If you know anything about me in the last year of my life for the last eight years of my life

You will know that I am someone who gets a lot of shit done

I'm someone who really relies on her ability to be productive, be efficient, and get things done when I say I will get them done.

But that is not a genetic trait or anything I was born with, nor is it anything that I knew how to do for the first, I don't know, 35 years of my life.

In fact, I was an epic, epic procrastinator.

When I went through law school, I used to put off studying for exams until the night before,

and I would outline a whole class, that's what it's called in law school.

It's like taking notes on the whole class and reviewing them. I would do that the night before the exam. Like a person who wanted to ruin her own life, so to be the person I am now where things generally get done when I say they'll get done and even when they occasionally don't I don't have a ton of anxiety and it doesn't throw my whole life off is something I've worked really hard to create.

And of course I am not surprised that a lot of the people who come to me and listen to the

podcast or come and work with me are people who want to be more productive as well, want to get more done.

They have big things they want to accomplish.

They want to reach ambitious goals in different areas of their life and they want to get

more done. And there's always this really jarring moment for them

when they start to get coached and they start to understand

that they've fallen victim to what I call the Feminist Productivity Paradox.

The Feminist Productivity Paradox is the paradox that is created in a society where we are

taught to think that we always need to be doing more and

more and hustling faster and faster in order to achieve and accomplish what we

want and we think we just need to get more efficient and in some ways we do in some ways we aren't using our time

efficiently we're not using our time well but if we don't clean up the thinking that is

causing the choices that we're making, then getting more

efficient actually backfires. If you are saying yes to a million things that you

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