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A Productive Conversation

Mike Vardy

Booking Overview

This interview-led productivity and intentional-living show combines solo episodes with conversations featuring authors, founders, and workplace experts on time management, challenges, work stress, and career decisions. Suitable pitches include productivity authors, organizational psychologists, workplace researchers, and founders with practical systems or evidence-based perspectives; booking difficulty is medium, with credible expertise and a clear framework typically required.

Metrics

Episodes: 695

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.4/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 6.2k subscribers

Instagram: 3.6k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

mike@mikevardy.com

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Host

Mike Vardy - Productivity strategist and author focused on time devotion, productiveness, and intentional living.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Authors, founders, organizational psychologists, workplace researchers, and experienced practitioners with a clear framework or firsthand expertise in productivity, work stress, intentional living, or career decisions.
Required Achievements:  
Published books, Research or professional expertise in workplace and organizational topics, Founded a relevant company or platform, Developed practical frameworks for productivity, stress, or career decision-making

Recent Guest Discussions

Zakhar Azatian - Designing Sustainable Personal Challenges, Focusing On One Challenge At A Time, Habit Failure, And Fitting Challenges Into A Full Life.

Amy Leneker - Five Types Of Work Stress, Identifying And Sorting Stressors, Asking For Help Effectively, And Reducing Workplace Stress.

Anthony Klotz - The Events That Trigger People To Quit, Positive And Negative Career Jolts, Job-change Regret, And Alternatives To Resigning.

Recent Topics

Self Improvement, Productivity, Time Management, Work Stress, Intentional Living

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
A Productive Conversation
:

Trust Is Broken, and Optimization Won't Fix It (with Nick Richtsmeier)

October 07, 2026

My book, Productiveness, is now available. It's about the difference between doing more and doing what matters, and how we lost the ability to tell them apart. I'll send the release date the day it's set. Visit https://mikevardy.com/productiveness to learn more and get your copy today.We're at a forty-year low for trust across nearly every institution, and the reflex is to reach for something faster — a better funnel, a tighter system, an optimization. Nick Richtsmeier's argument is that the ...

My Daughter Interviews Me About Productiveness (with Grace Vardy)

September 30, 2026

My book, Productiveness, is now available. It's about the difference between doing more and doing what matters, and how we lost the ability to tell them apart. I'll send the release date the day it's set. Visit https://mikevardy.com/productiveness to learn more and get your copy today.Normally I'm the one asking the questions. This time I wasn't. I was in New York for Podcast Movement, my daughter Grace came down from Montreal to meet me — partly for a concert, let's be honest — and since we ...

You Didn't Fall Behind This Summer. You Just Stopped.

September 23, 2026

My book, Productiveness, is now available. It's about the difference between doing more and doing what matters, and how we lost the ability to tell them apart. I'll send the release date the day it's set. Visit https://mikevardy.com/productiveness to learn more and get your copy today.I missed two Wednesday livestreams this month, and I spent more time than I'd like to admit trying to decide whether that meant I'd fallen behind. Somewhere in there I realized I was asking the wrong question. F...

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