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- 🇨🇱CL · Self-Improvement#112500 to 3K
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500 to 3K🎙 ~2x weekly·295 episodes·Last published 5d ago - Monthly Reach
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1K to 6K🇨🇱50%🇵🇭50% - Active Followers
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[Rebroadcast] Mastering Your Attention to Work Optimally
Jun 22, 2026
Unknown duration
[Rebroadcast] How to Approach Anxiety
Jun 15, 2026
Unknown duration
[Rebroadcast] The Ultimate Guide to Complaining
Jun 8, 2026
29m 46s
[Rebroadcast] Equipping Yourself to Engage Challenge
Jun 1, 2026
28m 24s
[Rebroadcast] Why Self-Efficacy is More Important than Self-Esteem
May 25, 2026
27m 14s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/22/26 | [Rebroadcast] Mastering Your Attention to Work Optimally | #305: In this episode, Dr. Kevin Majeres and Sharif discuss the importance of attention for working at your best. Understanding how your attention works — especially the dynamic between task attention and default attention — can help you improve how you both rest and work. Some may think that focus is a matter of brute force and self-discipline, or of simply arranging your environment. But the understanding of attention explored here points to deeper strategies that we can use to master our attention and shape ourselves in the process.Find more at https://OptimalWork.com | — | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | [Rebroadcast] How to Approach Anxiety | #304: In this episode, Dr. Kevin Majeres and Sharif discuss OptimalWork's recently launched anxiety course called Overcoming Anxiety. Having the proper attitude toward anxiety is essential. Rather than thinking we must get rid of anxiety or merely cope with it, we need to see how to embrace anxiety and use it to perform at our best and live out our highest ideals. This understanding is key to shaping our actions, and also helping others to engage the challenges they face.Find more at https://OptimalWork.com | — | ||||||
| 6/8/26 | [Rebroadcast] The Ultimate Guide to Complaining✨ | complainingmindset+3 | Dr. Majeres | OptimalWork | — | complainingnegative mindset+4 | — | 29m 46s | |
| 6/1/26 | [Rebroadcast] Equipping Yourself to Engage Challenge✨ | self-efficacymotivation+4 | Dr. Kevin Majeres | OptimalWork | — | self-efficacymotivation+5 | — | 28m 24s | |
| 5/25/26 | [Rebroadcast] Why Self-Efficacy is More Important than Self-Esteem✨ | self-efficacyself-esteem+4 | Dr. Kevin Majeres | StanfordOptimalWork | — | self-efficacyself-esteem+5 | — | 27m 14s | |
| 5/18/26 | [Rebroadcast] Reviewing Cal Newport’s “Slow Productivity”✨ | productivityburnout+3 | Dr. Kevin Majeres | OptimalWorkSlow Productivity | — | Slow ProductivityCal Newport+3 | — | 34m 28s | |
| 5/11/26 | [Rebroadcast] Mindset Mistakes that Sabotage Success✨ | mindsetreframing+3 | Dr. Kevin Majeres | OptimalWork | — | reframingmindset mistakes+3 | — | 33m 59s | |
| 5/4/26 | 298. When Abstention Becomes the Measure✨ | temperancewellness+4 | Kevin | — | — | temperancewellness+6 | — | 32m 03s | |
| 4/27/26 | [Rebroadcast] Going Beyond Outcomes with Growth Goals✨ | growth goalsautomaticity+3 | — | Reframer toolOptimalWork | OptimalWork.com | automaticitygrowth goals+3 | — | 29m 42s | |
| 4/20/26 | [Rebroadcast] How to Help the Anxious Generation Thrive✨ | anxietyGen Z+4 | Dr. Kevin Majeres | The Anxious Generation | — | anxietyGen Z+5 | — | 32m 38s | |
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| 4/13/26 | 295. The Sacrifice Trap✨ | mindsetperformance+4 | Kevin | OptimalWork | — | sacrifice trapmindset+5 | — | 29m 02s | |
| 4/6/26 | 294. How Being Right Can Keep You Stuck✨ | resentmentjustice+3 | — | — | — | resentmentjustice+5 | — | 30m 31s | |
| 3/30/26 | 293. How to Conquer Scrupulosity✨ | scrupulosityOCD+4 | Kevin | OptimalWork | — | scrupulosityOCD+4 | — | 29m 34s | |
| 3/23/26 | [Rebroadcast] Is All Therapy Bad Therapy?✨ | therapymental health+4 | Dr. Kevin Majeres | Bad Therapy | — | therapyAbigail Shrier+5 | — | 31m 04s | |
| 3/16/26 | 291. OptimalWork Gets Intelligence: AI, Goals, and the Future of the Golden Hour✨ | AIpersonal growth+3 | Sharif | OptimalWork | — | AIgoals+3 | — | 30m 55s | |
| 3/9/26 | [Rebroadcast] Why You Should Stop Labeling People✨ | labelingrelationships+3 | — | — | — | labelingrelationships+5 | — | 29m 35s | |
| 3/2/26 | [Rebroadcast] Harnessing Your Brain’s Predictions to Transform Anxiety✨ | anxietybrain predictions+4 | — | OptimalWork | — | anxietyprocrastination+4 | — | 26m 26s | |
| 2/23/26 | 288: Dynamics of Vitality VI: Friendship & Justice✨ | friendshipjustice+4 | Kevin | OptimalWorkNicomachean Ethics | — | vitalityfriendship+5 | — | 32m 08s | |
| 2/16/26 | [Rebroadcast] How to Navigate Inner Conflict | #287: Why do we sometimes feel like we're at war with ourselves? In this episode, Sharif and Dr. Kevin Majeres dive into a therapy approach called Internal Family Systems (IFS), exploring how our mind has various parts — protectors and exiles — which are sometimes in conflict. Approaching these parts with curiosity and compassion paves the way to resilience and growth. IFS offers valuable tools for everyday life and self-therapy. This discussion is geared toward empowering you to apply these learnings to your own internal challenges, fostering a path to flourishing.Find more at https://OptimalWork.com | — | ||||||
| 2/8/26 | 286. Dynamics of Vitality V: Centered on Justice | #286: In this episode, Sharif and Kevin continue their deep dive into the dynamics of vitality by tackling the most overlooked of the cardinal virtues: justice. Building on their framework linking anxiety, depression, and addiction to different “engines” of human behavior, Kevin explains why justice doesn’t merely fix one problem but reorders the entire system. Through vivid metaphors and clinical insight, they explore why true healing can’t happen in isolation, how serving something greater than oneself restores balance, and why modern ideas of self-care often reinforce the very valleys they aim to escape. The conversation reframes mental health around bonds, responsibility, and the powerful role of giving one’s best to others.Find more at https://OptimalWork.com | — | ||||||
| 2/2/26 | 285. Dynamics of Vitality IV: The Cardinal Virtues | #285: In this episode, Sharif and Kevin map the ancient framework of the cardinal virtues—prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance—onto the modern “three engines” model of meaning, effort, and attention. Kevin argues that love sits at the core of both emotion and virtue, and shows how different “dark valleys” (anxiety, depression, addiction) have corresponding saddle points where a person can open to reality or close against it. The conversation turns practical as they translate each virtue into a simple question you can ask in the heat of the moment—especially when uncertainty, exhaustion, or craving tries to hijack your next move.Find more at https://OptimalWork.com | — | ||||||
| 1/26/26 | 284. Dynamics of Vitality III: The Power of Saddle Points | #284: Sharif and Dr. Majeres return to unpack one of the most practical ideas in OptimalWork: valleys, vitality, and the “saddle points” where change actually happens. Kevin explains how anxiety, depression, and addiction are shaped by love misdirected toward relief, and why the moments in between—waking up, starting work, finishing a task—are where everything tilts. They explore how love functions as a kind of gravity, how predicted pain gets people trapped in their heads, and why opening willingly to discomfort for the sake of real bonds is the only path back to vitality. The conversation blends neuroscience, philosophy, and daily work habits into a framework that helps people recognize temptation not as failure, but as a moment of choice.Find more at https://OptimalWork.com | — | ||||||
| 1/19/26 | [Rebroadcast] Getting Past Shame-Based Motivation | #283: What motivates you to get up in the morning? What motivates you to continue working on a challenging task? Learning how to motivate yourself is essential to true success, but so many people are motivated by a fear of failure, that is, by shame. In this episode, we discuss the relationship between shame and motivation, how to tap into deeper sources of motivation, and how to overcome shame using techniques from Internal Family Systems (IFS). In our next episode, we’ll discuss more in-depth how to apply IFS.Find more at https://OptimalWork.com | — | ||||||
| 1/12/26 | [Rebroadcast] Overcoming Anxiety III: Incorporating Ideals | #282: Overcoming anxiety occurs in three successive stages. In the third and final installment of a three episode series, we discuss stage three: using adrenaline to achieve maximal growth. Stage one, bronze-work, centers on challenging yourself by engaging triggers head-on, and it has the effect of habituating the fear associated with that particular trigger. Stage two, silver-work, centers on being mindful of the alarm as it’s sounding, and it helps you accept the discomfort associated with triggers in general. Finally, stage three, gold-work, helps you focus on transcendent goals — skills, ideals, and bonds — so that the adrenaline you have brings out your best.Find more at https://OptimalWork.com | — | ||||||
| 1/5/26 | [Rebroadcast] How to Approach Every Challenge With a Sense of Newness | #281: Whenever we do something repeatedly, we’ll tend eventually to do it in a rote, automatic way. This even applies to OptimalWork’s core practices: reframing, mindfulness, and challenge. In this episode we show how curiosity can help you overcome this tendency and bring a sense of newness to every challenge you face.Find more at https://www.OptimalWork.com. | — | ||||||
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Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.