Is working in management consulting as glamorous as it seems? What’s the best thing you can do to improve your public speaking skills? How can you use different pricing strategies to scale up your business?

Welcome back to How They Get Stuff Done. Today I’m speaking with Judson Rollins. Judson is an aviation strategy consultant and a monetization architect for expert service providers who want to decouple their revenue from their hours.

Judson and I discuss finding the middle ground between perfection and acceptability, the pros and cons of time blocking, Judson’s favorite ways to capture ideas on the go and even in the shower, and more. Enjoy the conversation.

Find Judson:

• Website: ScaleWhisperer.com
• Judson on LinkedIn

Why does Game of Thrones cost $70,000 to watch? What happens when you choose to believe that everything is your responsibility? And why do smart people not think that others are stupid?

Welcome back to How They Get Stuff Done. Today I’m speaking with Derek Sivers.

Derek Sivers has been a musician, a circus performer, an entrepreneur, and a TED speaker. He’s the founder of CD Baby, an online distributor of independent music. He’s written several books, including How to Live and Hell Yeah or No. Most recently, he’s been working on his latest book, Useful Not True.

Derek and I discuss choosing your beliefs, taking radical responsibility for whatever happens to you, the benefits of not having a to-do list, walking away from what doesn’t work for you, and more. Enjoy the conversation.

Find Derek over at sive.rs.

Steph Smith is a growth marketer, writer, and indie maker. She works for The Hustle, helping to run one of the world’s largest newsletters. But she has lots of her own projects. She has written a book about content marketing, she runs an online course about time management, and she has a podcast about, quote, “shit you don’t learn in school”, unquote.

When I first encountered Steph on Twitter, I sensed that she and I have very similar views on productivity, so I was keen to get her on the podcast. Steph and I discuss:

• Why in the past there was no such things as “priorities”—just the singular “priority”
• Steph’s method for choosing which goal to work on next
• Why asynchronous communication is often more efficient (and how Steph does it)
• Whether you should set arbitrary deadlines for yourself (Steph likes them, Peter doesn’t) 

And much more. Enjoy the show!

Find Steph:

• stephsmith.io
• Steph’s open page, including her current goals
• Steph’s book, Doing Content Right
• Steph’s course, Doing Time Right
• Steph’s podcast, Shit You Don’t Learn in School

Also mentioned:

• Loom, for recording & sharing videos easily
• Calendly, for scheduling meetings without the back-and-forth
• Get TikTok Famous Fast, a fun little book about… well, that’s obvious
• Zapier, an “if this then that” service
• BannerBear, an app that automatically generates social media visuals etc.