Ep. 4.5 Stoptimizing: Creativity, Burnout and Life Beyond Productivity with Maria Bowler

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Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Rise and Grind, Girlbosses! It’s time to GROWTH HACK your way to your BEST SELF and make this the ULTIMATE year. If you don’t have time, you can make time, because excuses are no excuse. Just kidding! Like so many of us, author Maria Bowler found herself caught up in the Productivity Machine, which demands we do more and more and more for the sake of…what, exactly? For the sake of more, of course! Maria’s new book, Making Time: A New Vision for Crafting A Life Beyond Productivity is not a book of tips and tricks and life hacks, but a gentler and more generous approach to how we spend our one precious life. It’s a perfect read for anyone who feels burned out and not “enough” – you can get your copy here and support Maria, small bookstores and this show. This show is made possible by listeners like you: to get our full back catalog, ad-free episodes and more, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.2	This is a podcast that gives people the space to be honest about how they really feel.
0:47.1	It's a place to talk about life, the good, the bad, the awkward, the complicated.
0:53.9	I'm Nora McEnnerney, and this is thanks for asking.
1:03.1	Hello and welcome back to Thanks for asking the call-in show about what matters to you.
1:09.7	This episode is a little bit different. It is not a phone call. This is not a call-in show about what matters to you. This episode is a little bit different.
1:12.3	It is not a phone call. This is not a call-in. This is a call-out. This is an interview episode.
1:19.6	It's been a while since we've done one of these. But I wanted to make space within this show for conversations with authors of books that I have
1:32.3	really enjoyed and books that I think would be relevant or helpful to you. This conversation
1:39.5	is for anybody who feels burned out, which the last time I checked seemed to be pretty much
1:48.5	everybody. Modern life is quite exhausting. And I say that as a person who is self-employed
1:57.1	and has been self-employed for 10 years. I am the worst boss that I have ever had. I look
2:04.3	around at my peers, you know, people who are around my age, people who are even a little bit
2:11.2	older, people who are a little bit younger, and it feels like everybody is really exhausted,
2:15.6	really exhausted trying to keep up with the demands of modern life.
2:20.7	And I have found a lot of comfort in the writing and thinking of today's author, Maria Boller.
2:30.2	Her new-ish book, still new, still new, came out in January.
2:36.5	Her book is called Making Time, a new vision for crafting a life beyond productivity.
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