The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams

Oct 29 2024 74 ep. 22 mins 5
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The Motivation Mindset is an award-winning time management podcast hosted by Risa Williams, therapist and the book author of The Ultimate Time Management Toolkit and The Procrastination Playbook. The MM Podcast provides practical tools from experts to help you get stuff done without all the stress. Tune up your daily mindset with these motivating coffee-break sized episodes. 

Frequent co-hosts include: Erica Curtis, Trevor Stockwell, Ryan Muldoon, and Stevon Lewis.
**Winner of The Positive Change Podcast Award: Psychology**
(All tools discussed on the show are meant for educational purposes only and not as a replacement for medical care or psychotherapy).

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The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Practical Stoicism - Dr. Scott Waltman

Oct 29 2024 28 mins  
Send us a textIn this special episode, book author, Stoicism expert, and psychologist, Dr. Scott Waltman, discusses Practical Stoicism, and ways we can adopt stoic principles into our everyday lives. Risa Williams and Dr. Waltman discuss Socratic Questioning as a therapy tool, where Stoicism and mindfulness intersect, and how we can find ways balance with our own judgement and emot

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams & Ryan Muldoon: ADHD Procrastination

Oct 15 2024 24 mins  
Send us a textADHD and procrastination tend to go hand in hand, and on this episode, Ryan Muldoon and Risa Williams discuss the subtle ways procrastination can sneak up on people with ADHD. Self-protection can be a sneaky type of procrastination where we feel like we're protecting ourselves from a particular outcome, whether that's failure or success, and perfectionism is a subtle

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams & Trevor Stockwell: Healthy Procrastination

Oct 08 2024 24 mins  
Send us a textHow do you know if the procrastination you're doing is healthy or unhealthy? On this episode, Risa Williams and Trevor Stockwell discuss healthy procrastination vs. unhealthy procrastination. When is procrastination a form of healthy task prioritization and when does it tip over into task avoidance instead? It's "Overcoming Procrastination" month on The Motivation Min

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Work/Life Balance - Georgie Bryant

Sep 16 2024 26 mins  
Send us a textDoes your work/life balance need some adjusting so you can connect more with feeling done and taking a real break? Risa Williams talks to time management coach, Georgie Bryant, about balancing out work, life, family, and rest times each week. We look at how people can burn themselves out by forgetting what's fun to them and things that they are looking forward to on t

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams & Erica Curtis: September Stress

Sep 10 2024 20 mins  
Send us a textAre you feeling a lot more stress now that it's September? Is the Fall cranking up the work stress, the school stress, the family stress for you? You're not alone! Risa Williams & Erica Curtis look at September Stress in this episode, and practical ways we can navigate the fall months ahead.They discuss:-Normalizing and acknowledging the stress we're all feeling t

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Meditative Practices - Jeff Patterson

Sep 02 2024 21 mins  
Send us a textAre you looking for ways to bring down the stress in your everyday life? Have you been wanting to try out meditation but it just seems too "hard" or "intimidating" to quiet down your mind for long stretches of time? Meditation expert Jeff Patterson, author of The Yielding Warrior, talks to Risa Williams about the different types of meditation we can learn to do, and h

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams & Erica Curtis: Organization Overwhelm

Aug 22 2024 29 mins  
Send us a textWhen it comes to getting organized or tackling organization projects, do you freeze up with overwhelm? Do you feel shut down, do you start to procrastinate, or do you feel that avoidance starting to take over?Risa Williams and Erica Curtis are here to help with some simple strategies to navigate our nervous systems when they go into "fight or flight" mode over everyda

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams & Ryan Muldoon: The ADHD Toolkit - Finding Focus

Aug 19 2024 24 mins  
Send us a textIn this special episode of the ADHD Toolkit, Risa Williams & Ryan Muldoon talk about learning ways to find your focus when you have ADHD. They discuss using The Task Intensity Meter from Risa's book, The Ultimate Time Management Toolkit, removing distractions, and figuring out workarounds for your own unique brain.They also talk about:-How acknowledging what tasks

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Movement - Sepideh Saremi

Aug 09 2024 24 mins  
Send us a textDo you struggle to get enough exercise in your everyday life? Do you know you need to move around more but find yourself sitting down a whole lot? Risa Williams talks to Run Walk Talk Founder, Sepideh Saremi, about how we can get more movement into our daily life and how we can lighten up on ourselves when we get too extreme about fitness.They discuss:-The brain benef

The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams, Erica Curtis & Hilary Kern: The Creative Toolkit - Feedback

Jul 17 2024 28 mins  
Send us a textDo you struggle with hearing feedback about your creative work? Does receiving critiques make you want to run away and hide? Do you often procrastinate solving problems that people point out with your artistic work? Then, this episode is for you! Risa Williams talks to artists/therapists, Erica Curtis and Hilary Kern about how we can receive feedback and criticism in