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That’s a Wrap - A Year of Phase

We built Phase to humanize productivity by working with female biology, not against it. In our first year, thousands of women used Phase to schedule deep work around hormonal shifts, track cycle-based energy patterns, and ditch hustle culture's consistency myth. We launched on iOS and Android, secured funding, got featured in major publications, and learned that most women don't know their own biology. Here's what happened, what we learned, and what's next.
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From Burnout to Balance: How My Healing Journey Inspired Phase

In this personal blog, our founder shares how her journey through burnout, postpartum challenges, and chronic health issues led to the creation of Phase. Learn how cycle syncing transformed her life, and how Phase is redefining productivity, leadership, and wellbeing for women everywhere
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Your go-to guide for Getting Started with Phase

This step-by-step guide will walk you through how to install and set up the Phase app on mobile and desktop, integrate it with your calendar, and unlock powerful insights into how your hormones influence your energy, focus, and productivity. Learn how to personalize your experience, explore key features like the Daily Radar and Calendar View, and discover how Phase helps women work in sync with their cycles.
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Introducing the Phase Calendar Extension

The Phase Calendar Extension brings cycle-aware planning directly into your Google Calendar, helping women optimize energy, focus, and confidence by aligning daily schedules with their hormonal rhythms. Unlike traditional productivity tools, Phase overlays your current cycle phase and cognitive strengths onto your calendar, offering smart prompts and insights to support better planning, fewer burnouts, and more aligned workdays.
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Productivity hacks to focus through your menstrual cycle

We explore how the brain controls focus, the impact of reproductive hormones on concentration, and practical productivity hacks you can use throughout your cycle. Learn how to optimize your time with time blocking, task batching, focus music, and more, tailored to your hormonal fluctuations.
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How Hormones Control Your Productivity (And What to Do About It)

Your hormones directly regulate cognitive function, energy availability, and information processing. Cortisol creates morning performance peaks. Reproductive hormones, thyroid hormones , insulin, cortisol - they all play a part. These systems interact constantly, which means your productivity capacity changes hour by hour and day by day based on your current hormonal state.
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Cycle Syncing and Productivity: Your hormones are your superpower.

Unlock your productivity potential with cycle syncing! Discover how aligning your tasks with your hormonal phases can transform your work life. From boosting creativity in your follicular phase to mastering detail-oriented tasks during your luteal phase, learn how your hormones are your secret superpower. Start working with your cycle, not against it, and take charge of your success!
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2025: Unlock your Peak Productivity for the Best Year Yet

Make 2025 your most productive year yet by aligning your goals with your natural rhythms. In this guide, we explore how understanding your hormonal cycles can optimize productivity, well-being, and work-life balance. Learn to reflect on your past year, set SMART goals, and plan with intention.
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Train Like an Athlete, Work Like a Pro: Productivity Lessons from Elite Athletes

What can elite athletes like Simone Biles and Serena Williams teach us about productivity? More than you’d think. Just as they train their bodies for peak performance, you can train your mind to achieve sustainable, high-impact results at work—without burning out. This blog explores how principles like goal-setting, strategic rest, and incremental improvement, used by top athletes, can be applied to knowledge work.
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Georgie Powell

Meet the team: Georgie Powell

Georgie is a co-founder and the CMO of Phase. For the past decade, she has since worked in the digital wellbeing space, championing a better balance with technology, where we consciously choose tools which make life and society better, rather than mindlessly scrolling and consuming. In this blog she talks about what inspired her to build Phase and her hopes for the future.
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Unphased: How your menstrual cycle impacts your energy and productivity

84% of women report decreased productivity due to menstrual symptoms. So why don’t we talk about it at work? Learn how to sync your cycle with your work life for better productivity. Make your phases work for you.
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