Episodes

  • how to build your goal life into your weekly calendar
    Feb 18 2026

    This week we are YAPPING and the yap is all about actually implementing your goals into your weekly calendar when you're navigating a season of chaos.

    You want to make things happen for yourself. You have big plans, you have small plans. You have little changes, and lifestyle adjustments, and you simply want more space. To breathe, to think, to be. To do the things you feel like you were put on this Earth to do.

    I’m going to show you how to do it. This year, this month, this week. TO-DAY.


    This episode is for you if you pick up a planner and look at all of those bloody pre-work articles about your 8 different quadrants and aspirations and vision board prep and how many shits you’ve taken over the last year and feel overwhelmed and just want to get on with it and make it all happen.

    You know what you want to do, and how you want to live - and you just want to make it happen.

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    the podcast for your post-productivity play era

    This is the podcast about making a list you actually want to do, and working strategically, not longer. Listen if you've forgotten what you like, what lights you up, and how to feel more you again - even in your chaos era.

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    DM listener questions and follow along on Instagram ⁠⁠@theproductivityproject_

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    36 mins
  • entering your analogue era in 2026, routines, dragon smut and no you're not too old
    Feb 11 2026

    It's 2026 and we are YAPPING this year - the new weekly yaps are here!

    In this week's episode, I do talk about something helpful despite all my other tangents. I'm sharing the 5 ways I'm entering my analogue era this year without scrapping everything that's actually supportive about technology.

    We're also yapping how to make routines happen when you're very time poor, why 41 is not too old (despite what the 41 year old men no one asked on X say), dragon smut (aka reading for fun) and other juicy morsels.

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    the podcast for your post-productivity play era

    This is the podcast about making a list you actually want to do, and working strategically, not longer. Listen if you've forgotten what you like, what lights you up, and how to feel more you again - even in your chaos era.

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    DM listener questions and follow along on Instagram ⁠@theproductivityproject_

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    45 mins
  • fun meditation: one action to change the rest of your week
    Feb 10 2026

    Welcome to this week's FUN-ATATION (aka fun meditation)!

    This is the first in a weekly-ish fun meditation series to inspire you with an idea, practice, thought or action to reset your week.

    Today's little fun-atation centres on root actions - aka those actions you take that have the power to transform the rest of your week.

    There may also be some attemped Spanish. Listening not recommended for anyone who wants to actually learn Spanish.

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    the podcast for your post-productivity play era

    This is the podcast about making a list you actually want to do, and working strategically, not longer. Listen if you've forgotten what you like, what lights you up, and how to feel more you again - even in your chaos era.

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    follow along or DM listener questions on Instagram ⁠@theproductivityproject_

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    4 mins
  • cancelling January, thrifting, the Beckhams, consumption vs phone addiction and backing yourself
    Feb 4 2026

    It's 2026 and we are YAPPING this year - the new weekly yaps are here!

    Listen as I relate the Beckhams to productivity, share my suspicions about consumption vs. phone addiction, dissect how to put together a thrift store wardrobe and why we should all stop sabotaging ourselves.

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    the podcast for your post-productivity play era

    This is the podcast about making a list you actually want to do, and working strategically, not longer. Listen if you've forgotten what you like, what lights you up, and how to feel more you again - even in your chaos era.

    ______


    follow along on Instagram @theproductivityproject_

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    43 mins
  • building a 2026 you can't wait to live in + desiring in december
    Dec 10 2025

    This episode is about building a year you actually want to live through, not just a list you’re supposed to tick off.

    If you’ve ever crawled to the end of the year whispering “january me will fix this,” this one’s for you.

    In this episode:

    • Why traditional goal-setting leaves you exhausted and actually very unchanged

    • december deadline energy vs my new obsession: december desire dabbling

    • The maths behind your annual motivation fade

    • How to start 2026 with butterflies instead of dread

    • The 2–3 desires I’m prioritising this December (and how you can choose yours)

    I’m hosting a very low-key, very non-intense december desire dabble inside my IG close friends.
    We’re each choosing 2 or 3 supportive desires (not goals, not resolutions) to help us feel more human and less husk going into 2026.

    Join in at @theproductivityproject_ on Instagram.

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    27 mins
  • five gateway hobbies i tried last month to stop me doomscrolling
    Dec 3 2025

    Welcome to a new era for the podcast: The Play Project.

    Oooooooo.

    Same Kat, same anti-hustle productivity brain… but with way more focus on fun, aliveness and feeling like a human again, not just a heavily time-blocked walking to-do list.

    This is the podcast for one-woman shows juggling business and family that isn't about becoming That Girl™.

    This poddy is about remembering what you like, what lights you up, and how to feel more you in a season where most of your time doesn’t feel like it belongs to you.

    In this episode, we get into:

    • The problem with restriction-based productivity (especially for women)

    • How our culture quietly turns everything into a self-improvement project or a metric (and why it sucks)

    • The real definition of doomscrolling

    • Why discipline is not the answer for women who are already holding up the world

    • 5 low-lift “gateway hobbies” that helped me reclaim my brain from my phone

    Links & things

    • My Substack: productivitykat.substack.com

    • Instagram: @theproductivityproject_

    • Fiction recs to switch your reading muscle back on: check my recent posts over on IG

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    33 mins
  • 10 things I've been doing to clear brain fog (and work 3 hours a day)
    Nov 12 2025

    If your days feel like: decent sleep, decent intentions… and a brain that still won’t boot properly - sames.

    In this week's episode, I talk through what’s been helping me feel sharper and calmer, so I can do meaningful work in the few focused hours I do have (I've cut this down to 3) and still feel like me.

    Disclaimer: This episode will NOT teach you how to manage your time. If you’ve been oscillating between big life overhauls and burnout trying to make things happen, this episode will give you 10 practical things I've been doing to help support my focus, concentration and help me work less hours.

    Note: I share my personal experience with antidepressants as context - not medical advice. Please chat with your GP about what’s right for you.

    • Say hi on IG: @theproductivityproject_ — DM me SERIES and I’ll send you my 10-part email mini-book: The 2026 Life-Work Reset

    • Read the related Substack piece (the antidepressants/brain-fog backstory): productivitykat.substack.com

    • Want to do a 10-Week Year with me? Get the self-paced curriculum now + join the supported Jan round for $0 extra (beta details in the ep): https://stan.store/theproductivityproject_/p/the-10-week-year-minimap


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    39 mins
  • 6 Things Every Woman With Limited Disposable Time Needs To Do NOW
    Nov 4 2025

    If you’ve ever felt like your business, your kids, your brain, and god knows what else are all fighting for the same hour of your day - this one’s for you.

    In this episode, I’m sharing 6 things every woman in business with limited time needs to do right now - and not none of them involve changing who you are or disappearing for six months to reinvent yourself.

    This is your reminder you don’t need to fix yourself to move forward - ya just need to get to know yourself.

    We’ll talk about:
    ✨ The sneaky ways we keep trying to “manage” ourselves like full-time jobs
    ✨ Why soft productivity isn’t always the antidote to hustle culture
    ✨ What to focus on instead if you’re serious about bringing your 2026 goals to life
    ✨ How to stop measuring success by how much you do - and start measuring it by how alive you feel doing it


    DM me “SERIES” on Instagram @theproductivityproject_ to get The 2026 Life-Work Reset email series in your inbox.

    ✉️ Or find me on Substack: productivitykat.substack.com

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    21 mins