If you’ve been diagnosed with ADHD, suspect that you might have it, or have someone close to you who is neurodivergent (hint: you probably do!), this episode is for you. 

And if none of this applies to you, listen anyway! Our fast-paced society creates symptoms for people that mimic ADHD, so you’ll get something from this episode, no matter what. 

In this episode, I’m joined by Megan Kierstead, a certified coach for forward-thinking badasses with rebel brains. She helps people (especially those who identify as neurodivergent/ADHD) build a career and life unique to their bodies and brains. 

Listen in as we discuss:

• What ADHD is, and how it affects the nervous system  The role of motivation in ADHD, and how to influence your motivation 
• How to make articulating your emotions and thoughts easier, so that you can start to shift them 
• How to make things easier for your Future Self through retrospective reflection and troubleshooting
• The concept of play, and the many research-backed benefits of embracing it
• Why half-finished projects don’t have to be a problem

GUEST CONTACT — 

Megan Kierstead, Life Coach 

Podcast: The Black Sheep Playground  

Website

Instagram

Online program:  The Black Sheep Playground 

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Overeating. Overdrinking. Mindlessly scrolling Instagram. Doom-scrolling the news. Numbing out with Netflix.

These are all ways that we buffer; meaning we use something external to cover up our negative emotions. 

In this episode, you’ll learn how buffering can wreak havoc on your productivity, by keeping you in a constant cycle of avoidance. 

I’m joined by Jennifer Dent-Brown, a weight loss coach who teaches women how to stop dieting permanently. So whether you struggle with your weight or not, this episode is for you. 

Listen in as we discuss:

• The connection between weight and procrastination
• Jennifer’s business experience during the pandemic and how she dealt with procrastination
• How to distinguish a behavior that’s fine for you versus a behavior that has a net negative effect 
• Importance of emotional literacy to pinpoint an emotion faster, so that you can move through it
• Why it’s painful for people to sit with an emotion
• Jennifer’s diagnosis of ADHD and how it has impacted her work
• Social media addiction and its role in procrastination
• The Valley of Despair that we inevitably hit when we’re working to implement new habits
• What to do when you know you’re buffering, but you just don’t care

Jennifer Dent Brown is a Life + Weight Loss Coach who helps women learn to stop dieting and start living through her company, LUXE Life Coaching. Living a LUXE Life has nothing to do with money and everything to do with a state of mind. Feeling hopeless and unable to control your weight will never get you to your goal. Learning to live with the mindset of a woman who is already at her goal weight is the key to lasting, permanent weight loss. Learn more at jenniferdent.com.

GUEST CONTACT — 

Jennifer Dent-Brown, Life and Weight Loss Coach

Podcast: Stop. Dieting. Forever.™ Podcast

Website: jenniferdent.com

Facebook: @coachjenniferdentbrown

Instagram: @jenniferdentbrown

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Emotional Cycle of Change

The Life Coach School

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This one is for the parents who are struggling to balance their work with their role as a parent—especially when their kid or teen is having a hard time.

This is something that comes up with my clients all the time, so when I met Ashley Jangro, I knew I needed to have her on the podcast as a guest expert on this topic. 

Listen in as Ashley and I discuss:

• What to do when it feels like your productivity is affected by your kids

• How to start with your own mental health, before helping your child with theirs

• Letting your kids see you make mistakes and talking through that

• Evaluating the prescribed “shoulds” you have for your kids and yourself

• How to be okay when your kid is not okay

• How to differentiate between constructive and destructive actions in your relationship with your kid 

• A process to walk yourself through when you are experiencing an intense situation with your kid

• How taking the time to process your own emotions isn’t a time waster; it’s the best possible use of your time

• Recommendations for a parent who needs to self-soothe

• How to get back into work when you or your kid is struggling 

GUEST CONTACT — 

Ashley Jangro, Certified Life Coach

YouTube: Ashley Jangro Coaching

Ashley’s website 

You can listen to this episode using the audio player above, or find it on your preferred podcasting app by searching for the Half-Finished to Done Podcast. 

My job as a Productivity Coach is to help business owners like you find (and actually do!) the actions that are most high-value for you in your life and business. 

In this episode, I’m sharing one of my highest-value daily actions: My failure-free meditation practice.

Listen as I share exactly how I’ve implemented this habit to help me feel more calm, grounded, clear, peaceful, and productive.

If you give this meditation a go, or if you want to share what your daily high-value actions are, shoot me a message over on Instagram: @piquecoaching. 

And if you’re looking to experience more calm in your workday, join me live for:

The How To Have A Calm Workday 1:1 workshop

The cost is $150 and includes the $27 Guide for How to Get Into a Deep Work State in 15 Minutes. 

Register here.

See you there!

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How to Have a Calm Workday Workshop

Stress Less, Accomplish More by Emily Fletcher

Feeling Now Worksheet

31 Half-Finished to Done Client Story: Jaime Ellis

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In this episode, I’m catching up with my former client, Jaime Ellis, a recovering corporate America executive turned career coach. 

In this conversation, Jaime shares her journey from a place of overwhelm where she was drowning in projects and desperately looking for a way through that period of intense deliverables without burning herself out. 

Press play to hear how after her body “pulled the emergency brake” on her, she had no choice but to slow down, reset, and find a way to do things differently in her business. 

 Listen in as we discuss:

• What prompted Jaime to make the move from corporate executive to entrepreneurship
• Unhealthy habits that Jaime had to break when transitioning from the corporate world into her own business
• How Jaime originally joined Half-Finished to Done, LIVE to find a hack for getting everything done—only to discover that it wasn’t actually possible
• Specific examples where Jaime created equal and better results with less time, effort, and energy
• How the Bare Minimum Challenge taught Jaime how to be more honest, upfront, transparent and vulnerable with her commitments 
• How to accept constructive feedback on your projects and not make it mean anything about you
• Operating from a cruising vs. white-knuckling mentality
• Valuable advice for anyone who has joined the Half-Finished to Done, LIVE program but hasn’t yet started

Jaime is a former B2B Tech Marketing Executive turned entrepreneur and coach, specializing in career transitions. She’s passionate about finding solutions and speaking about burnout, stress debt, and Achievement Dysmorphia. 

GUEST CONTACT — 

Jaime Ellis, Executive Coach for Career Transitions

Website

LinkedIn

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Half-Finished to Done, LIVE 45-minute consult

The Bare Minimum Challenge

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski

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If you’ve ever considered yourself an overthinker, this episode is for you. 

Our guest on the show today is my former client, Kim Witten. In this episode, she talks about how participating in Half-Finished to Done, LIVE after completing the 5-day Bare Minimum Challenge helped her reduce dread, anxiety, and tinkering in her business. 

She now gets more done in a way that she likes, with less effort and more confidence. 

Listen in as we discuss:

• Why Kim decided to join Half-Finished to Done, LIVE
• The philosophies that Kim has taken from our work together into her business
• The value of self-agreement in your business
• What to do when you think that your values are at odds
• How Kim has learned to deal with anxiety and dread in her business
• The Accomplishment Triad, and Kim’s take on this concept
• How Kim has used the Bare Minimum Challenge, and the results she’s created because of it
• Kim’s transition from an overthinker to a deep thinker 

Kim is a transformational coach and research consultant, who helps overwhelmed creatives turn their overthinking into expert thinking. Driven by her desire to understand the human experience, she uses insights to help people and organizations adapt to change with intention, confidence, and purpose.

She loves to connect with people and learn about their projects, their pain points, their impossible goals, and whatever else they’re thinking about.

GUEST CONTACT — 

Kim Witten, Transformational Coach 

Website

LinkedIn

Hold That Thought newsletter

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Lunchclub

Half-Finished to Done, LIVE

The Bare Minimum Challenge

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle with Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski

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Conventional wisdom says that we need to shore up our weaknesses. But what if it’s actually better (and more enjoyable) to build a business that capitalizes on your strengths?

When you make a conscious effort to understand and leverage your strengths, you’ll be more energized, engaged, and successful when it comes to your projects. 

Today’s conversation is with Becca Syme, a Success Coach. Listen in as we discuss how you can increase your performance by doing more of what comes naturally to you. 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The philosophy behind the Gallup StrengthFinder test 
• Mine and Becca’s top five strengths 
• How to figure out your work style, based on your strengths
• Creating strengths-based systems that work for you in your business
• How to discern what productivity advice to take and what to reject
• The benefit of finally acknowledging the habits you don’t actually want to change 
• How to be a better consumer of coaching programs by knowing yourself better

Becca Syme is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and holds a Master’s degree in Transformational Leadership. She is the host of the Quitcast for Writers and the teacher of the popular Write Better-Faster class. Becca has coached 5700+ authors using success alignment and predictive reasoning to help authors write and market better-faster. She lives in the mountains of Montana where it is always winter and never Christmas.

GUEST CONTACT — 

Becca Syme, Success Coach

YouTube: The QuitCast

Website: Better-Fast Academy

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StrengthsFinder Test

Half-Finished to Done, LIVE

The Guide for How to Get Into a Deep Work State ($27)

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In order to be a calm, self-assured, repeat project finisher, you need to focus on mastering just 3 skill sets.

You’ve heard these 3 skill sets talked about here and there on the podcast, but this is the first time I’m addressing all 3 together, and explaining what they have in common. 

The 3 skill sets that every project finisher needs:

• Deep work: The ability to focus on one high-impact result for 60-75 minutes 
• Monday Hour One: The ability to plan out your entire week in just one hour per week 
• Project planning: The ability to manage a project across an 8-week sprint 

Here’s the good news:

1. 1. They’re all fundamentally the same skill set; once you master one, you can more easily master the next one
   2. You’re probably already doing these 3 skills more than you think you are
   3. You don’t need to be a total expert in these 3 skills in order to finish projects; you just need to do them slightly more than you’re currently doing them

These questions will help you track your progress as you develop and improve these skill sets: 

• Deep work: On a scale of 1-10, how would you self-assess yourself on the ability to focus on demand on your most important work, for 60-75 minutes at a time?
• Monday Hour One: On a scale of 1-10, how would you self-rate your ability to plan out your week in a way that works for you? 
• Project planning: On a scale of 1-10, how would you self-assess your ability to make a project plan for your most important project and execute on that plan all the way to completion, overcoming obstacles along the way?

I invite you to answer these questions and then send your answers to me on Instagram @piquecoaching. I’ll help you figure out where to focus first. 

RESOURCES MENTIONED —

Half-Finished to Done, LIVE 45-minute consult

Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, Author: Dan Heath & Chip Heath

Monday Hour One: A New + Improved Time Blocking System

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Our guest today is not only a former client of my Half-Finished to Done, LIVE program, she’s also my big sister, Sara Rose Whaley.

In this conversation, we’ll discuss how an afternoon spent organizing her bedroom led to a massive aha moment about how she manages overwhelm, in both her home life and in her business. 

Once she realized there was a way to work through her overwhelm, sense of urgency, and anxiety, Sara begged me to let her join Half-Finished to Done, LIVE—and I finally let her 🙂 

Listen in as we discuss:

• How overwhelm manifests in your body
  
• Sara’s initial hesitations around joining Half-Finished to Done, LIVE 
• How she far exceeded the financial goal she set for herself at the beginning of our 8 weeks together
• Sara’s newfound understanding that she doesn’t need a lot of time in her business in order to create value 
• How she learned to create clarity on demand using the 3-step Anti–Procrastination Cycle
• The ripple effects that Sara has seen in her home life, with her kids, and in her marriage since going through the program
• Sara’s advice to anyone interested in joining Half-Finished to Done LIVE 

As a parent coach and board-certified behavior analyst with 15 years of experience, Sara Rose Whaley helps families increase their joy during the toddler stage. She addresses all the components that affect this including: marriage dynamics, mom guilt and burnout, and toddler behavior strategies. She is currently fully living the toddler stage with her 2 kids: ages 4 and 2.5. 

GUEST CONTACT — 

Sara Rose Whaley, Parent Coach and Behavior Analyst

Joyful Toddler Parenting website

Instagram: @JoyfulToddlerParenting

You can listen to this episode using the audio player above, or find it on your preferred podcasting app by searching for the Half-Finished to Done Podcast.