What if retirement wasn’t about stopping — but starting? This week on Work in Progress: The Personal Productivity Science Insights Podcast, host Marie Stella consults author and artist Carrie Jane Knowles to learn more about what it takes to design your ideal retirement.

A well-established author, Carrie Knowles has nine books and numerous writing awards to her name. For the last six years, she has written a personal perspective column, Shifting Forward, for Psychology Today, addressing themes of relationships, grandparenthood, emotions, and aging, through personal stories. Most recently, her debut one-act play, Modern Women, won second place in the 2024 William Faulkner Literary Competition.

In this episode, Carrie Knowles reveals how her profession as an artist and author has shaped her perspective on retirement. Additionally, she addresses common misconceptions most people have about retirement, that hold them back from making full use of its potential.

Together, Marie and Carrie Knowles explore habits and exercises that may prove useful in retirement planning. So, tune in this week for expert advice on designing your ideal retirement, and remember — retirement isn’t an endpoint, but a launchpad.

Follow Carrie Knowles’s work via the following links: Carrie Knowles: https://www.cjanework.com/ Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shifting-forward

Connect with Carrie Knowles via the following platforms: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarrieJKnowles/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carriejknowles/ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/carrieknowles

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Time management, task batching, goal setting… These are just a few of the commonly discussed techniques when it comes to productivity. But something that often gets overlooked is self-compassion. What if being kinder to ourselves isn’t just a nice idea, but a legitimate productivity tool? In this episode, hospital medicine physician Adrienne Mann, MD joins host Marie Stella to explore the role of self-compassion in productivity.

Additionally, Adrienne Mann, MD is an associate professor of hospital medicine at the University of Colorado and Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, and Core Faculty for Coaching at the CU Internal Medicine Residency Program. She is a Master Certified life coach and Co-Director of Better Together Physician Coaching, CU-based life coaching program serving medical students, residents, fellows, and clinicians in practice nationwide. Her scholarly interest is in the development, application, and study of coaching methodology in sustainable programs to promote resilience and well-being by encouraging a growth mindset and creation of individualized definitions of success.

In this episode, Adrienne Mann, MD stresses the importance of understanding yourself and advocating for your own needs to ensure your environment is conducive to achieving maximum productivity. She also touches on rest, self-compassion, and the struggles people face with imposter syndrome.

Together, Marie and Adrienne Mann, MD discuss being curious, paying attention to your inner voice or inner critic, and solutions such as seeking help from a life coach.

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Many people view mindfulness as an emptying of the mind, but this is not entirely true. Mindfulness encompasses the body, observing thoughts, and being situated in the world around us. In today’s episode we are joined by Dr. Bassam Khoury to explore how mindfulness and compassion work together in a dual approach to improve our overall wellbeing and our personal productivity.

Dr. Bassam Khoury is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology at McGill University, and he heads the McGill Mindfulness Research Lab, where he and his team conduct research to advance the theory, research, and applications of mindfulness and compassion. Dr. Bassam Khoury has published numerous papers on mindfulness and compassion in leading journals in the fields of clinical psychology and physical and medical health. His work includes 77 journal articles and 9 book chapters - he has gained international recognition and has been cited over 8,500 times. Dr. Bassam Khoury has also been recognized with multiple awards, including the Association of Psychological Science Emerging Scholars Rising Stars Award and the William Dawson Scholars Award.

In this episode, Dr. Bassam Khoury stresses the importance of setting intentions for a mindfulness practise, and asking yourself what you want to get out of it. Is it to improve yourself, your stress, your relationships, or perhaps your interactions with others?

Together, Sarah and Dr. Bassam Khoury discuss how meditation practices should focus on the body, not just on the mind. While observing your thoughts is important, so is connecting with your environment. Dr. Bassam Khoury’s own research also touches on compassion towards others, such as building compassion towards animals.

Follow Dr. Bassam Khoury’s work via the following links: McGill University: https://www.mcgill.ca/education/bassam-khoury Google scholar: https://scholar.google.co.th/citations?user=AFwUJWEAAAAJ&hl=th

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