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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's episode is going to be a longer one,

part of the series where I interview fascinating people about how they take their days from great

to awesome and any advice they have for the rest of us. So today I am delighted to welcome Chris Bailey

back to Before Breakfast. Chris is a productivity expert and the author of

the brand new book, Intentional, How to Finish What You Start. So Chris, welcome to the show.

Laura, how you doing? I'm good. I'm glad to have you back. Why don't you tell our listeners

a little bit about yourself for anyone who's a new listener and wasn't here a year and a half ago?

Well, I have a beard, live in Canada, and I like productivity.

Like some people have normal interests, but I think people like us, Laura, were just weird

in the way that we try to optimize the different components of our day.

And so that's what I'm obsessed by.

And so it's that curiosity that drives me into writing books on the topic, giving talks on the topic.

So I guess in a nutshell, I'm an author on productivity.

I've written three books now.

This is number four.

I'm so excited to get out into the world.

Yeah.

Well, what drew you to the topic of finishing?

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