{"podcast":{"title":"Grace & Grit Podcast","slug":"grace-grit-podcast-991716","podcast_index_feed_id":991716,"rss_url":"https://graceandgrit.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://graceandgrit.com/podcast","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/f/4/4/0/f4405a4688bbcbb088c4a68c3ddbc4f2/Grace_and_Grit_Podcast_3000px.png","author":"Courtney Townley","episode_count":671,"summary":"The Grace and Grit Podcast takes the health fairy tale you've heard all your life and turns it upside down and inside out, helping women rebuild their relationship with their body once and for all. Placing the focus on love and respect, rather than the aggressive demands and unrealistic expectations that have become the norm, Courtney Townley is determined to help women mend the fabric of what is driving the female health story.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-26T18:17:18.535767+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 664: The Art of Doing One Thing at a Time","slug":"episode-664-the-art-of-doing-one-thing-at-a-time","published_at":"2026-09-19T09:06:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716/episode-664-the-art-of-doing-one-thing-at-a-time","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716","url":"https://graceandgrit.libsyn.com/episode-664-the-art-of-doing-one-thing-at-a-time","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/graceandgrit/Sept_19.mp3?dest-id=329309","summary":"We pride ourselves on multitasking. But the research on this is unambiguous: what we call multitasking is actually task-switching. And we do everything worse when our attention is divided. In this episode I make the case for the radical, countercultural act of doing one thing at a time. Not as a productivity strategy but as a quality-of-life one. Because when your attention is split, you are never fully anywhere. You are doing everything halfway. Food tastes different when you are not also reading something. A conversation goes somewhere real when you are not half-checking your phone. Work that felt resistant opens up when you give it your full attention. Single-tasking is not slower. It just feels that way at first. What it actually produces is a better experience of being alive. And that is the whole point. Want to keep going? Download the first chapter of The Consistency Code for FREE at https://graceandgrit.com/freechapter and take the first step toward the health and happiness you deserve. #GraceAndGrit #SingleTasking #MidlifeWomen #Presence #Multitasking #WomensWellness #DeepHealth #OneThingAtATime #IntentionalLiving #MidlifeHealth","meta_description":"We pride ourselves on multitasking. But the research on this is unambiguous: what we call multitasking is actually task-switching. And we do everything wo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":449,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grace-grit-podcast-991716/episodes/episode-664-the-art-of-doing-one-thing-at-a-time/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716/episode-664-the-art-of-doing-one-thing-at-a-time.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}