Your output follows your environment. Change the room, change your result. Why it matters Context drives cognition. Notifications steal focus by design. Guardrails beat willpower. What you’ll learn Match your room to the task using the cathedral effect. Phone, chat, email: simple settings that protect deep work. Signals and rituals your team will actually respect. LISTEN HERE (28 min) READ THE SUMMARY P.S. Want your whole team aligned? Bring RaderCo in for an Elevate Your Focus program.

Kitchen chaos, PT truths, and surprise book-club love. The kitchen renovation rolls on, and I’m now a whiz at healthy meals powered by a Yeti cooler + microwave combo (shoutout to Hungryroot and Aldi). We’ve only caved to the siren call of takeout once. We also escaped to Greenville, NC, for my husband’s disc golf tournament, where a working sink and oven felt like a luxury resort. Lessons earned: 1) I’d rent a coworking space for a month. 2) We’d move all the furniture to the garage for...

If your day starts with a swipe, you're letting other people’s agenda and headlines drive your mood and attention. Try this guardrail: Pick three things for your health and wellbeing before any screen time. Even five to ten minutes can make a difference. TACTICS Step outside for morning light Five-minute mobility or foam roll Two minutes of breathwork Three gratitudes and “How I will make today great” Read five pages of a devotional Longer hug with your person or a minute with your pet...