Reclaim Your Day 90 Seconds at a Time ⏳ GUEST! Rebecca Shaddix | Ep. 382

Do This, NOT That: Marketing Tips with Jay Schwedelson l Presented By Marigold

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5 • 715 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Jay Schwedelson finally found someone who might just have the answer to his time struggles: Rebecca Shaddix. She’s not only a Forbes contributor and the force behind UCLA's Women in Tech research, but she’s also on a mission to rescue your day—90 seconds at a time. This episode isn’t about productivity hacks that require color-coded calendars or waking up at 4 a.m. It’s about the tiny gaps you already have and how to reclaim them with purpose.

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Listen to Rebecca’s podcast Time Billionaires for short, actionable ways to reclaim your day. Learn more at timebillionaires.org and follow her on LinkedIn.

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Best Moments:

(01:00) Why a car accident at 15 forced Rebecca to rethink how she used time

(02:45) The connection between micro moments and COVID-era burnout

(04:45) How filling short gaps with email and doomscrolling backfires

(06:02) The simplest shifts to stop draining your brain between meetings

(07:30) Rebecca’s favorite 2-minute actions that actually reset your energy

(09:35) Why we check email too often—and what to do instead

(12:04) Rebecca’s exact daily structure, from no-phone mornings to energy-aligned gaps

(14:00) The six categories she uses to decide how to fill her micro moments

(17:00) Why we spend time on things we’d never spend money on

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Do This Not That, the podcast for marketers.
0:05.7	Each episode is packed with quick tips.
0:08.1	They're super short, and at the end, we have some fun.
0:10.8	Let's jump into it, and thanks for being here.
0:14.7	We are back for Do This Not That podcast presented by Marigold,
0:18.3	and you know what? I'm a listener today.
0:20.6	What I mean by that is
0:21.6	this episode, I'm more excited about this than most of the guest episodes. A lot of times you have a
0:25.4	guest, I don't even care who they are. But this time I actually and genuinely want to hear this
0:29.8	episode because we have Rebecca Shattuck. Now, if you're on LinkedIn, you see Rebecca's content
0:34.4	all the time. She's like this product, marketing, guru, human
0:39.5	being. She's a Forbes contributor. And she, I don't know if everybody knows this, but she helped
0:45.3	to launch the digital technology initiative at UCLA's Luskin Center for Innovation, launching its
0:51.4	women in tech research. Like, she's like a really smart person.
0:55.0	But the thing that's going on Rebecca right now, which is why I asked her come on the show, is that she has this new podcast she launched.
1:01.0	It is called Time Billionaires.
1:05.0	And basically, I struggle with time.
1:07.0	I need to find more time to do the things I want to do.
1:10.0	I'm losing my mind. And this is what
1:12.6	Rebecca is all about, these micro moments of time and how we can capture them back in our lives
1:17.4	and our work lives. So she's going to break it all down. Rebecca, welcome to the show.
1:21.7	Thanks, Jay. That was the nicest intro. Oh, well, you deserve a better intro because you are very awesome.
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