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Start loving Mondays! Join Marissa & Joel each week for practical strategies, weekly rhythms, and honest insights to help you slow down, show up, and live intentionally. Based on the proven Full Focus methods used in the Full Focus Planner™, each episode offers habits, mindset shifts, and real support so you can quiet the noise, follow through, and build a life that feels good to live. Ready to focus on what really matters?

  1. 9 hr ago

    Introducing Your WorkStyle: Why the Same Advice Keeps Not Working

    You’ve tried the system, the reset, the earlier alarm, the batched tasks, the protected mornings—and somehow you keep landing in the same place. In this episode, Joel and Marissa return from hiatus to introduce the WorkStyle Assessment and explain why one-size-fits-all productivity advice keeps failing you. The truth underneath it: the challenges are universal, but you are particular, and the way you work is different from the person next to you. When you understand your own default mode, you can play to its strengths (and stop tripping over its traps). Key Takeaways The Challenges Are Universal. Everyone faces the same handful of realities: overload (too much to do), overwhelm (too much to handle emotionally), real human constraints, and a need for rest and clarity. Our individual experiences are all shaped by these universal challenges.But You Are Particular. How you got here and where you go next depend on who you are. We differ in what motivates us, where we get stuck, how we feel about rest, how we respond to help, and how we relate to uncertainty—so the productivity method that works for someone else may not work for you.Meet the Five WorkStyles. Each WorkStyle has a strength that makes them exceptional and, pushed too far, leads to their exhaustion: the Giver (generosity), the Achiever (drive), the Juggler (capability), the Optimizer (high standards), and the Improviser (curiosity). This is a default you return to under pressure—not your identity.Your Secondary Style Changes the Picture. The assessment gives you a primary and a secondary style, and the second one reshapes how the first shows up. Two jugglers can look completely different depending on what backs them up—which is what keeps you uniquely you.Do It With Your Team. Self-awareness is only half the payoff; the other half is empathy. When a whole team knows one another’s styles, you build trust, collaborate better, and can name the friction—because you’re guaranteed to work alongside every one of these styles. Resources Take the Assessment: fullfocus.co/wsThis episode was produced by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound

    Introducing Your WorkStyle: Why the Same Advice Keeps Not Working

  2. 24 Aug

    We're Back!

    This episode was produced by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound

    We're Back!

  3. 17 Aug ·  Bonus

    SUMMER REPLAY: How to Clear Your Calendar in Your Busiest Seasons

    This episode was produced by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound

    SUMMER REPLAY: How to Clear Your Calendar in Your Busiest Seasons

  4. 10 Aug ·  Bonus

    SUMMER REPLAY: Creating Effective Habits with Amy Porterfield

    This episode was produced by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound

    SUMMER REPLAY: Creating Effective Habits with Amy Porterfield

  5. 3 Aug ·  Bonus

    SUMMER REPLAY: 10 Activities to Get Off Your Screens and Back to Real Life

    This episode was produced by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound

    SUMMER REPLAY: 10 Activities to Get Off Your Screens and Back to Real Life

  6. 27 Jul ·  Bonus

    SUMMER REPLAY: Overcoming the Thinking That Holds You Back

    This episode was produced by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound

    SUMMER REPLAY: Overcoming the Thinking That Holds You Back

  7. 20 Jul ·  Bonus

    SUMMER REPLAY: Mastermind It: 4 Ways to Win with Friends

    This episode was produced by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound

    SUMMER REPLAY: Mastermind It: 4 Ways to Win with Friends

  8. 13 Jul ·  Bonus

    SUMMER REPLAY: 4 Tactics for Building Goal Momentum

    This episode was produced by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound

    SUMMER REPLAY: 4 Tactics for Building Goal Momentum
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Start loving Mondays! Join Marissa & Joel each week for practical strategies, weekly rhythms, and honest insights to help you slow down, show up, and live intentionally. Based on the proven Full Focus methods used in the Full Focus Planner™, each episode offers habits, mindset shifts, and real support so you can quiet the noise, follow through, and build a life that feels good to live. Ready to focus on what really matters?

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  • Creator
    Full Focus
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    328
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