{"podcast":{"title":"Process Debt","slug":"process-debt-7039689","podcast_index_feed_id":7039689,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/process-debt/feed.xml","website_url":"https://processdebt.com/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/process-debt/20241007_021040_7150bf5255fe04979ff4c095789cc607.png","author":"Chris Terrell","episode_count":93,"summary":"What is Process Debt? The hidden burden of inefficient processes that erode growth, employee satisfaction, and organizational success We all have a little 'process debt' in our lives and careers. In our podcast, \"Process Debt,\" we explore the daily challenges and frustrations with the hidden systems that steal joy from our work. From personal anecdotes to professional insights, join us for insights you can used to start changing those those broken business systems .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T00:17:37.195982+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/process-debt-7039689"},"episode":{"title":"Your Personal Process Has Debt Too","slug":"your-personal-process-has-debt-too","published_at":"2026-07-03T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/process-debt-7039689/your-personal-process-has-debt-too","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/process-debt-7039689","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/process-debt/2942871","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/293248/2942871/process-debt/2026_06_25_12_13_23_263d85e4-7e2f-483d-bd56-0b158fdcdc82.mp3","summary":"You spend your days diagnosing why nobody updates the board and why the dashboard tells three different stories. But when's the last time you audited your own process? This week, Chris and Toby turn the lens inward. Turns out the habits you run your life on — the reactivity, the phone-on-the-nightstand morning, the work-until-you're-empty grind — mostly aren't yours. They were trained into you by corporate environments that rewarded looking busy over being effective. And like every other kind of process debt, you never decided to take it on. It just accumulated. They get into BJ Fogg's behavior model and why most change fails on the prompt, not the motivation; the weekly retrospective that buys you permission to play hooky; the Hemingway trick for making hard work easier to return to; and the surprisingly short list of things you actually control. Same problem we always talk about. Just smaller scale.","meta_description":"You spend your days diagnosing why nobody updates the board and why the dashboard tells three different stories. But when's the last time you audited your…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1331,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/process-debt-7039689/episodes/your-personal-process-has-debt-too/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/process-debt-7039689/your-personal-process-has-debt-too.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}