Carly’s just come out of a long-term writing contract and wants another. I want to do more speaking. How are we going to achieve …
Straight and Curly Ep 38: Personality Tests – Useful or Total Rubbish?
Carly’s not the hugest fan of personality tests because she thinks anything that requires people to self-assess needs to be taken with a huge …
Straight and Curly Ep 37: Budget hacks #2
This is part two in our budgeting hacks series. Last week we didn’t have time to answer the specific budgeting/saving questions the people in …
Straight and Curly Ep 36: Budget hacks #1
Carly and I recently asked our Straight and Curly group on Facebook if there were any topics they particularly wanted us to cover and …
Straight and Curly Ep 35: Motivation
So. Motivation. It’s a real bugbear of mine (because I hate it when people rely on motivation to get things done)! And apparently, it’s …
Straight and Curly Ep 34: Our 10 best time management hacks
Another episode that’s come via a question from the good folk in our Straight and Curly group on Facebook (come join, it’s free!). Fiona …
Straight and Curly Ep 33: How to create good habits
The good folk in our Straight and Curly group on Facebook asked about creating good habits, and it was with absolute delight that we …
Straight and Curly Ep 32: Self-compassion vs Laziness
Why do self-improvement junkies find self-compassion difficult? The guys at bulletproofmusician.com say it really well: “It’s a strategy that feels wrong. Perhaps because it …
Straight and Curly Ep 31: Getting a bad day back on track
So you’re having one of those days. You’re running late, the blender sprayed crap all over the ceiling, your kids are being … kids and …
Straight and Curly Ep 30: Making sense of diet and food #3
This is the second of a three-part series Carly and I are doing in an attempt to demystify food and diets. And I won’t lie, …
Straight and Curly Ep 29: Making sense of diet and food #2
This is the second of a three-part series Carly and I are doing in an attempt to demystify food and diets. And I won’t lie, …
Straight and Curly Ep 28: Making sense of diet and food #1
There is so much confusion around food these days. Are carbs in or out now? Is sugar actually evil? Why are egg white omelettes …
Straight and Curly Episode 27: Dealing with negative feedback
Negative feedback can derail a day pretty quickly and really mess with productivity if you don’t know how to effectively manage it. In this …
Straight and Curly Episode 26: Home cleaning hacks
Quite a few people have asked us for our house cleaning hacks so that’s what we’re sharing in today’s episode. Carly and I are …
Straight and Curly Episode 25: Tried It, Hated It
Carly and I have tried a lot of different productivity and life hacks over the years … and many of them just did not …
Straight and Curly Episode 24: Digital Detox Report
So you guys will remember that in Episode 19 Carly sprung it on me that she thought we should do a digital detox – …
Straight and Curly Episode 23: The Coffice
What’s a coffice? It’s when you use a coffee shop as an office – either as a temporary measure or all the time. Research …
Straight and Curly Episode 22: 10,000 steps
10,000 steps is a real buzzword at the moment, popularised by gadgets such as the Jawbone and Fitbit. Where did that number even come …
Straight and Curly Episode 21: Meetings
If you work in the corporate world, you probably have to attend a lot of meetings and don’t get really get to push back …
Straight and Curly Episode 20: Menu planning
We kick off this episode with a quick recap of how our digital detox (or should I say ‘internet detox’) went last weekend. Short …
Straight and Curly Episode 19: Digital detox
So here’s a funny story. When Carly and I sat down to record this episode I was prepared and ready to talk about how …