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Relentless prioritization for sustainable success. The Health-Powered Productivity Podcast helps Human Resources and Learning & Development leaders reduce meeting bloat, lower rework, and boost engagement while protecting their people with healthy guardrails. Overwhelmed managers welcome! Hosted by Marcey Rader, multi-award-winning global keynote speaker, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, Master Virtual Presenter®, Digital Wellness Educator, and author of Reclaim Your Workday.  Named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast by Feedspot - every two weeks, you’ll get a 5–25 minute, fast, tactical episode. Mostly solo, with occasional guest features. Practical playbooks you can assign as pre-work for team meetings or apply before your next 1:1. What we cover: prioritization, focus and attention, meeting effectiveness, remote and hybrid norms, email and chat optimization, task and workflow management, and health-powered habits. No fluff. Outcomes that last. Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching: www.helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking: www.marceyrader.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: Reclaim Your Workday www.reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot Tipsletter: https://radergoodies.com/profile

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131- Leadership by Calendar Instead of Outcomes
2026/10/13
Most one-on-ones run on autopilot: same thirty or sixty minutes, same day, every person on the team. Marcey breaks down why that's leading by calendar instead of leading by outcome.   Rader covers how cadence should shift by experience, why a one-on-one should never run the full hour, and the mistake managing eighteen direct reports taught her about check-ins. Plus why remote and hybrid managers especially can't let a comfortable cadence become invisibility.   One Thing You Can Do Now: Pick one person on your team. Ask them how often they actually want to meet, and for how long.   Resources: Better Remote One-On-One Questions Every Leader Should Ask: https://www.helloraderco.com/better-remote-one-on-one-questions/ Book: The Right Things First https://www.helloraderco.com/therightthingsfirst Book: Reclaim Your Workday http://www.reclaimyourworkday.com Health-Powered Productivity podcast Meetings playlist https://www.helloraderco.com/podcast/meetings-episodes/) Program: The Meeting Reset http://www.marceyrader.com/topics-meeting-reset)       On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and five-time author, gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, communication guardrails, and sustainable performance habits you'll actually keep. Each episode is short, specific, and ready to use with your team. From RaderCo, a high-performance speaking and consulting company. Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.   Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching:helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking:marceyrader.com LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: The Right Things First —helloraderco.com/therighthingsfirst Book: Reclaim Your Workday —reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot tipsletter:radergoodies.com/profile
130 - What Has to Happen Before You Plan
2026/09/29
Planning is the most productive-looking way to procrastinate. You can spend a full afternoon building a plan, finish with a document, and feel like you did the work. Marcey has watched people do it for fifteen years, and she's done it herself. Last episode asked when you'd last optimized something you should have cut. This one is about how you find that out.   In this conversation, recorded with Global Media Studios at the National Speakers Association Influence conference, Rich Hart asks Marcey where prioritization actually starts. Her answer is one step earlier than almost anyone expects.   Reflect. Prioritize. Plan. In that order.   Resources: More episodes on reflecting, prioritizing, and planning: helloraderco.com/podcast/reflect-plan-prioritize-episodes Episode 129: Ways We Optimize Instead of Prioritize [link] The Right Things First: A Pocket Guide to Relentless Prioritization, available for teams in packs of ten or more: helloraderco.com/therighthingsfirst Questions about copies for your team: [email protected]   On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and five-time author, gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, communication guardrails, and sustainable performance habits you'll actually keep. Each episode is short, specific, and ready to use with your team. From RaderCo, a high-performance speaking and consulting company. Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.     Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching:helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking:marceyrader.com LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: The Right Things First —helloraderco.com/therighthingsfirst Book: Reclaim Your Workday —reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot tipsletter:radergoodies.com/profile #highperformance #marceyrader #reflections #planning #prioritization
129 - Ways We Optimize Instead of Prioritize
2026/09/15
Optimization is saving ten minutes in a meeting. Prioritization is asking whether the meeting needed to happen at all. In this episode, I walk through six places, work and personal, where I caught myself optimizing something I should have prioritized instead: my inbox, my meetings, my calendar, my sleep, my relationships, and even my grocery shopping.   In this episode: The relentless prioritization filter, and the three questions I run almost everything through Why a CC folder rule doesn't fix an over-copying problem on its own The research behind why fewer people in a meeting means better decisions, not just a shorter one Why an auto-blocked "focus time" on your calendar isn't the same as a real Design Day What changed when I quit Facebook, and how I keep my phone out of my bedroom entirely The narrowing-down move that saved me from scrolling three different grocery apps The Relentless Prioritization Filter Does this reduce or eliminate a bottleneck or conflict? Does this eliminate a decision? Does this protect capacity or energy? Resources & Links Episode 127: The Relentless Prioritization Filter https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-powered-productivity-with-raderco/id1569968080?i=1000782662719 Episode 69: Design Days for Deep Work https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/69-design-day-for-deep-work/id1569968080?i=1000593684220 Design Days blog post - www.helloraderco.com/design-days Rule of Seven, decision effectiveness: Bain & Company, "Effective decision making and the rule of 7" (bain.com/insights/effective-decision-making-and-the-rule-of-7) Rule of Seven, Miller's Law background: Forbes, "Why You Should Never Invite More Than 7 People To Your Meeting" https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriafine/2018/04/16/why-you-should-never-invite-more-than-7-people-to-your-meeting/ My TEDx, The Relentless Pursuit of More www.marceyrader.com/tedx DreamSky clock - https://amzn.to/4gnLZZj The Right Things First: A Pocket Guide to Relentless Prioritization www.helloraderco.com/therightthingsfirst   On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and five-time author, gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, communication guardrails, and sustainable performance habits you'll actually keep. Each episode is short, specific, and ready to use with your team. From RaderCo, a high-performance speaking and consulting company. Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate. Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching:helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking:marceyrader.com LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: The Right Things First —helloraderco.com/therighthingsfirst Book: Reclaim Your Workday —reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot tipsletter: radergoodies.com/profile
128 - Ability, Capacity, Agency
2026/08/25
You know what your priorities are. Getting to them is a different problem.   In this episode, Marcey breaks down the second lens she uses with clients to figure out why a known priority still isn't getting done: ability, capacity, or agency. Same three letters, three completely different problems, three completely different fixes.   In this episode: Why "I know my priorities but can't get to them" usually isn't a discipline problem Ability: the skill to prioritize, and what happens when nobody ever taught you (a scientist promoted into her first management role) Capacity: the space to prioritize, and why the skill being there doesn't mean the room is (running solo ops for a ten-person company) Agency: the permission to prioritize, and what it looks like when someone else is deciding your week (a broken foot, six weeks in a boot) The three questions to ask yourself to find out which one's actually got you stuck   Mentioned in this episode: Episode 118: Stop Calendar Decorating and Prioritize First with the Altitude Method https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/118-stop-calendar-decorating-prioritize-first-with/id1569968080?i=1000746834918 Blog: Stop Calendar Decorating and Prioritize First with the Altitude Method https://www.helloraderco.com/altitude-method-for-prioritization/ The Right Things First: A Pocket Guide to Relentless Prioritization www.helloraderco.com/therightthingsfirst Why Your Top Priority May Never Get Done: Ability, Capacity, or Agency (The Right Things First, Mini Keynote) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DXTOux8JeQ     On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and five-time author, gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, communication guardrails, and sustainable performance habits you'll actually keep. Each episode is short, specific, and ready to use with your team. From RaderCo, a high-performance speaking and consulting company. Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.   Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching:helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking:marceyrader.com LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: The Right Things First —helloraderco.com/therighthingsfirst Book: Reclaim Your Workday —reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot tipsletter:radergoodies.com/profile
127 - The Relentless Prioritization Filter
2026/08/11
When the TSA line in Atlanta wasn't moving, the fix was to bring in ICE agents. The line still didn't move. Because the long line wasn't the problem. The upstream staffing decision was the problem. That's the difference between optimizing what's visible and prioritizing what's real.   In this episode, Marcey introduces the Relentless Prioritization Filter from her new pocket guide, The Right Things First, and walks through the three questions that help you find the actual source of what's slowing your team down, instead of solving around it. You'll learn how to tell the difference between a bottleneck and a symptom, why most teams optimize problems that should be eliminated entirely, and how to create a culture where naming a bottleneck is something people actually want to do. This is the first in a short series of episodes around the book. More coming August 25.   In this episode: Why optimization and prioritization are not the same thing, and when you're doing one when you need the other The three questions of the Relentless Prioritization Filter How to build a team culture that celebrates bottleneck identification instead of avoiding it The three-part solution check to run before you commit to any fix How to apply the filter outside of work: health, household, and beyond     Resources mentioned: Blog Post - Celebrating Bottlenecks: Why Replacing Obstacles Can Supercharge Business Growth Blog Post - Embrace the Bottlenecks Podcast - Episode 39: Embrace the Bottlenecks Podcast - Episode 123: Don't Improve the Symptom Before You Address the Source Blog Post - Why Companies Will Never Get Out of Email Hell Podcast - Episode 41: Why Companies Will Never Get Out of Email Hell Book: The Right Things First: A Pocket Guide to Relentless Prioritization — available in packs of 10 or more. Pre-order now at helloraderco.com/therighthingsfirst. Official launch September 8, 2026. Why Your Top Priority May Never Get Done: Ability, Capacity, or Agency (The Right Things First, Mini Keynote) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DXTOux8JeQ       On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and five-time author, gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, communication guardrails, and sustainable performance habits you'll actually keep. Each episode is short, specific, and ready to use with your team. From RaderCo, a high-performance speaking and consulting company. Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate. Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching:helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking:marceyrader.com LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: The Right Things First —helloraderco.com/therighthingsfirst Book: Reclaim Your Workday —reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot tipsletter:radergoodies.com/profile
126 - The Meeting Reset: Ask This Before You Shorten, Fix, or Join Another Meeting
2026/05/12
Most meeting advice starts too late. In this episode, Marcey Rader makes the case that before you shorten a meeting, improve the agenda, or redesign the format, you need to ask a more important question: should the meeting happen at all?   Why it matters: Poor meeting culture steals time from high-priority work. Atlassian reports that in organizations with poor meeting cultures, people spend 50% more time in unnecessary meetings than making progress on high-priority work. Interrupted work is not focused work. Microsoft says employees on Microsoft 365 are interrupted on average every 2 minutes by a meeting, email, or notification. Video fatigue is real. Stanford researchers found that common video-call design patterns, including constant close-up eye contact and self-view, can exhaust the mind and body.   What you’ll learn: Why the first question is not “How do we run this meeting better?” How to tell when a meeting is really a status update, recap, or anxiety management system When Loom or async video is a better choice than live time How to shorten meetings by narrowing the attendee list to players, not spectators Why meeting design should work for real brains, not idealized employees When walking meetings are a smarter format Why meeting overload is often a prioritization failure, not a meeting failure   Mentioned in this episode: Loom - www.loom.com Episode 123: Don't Improve the Symptom Before You Address the Source - https://www.helloraderco.com/addressing-the-source/ Episode 122: Loom Videos: The 5-Mnute Habit That Replaces a 30-Minute Meeting https://www.helloraderco.com/loom-videos-replace-meetings/ Episode 107 - Designing Meetings for Neurodivergent Brains Where Everyone Wins https://www.helloraderco.com/meetings-for-neurodivergent/ Episode 76 - From Zoom Zombies to Asyn Advocates: How to Burn Down Your Meeting Culture and Rebuild it For Increased Productivity and Health https://www.helloraderco.com/meeting-culture/ Revolutionize Your One-to-Ones: The Surprising Benefits of Walking Meetings - https://www.helloraderco.com/benefits-of-walking-meetings/   Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management. Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff. From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.   Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.     Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching: www.helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking: www.marceyrader.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: Reclaim Your Workday www.reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot Tipsletter: https://radergoodies.com/profile #ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity #Meetings #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #RelentlessPrioritization
125 - You Don’t Struggle With Reading. You've Been Told How To Read Wrong
2026/04/28
Reading doesn’t fail people with ADHD. Bad design does. In this episode of the Health-Powered Productivity™ Podcast, Marcey Rader dismantles the idea that reading requires stillness, discipline, or long, uninterrupted blocks of time. Instead, she shows how to design a reading habit that works with an ADHD brain, not against it. Why it Matters Shame kills consistency. Most reading advice assumes a neurotypical brain. Reading is an input system. Systems can be redesigned. What You’ll Learn Why shrinking the entry point makes reading sustainable Pages vs. minutes and which one actually builds focus and why to try both ways How movement improves attention while reading Why you don’t need to finish books for them to be valuable A simple 10-minute ADHD-friendly reading ritual Mentioned Work Well. Play More! Productive, Clutter-Free, Healthy Living - One Step at a Time www.workwellplaymore.com Reclaim Your Workday: Sustainable Productivity Habits for the New World of Work www.reclaimyourworkday.com Episode 107: Designing Meetings for Neurodivergent Brains Where Everyone Wins https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/107-designing-meetings-for-neurodivergent-brains-where/id1569968080?i=1000720699698 Episode 114: Attention Anchor: The Environment Set-Up for Better Focus https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/114-attention-anchor-part-1-the-environment-set-up/id1569968080?i=1000736403311 Episode 115: Attention Anchor: The Mindset Ritual That Makes Work Stick https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/115-attention-anchor-part-2-the-mindset-ritual-that/id1569968080?i=1000737227395 Episode 116: Attention Anchor: The Energy Flip For Focus in Under Five Minutes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/116-attention-anchor-part-3-energy-flip-on-focus-in/id1569968080?i=1000739264847   Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management. Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff. From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.   Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.     Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching: www.helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking: www.marceyrader.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: Reclaim Your Workday www.reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot Tipsletter: https://radergoodies.com/profile #ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity #ADHDhacks #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #ADHD #Prioritization
124 - Make Prioritization Visible: A Leadership Diagnostic
2026/04/07
In this episode host Marcey Rader turns a hard truth into a leadership tool: when priorities aren’t visible, teams optimize everything and impact thins. Using the Altitude method (see Episode 118) and your Top Three, Marcey shows how to reduce decision load, cut operational drag, and protect capacity with an 85% planning bar and clear guardrails.   Why it matters Invisible priorities create rework, slow decisions, and burnout. Visible Top Three at every altitude lowers decision load and stress. An 85% capacity bar funds resilience for real life and real opportunities.   What you’ll learn How to publish Top Three at Strategic/Operational/Ground altitudes How to spot “optimization theater” and name the real costs Four guardrails: 85% capacity, kill-first meetings, one decision owner, public scoreboard Five tactical moves you can implement this week   References Episode 118: Stop Calendar Decorating: Prioritize First With the Altitude Method https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/118-stop-calendar-decorating-prioritize-first-with/id1569968080?i=1000746834918 Episode 112: Microwave or Crockpot: Pick the Right Method for Smarter Decisions - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/112-microwave-or-crockpot-pick-the-right-method-for/id1569968080?i=1000731771485 Episode 83: Mastering the Priorities Puzzle: Are you Walking the Talk? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/83-mastering-the-priorities-puzzle-are-you-walking-the-talk/id1569968080?i=1000640301736   Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management. Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff. From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.   Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.     Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching: www.helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking: www.marceyrader.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: Reclaim Your Workday www.reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot Tipsletter: https://radergoodies.com/profile #ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity #ProductivityHacks #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #TEDxSpeaker #Prioritization
123: Don’t Improve the Symptom Before You Address the Source
2026/03/31
In this timely episode, Marcey Rader uses a frustrating airport experience to unpack a bigger leadership problem: optimizing before prioritizing. Long lines are visible. The real issue usually is not. When leaders respond to symptoms instead of the source, they may look busy, but they won't improve outcomes.   Why it matters Visible action is not always meaningful action Leaders sometimes fix what’s seen instead of what’s broken Fewer meetings, faster decisions, and less rework start with better prioritization Teams lose capacity when leaders solve around the bottleneck instead of removing it What you’ll learn Why optics versus outcomes is a leadership issue How to spot optimization that is disguising a deeper problem Why status meetings and inbox overload often point to broken systems How to use the Relentless Prioritization Filter to protect capacity   Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management. Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff. From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.   Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate. Resources and Links • Asana study https://asana.com/resources/work-isnt-working • Microsoft study https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/breaking-down-infinite-workday • ClickUp https://try.web.clickup.com/tw6t55z7tzf2     Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching: www.helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking: www.marceyrader.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: Reclaim Your Workday www.reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot Tipsletter: https://radergoodies.com/profile #ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #RuthlessPrioritization #HealthPoweredProductivity #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker  #Prioritization
122 - Loom Videos: The 5-Minute Habit That Replaces a 30-Minute Meeting
2026/03/24
In this episode, Marcey Rader shows how a simple 5‑minute Loom video can replace a 30‑minute meeting without losing clarity or connection. She breaks down async video vs. live calls, the five-part structure for a great Loom, real client examples, and the guardrails to keep it accessible and searchable. Relentless prioritization beats endless optimization, and it's a practical way to reclaim hours.   Marcey Rader shows you four real ways RaderCo uses Loom to reduce meetings, cut back-and-forth, and keep human connection intact in the loom video link below. (4 min) https://www.loom.com/share/1135d3f7bdb54c2ea1856b90295ba4f4   Why it matters • Meetings are the default, not the best tool. • Async video forces clarity and speeds decisions. • A weekly 5‑minute Loom can return 26 hours per person per year. • Scaled across teams, those hours convert to real budget and focus.   What you’ll learn • When Loom beats a meeting: tone, visuals, pre‑reads, status, and connection. • The 5‑part Loom: purpose, context, show the thing, call to action, trim and title. • Real‑world use cases that cut meetings and rework. • Objections and guardrails: accessibility, privacy, paper trails. • A plug‑and‑play blueprint and weekly swaps you can make now.   Additional resources: Loom - www.loom.com Navigating the Return to the Office - The Future of Work - https://www.helloraderco.com/return-to-the-office/ Zoom Zombies to Async Advocates: Burn Down Your Meeting Culture and Rebuild It - https://www.helloraderco.com/meeting-culture/ Meeting Overload: How to Shorten Meetings and Increase Productivity Using Video Software - https://www.helloraderco.com/shorten-meetings/ How to Offboard an Employee Without a Hitch - https://www.helloraderco.com/how-to-offboard-an-employee/   Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management. Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff. From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.   Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.   Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching: www.helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking: www.marceyrader.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: Reclaim Your Workday www.reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot Tipsletter: https://radergoodies.com/profile #ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity #MeetingHacks #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #TEDxSpeaker #Prioritization
121 - 10 Things Professional Speakers Ask For—and Why They Make Your Event Better
2026/03/10
Meeting planners: the AV notes and “asks” aren’t diva moves. They’re design choices that protect your timeline, improve engagement, and elevate audience experience.   Why it matters • Better sightlines and audio = higher engagement • Tight room + clean lighting = keynote energy • Guardrails beat “winging it” on intros and timing   What you’ll learn • Confidence monitors, lighting, mic, and riser basics • How seating, temperature, and laptop norms affect learning • Why CSP® credentials de-risk your hire   References • Longhand vs. laptop note-taking research. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614524581 • NSA Certified Speaking Professional® criteria. https://nsaspeaker.org/csp/   Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management. Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff. From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.   Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.   Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching: www.helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking: www.marceyrader.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: Reclaim Your Workday www.reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot Tipsletter: https://radergoodies.com/profile #ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity #ProductivityHacks #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #TEDxSpeaker #Prioritization
120 - Presentation Skills for Professionals: Five Moves That Actually Land
2026/02/24
Marcey cuts through slide soup and webcam woes with a relevant playbook for people who present as part of their job. You will learn how to right-size content, run Zoom or Teams like a pro, and drive decisions without turning your deck into a document.   Why it matters • Meetings are expensive. Clarity protects attention and accelerates decisions. • Split attention kills comprehension. Guardrails keep people with you.   What you’ll learn • Minimum Viable Detail and how to tailor depth to your audience • Slide rules that make people listen, not read • Virtual delivery hygiene for Zoom or Teams • In-room presence that respects attention • Engagement prompts that drive action • When design polish is worth it and how to outsource smartly   Related Resources Episode 106 - Stop Wasting Your Trainings: The Dos and Don'ts for In-Person Learning (16 min) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/106-stop-wasting-your-trainings-the-dos-donts-for-in/id1569968080?i=1000718441286 Episode 107 - Designing Meetings for Neurodivergent Brains Where Everyone Wins (20 min) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/107-designing-meetings-for-neurodivergent-brains-where/id1569968080?i=1000720699698   Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management. Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff. From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.   Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.   Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching: www.helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking: www.marceyrader.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: Reclaim Your Workday www.reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot Tipsletter: https://radergoodies.com/profile #ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity #ProductivityHacks #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #TEDxSpeaker #Prioritization
119 - Turn Your Strengths Into Real-Life Guardrails
2026/02/10
Marcey Rader walks through her top five CliftonStrengths and how they help and sometimes hinder, including the change vs acceptance partner dynamic, why Maximizer means hiring experts, and how low Empathy can still show care through action.   Why it matters • Assessments don’t change behavior. Interpretation and guardrails do. • Overused strengths fuel burnout, rework, and friction. • Declaring “change” or “acceptance” reduces relationship whiplash.   What you’ll learn • How to turn Learner into action instead of accumulation • When Maximizer means buy, not build • A simple “change or acceptance?” question to lower friction at home and work • How to spot and prevent strength-overuse under stress   Want a 1:1 debrief or a team workshop? RaderCo’s StrengthsFinder coaches can help. www.helloraderco.com/teams     Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management. Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff. From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.   Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.   Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching: www.helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking: www.marceyrader.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: Reclaim Your Workday www.reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot Tipsletter: https://radergoodies.com/profile     #ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity  #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #TEDxSpeaker #StrengthsLeverage
118 - Stop Calendar Decorating: Prioritize First with the Altitude Method
2026/01/27
If everything is important, nothing is. Use a simple altitude model to set one to three priorities and make your plans stick. In this episode of the Health‑Powered Productivity™ Podcast, Marcey Rader turns resolutions into reality with ruthless prioritization. She walks through the Altitude Method from annual to daily, the Rule of Three, and how to cascade priorities into monthly plans without overstuffing your calendar. Marcey shares personal examples, the Top 3 practice, and the habits that support execution. Why It Matters • Planning without prioritizing wastes time, creates rework, and fuels failure. • One to three priorities align decisions and attention. • Guardrails reduce decision fatigue, so follow‑through improves. What You’ll Learn • The five altitudes: annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily. • The Rule of Three and why fewer priorities create a higher likelihood of reaching your goals. • Micro‑habits that support execution, including No Nightly Scroll.   Key Takeaways Prioritize first. Then plan. Never set more than three priorities at any altitude. One is allowed. If it matters, put time on the calendar. Wishes don't work. Do‑This‑Now Exercise Say it and write it. This year I am prioritizing [1–3 things]. In Q1, success looks like [one outcome per priority]. This month, the next step is [one task per priority].   Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management. Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff. From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.   Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate. Resources and Links • PowerPath Playbook and Program: www.helloraderco.com/playbook • Reclaim Your Workday book: www.reclaimyourworkday.com/amazon • Reclaim Your Workday 8‑Week Action Club enrollment: www.reclaimyourworkday.com/action-club   Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching: www.helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking: www.marceyrader.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: Reclaim Your Workday www.reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot Tipsletter: https://radergoodies.com/profile #ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity  #ProductivityHacks #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #TEDxSpeaker #Prioritization
117 - Reflections That Stick: How I Run Annual and Quarterly Professional and Personal Reviews
2026/01/13
Marcey Rader shares her exact reflection prompts and how she runs annual, quarterly, and monthly reviews using the PowerPath Playbook. Real wins, real misses, and how to make reflection your champion team sport.   Why it matters • Busy is not a strategy. Reflection is. • Reflection prevents repeat mistakes and spotlights repeatable wins. • Doing it with others adds accountability and better ideas.   What you’ll learn • The specific prompts Marcey uses for annual reflections • How to track wins and lessons all year so year-end is easy • How couples can use the same structure • A simple way to turn small budgets into a big pipeline   Resources • PowerPath Goal-Achievement Course and Playbook: helloraderco.com/playbook • Book: Reclaim Your Workday, reclaimyourworkday.com Breely Scheduling - www.app.breely.com Episode 37: Why Reflections Matter at Milestone Moments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-powered-productivity-with-rader-co/id1569968080?i=1000544302011   Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management. Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff. From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.   Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.   Connect with Marcey: Consulting, Training, and Coaching: www.helloraderco.com Keynote Speaking: www.marceyrader.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marceyrader Book: Reclaim Your Workday www.reclaimyourworkday.com Weekender Snapshot Tipsletter: https://radergoodies.com/profile #ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity  #ProductivityHacks #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #TEDxSpeaker #Reflections

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4.7 out of 5
12 reviews
★★★★★
kellyelli 2025/03/04
Awesome pod
Marcey is so brilliant a d down to earth, you will not be disappointed with any of her topics! They are relatable across settings.
★★★★★
Blah-meh 2024/04/08
Podcast is SO awesome
Thank you Marcey for the time, effort, energy and attention to detail you give when developing the weekly podcasts. The podcast is informative, though...
★★★★★
iisawood 2024/02/27
Wow! I’m hooked. Adding this to my weekly LIFE HACK To-Do list!
So great. I get in-get out, with just a few minutes each week, I come away with primo knowledge
★★★★★
Peak Pro 2022/12/15
Always Actionable Take-aways
Every episode of Marcey’s podcast provides me with an action item I can immediately implement! The short length of each episode is fantastic and is s...
★★★★★
KDray1 2021/12/26
More succinct the better / this is excellent
The mix of quality and respecting listener’s time (quantity) is tops. There was a podcast produced from someone else I enjoy, that was 1:55. It’s east...
★★★★★
Bbobbyrossi 2021/06/25
Bite size productivity tips
I love the short, direct productivity tips that’s o can take action on right away. They are helpful and relatable to my workday. Focus90 is a great i...
★★★★★
Annie Fran 2021/06/23
Productivity tips that are quick (and productive) to get!
Marcey and her company, Rader Co., are my go to resource for productivity with a point - aka productivity that won’t burn me out. Love the podcast for...
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