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This was freeing for me to realize as an attorney, and I hope it is for you, too!

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Join the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/the-bright-method-time-management-course-with-kelly-nolan

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you’re ready for a full time management system that’s realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It’s helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Most of us equate being organized with being good at time management. Sorted inbox, perfect to-do list, color-coded calendar – that must mean you’re close to cracking it. But organization and time management are not the same skill, and the gap between them might be exactly what’s keeping you stuck. So if you’re organized and still chronically overwhelmed, I’d start here. Short one today, but it packs a punch.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Join the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/the-bright-method-time-management-course-with-kelly-nolan

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you’re ready for a full time management system that’s realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It’s helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

When couples talk about dividing home labor, the conversation usually centers on the visible stuff – who cooks, who cleans, who handles pickups. But the admin side rarely makes it into that conversation: the emails, the forms, the scheduling, the calendaring. It's real work, it takes real time, and for a lot of people, it's not in the pot at all. So if you've been carrying more than your share and can't quite put your finger on why, this one's worth a listen.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
• Free 3-Day Time Management Program: https://kellynolan.com/refresh
• Join the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/the-bright-method-time-management-course-with-kelly-nolan

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

There's this quiet assumption that at some point, a smart, accomplished adult should just have this whole time management thing figured out. So if you've ever looked at your workload and thought, "I should be better at managing this by now," I want to push back on that. Time management is a skill set, not a character trait, and most of us are running on a version we learned in middle school that was never upgraded for the life we're managing now. Let's dig in.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• "Think Less, Think Better" – New York Times opinion piece, 2016
• Join the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/the-bright-method-time-management-course-with-kelly-nolan

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Networking has a reputation: big events, stiff small talk, LinkedIn posts, collecting business cards from people you'll never talk to again. No wonder most of us let it slide to the bottom of the list. So if you know you should be doing more of it but can't seem to make it stick, I want to offer a different take on what networking can look like and how to make it feel a lot less like a chore. Let's get into it.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Free 3-Day Time Management Program: https://kellynolan.com/refresh
• Enrollment for October and November start dates for the 10-week Bright Method program is open. Join here: https://kellynolan.com/the-bright-method-time-management-course-with-kelly-nolan

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Planning tends to get filed under productivity and control – a type-A thing, an efficiency thing, something you do to squeeze more out of your day. And there's some truth to that. But the deeper reason behind why I plan has nothing to do with control and everything to do with taking care of myself. If that sounds corny, I get it. I also think it'll make a lot more sense by the end of this one. Let's talk about it.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Enrollment for the October and November start dates for the 10-week Bright Method program is open: https://kellynolan.com/the-bright-method-time-management-course-with-kelly-nolan

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm. •
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

We tend to treat limited time and energy as the enemy – something to push against, work around, or refuse to acknowledge. But embracing constraints doesn't slow you down or hamper your ambition. I'd argue it forces clarity, creativity, and progress in ways that ignoring them never will. Today I'm digging into why, with a fascinating podcast episode as my jumping-off point and two client stories that bring it home.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• "Why You Are Overwhelmed All the Time (and how to fix it)" with David Epstein on the Modern Wisdom Podcast with Chris Williamson - Listen on Spotify; Listen on Apple.
• Join the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/the-bright-method-time-management-course-with-kelly-nolan

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Sometimes we have a goal that's worth pushing hard for. Most of what I talk about here is doing less – getting your workload in line with your capacity so life actually feels manageable, but there are times when the goals we want for ourselves mean deliberately making our lives harder for a while. Let's discuss four criteria to think through before committing to a push season.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Episode 19 (how to prep for a busy season)
• Join the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/the-bright-method-time-management-course-with-kelly-nolan

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

We live in a culture that glorifies the hustle, and early in my legal career, I was fully bought in. So when a senior associate I deeply respected criticized constant weekend work as poor case management, it stopped me in my tracks. If the same behavior earns praise from some and criticism from others, there's no universal rulebook to follow. We get to decide what winning looks like for ourselves, and I find that pretty freeing. Let's discuss.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Join the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/the-bright-method-time-management-course-with-kelly-nolan

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Oftentimes, planning gets categorized as less valuable than the work we should be doing. So if you've been skipping your planning session because you don't think you can bill for it, or if you don't bill for your time but find your planning session keeps getting quietly dismissed, I want to push back. Let's discuss the three reasons protecting time to plan is worth it, no matter how your hours are tracked.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Episode 8 (what the Clean Slate planning session is)
• Episode 73 (Kelly's time management journey)
• Join the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/the-bright-method-time-management-course-with-kelly-nolan

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

A friend of mine sent a message in a group chat: "Is AI making anybody else's ADHD symptoms feel worse?" I get what she means. Let's kick off a conversation about why AI makes us feel this way and what we can do about it. And as with everything AI, this is new, so feel free to reach out with your own thoughts, suggestions, and strategies!

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• "When Using AI Leads to Brain Fry" – Harvard Business Review, March 5, 2026, Julie Bedard et al. (behind paywall)
• Join the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/bright

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

If you have an ever-different schedule due to your work schedule, a partner's, or something else, the Bright Method may sound like it wouldn't work for you (after all, I talk a lot about calendaring repetitive things), but it SHINES for people like us. Let's dig into it, talk about things to calendar when you get, e.g., a shift schedule, and more.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Join the 10-week Bright Method program here: kellynolan.com/bright

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Let's talk about what solid time management actually is – including that it can mean "falling behind" on intentional things.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Join the waitlist for the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/bright-method-waitlist

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

A client said it like it was just a fact: if she pushed back on new work, those clients would take their business elsewhere and never come back. Kelly heard it and recognized the fear behind it - she'd also spent years operating from that same exact assumption.

This episode is about what actually happens when you push back. Kelly makes the case that it's one of the best ways to find out who you're working with, whether they're a fit for the life you're building, and whether it's worth staying. She shares her own story from her attorney days, a client who stepped off a board after one pushback conversation, and another who got promoted five months after finally having the capacity conversation her boss didn't know was needed. If your plate is overflowing and you keep absorbing anyway, this one's worth a listen.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Join the waitlist for the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/bright-method-waitlist

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Most of us grew up with the same rule: you start something, you finish it, no matter what. So if you've ever stayed in a commitment well past the point where it was working for you, or found yourself white-knuckling through something out of obligation rather than intention, I want to dig into that. There's more nuance here than the rule suggests, including what a graceful, fair exit can actually look like. Let's discuss.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Back-to-School Guide (free): https://kellynolan.com/school
• Join the waitlist for the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/bright-method-waitlist

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

In this episode of The Bright Method Podcast, Kelly Nolan riffs on a question from a friend: why does it always take so long to get out of the house in the morning, and what do you actually do about it? She walks through three things – embracing how long getting out the door actually takes (it's probably 15–20 minutes, minimum), calendaring that reality instead of your aspiration so the scramble-y feeling has somewhere to go, and the one firm rule to hold in your head as you're moving through your morning. It sounds almost too simple. But if you regularly leave the house feeling behind before your day has even started, this episode is for you.

Related episodes to check out:

• Episode 111 (time management is really about stress management, not efficiency)
• Episode 25 (calendaring your current reality, not your aspiration)
• Episode 71 (how to do things faster)
• Episode 32 (capturing to-dos in a realistic way)
• Episode 112 (includes discussion of running late)

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Join the waitlist for the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/bright-method-waitlist
• Crowdsourced Morning Tips from Working Women

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

In this episode of The Bright Method Podcast, Kelly Nolan is back from the break and walks through the one line item she wants in your weekly planning session – the Clean Slate – and why reviewing last week packs a bigger punch than you'd expect. It sounds anticlimactic, almost boring, but this one line item is sneakily powerful, and its ripple effects go much further than it sounds. If you regularly end your week landing in the "I didn't do enough" story, this episode is for you.

Related episodes to check out:

• Episode 8 (more on the Clean Slate weekly planning session)

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Join the waitlist for the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/bright
• Google Calendar Event Checker Chrome Extension

After almost three years (!), I'm taking a break from the podcast. From the realities of summer schedules to a desire to infuse seasonality into the podcast, this episode has a bit of a behind-the-scenes look at the decision. Plus, a heartfelt thank you to the women who've made this whole thing amazing to do. Thank you.

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Bargaining with reality just leads to frustration, wasted energy, and missed opportunities to do something about it. Let's dig into what it can actually look like to stop fighting the things you can't change (your memory, your energy at night, your partner's limitations) and start getting creative to work with the reality you have. The goal was never to be a different person – it's to build a life that works with who you already are.

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Responsiveness is something that has taken over American work culture. Between email, Teams/Slack, and more, there can be an assumption everyone is available at all times. But your value to your company is more than always being available – and is undercut by that approach.

Let's talk about how to shift into protecting time for strategic, heads-down work – and remain as responsive as we need to be.

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

In case you've been considering the Bright Method program, and because enrollment closes on March 18 until September, here's an episode all about it!

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

If I were an exhausted woman in my 30s-50s who wanted more breathing room this week, here's what I would do.

Here's the PDF mentioned in the episode comparing my free content to my 10-week program.

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Thought it would be fun to go through 10 things that can wreck your day – sometimes, without you realizing it.

Links you might enjoy:

• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Let's talk about messy homes during work hours. Enjoy!

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

This one got a bit more personal than I intended when I went in, but here we go! Hope it's helpful if you're in this spot!

And heads up: Enrollment for my 10-week program closes on March 18, 2026 & won't open again until September. Hope to see you in there!

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Sometimes, I think our goals around time management are just wrong. Let's talk about it.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

One of my first clients told me she listens to podcasts while she works. Let's dig into multi-tasking – when we can, and when we can't.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Grab the guide here!

Episodes mentioned:

• About general energy > Episode 9.
• About mistakes people understandably make time blocking > Ep. 22

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

I hear variations of "I'm a people pleaser" as people join a Bright Method program or, once they're in the program, variations of "I'm realizing I can't say yes to everything, and if I'm not that person, who am I?" Let's talk about it – and three points for those who related to that.

For the episode about my decision not to engage in corporate speaking anymore, check out ep. 50!

If you want to join my free Jan. 29, 2026 workshop (or get the replay, which is available for 48 hours after it), jump in here.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

When I was struggling with time management, I had a lightbulb moment that traditional time management advice wasn't built for me. And the Bright Method, I believe, fills that gap. Let's talk about why traditional time management advice might not have worked for you – and why a different approach might.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

A few years ago, I listened to this podcast episode from the Atlantic, How to Spend Time on What You Value, after a client sent it to me. You can listen here on Apple and here on Spotify.

Let's talk about how our egos can lead us to pursue things that don't always align with what we say is most important to us and/or leads us away from what would actually make us happy.

This is NOT to say we shouldn't have ambition or go after full careers. Not at all - I personally am very ambitious and support women going after high-powered careers. Just make sure it's what you truly want and fits with the life you want for yourself. Let's discuss!

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

It is a true honor to have Danielle Bayard Jackson on today's podcast to dig into friendship as a busy working woman – from how to make time for it, how to create new friendships, to normalizing struggles that feel lonely but are common, and so much more. Enjoy!

Links to Danielle's amazing work:

website: www.betterfemalefriendships.com book: https://www.betterfemalefriendships.com/fighting-for-our-friendships IG: @daniellebayardjackson tiktok: @thefriendshipexpert

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

I loved this lightbulb moment/articulation by Oonagh Duncan, shared on Eleanor Beaton's podcast. Let's dig into it!

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

I recently got three questions that share common thread: isn't calendaring like we do in the Bright Method overwhelming? Summarized in my words:

• Is time-blocking your personal life overwhelming?
• Doesn't this lead to a daily long list of too many alerts?
• Doesn't having to move too many boxes when time blocks hit get old?

Let's dig into each.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

When I went to a curriculum presentation at my 2nd grader's school, I didn't expect for a podcast episode to come out if it. But here we go!

Here's the Kara Lowentheil episode I mentioned (Unf*ck Your Brain re How to Stop Procrastinating):

• ​Listen on Apple​
• ​Listen on Spotify

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

I recently listened to a podcast episode that blew my mind because it connected dots and made points that resonated so deeply for me – in business and on the time management front. Let's discuss.

And here's the episode from Eleanor Beaton.

Enjoy!

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

A few weeks ago, someone sent me a quote on Instagram that knocked my socks off. Let's dig into it.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Ever keep rolling the same task week after week? You see it on your list or flagged in your inbox, and every time you look at it, you feel that little wave of guilt. In this episode, I share how slow-rolling tasks—sometimes unintentionally, sometimes on purpose—can actually work in your favor.

I share a story from my early law career that taught me how some tasks lose relevance over time and how checking in before tackling them can save hours of unnecessary work. We also talk about how "slow-rolling" helps when you work for a shiny-object boss—or when you're your own. Instead of reacting to every new idea, give it breathing space. Let excitement cool, check your calendar, and make more grounded decisions about priorities.

This episode is about using slow-rolling as a time management strategy to:

• Reassess stale tasks before spending time on them, and
• Protect focus from shiny-object overload

When you use slow-rolling strategically, you reduce stress, reclaim focus, and make smarter choices about where your time goes.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Time zones – they seem like such a simple concept and one that's almost an after-thought, tiny detail when scheduling... and yet, messing them up can have majorly disruptive effects. If you're someone who also struggles with them, this one's for you!

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

I get asked a few times a year whether I theme my workdays – e.g., Marketing Mondays, Admin Tuesdays, Finances on Wednesdays. While I'm sure this works for some (and keep on keeping on if it works for you!), I'll explain why it hasn't worked for me – and what I do instead.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

I see more and more people using or discussing using AI to make decisions around how they spend their time. Let's talk about it.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

This one is for my all-or-nothing thinkers. The ones who think, "If I can't do it exactly like I think I should, then what's even the point??" Been there (and still go there sometimes). Let's discuss about how this approach holds us back – and also is incorrect.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

When I used to think about time management, Past Me assumed, on some level, that the goal was to keep work in work hours and personal life in personal hours. But in reality, life is far more nuanced — and that's where the powerful dynamic of flexibility and accountability comes in.

In this episode, I share how hearing Jeanelle Teves' (click here for her Instagram profile) statements about how high flexibilty comes with high accountability put to words something I'd been learning was the real goal for many women when it comes to time management. Over the years, I've realized that what many professional women actually want is flexibility in their schedules to fit in real life into their work hours – workouts, doctor's appointments, family needs – while still being highly accountable to the work they've agreed to do.

We'll talk about:

• How my definition of successful time management shifted from "free up nights and weekends" to creating a system that flexes with different life phases.
• Why flexibility matters more than rigid schedules.
• How to distinguish between healthy flexibility and an unsustainable workload that can't be solved by accountability alone.
• Why learning a system over a schedule empowers you to evolve your approach as your life changes.

This is a reminder that flexibility in time management isn't about working all the time — it's about designing your days and weeks to reflect your real life, while still being accountable to doing excellent work.

If you want to start seeing your capacity vs. workload in a more objective way, check out my free 3-day program at kellynolan.com/refresh.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Saying no is rarely easy — especially when the opportunity is something you really want to say yes to. In this episode, I share a personal example of when I turned down a big media opportunity that landed right in the middle of my family's annual Colorado trip.

On paper, I was technically available. My husband could've watched the kids, my calendar was clear, and the opportunity would've been great for my business. But in practice? Saying yes would have derailed my ability to truly unplug, be present with my family, and recharge.

In this episode, I walk you through:

• The ripple effects of saying yes — from prep time and tech checks to energy recovery afterward.
• Why the pause is the most powerful tool when you're tempted to say yes too quickly.
• How to evaluate the true cost of opportunities beyond the calendar block they appear to take.
• The difference between scarcity thinking ("this may never come again") and embracing a more abundance mindset (even if a little woo).
• Why protecting vacation time, family time, and rest can sometimes matter more than visibility opportunities.
• How saying no doesn't just protect you — it also builds strength, clarity, and integrity.

I also share how I reframed the "no" by connecting the opportunity with another woman in my field. It reminded me that collaboration, generosity, and boundaries can all exist together.

If you ever feel guilty or second-guess yourself when saying no — especially to exciting opportunities — this episode might help you see the full picture and feel more confident in your decision-making.

Check out my free 3-day time blocking program at kellynolan.com/refresh to practice visually mapping out ripple effects before you commit. And if you're ready to go deeper, enrollment for the Bright Method 10-week program opens October 3rd. More info on both below.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Halloween is such a great example of how something that sounds like one event/evening of events has a broader scope than we often realize and a lot of mental load.

Let's tease that out – and talk about how this goes beyond just Halloween, too.

For the full holiday guide (including Halloween) to take us through the end of 2025, click here.

For just the Instagram post about Halloween, click here.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Women on Instagram shared their biggest work time management pain points with me. Let's cover three of them today!

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

When US society talks about time management, the conversation often assumes the goals of productivity and efficiency. Do more in less time. Move faster. Cram it all in. But here's the truth I want to unpack today: I believe our real goal for time management (at least for people similar to me) is more peace of mind and clarity and less stress, and less stress isn't always efficient — and that's okay.

Today's episode digs into:

• Why American productivity culture gets it wrong by idolizing efficiency as the key to getting the life you want.
• How to reframe your goal so that calm and breathing space (not constant speed) drive your decisions.
• Why creating margin in your day — even if it's "inefficient" — leads to better quality work, more joy, and less burnout.
• Three practical strategies to help you implement this shift:

1. Build in padding to your calendar (for commutes, deadlines, and transitions).
2. Let go of commitments to make space for that padding.
3. Ask grounding questions like "How do I want my life to feel?" and "What do I want the pace of my life to be?"

As I share in this episode, I still want to do a lot — from running a business to raising kids to having a full life outside of work. But the only way I can do it with any joy is by optimizing for less stress, not more efficiency.

If you've ever felt like productivity hacks left you running faster but enjoying less, this episode will give you a fresh, practical framework: optimize for breathing space, not efficiency.

Enrollment for the Bright Method program opens September 10 at 10:00 AM CST. With this 10-week system, you'll learn how to bring these ideas into your own life using a realistic, calendar-based approach that accounts for everything — personal and professional. Learn more at kellynolan.com/bright.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Career transitions aren't just about the potential new job — they ripple into every part of your life. In this episode, I sit down with Sarah Wagoner, a certified leadership and transformation coach, to talk about navigating career changes while also accounting for the realities of your whole life — from raising young kids to caring for aging parents.

We dig into:

• Why you can't separate your career from your personal life (and how ignoring this leads to burnout).
• The "moment of awakening" many women hit when work no longer feels aligned — often triggered by a new baby, health crisis, or family shift.
• How to use an energy inventory to understand what lights you up at work — and what drains you.
• The importance of knowing your values during your current phase (because values shift!) and using them to guide decisions at work and home.
• Boundaries as a filter — not a wall — and what that looks like in practice for professional women.
• Examples of how Sarah's clients have designed their careers and leadership roles to fit their real lives — including moving into leadership roles, taking consulting contracts, and saying no to roles that didn't align.

I especially love Sarah's approach because it parallels how I teach time management for working moms and professional women: your calendar has to reflect your whole life – the personal and the professional (not just work) – for it to work because your time and energy are limited, and your plans for both have to work together as one has an impact on the other.

If you're in a season of asking:

• Is this job still right for me?
• Do I even want to move up, or do I miss the individual contributor work I used to love?
• How do I juggle my career and the demands of family life without burning out?

…this episode is for you.

Sarah shares practical tools, grounded strategies, and thought-provoking questions to help you re-meet yourself after big life changes — so your career actually supports the life you want in this chapter.

To connect with Sarah, you can find her at:

• On her website, www.sarahwagoner.com
• On Instagram: @sarahwagonercoaching
• On Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahkwagonercareerandleadershipcoach/

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

On Instagram, someone shared that their biggest work time management painpoint was this:

"Hard time focusing during short periods. Brain thinks I need an hour chunk to start. Such a loss."

I very much get this feeling. Let's talk about three things that might help.

Also: my full Bright Method program opens for enrollment on September 10 at 10am CST. Learn all about it here, and let me know if you have any questions!

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

This episode is geared toward the business owner (e.g., attorneys running their own firms, physicians or therapists running their own practices, architects or interior designers running their own businesses) – though I suspect everyone can get something out of it.

As business owners, how we spend our time has an impact on how much revenue and profit we experience. To discuss that with far more expertise than I have, I'm thrilled to have Shanna Skidmore—a business strategist and former Fortune 100 financial advisor—on the podcast to talk about how to build a business in a way that honors your time, your energy, and your life outside of work.

We get into:

• How time and finances intersect in business
• How to define what "enough" looks like for you—and how to use that to guide your business decisions
• How to shift how you use your time in light of your "enough" number and where your time and finances currently stand
• How building processes to help you with workflows and client communications can help – even if you don't want to raise your rates, and so much more.

To learn more about Shanna Skidmore & her wonderful work:

• Here website: shannaskidmore.com,
• More about her podcast, Consider the Wildflowers: shannaskidmore.com/podcast
• Watch her free webinar: shannaskidmore.com/watch

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.