...cue the events, AND the connections. I keynoted Reclaim Your Workday and led an Email Extinguisher breakout at the National Society of Accounting Cooperatives conference in Nashville last week. What I love most about these events isn't the stage time. It's the conversations in between. I'm an extrovert, so staying for meals, general sessions, and entertainment isn't an obligation; it's my favorite part. I hear how businesses run, what keeps people up at night, and what problems still need...

Most meeting advice starts too late. Teams shorten meetings, clean up agendas, and tweak invite lists without asking the more important question: should the meeting happen at all? In the latest episode of the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, I share why meeting overload is usually not a meeting problem. It's a prioritization problem. Why it Matters: Poor meeting culture steals time from high-priority work. Constant interruptions make real focus harder. Better meeting habits can't fix...

Last week, we wrapped the Reclaim Your Workday Action Club pilot, and it exceeded my expectations in the best possible way. This cohort wasn’t about tips. People implemented theme days, stopped “checking email all day,” built vacation buffer days, and started protecting focus blocks. One participant told me, “I took the first vacation I can remember where I didn’t think about work.” Heck Yeah! For an eight-week program, the attendance and completed commitments were well above industry...