Whether you're a student or a working professional, the Learn and Work Smarter Podcast delivers the clarity, strategies, and encouragement you need to stay focused, organized, and on top of your tasks. Hosted by Katie Azevedo, M.Ed.—a private executive function coach with 20 years of teaching experience and a deep background in ADHD and cognitive science—this show is your practical guide to building the real-life skills that school and work demand but rarely teach. Episodes cover a range of topics, including time management, productivity, studying smarter, focus strategies, task initiation, and executive function habits. Each topic is approached through a lens of neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and deep compassion. You’ll learn systems that are teachable, sustainable, and immediately actionable. No fluff. No hype. Just real strategies for getting things done, reducing stress, and showing up as the most capable version of
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Learn and Work Smarter is a education podcast hosted by Katie Azevedo, with 139 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.
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139. The 5 Hardest Lessons I Learned as an Entrepreneur: A Peek Inside the Difficult, Honest Parts of My Business Journey
Aug 13, 202629 min
Send me a message! Starting my own business out of absolutely nothing has been the single greatest professional accomplishment of my life. Every single day, I think about where I started and where I am now — and the journey continues to amaze me. However, it hasn’t been easy. For every breakthrough, new successful idea, and client success story, there has been a lesson that tried to knock me down. In this episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I share publicly — for the first time ever — the five hardest lessons of my entrepreneurship journey over the past ten years. My goal is to share the truth, so that anyone looking to start their own thing can be prepared. What You Learn: The surprising truth about support from friends and family The one thing required for business success that everyone will judge you for having What to do when nobody “gets it” — because believe me, they won’t The reality about working hard and seeing no immediate results The hard facts about doing “impossible” things Resources Mentioned: ⭐ SchoolHabits University (SchoolHabitsUniversity.com) ⭐ Note-Taking Power System (NoteTakingSystem.com) ⭐ Assignment Management Power System (AssignmentManagementSystem.com) ⭐ FREE Parent Training: How to Help Your Teen Become a Motivated, Self-Directed Student Episode website Episode 80: How to Do a Work Sprint Episode 34: How to Stay Relevant at Work (Q&A) Episode 74: Should You Change Jobs or Change Companies? Submit a question to the show Free weekly planner (Free download) ❤️ Connect: Subscribe on YouTube Instagram TikTok Facebook Pinterest Got your own burning question you'd like me to answer on a future episode? AWESOME! You can submit your questions via the form on my homepage right here. Please follow the show and leave a review if what you hear is helpful. Doing so helps me more than you'll ever know. Thank you!! LET'S CONNECT Sign up for my (pretty darn good) newsletter that I very craftily named ReportCard . For hundreds of tutorials featuring tips on studying, productivity, organization, learning, time management and more, head to my blog: SchoolHabits.com .
138. Planning All Day Study Sessions, and Tips for Job-Hopping (Q&A)
Aug 6, 202622 min
Send me a message! Studying for 12 hours a day? Being a serial job-quitter? In this Q&A episode of the Learn and Work Smarter Podcast, I answer two questions submitted by listeners of the show. Question 1: A busy graduate student (who's also working full time) asks me for strategies for planning epic, all-day study sessions. Question 2: A working professional asks for advice about his job-hopping tendencies, after having had four jobs in five years. What You Learn: My advice for managing a full-time job and graduate school How to plan and manage a full-day study session How to know why your job feels so hard and makes you want to quit it How to fall back in love with a job you used to enjoy Resources Mentioned: ⭐ SchoolHabits University (SchoolHabitsUniversity.com) ⭐ Note-Taking Power System (NoteTakingSystem.com) ⭐ Assignment Management Power System (AssignmentManagementSystem.com) ⭐ FREE Parent Training: How to Help Your Teen Become a Motivated, Self-Directed Student Episode website Episode 80: How to Do a Work Sprint Episode 34: How to Stay Relevant at Work (Q&A) Episode 74: Should You Change Jobs or Change Companies? Submit a question to the show Free weekly planner (Free download) ❤️ Connect: Subscribe on YouTube Instagram TikTok Facebook Pinterest Got your own burning question you'd like me to answer on a future episode? AWESOME! You can submit your questions via the form on my homepage right here. Please follow the show and leave a review if what you hear is helpful. Doing so helps me more than you'll ever know. Thank you!! LET'S CONNECT Sign up for my (pretty darn good) newsletter that I very craftily named ReportCard . For hundreds of tutorials featuring tips on studying, productivity, organization, learning, time management and more, head to my blog: SchoolHabits.com .
137. How to Capture Your Ideas Before You Forget Them (Micro Strategy)
Jul 30, 202621 min
Send me a message! Ideas are only good if we remember them, am I right? Right. So why do we keep telling ourselves that we’ll remember something “later” when we never do? The idea that occurred to us in the shower? Gone. The thought we had lying in bed? Gone. The task we want to do later? Gone. In this micro strategy episode, I share a nifty little hack for how to capture these ideas when they occur to you (which is always when you don’t have a pen handy), and what to do with them so that you can actually come back to them at a later point. What You Learn: Why “I’ll remember that” is total nonsense Two micro strategies I personally use to capture my ideas on the go How to make this whole process frictionless (in other words, easy to use) What to do with your ideas once you capture them, so that you can DO something with them Resources Mentioned: ⭐ SchoolHabits University (SchoolHabitsUniversity.com) ⭐ Note-Taking Power System (NoteTakingSystem.com) ⭐ Assignment Management Power System (AssignmentManagementSystem.com) ⭐ FREE Parent Training: How to Help Your Teen Become a Motivated, Self-Directed Student Episode website Episode 132: The DO Date Hack Episode 136 : Your Productivity Tools are Useless Episode 03 : What’s an Admin Block and Why You Need One Submit a question to the show Free weekly planner (Free download) ❤️ Connect: Subscribe on YouTube Instagram TikTok Facebook Pinterest Got your own burning question you'd like me to answer on a future episode? AWESOME! You can submit your questions via the form on my homepage right here. Please follow the show and leave a review if what you hear is helpful. Doing so helps me more than you'll ever know. Thank you!! LET'S CONNECT Sign up for my (pretty darn good) newsletter that I very craftily named ReportCard . For hundreds of tutorials featuring tips on studying, productivity, organization, learning, time management and more, head to my blog: SchoolHabits.com .
136. Productivity Tools Are Useless (Unless You Do This...)
Jul 23, 202629 min
Send me a message! Productivity tools come with big promises. Planners, apps, devices, software…they can all genuinely help you get things done – and they claim to do so. BUT, the tool itself never gets you the outcome you want. I know, the irony. In this week's episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I reveal why productivity tools are useless (yes, even the ones I love and recommend), and the mistake I see students and professionals make when they place all their hope in a shiny new tool. Then I share the one thing that actually determines whether a tool works or becomes a hunk of plastic collecting dust on your desk (or a hunk of wasted pixels on your screen). What You Learn: The biggest mistake students and professionals make when they get a new productivity tool Why even the most basic tools (yes, a sticky note) can change your entire workflow Why even the most impressive tools (reMarkable, Asana, Notion) can do absolutely nothing for you What actually gives a tool its power (hint: it's not the tool) How to audit your systems so you know exactly where to start Resources Mentioned: ⭐ SchoolHabits University (SchoolHabitsUniversity.com) ⭐ Note-Taking Power System (NoteTakingSystem.com) ⭐ Assignment Management Power System (AssignmentManagementSystem.com) ⭐ FREE Parent Training: How to Help Your Teen Handle School Like a Pro Episode website (https://www.learnandworksmarter.com/podcast/136 ) Episode 12: Are Your Productivity Systems Broken? Episode 113 : The 6-System Ecosystem for School and Work Episode 117 : How to Build a Personal Ecosystem Episode 119 : My 10 Favorite Productivity Tools ( Blog ) 14 Uses for Blank Notebooks Submit a question to the show Free weekly planner (Free download) ❤️ Connect: Subscribe on YouTube Instagram TikTok Facebook Pinterest ⭐Use code HEADSTART100 at https://www.schoolhabitsuniversity.com/specialoffer for an instant $100 savings off enrollment. Got your own burning question you'd like me to answer on a future episode? AWESOME! You can submit your questions via the form on my homepage right here. Please follow the show and leave a review if what you hear is helpful. Doing so helps me more than you'll ever know. Thank you!! LET'S CONNECT Sign up for my (pretty darn good) newsletter that I very craftily named ReportCard . For hundreds of tutorials featuring tips on studying, productivity, organization, learning, time management and more, head to my blog: SchoolHabits.com .
135. The Effort Trick (That Gets You Everything You Want)
Jul 16, 202627 min
Send me a message!🤓 Don’t get me wrong – goals are awesome to have. They can inspire hope and dreams and cool visions we have for our futures. But focusing on the outcome we want (aka our goal) never gets us the outcome we want. I know, the irony. In this week’s episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I reveal why outcome-based goals are designed to make us fail, and the mistake I see students and professionals make when they set these kinds of goals. Then I share the secret effort trick (bahaha, it’s not really a secret) that will get you closer to your goals than literally anything else. What You Learn: The biggest mistake students and professionals make when setting goals How outcome-based goals set you up to fail What outcome-based goals do to your confidence The right way to set goals so that you actually have a chance of meeting them The effort trick that’s basically magic and gets you everything you want 🔗 Resources Mentioned: ⭐ SchoolHabits University (SchoolHabitsUniversity.com) ⭐ Note-Taking Power System (NoteTakingSystem.com) ⭐ Assignment Management Power System (AssignmentManagementSystem.com) ⭐ FREE Parent Training: How to Help Your Teen Handle School Like a Pro Episode website (https://www.learnandworksmarter.com/podcast/135 ) Episode 15: How to Manage Email Episode 54 : The Secret Ingredient Behind Every Accomplishment Ever Episode 106 : The Anti-Goal Setting Strategy Submit a question to the show Free weekly planner (FREE DOWNLOAD) ❤️ Connect: Subscribe on YouTube Instagram TikTok Facebook Pinterest Got your own burning question you'd like me to answer on a future episode? AWESOME! You can submit your questions via the form on my homepage right here. Please follow the show and leave a review if what you hear is helpful. Doing so helps me more than you'll ever know. Thank you!! LET'S CONNECT Sign up for my (pretty darn good) newsletter that I very craftily named ReportCard . For hundreds of tutorials featuring tips on studying, productivity, organization, learning, time management and more, head to my blog: SchoolHabits.com .
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