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.
Top 5 Predictions for the Future of Productivity Tools in 2026
Discover Phase’s predictions for how productivity tools will revolutionize your workflow in 2025! From AI-powered assistants to mental health-focused features, our top 5 predictions highlight the game-changing trends shaping the future of work. Learn how technology is evolving to support creativity, balance, and personalized productivity like never before.
The Ultimate Guide to Setting your 2026 Goals
Learn how to set achievable goals for 2026 using evidence-based strategies and cycle-aware planning. Step-by-step guide includes goal-setting worksheets, progress tracking methods, and the neuroscience behind why most goals fail. Perfect timing: use your luteal phase for realistic planning that sticks.
Year-End Burnout Is Not Inevitable: A Biology-First Approach
Q4 burnout isn't inevitable - it's the result of ignoring your menstrual cycle. Learn how to finish the year strong with cycle-aware planning, strategic boundary-setting, and biology-based productivity. Protect your energy and thrive through the holidays with Phase.
Menopause at Work: Redefining Productivity, Energy, and Hormonal Health in Midlife
Partner Blog: Menopause typically hits during women's peak career years (45-55), yet 3 in 5 women report symptoms that negatively impact work performance. This isn't about capability declining—it's about hormones evolving. From managing brain fog and sleep disruption to requesting workplace accommodations, navigating menopause at work requires understanding your body's new rhythms and redefining productivity on your terms. The team from 3mbrace explain all.
How to Get the Most from Q4 - End the Year on a High
Maximize your Q4 productivity with cycle-aware strategies. Finish the year strong without burnout using science-backed planning that works with your biology and energy levels. Discover Phase for your most successful ending yet.
How to get the most from your performance review (and why timing matters)
Maximize your performance review success by timing it with your natural confidence peaks. Science-backed strategies for career advancement.
5 Signs of Hormonal Imbalance in the Body (and What to Do About It)*
Hormonal imbalance can cause chronic fatigue, mood swings, bloating, cravings, brain fog, and disrupted sleep — yet many women mistake these symptoms for stress or aging. This guide explains the top five signs your hormones may be out of sync and offers science-backed strategies to support balance, including cycle tracking, nutrition tips, stress reduction, and lifestyle changes. Learn how fluctuations in estrogen, progesterone, cortisol, and other hormones affect energy, mood, digestion, cravings, and mental clarity — and how to work with your cycle to reclaim productivity and wellbeing.
What Can Cycle Syncing in Sport Teach Us About Productivity?
Elite athletes like Jessica Ennis and the England women’s football team have embraced cycle syncing—a method of tailoring training schedules to the phases of the menstrual cycle—to optimize performance and reduce burnout. This innovative approach involves aligning physical activities and recovery plans with hormonal fluctuations, enhancing energy, focus, and resilience.
In this blog, we explore how cycle syncing principles, commonly used in professional sports, can be applied to productivity in the workplace.
Why Cycle Syncing Could Be a Key Piece in the Longevity Puzzle
Could cycle syncing be the secret to longevity? Women are burning out earlier, juggling more, and spending more of their longer lives in poor health - yet most solutions ignore the hormonal rhythms that shape female energy, cognition, and resilience.
This blog explores how aligning your work with your menstrual cycle (known as cycle syncing) can reduce stress, improve productivity, and protect long-term health.
Introducing the Happy Hormone - The Dance of Dopamine and Estrogen in our Brains
Discover how estrogen and dopamine work together to shape your mood, focus, and motivation throughout your menstrual cycle. In this expert-reviewed guide, we explore why dopamine is known as the “happy hormone,” how estrogen influences its production, and how syncing your work with your cycle can help you unlock flow, energy, and emotional balance. Plus, learn practical tips for supporting your brain chemistry across each phase of your cycle—backed by science and written for real life.
Can You Cycle Sync If You Have ADHD?
Struggling with ADHD and wondering if cycle syncing can help? This expert-reviewed guide explores how hormonal shifts impact ADHD symptoms in women—and how syncing your cycle with tools like Phase can boost focus, motivation, and emotional balance.
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.
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.
How Self-Esteem Shapes Productivity: The Confidence-Performance Connection
Self-esteem plays a critical role in productivity, influencing motivation, focus, and resilience. Research shows that individuals with high self-esteem take initiative, persist through challenges, and perform better at work, while low self-esteem can lead to procrastination, self-doubt, and burnout. This blog explores the psychology behind self-esteem, including the impact of self-efficacy, the self-fulfilling prophecy, and the dangers of negative self-talk. It also provides actionable strategies to build confidence, reframe failure, and develop a sustainable approach to productivity. Understanding the link between self-esteem and performance can help you unlock greater focus, efficiency, and long-term success.
Are We Ever Going to Talk About Periods at Work?
Are we finally ready to talk about periods at work? This blog explores the history of corporate wellness, the persistent gender health gap, and why women’s health remains overlooked in the workplace. With statistics on absenteeism, menopause, and menstrual health, we highlight the economic impact and the urgent need for change. Backed by data and expert insights, we uncover why companies must prioritize inclusive wellbeing initiatives, and how Phase is leading the conversation.
The Importance of Rest for a Productive Life
Find your peak productivity by working smarter, not harder. This blog dives into the science of rest, revealing how strategic breaks, deep work, and cycle-based recovery can boost focus, creativity, and prevent burnout. Learn about the 7 types of rest, why top performers thrive on just four hours of deep work per day, and how to integrate intentional recovery into your routine. Ready to stop grinding and start optimizing? Discover how to rest smarter, recharge faster, and perform at your best—every single day.
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.
Hormones in balance: how they shape our bodies, health & work
Hormones play a crucial role in regulating energy, mood, cognition, metabolism, and overall well-being. Our latest blog, reviewed by Dr. Jess Chadwick, Neuroendocrinologist at Phase, explores how hormones function, their impact on productivity, and how aligning tasks with your menstrual cycle can optimize performance. From estrogen and progesterone to cortisol and melatonin, we break down the science behind these powerful chemical messengers. Whether you're looking to boost focus, improve sleep, or enhance emotional balance, understanding your hormones is the key to working smarter.
How the Seasons Impact Your Energy and Work
Discover how seasonal changes impact your energy, mood, and productivity—plus science-backed strategies to stay focused and motivated through the final months of winter. Learn how light exposure, temperature, and hormonal shifts affect your body, and get expert tips on boosting energy, improving sleep, and maintaining mental clarity. Embrace winter with confidence and set yourself up for a productive season!
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!