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b'In This Episode:\\n\\n\\n\\n* How Startup Society creator Gillian Perkins prepared for her recent parental leave* What her normal 20-hour workweek looks like and how she adapted that as she was working toward her leave* Why she describes her process as \\u201cbatching chaotically\\u201d and how making that process what she plans for has made things easier for her* What she\\u2019s learned from taking time away from the business over the years\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThere are a lot of folks out there telling you how to get your work done.\\n\\n\\n\\nThere are planners, apps, frameworks, and methods. And there are even more messages about delegating, time-blocking, batching, and fitting a whole year\\u2019s work into just 12 weeks.\\n\\n\\n\\nIt\\u2019s easy to think that the \\u201cway you work\\u201d works for you\\u2014and maybe it does. But it\\u2019s also easy to believe, if you let yourself, that the way you work has been shaped by the \\u201cshoulds\\u201d of an entire industry devoted to the capitalist pursuit of helping you produce more, be more efficient, and crank out more value for every hour of labor you put into the world.\\n\\n\\n\\nHow would you structure your work if you didn\\u2019t constantly feel the need to fit more work in? How would you approach your tasks with intention instead of obligation? How would you create plans with stewardship instead of urgency as the motivation?\\n\\n\\n\\nThis month on What Works, we\\u2019re tackling the topic of how we work our plans. This is a topic near and dear to my heart because I\\u2019ve spent years trying to squeeze myself into all the \\u201cright\\u201d ways of working and planning\\u2014only to discover that I really had to make it mine to make it work. I needed to rebuild my understanding of my work and accountability from the ground up to realize just how powerful I could be with how I create my work and use my time.\\n\\n\\n\\nIn the last episode, I shared a bit about that and quite a bit about how I\\u2019m planning for What Works and YellowHouse.Media. And, I mentioned that one of my commitments for 2021 is Adapt & Emerge.\\n\\n\\n\\nSo I want to apply that lens to the conversations I\\u2019ve had for this month\\u2019s episodes. I want to explore how business owners find the curiosity to question how they \\u201cshould\\u201d be doing something or what they thought the plan was going look like and, instead, find their own way by intentionally adapting as they go.\\n\\n\\n\\nThis week, my guest is Gillian Perkins\\u2014a YouTuber with over 450 thousand subscribers, marketing expert, business strategist, and the creator of Startup Society.\\n\\n\\n\\nI\\u2019ve had the pleasure of getting to know Gillian through YellowHouse.Media, where we produce her podcast, Work Less, Earn More. Gillian is a disciplined, rigorous executor who is no stranger to making a plan and working it.\\n\\n\\n\\nAnd there are plenty of conventional ways that Gillian manages the work to be done\\u2014for instance, she loves Asana!\\n\\n\\n\\nBut there was a really intriguing part of our conversation where I learned that Gillian\\u2019s found her true way of working on big projects\\u2014like planning for her recent parental leave\\u2014doesn\\u2019t necessarily fit the way we think it\\u2019s supposed to be done. She calls it \\u201cbatching chaotically\\u201d and it\\u2019s a mode of operation I can definitely relate to!\\n\\n\\n\\nIn this conversation,'