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5 Practical Productivity and Life Tips Podcasts
These podcast episodes — along with their descriptions — were thoughtfully curated and written by Claire FitzSimmons.
1) The Next Big Idea Daily
George Newman shares five insights from his book, “How Great Ideas Happen,” that challenge the idea that creativity comes solely from within.
Instead, he argues that creativity is rooted in discovery. Ideas are often uncovered rather than invented outright, and the most impactful innovations tend to come not from radical originality but from small shifts that make existing concepts feel personal and new.
2) Daily Tips That May Or May Not Help You
I love how these tips can help you, but they really don't have to. There's nothing here about musts or shoulds, just what you can try and experiment with.
There's much less pressure that way. And this episode reinforces the idea that sometimes tips are more lifelong companions.
3) LifeKit
My go-to for filtering out all the overwhelming advice out there and really simplifying ideas that can help us navigate real, messy, daily life.
Each week, complicated ideas are distilled into easily digestible points. This episode is full of ideas that can become encouragement for others, and even for yourself. Maybe even to keep experimenting with the very ideas that might help us.
4) A Thought I Kept
This podcast focuses on the ideas that stay when we've forgotten all the rest. Each week, Claire FitzSimmons interviews a guest about the thought that shaped their lives and how they continue to remember it.
This episode with Dr MaryCatherine McDonald focuses on how a poem slipped across a desk changed everything for her. The ideas shared here are deeply personal and life-tested.
5) Just One Thing with Dr Michael Mosley
Though there won't be more episodes by host Dr Michael Mosley after his recent death, there's an archive of episodes to help cut through all the wellbeing noise, and make sense of the confusing advice out there.
I like this episode because it feels like something we'd all aspire to but we don't really know where to start. In each episode, Mosley takes us through the science and then he actually implements the idea himself, and with a guest.
These podcasts help identify the best ideas for life, but then go one step further, by helping us implement them.
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Community
📣 In Podcast The Newsletter, Lauren Passell writes about Jacob Reed and Me:
I am loving Jacob Reed and Me, where for each episode, host Jacob Reed finds other Jacob Reeds in the world (there are a lot of them) and goes down the rabbit hole with them to ask questions about the world, and to learn about both of the Jacob Reeds. I have written about it twice already, but it really is just so excellently made, so fun and surprising, you can tell that each episode is a separate labor of love.
🌲 The Jiffy is a documentary podcast about the arts and sciences of upstate New York. So far, host James Cave has taken listeners to Pinksterfest in Kinderhook, vintage baseball games in Kingston, the elephant-filled corner office of the Ulster County Clerk, a forest of quaking trees in the Catskills, and up into the clock tower in Chatham – it’s a show about New York’s non-Manhattan regions, forever in search of the Kinderhook Blob.
💪 Indigenous House announced the launch of Power in Numbers, a video podcast series hosted by Indigenous House founder Crystal Echo Hawk. Meant to feel like a dinner party filled with the smartest people you know, Power in Numbers mixes insight and analysis with community and humor.
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