BEST OF: Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor, Laura May Martin, on how she dramatically reduced the amount of time she spends in her inbox

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I'm going to be doing a live taping of How I work at the Melbourne Podcast Festival on Saturday July 31 at 2.30pm.

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For this very special live taping, Amantha will be speaking to Christian O'Connell. Christian was Britain’s best known and most awarded breakfast radio presenter, hosting his own top rating national breakfast shows and collecting more industry awards than any other presenter and becoming the youngest radio presenter ever inducted into the UK Radio Hall of Fame. And then he moved out to Australia where no one knew him. Australian Radio Network took a punt on bringing him to Melbourne’s Gold FM – a move that has paid dividends.

In this interview, we will be exploring:

• what goes on behind the scenes of breakfast radio
• Christian's strategies for overcoming mental health challenges that plagued him in the competitive world of commercial radio
• how Christian finds ideas and inspiration to fill three hours of live radio every single day
• why Christian once wore a death watch, which reminded him how much longer he had to live
• the biggest things he learnt from being in therapy for several years
• how he prepares for interviews with some of the world's biggest celebrities
• how he picked himself up after dismal ratings when he first started on GOLD FM
• And much, much more.

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On today's BEST OF episode, my guest is Laura Mae Martin. Laura is the Executive Productivity Advisor at Google. So how did this happen?

Laura Mae Martin started at Google almost 10 years ago in the Ann Arbor office. Shortly after joining she started a 20% project and developed an internal training on how to manage your inbox effectively. Her continued passion for productivity has developed into a full-time role working 1:1 with Executives at Google and running the Productivity@Google program for all employees.

We cover:

• How Laura scored the job of Executive Productivity Advisor at Google
• Laura’s top tips for working from home during COVID while being a parent
• How Laura sets her day up for success
• Laura’s template for planning her day the night before
• Laura’s weekly ritual for planning her work
• How Laura reflects on her energy levels over a week and plans her week based on these insights
• How Laura has set mental and physical boundaries while working from home during COVID
• Laura’s approach to making meetings as efficient as possible and her default meeting length time
• Laura’s email management strategies to dramatically reduce the amount of time she spends in her inbox
• How Laura manages digital distractions
• Laura’s favourite productivity apps
• How Laura and other Googlers are improving social connectedness during COVID.

Find our more about Laura here:

• Laura's blog post about working from home
• Laura's blog post about mastering email
• The Suite Life YouTube series, where Laura shares GSuite hacks on a weekly basis
• Laura's LinkedIn

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