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Relentless prioritization for sustainable success.The Health-Powered Productivity Podcast helps Human Resources and Learning & Development leaders reduce meeting bloat, lower rework, and boost engagement while protecting their people with healthy guardrails. Overwhelmed managers welcome!Hosted by Marcey Rader, multi-award-winning global keynote speaker, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, Master Virtual Presenter®, Digital Wellness Educator, and author of Reclaim Your Workday. Named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast by Feedspot - every two weeks, you’ll get a 5–25 minute, fast, tactical episode. Mostly solo, with occasional guest features. Practical playbooks you can assign as pre-work for team meetings or apply before your next 1:1.What we cover: prioritization, focus and attention, meeting effectiveness, remote and hybrid norms, email and chat optimization, task and workflow management, and health-powered habits. No fluff. Outcomes that last.Connect with Marcey:Consulti
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- 2 days ago7 min
133 - Delegation Without Decision Rights
You handed off the project. Then the questions started, and every one of them ended with your name. In this sequel to Episode 128 (Ability, Capacity, Agency), Marcey breaks down what happens when leaders hand over the work but keep the decisions. A capable team ends up waiting on one person for every call. She shares the director who realized he was talking over the people who owned his meetings, how she’s handing off work while onboarding her own operations coordinator, and three moves that put the decision where it belongs: name the decision, watch it back once, and set the check-in date. Plus why being copied on everything keeps you the bottleneck. One Thing You Can Do Now: Open this week’s chat and email from your team. Count the messages asking your permission for a call you’d be fine with them making. Pick one, and tell that person the decision is theirs from now on. Resources: Read the Blog: https://www.helloraderco.com/delegate-decisions/ Episode 128 - Ability, Capacity, Agency: https://www.helloraderco.com/why-cant-you-get-to-your-priorities/ Episode 131 - How Often Should You Really Have One-to-Ones?: https://www.helloraderco.com/how-often-one-to-ones/ More episodes for teams: https://www.helloraderco.com/podcast/teams-episodes/ The Right Things First: https://www.helloraderco.com/therightthingsfirst On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and five-time author, gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, communication guardrails, and sustainable performance habits you'll actually keep. Each episode is short, specific, and ready to use with your team. From RaderCo, a high-performance speaking and consulting company. Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate. Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching:helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking:marceyrader.com LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: The Right Things First —helloraderco.com/therighthingsfirst Book: Reclaim Your Workday —reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot tipsletter:radergoodies.com/profile
- 2 weeks ago9 min
132 - Do You Hold Your Breath at Your Screen?
Are you holding your breath when you're on a screen? It's called screen apnea, and CPAs in two states recognized it in themselves after Marcey brought it up. She shares where she learned about it (James Nestor's Breath), the big sigh that made a coworker look mad, and Stanford research on exhale-focused breathing, including a technique called cyclic sighing. The episode ends with one round of long exhales, done together. One Thing You Can Do Now: six cycles. In for four, out for six. Resources: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor https://amzn.to/46NKK1b' Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal (Balban et al., Cell Reports Medicine, 2023): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9873947 More episodes on healthy behaviors: https://helloraderco.com/podcast/healthy-behaviors-episodes On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and five-time author, gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, communication guardrails, and sustainable performance habits you'll actually keep. Each episode is short, specific, and ready to use with your team. From RaderCo, a high-performance speaking and consulting company. Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate. Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching:helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking:marceyrader.com LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: The Right Things First —helloraderco.com/therighthingsfirst Book: Reclaim Your Workday —reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot tipsletter:radergoodies.com/profile
- Oct 13, 20266 min
131- Leadership by Calendar Instead of Outcomes
Most one-on-ones run on autopilot: same thirty or sixty minutes, same day, every person on the team. Marcey breaks down why that's leading by calendar instead of leading by outcome. Rader covers how cadence should shift by experience, why a one-on-one should never run the full hour, and the mistake managing eighteen direct reports taught her about check-ins. Plus why remote and hybrid managers especially can't let a comfortable cadence become invisibility. One Thing You Can Do Now: Pick one person on your team. Ask them how often they actually want to meet, and for how long. Resources: Better Remote One-On-One Questions Every Leader Should Ask: https://www.helloraderco.com/better-remote-one-on-one-questions/ Book: The Right Things First https://www.helloraderco.com/therightthingsfirst Book: Reclaim Your Workday http://www.reclaimyourworkday.com Health-Powered Productivity podcast Meetings playlist https://www.helloraderco.com/podcast/meetings-episodes/) Program: The Meeting Reset http://www.marceyrader.com/topics-meeting-reset) On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and five-time author, gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, communication guardrails, and sustainable performance habits you'll actually keep. Each episode is short, specific, and ready to use with your team. From RaderCo, a high-performance speaking and consulting company. Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate. Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching:helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking:marceyrader.com LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: The Right Things First —helloraderco.com/therighthingsfirst Book: Reclaim Your Workday —reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot tipsletter:radergoodies.com/profile
- Sep 29, 202615 min
130 - What Has to Happen Before You Plan
Planning is the most productive-looking way to procrastinate. You can spend a full afternoon building a plan, finish with a document, and feel like you did the work. Marcey has watched people do it for fifteen years, and she's done it herself. Last episode asked when you'd last optimized something you should have cut. This one is about how you find that out. In this conversation, recorded with Global Media Studios at the National Speakers Association Influence conference, Rich Hart asks Marcey where prioritization actually starts. Her answer is one step earlier than almost anyone expects. Reflect. Prioritize. Plan. In that order. Resources: More episodes on reflecting, prioritizing, and planning: helloraderco.com/podcast/reflect-plan-prioritize-episodes Episode 129: Ways We Optimize Instead of Prioritize [link] The Right Things First: A Pocket Guide to Relentless Prioritization, available for teams in packs of ten or more: helloraderco.com/therighthingsfirst Questions about copies for your team: books@helloraderco.com On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and five-time author, gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, communication guardrails, and sustainable performance habits you'll actually keep. Each episode is short, specific, and ready to use with your team. From RaderCo, a high-performance speaking and consulting company. Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate. Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching:helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking:marceyrader.com LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: The Right Things First —helloraderco.com/therighthingsfirst Book: Reclaim Your Workday —reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot tipsletter:radergoodies.com/profile #highperformance #marceyrader #reflections #planning #prioritization
- Sep 15, 202612 min
129 - Ways We Optimize Instead of Prioritize
Optimization is saving ten minutes in a meeting. Prioritization is asking whether the meeting needed to happen at all. In this episode, I walk through six places, work and personal, where I caught myself optimizing something I should have prioritized instead: my inbox, my meetings, my calendar, my sleep, my relationships, and even my grocery shopping. In this episode: The relentless prioritization filter, and the three questions I run almost everything through Why a CC folder rule doesn't fix an over-copying problem on its own The research behind why fewer people in a meeting means better decisions, not just a shorter one Why an auto-blocked "focus time" on your calendar isn't the same as a real Design Day What changed when I quit Facebook, and how I keep my phone out of my bedroom entirely The narrowing-down move that saved me from scrolling three different grocery apps The Relentless Prioritization Filter Does this reduce or eliminate a bottleneck or conflict? Does this eliminate a decision? Does this protect capacity or energy? Resources & Links Episode 127: The Relentless Prioritization Filter https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-powered-productivity-with-raderco/id1569968080?i=1000782662719 Episode 69: Design Days for Deep Work https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/69-design-day-for-deep-work/id1569968080?i=1000593684220 Design Days blog post - www.helloraderco.com/design-days Rule of Seven, decision effectiveness: Bain & Company, "Effective decision making and the rule of 7" (bain.com/insights/effective-decision-making-and-the-rule-of-7) Rule of Seven, Miller's Law background: Forbes, "Why You Should Never Invite More Than 7 People To Your Meeting" https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriafine/2018/04/16/why-you-should-never-invite-more-than-7-people-to-your-meeting/ My TEDx, The Relentless Pursuit of More www.marceyrader.com/tedx DreamSky clock - https://amzn.to/4gnLZZj The Right Things First: A Pocket Guide to Relentless Prioritization www.helloraderco.com/therightthingsfirst On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and five-time author, gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, communication guardrails, and sustainable performance habits you'll actually keep. Each episode is short, specific, and ready to use with your team. From RaderCo, a high-performance speaking and consulting company. Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate. Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching:helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking:marceyrader.com LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: The Right Things First —helloraderco.com/therighthingsfirst Book: Reclaim Your Workday —reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot tipsletter: radergoodies.com/profile
- Aug 25, 20266 min
128 - Ability, Capacity, Agency
You know what your priorities are. Getting to them is a different problem. In this episode, Marcey breaks down the second lens she uses with clients to figure out why a known priority still isn't getting done: ability, capacity, or agency. Same three letters, three completely different problems, three completely different fixes. In this episode: Why "I know my priorities but can't get to them" usually isn't a discipline problem Ability: the skill to prioritize, and what happens when nobody ever taught you (a scientist promoted into her first management role) Capacity: the space to prioritize, and why the skill being there doesn't mean the room is (running solo ops for a ten-person company) Agency: the permission to prioritize, and what it looks like when someone else is deciding your week (a broken foot, six weeks in a boot) The three questions to ask yourself to find out which one's actually got you stuck Mentioned in this episode: Episode 118: Stop Calendar Decorating and Prioritize First with the Altitude Method https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/118-stop-calendar-decorating-prioritize-first-with/id1569968080?i=1000746834918 Blog: Stop Calendar Decorating and Prioritize First with the Altitude Method https://www.helloraderco.com/altitude-method-for-prioritization/ The Right Things First: A Pocket Guide to Relentless Prioritization www.helloraderco.com/therightthingsfirst Why Your Top Priority May Never Get Done: Ability, Capacity, or Agency (The Right Things First, Mini Keynote) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DXTOux8JeQ On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and five-time author, gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, communication guardrails, and sustainable performance habits you'll actually keep. Each episode is short, specific, and ready to use with your team. From RaderCo, a high-performance speaking and consulting company. Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate. Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching:helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking:marceyrader.com LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: The Right Things First —helloraderco.com/therighthingsfirst Book: Reclaim Your Workday —reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot tipsletter:radergoodies.com/profile
- Aug 11, 202620 min
127 - The Relentless Prioritization Filter
When the TSA line in Atlanta wasn't moving, the fix was to bring in ICE agents. The line still didn't move. Because the long line wasn't the problem. The upstream staffing decision was the problem. That's the difference between optimizing what's visible and prioritizing what's real. In this episode, Marcey introduces the Relentless Prioritization Filter from her new pocket guide, The Right Things First, and walks through the three questions that help you find the actual source of what's slowing your team down, instead of solving around it. You'll learn how to tell the difference between a bottleneck and a symptom, why most teams optimize problems that should be eliminated entirely, and how to create a culture where naming a bottleneck is something people actually want to do. This is the first in a short series of episodes around the book. More coming August 25. In this episode: Why optimization and prioritization are not the same thing, and when you're doing one when you need the other The three questions of the Relentless Prioritization Filter How to build a team culture that celebrates bottleneck identification instead of avoiding it The three-part solution check to run before you commit to any fix How to apply the filter outside of work: health, household, and beyond Resources mentioned: Blog Post - Celebrating Bottlenecks: Why Replacing Obstacles Can Supercharge Business Growth Blog Post - Embrace the Bottlenecks Podcast - Episode 39: Embrace the Bottlenecks Podcast - Episode 123: Don't Improve the Symptom Before You Address the Source Blog Post - Why Companies Will Never Get Out of Email Hell Podcast - Episode 41: Why Companies Will Never Get Out of Email Hell Book: The Right Things First: A Pocket Guide to Relentless Prioritization — available in packs of 10 or more. Pre-order now at helloraderco.com/therighthingsfirst. Official launch September 8, 2026. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and five-time author, gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, communication guardrails, and sustainable performance habits you'll actually keep. Each episode is short, specific, and ready to use with your team. From RaderCo, a high-performance speaking and consulting company. Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate. Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching:helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking:marceyrader.com LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: The Right Things First —helloraderco.com/therighthingsfirst Book: Reclaim Your Workday —reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot tipsletter:radergoodies.com/profile
- May 12, 202616 min
126 - The Meeting Reset: Ask This Before You Shorten, Fix, or Join Another Meeting
Most meeting advice starts too late. In this episode, Marcey Rader makes the case that before you shorten a meeting, improve the agenda, or redesign the format, you need to ask a more important question: should the meeting happen at all? Why it matters: Poor meeting culture steals time from high-priority work. Atlassian reports that in organizations with poor meeting cultures, people spend 50% more time in unnecessary meetings than making progress on high-priority work. Interrupted work is not focused work. Microsoft says employees on Microsoft 365 are interrupted on average every 2 minutes by a meeting, email, or notification. Video fatigue is real. Stanford researchers found that common video-call design patterns, including constant close-up eye contact and self-view, can exhaust the mind and body. What you’ll learn: Why the first question is not “How do we run this meeting better?” How to tell when a meeting is really a status update, recap, or anxiety management system When Loom or async video is a better choice than live time How to shorten meetings by narrowing the attendee list to players, not spectators Why meeting design should work for real brains, not idealized employees When walking meetings are a smarter format Why meeting overload is often a prioritization failure, not a meeting failure Mentioned in this episode: Loom - www.loom.com Episode 123: Don't Improve the Symptom Before You Address the Source - https://www.helloraderco.com/addressing-the-source/ Episode 122: Loom Videos: The 5-Mnute Habit That Replaces a 30-Minute Meeting https://www.helloraderco.com/loom-videos-replace-meetings/ Episode 107 - Designing Meetings for Neurodivergent Brains Where Everyone Wins https://www.helloraderco.com/meetings-for-neurodivergent/ Episode 76 - From Zoom Zombies to Asyn Advocates: How to Burn Down Your Meeting Culture and Rebuild it For Increased Productivity and Health https://www.helloraderco.com/meeting-culture/ Revolutionize Your One-to-Ones: The Surprising Benefits of Walking Meetings - https://www.helloraderco.com/benefits-of-walking-meetings/ Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management. Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff. From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company. Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate. Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching: www.helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking: www.marceyrader.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: Reclaim Your Workday www.reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot Tipsletter: https://radergoodies.com/profile #ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity #Meetings #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #RelentlessPrioritization
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Relentless prioritization for sustainable success.The Health-Powered Productivity Podcast helps Human Resources and Learning & Development leaders reduce meeting bloat, lower rework, and boost engagement while protecting their people with healthy guardrails. Overwhelmed managers welcome!Hosted by Marcey Rader, multi-award-winning global keynote speaker, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, Master Virtual Presenter®, Digital Wellness Educator, and author of Reclaim Your Workday. Named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast by Feedspot - every two weeks, you’ll get a 5–25 minute, fast, tactical episode. Mostly solo, with occasional guest features. Practical playbooks you can assign as pre-work for team meetings or apply before your next 1:1.What we cover: prioritization, focus and attention, meeting effectiveness, remote and hybrid norms, email and chat optimization, task and workflow management, and health-powered habits. No fluff. Outcomes that last.Connect with Marcey:Consulti
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