The Process Podcast

There's a lot of talk about The Great Resignation: the phenomenon where people are waking up to the fact that they might not like their jobs all that much. Paul & Katie dig into work-life satisfaction through a discussion of the blowback Paul got for positing online that maaaaybe we should like our jobs...a little. Learn more about The Process at https://www.createyourprocess.com

Paul and Katie discuss strategies for a difficult thing to do as a grown-up: asking for help when you've decided it's time to change. This might mean talking to a friend. It'll definitely mean making a plan. But whatever the case, it'll get easier from here. Plus: the power of wallowing and the Great Hip-poo Incident. Learn more about The Process at https://www.createyourprocess.com/

The job of staying productive is easy when life is smooth and simple. It gets harder when things get rough and complicated thanks to the stressors that come for us all. Paul & Katie talk through strategies for how to remain productive and creative even when it seems impossible to concentrate and take a listener question on how to finish projects that seem unfinishable. Learn more about The Process at https://www.createyourprocess.com/

Awareness: it's the first step in behavior change. But here's the problem: how do we use our brains to check in with, well, our brains? Paul and Katie have ideas, by way of their stomachs. Learn more about The Process at https://www.createyourprocess.com/

We tend to assume our brains will get worse with time. It doesn't have to be this way! We can make ourselves more effective, more productive, and more efficient, even as we age. In this episode, Paul and Katie talk about how. Plus: a mailbag question about drudgery and how to avoid it. Learn more about The Process at https://www.createyourprocess.com/

Katie went to a wedding and is realizing that life is going by too fast. Paul went to a concert and is realizing he needs to do that more. The two of them team up to talk about strategies to avoid thinking our lives should go a certain way. Learn more about The Process at https://www.createyourprocess.com/

It's time for a re-boot! Paul welcomes his new co-host, neuropsychologist Dr. Katie Carey Levisay, and the two of them jump right into a discussion of how we can rebuild our reservoirs of willpower, how we can change the stories we tell ourselves, and how Katie won her fight with the Crumblies. Learn more about The Process at https://www.createyourprocess.com/

Paul Shirley is the founder of The Process and was the founder of Writers Blok. He thought he'd be both things for a while, but the world had other plans. In this solo episode, he opens up about his own failure and explains the importance of his, well, process for dealing with it. Learn more about The Process at https://www.createyourprocess.com/

Andrew Bogut is a former NBA basketball player who was the first overall pick in the 2005 NBA Draft. He spent the majority of his career with the Milwaukee Bucks and Golden State Warriors. Paul talked to Andrew about the habits and routines basketball taught him, about the power of moving on to "the next play", and about the things he's been able to take from basketball and use in the rest of his life. Learn more about The Process at https://www.createyourprocess.com/

Mason Currey is the author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, which outlines how writers, musicians, artists, and inventors have organized their days throughout history. Paul asked Mason what he's learned after studying the greats. He also talked to Mason about how he's applied the better ideas to his own life, so you can too. Learn more about The Process at https://www.createyourprocess.com/