Hello and welcome to another episode of Working Over Time, the bi- Weekly Advice Focus Neighborhood Little Free Library to

Working's Bodlion. I'm your host June Thomas. And I'm your other host Ronald Young

Jr. So June, what are we talking about today?

Well, Ronald, I want to talk about how best to transition between projects.

The situation I'm talking about is when you finish one massive effort and then you have to pivot and move on to a new

and different big project. This is coming up for me because my first book, what's it called?

Ah yes, a place of our own six spaces that shape queer women's culture is out now and it's

time for me to start the process of writing another book. That's my situation, but there are lots of analogs you're about to launch the second season of your

multi-award winning podcast, Wait for it, which I imagine is quite similar, but this problem and the strategies we employ to solve it are, I think, widely

applicable to lots of office jobs as well as creative work. So can I begin by asking you in general what kind of mindset you bring to this kind of shift between projects?

Well, I think especially when I'm thinking about wait for it, it starts with episode numbers.

How many episodes do we have?

How many episodes do I have fully conceived?

And what materials do I have in order to actually get those episodes done?

And those are all the little thoughts I'm having before production actually begins

on a season of wait for it. And then kind of the mindset I have is kind of like a plate

clearing mindset is saying what is everything that I need to finish before I can

fully focus on shifting gears into whatever this next project is.

So it's really thinking about what do I need to accomplish

and what do I need to get off my plate in order to accomplish that.

Yeah, right.

I do like that plate clearing scenario,

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