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A podcast by Shawn Blanc

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...

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 m...

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 do...

Just a short note that there’s no real episode this week. Enjoy your weekend, and I’ll talk to you next time.

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 cre...

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. Becau...

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 li...

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 ord...

A short and sweet episode this week, with some food for thought regarding our choice to choose and why it’s so important.

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 impor...

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 l...

On my weekly newsletter, The Fight Spot, I ask people what their biggest challenge is related to focus and doing their best creative work. O...

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...

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 a...

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 n...

On today’s episode: thriving in the midst of the tensions between our time, ideas, and focus. Links Honesty, Clarity, and Action The P...

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...

On today’s show: creativity, fear, and procrastination. I think we can all agree that fear is the biggest enemy to creativity. We̵...

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...

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 insi...

Last week’s show was about technology. But, more specifically, how technology helps us to do our best creative work. Today’s sho...

Technology can hinder us from doing our best creative work. We get addicted to checking our email, our Facebook feed, our Instagram likes, o...

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 pagevi...

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...

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 ̵...

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 we...

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 s...

To be honest, I’m not entirely comfortable using my iPhone 6 without a case — especially now that the colder winter weather has...

An early episode because it’s Thanksgiving week. On today’s show: The glories and the perils of running your own business. Why s...

Hiring help should be seen as an investment in your company, and on today’s show I talk about hiring help (employees or contractors)....