Puddle Pod by Batko.
Always Busy but Never Any Time? Simplify life. Amplify work. 5 weeks. Small groups.
300+ Alumni. 10+ Cohorts. 72 NPS.
Puddle Pod Packages
$499 + GST once-off
Puddle Pod is a community first.
To enjoy the full experience, join a 5-week cohort of ~30-50 Puddlers. You’ll be part of a Pod of 3-5 Puddlers who get together virtually weekly for 45mins to talk through the Content, Homework for Accountability, and share Tips & Tricks along the way. The community keeps growing and you’ll be part of a 300+ Alumni network who keep sharing their productivity insights.
The cohorts kick off each quarter - mid-January, April, July, and October.
- The experience is powered by Notion and Slack.
- This is a roughly ~2 hour / week time commitment for 5 weeks.
- You’ll get as much out of the experience as you put in.
Note: content is focused on MacBooks and Google product suite (not Microsoft).
Content
For 5 weeks you’ll be digesting one theme starting with cleaning up your Mental Capacity, Social Structures and Personal and Business Productivity.
Homework
Each week’s content will come with question prompts for you to implement what you learned in your life. You’ll be building out your own profile with the homework so you can retain and come back to the best tips and tricks you liked.
Accountability
You’ll be grouped in a Pod of 3-5 Puddlers who are matched to you based on interests. Your Pod will be your weekly Accountability mechanism to read the content, do the homework, share tips and tricks, and meet some great people along the way.
$199 once-off
This offering has the full content without the social element and accountability of the Cohort option.
Be warned it is a fair bit of content to get through by yourself, so you’ll need to keep yourself accountable. This option is best if you don’t want to commit 2 hours / week for the Cohort option of Puddle Pod and you want the full benefit of the content straight away.
- The experience is powered by Notion.
Note: content is focused on MacBooks and Google product suite (not Microsoft).
Content
There are 5 core themes starting your cleaning up your Mental Capacity, Social Structures to Personal and Business Productivity.
Available Forever
You’ll have access to the full content straight away and for as long as you want to.
On Your Schedule
You get to digest and work through the content in your own time. You can binge-read it or stretch it out over weeks or months.
$99 once-off
This is optimal for onboarding new startup employees or if you’re after the key productivity hacks.
The tailored option to get the most out of your MacBook, Gmail, To-do list etc in 5 quick hits. The 5-day crash course is tailored for a daily email with the most important things to set you up for success. It is a selection of the full content but adjusted for maximum impact to get you started or upgrade what you already have.
- The experience is powered by a daily Email and Notion.
- The 5-day Crash Course runs every Monday to Friday.
- If you’re a company and would like to set this up as part of your employee onboarding >> hit me up on michibatko@gmail.com and I’ll set it up to make the process seamless.
Note: content is focused on MacBooks and Google product suite (not Microsoft).
Content
This will get you set up on your MacBook, Chrome, Gmail, Slack, Trello, and Calendar planning.
5 Days
This experience is tailored for a daily email from Monday to Friday.
Focused
This content is made for maximum impact and will take ~20mins / day to read and implement.
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Meet the Puddlers
We're now 300+ Puddlers.
Puddlers are all chosen based on their self-awareness and desire for self-improvement.
The beauty of the community is that everyone shares their Tips & Tricks, as well as includes it as content for future Puddle Pod cohorts.
Puddlers reward useful contributions with 🌮 s.
So the community as well as the wealth of knowledge keeps growing.
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FAQs
The time commitment will be 2 to 2.5 hrs per week for 5 weeks.
- Content and homework: 0.5 to 1 hr
- Weekly call with your Pod: 1 hr
- Sharing with the cohort over Slack: 0.5 hr
For the Cohort Course – just an internet connection to chat to your Pod. The whole Cohort Course is run over Slack and the homework is in Notion.
I'm a Learning Enthusiast. I love feedback, learning new things, pushing my limits and comfort zone. Productivity is one manifestation of that. I asked myself how can I push the boundaries to do as many things in the shortest time possible? Why? Because being fast is fun. Being fast compounds. And being fast allows you to spend more time and energy on other things you enjoy more. There was no specific time I started to be productive. I genuinely believe it's a manifestation of curiosity coupled with the drive for improvement.
Now, I'm the CEO of Startmate - the epicentre for startup ambition in Australia and New Zealand. The reason I joined Startmate was to help as many founders as possible. We're now investing in ~30-40 startups a year and have hundreds of fellows joining startups, who I love helping. This productivity course eventuated from the same vein, to scale me and help even more people. So I decided to compile all resources in one place and make them accessible to the world.
Dani Goldberg, cohort 3 Puddler, is funding 4x scholarships at an 80% discount for single parents to lighten their burden.
❤️🔥 Go, Dani!
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Onboarding Week - Cohort Kick-off via Zoom (1h)
- Kick-off of Puddle Wars ⚔️ >> each Puddler sets themselves a habit for the upcoming 5 weeks and the Pods compete against each other to build consistent habits.
- Week 1 - 🧠 Life Audit // Brain - brain de-cluttering to simplify your life
- Week 2 - 👨👨👦👦 Life Audit // Social - setting up structure and boundaries for your social world
- Week 3 - 🚘 Cockpit - getting the main systems ready (Gmail, Trello, Slack)
- Week 4 - ✈️ Plane - optimising your workspace (MacOS, Calendar, Chrome, G Docs/Sheets)
- Week 5 - 👩✈️ Pilot - create your habits, rhythms, organise your week, take care of yourself
Final Week - Graduation ceremony via Zoom (1h)
Bonus Content
- Managing a Team 👯♀️ Crew - giving you the tools to manage a team, culture, and 1:1 meetings
- Business Setup - 🚂 Engine Room - setting up your principles, slack + meeting structure
- Business Operations - ⚙️ Engine - everything else for your business - CRM, FinOps, Product
Note
- Bonus Content - is included in both the cohort and content-only versions. You can work through that whenever you like.
- 5 Day Crash Course - is a tailored selection from (mostly) Week 3, 4, and 5.