Taking a Weekly Briefly Break
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...
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The Weekly Briefly
A podcast by Shawn Blanc
Episodes
20 of 30 episodesWWDC 2015: Highlights and Awesomeness
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...
Money Buys Opportunity
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...
4-Day Weekend
Just a short note that there’s no real episode this week. Enjoy your weekend, and I’ll talk to you next time.
Your Best Creative Work
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...
Avoiding Burnout
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...
Joy in the Journey
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...
Apple Watch and The Just Checks
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...
Choosing to Choose
A short and sweet episode this week, with some food for thought regarding our choice to choose and why it’s so important.
7 Reasons Daily Habits Are Awesome
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...
On Fear, Perseverance, and Meaningful Work: 4 Years Making a Living Online
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...
How to get it all done
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...
Happy People Make More Meaningful Work
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...
Staying Balanced When We’re Hyper-Focused on a Particular Project
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...
How to Recharge
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...
Thriving in the midst of tension
On today’s episode: thriving in the midst of the tensions between our time, ideas, and focus. Links Honesty, Clarity, and Action The P...
The Integrity Snowball
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...
Why Procrastination Robs Us From Doing Our Best Creative Work
On today’s show: creativity, fear, and procrastination. I think we can all agree that fear is the biggest enemy to creativity. We̵...
The Inbox Conundrum
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...
Build, Maintain, Rest
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...