Paul Minors
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Hi, I'm Paul. This is my podcast where I teach people about productivity, business and self-improvement. I'm obsessed with productivity, automation, and optimising my time and income so I can live on my terms. I now earn a living as a “virtual consultant” and love sharing what I've learned about how to grow successful and productive businesses. Enjoy the show!
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Paul Minors makes productivity useful by showing how delegation, documented processes, and daily habits change the way his business runs.
Paul Minors turns his own operating decisions into compact, practical episodes about making a business easier to run. The usual mode is solo and direct, with occasional longer conversations such as those with Dylan Bland and Francesco D'Alessio.
An assistant's onboarding document might reveal how much of your business still lives in your head.
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A grounded interview that makes delegation feel real.
Episode 300 puts Paul Miners in the chair while Dylan Bland asks the questions, and the best part is how ordinary the big changes feel. Email moves off one person's plate, the help inbox becomes a team job, automations are maintained elsewhere, and the work starts looking shared…
A practical catch-up that turns creator workflow into something useful.
Paul Minors uses the conversation to present his usually solo show from a different angle: a working discussion about how productivity content gets planned, edited, and published.
A practical look at turning one admin hire into a repeatable system.
Episode 294 stays grounded in process. It follows Paul Minors as he hires and orients a new administrative assistant, with Dan Martell's Buy Back Your Time as the clear influence in the background.
A candid check-in on prioritizing the work that actually keeps the business moving.
Paul Minors spends the episode working through a familiar business tradeoff: how to sort tasks by importance and urgency when some priorities have to wait. The stronger thread is self-management rather than polish.
A practical habit check-in that favors consistency over ritual.
Paul Minors treats habits like a working system, not a bit of self-help theater. He gets up early, uses a 10 minute guided meditation in Headspace, keeps inbox zero across email, Asana, and Pipedrive, and keeps coming back to the simple habit of naming the next action.
Practical guidance on staying organized by thinking ahead and keeping everyday tools current.
Paul Miners uses episode 283 to make a simple case for organized thinking: treat it as a way to get more done, not as a goal in itself. The strongest thread is the habit of asking how to set a future self up for success, then checking that the systems in use still pull their…
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Paul Minors shares his step-by-step process for hiring and onboarding his administrative assistant, Faith, using Upwork and specific tasks like personality tests and email drafting.
Paul Miners shares a personal milestone of selling his house at auction and preparing to rent for the first time with his family while awaiting their new home.
Paul Miners shares a behind-the-scenes update on his business growth and personal life, covering team expansion, documented SOPs, business rebranding, and home construction.
Paul Minors details the specific tools and strategies he uses to accept payments for his online business from New Zealand, focusing on minimizing fees and simplifying the process for international clients.
Host Paul Minors shares the personal story of being approached by a company interested in acquiring part of his Pipedrive consulting business in late 2022.
Host Paul Minors explains the 80-20 (Pareto) principle and demonstrates how he applies it to his own business.
Paul Minors and Francesco D'Alessio use episode 293 to compare two very different YouTube businesses: Paul focuses on Asana, Pipedrive, and consulting, while Francesco covers a wider range of productivity apps through Keep Productive.
Paul Minors describes his daily routine at age 33 while raising two young children in Auckland, New Zealand, including a 5:20 a.m.
The Paul Minors Podcast episode 300 is a long interview with Dylan Bland that moves from Paul Minors' background to his views on productivity, Asana, and remote work.
In this unscripted solo episode, host Paul Minors shares his recent challenges with productivity, including a lost interview recording and a croaky voice, to discuss how to prioritize tasks using the Eisenhower Matrix.
Host Paul Minors explains the philosophy and practical systems for 'getting things out of your head' to reduce mental clutter, increase focus, and scale a business.
Host Paul Minors shares mindset principles for becoming more organized, framing it as a personal superpower.
Paul Minors shares a cautionary tale from his own business, revealing how his YouTube ad revenue dropped 80% overnight due to platform issues with invalid traffic.
Paul Miners reviews his time from January 1 through approximately December 9, 2022, using calendar time blocking and the Mac app Timing.
Paul Minors explains how he is preparing his consulting business for a possible economic slowdown over the next 12 to 18 months.