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 #97 - Abandon The Circle You're Standing In
It was a Sunday night and I was reading Circles, one of my favorite essays by my favorite philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, so I read the passage out loud and then talked about it. The line I keep coming back to is at the end, the way of life i...
iAlign #96 - Small Silly Actions Beat Your Endless Research
I've got a cup here with the iAlign filter drawn on it in sharpie. I made it in a cafe in 2023 when a friend asked what I was working on, and instead of talking about the weather or the game I said let me show you, and at that point almost none...
iAlign #95 - You Didn't Regress, You Changed Lanes
A client told me last week that he felt like he'd taken four steps back, because earlier in the year he was shipping and moving and the last two weeks have been mostly emotion and almost no action. I stopped him, because he isn't going backward...
iAlign #94 - How Far Has The Avoiding Actually Taken You?
When I first tried to get a grip on my own distraction I refused to call it a real problem, because I was the smart one, the engineer, the guy who could explain better than anyone exactly what he should be doing. Guys with plans that good don't...
iAlign #93 - Is It A Character Flaw Or Missing Tools?
The reframe that changed my life was this one. Procrastinating, overthinking, scrolling my phone, those aren't character flaws, they're what shows up when I don't have enough emotional resilience yet for the specific thing in front of me. Think...