Routines & Ruts

By Madeleine Dore

What's Routines & Ruts about?

Routines & Ruts with Madeleine Dore is about the days we find flow, and the days we go completely off track. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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08.22.2022

To end the podcast, host Madeleine Dore takes us back to the beginning and shares a free sample from the audio version of I Didn't Do The Thing Today. — GET THE BOOK: I Didn't Do The Thing Today — ...

Routines & Ruts episodes:

08.22.2022 BONUS PART 2: On endings and beginnings [Free audiobook sample] To end the podcast, host Madeleine Dore takes us back to the beginning and shares a free sample from the audio version of I Didn't Do The Thing Today. — GET THE BOOK: I Didn't Do The Thing Today — ...
08.14.2022 BONUS PART 1: On endings and beginnings Host Madeleine Dore shares reflections on ending her labour of love, and introduces a new beginning. — GET THE FREE NEWSLETTER: Receive a monthly round up by signing up to Madeleine Dore—On Things. — BECOME A PAID SUBSCRIBER: To access ...
02.20.2022 On the antidote to being afraid of the work In this final episode of season three, Madeleine explores the fear behind perfectionism — and how often the only antidote to being afraid of the work, is to do the work. READ THE BOOK: I Didn't Do The Thing TodaySTAY ...
01.25.2022 On writing, publishing, and the snowball of courage In this special episode, Madeleine answers all your questions on writing and publishing a book — with answers exploring themes such as courage, process, and patience that are relevant to any project or endeavour. READ THE BOOK: I Didn't Do ...
01.09.2022 On ten lessons for self-doubt (and life) In this week's quandary, Madeleine answers her own quandary! Upon the release of her first book, Madeleine offers herself some timely advice for addressing self-doubt when putting something into the world—which is advice that also doubles as advice for living. ...
12.30.2021 On asking: what if nothing changes? This week's quandary is all about making and sticking to resolutions—and why it might be more worthwhile to expand ourselves, rather than fixate on changing ourselves.READ THE BOOK: I Didn't Do The Thing TodaySTAY IN TOUCH: Sign up to the ...
12.22.2021 On feeling guilty for resting when there's still more to do This week's quandary is about how to know when you need to go easy on yourself and rest, and when you need to push through complacency to get things done. READ THE BOOK: I Didn't Do The Thing TodaySTAY IN ...
12.14.2021 On being consistently inconsistent This week's quandary is about being inconsistent. Madeleine shares how she embraced one of her biggest productivity-guilt stumbling blocks.READ THE BOOK: I Didn't Do The Thing TodaySTAY IN TOUCH: Sign up to the Madeleine Dore—On Things newsletter Hosted on Acast. ...
12.06.2021 On moving out of the indecision spiral This week's quandary is about how to make a decision when you're caught in a yes/no spiral. Madeleine unpacks the standstill of indecision, how to handle the regret we can feel, and mixes many metaphors! READ THE BOOK: I Didn't ...
11.29.2021 On overcoming the hesitation behind asking "how" This week's quandary is several in one: how to know if something is good enough, how to determine your life purpose, and how to know where to start. Madeleine unpacks the hesitation behind asking how, so you can overcome it ...
11.21.2021 Season 3: Introducing productivity-guilt therapy(ish) It's been a minute! To introduce season three, host Madeleine Dore reflects on disappearing for a while to write her first book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today. Also, to delve further into the lessons on letting go of productivity ...
12.31.2020 Wrap episode: Lessons on wobbling and modulating The lessons from this podcast are now compiled in the book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today. To stay in the loop, sign up to the Madeleine Dore—On Things newsletter. Previous episodes mentioned:Period preacher' Lucy Peach talked about the connection, ...
12.05.2020 R&R mini: On the beauty in the break The final episode for season three asks, how do we find the beauty in the break and determine our preference for rest? Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If ...
11.30.2020 Annie Raser Rowland on frugal hedonism and living more creatively with less “Frugal hedonism is partly about noticing when less is more, and that applies to activity just as much as in the realm of consumption.” – Annie Raser Rowland Artist, horticulturalist and co-author of The Art of Frugal Hedonism talks about ...
11.27.2020 R&R mini: On 'puddle theory' and how to do things you're putting off In this mini episode, Madeleine shares her trusted "puddle theory" to help with overwhelm. * * * Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If you'd like to support the ...
11.22.2020 Hilary Jacobs Hendel on emotions, types of shame, and slowing down “Ultimately the goal is to communicate our wants, needs, fears and boundaries confidently and effectively.” – Hilary Jacobs HendelPsychotherapist and author Hilary Jacobs Hendel talks about the importance of emotional education to help us connect to each other and ourselves. ...
11.22.2020 R&R mini: On ruminating and worrying about what people think This week's mini episode asks, how do we spend less time ruminating and worrying about what other think? * * * Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If you'd ...
11.15.2020 Greg Quicke on the life lessons we find in the cosmos Self-taught bush astronomer and author of Is The Moon Upside Down? Greg Quicke talks about the powerful lessons for everyday life we can find in the cosmos. * * * Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour ...
11.14.2020 R&R mini: On the practice of saying no This week's mini episode asks, how do we learn to ask generously and say no kindly? * * * Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If you'd like to ...
11.08.2020 Kylie Maslen on invisible illness, boundaries and shared understanding Author of Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with Invisible Illness Kylie Maslen discusses how creating a shared understanding of someone’s day to day can help break down the barriers between the well and unwell. * * * Thank you ...
11.07.2020 R&R mini: On allowing for distraction This week's mini episode asks, how do allow both attention and distraction into our days? * * * Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If you'd like to support ...
11.02.2020 Tyson Yunkaporta on how creativity is inseparable from life Author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World Tyson Yunkaporta speaks to how when we reduce creativity to a marketplace, we overlook how we are all creative. * * * Thank you for listening to Routines & ...
10.31.2020 R&R mini: On letting go and how to survey your 'shoulds' This week's mini episode asks, how do we let go of what we think we 'should' be doing? * * * Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If you'd ...
10.25.2020 Pandora Sykes on finding the rightful, good enough life Pandora Sykes is a writer, journalist and broadcaster—but as she shares in this conversation, she’s a gatherer. We speak about how smaller worries can sometimes feel the biggest, how we can be driven by feelings like guilt and envy rather ...
10.25.2020 R&R mini: On indecision and the fear of better options This week's mini episode asks, how can we get out of the indecision spiral? * * * Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If you'd like to support the ...
10.18.2020 Sarah Wilson on showing up, going to your edge, and living an enlarged life Sarah Wilson is a former journalist and TV presenter, best-selling author and activist, whose latest book This One Wild and Precious Life explores how vital individual change is in a world demanding more of us * * * Thank you ...
10.16.2020 R&R mini: On empty time and not feeling crammed This week's mini episode asks, can empty time be a gift—and can we find it in a crammed life? * * * Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If ...
10.11.2020 Kemi Nekvapil on defining your own relationship to routine and diminishing self-judgement From working as a baker and a chef, to an actor and yoga teacher across the globe, Kemi Nekvapil has lived many lives. Now as a credentialed life coach, a speaker and author of The Gift of Asking and host ...
10.08.2020 R&R mini: On letting your pile of good things grow This week's mini episode asks, can a small good thing help with overwhelm? * * * Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If you'd like to support the podcast, ...
10.04.2020 Lucy Peach on the connection, creativity and truth in our cycles We live in a linear world – with linear schedules, and linear expectations of our energy, or our time, our bodies. But what if we don’t move throughout our days in straight lines, but rather ebb and flow in cycles? ...
09.30.2020 R&R mini: On doing your thing This week's mini episode explores the different types of doing – and what gets in the way of doing our thing. * * * Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and ...
09.27.2020 Hugh Mackay on where we hide and compassionate love as a daily discipline Why do we sometimes hide from our selves, and where are we hiding? In his latest book The Inner Self, social researcher Hugh Mackay explores our top twenty hiding places, including busyness, perfectionism, guilt, ambition, work and even the pursuit ...
09.14.2020 Season 2: What replenishes you? Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If you'd like to support the podcast, please share with a friend, or buy the companion book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today. ...
06.14.2020 Wrap episode: Perfectionism, discomfort and showing up Throughout this season I’ve reflected with my guests on various topics relating to our creatives lives, including process, productivity-shame, mistakes, money, vulnerability, self-compassion, uncertainty, self-sabotage, self-growth, joy, setbacks, privilege, letting go, solitude, resilience, busyness, heartbreak, patience, mental health, limitations, and ...
05.24.2020 Ingrid Fetell Lee on how to find joy right where you are We often hear that emotions such as joy are cultivated within, but for designer Ingrid Fetell Lee, there is a strong possibility that it can be found in our surroundings. In this conversation, we talk about the aspects of joy ...
05.17.2020 Matthew Evans on creative lessons from farming and cooking Matthew Evans is a former chef and food critic, turned Tasmanian smallholder, restaurateur, food activist and star of the SBS television series Gourmet Farmer alongside his family. We talk about what happens when productive work loses its meaning, daily life ...
05.10.2020 Creativity in a pandemic: There is no one way There is no one way to navigate a pandemic. This routine-collage and slice of creative life during COVID-19 showcases these differences as well as unifying reflections.Bringing together over 60 difference perspectives – from dozens of listeners and more than thirty ...
05.03.2020 Kira Puru on gentle routines, frugality and making mistakes Performer, photographer, visual artist, DJ and vocal powerhouse Kira Puru discusses mental health, navigating the logistics of living through a pandemic and sometimes curling up like an armadillo, giving yourself leeway to be overwhelmed, balancing the artistic and the political, ...
04.26.2020 Jen Gotch on overcoming productivity-shame and embracing inconsistencies Author of The Upside of Being Down and founder of ban.do Jen Gotch discusses overcoming shame with our inevitable inconsistencies, being actively not busy, giving ourselves grace, the myth of perfectionism, and how enjoyment can be found in the most ...
04.19.2020 Kylie Lewis on finding new routines, self-compassion and collective vulnerability In this conversation, coach and consultant Kylie Lewis talks about navigating our days imperfectly, how it’s normal to have ‘horizontal days, taking it one moment at a time, self-compassion, collective vulnerability, boundaries during this time, comparison, and aiming for enough. ...
04.12.2020 Luke Currie-Richardson on creating your own measures for your day, career, and life In Luke Currie-Richardson's own words, he may not know what he does for a living, but he knows why he wake up in the morning. In this conversation, Luke delves further into this idea of it’s not what you do ...
04.05.2020 Sarah Jane Adams on inevitable uncertainty, self-sabotage and joy Sarah Jane Adams is a self-made antique jewellery dealer, designer and became an international model in her sixties, responsible for the #mywrinklesaremystripes social media movement celebrating the beauty in ageing. We talk about how her daily life resembles a sliding ...
03.29.2020 Jai Long on being intentional over busy, letting go, and recognising privilege Jai Long is a photographer, educator and creative entrepreneur. We talk about being impactful rather than busy, how we are all wired differently, not putting your spark out for other people, the complicated relationship between money and the idea of ...
03.22.2020 Samuel Leighton-Dore on a tiered routine, toxic masculinity and detaching from creative success Gold coast based artist Samuel Leighton-Dore is a satirical cartoonist, a painter, ceramic artist, filmmaker, a regular contributor for SBS Sexuality and author of the graphic novel 'How to be a big strong man'. In this conversation, Samuel share his ...
03.15.2020 Beci Orpin on the upsides of busyness, freelancing and resilience Beci Orpin does her best work when she is busy, With a creative career spanning more than twenty years, the Melbourne designer, artist, and illustrator has left her colourful fingerprint on countless projects, from books and homewares, to regular art ...
03.08.2020 Pip Lincolne on heartbreak, wobbly routines and solitude Prioritsing yourself isn't selfish, says writer, crafter and blogger behind Meet Me At Mikes, Pip Lincolne – but it sure can be difficult. In this conversation, Pip opens up about the difficult period she faced after the end of a ...
03.01.2020 Annie Louey on building a career in comedy and finding motivation within yourself Annie Louey is a fresh comedic talent who putting it all into her career and immersing herself in the world of presenting and comedy.In this episode, we talk about how to step into being an artist even when you don’t ...
02.23.2020 Oliver Burkeman on embracing limitations, stale goals, and unclenching from routine This week's guest has spent the last few years delving into the topic of limitations through researching and writing his latest book on time. Oliver Burkeman is a British author and journalist living in Brooklyn. He writes a popular weekly ...
02.16.2020 Tina Essmaker on not knowing what's next Tina Essmaker is a coach, writer and speaker and in early 2017, she had the opportunity to reimagine career and her four burners when she transitioned out of the The Great Discontent, a publication she started with her former husband ...
02.09.2020 Lauren Martin on feeling lost, and finding comfort in the words of women Lauren Martin is a writer and the founder of Words Of Women, a labour of love she started when she was searching for something to help herself and other women who were feeling lost. In this episode, Lauren delves into ...

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Routines & Ruts

What's Routines & Ruts about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Routines & Ruts episodes:

BONUS PART 2: On endings and beginnings [Free audiobook sample]

BONUS PART 1: On endings and beginnings

On the antidote to being afraid of the work

On writing, publishing, and the snowball of courage

On ten lessons for self-doubt (and life)

On asking: what if nothing changes?

On feeling guilty for resting when there's still more to do

On being consistently inconsistent

On moving out of the indecision spiral

On overcoming the hesitation behind asking "how"

Season 3: Introducing productivity-guilt therapy(ish)

Wrap episode: Lessons on wobbling and modulating

R&R mini: On the beauty in the break

Annie Raser Rowland on frugal hedonism and living more creatively with less

R&R mini: On 'puddle theory' and how to do things you're putting off

Hilary Jacobs Hendel on emotions, types of shame, and slowing down

R&R mini: On ruminating and worrying about what people think

Greg Quicke on the life lessons we find in the cosmos

R&R mini: On the practice of saying no

Kylie Maslen on invisible illness, boundaries and shared understanding

R&R mini: On allowing for distraction

Tyson Yunkaporta on how creativity is inseparable from life

R&R mini: On letting go and how to survey your 'shoulds'

Pandora Sykes on finding the rightful, good enough life

R&R mini: On indecision and the fear of better options

Sarah Wilson on showing up, going to your edge, and living an enlarged life

R&R mini: On empty time and not feeling crammed

Kemi Nekvapil on defining your own relationship to routine and diminishing self-judgement

R&R mini: On letting your pile of good things grow

Lucy Peach on the connection, creativity and truth in our cycles

R&R mini: On doing your thing

Hugh Mackay on where we hide and compassionate love as a daily discipline

Season 2: What replenishes you?

Wrap episode: Perfectionism, discomfort and showing up

Ingrid Fetell Lee on how to find joy right where you are

Matthew Evans on creative lessons from farming and cooking

Creativity in a pandemic: There is no one way

Kira Puru on gentle routines, frugality and making mistakes

Jen Gotch on overcoming productivity-shame and embracing inconsistencies

Kylie Lewis on finding new routines, self-compassion and collective vulnerability

Luke Currie-Richardson on creating your own measures for your day, career, and life

Sarah Jane Adams on inevitable uncertainty, self-sabotage and joy

Jai Long on being intentional over busy, letting go, and recognising privilege

Samuel Leighton-Dore on a tiered routine, toxic masculinity and detaching from creative success

Beci Orpin on the upsides of busyness, freelancing and resilience

Pip Lincolne on heartbreak, wobbly routines and solitude

Annie Louey on building a career in comedy and finding motivation within yourself

Oliver Burkeman on embracing limitations, stale goals, and unclenching from routine

Tina Essmaker on not knowing what's next

Lauren Martin on feeling lost, and finding comfort in the words of women