January has a way of speeding things up, until you pause long enough to notice what it’s been asking.

In this episode, Monnica and Brad take an honest read on the first month of the year and the moment that quietly shifted everything: twelve intentional minutes of stillness. What started as a practice they’d been avoiding became a reset of pace, attention, and awareness in real time.

The conversation opens with a simple question Monnica asked in a recent interview: How do you manage yourself? From there, it unfolds the way their weekly ritual always does, over coffee, with a vinyl record spinning, and no real agenda beyond paying attention to the lives they’re actually living.

They talk about managing attention, keeping lists short, saying no, habit-stacking, and why presence doesn’t fix everything, but it does clarify where to start. Midway through the episode, they stop talking and try the practice together, then reflect on what those twelve minutes revealed about focus, nervous systems, and how easily momentum can run ahead of awareness.

Along the way, they check in on January highs and lows, re-entry after vacation, health and energy, leadership, current events, and the music that gave this conversation its rhythm, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Greatest Hits.

This isn’t a reset. It’s a change in pace.

One record.
One reflection.
One transmission at a time.

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