Take Back Time: Time Management | Stress Management | Tug Of War With Time

Burnout is a serious problem that organizations across all industries face. The World Health Organization declared it as an actual syndrome. Penny Zenker wants to address that topic with a guest who has resilience and courage to share her experience. In this episode, Danielle Cobo, a Fortune 500 Senior Sales Manager, discusses how to avoid burnout. Building a support system is one of the steps to avoid burnout. Furthermore, Danielle explains why people are afraid to ask for help and how reframing can turn that around. Tune in to this episode for a more insightful talk with Penny Zenker and Danielle Cobo.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

There is a fundamental shift in how we interact and experience the world due to the nonstop digital progress. Aside from mixed reality games, VR headsets, and 5G networks, one of the biggest changes these past few years is augmented reality. As the real world continues to combine seamlessly with the virtual space, what does the future really hold? David Rose, author of Enchanted Objects and SuperSight, sits down with Penny Zenker to discuss both the advantages and dangers of augmented reality and related technologies. He also talks about Better Choice, an app he created to filter out products when you are shopping. Discover what to expect looking forward into the digital future by tuning into this episode.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Implementing DEI inclusive marketing the right way is necessary to make your business feel welcoming to everyone. But this doesn’t just end in using politically correct words in the correct context. Penny Zenker digs deeper into this subject with her guest, Michelle Ngome. They discuss how DEI is also impacted by your visuals and other related media, as well as the way your recruit people into your business. Michelle also explains the importance of having a strong collaborative work to keep your team diverse and creative.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

There are two roads to success: you can either take the painstakingly long, unpaved roads or follow the paths already laid out by those who came before you. If you’re smart, you’ll choose the latter because the one thing successful people have in common is a coach. In this episode, learn how to take back time by understanding the power of coaching. Penny Zenker sits down with Larry Long Jr., the Founder and CEO of LLJR Enterprises, the host of Midweek Midday Motivational Minute, and the author of JOLT!. He tells us about the amazing coaches that made a huge impact on his life, the lessons he learned from them, and how they taught him what being a coach truly is. Learn how to reframe perfectionism, tap into your excellence, and leverage other people’s experiences. Start taking back time in your business and life with this conversation!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

What does it mean to have a vibrant culture within your organization? In this episode, Penny Zenker chats with Nicole Greer to define the concept and what leaders can do to make this happen for their teams. Nicole is the Executive and Leadership Coach and Consultant at Vibrant Coaching and Consulting Inc. and host of the Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast. Using the trademarked S.H.I.N.E. Coaching Methodology, she offers foundational tools and uncommon wisdom to help clients become the leaders their organization needs them to be. Nicole discusses performance management versus micromanaging and defines how productivity should look for leaders and their employees. Tune in for more wisdom from Nicole and get valuable insights you can apply to better your organization.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

It's hard not to get anxious today with the recession, inflation, political polarization, the great resignation, and much more. Learning how to deal with stress and anxiety right now is at an all-time high! Join Penny Zenker as he talks to the founder and CEO of Passion Fit, Reena Vokoun. Discover some tips and tricks on how you can deal with all this stress right now. Learn how to shift your focus from the chaos and into something positive. Start fighting back against anxiety today!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Do you find yourself overwhelmed with things to do that you start wondering how it ended up that way? Then maybe, unknowingly, you have overcommitted. This episode’s guest identified overcommitment as a problem that is holding people back more than advancing themselves in their careers and even personal lives. Penny Zenker sits down with Don Davis, PhD, MBA an expert operations leader in Healthcare and Life Sciences with a 35-year career in delivering leverageable capabilities that scale their organizations while increasing revenue and controlling cost. Don dives deep into the consequences of overcommitting yourself and stacking tasks until they become too much to handle. Overcoming being overcommitted, he then shares some helpful tips to assess the tasks in front of you so you can be more productive and maximize your time and effort without stretching yourself too thin.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Recent studies show a dwindling percentage of employee engagement in the workplace. One of the main causes is burnout. People's mental health has taken a toll, especially during the pandemic. Now more than ever, it is important to have conversations on what we need to change in the workplace. In this episode, Marie-Helene Pelletier joins Penny Zenker to share with us her insights on psychology and mental health in our working environment. She is an award-winning Leadership and Workplace Mental Health Expert, Psychologist, Advisor, and Speaker. She brings her expertise to discuss stress as an epidemic, quiet quitting, and compassion fatigue. Offering advice to overcome these challenges, Marie then discusses the importance of having a resilience plan. Tune in to this conversation to discover more insights on improving mental health in the workplace.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

If you spend all your time in your business, you probably lack systems and processes. With the right automated systems, you can spend time on more important things that will really help your business grow. Don’t be technology averse because you will never scale if you don’t embrace technology. Join Penny Zenker as she talks to the Founder of Succeeding With Systems and the Systems Implementation Engineer of Omnipotent Capital, Khadirah Muhammad. Learn why you need the help of both technology and people if you want your business to succeed. Discover the power of automation. Find out some great time-saving and useful systems you can get now!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Delegating work is one of the most efficient ways to save time and energy while ensuring the smooth operations of your business. Ethan Bull brings this workplace setup to the next level by maximizing the role of an executive assistant to get five extra hours per day. Sitting down with Penny Zenker, he elaborates on five performance multipliers that lead to a more convenient and rewarding 29-hour workday. Ethan explains how the help of an excellent executive assistant plays into this setup and talks about the major things to consider in hiring a reliable person to delegate your important tasks.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

With all the expectations we have to live up to, the loaded schedules, and a million things we have to get done, it's easy to feel lacking. We feel unsure of our accomplishments and even when we’ve already done so much, it's still hard to feel fulfilled. But not as hard as when you don’t even know what you want to do or what your life’s purpose is. If you often find yourself questioning the path you are on, you cannot miss this episode! Annie Leib, a Certified Professional Executive Coach and the founder and CEO of Annie Leib, LLC & BREATH Framework, INC, talks about what the BREATH Framework stands for and how it helps you identify your core values, your whys, your mission, and your life’s purpose. Tune in and learn how you can find alignment in being your authentic self, finding that purpose, and achieving amazing results.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Our mind is the best tool to lead us to positive life changes. But what you feed in your mind and how you put those into action makes the difference. In this episode, Caterina Rando, the author of Learn to Power Think, provides her insights about learning how to live through your goal by owning your voice and knowing your value, which will put you into action. By reframing your mind on being more compassionate, more loving, and more supportive of yourself, and the more you can master self-care, that’s going to impact your productivity and the level of bliss in your business and your life. Tune in to this positive thinking exercise of an episode to lead yourself to a healthier life.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Many businesses lose tons of cash despite giving close attention to profit optimization and marketing. It's because they keep adding unnecessary things to their already sufficient productivity drivers. Penny Zenker sits down with Scott Hallman, two-time Inc. 500 Company Founder, CEO, and best-selling author. Scott shares how business leaders can accelerate growth and maximize profits by focusing more on incremental improvements that spell productivity. He also discusses how to eliminate business metrics that do you more harm than good instead of stacking brand new technologies and sales tactics that only give false hopes of growth.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Being a micromanager keeps you in the limbo of working in your business instead of working on it. You can let go of your responsibilities through proper work delegation process and start automating operations. Marketing coach Mike Moll joins Penny Zenker to break down his Customer Excellence Document, a five-stage process of efficiently delegating work to competent individuals. He explains how he poured his entire consciousness into designing this methodical approach to present information in the most engaging ways. Mike also discusses the many benefits of work delegation, especially in taking back your precious time.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Just like a movie, we all have villains in our lives who make us feel stupid, unloved, alone, and unworthy and it's easier to turn a blind eye than face them head-on. We get overwhelmed with self-doubt that we fail to reflect on who we are and what we are really capable of. How do we build confidence in spite of this? If the imposter syndrome is getting to you, don’t miss this episode of Take Back Time as two-time bestselling author and Top 50 Keynote Speaker in the World 2022, Heather Monahan joins Penny Zenker to talk about building confidence. And how self-reflection and self-trust can help you break barriers and become your most powerful self. So listen in and learn how you can guard your space against external and internal aggressors and be able to step out and step up!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Product, price, place, and promotion. These are just some of the elements considered in marketing a product. These elements constitute the framework by which business owners build their marketing strategy. In this episode, Michael Buzinski, author of The Rule of 26 For Service-Based Businesses: Three Steps to Doubling Website Revenue, discusses why KPIs should be business owners’ focus to help them double their revenue. He also gives an in-depth discussion of his book. Tune in to this episode and get some practical, actionable insights that will help you grow your business.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Writing your book is one of the hardest things you’ll ever do. Some people have had a hard time finishing a book or couldn't even finish one. In this episode, Chandler Bolt, CEO of Self-Publishing School and SelfPublishing.com, shares some steps to guide you in writing your book. He also gives strategies to help you in book-writing and publishing. Listen to this inspiring episode and get some ideas to help you write and publish your book.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Communication is an essential tool for productivity and organizational growth. How can you widen your leadership influence? Join your host Penny Zenker as she dives into a conversation with Scott Tillema on bridging the gap from crisis negotiation to leadership influence. Scott is an FBI-trained hostage negotiator and active law enforcement officer. In this episode, he shares valuable insights on how organizations can recognize opportunities and utilize negotiation principles to enhance their work. He also explains how he helps during critical and chaotic moments of people’s lives and maps out situations for clearer understanding. Tune in for clarity and a goal-oriented perspective on leadership and negotiation.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

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According to statistics, 80% of people just show up 80% of the time. What does it mean to people’s productivity, performance and goals? In this episode, Marcy Axelrod discusses the concept of what it truly means to show up. She has been researching this concept of showing up for 23 years already, and she provides the three parts to it. She shares the three main categories that get in our way to really show up. So come join us in this episode to learn more and reflect on yourself if you are part of that 80% and show up! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/