Planner Lifestyle Podcast

Season 4, Episode 1

It's the start of a solo season showcasing planner basics, product trends, pretty stuff, productive stuff, and more.

A recent trend I'm seeing is an oldie but a goodie yet it feels fresh and disruptive at the same time.

It's notepads!

• Maybe notepads can be less fuss?
• Maybe notepads can be cheaper?
• Maybe we just want to rip out pages, crumple them in a ball, then light them on fire when the week is over?

Whatever the case, notepads are making their resurgence with style.

Wanna start a convo about notepads? Head to Planner Lifestyle fb group

The items featured in today's show (no affiliation or list order) are as follows:

Imperfect Inspiration (I AM planner notepad)

Page Eleven Paper Goods (Wake Up and Work Daily Notepad)

Beespoked (Tear off Notepads)

Project Functional Notepad by Recollections (8 1/2" by 11" notepad with no branding and light borders)

Noted by Post-It

Season 3, Episode 15

How to Love Your Content Creation with Kate Wilkerson. She shares several planning methods and tools that can help streamline social media and content production.

Kate's Instagram: Planner_Nerd_Plans

Kate's Facebook Group: Planner Nerd Plans Friends

Kate's YouTube: Planner_Nerd_Plans

Kate's Shop: http://www.douglasfirplannerco.com/

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My guest says it so well...

I am a business owner, wife, and mom to three boys. I have always wanted to own and grow a business, that is my first passion. My second passion is planning and knowing what I can do. Finally, my last passion would be learning and teaching history, especially American history.

I discovered goal planning just recently but it took me forever to find the right teacher and way. I am willing to figure things out and research until my answers are answered. Sometimes I go down the rabbit hole of researching and researching for hours at a time.

After finally having my first son, I got a degree in Business Management. Then I got my real estate license to see if I could do it and be a business owner. In my last year of being a realtor, I started a YouTube Channel called Working Mom Plans, tried to grow it but it didn’t feel like a good start. So earlier in 2020, I deleted that channel and created a new one, still using Working Mom Plans but as of June I finally changed it to something I feel is me. I am a nerd in many things, planning, computer games, books, learning everything, and crocheting.

Mentions on Today's Show:

Brandi Michelle

Sam Kelley

Kendra Bork

Kan.ban Boards

Sarrah Cannon from Heart Breathings (#HB90)

Get Things Done (GTD)

The Happy Planner

The Passion Planner

Hoot Suite (social media tool)

Tube Buddy (youtube tool)

Season 3, Episode 9

The Threes: Enneagram + Planner Mashup Series

My guests today are Erin and Mandie. They are helpful, driven individuals with an eye on design. They share what life is like as Enneagram Type 3, The Successful Achiever, and how it affects their planning lifestyle.

Erin's Bio:

Etsy Shop: SmallTownGrace.etsy.com

Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/SmallTownGraceonEtsy

Instagram: @SmallTownGrace

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Born & raised in a small town in Texas, Erin has always been taught the value of hard work. This carried her through college, spending a few years teaching, & now an Etsy shop runs out of her home. What started out as a hobby, quickly became a creative outlet for this stay-at-home mom of 2. Now 4 years later, Small Town Grace has become one of her jobs & something that helps give her a sense of purpose. Through her business, she not only has helped her family, but she has also built a community of “Grace Girls” (what her customers lovingly call themselves) within her shops Facebook group that has become one of her happy places and a place where she has formed meaningful friendships.

Erin's previous Planner Lifestyle Podcast episode.

Mandie's Bio:

Etsy & Youtube: AMU Designs

IG: mandie.u

Email: [email protected]

Schedule a chat! https://calendly.com/amandamu0305/30min

Promo code for listeners: Anyone who heard about my Etsy shop from this podcast will receive 5% off any purchase! Message me on IG/Etsy with code: PLP5% to redeem!

Hi all! My name is Amanda. I am super passionate about diversity and inclusion, helping communities, and planning! I used to work for Yelp and my last year there really blended both of my passions together. I was able to plan, create, and facilitate a mentorship program, as well as lead some internal and external events with our employee resource groups. I am always pushing myself to diversify and get outside of my comfort zone, which is why I am opening up my Etsy shop and doing videos on Youtube by the end of this month! I am always wanting and willing to meet new people, so feel free to reach out to me anytime! My Instagram handle is mandie.u, which will have my linktree up soon, with all my other ventures.

Kris Adams joins us for a few minutes to outline the attributes of a type 3 individual. Her insights continue to amaze me!

You can hire her for your vocal work at krisadamsvoice.com

Season 3, Episode 7

The Ones: Enneagram + Planner Mashup Series

Welcome to the first in a series of nine shows dedicated to the exploration of enneagram numbers in the planner community.

Each week, two people of each number will be represented in the form of a conversational interview facilitated by me, the host, Jessica McWilliams.

Enneagram Enthusiast:

Since it's the first week, I have included a helpful introduction to the enneagram that is less than 10-minutes. Our resident enneagram enthusiast Kris Adams gives a basic but robust explanation of the enneagram personality tool in today's episode. Kris outlines what we can expect from The Ones before the planner conversation begins. She'll be joining us each week to break down the characteristics of each enneagram number we feature.

She is a vocal artist and can be found at www.krisadamsvoice.com for job inquiries. Kris is an enneagram enthusiast and a mom of two grown boys and a 15-year-old daughter. She's had a career in radio/voiceovers and on-camera acting for nearly 35 years and makes her home in the South Minneapolis neighborhood she grew up in.

Enneagram Type 1: The Moral Perfectionist

Kim is a 44-year-old mother to 4 sporty, smelly, and sweet boys ranging in the ages of 8 to 20 and lucky enough to be married to her favorite person in the world who lets her play in her craft room instead of watching man movies at night. When not doing laundry, this ex-fiber arts teacher loves memory keeping and creatively plans to make sure she doesn't routinely forget someone at some sports practice! Don't let all that household testosterone fool you, this bubbly, ex-pageant girl knows her sparkle and sass which you'll find sprinkled throughout her projects and videos :) Instagram @krodesigns, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest Blog: krodesigns.blogspot.com Email: [email protected]

Libby is the leader and co-founder of True North Trio an active planner event group based in the mid-west. You can find her adorable pups and her shenanigans on her insta: https://www.instagram.com/libby_in_wi/ She is an avid self-manicurist, crocheter, and cookie baker. You will never find Libby using anything but a horizontal planner and you will never find her posting it online.

Resources and Brands Mentioned:

May Designs Notebooks

Aura Estelle Cloud

The Enneagram Institute

The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron

The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective by Richard Roar

Ryan O'Neill Enneagram song album

Planner Lifestyle Podcast:

[email protected]

Season 4, Episode 3

Is Motivation More than a Feeling?

Planner Lifestyle Podcast host Jessica McWilliams with guest Chanelle Neilson

Topics:

• How to inform yourself about your motivations before you plan
• Ask a simple but difficult question, “What do I want?”
• Taking a “future view” inspired by Dan Gilbert’s Future Self Ted Talk
• Motive is the root word of motivation.
• How a conflict between motive and willpower can feel like a break down
• When to design unique tasks to meet your own goals...not other peoples
• Wanna exercise but hate running? Don’t run. Simple but true.
• Ways a coach can help with accountability and get to the bottom of those “easy” questions with “tough” answers.

Contacts:

Freebie: My best tips can be found in a quick start guide: "5 secrets to make mom life simple"

Instagram @chanelleneilsoncoaching

Facebook @chanelleneilsoncoaching

Guest Bio:

Chanelle Neilson is a life coach who helps moms with a side hustle who want to organize their day and find a balance between family and personal goals. As a mom of 5 kids, Chanelle Neilson knows that motherhood has its challenges—that’s why she is passionate about helping moms simplify so they can prioritize what matters and define success for themselves. She is the former host and creator of the popular Moms Who Know Podcast and the author of Parenting with Purpose, which has been translated into Chinese.