How I Work

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How I Work explores practical ideas on work habits, productivity, decision-making, and building more sustainable ways of operating.

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Goal setting

Podcast

Why visualising success can undermine your goals

How I Work March 18, 2026


Goal setting 9
Resilience & grit 6
Management 5
  • Visualising the end goal makes you less likely to achieve it.
  • Failure goals turn rejection into measurable progress toward success.
  • Athletes visualise obstacles and responses, never the trophy.

Productivity & habits

Podcast

Using AI to prioritise tasks when everything feels urgent

How I Work March 15, 2026


Productivity & habits 9
AI tools & automation 9
Processes & SOPs 6
  • A weekly AI brain dump separates urgent tasks from noise in minutes
  • Identifying your single most stressful task and doing it first reduces overall anxiety
  • Connecting AI to email and calendar turns it into a real productivity assistant

Identity & self-belief

Podcast

How hidden beliefs shape your goals, habits, and relationships

How I Work March 11, 2026


Identity & self-belief 9
Resilience & grit 6
  • Limiting beliefs feel like facts — but they're not
  • Venting reinforces false perceptions instead of resolving them
  • Four questions can dissolve any belief causing you suffering

Management

Podcast

How to prepare your team for AI adoption without losing trust

How I Work March 8, 2026


Management 9
AI strategy & adoption 8
Automation & tools 5
  • Giving AI licenses without support actively destroys productivity, not boosts it.
  • The one question every leader must ask: how do I get my people AI-ready?
  • Change leads — not IT — are the real key to successful team AI adoption.

Communication

Podcast

Daniel Coyle on storytelling, deep questions, and building local community

How I Work March 4, 2026


Communication 9
Identity & self-belief 6
  • Three questions that cut through small talk and build real connection
  • Yellow doors: why saying yes to uncomfortable invitations changes your life
  • Change happens slowly then blooms — how leaders should think like gardeners

AI tools & automation

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How to use AI to critique and stress-test your work

How I Work March 1, 2026


AI tools & automation 9
Processes & SOPs 7
Iteration & feedback loops 5
  • Basic AI prompts polish work — structured critique finds real flaws
  • Quality gates score your output across eight diagnostic dimensions
  • Works as a second opinion even when AI wrote the original draft

Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Five skills that will make you more promotable in 2025

How I Work February 25, 2026


Identity & self-belief 9
Communication 8
Productivity & habits 6
  • 70% of workplace skills will change in the next five years
  • Why using a single word transforms how you handle conflict
  • How to use AI as a research partner without outsourcing your judgment

Founder interviews

Podcast

Leaving a 12-year identity behind: Dom Price on what comes after quitting

How I Work February 11, 2026


Founder interviews 10
Management 7
Resilience & grit 6
  • Why clarity rarely arrives before you quit — only after.
  • AI productivity gains are meaningless if teams just fill time with meetings.
  • Leaders who admit "I don't know" outperform those who fake certainty.

AI tools & automation

Podcast

How to use AI as a personal shopping assistant to save money

How I Work February 8, 2026


AI tools & automation 9
Automation & tools 5
  • Perplexity beats ChatGPT for live product research and comparisons
  • Scheduled AI prompts can automate weekly price tracking for you
  • Find fresher discount codes via Perplexity instead of coupon sites

Content marketing

Podcast

LinkedIn strategy built on depth, not reach

How I Work February 4, 2026


Content marketing 9
Branding 6
AI tools & automation 5
  • Return on intimacy beats return on investment for LinkedIn growth
  • Deep comment threads, not impressions, signal content that resonated
  • AI handles hooks and ideas; human voice does the actual writing

Culture building

Podcast

How an autistic CEO rebuilt her company culture around energy

How I Work February 4, 2026


Culture building 9
Hiring & recruitment 7
Resilience & grit 6
  • Why masking costs neurodivergent workers four times the energy
  • Losing $500K forced a complete culture rebuild from scratch
  • Six office days a month — and Friday meetings are banned

AI tools & automation

Podcast

Five AI hacks to take back control of your email inbox

How I Work February 1, 2026


AI tools & automation 9
Automation & tools 6
Processes & SOPs 5
  • Free AI tools can't touch your inbox — only paid integrations can
  • Tables and scoped prompts turn 300 unread emails into a triage list
  • Mirror your recipient's writing style to get better replies

AI tools & automation

Podcast

13 AI tools Dr Samantha Imber and Neo Applin use every day

How I Work January 28, 2026


AI tools & automation 9
  • Why using one AI tool for everything is leaving time on the table
  • Granola, Whisper Flow, and Consensus: three under-used daily essentials
  • Running AI locally keeps sensitive data off the cloud entirely

Productivity & habits

Podcast

Making time for what matters: Oliver Burkeman on limits and letting go

How I Work January 21, 2026


Productivity & habits 9
Goal setting 7
Deep work & focus 6
  • Your to-do list is infinite — you're always choosing, not clearing
  • Comparing output to zero, not infinity, dissolves productivity guilt
  • Quantity goals beat quality goals for getting creative work moving

Communication

Podcast

Recovering from burnout as a leader: radical honesty and rebuilding culture

How I Work January 14, 2026


Communication 9
Case studies 8
Resilience & grit 6
  • Hiding burnout from your team backfires — they sense it anyway.
  • Long tenure can quietly kill innovation from inside an organisation.
  • A dismissed gen AI bet became a third of company revenue within months.

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