The Amanda Wagner Podcast

In this episode, we continue our discussion about processes, productivity, and time. Did you miss part one? We recommend listening to that episode first!

In today's What Would Amanda Wagner Do segment, we answer Megan's question about getting suckered into doing tasks outside of her role at work, and how to say no without damaging her reputation.

From the episode:
Parkinson's Law
Make time for work that matters

The Amanda Wagner Podcast is the place to eavesdrop and participate in conversations about making choices about how you spend your time, who you surround yourself with, and figuring out what you want to be known for. This is a place to talk about the challenges of bravery, living thoughtfully and strategically, and finding a way to be known for something.

Follow Amanda Wagner on Instagram

Sign up for the Amanda Wagner newsletter

Visit the Amanda Wagner website

In this episode, we:
- Discuss how we can play the long game of productivity
- Share our techniques and strategies to stay focused (and share what advice we’ve heard and doesn’t work for us)
- Provide a few new ways to consider how you use your time (and offer an explanation as to why time seems to slip away)

In part two (out Friday!) we'll share even more, plus answer listener Megan's question about getting suckered into doing tasks outside of her role at work, and how to say no without damaging her reputation.

From the episode:
Pomodoro Method
Productivity Planner

The Amanda Wagner Podcast is the place to eavesdrop and participate in conversations about making choices about how you spend your time, who you surround yourself with, and figuring out what you want to be known for. This is a place to talk about the challenges of bravery, living thoughtfully and strategically, and finding a way to be known for something.

Follow Amanda Wagner on Instagram

Sign up for the Amanda Wagner newsletter

Visit the Amanda Wagner website

In this episode, we:
- Talk about passion and our frustrations with the concept
- Share the platitudes we can't stand
- Ask for your input on what you’re tired of hearing
- Answer Maggie’s question about what to do when someone asks to pick your brain… and they do it horribly

From the episode: Freelancing Females on Instagram

The Amanda Wagner Podcast is the place to eavesdrop and participate in conversations about making choices about how you spend your time, who you surround yourself with, and figuring out what you want to be known for. This is a place to talk about the challenges of bravery, living thoughtfully and strategically, and finding a way to be known for something.

Follow Amanda Wagner on Instagram

Sign up for the Amanda Wagner newsletter

Visit the Amanda Wagner website

In this episode, we:

- Share our experiences of “living by default” and explain what that means

- Consider what “good enough” might look like (and how it’s an interesting place to be)

- Quote Mean Girls as well as my dad, Brian Wagner, as we talk about limits and invitations

- Answer Martin’s question about tips for navigating social media in trying times

The Amanda Wagner Podcast is the place to eavesdrop and participate in conversations about making choices about how you spend your time, who you surround yourself with, and figuring out what you want to be known for. This is a place to talk about the challenges of bravery, living thoughtfully and strategically, and finding a way to be known for something.

Follow Amanda Wagner on Instagram

Sign up for the Amanda Wagner newsletter

Visit the Amanda Wagner website

In this episode, we:
- Talk about what professional envy looks and feels like
- Describe our own experiences of professional envy and what it does to us
- Share how you can use this envy to your advantage and find clarity about what matters to you
- Answer Sonja’s question about shifting your mentality during a career change

Links from the episode:
- What is the difference between envy and jealousy?
- Episode #150 of Being Boss: The Imposter Complex with Tanya Geisler

The Amanda Wagner Podcast is the place to eavesdrop and participate in conversations about making choices about how you spend your time, who you surround yourself with, and figuring out what you want to be known for. This is a place to talk about the challenges of bravery, living thoughtfully and strategically, and finding a way to be known for something.

Follow Amanda Wagner on Instagram

Sign up for the Amanda Wagner newsletter
Visit the Amanda Wagner website

In this episode, we:
- Talk about my hesitations around calling myself a creative
- Discuss a few definitions of creativity and how they land
- Suggest that creativity might include a tangible  product but it can also refer to a process.
- Answer Joel’s question about being active in a workplace community without having to use tools like Slack

Definitions of a creative

The Amanda Wagner Podcast is the place to eavesdrop and participate in conversations about making choices about how you spend your time, who you surround yourself with, and figuring out what you want to be known for. This is a place to talk about the challenges of bravery, living thoughtfully and strategically, and finding a way to be known for something.

Follow Amanda Wagner on Instagram

Sign up for the Amanda Wagner newsletter
Visit the Amanda Wagner website

In this episode, we:
- Talk about ideas and feelings that seem like opposites, but can exist (and give a ton of examples)
- Tie this idea to boundaries and knowing what is important to you
- Reassure you (and ourselves) that we can exist within extremes and change our minds
- Answer Tina’s question about red flags around collaboration in WWAWD

The Amanda Wagner Podcast is the place to eavesdrop and participate in conversations about making choices about how you spend your time, who you surround yourself with, and figuring out what you want to be known for. This is a place to talk about the challenges of bravery, living thoughtfully and strategically, and finding a way to be known for something.

Follow Amanda Wagner on Instagram

Sign up for the Amanda Wagner newsletter
Visit the Amanda Wagner website

In this episode, we:
- Discuss collaborations, when we get crunchy feelings, and when we get goosebumps (in the good way)
- Give you three questions to answer when you’re considering collaborating with others
- Offer specific language to turn down collaborations that you don’t want to be part of or aren’t for you
- Answer Chantel’s question about best practices when asking someone for their time to ‘pick their brain’

The Amanda Wagner Podcast is the place to eavesdrop and participate in conversations about making choices about how you spend your time, who you surround yourself with, and figuring out what you want to be known for. This is a place to talk about the challenges of bravery, living thoughtfully and strategically, and finding a way to be known for something.

Follow Amanda Wagner on Instagram

Sign up for the Amanda Wagner newsletter
Visit the Amanda Wagner website

In this episode, we:
 - Talk about practicing bravery and why brave isn’t something you ARE, it’s something you DO
 - Consider how we act knowing that we want to be known for something and are tired of waiting for everything to be just so
 - Use the word ‘brave’ so many times that we invite you to make a drinking game or contest out of it
- Answer Erica’s question about uncommitting to things that aren’t serving her without disappointing people

The Amanda Wagner Podcast is the place to eavesdrop and participate in conversations about making choices about how you spend your time, who you surround yourself with, and figuring out what you want to be known for. This is a place to talk about the challenges of bravery, living thoughtfully and strategically, and finding a way to be known for something.

Follow Amanda Wagner on Instagram

Sign up for the Amanda Wagner newsletter
Visit the Amanda Wagner website

In this episode, we:
 - Share what our weeks have looked like
 - Reflect on five things we’ve learned about ourselves and our communities, and how we want to carry these things through
- Ask you to reflect and meet us on the ‘gram, sharing with us what is changing for you

The Amanda Wagner Podcast is the place to eavesdrop and participate in conversations about making choices about how you spend your time, who you surround yourself with, and figuring out what you want to be known for. This is a place to talk about the challenges of bravery, living thoughtfully and strategically, and finding a way to be known for something.

Follow Amanda Wagner on Instagram

Sign up for the Amanda Wagner newsletter
Visit the Amanda Wagner website

In today’s episode we:
- Talk about feedback and the ways we offer advice to the people around us
- Share the wise words of Nora McInerny to eloquently explain why our advice is good enough for others, but not ourselves
- Reveal the one piece of advice we LOVE to give, but hesitate to take ourselves

The Amanda Wagner Podcast is the place to eavesdrop and participate in conversations about making choices about how you spend your time, who you surround yourself with, and figuring out what you want to be known for. This is a place to talk about the challenges of bravery, living thoughtfully and strategically, and finding a way to be known for something.

Follow Amanda Wagner on Instagram

Sign up for the Amanda Wagner newsletter
Visit the Amanda Wagner website

In today’s episode we:
- Reminisce about our most underwhelming networking experiences and lacklustre community events
- Take a page out of Greg McKeown’s book Essentialism, as we try to do less, but better and discuss how to create objective criteria to eliminate FOMO and cultivate JOMO
- Share our own criteria for how we spend our time
- Answer a question from Ryan, who doesn’t see his boss often, so therefore doesn’t get much feedback on the work he’s doing, and wants to figure out how to get it

The Amanda Wagner Podcast is the place to eavesdrop and participate in conversations about making choices about how you spend your time, who you surround yourself with, and figuring out what you want to be known for. This is a place to talk about the challenges of bravery, living thoughtfully and strategically, and finding a way to be known for something.

Follow Amanda Wagner on Instagram

Sign up for the Amanda Wagner newsletter
Visit the Amanda Wagner website

In today’s episode we:
- Talk about the type of support we give and what we need from others
- Share our experience of asking for the explicit type of help we need, and the importance of explaining how you like to be supported before you need it
- Answer a question from listener Leanna, who has had an abrupt change in a friendship and isn’t sure what to do next

The Amanda Wagner Podcast is the place to eavesdrop and participate in conversations about making choices about how you spend your time, who you surround yourself with, and figuring out what you want to be known for. This is a place to talk about the challenges of bravery, living thoughtfully and strategically, and finding a way to be known for something.

Follow Amanda Wagner on Instagram

Sign up for the Amanda Wagner newsletter
Visit the Amanda Wagner website

In today’s episode we:
- Discuss some of the crunchy feelings around the word community and WHY we want to be part of something bigger
- Share the communities that we are a part of and what keeps us involved, and the communities that we have learned aren’t for us
- In our recurring WWAWD, we answer a question about how to deal with a friendship that you may be outgrowing

Meet Coach Jennie, my coach, who is on a mission to help people all over the world conquer their inner critic, who goes by the name Hilda. Learn how Hilda holds you back here.

The Amanda Wagner Podcast is the place to eavesdrop and participate in conversations about making choices about how you spend your time, who you surround yourself with, and figuring out what you want to be known for. This is a place to talk about the challenges of bravery, living thoughtfully and strategically, and finding a way to be known for something.

Follow Amanda Wagner on Instagram

Sign up for the Amanda Wagner newsletter
Visit the Amanda Wagner website

The Amanda Wagner Podcast is the place to eavesdrop and participate in conversations about making choices about how you spend your time, who you surround yourself with, and figuring out what you want to be known for. This is a place to talk about the challenges of bravery, living thoughtfully and strategically, and finding a way to be known for something.

In today’s episode we:
- Unveil The Amanda Wagner Podcast and introduce the women behind it
- Discuss what it means to be brave (and share a phrase that helps eliminate some fear and encourage action)
- Kick off a recurring segment where we hear from our listeners and answer the question “what would Amanda Wagner do?”

Follow Amanda Wagner on Instagram

Sign up for the Amanda Wagner newsletter
Visit the Amanda Wagner website

The Amanda Wagner Podcast is the place to eavesdrop and participate in conversations about making choices about how you spend your time, who you surround yourself with, and figuring out what you want to be known for. This is a place to talk about the challenges of bravery, living thoughtfully and strategically, and finding a way to be known for something. Thank you for joining us today!

Follow Amanda Wagner on Instagram

Sign up for the Amanda Wagner newsletter
Visit the Amanda Wagner website