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This Epic Life Podcast


Jan 14, 2020

Nobody we admire succeeds by only having a plan. 

At some point they must conquer all resistance and show up to deliver their work.

Our guest today embodies this ethos.

As a logistics officer during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Charlie Gilkey is an expert on having a tight plan, and finding the discipline to follow it.

However, as a grad student in philosophy, he also knows what typically stops us from delivering our best work, and how to remove those blocks.

Charlie is one of those teachers who dropped on my path at the perfect time. In 2012 he told me in front of a room of people that I was nowhere near prepared to leave my corporate job.

I was pissed.

But I knew he was right. He then created a punch-list of exactly what I needed to create to graduate from corporate. So that’s what I did.

Charlie Gilkey helps people start finishing what matters most.

He is making major waves with his latest book on Sounds True: Start Finishing— How to Go from Idea to Done, which made Seth Godin's Fall Book List and has been racking up tons of praise.  He is also the author of The Small Business Lifecycle, co-host of the Productive Flourishing podcast, and the founder of Productive Flourishing, one of the world’s top websites for planning, prioritization, and productivity for creative people.

Charlie's work is regularly featured in places like TIME, Inc.com, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Lifehacker, and the Huffington Post. Prior to starting Productive Flourishing, Charlie was an Army Joint Force Military Coordinator and pursuing a PhD in Philosophy.

You will learn in this conversation:

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  • The mechanics behind Finishing your big projects.
  • How Charlie applied everything he teaches and consults on in delivering his latest book for a major publisher.
  • The common stories we create to keep us from delivering our best work.
  • How to create a schedule that will deliver your book (or other major project)
  • Charlie's powerful origin story as a soldier and PhD student of philosophy, and how he empowers it in his work with Productive Flourishing.