Skip to content
shawntoday's podcast cover art

All Episodes

shawntoday's podcast — 100 episodes

#
Title
1

Ben Brooks

2

Jocelyn K. Glei Final

3

Havilah Cunnington

4

Mike Vardy Interview

5

Erik Fisher Final

6

Anthony Ongaro Interview

7

Special B&B Episode -- iPhone 7 Event

8

What to do when your idea has been done before

9

100-Percent Ownership

10

What?s a Creative Entrepreneur To Do?

11

Anchoring a New Routine

12

My Charcoal Grill

13

A Secret Launch Day

14

The Three ?P?s of Creativity

15

Anchor of Discipline

16

Switching with Someone Else

17

Business Ownership

18

Projects That End

19

Moving: Lessons Learned

20

On Moving

21

Buying a New Home

22

Quick Update

23

Book Club: 4DX Part 4

24

Book Club: 4DX Part 3

25

Book Club: 4DX Part 2

26

Book Club: 4DX Part 1

27

Permission to be Creative ? With Special Guest, Havilah Cunnington

28

Deep Work and Focus -- With Special Guest, Cal Newport

29

Less Thinking, More Doing - With Special Guest, Fizzle Co-Founder, Corbett Barr

30

Financial Breathing Room

31

How Margin Enables Hustle - With Special Guest, Mike Schmitz

32

What To Look Forward To in 2016

33

Margin Month Kickoff

34

Early Survey Feedback

35

Happy New Year

36

Happy Holidays!

37

What's Next for Blanc Media

38

My Top 8 Books of 2015

39

Why I Buy Physical Books

40

Introduction to Margin - Part 2

41

Intro to Margin (Part 1)

42

This Might Not Work

43

60 Videos in 5 Days

44

A Happy Thanksgiving Episode

45

A Happy Thanksgiving Episode

46

Listening and Looking for Patterns

47

Getting to the Other Side of Complexity

48

Stock and Flow Content

49

Act the Opposite

50

Act The Opposite

51

The Foolish Crowd

52

Journaling: Give Advice To Your Future Self

53

Why Cynicism Isn't Worth the Risk

54

Why Content Marketing is Awesome

55

Art, Money, Money, Money, Art

56

96 Hours with the iPhone 6S Plus

57

Well Hello There

58

Taking a Podcast Break

59

Oh, hi!

60

Focus Course Beta Test Invite

61

What's your biggest challenge to doing work that matters?

62

All my first impressions of Apple Watch

63

What I learned about humanity during my jury summons

64

My Apple Watch Try-On Appointment

65

Willpower, Defaults, and Too Many Choices

66

Thank You for Four Awesome Years

67

Willpower and Our Default Behaviors

68

Q&A: Rebuilding from a bad reputation

69

Responding to Disillusionment

70

The two "Goals" camps

71

Q&A: Why too many spinning plates will hinder our long-term focus and motivation

72

Q&A: The Tyranny of Options

73

Invitation to the Focus Course Pilot

74

Q&A: Productivity and Parenting

75

Q&A: How to Overcome the Fear of Missing Out

76

Q&A: Dealing with distractions

77

Q&A: How do you distinguish between important and urgent?

78

Q&A: How do I pick the right task or project when there are so many I want to work on?

79

Q&A: How do I stop managing my tasks and start doing them?

80

Behind the Scenes

81

Urgent vs Essential

82

The 168 Hour Revelation

83

Pour Over or Automatic?

84

Making Your Own Core Curriculum

85

Thank you, dear listener

86

There is no Second Place

87

30: Unrealistic idealism and disillusionment

88

29: Today's Big Three

89

28: Making an Annual Family Plan

90

27: Investing in Ourselves

91

Creative folks in real life

92

Update on the Retina iMac and 3rd-Party Apps

93

25: Marketing plan for the 'Power of a Focused Life' book

94

24: The pendulum of focus

95

22: Focus Book -- first draft overview

96

A word of thanks to the members

97

21: Little things that improve the way I work on a Mac

98

20: Evaluating and improving our workflows

99

Review of the Aether Cone

100

18: Using our schedule to avoid wasting time on Facebook