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Relentless prioritization for sustainable success.

The Health-Powered Productivity Podcast helps Human Resources and Learning & Development leaders reduce meeting bloat, lower rework, and boost engagement while protecting their people with healthy guardrails. Overwhelmed managers welcome!

Hosted by Marcey Rader, multi-award-winning global keynote speaker, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, Master Virtual Presenter®, Digital Wellness Educator, and author of Reclaim Your Workday. 

Named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast by Feedspot - every two weeks, you’ll get a 5–25 minute, fast, tactical episode. Mostly solo, with occasional guest features. Practical playbooks you can assign as pre-work for team meetings or apply before your next 1:1.

What we cover: prioritization, focus and attention, meeting effectiveness, remote and hybrid norms, email and chat optimization, task and workflow management, and health-powered habits. No fluff. Outcomes that last.

Connect with Marcey:

Consulting, Training, and Coaching: www.helloraderco.com

Keynote Speaking: www.marceyrader.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marceyrader

Book: Reclaim Your Workday www.reclaimyourworkday.com

Weekender Snapshot Tipsletter: https://radergoodies.com/profile

Episodes

126 - The Meeting Reset: Ask This Before You Shorten, Fix, or Join Another Meeting

4 days ago

4 days ago

Most meeting advice starts too late. In this episode, Marcey Rader makes the case that before you shorten a meeting, improve the agenda, or redesign the format, you need to ask a more important question: should the meeting happen at all?

 

Why it matters:
  • Poor meeting culture steals time from high-priority work. Atlassian reports that in organizations with poor meeting cultures, people spend 50% more time in unnecessary meetings than making progress on high-priority work.
  • Interrupted work is not focused work. Microsoft says employees on Microsoft 365 are interrupted on average every 2 minutes by a meeting, email, or notification.
  • Video fatigue is real. Stanford researchers found that common video-call design patterns, including constant close-up eye contact and self-view, can exhaust the mind and body.

 

What you’ll learn:
  • Why the first question is not “How do we run this meeting better?”
  • How to tell when a meeting is really a status update, recap, or anxiety management system
  • When Loom or async video is a better choice than live time
  • How to shorten meetings by narrowing the attendee list to players, not spectators
  • Why meeting design should work for real brains, not idealized employees
  • When walking meetings are a smarter format
  • Why meeting overload is often a prioritization failure, not a meeting failure

 

Mentioned in this episode:
 
Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management.
Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff.
From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.
 
Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot.
Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.
 
 
Connect with Marcey:

#ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity #Meetings #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #RelentlessPrioritization

 

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125 - You Don’t Struggle With Reading. You've Been Told How To Read Wrong

Tuesday Apr 28, 2026

Tuesday Apr 28, 2026

Reading doesn’t fail people with ADHD. Bad design does.
In this episode of the Health-Powered Productivity™ Podcast, Marcey Rader dismantles the idea that reading requires stillness, discipline, or long, uninterrupted blocks of time. Instead, she shows how to design a reading habit that works with an ADHD brain, not against it.

Why it Matters

  • Shame kills consistency.
  • Most reading advice assumes a neurotypical brain.
  • Reading is an input system. Systems can be redesigned.

What You’ll Learn

  • Why shrinking the entry point makes reading sustainable
  • Pages vs. minutes and which one actually builds focus and why to try both ways
  • How movement improves attention while reading
  • Why you don’t need to finish books for them to be valuable
  • A simple 10-minute ADHD-friendly reading ritual

Mentioned

Work Well. Play More! Productive, Clutter-Free, Healthy Living - One Step at a Time www.workwellplaymore.com
Reclaim Your Workday: Sustainable Productivity Habits for the New World of Work www.reclaimyourworkday.com
Episode 107: Designing Meetings for Neurodivergent Brains Where Everyone Wins https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/107-designing-meetings-for-neurodivergent-brains-where/id1569968080?i=1000720699698
Episode 114: Attention Anchor: The Environment Set-Up for Better Focus https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/114-attention-anchor-part-1-the-environment-set-up/id1569968080?i=1000736403311
Episode 115: Attention Anchor: The Mindset Ritual That Makes Work Stick https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/115-attention-anchor-part-2-the-mindset-ritual-that/id1569968080?i=1000737227395
Episode 116: Attention Anchor: The Energy Flip For Focus in Under Five Minutes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/116-attention-anchor-part-3-energy-flip-on-focus-in/id1569968080?i=1000739264847
 
Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management.
Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff.
From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.
 
Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot.
Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.
 
 
Connect with Marcey:

#ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity #ADHDhacks #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #ADHD #Prioritization

 

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124 - Make Prioritization Visible: A Leadership Diagnostic

Tuesday Apr 07, 2026

Tuesday Apr 07, 2026

In this episode host Marcey Rader turns a hard truth into a leadership tool: when priorities aren’t visible, teams optimize everything and impact thins. Using the Altitude method (see Episode 118) and your Top Three, Marcey shows how to reduce decision load, cut operational drag, and protect capacity with an 85% planning bar and clear guardrails.

 

Why it matters
  • Invisible priorities create rework, slow decisions, and burnout.
  • Visible Top Three at every altitude lowers decision load and stress.
  • An 85% capacity bar funds resilience for real life and real opportunities.

 

What you’ll learn
  • How to publish Top Three at Strategic/Operational/Ground altitudes
  • How to spot “optimization theater” and name the real costs
  • Four guardrails: 85% capacity, kill-first meetings, one decision owner, public scoreboard
  • Five tactical moves you can implement this week

 

References
 
Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management.
Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff.
From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.
 
Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot.
Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.
 
 
Connect with Marcey:

#ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity #ProductivityHacks #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #TEDxSpeaker #Prioritization

 

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123: Don’t Improve the Symptom Before You Address the Source

Tuesday Mar 31, 2026

Tuesday Mar 31, 2026

In this timely episode, Marcey Rader uses a frustrating airport experience to unpack a bigger leadership problem: optimizing before prioritizing. Long lines are visible. The real issue usually is not. When leaders respond to symptoms instead of the source, they may look busy, but they won't improve outcomes.

 

Why it matters
  • Visible action is not always meaningful action
  • Leaders sometimes fix what’s seen instead of what’s broken
  • Fewer meetings, faster decisions, and less rework start with better prioritization
  • Teams lose capacity when leaders solve around the bottleneck instead of removing it
What you’ll learn
  • Why optics versus outcomes is a leadership issue
  • How to spot optimization that is disguising a deeper problem
  • Why status meetings and inbox overload often point to broken systems
  • How to use the Relentless Prioritization Filter to protect capacity
 
Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management.
Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff.
From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.
 
Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot.
Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.

Resources and Links

• Asana study https://asana.com/resources/work-isnt-working
• Microsoft study https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/breaking-down-infinite-workday
• ClickUp https://try.web.clickup.com/tw6t55z7tzf2
 
 
Connect with Marcey:

#ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #RuthlessPrioritization #HealthPoweredProductivity #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker  #Prioritization

 

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122 - Loom Videos: The 5-Minute Habit That Replaces a 30-Minute Meeting

Tuesday Mar 24, 2026

Tuesday Mar 24, 2026

In this episode, Marcey Rader shows how a simple 5‑minute Loom video can replace a 30‑minute meeting without losing clarity or connection. She breaks down async video vs. live calls, the five-part structure for a great Loom, real client examples, and the guardrails to keep it accessible and searchable. Relentless prioritization beats endless optimization, and it's a practical way to reclaim hours.
 
Marcey Rader shows you four real ways RaderCo uses Loom to reduce meetings, cut back-and-forth, and keep human connection intact in the loom video link below.
(4 min)
https://www.loom.com/share/1135d3f7bdb54c2ea1856b90295ba4f4
 
Why it matters
• Meetings are the default, not the best tool.
• Async video forces clarity and speeds decisions.
• A weekly 5‑minute Loom can return 26 hours per person per year.
• Scaled across teams, those hours convert to real budget and focus.
 
What you’ll learn
• When Loom beats a meeting: tone, visuals, pre‑reads, status, and connection.
• The 5‑part Loom: purpose, context, show the thing, call to action, trim and title.
• Real‑world use cases that cut meetings and rework.
• Objections and guardrails: accessibility, privacy, paper trails.
• A plug‑and‑play blueprint and weekly swaps you can make now.

 

Additional resources:
Loom - www.loom.com
Navigating the Return to the Office - The Future of Work - https://www.helloraderco.com/return-to-the-office/
Zoom Zombies to Async Advocates: Burn Down Your Meeting Culture and Rebuild It - https://www.helloraderco.com/meeting-culture/
Meeting Overload: How to Shorten Meetings and Increase Productivity Using Video Software - https://www.helloraderco.com/shorten-meetings/
How to Offboard an Employee Without a Hitch - https://www.helloraderco.com/how-to-offboard-an-employee/
 
Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management.
Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff.
From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.
 
Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot.
Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.
 
Connect with Marcey:

#ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity #MeetingHacks #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #TEDxSpeaker #Prioritization

 

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121 - 10 Things Professional Speakers Ask For—and Why They Make Your Event Better

Tuesday Mar 10, 2026

Tuesday Mar 10, 2026

Meeting planners: the AV notes and “asks” aren’t diva moves. They’re design choices that protect your timeline, improve engagement, and elevate audience experience.
 
Why it matters
• Better sightlines and audio = higher engagement
• Tight room + clean lighting = keynote energy
• Guardrails beat “winging it” on intros and timing
 
What you’ll learn
• Confidence monitors, lighting, mic, and riser basics
• How seating, temperature, and laptop norms affect learning
• Why CSP® credentials de-risk your hire
 
References
• Longhand vs. laptop note-taking research. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614524581
• NSA Certified Speaking Professional® criteria. https://nsaspeaker.org/csp/
 
Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management.
Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff.
From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.
 
Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot.
Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.
 
Connect with Marcey:

#ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity #ProductivityHacks #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #TEDxSpeaker #Prioritization

 

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120 - Presentation Skills for Professionals: Five Moves That Actually Land

Tuesday Feb 24, 2026

Tuesday Feb 24, 2026

Marcey cuts through slide soup and webcam woes with a relevant playbook for people who present as part of their job. You will learn how to right-size content, run Zoom or Teams like a pro, and drive decisions without turning your deck into a document.
 
Why it matters
• Meetings are expensive. Clarity protects attention and accelerates decisions.
• Split attention kills comprehension. Guardrails keep people with you.
 
What you’ll learn
• Minimum Viable Detail and how to tailor depth to your audience
• Slide rules that make people listen, not read
• Virtual delivery hygiene for Zoom or Teams
• In-room presence that respects attention
• Engagement prompts that drive action
• When design polish is worth it and how to outsource smartly

 

Related Resources

Episode 106 - Stop Wasting Your Trainings: The Dos and Don'ts for In-Person Learning (16 min) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/106-stop-wasting-your-trainings-the-dos-donts-for-in/id1569968080?i=1000718441286
Episode 107 - Designing Meetings for Neurodivergent Brains Where Everyone Wins (20 min) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/107-designing-meetings-for-neurodivergent-brains-where/id1569968080?i=1000720699698
 
Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management.
Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff.
From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.
 
Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot.
Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.
 
Connect with Marcey:

#ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity #ProductivityHacks #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #TEDxSpeaker #Prioritization

 

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119 - Turn Your Strengths Into Real-Life Guardrails

Tuesday Feb 10, 2026

Tuesday Feb 10, 2026

 

Marcey Rader walks through her top five CliftonStrengths and how they help and sometimes hinder, including the change vs acceptance partner dynamic, why Maximizer means hiring experts, and how low Empathy can still show care through action.
 
Why it matters
• Assessments don’t change behavior. Interpretation and guardrails do.
• Overused strengths fuel burnout, rework, and friction.
• Declaring “change” or “acceptance” reduces relationship whiplash.
 
What you’ll learn
• How to turn Learner into action instead of accumulation
• When Maximizer means buy, not build
• A simple “change or acceptance?” question to lower friction at home and work
• How to spot and prevent strength-overuse under stress
 
Want a 1:1 debrief or a team workshop?
RaderCo’s StrengthsFinder coaches can help. www.helloraderco.com/teams
 

 

Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management.
Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff.
From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.
 
Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot.
Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.
 
Connect with Marcey:

 

 

#ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity  #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #TEDxSpeaker #StrengthsLeverage

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118 - Stop Calendar Decorating: Prioritize First with the Altitude Method

Tuesday Jan 27, 2026

Tuesday Jan 27, 2026

If everything is important, nothing is. Use a simple altitude model to set one to three priorities and make your plans stick.
In this episode of the Health‑Powered Productivity™ Podcast, Marcey Rader turns resolutions into reality with ruthless prioritization. She walks through the Altitude Method from annual to daily, the Rule of Three, and how to cascade priorities into monthly plans without overstuffing your calendar. Marcey shares personal examples, the Top 3 practice, and the habits that support execution.

Why It Matters

• Planning without prioritizing wastes time, creates rework, and fuels failure.
• One to three priorities align decisions and attention.
• Guardrails reduce decision fatigue, so follow‑through improves.

What You’ll Learn

• The five altitudes: annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily.
• The Rule of Three and why fewer priorities create a higher likelihood of reaching your goals.
• Micro‑habits that support execution, including No Nightly Scroll.

 

Key Takeaways

  1. Prioritize first. Then plan.
  2. Never set more than three priorities at any altitude. One is allowed.
  3. If it matters, put time on the calendar. Wishes don't work.

Do‑This‑Now Exercise

Say it and write it. This year I am prioritizing [1–3 things]. In Q1, success looks like [one outcome per priority]. This month, the next step is [one task per priority].

 

Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management.
Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff.
From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.
 
Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot.
Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.

Resources and Links

• PowerPath Playbook and Program: www.helloraderco.com/playbook
• Reclaim Your Workday book: www.reclaimyourworkday.com/amazon
• Reclaim Your Workday 8‑Week Action Club enrollment: www.reclaimyourworkday.com/action-club
 
Connect with Marcey:

#ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity  #ProductivityHacks #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #TEDxSpeaker #Prioritization

 

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117 - Reflections That Stick: How I Run Annual and Quarterly Professional and Personal Reviews

Tuesday Jan 13, 2026

Tuesday Jan 13, 2026

Marcey Rader shares her exact reflection prompts and how she runs annual, quarterly, and monthly reviews using the PowerPath Playbook. Real wins, real misses, and how to make reflection your champion team sport.
 
Why it matters
• Busy is not a strategy. Reflection is.
• Reflection prevents repeat mistakes and spotlights repeatable wins.
• Doing it with others adds accountability and better ideas.
 
What you’ll learn
• The specific prompts Marcey uses for annual reflections
• How to track wins and lessons all year so year-end is easy
• How couples can use the same structure
• A simple way to turn small budgets into a big pipeline
 
Resources
• PowerPath Goal-Achievement Course and Playbook: helloraderco.com/playbook
• Book: Reclaim Your Workday, reclaimyourworkday.com
Breely Scheduling - www.app.breely.com
Episode 37: Why Reflections Matter at Milestone Moments - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-powered-productivity-with-rader-co/id1569968080?i=1000544302011

 

Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management. Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff. From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.
 
Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot.
Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.
 
Connect with Marcey:

#ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity  #ProductivityHacks #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #TEDxSpeaker #Reflections

 

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