Finding Clarity

Episode 06:Self-Care

Self care is not a noun, it is a verb – and a state of being. Why is self-care important, and how can we incorporate its principles into our lives as honestly as possible?

Notes

• How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell
• Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg
• Million Dollar Maverick by Alan Weiss

Episode 05:Long-Term Thinking

What’s the difference between short-term & long-term thinking? What’s the relationship between long-term thinking & fear? And what can you do to ensure the long-term viability of your business?

Episode 04:Managing Fear

We can all agree that fear isn’t great. It sucks to feel fear, and it sucks even more to act on fear. In what ways does fear manifest in business ownership, and how can you work with your own sense of fear to move forward carefully & rationally?

Notes

• "Company of One" by Paul Jarvis
• Insight Timer

Episode 03:Cognitive Biases: Why Everything?

What are cognitive biases, and where do they come from? What are the biggest ones that business owners tend to experience, and what can we do about them?

Notes

• "Normalization of deviance" by Dan Luu
• Catastrophic thinking
• Gratitude practices

Episode 02:Business Mindset

Before we talk about what to do next, we first have to talk about the mindset that you need to get into. What makes a business mindset different from the mindset that you’ve cultivated over the rest of your life, and what can you do to cultivate a business mindset going forward?

Notes

• Finding Clarity’s survey (fill this out! still!)
• The Personal MBA
• Value-Based Design
• Catastrophic thinking, or: viewing every tiny threat as a fire
• Swimming pools

Episode 01:The Problem at Hand

What are we talking about? What are our first principles? Where can you start learning all of the spoilers to the rest of the podcast?

Notes

• Non-Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
• Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication by meenadchi, less focused on the privileged perspective of white dudes
• Definition of gaslighting
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk, about how trauma and pain are felt in the body – and what to do about it
• Insight Timer, our favorite meditation app
• Definition of executive function
• How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell
• The Nap Ministry: an activist advocacy of rest as resistance
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman

Episode 00:Setting Intentions

What is this? Why are we here? Why are you here?

Notes

• Finding Clarity’s survey (fill it out!)