Meet Mister Productivity 📱

Badass. But we're not live yet. Now we're live. Welcome everyone. We are live. We're live on Chatter Social. Just see you need. And this person right here is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met. Kesha. So amazing, Kesha. Glad you're here. Okay. So we have Mr. Productivity. Obviously, I have no clue who he is, but there's 3 things I know about you, Mark. I know you're brave. Because it's not easy going on a live where you have no idea who I am, let alone the audiences, and what crazy things are going to come out of our mouth. Well, my mouth, maybe your mouth. I know that you are bald, and that's good because I like 3 Bs, and I know that you are brilliant. So I'm glad about that. And you are from PodMatch. If I just could take a minute, Mark, before you introduce yourself, because I don't know who you are, so you have to introduce yourself. On Adrienne Barker Speaks, No Prep Needed. This is the Pod Match book. And so I took 15 episodes plus Alex, plus Sheila from Pod to Book, who actually does the manuscript. So for all the podcasters out there, Pod to Book, get your manuscript 80% completed and the rest of the work will go fly by. So I just wanted to show you this, the Pod Pack, the Pod Match edition. So some people actually did have a good interview. Anyways, pretty proud of the book. So Mark, Mr. Productivity, Mr. Do not do the other spelling. It's M-I-S-T-E-R. Don't mess around with it. What? Who are you? What do you do? I have no clue.

Well, how do you—

something about productivity? Okay, so I think you do something about productivity, and I don't know what that is. Is that like processes, or is it actual like productivity that we put out? So I'm all ears. I can't wait to learn.

Well, I help people who are overwhelmed with life, both professionally and personally. So people come to me. No one's ever come to me and said, I want to— I'm struggling with being productive. They come to me and they say, holy cow, I am overwhelmed. And I help people to get unoverwhelmed so they get their life back.

Okay, that's very simple and very different than what I was thinking of, like business. This is individual person, which could really harm a business if they are not as productivity as being as productive as they can be, right? Like, that is— and what are the symptoms of being overwhelmed? Like, I've always wondered that. What does that mean?

Well, you feel— you may have physical symptoms, like you have a headache, maybe you feel the tension, or it could be that you're spending hours and hours on your favorite social media site justifying that you're doing research to see, well, how should I be using this platform? When it's actually an excuse because we tend to default to easy. And let's be honest, scrolling on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, you name the platform, it's really easy to do. And so instead of doing what we should be doing, we tell stories to ourselves and go, well, I, I'm learning how to use the platform, and so I'm going to spend a lot of time learning how to use this platform, but you're not really learning how to use the platform. You're watching crazy dance videos and dog videos and stuff like that.

Okay, I think I need to be on camera. I was kind of putting the focus on you, but I actually think, as much as I want to focus on you, this is an interesting conversation. So you're so sometimes overwhelmed, it's the— you have an inability to focus. Like you normally would?

Yeah, because if you're overwhelmed physically, emotionally, spiritually, it's very difficult to quiet those voices because you're so distracted. And our minds are set up to— if you're overwhelmed, if you're stressed, if you're frustrated, you go to something that's really easy to do, like scrolling on social media, binge-watching your favorite TV show, because that's easy. Even though you should be doing the one thing that's going to get you towards your goals, we tend to default to easy. And that is the number one thing people do when they're overwhelmed. They don't do the thing they should do. They default to what's easy.

That's interesting. It reminds me of the advice I just said to my daughter, how you do like what's most difficult first and then go to the easier tasks. But I want to go back to overwhelm because And just really quickly, thank you, Gilead, for being up. Just raise your hand, Gilead, if you have any questions, just unmike and say hello and ask. I— so, so overwhelm is one word. Is it similar to burnout?

If overwhelm goes too long, it can lead to burnout. Yes.

And then Was this something that years ago was called a nervous breakdown in workplace when someone was so— or, or even, I guess, in reality. But I, I remember working with someone who all of a sudden was like they had a nervous breakdown. I was like, of course, all the stress that they like have, like, wouldn't that make sense? But I never knew that there was any other like term for it. Is it all kind of similar under the same umbrella?

Yeah. Human beings like to take the same issue and give it different names as the years go on.

I can't hear you all of a sudden.

Oh, I can hear you.

No, no, I don't know. Nothing happened on my end. Oh, there we go. I can kind of hear you speak. Nope.

Yeah, my microphone lights are working just fine, so I don't know what the issue is.

Okay, maybe just a little delay. I apologize. Um, so, so is it all under one umbrella?

No. What people—

burnt out?

No. The, the, the umbrella— the problem is with, with human beings, we like to take the same issue and we would like to give it different names. Nervous breakdown, burnout, overwhelmed. It's the same issue, but the point is, is we just give it a new name so we have this new illness or this new disability when it's the same thing. We just like to call it different names. I don't know why humans being doing that, but we— it is a real deal.

Yeah, maybe one term bothers someone. It's so— I mean, I think a nervous breakdown just sounds so awful, whereas being burnt out can make sense, or being overwhelmed. But let's talk about the overwhelm. So before it gets that serious and you're just like, oh my God, like a louder scream, obviously, I can't take it anymore. And you're belting out at everyone. So how does someone recognize that in themselves? They have to wait for everyone to say, my God, you must be overwhelmed, you screamed at me today. Or do you see it in yourself?

Well, I think it can work both ways. You can have other people say, you know, something doesn't— I know you and something's off. Or if you find yourself not making progress because you're defaulting to easy, then you can go, why am I doing this? And my biggest tool for this is the journal. Get yourself a journal with a piece of paper and a pen and write down, why am I not doing what I should be doing? Why am I procrastinating? Because people don't like to face their demons. We like to justify, well, it's really not that bad. I'm sure tomorrow will be a better day. Next week will be a better week, when you really need to zoom out and go, what is really going on? You may have some issues that you've never dealt with in the back of your brain, and if you don't ever deal with them, then the problem is not going to get better magically. It's going to get worse over time.

Mark, I, I heard you say journal and write it down, but I want you to address, um, this situation here when maybe there's other— are you out there like me? Hello, who's out there like me? I can't write things down because I can't read my own handwriting. I literally have, like, the world's worst handwriting, and it runs in the family. And so my daughter has perfect handwriting, so everything she does is journalized and written down. But when I hear that, like, wake up and immediately write, I'm like, well, what do I do? Do I, like, write it in my head? Do I have to, like, do I type it out? Is it all the same? It's such a silly question, but I honestly— and I can't be the only one that can't read her own handwriting. And if I am, Then that's weird, but I belong on an island by myself.

Well, I have heard this from other clients, and when they tell me I can't read my own handwriting, I'm like, well, first of all, I, I print in my journals because I want people to be able to read them after I'm gone. And the second thing is, when you print, it forces you to slow down. Everybody seems to when they're journaling, they journal fast. Slow down. What's your hurry? If it takes you 5 minutes, it takes you 30 minutes, take your time. Articulate the words you want to use. And people compliment me all the time on my printing. Oh, your journals, like, I can read them like a book. Well, you can too. Just slow down and don't go into it like saying, oh, I have the worst handwriting in the world. Just say, okay, I'm going to slow down. I'm going to print my journal entries. And see what happens. So I'm a person of positivity. I identify as Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, and I don't like to— I, I try to stay away from Eeyore. So I want to challenge you, instead of saying I have the worst handwriting ever, but instead say, you know what, what if I slow down and I start printing in my journal? And all of a sudden you go, wow, I can read this writing. Now all of a sudden you've reframed the same issue, journaling from a negative point of view to a positive point of view.

Eeyore, you do want to say anything? Eeyore? Oh, here comes Eeyore.

I think that I will do that with Adrian.

That is really good advice. Oh my God, Mark, I think this could be the best advice I've gotten all year. Yeah, it's a joke. It's a good one though. But like, no, I'm serious though. I really— you are right. I, I, when I have to sit down to write, it's— I want to get it over with so fast that I'm doing And so I'm going to concentrate. I'm going to give myself a challenge, you know, for the next 2 hours to write something down. No, I really— I'm actually taking this serious. I love that you said that to me because I obviously needed to— I need to slow down. Okay, so there's an answer for all of us. So all of us, I do have the ability if I slow down to write. Okay, so that's one good piece of advice for that overwhelm. But I mean, I can't do the hard first anyway. Like, I gotta mix it all up. So what if that overwhelm is, is a mixture of everything? Emails, I don't need email, Slack, text, Snapchat, Facebook, LinkedIn. I don't know where to look for anything anymore. I don't even know. And my folders are all messed up on my computer. Like, what does someone do when they really are like, every, everything that they're doing in their life can be checked off as messy and unproductive because they're unable to clean it up in order to even get the work done.

Well, if someone has that kind of issue, what I encourage them to do— and we may talk about this later, we may not— you need to talk to somebody. I mean, I, when I get on a call with somebody, I just let them talk. And by speaking out with someone who's a professional like me, they're like, Okay, there's all my baggage. I'm like, okay, well, good news, it's not that bad. See, you're in the forest, so you can't see the trees. You think everything's on fire, everything's got to be done now. But if you get someone, whether it's me or someone else outside your life, and they go, well, this isn't— just move a couple things around, you're like, oh, you couldn't see it. That's why I have a coach, and coaches have coaches, and that's why coaches rock. So I encourage anyone who's struggling, you know, with the emails and the Slack and social media and this, that, and the other thing, maybe you need to go talk to someone. And if you only get one piece of advice that could change your life, here's one of my biggest pieces of advice: choose simplicity over complexity. Because when someone says, I got all these things I gotta do, you know what my question to them is? Why? And they look at me like, what do you mean why? Why, why do you have all these things on your plate? And what happens is, again, we're going back to default. People keep doing one thing, then they add two things and three things and four things, and they keep doing it and they never stop and go, why am I doing all these things again? Do— or if I need to do them, do they all need to be done now? What's the priority? And so this is why coaches are so valuable, because the coach comes in, they're not familiar with your situation. Like Your show is all about no prep. Well, the coach comes in, I don't know all your baggage, I don't know all your issues, so I'm going to look at it from a fresh perspective where you may be, I can't figure this out. Well, that's okay. That's why there's people like me to help you. But you got to be willing to say, raise your hand and go, I need some help. That's half the battle right there.

So what made you go into this career? What is your, um, what is your past? What is your story?

I was fired from a corporate job back in 2005, and I decided to give this entrepreneurship thing a go. So I went into wedding and portrait photography because I thought it'd be cool. They had the cool gear, but that business failed. However, one part that didn't, that got blossomed in it, is I used to fear being a speaker. I didn't in high school, didn't want to give a book report in front of an empty room. Now I'm a speaker, I'm a podcaster. I can go on shows like no prep required because I, I, I know my stuff. And so I reached the point with my first coach that I was kind of having an Eeyore moment because I wanted to speak and I wanted to train. But the problem was, is I didn't know what I should do. And they saw something in me. They saw that. I can't hear you.

Okay, can you hear me now?

Yes.

Gilead, can you hear me? Awesome. And Mark, can you hear me?

Yes.

Okay, good. Okay, I'm sorry, guys. We lost a little bit with the, just with the internet, but I'm loving this conversation, and we missed a little bit. So you were speaking, and then I realized that you were not showing up on Chatter Social. We are live on Chatter Social. Download the app and come on in. It's a really great place to have conversations live. Actually, Gilead, would you take a second to say hello? Do you mind?

I would.

Hello. She fought for us in the service. Mark, say hi to Gilead.

Hi.

Hi, Mark. Yeah, I, I just had a couple thoughts if it's okay to jump in, Adrian and Mark. Um, so, like, I, I think that, um, being overwhelmed—

that's all too—

it might— yeah, can you hear me?

I can hear you.

Okay, hold on for one second. Okay, try it again.

Can you hear me now?

Mark can hear you, that's all that matters.

I feel like I'm on a Verizon commercial. Can you hear me now? I think that being overwhelmed is a nervous system response.

Is it coming clear to you, Mark?

Yes, I can hear crystal clear.

Yeah, and usually being— the state of being overwhelmed is really a— it's not a standalone feeling. It kind of mask other underlying emotions like anxiety, fear, grief, anger. So, so one has to kind of understand that. I'll tell you what's worked for me if I've had like an intense situation where I have a million things to do, and it is, it is making priority lists. Even Like, I kind of will make a today list, tomorrow list, I need to get to this at some point list. I know, like, when I was handling— my mother was dying on hospice, my dad had Alzheimer's, so we had like this super intense week. It would have been very easy to get overwhelmed, but for some reason, I had some kind of resilience where I feel like I work better under pressure. But I do recall that I specifically took a big black Sharpie and I wrote all my things on paper, like, hey, don't forget this, because there were so many steps in the process that I would think of something in the morning and 2 hours later it was literally out of my head. And then when those things come back to you later, that's when you get overwhelmed. But I had it in writing. And then if I completed something, I crossed it off. If I didn't, I moved it to the next day list. And I just, I felt like I kind of had control. And you really do have to think about what do I need to deal with today? And if it's a really bad day, maybe it's just making your bed, you know, simple things. But I will tell you just from my experience, sleep is very, very, very important. And I think it definitely impacts your mental health in that way. So, managing your sleep, making sure you're drinking a lot of water and eating, you know, as normal as you can, but it's a normal reaction, but it's really distinct from stress. So, I mean, that's just kind of my, thoughts. And of course, you know, I mean, there's some cognitive behavioral therapy techniques with breathing, ground— grounding exercises, doing one small thing. I like to do some simple things first and complete them, because then after I get through 5 of those, I feel a sense of accomplishment. And then I'm ready to do the hard thing on the list. Um, that works for me anyway. That's all I have.

That's what Mark was saying. I love that. Welcome, Lisa. So lovely to have you here. And if you want on mic, this is Mark. He's with Mr. Productivity. You know what, I have a question. I love everything that you said, Gilead. I feel like this is something needed, whether you innately kind of know yourself or you need help. So you're mentioning about coaches. So how do I find the coach? Like, we have you right here, so let's just— can we show off your website?

Go right ahead.

Oh, wait, you guys, I have to do this. This is a thing I have to say. Hold on. I have to fill this out because now I will be ever connected to Mark because I'll get all of his emails. So, QuickTrack, how productive are you really? Mark, that's such a— that I know I'm reading that and saying it to myself, but isn't this something that employers and managers and leaders want to know too? How productive are you really?

Yeah. And I don't— you mentioned earlier that I do individuals. I go into companies as well. What happens is they don't call me until it gets really bad. So what happens is people tend to— they tend to tell themselves, you know, this is going to solve itself or it's all going to work out. And what I encourage people to do is you gotta catch— there's a show back, I think it was Gomer Pyle, and when he says you got to nip it in the bud, okay? So what happens, what happens is these little problems start happening, and what happens is we're like, well, it's not that bad, I'll address that next week, and I'll do that tomorrow. And what happens is it gets worse and worse and worse, and all of a sudden You are facing this gigantic monster that if you would have caught it when it was like a tiny ant, you could have controlled it. And the longer something lasts— it helps, happens all the time in health, it happens the same way with marriages, finances— people don't want to take care of a problem when it first starts birthing itself. But what happens is we wait till it gets too bad, and that's where a good coach— and obviously I'm not the only coach out there A good coach will come in and tell you, hey, I'm seeing this, this, this, this, and this. And you may have been saying, well, I, I knew that was there, but I wasn't really paying attention to it. Because you're doing your day-to-day things, you're juggling all these balls in the air. And sometimes that's why it takes someone from outside your life to look back and say, you know what, I see some issues here.

Yeah, that— okay, thank you so much. Welcome, Joseph. Thank you for being here. Joseph is in the room. He is my co-host for Debate the News True Crime, so be sure to tune in to Debate the News True Crime if you like true crime stories, which we love. Uh, and I— and honestly, just to bring up true crime, Mark, is that when we tell these stories and we do deep dives, I often like realize like these people are very overwhelmed too, right? There's so much stress in their lives. They've gone the other way. And I'm not saying that like what they're doing is— there's any excuse for it. But obviously this is so serious. So how does someone actually— and I'm going to use Joseph for a second because he really is someone that is doing a lot. I could tell he, he's— he does editing, he works with his family's business. I mean, like, if anyone would be overwhelmed, I could see where it could be any of the people that are on chat or social. Oh, I see your hand, Gillian. I'll go to you one second. So I could, I could see where All of us can be overwhelmed. We're all together in this Chatter social app, and we're talking and we're growing, and we've been building together a community of over 100 of us. Every single person is like unbelievably professional and on the top of their game. But we do hear overwhelming, and we do hear that people— I hear that all the time. Like, I was not allowed— I'm not allowed to say I'm busy. Like, nobody will ever hear me say I'm busy. My parents refused that growing up in a family business. I could not say that. I couldn't say I have too much on my plate. If I said I was busy, my mom would say, you're not as busy as a woman home with her baby. Argue that with me, Adrian. And I wouldn't because I knew that that was the truth. So how— my question is, once we figure out, uh-oh, we need help, and you know what, Sally, my next-door neighbor, is not going to come over for another cup of coffee and hear me, like, you know, bitch for another hour, is she? No. So I need someone that's outside that could see the whole thing. Then how do we choose, Mark? Like, I've got you here with us now. So can you actually— we say on ChatGPT, we say on Chatter, stick your chest out. So stick your chest out and tell us why we really like— and who do you like to work with? Because you may not want to work with someone where you're having to constantly coach them and, and work with them and then also do more than that. So do you mind? How do we know who to choose, how to choose, and who and why we would choose you? A lot of questions there. Sorry.

Well, when you invest in a coach, it's really important that it is a two-way street. So when someone is interested in my coaching, first thing you do, we get on a call, a 60-minute call. We just talk because you need to know, are you going to click with that person? They could be the best person in the world, but maybe they curse like a sailor and you don't like people who curse. So that wouldn't be a good fit. So when I'm talking to people, I'm asking myself, is this person serious? Do they have the resources financially? Do they have the time? Are they excuse maker? Are they coachable? Do they wanna do the work? Because just because you get on a call and you invest in coaching, if you're not serious about it, you're not gonna get the results. So I wanna make sure that, 'cause a lot of people want my help and I can't help anybody. That's why I'm really picky about who I take on as my clients. Now, from the client perspective, you shouldn't take a coach just because you heard them on a podcast, including me, or you read their book or someone recommended. You should get certain recommendations, but then you should go out and say, I want to get on a call with you. And they say, well, it's going to be, you know, $500 for the hour. I'm like, no, I want to see if I click with you. If they say, no, I don't do free calls, well, then you're going to have to make that decision. I would never take on someone like that. Or I wouldn't hire a coach like that who wouldn't give me a 1-hour call, not to coach me. It's just to find out, do we click? Because if you're going to invest— like, my signature program is a 90-day coaching program, okay? You're going to be with me for 90 days. And if you don't like bald guys or if you don't like guys, well, it's— you're not going to be getting the most out of the coaching session because you're going to have that baggage coming in the coaching relationship. So I think when people are looking for coaches, They got to understand you are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you. It's a two-way street. You got to make sure it's clicking.

You—

it's— don't make your coaching decisions based on the money. Can you work with this person for 90 days or 6 months? Because if you can't, if you detest their, their sound of their voice, it's not going to end well.

Gillian, I do see that, that is such an amazing answer that I could see, like, people flooding right away, like, wait, I want to work with Mr. Mark Productivity because that was just an incredible answer. I really, I really loved everything that you said right there. Exactly straight on. And, and I love that you also said that it's that not like you're looking at someone, you're going to want to work with them, but they have to do the work, right? Coaches usually say that a lot. Like, I don't want to work with someone that's uncoachable. But then as you start working with them, it really like all of a sudden you realize, oh wait, everything that they said— because people can kind of fake it out too, right? Yes, yes, I'm interested. Or things can happen. So what, what is the goal in those 90 days? What, what would they looking at at the end result? Are they walking away more productive, happier, better sex? Like, what is it?

I don't help them with the better sex part, but what I do is in that 1-hour introductory call, I ask them, what do you Why? What would the end of 90 days look like for you? And then we reverse engineer it. So I don't pre— I don't come up with the goals. It's not a standard goal because guess what? We're all different and I need to make sure what are your goals? And if you're not clear, well, that's the first step that we need to find goals for you. And before the goals, I even go to why, because I believe And 3-step process: your why feeds your goals, which feeds your plan. A lot of people want to go backwards. They just want to put random stuff on their calendar. No, you have to— your planning should be based on your goals, and your goals should be based on your why. That's a golden nugget for everybody there. So if people are not willing to do the work, and if I— and I could test them on that first call because I'll ask them, I'll say, okay, do me a favor, stand up. Why? I just asked you to stand up. And if you're already resisting, if I ask you to stand up, And you resist, well, then when we get into the really good stuff and the paid coaching, you're probably not gonna do it, which is amazing to me because if you won't do the simple things, you're not gonna do the more complex stuff.

I love that. I see, uh, Gilead, let me go to you, Gilead and Joseph, thank you for being here. And hi Anne, thank you for being here. Gilead, take the mic.

No, I just had a, a, a comment. I love this coaching model because even though you kind of started out talking about overwhelming And some of that is mental health and neurological processing issues. Like, it's so hard to get a clinician if it may be a clinical problem to get assistance or guidance. And a lot of this can be done through coaching. And I think just people sharing their own successful, how they've been coached or coach themselves or their skills in like a Chatter Social Room would be really great. Um, you know, because we can't all, um, seek like on the clinical side assistance with that, but this is a great model. So, Mark, are most of your clients individual or are you doing organizational business clients?

Right now, predominantly my clients are individual. They come to me either through a podcast like my own or with Adrian's. Or I'm a speaker, so they may contact me through when I'm speaking or through my email list or through LinkedIn. So I mainly focus on individuals at this point. Uh, getting to a group setting, the challenges with that is you got your introverts and you got your extroverts, and the introverts in the group setting don't like to talk as much, but those same introverts will talk my ear off on a private one-on-one call.

Gotcha. That's interesting because I'm just thinking about needs in the business place and how we do that. We study efficiency a lot, and every person is different, but sometimes it is the overall corporate structure that makes it inefficient. So that's the piece that I work on in what I have to do. That's great. Good stuff. Thanks.

It's so funny, Gilead, because I know you in the Debate the Newsroom, just really sharing such great information. And I know that you've served our country and you are an honored vet, and, and just, it's such a privilege to even know you. Um, but I really don't know, like, what else you do, so I look forward to getting to know you even more or having you on the show. Uh, so thank you for that insight and, and for sharing that with Mark, because that's really great information. Mark, I know that you have to go soon. I just want to ask you, the Mr. Productivity Podcast. So do you like your own podcast?

Yes, I do. I can't believe I've got over 1,350 episodes. It's been going for 8 and a half years. It's just absolutely crazy.

Holy hell. Oh, you guys. Oh my God. 74.9. I will personally go out and beat up the person that made a mistake. They meant to do 5 stars, but like somehow they—

no, but here's the thing, Adrian. I hear you're not a true podcaster unless you get your first 1-star review. So I guess that means that—

maybe so interesting. We got, we got a review on Debate the News True Crime, and it was, um, to, um, tell one of the hosts to make sure they enunciate better. Well, it's me. It's not Joseph, it's me. But I was like, oh my God, that's such good advice. And to get the name spelled like correctly, like, you know, all these like murder monsters, but mostly the victims, right? Get their names correctly. So I love that. To me, the feedback was great. So I love this. And then, oh my God, that's crazy. You know, the only person I know that has that many podcasts is someone who I really love and admire, Seth Green from Market Domination. He has the Sharkpreneur podcast with Kevin Harrington. And, And he has, um, them. So I, I, I think this is amazing. Look, you guys, now are you interviewing someone or is this you speaking alone? Like, is that a solo podcast?

Yeah, right now it's just solo. I, I probably interviewed close to 1,000 people on my show, and I'm just, I'm at the point now where my emphasis for 2026 is speaking. So I do a new podcast every Monday, but I'm not doing interviews at this point.

Oh, that reminds me. Hold on, you guys. So the Mr. Productivity Podcast, I happen to be looking at it on Apple, but if you're listening and you may not see this, just so you know. So the Mr. spell it all out. The M-I-S-T-E-R Productivity Podcast. Mark, how do you spell it? How do you say your last name? How do you say your last name? Oh my gosh. How do you say your last name?

Straczewski.

Oh, I would have messed that up. I'm glad I didn't even try. Let me try though now. Strucheski. One more time. I'll be calling you Mark S. Chess, like the game.

Strucheski.

True, true, true. Strucheski. Okay, I got that. True Strucheski. Don't do any crimes that end up on Debate the News because I'm going to definitely call you Mark S after a while. Okay, so I am loving this. I have one more thing I want to see, Mark, before I let you go. So I'm going to keep the ropes on you for another minute because I saw this and I'm like, ooh, I want to see what this is. Okay, so your video is up right now. I'm just going to play it, you guys. So I'm on the website, MISTER spelled out, M-I-S-T-E-R, productivity.com. And then if you go into speaking, you'll see a video and I'm going to play it right now.

If I isn't happy, are you happy? Doing what you're doing. So I encourage you, when I say audit your time, don't overthink this. Don't go look for a special app or a special— just get a piece of paper and write down what you're doing. So that's the A in APS: audit your time. Prioritization is what you are doing towards your goals and your dreams. Hopefully you have dreams or goals. Is what you're doing moving you towards your goals and dreams, or is it just wasting time?

You look good, Mark. I'm loving this.

Thanks. My wife thinks so too.

Oh, okay. You have to do these in terms of priority. What is the number one priority? What is the number two priority?

And then there, there we go with a cliffhanger. The horrible cliffhanger. Now we can't hear the rest. We got to figure out where to find it. That is awesome. I love that. You can hear how nicely you speak. I— this is fantastic. This is a nice site. It's very simple, but I actually think it goes with Mr. Productivity. If you had too much going on, it would actually kind of go against who you are, right? So pretty. I mean, oh, you got to change this though. You're 1,400 now. 1,400 plus. This is great. Thank you. So is there anything that I— you— so you guys make sure you go on the website, make sure you listen to the podcast. So they look like all great small, like, bites of like what to do. So I look forward to that. And 1,400 episodes. What, Mark? They'll be done in 2027, right? Maybe 2028. What do you think?

It's a goal.

Wouldn't that be something to really figure that out, right? 1.4, the average time. How many? Okay, we won't do that. But I do want to ask you, is there anything that I did not ask you that you wish I did ask you?

No, I think your questions were spot on, and I just want people to challenge themselves whenever they default to easy, to ask themselves, why am I defaulting to easy? And if you feel overwhelmed, if you feel frustrated, then I want you to ask yourself why. Why do I feel like this? Now, there's a lot of things, tactics and strategies I teach. That go into helping you, uh, break that down. But just ask that question: why am I feeling this way? Because once you start asking that question, then you can start deconstructing what is going on and go, oh, you know what, I can start fixing these problems. But you got to recognize it. You got to call them out first. If you don't do anything, it's just going to become tomorrow and the day after and the day after, the year after the year after, and nothing's going to change. So you need to start asking yourself questions.

I love that. I also— Gillian, I bet you you will agree with me. I feel like my life would have been so much, so much better if I knew of coaches. First of all, there was no coach. I'm 63. So yeah, 20 years ago there was therapists, there was no coach and, and personal coaches that I really feel like that would have changed the trajectory of my life. Like it would have just made such a big difference. Do you ever think of that, Gillian, or did you have a coach when you were younger?

Hmm, you know, I relied on my parents to coach me a lot. They were just particularly good at it. And then, of course, I think in the workplace too, like, I was with a company that went through a couple bankruptcies. And when that happens, they bring in like a transitional temporary team. And really, it's a lot of kind of coaching, like, hey, you know, we got to get you out of this bankruptcy so you don't get there again. We got to study what What happened here? So I've had exposure to like people on the professional side as well as the personal side.

Well, I think that's great. I have not. So my advice to everyone out there is to take advantage of this because I don't think that there's any age or you're too old. And if you're actually working and being productive, then I think you need someone like Mr. Productivity. I've got to look at it. I just, I find it fascinating, but I find it like, boy, I believe that coaching— I believe in what you do. I know that it is definitely something helpful. And I also know what I think that what scares me the most, Mark, is that I will fail. Like, I, I like all of a sudden the meetings may become too much for me and then I'll be like, why did I put even more on my plate when I'm trying to empty out my plate on them? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I know that that's all just excuses too. So I love this conversation. I am going to turn it into a chapter because I can't wait to see it. So for all my friends out there, I just want to say one more time for podcast hosts, whether you're solo or you have guests, what we do for $350— I'll throw the price out there— you get 15 episodes. 80% of your manuscript is complete, and everyone has loved it. As a matter of fact, we have never had anyone that said, I don't like the way it reads or anything like this. This book, you could take a look at it. If anybody's interested, I'll send you the manuscript so you can see how great the chapters are. That is it. This is pod2book.ai, and, uh, Here's the back of it too. So anyways, I have, Mark, I have highlighted 60 professionals within the last quarter. So I'm pretty proud for this book, my first book, and another, and two events that turned into books. So thank you so much for your time. Thank you for everything. I absolutely enjoyed you. And I'm glad that Alex created PodMatch because without PodMatch, we wouldn't have been matched. And I'm glad— well, for me, I don't have to swipe right or left. Because I have to say, let's do it to everyone. So when Alex came on the show to do the interview, I showed him and he's like, do you do match or pass? I'm like, I— that means I'd have to know them first. So everyone gets accepted. Thank you so much, Gilead. Thank you so much for being here. And thank you for being here, Joseph. Thank you for being here. They are in what we call the audience, the goo. So you can see Gilead is up here. And then I'm here. I'm just showing the screen for Chatter Social if you're listening. And then we're talking here, and then you see I've got 2 people in the audience. So, uh, really fun, Mark. Thank you so much. And, uh, thank you, Gillian. I really appreciate it. I'm gonna end the stream. I'm gonna end the room and have a great rest of the day.