The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell
Stories, tools, and resources for ambitious people who overthink, procrastinate, and lose hours to their phone or in their heads.
Hosted by Flint Mitchell, founder and head coach at iAlign, a coaching and software company working to help 1 billion people take 1 value based decision every day.
The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell
Latest Episodes
iAlign #74 - How Many Backup Laptops Is Too Many
I'm filming this on my potato of an old laptop because I just poured a full glass of water onto my new one while moving a blanket, in a remote town in Chile about four hours south of Santiago by bus. The backup was basically the one thing I pla...
iAlign #73 - Nothing You Start Will Pay Off For Weeks
Everything in life has a three to four week lead time minimum, and the moment I actually accepted that about my own work is when I started making faster progress. Two things happen once you believe it. You have to filter much harder, because yo...
iAlign #72 - The Decision Took Two Seconds And Two Years
I spent two years deciding whether to apply to medical school, and I didn't spend them thinking. I volunteered in hospice care at 22, I shadowed surgeons in the fields I found interesting, and I studied for the MCAT while I was working as a res...
iAlign #71 - You Will Choose Wrong. Start Anyway.
The first real step I took out of my job at a lab building genetic sequencing technology was buying an $18,000 2018 Ram ProMaster City van that I'd eventually build out and live in. What made that hard wasn't the van, it was the thousand small ...
iAlign #70 - Nine Thousand Hours Of Practice You Skipped
I have a hot take on relationships, which is that a lot of people are running into partners and friends whose emotional maturity is nowhere near what they were hoping for, and I don't think that's only about comparison and endless options. I re...