The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams
The Motivation Mindset is an award-winning time management podcast hosted by Risa Williams, therapist and the book author of The Ultimate Time Management Toolkit and The Procrastination Playbook. The MM Podcast provides practical tools from experts to help you get stuff done without all the stress. Tune up your daily mindset with these motivating coffee-break sized episodes.
Frequent co-hosts include: Erica Curtis, Trevor Stockwell, Ryan Muldoon, and Stevon Lewis.
**Winner of The Positive Change Podcast Award: Psychology**
(All tools discussed on the show are meant for educational purposes only and not as a replacement for medical care or psychotherapy).
Episodes
73 episodes
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams & Ryan Muldoon: ADHD Procrastination
ADHD and procrastination tend to go hand in hand, and on this episode, Ryan Muldoon and Risa Williams discuss the subtle ways procrastination can sneak up on people with ADHD. Self-protection can be a sneaky type of procrastination where we fee...
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Season 2
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Episode 46
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23:27
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams & Trevor Stockwell: Healthy Procrastination
How do you know if the procrastination you're doing is healthy or unhealthy? On this episode, Risa Williams and Trevor Stockwell discuss healthy procrastination vs. unhealthy procrastination. When is procrastination a form of healthy tas...
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Season 2
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Episode 45
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23:40
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Work/Life Balance - Georgie Bryant
Does your work/life balance need some adjusting so you can connect more with feeling done and taking a real break? Risa Williams talks to time management coach, Georgie Bryant, about balancing out work, life, family, and rest times each week. W...
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Season 2
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Episode 44
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25:31
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams & Erica Curtis: September Stress
Are you feeling a lot more stress now that it's September? Is the Fall cranking up the work stress, the school stress, the family stress for you? You're not alone! Risa Williams & Erica Curtis look at September Stress in this episode, and p...
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Season 2
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Episode 43
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20:45
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Meditative Practices - Jeff Patterson
Are you looking for ways to bring down the stress in your everyday life? Have you been wanting to try out meditation but it just seems too "hard" or "intimidating" to quiet down your mind for long stretches of time? Meditation expert Jeff Patte...
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Season 2
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Episode 42
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21:28
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams & Erica Curtis: Organization Overwhelm
When it comes to getting organized or tackling organization projects, do you freeze up with overwhelm? Do you feel shut down, do you start to procrastinate, or do you feel that avoidance starting to take over?Risa Williams and Erica Cur...
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Season 2
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Episode 41
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28:23
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams & Ryan Muldoon: The ADHD Toolkit - Finding Focus
In this special episode of the ADHD Toolkit, Risa Williams & Ryan Muldoon talk about learning ways to find your focus when you have ADHD. They discuss using The Task Intensity Meter from Risa's book, The Ultimate Time Management Toolkit, re...
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The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Movement - Sepideh Saremi
Do you struggle to get enough exercise in your everyday life? Do you know you need to move around more but find yourself sitting down a whole lot? Risa Williams talks to Run Walk Talk Founder, Sepideh Saremi, about how we can get more movement ...
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Season 2
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Episode 39
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23:56
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams, Erica Curtis & Hilary Kern: The Creative Toolkit - Feedback
Do you struggle with hearing feedback about your creative work? Does receiving critiques make you want to run away and hide? Do you often procrastinate solving problems that people point out with your artistic work? Then, this episode is for yo...
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Season 2
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Episode 38
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27:39
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Imposter Syndrome - Stevon Lewis
Do you struggle with acknowledging your own accomplishments and letting yourself feel proud of things you done on a chronic basis? Do you feel like you are "fraud" when people give you compliments about things you've done? In this episode, Risa...
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Season 2
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Episode 37
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21:47
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams, Hilary Kern & Erica Curtis: Creative Block
Have you ever felt stuck and blocked while working on a creative project? Has creative block ever completely shut you down and made you want to give up? Risa Williams is joined by art therapists and artists, Erica Curtis and Hilary Kern, to tal...
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22:25
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams and Erica Curtis: Summer Expectations
It's summer, the kids are out of school, what are your expectations for the next few months? And what are your vacation expectations? Risa Williams and Erica Curtis look at how our expectations for summer vacations sometimes lead us to feel hig...
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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30:48
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Weekly Review - Lori Oberbroeckling
In this episode, Risa Williams talks to professional organizer, podcaster, and mom influencer, Lori Oberbroeckling, about doing a "Weekly Review" to fine-tune our focus on a regular basis.They discuss:-How to set up your week by doi...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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24:37
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams and Stevon Lewis: Real Confidence
What is the difference between real confidence vs. fake confidence? What gives someone that kind of quiet strength and belief in themselves that we tend to admire? Stevon Lewis and Risa Williams discuss different types of confidence, and how we...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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26:55
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Comparison - Deanna Yates
Do you often compare yourself to people you know or people on social media? Do you find that after you look at posts online, you start to spiral into feelings of insecurity and shame about where you're at in life? Influencer, organizer an...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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20:13
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams & Trevor Stockwell: Distractions
In this episode, Risa Williams talks to leadership coach and author, Trevor Stockwell, about navigating distractions and how to harness our focus in more effective ways each week. Trevor shares tools from his new book,
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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22:38
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams and Ryan Muldoon: The ADHD Toolkit - Spring Cleaning
Do you have ADHD and struggle with spring cleaning and organization? Do you find yourself turning into a "human roomba" and struggling to complete household tasks? Join Risa Williams and Ryan Muldoon as they discuss how ADHD can affect our moti...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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24:49
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams and Erica Curtis: Email Anxiety
Are emails causing you stress and anxiety? Do you avoid reading your emails or sending them sometimes? Did you know that there's something called "email apnea" where people hold their breath when opening their emails? In this episode, Erica Cur...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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24:14
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams and Stevon Lewis: Getting Unstuck
In this lively episode, Risa Williams and Stevon Lewis discuss ways we get ourselves stuck with our own thinking and the narratives that we tend to tell ourselves about our ability to do things.They discuss: Catastrophizing and Future-P...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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26:46
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: The Two Questions
Risa Williams reveals the two questions you can ask yourself each day that can lead you to much insight about how you want to be spending your future time...By asking yourself one question in the morning, and one question at night, and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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16:47
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Practical Minimalism - Stephanie Seferian
Do you struggle with decluttering and getting rid of stuff because you just don't know where to begin? Risa Williams talks to minimalist, book author, and the host of Sustainable Minimalists Podcast,
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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26:55
The Motivation Mindset: Perfectionism with Risa Williams and Tšhegofatšo Ndabane
Do you beat yourself up a lot for not doing things "perfectly"? Do you hold yourself to different (unfair) standards that you wouldn't hold others up to? Do you often describe yourself as a "perfectionist" to other people?Then this is t...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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20:48
The Motivation Mindset: The ADHD Toolkit with Risa Williams and Ryan Muldoon
In this episode of The Motivation Mindset, Risa Williams talks about ADHD tools and strategies with influencer/therapist/comedian, Ryan Muldoon. They talk about common ADHD time management problems such as hyperfocus and burnout, that te...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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18:35
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams & Erica Curtis: The Brain Boost - Transforming Anger
Have you ever wondered if there's a way to harness everyday anger or frustration and turn it into a force that propels us forward positively? Join Erica Curtis and Risa Williams in this energetic conversation about the transformative power of w...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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31:01
The Motivation Mindset with Risa Williams: Sneaky Thoughts - Deanna Yates
Do you have sneaky daily thoughts that might be holding back from decluttering and organizing your home more effectively? Deanna Yates, the "decluttering queen," returns to the show to call out those sneaky thoughts and challenge you to reframe...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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16:14