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the bossbabe podcast

369. Productivity Expert On How to Eliminate Procrastination, Manage Your Inbox + Be Productive Working At Home w/ Laura Mae Martin (Google Productivity Expert)

the bossbabe podcast

Natalie Ellis

Entrepreneurship, Education, Marketing, Self-improvement, Business

4.92.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today Lindsay is joined by Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor, Laura Mae Martin! Laura share’s her advice on how to overcome procrastination, optimizing your inbox with Gmail, stopping unnecessary meetings + calendar hygiene, finding time and space for yourself while being a productive mama!  TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 02:27 - What is Uptime? 03:39 - Productivity at Google 05:39 - Inbox Management 14:30 - Tips for Maintaining Focus 18:48 - Giving Youself Grace 27:11 - Setting Boundaries 28:08 - Keeping Meetings Meaningful 33:46 - Scheduling Social Checkups 35:43 - Remote Working 42:53 - Motherhood and Work 48:18 - Busy is Not Important 51:20 - Wrapping Up! RESOURCES + LINKS Join The Société: The Place to Build A Freedom-Based Business Get Our Weekly Newsletter & Get Insights From Natalie Every Single Week On All Things Strategy, Motherhood, Business Growth + More. Bossbabe’s NEW Free Guide: Attract Your Dream Coaching Clients  Laura’s Book - Uptime - A Practical Guide To Personal Productivity + Wellbeing FOLLOW bossbabe: @bossbabe.inc Natalie Ellis: @iamnatalie Lindsay Roselle: @lindsayroselle Laura Mae Martin: @lauramaemartin

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0:00.0

I'll get on the call with people and say I'm at the perfect level of commitment

0:03.5

then it throws people off so much they actually like are taken it back like why are you

0:07.6

talking that way because it's so normal to use the other language back to back slammed, slammed, so busy, over-committed.

0:14.0

Yeah, oh, that's so good.

0:15.5

My dad was like the OG work from home person

0:18.2

starting in like 1996.

0:19.8

I asked him, like, why did you never take your laptop out of your office he told me that it

0:23.8

started because he had to be plugged into Ethernet for all the Gen Z people the

0:28.0

Ethernet was what you used to get the internet through you had to plug a cord into your laptop. I equate

0:34.8

bringing work into your home like inviting your in-laws over. You would not wake up

0:38.6

first thing in the morning and invite them into your bed. Neither should you with work and

0:42.4

neither should you with

0:43.2

email. So smart I love that it's such a good hack exactly.

0:47.0

Hello this is Lindsay welcome back to the show today I sat down with

0:52.2

Laura May Martin who is the executive productivity advisor at

0:55.6

Google and she is also the author of a new book called Up Time, a practical guide to personal well-being

1:01.1

and productivity. This conversation was so so good. I literally have six or seven

1:05.4

pages of notes, things I want to implement myself personally, things I want to implement at Boss Fab, all about time

1:10.4

management, productivity. We talked about

1:14.3

tech-free Tuesdays and breaking the addiction to the first thing you do in the

1:18.8

morning being worked, the last thing you do at night being work, talked all about

1:22.1

like the remote work environment and how working

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