The Time Fix Podcast

Everyone's talking about mandated work from home days right now.

Almost nobody's talking about whether it's actually good for the people doing it.

In this episode, Ildi and Pooja get into why "you can work from home" and "you should work from home" are two very different things, and what business owners need to think through before rolling either one out.

In this episode:

✓ Why working from your kitchen table isn't just uncomforta...

You can be the strongest rower in the world and still end up on the wrong island, if nobody's steering.

In this episode, Ildi and Pooja sit down with guest Bojan Gangur, founder of Level Playing Field Lawyers and the Clawz contract platform, to talk about what changed when he stopped assuming his team worked the way he did.

In this episode:

✓ Why the quietest person in the room sometimes has the best idea, and why nobody thought t...

Post-it notes. Timers. Tidying your desk. Every productivity tip out there works brilliantly for someone, and does absolutely nothing for someone else.

In this episode, Ildi and Pooja share real, specific tips based on how different people naturally relate to time, plus the one habit that works for literally everyone (yes, even you).

In this episode: ✓ Why some people need to connect with thei...

There's no such thing as a good habit or a bad habit. Controversial? Maybe. True? Ildi and Pooja make the case.

In this episode, they break down how habits actually form, why "just change the habit" almost never works, and the small, slightly odd trick that got a struggling Year 12 student back into "doing" mode in one afternoon.

In this episode:

✓ Why habits aren't good or bad, they either serve you or they don't, and that distinc...

Working from home. Two words that spark more workplace tension than almost anything else right now.

In this episode, Ildi and Pooja get into why the real issue isn't working from home itself, it's that almost nobody has clearly defined what a "good day" of it actually looks like.

In this episode: ✓ Why expecting someone to be "at their desk" by a fixed time misses entirely the point of flexibi...

AI. Planners. Sticky notes. Timers.

There's no shortage of productivity tools out there, so why does none of it stick?

Because the tool has to match the person. In this episode, Ildi and Pooja get practical: real tips for real behaviour styles, plus an honest look at why AI might (or might not) actually save you time.

In this episode:

✓ Why spending time to find the right tool isn't wasted time, even if it feels like a paradox

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It's dark by 4pm, the motivation is gone, and you've still got hours of work left. Sound familiar?

In this episode, Ildi and Pooja get into why shorter, darker days quietly wreck productivity, and the small, deliberate things that pull you out of the slump before it takes over your week.

In this episode:

✓ Why lack of sunshine hits your motivation harder than you think, and why rushing through the day makes it worse, not better

✓ T...

Ask ten people on your team what "productive" means, and you'll get ten different answers. That's the problem.

In this episode, Ildi and Pooja unpack why productivity isn't the tidy input-output equation it's made out to be, and why assuming everyone shares your definition is quietly costing you.

In this episode:

💡 Why productivity became a measurable "thing" only with the industrial revolution, and why that history still shapes...

You set a date on your goal. Ticked the "T" box. Done, right?

Not quite.

In this episode, Ildi and Pooja break down why putting a date on a goal is nowhere near enough, and why most people's "available time" math is wrong before they even start.

In this episode:

✓ Why dividing your target by 12 months sets you up to fail before you begin

✓ The real time deductions nobody accounts for

✓ Why being generous with your time estimate ...

Goals? Done. Plans? Done.

So why does next year end up looking exactly like last year?

Because of the step almost everyone skips: the REVIEW. In this episode, we unpack why we dread looking back and why there's no reward without review.

In this episode:

👉 Why we always see what went wrong first and how to flip it.

👉 The one question to ask when your whole year felt like a flop ("How come my lights are still on?").

👉 Why a wage i...

You set the goal.

You made the plan.

So why did nothing happen?

If your beautifully laid-out plans keep collapsing the moment real life shows up, this episode is for you.

Ildi and Pooja unpack the real reasons plans fail and spoiler: it's rarely about discipline.

In this episode:

👉 Why treating your plan like it's set in stone sets you up to fail

👉 The four very different ways people naturally plan and how each one goes wrong

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It's EOFY here in Australia, and everyone's talking about the g-word. Goals. Ask ten business owners how they feel about that word and half of them will visibly flinch.

In this episode, we unpack why some people set goals easily and pivot without a second thought, while others quietly dread committin...

We've been building to this one.

Today we finally pull back the curtain on the concept at the heart of everything we do at The Time Fix — time-centric archetypes.

Rooted in behavioural science and the extended DISC modality, there are four major archetypes that shape how people relate to time — and none of us are just one of them.

We unpack all four: the Time Treasurer who lives by "time is money," the Time Bender who w...

"Just watch me and do what I do." It sounds harmless. It's not.

In this episode, we unpack why the classic "do as I do" approach quietly sabotages your team's productivity, and why it's not entirely anyone's fault.

We trace it all the way back to primary school, where we spent 15 years conditioning young people to respond to bells, timetables, and external cues. Then the moment they hit a workplace, we expect them to build their ow...

What does productivity actually mean?

Ask ten people on your team and you'll get ten different answers. That's exactly the problem.

In this episode, we unpack why standardising productivity backfires, including the story of a business owner who made the Pomodoro Technique compulsory for his whole team and watched output drop. Hoping your team will be productive is like swinging a metal detector and praying for gold.

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What if time isn't the problem? What if your relationship with it is?

In this episode, Ildi and Pooja unpack one of the most overlooked ideas in productivity: that every person has a completely different relationship with time, shaped by culture, upbringing, neuroscience,...

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Some clients call when the house is on fire.

This one called because he wanted to grow his garden differently, and that made all the difference. In this episode, we share the real story of a boutique law firm we've been working with for nearly 12 months.

We talk about how the relationship started, what the work actually looked like on the ground, and t...

Let's be honest. Most teams aren't falling apart. They are just... fine. And that's the problem.

When everything is "good enough," it's easy to miss the small frictions quietly building up beneath the surface. The finger-pointing. The disengagement. The people who are phys...