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The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell
Stories, tools, and resources for ambitious people who overthink, procrastinate, and lose hours to their phone or in their heads.
Hosted by Flint Mitchell, founder and head coach at iAlign, a coaching and software company working to help 1 billion people take 1 value based decision every day.
Episodes
- The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell
iAlign #89 - Being Smart Is Why You're Still Coasting
Send us Fan Mail People have told me I'm smart my whole life, and I do think I've been granted some real competencies, I follow threads in a conversation, I…
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iAlign #88 - Why The Urge To Scroll Never Fully Disappears
Send us Fan Mail When a signal attenuates it doesn't actually disappear, it just gets smaller and smaller until it drops below the point where you can detect…
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iAlign #87 - Thursday You Keeps Beating Monday You
Send us Fan Mail You've tried being more disciplined and it doesn't work, because it's Thursday you against Monday you every single week and Thursday keeps…
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iAlign #86 - Nobody Is Waiting For The Thing You're Polishing
Send us Fan Mail I was doing Instagram research the other day and a video of the producer Russ slid across my screen, where he's talking about a song of his…
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iAlign #85 - Overwhelmed Is A Sentence You Keep Repeating
Send us Fan Mail I told a mentor I was overwhelmed one time and he said the most annoying possible thing back, which was that he'd probably feel overwhelmed…
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iAlign #84 - Switching Cafes Will Not Fix Your Focus
Send us Fan Mail I was a research scientist in Pleasanton, working out of an office we called the meat locker because it was full of dudes and had no fresh…
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iAlign #83 - The Veritasium Video Is Not Why You Are Awake
Send us Fan Mail There I am again, laptop on my stomach at 2 a.m., neck cranked at a weird angle, watching a Veritasium video that was interesting but nowhere…
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iAlign #82 - Strong Feelings Do Not Mean It Matters More
Send us Fan Mail I went through a breakup years ago with a woman I loved dearly, and I spent a lot of those nights lying on the beige carpet in my room staring…
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iAlign #81 - Admit The Mess And Climb The Curve Faster
Send us Fan Mail A friend asked me recently how paid content is performing against organic in my business, and the honest answer was that my numbers are a mix…
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iAlign #80 - Rejection Is Proof You Stopped Hesitating
Send us Fan Mail Several years back I got rejected from MIT, a spot in the affective computing lab that lined up with everything I cared about. I had built…
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iAlign #79 - Stop Mistaking Shame For Accountability
Send us Fan Mail I was surfing on the coast of Chile thinking about the pain of feeling like I wouldn't live up to my potential, and it got too dark to see, so…
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iAlign #78 - You Get To Decide This Is Rock Bottom
Send us Fan Mail I was 23, standing at the body fat scanner HR had put in the hallway at my biotech campus, and I told a colleague I was probably around 15…
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iAlign #77 - It Is 5:53, You Will Stop At Six
Send us Fan Mail The shape of this for me was always, it's 5:53, I'll use Instagram until six and then get back to the thing I was doing, and then you blink…
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iAlign #76 - The Week You Overcommit Is A Pop Quiz
Send us Fan Mail Right now I'm overcommitted as far as the hours I'm actually capable of working, which puts me somewhere I think is genuinely useful. A pop…
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iAlign #75 - Your Mind Says Scroll. Ask For Another Thought.
Send us Fan Mail It's Sunday at two in the afternoon, the espresso I drank didn't hit, and the back of my mind just suggested we sit down and watch TV instead…
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iAlign #74 - How Many Backup Laptops Is Too Many
Send us Fan Mail I'm filming this on my potato of an old laptop because I just poured a full glass of water onto my new one while moving a blanket, in a remote…
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iAlign #73 - Nothing You Start Will Pay Off For Weeks
Send us Fan Mail Everything in life has a three to four week lead time minimum, and the moment I actually accepted that about my own work is when I started…
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iAlign #72 - The Decision Took Two Seconds And Two Years
Send us Fan Mail I spent two years deciding whether to apply to medical school, and I didn't spend them thinking. I volunteered in hospice care at 22, I…
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iAlign #71 - You Will Choose Wrong. Start Anyway.
Send us Fan Mail The first real step I took out of my job at a lab building genetic sequencing technology was buying an $18,000 2018 Ram ProMaster City van…
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iAlign #70 - Nine Thousand Hours Of Practice You Skipped
Send us Fan Mail I have a hot take on relationships, which is that a lot of people are running into partners and friends whose emotional maturity is nowhere…
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iAlign #69 - The Pit In Your Stomach Is Not Regression
Send us Fan Mail A week or two into every January I feel like absolute shit about myself, no matter how well things are actually going, and I've given up…
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iAlign #68 - Split Your Attention, Lose The Only Good Part
Send us Fan Mail It was nearly midnight on a Friday in a small coastal surf town in Chile, I had a couple more hours of work I wanted to do, and the voice in…
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iAlign #67 - The Catch 22 Keeping You Isolated And Behind
Send us Fan Mail Men get assessed by what they create and how they provide, and at the end of January, when everybody is falling off their goals, you feel it…
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iAlign #61 - Sacrifice the Exciting Day to Actually Have One
Send us Fan Mail I'd wake up with a list, exercise, ten hours of work, meditate, surf, and then I'd blink and it was 5:30 and I'd done almost none of it. That…
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iAlign #62 - The Trap Door Ambitious Engineers Fall Through
Send us Fan Mail I was doing bioinformatics work for a biotech group with a big analysis due by the end of the year, and I was badly behind on it. Then they…
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iAlign #63 - The Test You Set by Going Quiet
Send us Fan Mail I get lonely over the holidays sometimes, no matter how many people around me love me. One year I was having a rough stretch, not feeling…
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iAlign #64 - Planning Next Year From the Hot Tub
Send us Fan Mail There's no such thing as a clean slate. I could start over in a new place with new people and I'd still show up carrying my current body and…
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iAlign #65 - Keeping Every Promise Except the Ones to Yourself
Send us Fan Mail Right after university I'd go to the bar with my colleagues after work pretty regularly, while telling myself I was getting back into soccer…
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iAlign #66 - In the End, YOU Always Deliver the Final Blow To Yourself
Send us Fan Mail I was lying on the floor of my apartment like a corpse. I'd just pulled from savings to cover rent, my relationship was ending, I wasn't…
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iAlign #56 - You Feel Behind Because Your Tabs Are Open
Send us Fan Mail I started a blog in university called Trying to Tech and never made it past post number four. It sat there for years as one more open tab…
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iAlign #57 - You Said You'd Scroll Less Over the Holidays
Send us Fan Mail I've tracked my drinking for a few years now. Last year I averaged around 15 a month, this year it's closer to five, and every Thanksgiving…
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iAlign #58 - Sick in Bed and Still Feeling Behind
Send us Fan Mail My New Year's kiss a couple years ago was a bottle of NyQuil. I was sick in bed on January 1st and my mind was still telling me I was lazy, I…
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iAlign #59 - Trying Really Hard Is Not a System
Send us Fan Mail I was sitting in a power systems class when the email came through with my organic chemistry score, and I'm pretty sure it started with a two…
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iAlign #60 - The Books You Tell People You're Reading
Send us Fan Mail I used to lie to people about the books I was reading, not outright, just by naming books I'd started and never finished whenever someone…
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iAlign #55 - Your Best Focus Isn't at the Coffee Shop
Send us Fan Mail When I lived in Santa Cruz there was a route I'd start driving without ever deciding to. Down to the water, past Pleasure Point, over to Cat &…
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iAlign #52 - Not Moving Fast Enough to Trust Yourself
Send us Fan Mail I was standing with my dad around Christmas a few years ago thinking, I wish I was moving faster, I wish I was more proud of myself, I don't…
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iAlign #53 - A Free Afternoon in the Lab, Spent Scrolling
Send us Fan Mail I had a lab, a full set of equipment, and afternoons I could spend on whatever experiment I wanted. I spent them scrolling the Instagram of a…
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iAlign #54 - Building in the Shadows Until You're Worthy
Send us Fan Mail The Count of Monte Cristo was one of my favorite books growing up and I think it did some damage. I loved the idea of disappearing into the…
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iAlign #51 - Perfection, Shame, and Coping Mechanisms
Send us Fan Mail Stop being the smart guy with all the potential who's stuck scrolling. Click here to fill out the 30 second application, then book a call…
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iAlign #50 - Personal Growth is Lonely
Send us Fan Mail Stop being the smart guy with all the potential who's stuck scrolling. Click here to fill out the 30 second application, then book a call…
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iAlign #49 - Do it for Yourself AND Your Loved Ones
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iAlign #48 - Why Shame Breaks Your Laser Focus
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iAlign #47 - Building Real Relationships By Building YOU
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iAlign #46 - You Won't Hit Your 2025 Goals (How to Change That)
Send us Fan Mail The last episode of my podcast (Apple Podcasts, Spotify) [6 min] My FREE core-value based goal-setting workshop this Wednesday, January 8, at…
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iAlign #45 - Some Trains Only Pass Once
Send us Fan Mail The first solo episode of the Seeking Authenticity Podcast. Stop being the smart guy with all the potential who's stuck scrolling. Click here…
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#44 - Balancing a life of Entrepreneurship and Surfing with Ryan Hellriegel
Send us Fan Mail #44 - Balancing a life of Entrepreneurship and Surfing with Ryan Hellriegel iAlign: Your better life in 60 seconds Currently in beta and…
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#43 - Brewing Coffee and Building Community with Abby Cleary
Send us Fan Mail #43 - Building Community with Coffee with Abby Cleary iAlign: Your better life in 60 seconds Currently in beta and planned to be released to…
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#42 - Rediscovering the Importance of Connection with Former D1 Athlete and Entrepreneur Joe Conway
Send us Fan Mail #42 - Rediscovering the Importance of Connection with Former D1 Athlete and Entrepreneur Joe Conway iAlign: Your better life in 60 seconds…
The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell#41 - Resilience: 12 books in 12 months with Brittney Schering
Send us Fan Mail Updates on my book, podcast, and everything else related to Seeking Authenticity: Website: flintmitchell.com Instagram: @flintmitchelldotcom…
The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell#40 - Walking Across America with Andrew Kivett
Send us Fan Mail Andrew Kivett just walked across America! Andrew is only 21 years old and in this episode we talk about his walk across the country, both the…
The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell#39 - Starting Out, Starting Over, and Getting Ahead with Jeff Wellen
Send us Fan Mail Find out more about Jeff at his website: https://www.jeffwellen.com ----- Updates on my book, podcast, and everything else related to Seeking…
The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell#38 - Living an Engaged Life w/ Ben Bernstein
Send us Fan Mail Before we jump into this episode, I want to keep you posted about my book, also named Seeking Authenticity. It’s coming out later this month…
The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell#37 - Stitching Together a Life of Neurosurgery and Surfing with Dr. Peter Weber
Send us Fan Mail The priorities of life have kept me from posting these podcasts for a while, so I’m excited to bring them back. I have a book coming out this…
The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell#36 - Rowing Across Oceans and Redirecting Your Life with Roz Savage
Send us Fan Mail Roz Savage changed her life in her thirties, when through an environment epiphany, she completely shifted her direction from her current role…
The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell#35 - Obesity, Injury, and Ultra-Running with Philip Godwin
Send us Fan Mail I was introduced to Philip Godwin by Zach Smith, a former podcast guest who hiked the Pacific Crest Trail. Like Zach, Philip has found himself…
The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell#34 - Recreating Yourself in Paradise with Forensic Biomechanist Mike Sinnott
Send us Fan Mail Mike Sinnott is a forensic biomechanist, determining the true causes of accidents, and the human and mechanical factors that may have…
The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell#33 - Leaving College, Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, and Embracing Every Day as a New Adventure with Zach Smith
Send us Fan Mail Zach Smith hiked the entirety of the Pacific Crest Trail, a backpacking trail that extends over 2600 miles from the Mexican border to Canadian…
The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell#32 - Surviving Everest and the Seven Summits, Setting Expectations, and Creating a Positive Self-Image with Adventurer and Author John Beede
Send us Fan Mail John Beede has completed the seven summits, meaning he has climbed the tallest summit on all 7 continents, including Mt. Everest and Mt…
The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell#31 - The Dark Roots of Anthropology, Facing Social Anxiety, and Living a Curious Life with Gaby Lapera
Send us Fan Mail Gaby is both an editor and writer for companies like the Motley Fool and Credit Karma, while also hosting her own podcast, Anthrobiology, a…
The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell#30 - Exploring the Polar Regions, Life-Changing Encounters with Nature, and Inspiring Women to Embrace the Wilderness with Polar Expedition Guide Claire Wallace
Send us Fan Mail Claire Wallace is an outdoor expedition guide and polar law specialist who has made over 50 trips to the Arctic and Antarctic. Claire has a…