The Weekly Briefly
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The Weekly Briefly
A podcast by Shawn Blanc
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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. Now, on the he...
WWDC 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 me, but I went to...
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 doing work that ma...
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 creative work...
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. Because it take...
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 licks — they...
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 order to chec...
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 important issue...
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 living online. I share...
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. One very co...
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 you cancel...
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 all the tim...
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 never recha...
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 Power of a Focuse...
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 your cred...
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. We’re born creative, bu...
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 it’s a few days late)...
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 inside. Many t...
Your Best Creative Work, Part II
Last week’s show was about technology. But, more specifically, how technology helps us to do our best creative work. Today’s show is about another asp...
Your Best Creative Work, Part I
Technology can hinder us from doing our best creative work. We get addicted to checking our email, our Facebook feed, our Instagram likes, our Twitter...
How we tripled the traffic and income to Tools & Toys
It’s been 90 days since the re-design of Tools & Toys went live, and compared to the same quarter last year we saw a 3x growth in pageviews, unique vi...
The “Best”
The pursuit of “the best”. Who doesn’t love to find the best tools, the best coffee, the best food, the best experiences, etc? I know I do. But I real...
The Rough Elements of an Annual Plan
For the last episode of 2014, I wanted to talk about planning for the next year. It’s not nearly as lame or tedious as it sounds — in fact, it’s somet...
A Holiday Challenge
This is the last episode until after Christmas, and so I wanted to give a challenge for everyone heading in to the holiday time off. Rest well. It’s e...
Holiday Photography
On this week’s episode of The Weekly Briefly I’m joined by my former podcasting partner in crime, Ben Brooks. We talk about (a) what sort of camera yo...
A Couple of iPhone Cases
To be honest, I’m not entirely comfortable using my iPhone 6 without a case — especially now that the colder winter weather has arrived. And so, I’m t...
Knowing Where Our Best Creative Work Comes From
An early episode because it’s Thanksgiving week. On today’s show: The glories and the perils of running your own business. Why showing up every day is...
Hiring help: Why, When, and How
Hiring help should be seen as an investment in your company, and on today’s show I talk about hiring help (employees or contractors). I share about th...