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Leo Babauta of Zen Habits talks about how to reduce task friction and get to task completion

Episode 1048: Done: Reduce Task Friction to Get to Task Completion by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits on Finishing Tasks and Work Sooner

Leo Babauta created Zen Habits, which is about finding simplicity and mindfulness in the daily chaos of our lives. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, find happiness.

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Kathleen Coxwell of NewRetirement talks about how 401k plans are evolving

Episode 1047: 401k Plans Getting Better: Are They Reason Enough to Work Longer? by Kathleen Coxwell of New Retirement

NewRetirement is a company that offers a comprehensive financial planning engine delivered via white label or API. NewRetirement delivers a combination of automated financial planning technology and educational services focused on bringing financial wellness to the mass market in customizable ways. They want to help anyone get confident and achieve financial independence so they can make the most of their money and time.

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Tripti Rai with Money Mini Blog talks about what skills to add in your resume

Episode 1046: The Top 10 Skills to Add in Your Resume by Tripti Rai with Money Mini Blog on Building A Resume

Kalen Bruce is the founder of MoneyMiniBlog. His story is simple… he and his wife were $24,000 in debt and became a student of finances to get out. They are now debt-free and building wealth. Kalen shares everything he has learned on his blog, writing informative, entertaining, mini blogs to help you with your finances. Finances can be intimidating, so he keeps his posts short, sweet, and simple.

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Molly Fletcher shares 7 tips for conquering your fear of public speaking

Episode 1045: Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking With These 7 Tips by Molly Fletcher on How to Give a Presentation

Too many leaders, teams, and organizations are stuck. Instead of achieving greatness, they remain stagnant, failing to reach their potential. That’s where Molly Fletcher comes in.

She is a trailblazer in every sense of the word– a rare talent of business wisdom, relationship brilliance and unwavering optimism. A popular keynote speaker, she shares the unconventional techniques that helped her thrive as one of the first female sports agents in the high stakes, big ego world of professional sports and now a successful entrepreneur.

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Michael Levitt of Breakfast Leadership helps you onboard new employees more effectively

Episode 1044: Onboard New Employees More Effectively With These Tips by Michael Levitt of Breakfast Leadership on Hiring New Company Members

Michael Levitt is the founder & Chief Burnout Officer of The Breakfast Leadership Network, a San Diego and Toronto-based burnout media firm. He is a Certified NLP and CBT Therapist, and is one of the world's leading authorities in burnout recovery and prevention. He is also a Fortune 500 consultant, #1 bestselling author, and host of the Breakfast Leadership Show, a top 200 podcast on iTunes. He is a 2x Top 20 Global Thought Leader on Culture with Thinkers360. He is a former Healthcare executive, CIO, and CFO overseeing $ 2 Billion budgets, so he’s seen and done it all.

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Sabado Domingo with Len Penzo talks about how to raise capital for starting your business

Episode 1043: How to Raise Capital for Starting Your Business by Sabado Domingo with Len Penzo on Tips for New Entrepreneurs

Len Penzo writes about personal finance and macroeconomics on his eponymous personal finance blog, which has been twice-honored as a Kiplinger Best Money Blog, and honored with two Plutus Awards for Best Personal Finance Blog. 

 Len’s personal finance articles have been featured in the New York Times, MSN, Business Insider, Money, Time, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Yahoo! Finance, CBS MoneyWatch and Clark Howard, just to name a few. 

 His focus is on the importance of personal responsibility — not only for our personal finances, but also for everything else we do in life.

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Kevin of Financial Panther talks about prioritizing life instead of work

Episode 1042: Make Your Job Fit Around Your Life by Kevin of Financial Panther on Prioritizing Life Instead of Work

Kevin is an attorney, writer, gig economy expert, side hustler, and the blogger behind Financial Panther. He paid off 87,000 worth of student loans in just 2.5 years by choosing not to live like a big shot lawyer. He started Financial Panther to share all he knows about personal finance, travel hacking, and making more money by side hustling.

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Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman with The Gottman Institute talk about how much praise is ideal in the workplace

Episode 1041: The Workplace: The Ideal Praise-to-Criticism Ratio by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman with Gottman on Giving and Receiving Feedback at Work

The Gottman Institute understands that the human family is in crisis, and that all individuals are capable of and deserve compassion. It is their mission to reach out to families in order to help create and maintain greater love and health in relationships. They are committed to an ongoing program of research that increases the understanding of relationships and adds to the development of interventions that have been carefully evaluated. It is their goal to make their services accessible to the broadest reach of people across race, religion, class, culture, sexual orientation, and ethnicity.

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Karl Staib of Dig to Fly shares 5 games for your brain to make your work more fun

Episode 1040: 5 Games for Your Brain to Make Your Work More Fun by Karl Staib of Dig to Fly on Enjoying Your Job

Karl Staib is an author that seeks out growth at every turn. It's why he writes. He wants to process his thoughts and emotions, learn from them and share them with the world. He grew up in a little town in Pennsylvania called Pipersiville. He moved to Austin, TX in this mid twenties and now he is living in San Antonio with his wife and two boys. If you enjoy his writing, he encourages you to reach out to him at DigToFly.com. He wants to hear about how you've learned to grow from your own struggles. When his father passed it was focusing on gratitude that helped him get through one of the most difficult times in his life. It taught him the importance of bringing gratitude to every single situation. Whether it's a difficult situation like his father's death or amazing one like drinking ice cold tea by the river with his son. That's why he wants to bring more gratitude into the workplace. His work inside a fortune 500 company that regularly ranks in top 10 for best place to work has shown him the importance of gratitude and how it increases productivity and communication. If you want to learn more just go to DigToFly.com. He is also a big fan of traveling, meditation, Yoga, hikes in lush terrain and his family.

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Julie Morgenstern teaches you how to be productive when working from home

Episode 1039: 5 Ways To Be Productive When Working From Home by Julie Morgenstern on Staying Focused on Work

Julie Morgenstern is an organizing & productivity consultant, New York Times best-selling author, and speaker. For over 30 years, Julie has been teaching people all around the world and at all stages of life how to overcome disorganization to achieve their goals. Her mission is to free each individual to make their unique contribution to the world – by helping them design their own systems for managing time and space that feel natural and are easy to maintain. This Inside Out approach to organizing everything gives readers, listeners, and clients the energy and knowledge they need to get (and stay) organized.

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