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Success Is Boring (and how to show up anyway)
You know the thing you should be doing every day, and most days you find a reason to do it tomorrow. The big goal stays a year or more out. Motivation and willpower are fleeting. The people who show up anyway have figured out their own formula for doing it. Jay...
Ex-Google Leader: How to Actually Grow Into Your New Job Title – Shannon Anderson-Finch
If you've ever taken a new job or a new title and kept feeling like the old you, Shannon Anderson-Finch has a name for it: the gap between a change and a transition. Most people try to skip it. Shannon spent 15 years at Google and Deloitte, where she was named...
Type 2 Work, and The Hidden Cost of Convenience
We spend a lot of energy trying to make life faster, easier, and more convenient. But what might we lose when we remove too much of the hard? Jay breaks down the “fun scale,” from Type One Fun that feels good in the moment to Type Two Fun that feels difficult while...
Building a Burnout-Proof Business with Mallory Rowan
Mallory Rowan was building a successful powerlifting apparel company, competing at a high level, and finishing university when her body finally forced her to stop. A routine doctor’s visit revealed that she had been living with pneumonia, but the warning signs had...
How Not to Know: The Science of Uncertainty with Simone Stolzoff
What do you do when none of your options feel certain and you cannot predict how things will turn out? Simone Stolzoff, author of How to Not Know, joins Jay to explore why our search for certainty often leads us into three traps: comfort, hubris, and control. They...
You’ll Never Get On Top of Everything (And That’s Okay) with Oliver Burkeman
There is no such thing as the perfect productivity system. No matter how optimized your day is, or how many AI agents you have running 24/7, the harsh reality is that you’ll never truly be caught up. And that’s good news. Oliver Burkeman wrote The Guardian's...
Put Down The Business Book. Read Fiction Instead
Look at your bookshelf. Business books, biographies, the ones everyone said you had to read. Now be honest: how many did you finish? Jay Papasan should be the last person making this case. He's spent 30 years in business books - first as an editor at...
The Science of Excellence: How To Master Your Craft, Passion vs. Obsession, The Myth of Balance, and More w/ Brad Stulberg
You've been sold a version of success that's actually just stress with better branding. Be the perfect employee. The perfect parent. The perfect spouse. Read 50 books a year, stay fit, keep the house clean - and call it "balance." Brad Stulberg has spent...
How to Reinvent Yourself: A 4 Step Framework for Starting Over
Jay Papasan talks with Steve Kamb, founder of Nerd Fitness and author of How to Try Again, about what it takes to change course. Steve shares his PACT framework: Pause, Accept, Change, and Try, and explains why real change often feels messy before it feels clear....
A Deep Dive on Our Most Impactful Coaching Tool
Get The Someday Letter Worksheet: https://linkly.link/2ld7z Most of us are comfortable setting annual goals. But what happens when you look 10 years into the future and let yourself dream without boundaries? In this episode, Jay Papasan shares one of the most...
Change Your Relationship with The Gap (In Business and in Life)
High achievers know the gap well: the space between where you are and where you want to be. It can drive growth, but it can also become a source of fear, avoidance, and self-judgment. In this episode, Jay talks with five-time entrepreneur and executive coach...
Getting Unstuck: How to Fix the 3 Most Common Behaviors Holding High Achievers Back
You already know what to do. So why is it so hard to do it consistently? In this episode, Jay Papasan breaks down three patterns that keep entrepreneurs and high achievers trapped in the gap between knowing and doing. First, we often think we’re clear when...