2036: The "Hell Yeah" Rule for Work, Money and Doing Less

<p>What if the secret to getting more done isn’t doing more, but getting ruthless about what you stop doing?</p><br><p>My guest today, Mike Allen, has a pretty simple test for figuring out what stays and what goes. In fact, you just heard it: <strong>“Hell yeah.”</strong></p><br><p>If someone asks you to take on the project, go to the thing, have the meeting, make the commitment, and your reaction is anything less than <em>hell yeah</em>? Mike says that might be your answer right there.</p><br><p>And listen, as someone who has spent a lot of her career saying yes, building, adding, producing, optimizing, I needed this conversation.</p><br><p>Mike Allen is the co-founder of Axios and previously co-founded Politico. He’s also the longtime journalist behind the daily Axios AM and Axios PM newsletters. His new book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GPBQXD4M?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Simplify: Do 50 Percent More with 50 Percent Less</strong></a>, co-authored with Axios co-founders Jim VandeHei and Roy Schwartz, is essentially an argument against what they call toxic complexity.</p><br><p>Because here’s the irony: AI was supposed to make our lives easier. Instead, we have more content, more choices, more decks, more emails, more things we <em>could</em> be doing. And Mike’s argument is that unless we get intentional about what deserves our attention, technology is just going to help us create more noise, faster.</p><p>Their framework is three steps: <strong>Confront what you’re doing. Delete what doesn’t matter. Amplify what does.</strong></p><br><p>We talk about why complexity can actually feel comforting, how to declare “meeting bankruptcy,” what a simplified financial life might look like, and why figuring out what is <em>enough</em> may be one of the most important things you can do with your money and your time.</p><br><p>And I end up applying Mike’s advice to my own business in real time, including some changes I’m making to So Money in 2027.</p><p><strong>Learn more about Farnoosh's upcoming literary workshop </strong><a href="http://booktobrand.co" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Book to Brand.</strong></a><strong> Early bird registration is now open!</strong></p>

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