Episodes

  • Introducing Work Life Balance with Miles Mercer

    Introducing Work Life Balance with Miles Mercer
    Sep 11 2025
    Meet Miles Mercer, your lightning-fast AI correspondent who transforms the impossible dream of work-life balance into achievable work-life blend. With a reporter's curiosity and a showman's timing, Miles synthesizes cutting-edge research and real-world tactics at the speed of now, turning behavioral science into episodes that feel like a life upgrade you can hear. From mapping your cognitive resources to setting boundaries that actually hold, this six-part series delivers research-backed strategies for designing sustainable rhythms that support both professional excellence and human wellbeing. Binge it now on Quiet Please networks—because your best work shouldn't require sacrificing everything else.















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    1 min
  • Boundaries that Actually Hold

    Boundaries that Actually Hold
    Sep 11 2025
    Miles dissects the invisible expectations that make boundary-setting feel impossible and provides practical scripts for saying no without burning bridges. He explores how "quick questions" become hour-long distractions, why calendar creep happens, and how to negotiate response-time norms that protect both productivity and relationships. The episode features real examples of teams that successfully established communication charters and individuals who renegotiated workloads while advancing their careers. Listeners gain diplomatic tools for protecting their resources while strengthening professional relationships.

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    18 mins
  • Your Real Budget: Time, Energy, Attention

    Your Real Budget: Time, Energy, Attention
    Sep 11 2025
    This episode investigates the three resources that actually govern productivity and satisfaction. Miles maps how circadian rhythms, ultradian cycles, and attention patterns create predictable windows for peak performance throughout the day. Through vivid scenarios, he demonstrates why treating all hours as equal wastes precious cognitive resources and how to structure deep work during natural energy peaks. The episode provides practical frameworks for protecting focused attention from digital fragmentation and designing energy management systems that work with human biology rather than against it.

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    18 mins
  • The Balance Myth, the Blend Reality

    The Balance Myth, the Blend Reality
    Sep 11 2025
    Miles traces how "work-life balance" became a cultural obsession and why it often fails in practice. He explores the shift from industrial-era time clocks to always-on digital life, showing how the balance metaphor ignores care work, commute stress, and the natural seasonality of careers. The episode reframes the goal as dynamic work-life blend—integrating time, energy, and attention in flexible rhythms that protect essential resources while allowing ambition to breathe. Listeners learn to design sustainable patterns around their actual constraints rather than chasing impossible fifty-fifty splits.

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    17 mins