Marissa Brassfield

Marissa Brassfield

Los Angeles
Trusted advisor, simplifier, and loving catalyst of your biggest and best initiatives. Discovering how to stretch time, maximize ease, and optimize work-life alignment.
Jun 08

Communication Hacks For Women: Emojis vs. Effective Communication

Women walk a fine line in many professional environments, especially when it comes to communication. A well-intentioned, friendly gesture or
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May 21

Why Tech Execs Are Quitting: Freedom of Time

I intentionally keep tabs on Silicon Valley culture, and in recent weeks, have read announcements that Amazon exec Charlie Kindel
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May 08

See Microsoft's Meeting Room of the Future

Microsoft has just unveiled a prototype meeting room at the Build developer conference. The company has been working on hardware
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May 02

Redesigning My Home With Havenly: Part 2

Mike and I have been optimizing our living room configuration roughly every quarter for the last three years, and still
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Apr 26

Weird Ways I Get Paid: Trading Services is More Than Money

You can get paid in so many ways. Money is the most obvious -- itโ€™s a ubiquitous necessity that
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Apr 25

Read Marissa Brassfield on Luminate

Fun Announcement: Iโ€™ve partnered with Luminate, a newly launched digital media platform, to share my best productivity tips, lifestyle
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Apr 19

Keto Confidence: How Changing My Diet Helped My Career

In 2016ish, I switched to a ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting at the suggestion of a few friends. Everybody does
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Apr 17

Havenly Takes the Guesswork Out of Redesigning Your Home

Havenly is an online retailer that sets you up with interior designers to help you choose and customize furniture, and
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Apr 16

Go Organic for $3 With Brandless

I recently stumbled across an online retailer called Brandless that sells all things organic for $3 per item. The store
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Apr 09

My Homemade Bulletproof Coffee Recipe

I began drinking high-performance Bulletproof Coffee out of sheer curiosity. Boasting the ability to boost energy and cognitive function, it
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Apr 05

Destroy to Create Q2 Experiment: Pre-prepared Meals

As Ridiculously Efficient readers know, each quarter I choose one area of my work or personal life to reinvent. For
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Apr 03

#DeleteFacebook: We Did, Hereโ€™s Why

You may have noticed that you can no longer find the Ridiculously Efficient page on Facebook. As a team, we
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