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Hosted by kathy.soulsby · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 114 episodes
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Welcome to Productivity Nerd by Personally Virtual – your go-to spot for smart, slightly nerdy conversations about productivity, time management, and working smarter (not harder!). Hosted by Virtual Assistant and productivity enthusiast Kathy Soulsby, we unpack powerful tools, books, and habits - from Getting Things Done to Slow Productivity and beyond. Whether you’re a solo business owner, a time-blocking fanatic, or just looking to tame your to-do list, you’ll find actionable tips, interviews, and real talk to boost your focus and reclaim your time.
kathy.soulsby hosts Productivity Nerd, a business show with 114 episodes published.
Welcome to a little message from the Productivity Nerd crew. We’re taking a bit of a break over August. The last few months have been hectic and a rather challenging personally so finding guests and reading business book
Going on holiday? Here are some holiday planning tips to help you actually switch off - before you go, while you're away, and on that brutal first day back. Kathy and Claire (joined by work-experience guest Emily) cover
A tiny mini pod on making the most of the awkward gaps in your day, those 5 or 7 minute windows before an appointment or between tasks that feel too short to bother with. Kathy shares two very different ways to use them:
Why does it make you irrationally furious when someone doesn't indicate at a roundabout? According to this episode, that's not just a bad mood, it's a value getting stepped on. Kathy and Helen dig into the ideas from Mar
Gilly Mulford wrote her book Where Dandelions Grow while her world was falling apart - not after it, during it. In this conversation, Kathy catches up with Gilly to explore what happens when the usual productivity tools
Are your fitness trackers actually helping you...or quietly making things worse? In this mini episode, Kathy takes a deep dive into the world of wearable trackers: steps, sleep scores, HRV, and the growing body of resear
In a slightly different episode Kathy sits down with ops VA Helen Taylor and tech specialist Chris Davies for a proper conversation about AI.Not a how-to, but an honest look at how small business owners and solopreneurs
In this minipod Kathy takes a brief detour from planners and systems to explore something every productivity framework quietly depends on: happiness. Drawing on Yale psychologist Laurie Santos's wildly popular Science of
Kathy is joined by Natanya Gidoomal, interior designer, somatic trauma-informed coach, and neuroscience enthusiast, for a conversation that will make you look at the room you're sitting in very differently. Natanya's jou
In this minipod Kathy explores the relationship between micro wins and macro goals, and why those small, unglamorous daily actions are the real fuel behind big ambitions. Drawing on the work of performance expert Brad St
This week Kathy and co-host Claire Ennion dig into Dan Martell's bestseller Buy Back Your Time, and ask what if the thing holding your business back isn't your product, your market, or your team - it's you? Martell's cen
Kathy takes a deep dive into gamification and what neuroscience actually has to say about it. In this mini episode, she explores how borrowing tricks from video games and apps like Duolingo can hijack your brain's reward
In this episode, Kathy and Helen Taylor dig into The 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom. Bloom walked away from a high-flying finance career with all the markers of success and a hollow feeling he couldn't explain. This bo
In this mini episode, Kathy Soulsby gets straight to the point on one of the biggest productivity drains in any working week: meetings that should have been an email. Kathy walks through six practical steps to make meeti
In this minipod Kathy sits down with breathwork coach Phoebe Newman of Flown to explore one of the most overlooked productivity tools hiding in plain sight: your breath. They dig into what most of us are getting wrong ab
In this mini episode of Productivity Nerd, Kathy Soulsby shares her six-step "Done for the Day" checklist - a simple end-of-workday ritual designed to give your brain the off-switch it's been waiting for. If your evening
Kathy and Claire Ennion dive into The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande, and the unofficial subtitle of this episode says it all: why do incredibly smart people still forget the obvious things?Gawande's answer is both
Do you have 43 browser tabs open right now? One of them is definitely making a noise and you have no idea which one.In this bite-sized episode of Productivity Nerd: The Minipod, Kathy Soulsby tackles Open Tabs Syndrome -
What if the thing tanking your productivity isn't your task list...it's your body? In this episode of Productivity Nerd, Kathy sits down with personal trainer and performance coach Duncan Vincent to talk physical energy,
In this mini episode of Productivity Nerd, Kathy shares a simple reminder inspired by a postcard hanging in her loo: “Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.” It’s tempting to chase the latest pr
Dan Martell
bestselling author, entrepreneur, leadership expert · Clarity
1 appearance on this show
Helen Taylor
Conservation Programme Manager · Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
1 appearance on this show
Atul Gawande
John and Cyndy Fish Chair in Surgery · Brigham and Women’s Hospital
1 appearance on this show
Phoebe Newman
Flown
1 appearance on this show
Rich Gwilt
Flown
1 appearance on this show
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