Climbing Out of a Hard Phase with Lisa Woodruff EP 309

Best Laid Plans

Sarah Hart-Unger

Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.9 • 854 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Lisa Woodruff is the founder of Organize 365 and author of multiple books, most recently Escaping Quicksand. Sarah always loves her ideas about planning and time, and in today's episode they chat overcoming overwhelm, but through the lens of planning. You can find more from Lisa at organize365.com in addition to @organize365 on Instagram.Resources Mentioned from Lisa: How I divide my year into thirds episode 143 https://organize365.com/podcast/my-three-new-years/The 10 filters I use to plan my week episode 704https://organize365.com/podcast/704-the-10-filters-i-use-to-plan-my-week/The 15-minute pivot from reactive to proactive planning https://organize365.com/pivot/Escaping Quicksandhttps://organize365.com/escapingquicksand/June Sponsors: IXL: Best Laid Plans listeners can get an exclusive 20% off IXL membership when they sign up today at https://www.ixl.com/plans.Green Chef: Healthy and convenient meal kits and more! Visit greenchef.com/50bestlaid and use code 50bestlaid to get 50% off your first month, then 20% off for 2 months.PrepDish: Make your menu planning so much easier! Try it free for 2 weeks by visiting prepdish.com/plans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to best laid plans. This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast
0:13.8	where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent. I have a really fun episode today that I
0:20.4	recorded with my friend and I'd say partner in the
0:24.1	planning and organizing space, Lisa Woodruff. I guess I am more in the planning space and she is
0:30.6	definitely more in the physical organizing space than I am since that is something I still
0:35.1	personally struggle with a little bit. But we both think a lot about
0:39.2	planning, and I think we both have some really interesting methods, some elaborate methods,
0:44.5	and some different ways that we think about our planning styles. I know that every time I listen to
0:50.5	a Lisa Woodruff organized 365 episode about planning, whether it's how she
0:54.7	tables non-urgent things to the end of her week or how she thinks ahead of time about planning
0:59.5	a very packed season. I always learn something new. She just thinks differently about many things,
1:06.4	I guess, that there's a lot of ideas out there in this space, but sometimes when they're really quirky
1:11.2	and one-off, you might find that they work for you better than some of the traditional ones.
1:15.9	So, anyway, I just love her stuff.
1:18.2	And this conversation is no exception.
1:21.0	Her book, Escaping Quicksand, came out just six days ago when this ad, so please give it a
1:26.9	read.
1:27.4	It's all about kind of like
1:28.8	her journey out of what she felt like was a deep cavern of suffering and struggling right
1:35.2	around the time she turned 40. And I know I have lots of listeners in that age bracket, maybe a little
1:39.5	younger, maybe a little bit older. But her journey has been fascinating to me as I kind of knew a little bit
1:45.0	about it, even before I reached that age bracket. Now I'm right there too. Well, a little more than 40,
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