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Why You Can't Outwork Bad Sleep (with Shimin Ooi)

July 01, 2026

This episode is brought to you by Your Clockwise Week—a personalized weekly structure built around your actual life, not an ideal one. If your week feels full but not fitting, you can learn more at mikevardy.com/yourclockwiseweek.We tend to treat sleep like the thing we'll get to once everything else is handled — the line item we trim first when life speeds back up. But sleep isn't the reward for a productive day. It's the foundation that makes one possible. And one of the more uncomfortable ...

What You're Not Measuring Is Costing You (with Dr. Henry Cloud)

June 26, 2026

This episode is brought to you by Your Clockwise Week—a personalized weekly structure built around your actual life, not an ideal one. If your week feels full but not fitting, you can learn more at mikevardy.com/yourclockwiseweek.Most of us have convinced ourselves that the problem is effort. We're not working hard enough, moving fast enough, or checking enough boxes. But what if the real problem is that we're measuring the wrong things, pruning nothing, and assembling a team built entirely i...

Paying Attention to Your Attention

June 24, 2026

This episode is brought to you by Your Clockwise Week—a personalized weekly structure built around your actual life, not an ideal one. If your week feels full but not fitting, you can learn more at mikevardy.com/yourclockwiseweek.Most of the conversation around focus starts in the wrong place. We talk about distraction as if it's the problem — the notifications, the open tabs, the interruptions — when distraction is really just a symptom. The actual problem is that most people don't know wher...