Upleveling Work helps ambitious leaders create a bigger, more meaningful life without burning out or betraying themselves in the process.
Executive coach Michelle Kay Anderson shares practical tools, coaching insights, and Enneagram wisdom to help you navigate uncertainty, make aligned decisions, set boundaries, overcome people-pleasing, and create lasting change.
Because leadership isn’t about doing more. It’s about becoming more fully yourself. Learn more at uplevelingwork.com.
You still have fourteen things due this week. This episode is for that part of you.
Why it matters: Last episode went below the waterline - the mental models, the emotional weight, the question of what time is even for. This one comes back up for air. It's the practical half: what actually works, backed by research, tuned for different kinds of brains.
The big picture: There's no one system that fits everyone. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. What you'll get instead are frameworks that have worked for real coaching clients (real workloads, real complexity, real competing demands) so you can find what fits yours.
The bottom line: You can get things done without sacrificing your nervous system, your relationships, or yourself.
Show notes: uplevelingwork.com/25Catch up with episode 24 first at uplevelingwork.com/24
21 Jul 2026
24. You Can't Optimize Your Way to Peace
What if productivity isn’t actually your problem?
Most productivity advice promises that the right planner, app, or morning routine will finally help you feel calm, in control, and caught up. But those aren’t organizational outcomes—they’re emotional ones. And no productivity system can create them.
In this episode, Michelle explores the hidden mental models driving our obsession with optimization, why traditional productivity advice rarely sticks, and what it means to approach your time as a living human instead of a machine.
This isn’t the “how-to” episode. It’s the one that asks whether we’ve been solving the wrong problem all along.
If you’ve ever felt like you’re endlessly optimizing your system instead of living your life, this conversation is for you.
🔗 Show notes at http://uplevelingwork.com/24
15 Jun 2026
23. Why Change Feels Hard
You already know what you need to do. So why is change still so hard?
In this episode, Michelle Kay Anderson explores the hidden psychological immune system that protects us from perceived threats - and often sabotages the changes we want most. Learn why lasting transformation isn’t about more discipline or better plans, but understanding the competing commitments and assumptions operating beneath the surface.
If you’ve ever thought, “Why can’t I just follow through?” this episode will change how you see yourself, and your capacity to grow.
🔗 Show notes at https://uplevelingwork.com/23
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