Gail Golden MBA PhD is an executive coach, founder of Gail Golden Consulting, LLC, an

international management psychology consulting firm and the author of Curating Your Life,

Ending the Struggle for Work-Life Balance. Inspired by her 25 years experience as a psychologist and 15 years as an executive

coach, Gail is working to help others prioritize the things that are most important in life to

achieve that elusive work life balance. On today's episode, we spoke all about how to work smarter,

not harder, and her best time management tips, or energy tips, why we need to get picky with how many things we try to do in a day

and how we can embrace the limitations of our energy. I really hope you enjoy listening.

Let's bring on the wonderful Gail.

Welcome Gail to the podcast. Oh, I'm so pleased to be here. I'm very excited to have this

conversation from seeing your work. I feel like we're going to learn so much from you today.

And I think this is just such important work that we need to be doing

every day, but especially at this present moment in time that we're recording this podcast in.

You know, I couldn't agree with you more. I wrote my book off. It's about a year ago now. So it's

quite a while. And I must confess, I didn't see the COVID crisis coming.

So it was not written for this purpose. But what I'm finding is that people are finding it

useful on two levels. And one is making decisions about how we use our energy right now in this

very strange world that most of us are living in. But also thinking about as the world gets back to its usual rhythms and its usual ways of working,

do I want to go back exactly to what I was doing before?

Or are there things I'm learning in this crisis that are going to affect how I want to work

and how I want to live after things get

reassembled. So both kinds of questions are going on in people's minds. Absolutely. I am really

interested to know one of the biggest challenges of many people's life is achieving that work-life

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