Work-life balance

Podcast

Can parents do deep work? A psychological approach to work-family tension

Deep Questions with Cal Newport November 7, 2022

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Work-life balance 10

Identity & self-belief 8

Deep work & focus 6

• We engineer chronic mild stress to give ourselves permission to say no.
• Multiple roles enrich each other through skill transfer, buffering, and added meaning.
• External fixes don't resolve internal conflict — values clarification must come first.

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Identity & self-belief

YouTube

How to choose the right career coach using the SMART framework

Dr. Grace Lee November 5, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 7

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• Resonance with a coach matters more than their credentials.
• Match the coach's specialty to your exact career goal first.
• Teaching plus mentoring plus coaching compounds into role-specific growth.

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

How to decide if you should start a startup

Y Combinator November 1, 2022

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 7

Long-term planning 5

• Resilience predicts founder success far better than confidence or credentials
• Living with the worst case — one low-pay year — is the real readiness test
• Find a co-founder by building side projects with people who energize you

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Kobe Bryant's Mamba Mentality: obsession, study, and relentless improvement

Founders October 26, 2022

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Deep work & focus 7

• Greatness is built in private through obsessive, unglamorous work.
• Kobe systematically sought out legends to download their knowledge.
• Identify your weaknesses ruthlessly — then fix them until they're gone.

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

Why the world rewards courageous decisions

Dan Martell October 24, 2022

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 7

• Walking away from millions to bet on yourself pays off
• Real risk must genuinely scare you — most founders play it safe
• Luck shows up, but only action lets you answer the door

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Work-life balance

Podcast

Millennials, middle age, and the deep reset: reconfiguring life with intention

Deep Questions with Cal Newport October 24, 2022

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Work-life balance 8

Productivity & habits 7

Identity & self-belief 6

• Why millennials are primed for radical, intentional life overhaul right now
• Candle FIRE: cut costs enough to work half-time without quitting entirely
• TikTok is Blue's Clues for adults — and Facebook is following it off a cliff

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Kobe Bryant's obsessive pursuit of greatness and what drove it

Founders October 19, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 9

Deep work & focus 8

Productivity & habits 7

• Belief before ability: Kobe declared greatness long before earning it.
• Starting at 4am compounds into an insurmountable edge by year five.
• Total commitment means sacrificing every relationship that slows you down.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Seven Stoic tips for reading books effectively

The Daily Stoic October 18, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 9

Deep work & focus 6

• Reading hundreds of books is the baseline — not a bonus.
• Rereading the same book as you change unlocks new meaning each time.
• Apply ideas in the real world — retreating to books is its own failure.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Joey Cofone on the Laws of Creativity: a practical framework for creative thinking

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life October 17, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 9

Deep work & focus 6

Productivity & habits 5

• 98% of five-year-olds are creative geniuses — only 2% of adults are.
• Creativity is learnable and reliable, not magic or innate talent.
• Quantity begets quality: rough ideas made real beat waiting for perfection.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Amy Morin on mental strength and resilience

The Daily Stoic October 8, 2022

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 7

• Losing your mom at 23 and husband at 26 on the same date shaped a therapist's framework for mental strength
• Your narrative about adversity—cursed vs. resilient—matters more than the events themselves
• Mental strength comes down to one thing: stop caring what others think about you

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic guidance on ambition, mortality, and inner resilience

The Daily Stoic October 7, 2022

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Goal setting 7

• Why erring toward kindness resolves the law-versus-justice tension
• Stoic ambition means controlling effort, not outcomes
• The inner citadel is built through philosophy and deliberate hardship

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Five ways to build your tolerance for risk

Masters of Scale October 4, 2022

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 6

Business models 5

• Understand risk as a spectrum, not binary choice; use data to reduce uncertainty.
• Commit fully to chosen bets once assessed; half measures kill startups.
• Align your team and ground decisions in principles to unlock collective risk capacity.

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Identity & self-belief

YouTube

Why working in-house first makes you a better freelance copywriter

Joanna Wiebe September 30, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 8

Copywriting 6

• Clients edit your Word doc but won't touch a Photoshop file.
• In-house exposes you to 'just fluff it up' before clients do.
• Peer communities can replicate in-house calibration for freelancers.

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Identity & self-belief

YouTube

Mindset shifts and habits that build wealth and fulfillment

Silicon Valley Girl September 29, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 9

Goal setting 8

Productivity & habits 7

• One high-value client can outperform dozens of budget ones
• Warren Buffett's 25-goal rule: focus only on your top five
• Set targets beyond reach — you land further than playing small

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Ryan Holiday on discipline, stoicism, and building a writing career

Deep Questions with Cal Newport September 26, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 9

Deep work & focus 7

Content marketing 6

• Discipline is a muscle: small consistent reps beat zero-to-Goggins leaps.
• The main thing must stay the main thing — even when success multiplies demands.
• Physical discipline is the entry drug; it transfers to every other domain.

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