A Productive Conversation Podcast
1) Thom Gibson Talks About Work-From-Home Fatherhood, Six-Hour Workdays, and Sustainable Family Rhythms
Working from home sounds simple—until kids, calendars, meals, meetings, and relationships all collide. In this episode, I sit down with Thom Gibson, a work-from-home dad and social media strategist, t...Show More
2) Brad Stulberg Talks About Sustainable Excellence, Mastery, and Doing What Truly Matters
This week on A Productive Conversation, I sit down with Brad Stulberg, author of The Way of Excellence, to explore what excellence really means in a world obsessed with efficiency, optimization, and p...Show More
3) Brad Farris Talks About Leadership, Presence, and Scaling Beyond the $1M Agency Plateau
There are moments when a conversation slows you down in the best possible way. My discussion with Brad Farris was one of those moments—a reminder that growth isn’t just about doing more, faster, or ha...Show More
4) PM Talks S3E1: Honesty
This episode is the first installment of Season 3 in our monthly PM Talks series, where Patrick Rhone and I slow things down to explore the ideas that quietly shape how we live and work. This time, we...Show More
5) Chris Bailey Talks About Intentionality, Values, and Finishing What You Start
In this episode of A Productive Conversation, I sit down once again with author and researcher Chris Bailey to explore what it really means to live—and work—intentionally. This conversation centers on...Show More
6) A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE: The 12 Tips of TimeCrafting
This is a reflective, solo episode where I share twelve essential TimeCrafting tips—not as rules or resolutions, but as orienting ideas you can return to whenever your days feel scattered or misaligne...Show More
7) Productivity A to Z with Erik Fisher: Volume 2 (Part 1)
In December 2024, Erik Fisher and I sit down to explore the alphabet of productivity — a tradition that started as a one-off idea and has now become an annual ritual. This year, we dove back in to see...Show More
8) Faisal Hoque Talks About Humanity, AI, and What Comes Next
This time on A Productive Conversation, I sit down with someone who has spent decades at the intersection of technology, leadership, and what it means to remain truly human. Faisal Hoque isn’t just wr...Show More
9) PM Talks S2E12: Legacy
This episode marks the final PM Talks conversation of the 2025 calendar year, and it’s a fitting one: Patrick and I explore legacy — not as something we engineer, but as something that unfolds in the ...Show More
10) Michael Breus Talks About Sleep, Chronotypes, and the Three Dominoes of Wellness
Most of us think of sleep as a nightly event. Michael Breus thinks of it as a lifelong pattern—a shifting, evolving chronotype that changes as we age. Every time he joins me, we end up deep in the det...Show More
Michael Breus Talks About Sleep, Chronotypes, and the Three Dominoes of Wellness
53:38 | Dec 3rd, 2025