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The Weekly Briefly
by Shawn Blanc
The Weekly Briefly is a very short, weekly podcast discussing creativity, technology, and the like. It serves as the once-a-week public episode of the daily, members-only podcast, Shawn Today.
Episodes
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Taking a Weekly Briefly Break
The Weekly Briefly went on accidental hiatus as I’ve been spending all my time over the past month with the launch of the Focus Course. Now, on the heels of that launch, and a relatively busy year, I’m taking some time off to be with family and plan for the next season of the show. […]
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WWDC 2015: Highlights and Awesomeness
I’m back from San Francisco and am glad to return to the podcast microphone. Yes, I hear you, I could have taken my podcast rig with me, but I went to SF to meet with friends and peers in the industry and drink delicious coffee and so I had very little time for “work” stuff. […]
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Money Buys Opportunity
On this week’s show I want to unpack the topic of money. I’ve been asking people what’s their biggest challenge is when it comes to doing work that matters. And a lot of people say money. As in, a lack of money. I wrote about this on shawnblanc.net this past Wednesday. Today I want to […]
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4-Day Weekend
Just a short note that there’s no real episode this week. Enjoy your weekend, and I’ll talk to you next time.
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Your Best Creative Work
On today’s show I want to talk about doing your best creative work. What does that even mean? Here’s a picture of someone doing her best creative work: She shows up every day. When it’s easy and when it’s hard. It doesn’t matter. She is committed. This is something only she can do. Yet even […]
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Avoiding Burnout
Today’s show I want to talk about “learning”. More accurately, I want to talk about how thirsty you are to do your best creative work. Because it takes more than just showing up every day to do our best creative work. And if we focus too much on just the output we are doing (without […]
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Joy in the Journey
The best musicians in the world practice every single day. For hours a day. And they don’t just practice their favorite songs and coolest licks — they practice the techniques and scales and fills that they’re bad at. I studied martial arts for over a decade, and we did the same stretches and…
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Apple Watch and The Just Checks
I began wearing a watch several years ago — maybe four years ago — because I was tired of constantly pulling my pone out of my pocket in order to check the time only to find myself suddenly checking email, Twitter, etc. I’ve had an iPhone since the beginning. It’s my favorite gadget of all […]
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Choosing to Choose
A short and sweet episode this week, with some food for thought regarding our choice to choose and why it’s so important.
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7 Reasons Daily Habits Are Awesome
Today I want to talk about the purpose of (and the science behind) lifestyle practices and daily habits. This topic is one of the most important issues of my life. I have a personal commitment to live with intentionality in as many areas of my life as I can. I want to be intentional in […]
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On Fear, Perseverance, and Meaningful Work: 4 Years Making a Living Online
This week’s episode is longer than normal because it’s jam packed with stories and advice from the past four years of making a living online. I share ins and outs, fears and motivations, challenges and victories. Highlights include: Why I quit my job to write shawnblanc.net for a living. The…
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How to get it all done
On my weekly newsletter, The Fight Spot, I ask people what their biggest challenge is related to focus and doing their best creative work. One very common issue is the issue of having more ideas than time. People have so many interesting, exciting, or important projects they are working on that...
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Happy People Make More Meaningful Work
Tell me if this scenario sounds familiar: You’re stressed out at work, because there’s a big project coming up. The deadline is looming. So you cancel your plans Friday night and work late. You go in to work on Saturday and Sunday, working over the weekend. And then come Monday you stay all…
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Staying Balanced When We’re Hyper-Focused on a Particular Project
Raise your hand if you can relate to this statement: “I can easily get so caught up a project that it becomes the only thing I think about all the time.” Examples: You’ve started a new personal project, and when you’re at your work or when you’re with your family, all you can think about […]
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How to Recharge
I believe the reason people dislike Mondays is because they wasted the 48 hours in their weekend — they didn’t get any true rest, and thus never recharged. They are more worn out on Monday morning than they were on Friday evening. Benjamin Franklin When men are employed, they are best contented;...
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Thriving in the midst of tension
On today’s episode: thriving in the midst of the tensions between our time, ideas, and focus. Links Honesty, Clarity, and Action The Power of a Focused Life The Fight Spot Newsletter The Procrastinator’s Guide to Progress Sponsored by Sprint.ly: help your team ship faster. The awesome members of...
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The Integrity Snowball
There is a good, common practice when it comes to debt elimination called The Debt Snowball. The goal of The Debt Snowball is to pay off all your credit card and consumer debt as quickly as possible. In some cases this could take several months if not several years, and so it can be easy […]
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Why Procrastination Robs Us From Doing Our Best Creative Work
On today’s show: creativity, fear, and procrastination. I think we can all agree that fear is the biggest enemy to creativity. We’re born creative, but we learn to be afraid. After we’ve been hurt, wounded, scolded, rejected — we know learn what pain feels like and we become afraid. We don’t want...
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The Inbox Conundrum
A few days ago I announced a new email newsletter I’ll be sending out every week. On this week’s show (which, my apologies that it’s a few days late) I answer the question of why I’m doing an email newsletter when I already have a blog to publish to. If you’re interested in joining the […]
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Build, Maintain, Rest
If you ever were to take a week or a month and keep track of how you truly spend your time every day, you might cry a little bit on the inside. Many times the most important things we should be doing are ones which also feel mundane and tedious in the moment. And so […]
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Your Best Creative Work, Part II
Last week’s show was about technology. But, more specifically, how technology helps us to do our best creative work. Today’s show is about another aspect of doing our best creative work: our inner work life. When we have a healthy inner work life then we are poised to be at are our best in terms […]
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Your Best Creative Work, Part I
Technology can hinder us from doing our best creative work. We get addicted to checking our email, our Facebook feed, our Instagram likes, our Twitter @replies and we never get to that valuable time we set aside for creating. And then, once we finally do sit down to begin creating (if we ever do...
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How we tripled the traffic and income to Tools & Toys
It’s been 90 days since the re-design of Tools & Toys went live, and compared to the same quarter last year we saw a 3x growth in pageviews, unique visitors, and site revenue. And so, on today’s show I wanted to share more about why we decided to redesign the site, what our goals were, […]
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The “Best”
The pursuit of “the best”. Who doesn’t love to find the best tools, the best coffee, the best food, the best experiences, etc? I know I do. But I realize that this can, at times, be an unhealthy pursuit. Too much focus on only ever doing and experiencing “the best” of something can lead to […]
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The Rough Elements of an Annual Plan
For the last episode of 2014, I wanted to talk about planning for the next year. It’s not nearly as lame or tedious as it sounds — in fact, it’s something my wife and I have done for the past 3 years and we look forward to it. A good annual plan should help you: […]
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A Holiday Challenge
This is the last episode until after Christmas, and so I wanted to give a challenge for everyone heading in to the holiday time off. Rest well. It’s easier said than done, to be sure. But wouldn’t it be awesome to come back from your Christmas vacation with energy and motivation to do your best […]
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Holiday Photography
On this week’s episode of The Weekly Briefly I’m joined by my former podcasting partner in crime, Ben Brooks. We talk about (a) what sort of camera you should buy if you want to upgrade from your iPhone, and (b) how to increase your chances of snapping a few awesome photos of friends and family […]
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A Couple of iPhone Cases
To be honest, I’m not entirely comfortable using my iPhone 6 without a case — especially now that the colder winter weather has arrived. And so, I’m trying out a few different cases for the first time ever. This is literally the first iPhone I’ve ever owned that I’ve sought out a case for. In […]
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Knowing Where Our Best Creative Work Comes From
An early episode because it’s Thanksgiving week. On today’s show: The glories and the perils of running your own business. Why showing up every day is important for building an audience. Why trust and transparency are important for keeping an audience. And why doing our best creative work has…
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Hiring help: Why, When, and How
Hiring help should be seen as an investment in your company, and on today’s show I talk about hiring help (employees or contractors). I share about the people I’ve hired to help me with my websites, how I found them, and why I brought them on. I also discuss knowing when it’s the right time […]
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Weekly Briefly is a very short, weekly podcast discussing creativity, technology, and the like. It serves as the once-a-week public episode of the daily, members-only podcast, Shawn Today.
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Shawn Blanc
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The Weekly Briefly currently has 30 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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The Weekly Briefly is a very short, weekly podcast discussing creativity, technology, and the like. It serves as the once-a-week public episode of the daily, members-only podcast, Shawn Today.
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The Weekly Briefly is created and hosted by Shawn Blanc.
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