Episode 137: Systems, Creativity, and Emotion with Marina Darlow

Topics We Explored:

• How systems can allow you to focus on the things you really care about
• What the different functions are between processes, tools, and apps
• How splitting up the system design, build, and follow through amongst your team can increase efficiency and decrease frustration
• Why creating a story or narrative to plan a project makes the resulting system more engaging
• When systems building becomes a way of hiding from doing your best work
• When it’s time to scrap a system
• What question Marina always starts with when working with a new client

“[A system] has to be there, otherwise your creativity is unsustainable.” – Marina Darlow (Tweet this)

Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Vision Framework
• Episode 129: How Theming Your Week Can Make You More Productive with Mike Vardy
• Episode 71: Managing Your Relationship with Money Is a Creative Process with Luna Jaffe
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
• Asana
• Slack
• Understanding Founder’s Mojo
• Lynda
• LinkedIn Learning
• Udemy
• Smartsheet

About Marina Darlow:

Marina Darlow is a systems’ expert, and a productivity geek. She sees her job as helping impact-driven entrepreneurs get 10-20 more productive hours a week, stop leaking money, and prevent stress-fueled breakdowns.

An engineer by training, Marina came to a realization a couple years ago: working for a conglomerate is not as inspiring as she wants her life work to be. The quest for inspiration brought her to found Vision Framework, a company that builds small, purpose-driven businesses from the inside, helping entrepreneurs run their companies with ease by putting effective, easy-to-use, and fun (yep!) systems in place.

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