Ryan Doyle grew up with an Irish Catholic grandmother, strict rules, and a constant sense of doing everything wrong. Then he went to clown school in France where they insult you, f*ck with your head, and force you to face the fact that people are going to hate you...

What You'll Learn:

• How Catholic guilt and shame actually become creative fuel
• How clown school trains you to stop caring what people think
• The cut-up technique: stealing text from anywhere and sculpting it with the delete key
• Why his fiancée is his only audience before anyone else sees his work
• Gremlin Day: one day a month with zero rules, pizza, weed, and Real Housewives
• The Hindu priestess who gave him a flower that unblocked his throat chakra
• How he's working 10-12 hours a day on one insane show after years of being scattered

About Ryan: Ryan Doyle is a writer, performer, and clown creating Free Speech, a one-hour show that performs every type of speech possible. He does typewriter poetry at weddings, wrote a board game over seven years, and paints himself green to sing Rat Pack songs as a goblin.

Links:

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Coach Lee wakes up at 2:30am. Works out, builds her coaching business, then goes to her full-time job as a criminal defense attorney. She's in bed by 8:30pm. And her coaching philosophy is "The goal is once we finish working together, for you not to come back." That's a terrible business model. And exactly why it works.

What You'll Learn:

• Why she calls it "procrast-planning" (when you plan instead of actually doing the thing)
• Her 2:30am-8:30pm schedule that lets her run two full careers without burnout
• The three categories for any task: must do, need to do, want to do
• Why following productivity gurus without adapting to your lifestyle always fails
• Her "terrible business model": teaching clients to never need her again
• How to check if what you say is important is actually, factually what's important
• Why she's "very anti hustle and grind, but not anti hard work"

About Coach Lee: Coach Lee is a criminal defense attorney and productivity coach who believes in realistic, sustainable systems over guru advice. She helps high-achieving women build schedules that actually work for their lives, not someone else's Instagram version of productivity.

Links:

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Coach Lee's Website: www.legallee.me

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Amanda Kwan works her corporate marketing job from 8:30am to 6:30pm. Then she preps food until 2am for her underground dining concept that seats 22 people and has a 400-person waitlist. She sleeps 4-6 hours a night. She hosts 60-person Thanksgivings. And she chose all of this.

What You'll Learn:

• The invisible labor of being The Organizer: the friend who remembers birthdays, makes reservations, hosts everything

• How she manages calls at 3am with Japan and 11pm with the West Coast

• Starting a private dining concept during COVID that turned into a 400-person waitlist, all word of mouth

• Her "if I die tomorrow, I'd die happy" operating principle

About Amanda: Amanda Kwan runs global marketing for a Hong Kong brand while operating Savour Cinema, an underground dining concept she co-founded during COVID. She also runs an events company, organizes TEDx talks, and leads Women of Influence at AmCham Hong Kong.

Links:

Discover your To-Do List personality: thetodoshow.com/quiz

Savour Cinema: @savourcinema on Instagram

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