Power Up your Productivity
Learnings, teachings and advice for women looking to better understand their menstrual cycle, so that they can use it to their advantage to improve energy and success at work.
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. If you’ve ever felt burned out, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your body, this story is for you.
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.
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.
Productivity hacks to focus through your menstrual cycle
Staying focused in a world filled with distractions is challenging. Digital devices keep us informed and connected but also contribute to shorter attention spans. Research shows that hormonal changes during the menstrual cycle can further affect focus.
In this blog, 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. By understanding how your brain and body work, you can enhance your productivity.
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!
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. Discover the power of cycle syncing to harmonize your work and rest, and understand how rest and self-awareness fuel sustained success. With tools like the Phase app, you can track your body's signals, adapt to your unique needs, and achieve your best year by syncing your lifestyle, health, and productivity with your natural cycles.
Meet the team: Maggie McDaris
Maggie McDaris, Co-founder & CEO of Phase, tells all about why she’s so passionate about making Phase a success - for the sake of her daughter, but also for the future of women at work.
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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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.
Cycle Syncing 101: Everything You Need to Know About Working With Your Cycle
If you’ve ever felt like a superhero some days and a potato on others, welcome to the reality of hormone cycles. Spoiler alert: It’s not just "in your head." Your hormones play a massive role in your energy, mood, and ability to crush your to-do list.
That’s where cycle syncing comes in. If we understand how our hormones ebb and flow throughout the month, we can use that knowledge as a superpower to thrive in everything from work to workouts. Forget trying to "power through" every day like it's the same — it’s time to work smarter, not harder, and embrace hormone-driven productivity.
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.