Half-Finished to Done Podcast with Cristina Roman, Productivity Coach for Ambitious Business Owners

Trying to “just do it” when you’re feeling intense emotions about a task or project rarely works. 

Fighting against yourself usually leads to more stress, anxiety, and angst.

In this episode, I’m joined by fellow coach Sarah Yost—who I call the “emotions queen”— to talk about why and how to regulate when we’re feeling overwhelmed with emotions…and why she never recommends pushing through.

She also shares a profound insight about wh...

What’s it like to work with a productivity coach? The best way for you to understand the process and benefits of one-on-one coaching is to share real stories from real clients. 

In this episode, I’m highlighting three clients who are all successful and are killing it in their respective jobs and industries. 

They didn’t come to productivity coaching because they felt like failures. Instead, they chose to work with me because they k...

If you’re like many business owners, you’ve never considered selling your business one day.

And you might automatically assume that your business could never be sold.

This means that you’re likely selling yourself short, and you’re never giving yourself the opportunity to prepare your business for a potential exit.

This episode will change the way you see your long-term business growth, and the options available to you.

The decisio...

Do you have mixed feelings about setting goals?

Goals intrigue you because you like the idea of going after something and achieving it. But, if you’ve felt burned by goals in the past, it’s also normal to feel reluctance about setting a new one. 

This is especially true if you’ve consistently pursued goals that were not relevant, meaningful, or rewarding to you.

We’re going to change that today! So if you are ready to do goals diff...

If you struggle with sitting down to work after dealing with difficult situations or intense emotions, this episode is for you. 

Relationship conflict. Worrying about your kids. Hormonal flare-ups. 

These are all situations that generate intense negative emotions that can take our focus away from work.

If you’re like most people, you do one of two things when you feel this way: You either go into hustle mode and ignore your emotion...

Ready to get more done—with a fraction of the time, energy, and effort it normally takes you? The Bare Minimum Method is for you, especially if you often hit low-energy periods in your business that stress you out. 

The Bare Minimum Method has been mentioned several times here on the podcast, but today’s episode gives you a full behind-the-scenes peek into what it’s all about. 

In this episode, you’ll learn when to use the Bare Min...

Have you been wondering if productivity coaching is a fit for you? 

Working together in my 1:1 coaching program is for you’re an ambitious business owner who cares deeply about:

• Producing high-caliber work that you're proud of, in a way that you like,
• Mastering true rest (time off + mind off), and
• Actually having a life outside of your busine...

Do you find yourself doing everything BUT the hardest, most important work in your business? This episode is for you. 

If you haven’t yet listened to episode 41, Sit Down and Work Challenge, be sure to give it a listen before diving into this episode. 

Once you have culled your to-do list down to only your most essential work, it’s time to sit down and get shit done. 

In this episode, I’m sharing my top five tips for doing your har...

I’m excited to invite you to the first 5-day event that I'm hosting in 2023, the Sit Down And Work Challenge. This challenge is for you if you are a business owner who struggles to get your hardest work done due to overwhelm, uncertainty, doubt, or distraction.

In this episode, I’m walking you through what has to happen BEFORE you sit down to work. 

And if you want to master the skill of focusing on demand so that you can consisten...

Sales, marketing, and operations get talked about all the time in the online business world—but we rarely talk about how to actually craft products and services that create phenomenal results for our clients. 

Today, I’m welcoming Becca Syme back to the Half-Finished to Done Podcast to talk about exactly this. In this episode, Becca and I talk about how to master craftsmanship in your service-based business, accepting and overcomin...

Today’s guest is a two-time former client of Half-Finished to Done, LIVE, Samara Potter. 

Samara joined Half-Finished to Done, LIVE after the Monday Hour One 5-Day Challenge helped her plan out her weeks more effectively.  

In this episode, Samara shares how joining the program (twice!) helped her transition from one of the lowest moments of her medical career to feeling more calm, centered, and compassionate toward herself and oth...

Does content creation feel like a constant source of pressure for you? You’re not alone.

As a Productivity Coach, I see business owners procrastinate on their content creation all the time. It’s something most business owners want to incorporate into their business, but it often creates so much angst, dread, pressure, and anxiety. 

On this episode, I’m joined by Samantha Hoilett. Samantha is a Launch Copywriter and Messaging Strate...

If you’ve been diagnosed with ADHD, suspect that you might have it, or have someone close to you who is neurodivergent (hint: you probably do!), this episode is for you. 

And if none of this applies to you, listen anyway! Our fast-paced society creates symptoms for people that mimic ADHD, so you’ll get something from this episode, no matter what. 

In this episode, I'm joined by Megan Kierstead, a certified coach for forward-thinkin...

Overeating. Overdrinking. Mindlessly scrolling Instagram. Doom-scrolling the news. Numbing out with Netflix.

These are all ways that we buffer; meaning we use something external to cover up our negative emotions. 

In this episode, you’ll learn how buffering can wreak havoc on your productivity, by keeping you in a constant cycle of avoidance. 

I’m joined by Jennifer Dent-Brown, a weight loss coach who teaches women how to stop diet...

This one is for the parents who are struggling to balance their work with their role as a parent—especially when their kid or teen is having a hard time.

This is something that comes up with my clients all the time, so when I met Ashley Jangro, I knew I needed to have her on the podcast as a guest expert on this topic. 

Listen in as Ashley and I discuss:

• What to do when it feels like your productivi...

My job as a Productivity Coach is to help business owners like you find (and actually do!) the actions that are most high-value for you in your life and business. 

In this episode, I’m sharing one of my highest-value daily actions: My failure-free meditation practice.

Listen as I share exactly how I’ve implemented this habit to help me feel more calm, grounded, clear, peaceful, and productive. If you give this meditation a go, or i...

As a Productivity Coach, business owners initially come to me because they want to be more productive. 

But as we dive into our work together, I find that most people actually just want to feel calm in their workday, enjoy the process of working, and feel proud of their high-caliber work. 

If this is for you, join me live for:

The How To Have A Calm Workday workshop

Wednesday, February 15th at 1pm ET

Register at bit.ly/calmworkday

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Our guest today is a former Half-Finished to Done, LIVE client and fellow coach, Christie Williams. 

In today’s episode, Christie shares how being part of Half-Finished to Done, LIVE and using the skill of deep work has transformed her from someone who felt like she was settling to a committed coach who controls her time and emotions. Listen in as we discuss:

• What it looks like to settle in subtle w...

In this episode, I am catching up with my former client, Jaime Ellis, a recovering corporate America executive turned career coach. 

In this conversation, Jaime shares her journey from a place of overwhelm where she was drowning in projects and desperately looking for a way through that period of intense deliverables without burning herself out. 

Press play to hear how after her body “pulled the emergency brake” on her, she had no ...