Doing more is not the same as being productive. In this episode, I sit down with Kate Moir — entrepreneur of ten years, mom of two, and host of the Mamas Making Commas podcast — to talk about doing less, being intentional, and how to truly manage your time and protect your energy as a mom entrepreneur. From honest working mom tips to the real tension between entrepreneurship and productivity, and the difference between energy management vs time management, this conversation is one big permission slip to release the pressure of doing it all.

Kate takes us back to 2017, to a room full of excited entrepreneurs where she sat in tears because she had nothing left to give. She was working until one or two in the morning, running on empty. So she made a bold decision to step back and do less.

The result? She hit her big goal two days ahead of schedule.

We unpack her 80/20 flip: 80 percent of your results come from your mindset and energy, and only 20 percent from what you actually do. Yet most of us spend our time exactly the other way around. Kate shares the seven-day time audit she swears by (green highlighter for income-producing activities, red for the time leaks), why “keep the main thing the main thing” lives on a sticky note on her desk, and how gratitude quietly became her most reliable productivity tool.

We also go deep into balancing career and motherhood: why your why cannot be your excuse, how Kate involves her daughters in her business (crooked stickers and all), and the family decision-making habit that dissolved resentment at home. If you're building productive habits in fifteen-minute pockets between school pickups, this one is for you.

🔗 Connect with Kate Moir

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🕰️ Kate swear by it and so do I! Start with a time audit and I have one ready for you. It's a gentle but powerful way to see where your time and energy are actually going. Start your Time Audit here: https://www.annerajoo.com/time-audit/

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What's really stealing your CEO time? Every entrepreneur has a dominant productivity pattern — a way of working that feels normal, even productive. But when you're the CEO, that pattern has a cost.

It shows up as full days with no real progress. As never having time to sell, to build, to think. As always being busy but never feeling ahead.

You might recognise yourself in one of four patterns: The Overloaded Operator, The Momentum Chaser, The Preparation Loop, or The Capable Bottleneck.

Find out which one is your dominant pattern 👉 Take my quiz: https://annerajoo.com/quiz

Or book a complimentary productivity assessment with me and start reshaping your approach to productivity and success.

Don’t forget to connect with me on Instagram @_annerajoo_ and share your key takeaways from this episode! Your insights mean a lot to me!

Do you ever feel like your focus just isn't what it used to be? You're not imagining it. In this solo episode, I talk about the Attention Recession — the quiet erosion of our ability to think deeply and stay present in a world built to pull our attention in every direction. I share simple strategies for focused work that actually help you boost focus and reduce work stress, without another app or a stricter schedule.

This isn't a discipline problem. It's structural. Every notification is designed to keep you reactive instead of present, and it's costing us more than we realise.

We talk about what it really takes to protect your energy and bring energy focus back into your day: one protected block of deep work, an honest audit of your inputs, and small transition rituals that help your nervous system settle into mindful focus. I also share why avoiding distractions isn't about willpower, and why single tasking — doing one thing, fully — might be the most underrated productivity practice there is.

This episode is an invitation to stop treating your attention like an afterthought, and start protecting it like the resource it actually is.

And because I've been a little obsessed with this topic lately, I'm opening the waitlist for a deeper piece I've been writing on rebuilding attention capacity. Podcast listeners get first access.

✨ Be the first to read it - join the waitlist here

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What's really stealing your CEO time? Every entrepreneur has a dominant productivity pattern — a way of working that feels normal, even productive. But when you're the CEO, that pattern has a cost.

It shows up as full days with no real progress. As never having time to sell, to build, to think. As always being busy but never feeling ahead.

You might recognise yourself in one of four patterns: The Overloaded Operator, The Momentum Chaser, The Preparation Loop, or The Capable Bottleneck.

Find out which one is your dominant pattern 👉 Take my quiz: https://annerajoo.com/quiz

Or book a complimentary productivity assessment with me and start reshaping your approach to productivity and success.

Don’t forget to connect with me on Instagram @_annerajoo_ and share your key takeaways from this episode! Your insights mean a lot to me!

Have you ever built something that's working... and somehow still feels like it's falling apart at the seams? That's exactly where I was sitting in the second half of last year, watching my own systems get more scattered, more disconnected, and more “more” — even though Peaceful Productivity is supposed to be about doing less. So I sat down with Saskia Mardi, known as The Business Minimalist, to talk about what it actually looks like to streamline workflow and protect your energy as your business grows.

Saskia explains business minimalism simply: get clear on what's important to you, and remove what distracts you from it. She walks us through her Minimize, Systemize, Organize framework and why most of the founders who come to her look like they've got it all figured out from the outside, while behind the scenes they're a high-functioning mess held together with duct tape.

We dig into the human operating system — the systems we run on without even realizing it, from how we start our mornings to how we make dinner decisions — and why turning these into conscious choices is one of the simplest ways to stay organized and reduce decision fatigue.

You'll hear how an organizational chart exercise (yes, even for solo entrepreneurs) reveals what truly belongs in your zone of genius versus what's quietly draining your capacity, and why theme days remove dozens of small decisions before they ever have the chance to exhaust you. This is a conversation about entrepreneurship and productivity that isn't about adding more tools, more hustle, or more hours — it's about creating productive systems that give you back the mental space for the work, and the life, you actually want.

🔗 Connect with Saskia Mardi & get her guide How to Save a Day a Week.

🎧 Listen to the episode I mentioned - Stop starting from scratch: the template strategy that saves hours with Anna Bee

Ready to take action?

Speaking of creating space, how is your own business planning going? If your year started with a clear plan that has quietly dissolved into a blur of doing, join me for a Q3 Planning Session — a chance to slow down, get intentional, and map out the next 90 days in a way that actually fits your real life. Grab your spot at

annerajoo.com/planning — normally USD 29, but just USD 9 with code PODCASTLOVE.

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What's really stealing your CEO time? Every entrepreneur has a dominant productivity pattern — a way of working that feels normal, even productive. But when you're the CEO, that pattern has a cost.

It shows up as full days with no real progress. As never having time to sell, to build, to think. As always being busy but never feeling ahead.

You might recognise yourself in one of four patterns: The Overloaded Operator, The Momentum Chaser, The Preparation Loop, or The Capable Bottleneck.

Find out which one is your dominant pattern 👉 Take my quiz: https://annerajoo.com/quiz

Or book a complimentary productivity assessment with me and start reshaping your approach to productivity and success.

Don’t forget to connect with me on Instagram @_annerajoo_ and share your key takeaways from this episode! Your insights mean a lot to me!

What if one of the most powerful things you could do for your productivity had nothing to do with your calendar or your to-do list?

In this conversation with Anna Folsom — writer, coach, and someone in the middle of a very real decluttering journey — we explore the surprising connection between physical clutter, emotional clutter, and your ability to protect your energy and do meaningful work.

Anna shares what inspired her to start decluttering — not just her own home, but her father's 13-year-accumulated workshop, tools, and lifetime of memories — and how that process led her to write a full three-month newsletter series on the subject. We talk about the concept of Swedish Deathcleaning, why starting before you have to is an act of compassion for the people you love, and how to approach the emotionally heavy pieces without rushing yourself or shutting down.

But this episode goes beyond boxes and junk drawers. Anna introduces a beautifully simple tool she uses with her clients: an energy audit on paper, drawing a line down the centre and listing what gives you energy on one side, and what drains it on the other. It sounds simple. It is. And that's exactly the point.

We also get into the mental load that so many women carry — the invisible coordination work of managing home, family, and business — and how reducing work stress often starts not with a new system, but with letting something go. Anna's approach to sustainable energy in work and life is grounded, warm, and wonderfully practical. Whether you're a high achiever staring at a pile of accumulated stuff or just feeling like your mind is full of tabs you can't close, this episode will give you a place to start.

🔗 Connect with Anna Folsom: annafolsom.com

📖 Curious about the Swedish Decluttering book Anna mentioned, find it here.

Ready to take action?

👭Find out more about the book project I had the privilege of contributing to. This collection of real stories from women in business and their turning points, will inspire, uplift and empower. >> https://risingbychoice.com/beyond-success/

🕰️ Want to go deeper on where your own energy is going? Start with my Time & Energy Audit — a gentle but powerful way to see what's really taking up space in your day. Start here: annerajoo.com/time-audit

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What's really stealing your CEO time? Every entrepreneur has a dominant productivity pattern — a way of working that feels normal, even productive. But when you're the CEO, that pattern has a cost.

It shows up as full days with no real progress. As never having time to sell, to build, to think. As always being busy but never feeling ahead.

You might recognise yourself in one of four patterns: The Overloaded Operator, The Momentum Chaser, The Preparation Loop, or The Capable Bottleneck.

Find out which one is your dominant pattern 👉 Take my quiz: https://annerajoo.com/quiz

Or book a complimentary productivity assessment with me and start reshaping your approach to productivity and success.

Don’t forget to connect with me on Instagram @_annerajoo_ and share your key takeaways from this episode! Your insights mean a lot to me!

Have you ever had a team member go quiet, get short, or seem suddenly distant — and had no idea what to do with that? Most of us have been taught that emotions belong outside the workplace. But the truth is, our nervous systems, our emotional needs, and our capacity to feel safe all come to work with us, whether we invite them in or not.

In this conversation, I'm joined by Laziena Hodge, a certified coach and creator of the Repair Language framework. Together we explore what repair language really is and why building a shared emotional vocabulary in your team might be one of the most practical and productive habits you can adopt. This isn't about therapy at work. It's about giving people a way to name what they need so that when things get hard, the team doesn't fracture — it reconnects.

Laziena walks us through her six repair languages: soothing, accountable, affirming, empathic, spacious, and presence — and how understanding your own repair style (and your team's) reduces miscommunication, protects your energy, and creates the kind of psychological safety that allows people to actually do their best work. We also explore how leaders often don't realise how their own activation affects the team, and why naming what you need is a leadership skill, not a weakness.

If you've been navigating team dynamics that feel sticky, or you're a founder managing people while juggling your own full life, this episode offers a fresh and deeply human framework for how to stay in work life integration without abandoning the people around you — or yourself.

🔗 Connect with Laziena and take her free Repair Language Quiz at https://laziena.com/quizzes & download the free team resource here.

Ready to Take Action?

🎯 Ready to plan Q3 with clarity? Join Anne's Q3 Planning Session on 7 July — 90 focused minutes to stop drifting and start moving forward. Book your spot here. Use code PODCASTLOVE and get access for only $9 (instead of $29)

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What's really stealing your CEO time? Every entrepreneur has a dominant productivity pattern — a way of working that feels normal, even productive. But when you're the CEO, that pattern has a cost.

It shows up as full days with no real progress. As never having time to sell, to build, to think. As always being busy but never feeling ahead.

You might recognise yourself in one of four patterns: The Overloaded Operator, The Momentum Chaser, The Preparation Loop, or The Capable Bottleneck.

Find out which one is your dominant pattern 👉 Take my quiz: https://annerajoo.com/quiz

Or book a complimentary productivity assessment with me and start reshaping your approach to productivity and success.

Don’t forget to connect with me on Instagram @_annerajoo_ and share your key takeaways from this episode! Your insights mean a lot to me!

You plan your week. You protect your calendar. You have the productive habits in place.

And then someone asks you for something and even though every part of you wants to say no, you say yes. And you carry the weight of it in silence.

That pattern has a name. And it is quietly costing you more than you realise — in your business, in your relationships, and in your energy.

In this deeply honest conversation, I sat down with Lisa Haydon-Bennett, a therapist who works with women navigating the invisible weight of who they’ve been told to be. What started as a conversation about sustainable energy in work and building an entrepreneur mindset that actually lasts... turned into something much more real. Because we followed the thread all the way back to good girl conditioning — the deep-rooted pattern that teaches women to earn their place through accommodation, compliance, and over-giving. And what that pattern costs us, not just emotionally, but structurally, in how we work and lead.

We explore the parts of us that are still trying to earn approval — the teenage version that comes out when we feel unheard, the compliant self that says yes to avoid conflict, and the shame spiral that happens when we dare to want something different.

We also talk about intent versus impact — why the people around us may not mean to dismiss our needs, but why the impact still lands hard. And what it means to come back to yourself before you respond, rather than either reacting or going quiet.

This conversation will feel familiar if you’ve ever questioned whether you’re allowed to want what you want. It is not a quick fix. But it is an honest, compassionate look at what’s underneath the busy loop and why sustainable productivity has to start inside.

Connect with Lisa Haydon-Bennett

✨ Ready to Take Action?

If this conversation made you think about how much you’re carrying — in your business, your relationships, and the roles you hold — take two minutes and do the CEO Time Quiz. It’s a quick, clear lens on how you’re really spending your energy, not just how you think you are.

➡ Take the quiz: annerajoo.com/quiz

📲 Subscribe to the podcast for more conversations on peaceful productivity, sustainable energy in work, and building a business that doesn’t cost you your wellbeing.

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What's really stealing your CEO time? Every entrepreneur has a dominant productivity pattern — a way of working that feels normal, even productive. But when you're the CEO, that pattern has a cost.

It shows up as full days with no real progress. As never having time to sell, to build, to think. As always being busy but never feeling ahead.

You might recognise yourself in one of four patterns: The Overloaded Operator, The Momentum Chaser, The Preparation Loop, or The Capable Bottleneck.

Find out which one is your dominant pattern 👉 Take my quiz: https://annerajoo.com/quiz

Or book a complimentary productivity assessment with me and start reshaping your approach to productivity and success.

Don’t forget to connect with me on Instagram @_annerajoo_ and share your key takeaways from this episode! Your insights mean a lot to me!

What if the reason you're struggling to stay productive has nothing to do with discipline? In this solo episode, I explore how productive habits are built not through force, but through clarity — clarity about what you actually want, and what's quietly draining your focus without you even realising it.

I share two stories from my own life: one about my son's journey from dirt bike to dog to mountain bike — and everything that unfolded in between — and one about a helmet that didn't sit quite right. Both reveal something most productivity advice gets wrong. We don't lack discipline. We lack alignment between what we're chasing and what we actually need.

This episode digs into why goals often hide feelings, and why getting honest about the feeling underneath the goal is one of the most powerful ways to boost focus and protect your energy. If you've ever found yourself chasing a new system, a new goal, or a new idea and then switching before you even got started, this conversation will feel familiar. And clarifying.

Anne also talks about friction. The small, persistent irritations we try to push through because we think tolerating them makes us stronger. It doesn't. Small friction costs more attention than we realise and removing it is one of the most underrated strategies in sustainable productivity and work life integration.

This is not an episode about doing more. It's about seeing more clearly. So you can move forward — not faster, but better.

✨ Ready to take action?

If something in this episode landed and you're wondering what your own friction or misalignment looks like, I'd love to work with you.

I'm opening a few spots each month for live, on-air coaching conversations on the podcast. If you'd like to be coached — and share your story with our community — you can apply here:

Apply for On-Air Coaching → forms.gle/v8dS7Hs3pCgFb1JEA

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What's really stealing your CEO time? Every entrepreneur has a dominant productivity pattern — a way of working that feels normal, even productive. But when you're the CEO, that pattern has a cost.

It shows up as full days with no real progress. As never having time to sell, to build, to think. As always being busy but never feeling ahead.

You might recognise yourself in one of four patterns: The Overloaded Operator, The Momentum Chaser, The Preparation Loop, or The Capable Bottleneck.

Find out which one is your dominant pattern 👉 Take my quiz: https://annerajoo.com/quiz

Or book a complimentary productivity assessment with me and start reshaping your approach to productivity and success.

Don’t forget to connect with me on Instagram @_annerajoo_ and share your key takeaways from this episode! Your insights mean a lot to me!

What if your body has been trying to tell you something and you've just been too busy to listen?

In this episode, I'm joined by quantum embodiment coach Mia Dins to explore one of the most overlooked foundations of sustainable energy in work: the relationship you have with your own body. If you've ever wondered why your productive habits feel exhausting rather than energising, or why boosting focus seems harder the more you push, this conversation is going to land differently for you.

Mia shares how nervous system regulation and body-mind connection are the real root of lasting capacity — not another tool, routine, or strategy. We talk about why high-achieving women in particular are often the most disconnected from their bodies, and how that disconnection quietly chips away at their ability to protect their energy and show up fully in both business and life.

You'll hear about Mia's unique quantum embodiment method, which works from the inside out rather than trying to fix or optimise from the outside. We explore what it means to build a genuine relationship with your body, why slowing down is one of the most powerful things you can do for your capacity, and how simple daily practices — like a two-minute morning check-in or a spontaneous dance party — can begin to shift everything.

Mia also guides me through a live mini embodiment session, and what surfaces is both surprising and illuminating — a reminder that our bodies are not machines. They are holding far more than we realise. And they're always communicating, if we're willing to slow down long enough to listen.

Connect with Mia Dins & Instagram: @mia_dins

✨ Ready to Take Action?

And if you're someone who knows something needs to change and you’re listening and thinking, “this is exactly what I’m dealing with right now…”

You don’t have to figure it out alone. I’m opening a few spots each month for live, on-air coaching conversations on the podcast. If you’d like to be coached, you can submit an application through the link in the show notes. 👉 https://forms.gle/v8dS7Hs3pCgFb1JEA

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What's really stealing your CEO time? Every entrepreneur has a dominant productivity pattern — a way of working that feels normal, even productive. But when you're the CEO, that pattern has a cost.

It shows up as full days with no real progress. As never having time to sell, to build, to think. As always being busy but never feeling ahead.

You might recognise yourself in one of four patterns: The Overloaded Operator, The Momentum Chaser, The Preparation Loop, or The Capable Bottleneck.

Find out which one is your dominant pattern 👉 Take my quiz: https://annerajoo.com/quiz

Or book a complimentary productivity assessment with me and start reshaping your approach to productivity and success.

Don’t forget to connect with me on Instagram @_annerajoo_ and share your key takeaways from this episode! Your insights mean a lot to me!