The One That Works For You

By Martha Barnard-Rae + Liv Steigrad

Two frantic type-As with unreasonably high expectations of themselves on a mission to find that elusive trifecta: fulfilment, balance and success.

We explore ways people from all walks of life have bu... more

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The podcast currently has 37 episodes available.

The One That Works For You episodes:

June 05, 2023#7 - Self care: from woo-woo to logic with Yael Keon
Yael Keon is an email marketing expert, creator of The Email Experience and host of the Easy Email Marketing podcast. Find out what early-career burnout taught Yael about balance—and how she manages her energy each day. Spoiler alert: it doesn't involve journaling, candles, or inspirational quotes!
Here’s what went down:
Learn how Yael organises her week to manufacture dopamine as needed

Find out how Yael has arranged her business to account for her allergy to repetition

How Yael came back from early-career burnout

Why paying attention to your body's cues can be a powerful way to manage your energy

How do we learn how to work out our own capacity?

How focusing on the practical helps Yael manage her stress levels

Logic vs. woo woo when it comes to self care

Creating a self check in system that works for you
Yael's website

Martha’s website
Martha’s HyperFocus Week services
Martha’s LinkedIn and Instagram

Liv’s website
Liv’s LinkedIn

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32min
May 17, 2023#6 - Military level executive function with Patricia Viscount
Patricia is a copywriter, strategist, and she used to be in the ARMY, people. In this episode, Patricia teaches us how she executes her tasks with military precision as a work-from-home human. Find out our favourite task management tools and learn how Patricia keeps her favourite f-words alive as a business owner.

Here's what went down:
Sheets tucked or untucked—we discuss which is toxic and which is normal 🙃

Patricia talks us through her productivity journal

There's an app that gives you the correct music that makes you most productive!

How Patricia's dog, Fat Rupert, keeps her accountable with jingle bells

Learn Patricia's single flaw

Scheduling buffers and wiggle room

To no one's surprise, Patricia loves lists

P started her own business based on her three favourite f-words

Find out how her f-words allow her to have the best f-words in her life

Learn how Patricia schedules (and sticks to) CEO time in her business

Liv explains how she builds dopamine injections into her days (and hones her brand voice at the same time!)

We also mentioned these people/things:
Patricia's website
Patricia's LinkedIn

Martha’s website
Martha’s HyperFocus Week services
Martha’s LinkedIn and Instagram

Liv’s website
Liv’s LinkedIn

Music app: Focus at Will
Belinda Weaver's copywriting membership

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30min
April 30, 2023#5 - Wake up when you wake up with Grace Sullivan
Grace Sullivan is a copywriter for sustainable brands and has had a background in journalism and storytelling. In this episode, she shares the routines that help her ADHD brain stay on top of ALL THE THINGS. And we all come to grips with the fact that 5am ice baths aren’t for us and that’s freaking fine. Join us as we work towards unlearning the BS and accepting our delightful selves.
Here’s what went down:
Grace shares how copywriting got her out of a dumpster fire

Learn how Grace balances her business with her 9-5

How Grace took the path of least resistance and greatest authenticity—and shifted her niche from eco beauty to sustainable businesses

Grace explains how she manages her energy

How Grace and Liv use weekly accountability calls to stay on track with work and self care

Grace wishes she was a 7:30-3:00 person but she isn’t…and that’s fine

Waking up early vs. respecting your body’s natural rhythms

Grace explains how her ADHD diagnosis helped her stop feeling ‘off’ as a person

Learn how embracing structure and routine helps Grace manage her ADHD

Conclusion: the wake up and hustle business model is a product of the capitalist patriarchy and we’re not here for it
We also mentioned these people/things:
Grace’s LinkedIn and Instagram
Grace’s website
Insight Meditation
Pomodoro timer
Martha’s website
Martha’s HyperFocus Week services
Martha’s LinkedIn and Instagram
Liv’s website
Liv’s LinkedIn

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29min
April 17, 2023#4 - Significantly and constantly (how to stand up to guilt as a business owner)
Learn how rationing energy and identifying what makes you joyful can make family / social / productivity guilt slightly more manageable. Then ask yourself: what do you owe anyone and at what point does that outweigh what you owe yourself?
Martha and Liv discuss the many ways guilt creeps into their lives—and how identifying what success looks like helps them give guilt the flick.
Here's what went down:
Liv and Martha share the things they feel guiltiest about

Liv gives a chill run-down of how much she gaslights herself each day

How mental boundaries can stop us driving ourselves crazy

Liv explains a specific thing let go of (and how it relieved massive business anxiety)

Liv’s Nonna teaches us the phrase ‘up the sh!t’

How the first business Martha owned made her never want to own another business

Liv’s biz guilt is rooted in working on her business—find out what it has to do with her gymnastics practice

Three questions we ask ourselves to let go of guilt

How Martha’s shit-hot business strategist has helped her manage guilt

Celebrating little wins—letting go of shoulds

The big question: what do you owe anyone and at what point does that outweigh what you owe yourself?

Martha compares the Instagram algorithm and religion (obviously)

Liv issues a challenge to the listeners
We also mentioned these people/things:
⁠Liv’s website⁠
⁠Liv’s LinkedIn⁠

Martha’s website
Martha’s HyperFocus Week services
Martha’s LinkedIn and Instagram

Martha’s business strategist, Verity Byth

Besties?
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33min
March 10, 2023#3 - The Third Space—how rituals can help you find yours
Thanks to the pandemic, lots of us have created space for working at home. But what happens to the transition periods that were ingrained into our pre-Covid lives? Liv introduces the Third Space and walks us through how rituals can signal to our brain that it’s work time—no matter what’s going on around us.
Here’s what went down:
Liv explains what a Third Space is

…and how it can help with productivity

Is transition time wasted time?

How Liv’s rituals signal to her brain that it’s time to work

Behavioural psychology’s link to the Third Space

Creating an environment in which you are most likely to succeed

It’s not always perfect—but in the aggregate, Liv’s Third Space works for her

Martha addresses Third Spaces from an ADHD perspective

Body-doubling as a Third Space

Tangent: when Martha’s Australian husband tried coffee in Canada

How to create a Third Space inside your head

Using your sensory cues to enter your space

Liv has never vomited at gymnastics
We also mentioned these people/things:
Martha’s website
Martha’s HyperFocus Week services
Martha’s LinkedIn and Instagram
Liv’s website
Liv’s LinkedIn
Indistractable by Nir Eyal
Brainwave app
ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast
What is a Third Space?
Liv’s Afro House mix
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28min
March 10, 2023#2 - Protecting your energy as a business owner (also—handstands!) with Liv Steigrad
If you’ve ever wondered how to protect your energy when you’ve got eleventy-billion balls in the air, you’re gonna want to tune in to this episode. Meet Liv Steigrad, a brand strategy and brand voice copywriter with a background in performance poetry and psychology. Find out how she ‘gave herself a job’ as founder of The Branding Psychologist when she learned about copywriting in a Facebook group.
Here’s what went down:
Learn how Liv shifted from a writing-focused business to a thinking-focused business

How Liv became more intentional about her work choices

How Liv’s part-time job as a copywriter gives her freedom

…and protects her mental health

(Speaking of balance,) Liv is a handstander and gymnast!

Learn how freshly baked bread rendered Liv a life-long morning person

Liv’s organisation pillars

How Liv protects her energy by cutting her brain some slack

Re-focusing when the focus slips

Find out Liv’s Tweak of the Week
We also mentioned these people/things:
Liv’s website
Liv’s LinkedIn
Martha’s website
Martha’s HyperFocus Week services
Martha’s LinkedIn and Instagram
FocusMate
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26min
March 08, 2023#1 - Time-blocking, shame, and running a business with ADHD with Martha Barnard-Rae
Meet co-host Martha Barnard-Rae, copywriter and neurodivergent business owner. Owning her own business means Martha has the freedom to hack her ADHD brain to make the best of the dopamine she’s got on offer. Will time blocking be the tool that eliminates distraction and makes Martha a whole new person? (Spoiler alert: probably not). Find out how she manages ADHD shame, toes the line on distraction, and whether giving up her life-long resistance to structure pays off.
Here’s what went down:
How Martha uses Asana for time blocking

What a typical day looks like juggling ALL THE THINGS

How distraction works in ADHD

Executive dysfunction and shame

How Martha deals with variation to her schedule

The importance of self-compassion

How HyperFocus Weeks work best for Martha’s brain (and her clients)

Why Martha quit teaching to become a copywriter—and what she loves about it

Why Martha would probably have starved to death if not for her partner

Find out Martha’s Tweak of the Week
We also mentioned these people/things:
Martha’s website
Martha’s HyperFocus Week services
Martha’s LinkedIn and Instagram
Liv’s website
Liv’s LinkedIn
If you liked the podcast
…please drop us a rating and send it to your friends. If you didn’t, it might be time to take a good, long look at yourself.
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26min

FAQs about The One That Works For You:

How many episodes does The One That Works For You have?

The podcast currently has 37 episodes available.