Chill Productivity (Part 1)

Breaks every 20 minutes? Only check email at 9 and 3? Two naps a day? This could be chill productivity for you says guest and coaching psychologist Dr. Natalie Lancer because greater productivity comes when you match your goals with who you are and what you want. Lancer helps people get moving on projects, business ventures, books and more, and she'll also help you reach your objectives... and enjoy the process. After the interview, host Jordan Friedman gives you motivating stats about the benefits of taking brief and real breaks.

About Guest Natalie Lancer

Dr. Natalie Lancer is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist, Coach, Coach Supervisor, Academic, Writer and Speaker. She is the Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Coaching Psychology, the host of their podcast and a Trustee of the BPS. She has published a number of peer-reviewed papers, including articles on the Eight Tensions Framework – the core of her Guts and Goals and Smart Supervision Programmes. Natalie also co-authored an Amazon bestseller – Lancer, N., Clutterbuck, D. and Megginson, D. (2016). Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring (2nd edn). Oxford: Routledge.

She is accredited by the Association for Coaching and is a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. As a Performance and Productivity Coaching Psychologist, she helps people become a more motivated, disciplined and energised version of themselves so they can achieve the goals and aspirations they have had for many years, but couldn’t achieve before. She does this by combining the teaching of timeless existential philosophical truths about how to pursue our life projects and fast-paced, practical coaching to ensure you build new, motivating routines and structures and achieve your goals. 

As well as working as a Coaching Psychologist, Natalie has a number of voluntary positions and cares for her two young daughters. She fully understands the need for work-life balance and shares practical strategies on how to juggle pushing forward on our goals with family commitments.

Natalie Lancer's Resources

Do More, Achieve More, Become More (free guide)

Natalie's website

 8 Tensions Framework (graphic)

8 Tensions Framework (article)

 

The Chill Factory App

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About Host Jordan Friedman

Jordan is known as The Stress Coach, a career path that likely started when one of the world’s largest brain tumors was discovered in his head at age 10. The resulting, nonstop stress continued through college until he reluctantly enrolled in a stress management class that led to much less stress, a degree in public health, a job as Columbia University’s health education director and now a career as a global stress management speaker, trainer and author. For 25 years, Jordan's been privileged to help and learn from 9/11 survivors, teachers, CEOs, police officers, incarcerated adults, students and lots of other stressed people who want to be more s