001 Welcome to ProductivityCast

Welcome to ProductivityCast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity. In this introductory cast (episode), we discuss our reason for launching ProductivityCast and what you can expect from ProductivityCast going forward as we grow and change the podcast to your (our listeners') needs. Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening! In this Cast Ray Sidney-Smith, Host Augusto Pinaud, Co-Host Show Notes Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. I mentioned the URL, g.co/gsbc, but that has since changed and you should go to https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/ to visit the Google Advertiser Community for help. Raw Text Transcript 0:00:00.000,0:00:04.110 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a more 0:00:04.110,0:00:07.109 fulfilling productive life then you've come to the right place 0:00:07.109,0:00:12.540 welcome to productivity cast the weekly show about all things productivity here 0:00:12.540,0:00:16.800 are your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud 0:00:16.800,0:00:20.220 welcome everybody to Episode one of productivity cast the weekly show about 0:00:20.220,0:00:25.320 all things personal productivity on ray Sydney Smith and I'm with oghuz de pan 0:00:25.320,0:00:29.760 out how are you doing it gusto I'm doing really good how are you today I'm doing 0:00:29.760,0:00:33.950 great I'm really excited about this first episode of productivity cast and 0:00:33.950,0:00:37.350 talking to our listeners and letting them know about what productivity cast 0:00:37.350,0:00:42.660 is a little bit about ourselves and what the show is going to really entail over 0:00:42.660,0:00:47.640 the next many months and hopefully years so let's start off with productivity 0:00:47.640,0:00:51.539 cast and what it's all about and so Augusto and I had had a 0:00:51.539,0:00:57.239 conversation about starting a podcast several years ago now and after many 0:00:57.239,0:01:00.989 trials and tribulations and I'm sure it goes to can speak more to the 0:01:00.989,0:01:07.619 tribulations that I had getting this last uhm well here we are we're 0:01:07.619,0:01:11.490 launching the podcast and we're really excited we are recording these shows 0:01:11.490,0:01:17.100 with minimal post-production so that we can just really get them get them done 0:01:17.100,0:01:20.670 get really great substantive content out and get that out to you the listeners 0:01:20.670,0:01:25.830 and so productivity Casas like I said about all things personal productivity 0:01:25.830,0:01:29.970 we want to cover you know the the topics that are going to be of great importance 0:01:29.970,0:01:34.140 to you it's a weekly show so we're going to be putting out episodes every week 0:01:34.140,0:01:41.009 and Augusto and I will hopefully have some interesting expert guests and so 0:01:41.009,0:01:44.939 and so forth we'll talk about that a little bit in the show format and so a 0:01:44.939,0:01:50.070 little bit about myself and a goose joke I'll start and say that I am a 0:01:50.070,0:01:53.729 Productivity coach and consultant and I spend a lot of time working with small 0:01:53.729,0:01:58.829 business owners who are looking to maximize their ability to market and 0:01:58.829,0:02:02.880 manage their business using web mobile and social media tools technologies and 0:02:02.880,0:02:07.710 I also happen to be an Evernote certified consultant a HootSuite global 0:02:07.710,0:02:11.160 brand ambassador a LinkedIn certified expert and 0:02:11.160,0:02:15.420 a Google small business adviser for the Google small business team and the 0:02:15.420,0:02:21.030 community over there at Chico /g SBC and I'll put the link in the show notes 0:02:21.030,0:02:24.450 you'll reach the Google small business community and you can of course ask 0:02:24.450,0:02:27.240 questions of all the Google small business advisors that are there 0:02:27.240,0:02:30.960 regarding your business so that's a little bit about me and and my 0:02:30.960,0:02:35.940 background how about you Augusto well when I mean not in trouble 0:02:35.940,0:02:40.770 I'm trying to keep myself out of trouble and I did that by writing 0:02:40.770,0:02:47.940 I'm also public speaker I have coach business on sales and marketing for 0:02:47.940,0:02:54.990 years as well as people and business ongoing iPad only and getting their PC 0:02:54.990,0:03:00.600 back somewhere where nobody need to remember they ever had it and that's 0:03:00.600,0:03:08.400 basically what kept me out of trouble I love to I'm an avid reader and always 0:03:08.400,0:03:16.410 been an avid reader and been working into the productivity world into trying 0:03:16.410,0:03:24.120 to get to those simple habits that really change things I am a firm 0:03:24.120,0:03:32.370 believer that productivity is more about small changes good habits and using 0:03:32.370,0:03:39.630 technology to support it and that's mostly of what I have written and speak 0:03:39.630,0:03:49.020 over the years my current project it's been studying about persistence as a 0:03:49.020,0:03:55.170 term that was coined by no other Diana Steven Pressfield and I've been really 0:03:55.170,0:04:00.770 studying and working the effects of resistance and how to fight it not only 0:04:00.770,0:04:08.120 from a perspective of the arts but a perspective of life in general 0:04:08.120,0:04:12.600 fantastic well I'm really excited to have you here on productivity casts as 0:04:12.600,0:04:16.799 my co-host and I'm really looking forward to learning from our listeners 0:04:16.799,0:04:20.989 as well one of the things that we have on the website if you go to productivity 0:04:20.989,0:04:26.580 castanet is an ability for you to leave voicemail messages from the website so 0:04:26.580,0:04:30.719 it'll give you a little button you click on it and it'll prompt your microphone 0:04:30.719,0:04:36.659 in your computer to give you the ability to record audio and it's a less than a 0:04:36.659,0:04:40.469 minute because we don't want people you know going on and on but if you have a 0:04:40.469,0:04:44.370 question for us feel free to go ahead and record a question obviously you can 0:04:44.370,0:04:48.509 click on the contact page for us and send us feedback send us your questions 0:04:48.509,0:04:53.249 and we'll see if we can't answer them here live on the show so so we're really 0:04:53.249,0:04:57.569 looking forward to the feedback that the show provides so a little bit about the 0:04:57.569,0:05:02.639 shore show format the productivity cast is designed around having in-depth 0:05:02.639,0:05:07.860 productivity conversations product reviews and expert interviews on topics 0:05:07.860,0:05:12.689 that we believe are important to you our audience so Augusto and I are going to 0:05:12.689,0:05:18.060 be sourcing topics that we think are new and innovative and interesting to 0:05:18.060,0:05:22.650 productivity enthusiasts like yourself but also topics that you may not know 0:05:22.650,0:05:26.339 about and things that you know have surfaced from both of our research into 0:05:26.339,0:05:30.599 the world of personal productivity and technologies that support it and and see 0:05:30.599,0:05:34.500 about whether or not there's somebody that we can put you put in front of you 0:05:34.500,0:05:38.370 or in your ears so to speak on the podcast so that you can hear from the 0:05:38.370,0:05:42.180 experts that really know this stuff in depth and you can learn something from 0:05:42.180,0:05:47.279 them we are also going to have a regular contributor on the show Frances Wade 0:05:47.279,0:05:50.399 from two-time labs who will be talking about productivity technology 0:05:50.399,0:05:54.629 specifically and we've got some great episodes lined up talking with Frances 0:05:54.629,0:06:00.149 about topics surrounding mobile technology and otherwise related to 0:06:00.149,0:06:02.819 productivity so we're really looking forward to having Frances on the show as 0:06:02.819,0:06:07.789 well our goal will be to keep these shows for 0:06:07.789,0:06:14.729 around 20 minutes and the reason we did not want it to make a heavy edited 0:06:14.729,0:06:21.060 episode is because we feel that when we did that you lose some of the cool 0:06:21.060,0:06:26.580 things that come out of these discussions on productivity so I they 0:06:26.580,0:06:31.680 may be moments where there will be a long silence and a long laugh and along 0:06:31.680,0:06:41.110 ooh but part of what we want is to allow the listeners to get into something that 0:06:41.110,0:06:45.600 we have done for a long time now and where we have benefited tremendously 0:06:45.600,0:06:52.390 that is having these open conversations where we have not only questioned 0:06:52.390,0:06:58.360 principles and questioned things about productivity but also where we have come 0:06:58.360,0:07:04.390 back with tests and with new ideas and with new things that really has helped 0:07:04.390,0:07:09.790 us revolutionize not only what we do but how we help others as you will learn 0:07:09.790,0:07:17.500 gusto and I do not agree on everything and and I think that is one of the great 0:07:17.500,0:07:21.760 things about a friendship as well as a collegiality between us that I think 0:07:21.760,0:07:26.320 will benefit our audience don't you think augusto I agree completely agree 0:07:26.320,0:07:32.160 with you I think one of the things you know from from the platform you know I 0:07:32.160,0:07:39.640 live in an iPad only user for a really long time just studying there ray 0:07:39.640,0:07:46.090 instead has an array of platforms where he touched every day that I you know not 0:07:46.090,0:07:54.550 really don't so that allows to really see productivity from a really opposite 0:07:54.550,0:08:01.420 end of the spectrum in a way but also ...