{"podcast":{"title":"The Double Win","slug":"the-double-win-847387","podcast_index_feed_id":847387,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-double-win-a602ba7a-b838-4bd2-91e5-5215cbb0a6a8","website_url":"https://doublewinshow.com","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Y0OjYHYC_rwKW8GFG5b51X7dcUWOwFeWuUYJtgwZXLk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jMDE1/OTBiM2M4NDJmYmE3/NzI3ZDlmMWQ2YWJi/ZjAyYy5qcGVn.jpg","author":"Michael Hyatt","episode_count":407,"summary":"Work-life balance isn’t a myth—it’s a mission. At The Double Win Podcast we believe that ambitious, high-growth individuals can experience personal and professional fulfillment simultaneously. Hosted by the creators of the Full Focus Planner, Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller, The Double Win Podcast is your go-to resource for unlocking secrets to productivity, wellness, and work-life balance. The Double Win Podcast features insightful weekly conversations with thought leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs sharing fascinating personal stories and actionable ideas for balancing professional success with personal well-being. Whether you're looking for motivation to achieve your goals or strategies to harmonize your career and life, The Double Win Podcast provides the perspectives and tools you need. Michael and Megan focus on the nine domains of life—body, mind, and spirit, love, family, community, money, work, and hobbies—offering practical advice to help you thrive. Discover how to integrate purposeful productivity and overall wellness into your daily routine, stay motivated, and experience a life of joy and significance. Hit subscribe and embark on your journey to winning at w…","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-double-win-847387"},"episode":{"title":"HAL HERSHFIELD: Making Better Choices Feel Easier","slug":"hal-hershfield-making-better-choices-feel-easier","published_at":"2026-01-21T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-double-win-847387/hal-hershfield-making-better-choices-feel-easier","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-double-win-847387","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/fdaf82e6","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/fdaf82e6/900483e9.mp3","summary":"Why do we procrastinate, overspend, or neglect habits we know matter? In this episode, UCLA professor Hal Hershfield reveals how our connection (or lack of connection) to our future selves shapes everything from health and finances to ethics and life satisfaction. Drawing on decades of research, Hal introduces practical tools—including reverse time travel, temptation bundling, and vivid imagination exercises—that help close the gap between intention and action. This conversation is equal parts science, story, and strategy for anyone who wants to live with more agency and hope. Memorable Quotes “It involves thinking about trade-offs between now and later, and thinking about sort of balancing out our happiness and our satisfaction over time between the version of us who exists right now and the version of us who exist in the future.” “People change, and we change much more than we expect to. And the reason I think that that's not something to fear is because it means that we have some control over our lives. It means that we can become different versions of us, we can change aspects of ourselves.” “It may be scary at first to recognize that my life could look different in 10 years than I expect it to be. But the reality that we know from decades of research is that as a human being, we're quite good with grappling with change. We're quite resilient. We have a healthy, what's called ‘psychological immune system,’ which basically means we can sort of fend off the changes that we don't want and sort of learn to live with the way that life has become.” “What the research has found is that if we make the process of achieving a goal more fun, more enjoyable, more pleasurable, we're just—and this shouldn't surprise anybody—we're a lot more likely to stick it out.” “If we want t…","meta_description":"Why do we procrastinate, overspend, or neglect habits we know matter? In this episode, UCLA professor Hal Hershfield reveals how our connection (or lack o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3703,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-double-win-847387/episodes/hal-hershfield-making-better-choices-feel-easier/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-double-win-847387/hal-hershfield-making-better-choices-feel-easier.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}