A Productive Conversation

How I Built My Business


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This episode is brought to you by Your Clockwise Week—a personalized weekly structure built around your actual life, not an ideal one. If your week feels full but not fitting, you can learn more at mikevardy.com/yourclockwiseweek.


On this episode of the podcast I fly solo! I talk about why I’ve added a second episode to the podcast each week and present (nearly) all of the story of how I’ve built my business as per a request from a podcast listener.
While I’ve shared my story in bits in pieces both on this podcast and elsewhere, listener Jeffrey Fate wanted me to try to share how I’ve built my business in one fell swoop somewhere. I asked him if he’d like that somewhere to be a single episode of The Productivityist Podcast, and he loved the idea!
So I share my long and winding journey from Costco to today, with all (or most of) of the “built my business” highlights and waypoints along the way. I also discuss why I’ve decided to double the amount of episodes I produce per week and what that means for the future of this podcast.
Helpful Links
Jeffrey Fate and Me: The Twitter Thread that Led to This Episode’s Topic
Effing The Dog: The Podcast | Episode 3 from 2008 (Effing is short for Efforting)
The posts I’ve written for GTD Times
My posts at WorkAwesome
Articles I’ve authored for Cult of Mac
My posts at The Next Web
Check out what I’ve written for Lifehack
My posts at Lifehacker
What The — Happened to Lifehacker?
Time to Say Goodbye | My Lifehack Farewell Post
System.ly (from Greg Hickman)
The Daily Driver: Get my FREE daily paper planning tool
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