Four shifts to start with: Welcome to the first issue of The Weekly Shift. Our first four episodes are live: two Shift Exchanges, where y…
Shift Happens Here No. 1
October 29, 2026
The Weekly Shift
Four shifts to start with
Welcome to the first issue of The Weekly Shift. Our first four episodes are live: two Shift Exchanges, where you watch a shift happen, and two Shift Conversations, with people who have already made theirs. Here is what each one has to offer, and one thing to try this week.
Shift Exchanges
Watch a shift happen
Finding her why again
Shift Exchange 1 · 50 min
Finding her why again
with Viki
Viki came to this Exchange with one fear: “I’m afraid I’ve lost my why.” Rob helps her find what is in her own hands: a practice of her own, helping other people, mapped out on a One Page Business Plan.
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Watch the episode
Be proactive, put first things first
Shift Exchange 2 · 63 min
Be proactive, put first things first
with Sophie
Sophie is twenty. She knows what’s good for her; doing it when it’s uncomfortable is the hard part. Rob coaches her through two of Stephen Covey’s habits, and a week of small, daily steps.
“If the why is sufficient, the what doesn’t matter.”
Watch the episode
Shift Conversations
How they made it
Knowing when to let go
Shift Conversation 1 · 42 min
Knowing when to let go
with Dan
Dan started a screen printing shop in his garage and grew it into a real company in Oakland. Then he knew when to let it go, and moved three generations of his family onto six acres in Washington State.
“Wealth is not measured by your bank account. It’s measured by your attitude, by your health, by your well-being.”
Watch the episode
Turning bad things into joy
Shift Conversation 2 · 33 min
Turning bad things into joy
with Jim
Rob and Jim have known each other since they were in diapers. Jim spent more than thirty years playing bass with the David Grisman Quintet, lost his mother young and later his wife, and raised two children on his own.
“You don’t have to stay where you are. Let’s figure out where you really want to be.”
Watch the episode
Rob
From the Shift Review · Over to you
What’s the one important thing you keep putting off?
Tell us in the comments under the episode, or just reply to this email.
Try this week · From Sophie’s Exchange
Plan tomorrow tonight
1. Each night, write a short plan for tomorrow: one or two things for your health, one or two for your future.
2. Keep it short. Ten things a day is a wish list.
3. Add one line of affirmation, and ask someone you live with to keep you honest.
Rob’s Principle
Think Win-Win
Dr. Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Habit 4)
Habit 4 of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is “Think Win-Win.” It’s about cooperation: humans working together to build, create or serve, in any activity that needs people to work together well.
“Always go for Win-Win, with family, friends, customers, even strangers.” — Rob
Read Rob’s full principle in this week’s PDF →
On the channel
This week’s shorts
What does success really look like?
What does success really look like?
Service, quality or price. Pick two.
Service, quality or price. Pick two.
Turning bad things into joy
Turning bad things into joy
Your turn
Have a shift of your own to make?
Fill in our questionnaire. You choose how you appear: on camera, or as an illustrated avatar. We may feature your Exchange on the show.
Be our guest
Follow us
You’re getting this because you signed up at shifthappenshere.org. Know someone it would help? Forward it on.
Shift Happens Here is coaching, not therapy.
Shift Happens Here · PO Box 318 · Dutch Flat, CA 95714