Every Day Podcast

Connor Andrees

I believe you can reach your potential through getting a little better every day. This podcast was created to support your journey. New episodes every weekday, because consistency beats perfection. 

  1. 1d ago ·  Video

    E25 AI Creation: Reset Gates

    This week I built a focus tool by taking things out. Every focus app gamifies it with streaks, scores, and little trees, and you end up good at the app instead of good at focusing. Reset Gates is a timer and a desktop notification, nothing else. When it fires, you stand up, breathe, and decide whether to go again. I'm honest about the tradeoffs here: no data means no proof, and some people really do run on streaks.

  2. 2d ago ·  Video

    E24 Never Coming Back Down

    A four-second email at 4:52 on a Friday can sit in your body for an hour. This episode covers what actually spikes cortisol (uncontrollable situations and being judged hit hardest), what it does to you, and how long it lasts. It also explains how replaying the stressor turns one spike into five. The levers are boring: the physiological sigh, a walk after a rough meeting, closing the loop on paper, and protecting your baseline. The goal isn't zero stress. Skip the "cortisol cocktail" stuff.

  3. 3d ago ·  Video

    E23 You're Not Bad at Meditating

    Almost everyone who says they can't meditate is describing it correctly and calling it failure. The wandering is the exercise. Noticing and coming back is the rep. This episode covers what meditation is actually for: a wider gap between stimulus and response, the same gap from the Reaction episode. It's also counter-training for an economy built to fragment your attention. Two minutes counts, with no cushion, no chanting, and no new identity required. It's a tool, not a cure-all.

  4. 4d ago ·  Video

    E22 Get It Out of Your Head

    The thought you circle at 2am is almost always smaller on paper. Why writing forces a vague worry to commit to something, why the page is the only record memory can't rewrite, and why most journaling habits die of formatting. It's not only for hard days. Writing down the good stuff makes you better at noticing it, and re-reading lets you live it twice. Writing about your goals keeps your subconscious working on them. One warning: rumination with better handwriting isn't processing.

  5. 5d ago ·  Video

    E21 Three Pounds, Twenty Watts

    You caught your keys without thinking. Your brain did the math anyway. This episode opens a week on the mind by giving it some credit. It has 86 billion neurons and runs on less power than a dim bulb. It predicts reality instead of seeing it live, rewires itself based on what you repeat, and runs most of your life on autopilot. Then comes the turn: a lot of what we call "my brain is broken" is a machine built for a world that no longer exists. The rest of the week is about working with that design instead of fighting it.

  6. Oct 23 ·  Video

    E20 The 40% Week

    This week's build is a fitness app for the weeks that fall apart: paste your program, say how bad it got, and it tells you what to cut and what to protect. Took about 40 minutes in Claude Code with no coding background, runs on an API key for pennies, and it doesn't know why your week went sideways — so consult a doctor and go build a better version.

  7. Oct 22 ·  Video

    E19 You Don't Need the Watch

    The fitness industry sells optimization, and I like optimizing — but it'd be disingenuous to tell you that you need any of it. I go through the dose that actually moves the needle: cardio, 30–60 minutes of strength a week, going outside, and why the best exercise is the one you're still doing in March.

  8. Oct 21 ·  Video

    E18 The Crash and Chase Loop

    Sugar isn't a moral failing and it isn't poison — it's just engineered well enough to slip past the system that tells you you've had enough, which is how I drank two shaken espressos and felt like I'd consumed nothing. I break down the crash-and-chase loop, why adding beats subtracting, and the one swap that outperforms an overhaul.

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I believe you can reach your potential through getting a little better every day. This podcast was created to support your journey. New episodes every weekday, because consistency beats perfection. 

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  • Creator
    Connor Andrees
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    25
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Every Day Podcast
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