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How I Work

You know those annoyingly successful people who seem to have it all figured out? Time to steal their playbook. Organisational psychologist Dr Amantha Imber gets world‑class achievers to spill their secrets- the daily strategies behind their success through tolife hacks and productivity hacks they’d rather keep to themselves. We’re talking practical tips for boosting your output (including clever AI tools and shortcuts that’ll make you look like a genius), managing overwhelm without

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13:34

AI is a terrible brainstormer (until you do this)

How I Work ·

2026/10/04

You ask AI for ideas and get a tidy list of ten, each one praised as being brilliant. The tempting move is to grab the first one that looks decent and get on with your day. The catch is that you've handed over the thinking, and what comes back tends to look a lot like what everyone else is getting. AI can be a far better brainstorming partner when it sharpens your thinking instead of replacing it. The difference comes down to how you set it up and what you ask it to do. In this How I AI episode, Neo

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39:05

The 7 types of rest you need, and how to find the one...

How I Work ·

2026/09/30

One surgeon takes his boat out onto a lake, screams until he can't scream anymore, and then cries. It is how he recovers from a job where patients die and he can't fall apart in front of his team. That is what emotional rest can look like for one person, and it is only one of seven types of rest that most of us have never thought to separate. Which raises this possibility: you might be resting effectively in one area while a completely different part of you runs on empty. In this episode, I sit down

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10:07

Your AI gets dumber at 60%. Here's the free fix.

How I Work ·

2026/09/27

Some of us have a favourite chat thread we keep coming back to, adding a bit more context every time we open it. It feels efficient, like you're building up a work buddy who really knows your stuff. But every extra message quietly chips away at how reliable that thread becomes, and by the time you notice, it's surprisingly hard to pull it back. Knowing when to walk away from a chat, and how to take your best thinking with you, is one of the most useful AI habits you can build. In this How I AI

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30:18

The Work Edit: 3 evening strategies to actually help...

How I Work ·

2026/09/23

You've read the books. You've locked the phone in a drawer. You've set a hard cut-off at 8 PM. And none of it has lasted more than two weeks. That's exactly where Shaun found himself. By day he's a senior corporate strategy leader at Bupa, and by night he's the volunteer operations manager for a junior footy club responsible for 450 kids across eight teams. The systems he runs at work are tight. The systems he runs at home? Nowhere to be seen. In this Work Edit, I sit down with Shaun to figure out

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12:44

The 4 recurring tasks you should hand off to AI...

How I Work ·

2026/09/20

Most people treat AI like a vending machine: you show up, you ask, you wait. But what if there's another way to use it, one where the work gets done before you've even thought to ask for it. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I explore scheduled prompts: what they are, why they're worth setting up, and how to actually write one that works. What you'll learn: What a scheduled prompt is and how it differs from a regular AI conversation When it makes sense to run a prompt in the background rather than

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33:42

Steal Jane Lu's system for delegating without losing...

How I Work ·

2026/09/16

Hiring someone is one of the highest-stakes decisions a founder makes. Get it wrong and you can lose time, money, and momentum. And after 16 years of building Showpo from her parents' garage into a nine-figure business, Jane Lu is the first to admit they still do not always get it right. But across all those hires, she has landed on one single biggest red flag she screens for, and it is probably not what you would expect. In this episode, I sit down with Jane Lu, founder of Showpo, to talk about

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10:28

How I AI: 3 signs it's time to start a new chat thread

How I Work ·

2026/09/13

You've put in the work on your prompts. You know how to give AI the right context, set the right tone, ask the right questions. But then, mid-conversation, something shifts. The AI starts making things up, forgetting what you told it five minutes ago, contradicting itself. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I unpack what is actually happening when AI gets unreliable mid-conversation, including how to read the warning signs that tell you it is time to close a thread and start fresh. In this episode of

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29:10

Why planning 60% of your day is the most productive...

How I Work ·

2026/09/09

There's a specific kind of exhaustion that comes not from working hard, but from never quite feeling like you've worked on the right things. You finish a full day, maybe a long one, and yet the projects that actually matter haven't moved. The inbox is cleaner, the meetings are done, but the needle hasn't shifted. Cyril Peupion has spent two decades coaching executives on exactly this problem, and his diagnosis is consistent: the issue is the gap between where leaders want to go and what they

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8:51

Quick Win: The million-dollar moment that tested...

How I Work ·

2026/09/06

When Dr Catriona Wallace was offered a million dollars to take out her nose ring, she didn’t hesitate. Her response wasn’t defiance - it was clarity. In this Quick Win, Catriona shares how she dealt with the sexism and double standards she faced as a tech CEO, from being told to “brush her hair” to being offered a million dollars to look more like the kind of leader investors expected. Her story is a reminder that staying true to yourself is sometimes the most strategic move

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33:39

The Work Edit: When gratitude becomes entitlement,...

How I Work ·

2026/09/02

You give your team something rare. A four-day week. Flexible hours. Real breathing room. And for a while, itworksbeautifully. Then, gradually,the gratitudefades. The expectation creeps in. And suddenly, the gift feels like a given. This is one of the more uncomfortable paradoxes of building a genuinely good workplace: the better the culture you create, the faster it becomes the new normal. And once people stop noticing it, they start resenting any friction that interrupts it. This episode is part of

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7:03

Quick Win: How to rebuild trust at work when its broken

How I Work ·

2026/08/30

Trust doesn’t rebuild with one big apology. It grows back quietly - through small, consistent moments that prove you mean what you say. In this Quick Win episode, my teammate Aly Solly and I share how we rebuilt trust after one of Inventium’s toughest years. Together, we discovered that trust isn’t restored overnight - it’s rebuilt in small, deliberate ways that show care, honesty, and vulnerability. Aly and I discuss: The moment a leadership wellbeing survey sparked real

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32:50

The two numbers that predict whether you'll actually...

How I Work ·

2026/08/26

Every productivity guru will tell you the same thing: set realistic goals, or you're setting yourself up to fail. Jia Jiang did the opposite. He told the internet he'd sell 10,000 copies of his new book in 100 days, sold about 3,000, and is now going around calling it one of the best things he's ever done. He's not being delusional about it either. He'll tell you straight up that part of him wishes he'd hit the number. He just thinks failing loudly beats succeeding quietly, which might explain why

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6:42

Quick Win: The hidden reason AI isn’t delivering...

How I Work ·

2026/08/23

AI might be saving you time, but if youdon’tknow what to do with that time,it’snot worth much. In this Quick Win,I’mjoined byDom Price,who spent 12 years as the Work Futurist at Atlassian. Dom shares a powerful reminder: saving time with AI is meaningless unless you know how to reinvest that time intentionally. After watchingorganisationsroll out sophisticated AI tools without upgrading thehumansystem around them, Dom explains why people often use their newfound hours poorly - and

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32:52

The Work Edit: How to scale a consulting business...

How I Work ·

2026/08/19

Hiring feels like the obvious next move when a business starts doing well. More people, more capacity, more revenue. The logic is so clean it barely needs questioning. But the businesses with the smallest teams are sometimes the ones making the most money. This episode is part of The Work Edit, a format where I sit down with someone facing a real professionalchallengeand we work through it together. Myguestis Lisa, who has spent four years building The Culture Ministry, a diversity and inclusion

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11:51

How I AI: The prompting mistake almost everyone makes

How I Work ·

2026/08/16

How much of your week goes into fixing what AI just handed you? Not writing from scratch, just cleaning up, correcting, and nudging a draft that looked fine for about ten seconds before youactually neededit to work. That endless back and forth has a name. We call it slop fixing, and there is research suggesting it is quietly eating close to a full day of our working week. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I get into why this happens and the twovery differentways of working with AI that decide

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36:20

The 3 questions that reveal whether someone is...

How I Work ·

2026/08/12

Every manager and every parenthasmet the same wall. Someone whowon'tengage,won'tbudge,won'tdo the thing, no matter how hard you push or how much you offer. DrJustinCoulson has spent two decades inside the research explaining why pushing and bribing rarely work, and what actually does. Justin is a psychologist, bestselling author, host of the TV show Parental Guidance, and father of six daughters, and his work sits inside self-determination theory, one of the most evidence-based bodies of research in

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16:14

How I AI: Do these 2 things if you're worried about...

How I Work ·

2026/08/09

There is a quiet guilt a lot of people carry every time they open ChatGPT. Somewhere between the headlines about datacentresand the vague sense that AI is somehow worse for the planet than everything else we do without a second thought, it becomes easier to just feel bad than toactually workout whether that guilt iswarranted. Nobody handsyouthe comparison points. Is a heavy day of prompting worse than a nightofNetflix? Worse than a round of golf? Nobody says. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I go

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36:24

Are you an insecure overachiever? Oliver Burkeman on...

How I Work ·

2026/08/05

There'sa particular kind of tightness that creeps in when the world feels unpredictable. We tidy the to-do list, tighten the routine,optimiseone more thing, allin an attempt tofeel a bit more in control. Oliver Burkeman has a word for this: clenching. And he reckonsit'ssqueezingthe lifeout of us, even when it looks a lot like productivity. In this episode, I sit down with Oliver Burkeman, New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks and Meditations for Mortals, and former writer of The

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14:29

How I AI: What you should never paste into AI

How I Work ·

2026/08/02

Before you paste that customer list, that blood test result or that contract into yourfavouriteAI tool,it'sworth pausing for a second. Whatever you hand overdoesn'tjust disappear after you get your answer. It sits somewhere, and depending on the tool and the settings, it might be doing more than just answering your question. Most people have never actually checked what happens to their data once it goesinorthought about the difference betweenwhat'sfine to share andwhat'sbetter redacted first. In

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34:17

Part 2: The loneliness of leadership no one warned...

How I Work ·

2026/07/29

There is a version of leadership that looks effortless from the outside. The one where the leader always has the answers, always holds the vision, always appears composed. And then there is the version that happens in private, at 5:00 AM, when your mind is rehearsing every possiblefailureand no one can see it. What surprises most people is how often those two versions belong to the same person. In part two of my conversation with Christian O'Connell, breakfast radio host heard by hundreds of

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