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by Brandon White
The PRODUCTIVITY Podcast brings you science backed productivity tactics, techniques, and procedures that work so you can get the most out of your time, talent and ideas. You get one productivity episode a day in a short, productive, episode that gives you actionable playbooks to put the ideas to work for yourself. Your Host Brandon White has been an entrepreneur in the trenches for over two decades. He has his Masters in Psychology, MBA, and is a certified Expert Tiny Habits Coach studying with BJ Fogg from Standford's Behavioral Design Lab. With real life experience, Brandon knows he'll never get everything done in a day, but he's figured out the best productivity strategies and products that are force multipliers to get the most out of a day in your personal and professional life. Listen in for your daily productivity tips.
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- Aug 14, 20265 min
Zapier AI: How to Put Your Busywork on Autopilot With AI
Zapier AI, what it is, what the research says about plugging AI into the workflows you already run, and 3 protocols to use Zapier AI to automate your email triage, content repurposing, and form-to-AI pipeline so the tools you use start working for you instead of the other way around. Grab the episode download it's a one-page cheatsheet so you don't have to take notes. Cheatsheet Download https://edge.kit.com/productivitypodcast STUDY CITATIONS Brynjolfsson, E., Li, D., & Raymond, L. (20...
- Jun 28, 20264 min
Job Crafting: Why This Is the Best Approach for Your Team
Job crafting, what job crafting is, what a major 2026 research review says about why it makes people more productive, and three protocols to help you and your team start job crafting without letting it spiral into chaos. STUDY CITATION Demerouti, E. (2026). Job crafting revisited: Current insights, emerging challenges, and future directions. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 13 (1), 195–220. Make sure you hit "FOLLOW" in your podcast player so you ...
- Jun 28, 20263 min
How to Identify and Manage Your Best Performers (Without Losing Them)
We're breaking down what makes someone a star performer, how researchers say you should identify high performers using four specific dimensions, and three protocols to help you define, manage, and keep the high performers on your team so your productivity doesn't walk out the door. STUDY CITATIONS O'Boyle, E. H., & Götz, M. (2026). Rethinking stardom: A relativistic approach to studying the absolute best performers. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 1...
- Jun 27, 20264 min
Metacognition: The Skill Behind Every Skill You'll Ever Build
Metacognition is what neuroscientists call the highest form of intelligence. We are breaking down what metacognition is, what the research says about why metacognition matters more than raw brainpower, and three protocols to start thinking about your thinking so you catch mistakes faster, make sharper decisions, and stop allowing your thoughts to run on autopilot. STUDY CITATIONS Veenman, M. V. J., Van Hout-Wolters, B. H. A. M., & Afflerbach, P. (2006). Metacognition and learning: concept...
- Jun 25, 20264 min
The Florence Nightingale Insight: Why the Data You're Not Tracking Is Killing Your Productivity
The Florence Nightingale insight: why the data you're not tracking is the biggest threat to your productivity, what the research says about teams that measure versus teams that guess, and 3 Protocols to start counting what matters so you stop flying blind and start gaining ground. STUDY CITATIONS Brynjolfsson, E., & McElheran, K. (2016). The rapid adoption of data-driven decision-making. American Economic Review, 106(5), 133–139. Make sure you hit "FOLLOW" in your podcast player so you n...
- Jun 24, 20264 min
Why Taking Photos Makes You Forget: The Science of Cognitive Offloading
Why taking photos with your phone weakens your memory, what the research says about cognitive offloading, how your brain processes moments you photograph versus moments you experience, and 3 Protocols to help you stop cognitive offloading so you can be more present and productive with the memories that matter most to you. STUDY CITATIONS Henkel, L. A. (2014). Point-and-shoot memories: The influence of taking photos on memory for a museum tour. Psychological Science, 25(2), 396–402. Make sure...
- Jun 9, 20264 min
Six Thinking Hats Framework: How to Fix Your Team's Worst Meetings
The Six Thinking Hats, a structured decision-making method designed by Edward de Bono that forces your team to examine a problem from six distinct perspectives before anyone locks in on an answer. We'll cover what the Six Thinking Hats are, what the research says about how they sharpen group decision-making, and three protocols to run your next team decision so the quietest person in the room shapes the outcome just as much as the loudest. STUDY CITATIONS Gupta, R. & Bodhankar, A. (2023)....
- Jun 8, 20263 min
Beautiful.ai: Professional Slides Without a Design Degree
Why professional presentation design matters more than most people think, what the research says about how fast your audience judges the quality of your presentation slides, and three protocols to use Beautiful.ai to build polished, professional presentations without a single design skill. STUDY CITATIONS Lindgaard, G., Fernandes, G., Dudek, C., & Brown, J. (2006). Attention web designers: You have 50 milliseconds to make a good first impression! Behaviour & Information Technology, 25...
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About PRODUCTIVITY
The PRODUCTIVITY Podcast brings you science backed productivity tactics, techniques, and procedures that work so you can get the most out of your time, talent and ideas. You get one productivity episode a day in a short, productive, episode that gives you actionable playbooks to put the ideas to work for yourself. Your Host Brandon White has been an entrepreneur in the trenches for over two decades. He has his Masters in Psychology, MBA, and is a certified Expert Tiny Habits Coach studying with BJ Fogg from Standford's Behavioral Design Lab. With real life experience, Brandon knows he'll never get everything done in a day, but he's figured out the best productivity strategies and products that are force multipliers to get the most out of a day in your personal and professional life. Listen in for your daily productivity tips.
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