers who see connections nobody else sees, forge new paths when the standard approach isn’t working, and can produce extraordinary work…
October 14, 2026
You can be extremely capable—leading teams, hitting deadlines, maintaining good habits—while still living as an expert procrastinator. Most of us can find some gap between what we intend to do (and who we intend to be) and the lives we actually lead. And often, the things we put…
September 30, 2026
Most ambition advice is about how to reach the top of the mountain. Luke Burgis points out that many of us have an upstream problem: we’re climbing a mountain we don’t actually care about. Michael and Megan sit down with Burgis, a Wall Street suit turned entrepreneur turned…
September 16, 2026
Chaos always prompts us to search for something solid. Confronted by the upheaval of economic reckoning, ecological exhaustion, and existential uncertainty, our souls are reaching for anything tangible and true. We want what’s real. That’s the core message of Ryan Levesque, a…
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