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.
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, Here’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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Apr 02

Destroy to Create Experiment: Can I Use a 10.5" iPad Pro Full-Time at Work?

I regularly conduct what I like to call “Destroy to Create” experiments, where I take a routine, habit or workflow
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Mar 27

How I Learned Resilience Through Adventure Travel

I recently read a post by Blake Snow on Entrepreneur that outlines a few of the many reasons why entrepreneurs
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Mar 07

4 Steps to Changing Your Bad Luck

Many people will tell you that success comes with the perfect combination of talent, luck and hard work. But recent
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Mar 05

Communication Hacks for Women: Weak vs. Effective Language

In a professional setting, experts often caution women against using the phrase “I think,” as this language weakens the impact
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Feb 09

3 Ways to Lead With Love & Enable High-Performance Teamwork

Can you get what you want and be nice while doing it? When I was little, Dad used to say,
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Feb 06

Notes Against Complacency: Get Up and Stretch!

So many of us crunch ourselves into impossible sitting or standing positions and forget to move our bodies during the
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