Podcasts about delightfully tiny teams

What if the traditional models of employment and team building were replaced by a personalized blend of individual contribution and collaboration, which fulfilled and rewarded every stakeholder? That's exactly what my guest, Jenny Blake, and I, explore in today's epsiode. As a successful podcaster and author of books including Pivot and Freetime, Jenny brings a wealth of understanding about the changing concepts of scaling and growth, for business leaders who want their work to have meaning and purpose, as well as profit. So she is the perfect person with whom to unpack how embracing automation and individual motivation can lead to delightful team growth and efficient workflow. From my personal journey of transitioning from the corporate world to freelancing, to Jenny's unique experience of becoming a manager at the age of 24, we dig into the importance of taking that first step from zero to one. How do we best balance team size and individual needs? We unravel this and more. We also peak into Jenny's use of tools for streamlining processes and keeping her remote team organized, and her innovative use of emojis as a communication tool.Looking to the future, we muse on how remote work is reshaping the way individuals make career decisions. We touch on the hustle culture and its impacts on entrepreneurs, and discuss the potential effects of external threats like recessions or pandemics on team morale.  Having an emotionally resilent core team that is *just* big enough, might be the key to embracing unknown changes yet to come.Join us, and let's explore the future of work together!Jenny famously does NOT do social media

Hello my Lovelies!  This is a full circle moment for me, an opportunity to speak with a podcaster and author I've admired from afar since 2018.  We geek out on topics like intuition, somatic and body-based wisdom, free time, neurochemistry, avoiding social media, envy, desires, opting out of parenthood, the auntie brigade, vulnerability, and salty podcasts. Such a juicy conversation!  Jenny Blake is an author and podcaster who runs a media and licensing company. She loves helping people move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. She recently released her award-winning third book, Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business (Ideapress, 2022). Jenny is also the author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One (Portfolio, 2016), winner of the Axiom award for Best Business Book in the Careers category, and co-creator of Googles's global drop-in coaching program, Career Guru. She hosts two podcasts with over 2 million downloads combined: Free Time with Jenny Blake for Heart-Based Business owners, and Pivot with Jenny Blake for navigating change. Many thanks to Jenny Blake and her BFF community. *** Topics/Books Mentioned in the Episode: Sam Quinones Dreamland and The Least of Us Elizabeth Gilbert's book Committed My favorite 12 episode "series" on intuition from Pivot Podcast - Penney and Jenny Show (with Penney Peirce, author of The Intuitive Way) Martha Beck (She has many books, but my favorite is Finding Your North Star) The Work of Byron Katie *** Support for this podcast comes from readers of Unleash, Unlearn, and Enliven, from clients, and from listeners like you. To support my work, you can purchase the audio version of my book here.  For more resources, subscribe to my the Somatic Wisdom Substack newsletter, where much of this content can be found in essay form. To get in contact or look into being a guest, please message me via LinkedIn.  If you are interested in the monthly Women Celebrating Wins group, please fill this form out so we can verify your identify and contact you with more information.  *** Interview recorded at Wisdom Ways Studios: https://www.wisdomwayscenter.org/studiorental Music credit: https://www.melodyloops.com/composers/ihsandincer/ Cover art credit: https://www.natalyakolosowsky.com/  

“We all have room to be so much more intentional about calendar design,” shares Jenny Blake, podcast host and author. Her newest book, Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business, emphasizes ways business owners can implement smarter systems powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Jenny's mission is to help save not only business owners' time, but everyone involved in the business. It can be a real challenge for entrepreneurs to build free time into their schedules. This is especially true in the beginning when they tend to be wearing many hats and when they may not have all their systems in place yet. Studies have shown that while doing everything by yourself can lead to burnout, having too large of a team to manage can also cause difficulties. Jenny explains that there is a sort of ‘Goldilocks' team size that will differ based on the preferences of the business owner and the type of business they are running. By designing scalability and recurring revenue streams into your business model and delegating tasks outside of your zone of genius to others, you will find that you have more free time available.Time is an incredibly important and precious resource. When you can gift yourself back free time to spend with yourself or your loved ones, you will be happier in your business and less likely to burn out. Quotes“In terms of free time, I also want to help save business owners time of having to document really useful ways to work to set everybody's time free, not just the owner, but everybody who's a part of it, and do it in a way that's heart based.” (2:41-2:55 | Jenny)“The goal is for every area of the business, really look at the stuff that you love and want to do and are great at doing. And then sometimes you have to take that big leap and invest more than you think or more than you're ready to offload it to somebody who knows what they're doing more than you.” (18:01-18:15 | Jenny) “We all have room to be so much more intentional about calendar design.” (19:37-19:41 | Jenny) “I really do encourage you to have at least one other person working in the business.” (25:30-25:33 | Jenny)LinksConnect with Welcome to ElomaInstagram: @welcometoelomaWebsite: WelcometoEloma.comWeekly Email Newsletter: bit.ly/RIXEmail Connect with Jenny BlakeWebsite: Itsfreetime.comWebsite: pivotmethod.comConnect with KileySocial: @kileypeters + Linkedin.com/in/kileypetersWebsites: RAYNEIX.com , BrainchildStudios.com, KileyPeters.comWeekly Email Newsletter: bit.ly/RIXEmailEmail: info@rayneix.com

In this episode, we talk to Jenny Blake, an award-winning author, and podcaster who loves helping people move from friction to flow through smarter systems powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams.   This episode covers:

Welcome to this week's episode of the Winding Road Podcast; today's guest is Jenny Blake.We say hello to Jenny again to talk about serendipity because our last conversation got caught short (listen to Ep_41); we chat about what we think serendipity is, how it works, and how we can open ourselves to it.Jenny Blake is an author and podcaster who loves helping people move from friction to flow through smarter systems powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. She just launched her award-winning third book, Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business.We talk about:Increasing our serendipity surface area.Croissants Versus Bagels!Whoever you talk to at a conference, they want you to talk to themIf I make one new  friend at a conference, that's a success!Soften our vision around specific outcomes; then we can be delighted by whatever occursWe don't always know what our next moves are leading us towardConnect with this week's guest Jenny BlakeAmazon: Free Time, Pivot, Life After CollegePodcasts: Pivot with Jenny Blake, Free Time  with Jenny BlakeFollow Winding Road Careers: Website: https://www.windingroadcareers.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/windingroadcareers/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/winding-road-careers/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thewindingrd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/windingroadcareers

Jenny Blake is an author and podcaster who loves helping people move from friction to flow through smarter systems powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Today we're talking about her award-winning third book, Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business. She's also the author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One. She also hosts two podcasts with over 1 million downloads combined: Free Time with Jenny Blake for heart-based business owners, and Pivot with Jenny Blake for navigating change.

*Announcement*Creatures of Change podcast is no longer releasing new episodes. The episode archives will remain available in the same podcast feed as Valerie's new show, Bad Bitch Therapist Podcast. Happy listening! I found Jenny Blake online way back in 2015— I don't recall exactly how, but probably after hearing her on someone else's podcast.I resonated immediately with her message, her love of systems, and unique ideas about personal and professional growth. I followed everything she's created since— her podcasts, different iterations of her online communities, and her two books, Pivot and Free Time.I am honored to call Jenny not just a mentor, but a friend (a friendtor!) — and I continue to be inspired by her all the time. If you are navigating a career transition, Pivot — the book and the podcast — are a must. And if you're an entrepreneur, Free Time (the book and the podcast) is a goldmine of strategies for making your business and life run more smoothly so you can reclaim more of your most precious asset: your time.I hope you love this conversation with Jenny Blake— and if you do, make sure to check out the show notes for the link to my 2019 interview with her on my previous podcast, and where you can join her online community!About JennyJenny Blake is an award-winning author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping people move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third book, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business (Ideapress, March 2022) will free your mind, time, and team for more of your best work. Jenny's previous book, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One (Portfolio/Penguin Random House, 2016), won the Axiom award for best business book in the careers category.Celebrating over a decade of running her own business after five years at Google, Jenny now licenses her content to clients like Google and CHANEL. She hosts two podcasts with over one million downloads combined: Free Time for Heart-Based Business owners, and Pivot with Jenny Blake to help others navigate change.After working at a Silicon Valley startup, then at Google for five years in coaching and career development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 to launch her own business. She loves yoga and buys too many books. Jenny lives in Manhattan with her husband and angel-in-fur-coat German shepherd. Learn more and take the Free Time quiz at ItsFreeTime.com.Additional Links + ResourcesIn addition to all the links in Jenny's bio above that you should definitely check out—✨ Listen to her 2019 interview on my previous podcast, “What's the F***ing Point?”✨ If you listen and know you need more Jenny in your life, join me in her BFF community!✨ One Stone Creative - the podcast production co Jenny uses that I mention in the intro (run by a fellow BFF member!)✨ Never tried Peloton? Use this link to try the app free for 60 days! (yoga, barre, strength, outdoor walking/running tracks— all kinds of no/low-equipement stuff aside in addition to their treadmill & bike classes)

*Announcement*Creatures of Change podcast is no longer releasing new episodes. The episode archives will remain available in the same podcast feed as Valerie's new show, Bad Bitch Therapist Podcast. Happy listening! I found Jenny Blake online way back in 2015— I don't recall exactly how, but probably after hearing her on someone else's podcast.I resonated immediately with her message, her love of systems, and unique ideas about personal and professional growth. I followed everything she's created since— her podcasts, different iterations of her online communities, and her two books, Pivot and Free Time.I am honored to call Jenny not just a mentor, but a friend (a friendtor!) — and I continue to be inspired by her all the time. If you are navigating a career transition, Pivot — the book and the podcast — are a must. And if you're an entrepreneur, Free Time (the book and the podcast) is a goldmine of strategies for making your business and life run more smoothly so you can reclaim more of your most precious asset: your time.I hope you love this conversation with Jenny Blake— and if you do, make sure to check out the show notes for the link to my 2019 interview with her on my previous podcast, and where you can join her online community!About JennyJenny Blake is an award-winning author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping people move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third book, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business (Ideapress, March 2022) will free your mind, time, and team for more of your best work. Jenny's previous book, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One (Portfolio/Penguin Random House, 2016), won the Axiom award for best business book in the careers category.Celebrating over a decade of running her own business after five years at Google, Jenny now licenses her content to clients like Google and CHANEL. She hosts two podcasts with over one million downloads combined: Free Time for Heart-Based Business owners, and Pivot with Jenny Blake to help others navigate change.After working at a Silicon Valley startup, then at Google for five years in coaching and career development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 to launch her own business. She loves yoga and buys too many books. Jenny lives in Manhattan with her husband and angel-in-fur-coat German shepherd. Learn more and take the Free Time quiz at ItsFreeTime.com.Additional Links + ResourcesIn addition to all the links in Jenny's bio above that you should definitely check out—✨ Listen to her 2019 interview on my previous podcast, “What's the F***ing Point?”✨ If you listen and know you need more Jenny in your life, join me in her BFF community!✨ One Stone Creative - the podcast production co Jenny uses that I mention in the intro (run by a fellow BFF member!)✨ Never tried Peloton? Use this link to try the app free for 60 days! (yoga, barre, strength, outdoor walking/running tracks— all kinds of no/low-equipement stuff aside in addition to their treadmill & bike classes)

For many of us running Delightfully Tiny Teams, the ideal team set-up is one where no one works full time — including the owner. Today Kaneisha Grayson returns to the pod to share with her signature transparency her lessons learned about onboarding part-time team members, designing effective hiring and vetting processes, teaching sales skills, and scaling without breaking the bank. If you haven't already, be sure to check out our previous conversation in episode 131: Scaling Your Joy While Streamlining Business Overhead and Navigating ADHD. More About Kaneisha: Kaneisha Grayson is the founder of The Art of Applying, an agency that aids graduate school applicants to get accepted into top-tier schools and achieve funding. She is the author of Be Your Own Boyfriend: Decide to Be Happy, Unleash Your Sexy, and Change Your Life and host of the Scale Your Joy podcast. Kaneisha is dedicated to sharing her journey with like-minded people who are ready to forge their own path, creating a life and business that brings them joy instead of suffering through the corporate grind.

Let's face it, for some of us, time is more valuable than money. We would take a pay cut to gain more time. But what if you're trying to pivot into a new field and you need to carve out time to learn? What if you've spun up a side project to help you make the pivot or increase your income?What if you took the leap and are now a solopreneur trying to do everything?Where is this time going to come from?Well, Jenny wrote an entire book on this topic: Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business, and we talked about some of the things she wrote about you can use to get more time back.You may love what you do, but you also have a life to live.---------About the Guest:Jenny Blake is an author and podcaster who loves helping people move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. She just launched her award-winning third book, Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business. Where to find Jenny:Amazon: Free Time, Pivot, Life After CollegePodcasts: Pivot with Jenny Blake, Free Time  with Jenny BlakeFollow Winding Road Careers: Website: https://www.windingroadcareers.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/windingroadcareers/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/winding-road-careers/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thewindingrd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/windingroadcareers

Buy Jenny's latest book: https://amzn.to/3L9vS1s Jenny Blake is an award-winning author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping people move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third book, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business (Ideapress, March 2022) will free your mind, time, and team for more of your best work. Jenny's previous book, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One (Portfolio/Penguin Random House, 2016), won the Axiom award for best business book in the careers category. Celebrating over a decade of running her own business after five years at Google, Jenny now licenses her content to clients like Google and CHANEL. She hosts two podcasts with over one million downloads combined: Free Time for Heart-Based Business owners, and Pivot with Jenny Blake to help others navigate change. After working at a Silicon Valley startup, then at Google for five years in coaching and career development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 to launch her own business. She loves yoga and buys too many books. Jenny lives in Manhattan with her husband and angel-in-fur-coat German shepherd. Learn more and take the Free Time quiz at ItsFreeTime.com.

This week's Say Yes to Holiness podcast 1:1 Conversation is with Jenny Blake--an award-winning author and podcaster who loves helping people move from friction to flow so that they can free the time they need to be able to do their best work. This podcast was a special treat for me (and therefore a little longer than usual!) as Jenny Blake has been one of my mentors over the course of the last five years, especially by her own example of how it is possible to live a life that prioritizes what truly matters, do work to help others, and become your best self in the process. Jenny and I spoke about her love for helping others; her life with her husband and "fur-baby" in Manhattan; and also about how her fascination for strategies that help to navigate change and the exploration of systems at the intersection of mind, body, and business have led her on an unexpected journey filled with passion, joy and tons of opportunities to make the lives of others better. Her journey has led her to now write three books, Life After College, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, and most recently, Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business. We spoke about how time isn't money, but rather is life force. And how it's possible to go from burned-out bottleneck and Chief Everything Officer to working with joy and ease, through the power of Delightfully Tiny Teams® and using the Free Time Framework of Align-Design-Assign. But we also spoke about how to be fully present every day, build bridges and continuous discern how we can pause and ask how we can not just do our best work, but also become our best selves. I hope that you enjoy this conversation with Jenny as much as I did in having it, especially so you can continue to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to free your time and experience the life you were created for. To learn more about Jenny Blake and the Free Time Framework, go to: https://itsfreetime.com/book To find out more about Jenny and her Pivot and Free Time podcasts, go to: https://www.pivotmethod.com/welcome --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sayyestoholiness/message

Do you want more free time? (Apologies if you hear me screaming YES DEAR GOD PLEASE from the back of the room!) In order to lose the busywork and dig into our genius zone I invited author and keynote speaker Jenny Blake to join us for coffee. Her latest book Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business dives into how we can create systems that help us create more free time with the help of Delightfully Tiny Teams. Jenny outlines specific software to use, how to test outsourcing systems and why the greatest ideas come out of major frustrations. If time feels like it's slipping through your fingers, this episode is for you! Notes:10:45 First step to implementing systems15:30 Tools & softwares that save time20:10 Process for creating a new system24:10 Clearing your time clutter31:45 Defining free time 36:39 How to know if a system is working40:47 Speed Round If you loved this episode you should check out “Saving Time In Your Business With Kate Rosenow” https://kimkaupe.com/kate/ If you enjoyed today's episode, please:1.) Sign up for notes at copymyhomework.com for a full list of resources, links and recommendations listed on today's episode.2.) Post a screenshot of the episode & tag me on LinkedIn or Instagram @kimkaupe so we can talk about your favorite parts!3.) Leave a positive review (shameless, but someone's gotta say it right?!)4.) Subscribe for new episodes every Tuesday on your favorite podcast app. Connect with Kim over on the socials!Instagram + TikTok: @kimkaupeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimkaupe

About Jenny:Jenny Blake is an author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping people move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third book, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business (Ideapress, March 2022) will help free your mind, time, and team for more of your best work. Jenny's previous book, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One (Portfolio/Penguin Random House, 2016), won the Axiom award for best business book in the careers category. Celebrating a decade of running her own business after five years at Google, Jenny is an international keynote speaker, and licenses her Pivot Programs to clients like Google and CHANEL.Jenny hosts two podcasts with over one million downloads combined: Free Time for Heart-Based Business owners, and Pivot with Jenny Blake to help others navigate change. After working at a Silicon Valley startup, then at Google for five years in coaching and career development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 to launch her own business. Jenny loves yoga and buys too many books. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and angel-in-fur-coat German shepherd. Learn more and take the Free Time quiz at ItsFreeTime.com.What You'll Learn In This Episode:What was the inspiration behind Free Time.Some of the things she's  seen businesses and entrepreneurs get stuck on or caught up in the most.Three principles from the book - align, design, and assign.How she plays around with her time boundaries.Elements streamlined in your business and building back your time, how to not get stuck in trying to fill that time with more projects and things to do.Time management tips.Website: https://itsfreetime.comFree Time Book: https://itsfreetime.com/bookInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennyblakenyc---About Us - Women Who Brunch:Women Who Brunch is a community for  women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!Check out our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews and more or say hi on Instagram!WWB Website: https://womenwhobrunch.comWWB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch

I love Jenny Blake's book Free Time so much that my entire team is reading it together and implementing the ideas. So, as you can imagine, I am thrilled to have Jenny on the podcast today!   Jenny Blake is an author and podcaster who helps entrepreneurs move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. She is the author of Pivot and Free Time, which just came out in March.   In this episode, we talk about– The value of adding “founder time” to your week How to help yourself & your team members work exclusively on things you love Learning to delegate so you can earn twice as much in half the time Building your business to grow with ease   I love this conversation so much. I hope you'll listen and share it! Then tune in next week for a follow-up conversation with past podcast guest Liron Lavi Turkenich about how we're implementing the book in our work and lives.   Links: Find Jenny's book & podcast at itsfreetime.com And subscribe to the LLW newsletter for more updates from Chedva!  

On today's podcast, I get to talk to my friendtor, Jenny Blake, author/podcaster/keynote speaker about using system thinking to design solutions for stress in your business and life. Jenny highlights how when we use better systems, we can create more space in life--freeing our minds, time and teams. Jenny shares practical strategies of how to approach your calendar, set realistic boundaries with managers at work be in relationship to your email and manage the "B" word (busy). Take a listen and share your takeaways with us on Instagram @OneWade @JennyBlakeNYC or through our websites.    Want to make a well-being committment to yourself so that you can feel more present, purposeful and empowered? Sign up for the annual subscription at CenteredintheCity.org with coupon code center20 for 20% off (valid until May 31, 2022).    ***** Jenny Blake is an author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping people move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third book, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business (Ideapress, March 2022) will help free your mind, time, and team for more of your best work. Jenny's previous book, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One (Portfolio/Penguin Random House, 2016), won the Axiom award for best business book in the careers category. Celebrating a decade of running her own business after five years at Google, Jenny is an international keynote speaker, and licenses her Pivot Programs to clients like Google and CHANEL. Jenny hosts two podcasts with over one million downloads combined: Free Time for Heart-Based Business owners, and Pivot with Jenny Blake to help others navigate change. After working at a Silicon Valley startup, then at Google for five years in coaching and career development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 to launch her own business. Jenny loves yoga and buys too many books. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and angel-in-fur-coat German shepherd. Learn more and take the Free Time quiz at ItsFreeTime.com.

Jenny Blake is an author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping business owners move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Jenny has previously been a guest on episode 83, where we spoke about finding balance between systems and spiritual surrender.  This episode is a powerful exploration of running a business guided by intuition, serendipity and magic. We discuss:  Overcoming fear-based thinking as an entrepreneur  High net freedom and high net growth over high net worth  What happened when Jenny gave herself permission to not earn any money  Betting it all on your creative flow: how Jenny sold a house to fund her book  “Stop swimming in the sea of shiny shoulds” Building your business intuition Jenny's process for making business decisions The “sacred third solution” Making space for nonlinear breakthroughs The power of shifting from criticism to gratitude  Bringing gratitude into business Marketing a book with magic and serendipity  Jenny's experience outsourcing social media  Running a business as a super introvert  Releasing micro guilt from not responding to people  For entrepreneurs who don't enjoy managing other people: how to build your delightfully tiny team  The balance between trusting the flow of life no matter what and having a steady flow of money in your business  Resources:  Ksenia Brief on Jenny Blake's Free Time Podcast Paul Selig How To Surrender To Your Soul's Purpose And Watch Your Influence Grow — Michael Beckwith on Mindvalley Podcast Sqaured Away – Military spouses who are your personal assistant Books mentioned:  Outrageous Openness by Tosha Silver  Martha Beck The Intuitive Way: The Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness by Penney Peirce Why Talking Is Not Enough: Eight Loving Actions That Will Transform Your Marriage by Susan Page Untamed by Glennon Doyle Related episodes:  83 Jenny Blake: Systems, Spiritual Surrender, Membership Sites & Social Media Rebellion 130 Boyd Varty: Following The Track Of Your Life and Creative Process in The Digital Age 145: Michelle Sinnette – New Paradigm of Business with Legacy Cacao Founder About Jenny Blake: Jenny Blake is an author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping business owners move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third book, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, launches March 22, 2022. Jenny's previous book, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, won the Axiom award for best business book in the careers category in 2016.  Celebrating a decade of running her own business after five years at Google, Jenny is an international keynote speaker, and licenses her Pivot Programs to clients like Google and CHANEL. Jenny hosts two podcasts with over one million downloads combined: Free Time for Heart-Based Business owners, and Pivot with Jenny Blake to help others navigate change. After working at a Silicon Valley startup, then at Google for five years in coaching and career development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 to launch her own business.  Jenny loves yoga and buys too many books. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and angel-in-fur-coat German shepherd. Learn more and take the Free Time quiz at ItsFreeTime.com.

While the Pivot ecosystem and this podcast aren't going anywhere, when my speaking gigs stopped during the pandemic I gave myself permission to also branch out and start talking about something new. Specifically, doubling down on and digging into my passion for businesses powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams — and helping other heart-based entrepreneurs do the same. This week I am taking you behind-the-scenes of launching the Free Time book and podcast. Reminder: through end of March If you order a hardcover you can get a free audiobook - go to ItsFreeTime.com (Once you've read it, please consider leaving a rating and review on Amazon - it's a huge support!)  

Jenny Blake is an author and podcaster who helps entrepreneurs move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third book, “Free Time,” launches March 22 — and it's just in time for me! It's easy to get caught up in just getting things done without really stopping to think how it could get done faster or better, or if you're really the right person to be getting it done at all. And "Free Time" is made specifically for people who are struggling with busywork, what Jenny calls the bottleneck in the way of your profit and potential. After reading the book, I've been thinking about my business and what I do in it completely differently, and I'm so excited for the rest of the world to get ahold of this. Anyone who preorders a hardcover or ebook edition prior to 3/22/22 is eligible for the https://itsfreetime.com/bogogo (Buy One, Get One, Give One) bonus. They can submit their receipt to receive instant, early access to the audiobook edition, with instructions on how to gift one early copy of the audiobook to a friend. What is “Free Time?” We talked to Jenny back in https://www.conniewsteele.com/episodes/76 (episode 76) to discuss career pivoting, a topic that only got more important as the pandemic continued and we saw some huge changes to the workforce. She offers an easy-to-follow framework with The Pivot Method, and that's one of the reasons we really appreciate Jenny as a podcast guest and an author — she always offers concrete systems and tactics that anyone can leverage. “Pivot” was about adapting to change. If change is the only constant, how do we get better at it? And how do we more strategically map what's next, particularly by starting with small pilots and experiments.  “Free Time” is about optimizing what's here now. So within our current role, how can we reduce the level of overwhelm, burnout, and busywork that we typically face in our business?  Many business owners and even leaders of organizations have had this need to control everything where we become the Chief Everything Officer. There is often a fear that if these activities are not within our domain of control, then we're not going to get to the outcome you want. Which then leads to stress and stress is a systems problem.  The ultimate goal of “Free Time” is what Jenny calls High Net Freedom. This is freedom of choice; what we work on, when we work on it, and with whom. You're optimizing for time and energy, not just money. The “Free Time” Framework: Align, Design, Assign The Free Time framework is composed of three stages intended to help you spot important trends in how you work so that you can simplify, streamline, and de-stress.  1. Align. The first stage is about aligning a project or an area of the business to your values, energy, and strengths. The goal is to understand what is giving your energy and what is taking it away. It's about figuring out, should you be doing this in the first place? And if something about the work is not aligned, how can you realign it and recalibrate? Think about how you are systematizing the spirit of your business and remember there's no point in optimizing something that no longer needs to be done. Your values are an important piece of this because they provide the logic for you and your team to make the relevant tradeoffs and decisions when there are tough choices to make. But it's important to communicate that logic to everyone else because they have to understand what those values truly look like in practice. 2. Design. The second stage asks us to be really intentional about the ideal outcomes and impact, and even designing a process for how you want to work on something. This is where you start to think about how to map out what to do and how to do it.   You can't just decide you want to stop doing busywork and drop it all. You have to be intentional and design how...

Jenny Blake is an author and podcaster who helps entrepreneurs move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third book, Free Time, launches March 22. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. You can measure things in your business and do nothing about them. 2. Learn to work on the process rather than working on just the tasks. 3. Do less. Focus on the one thing you can build a smart system that can give you revenue, ease, and joy. You can prioritize a great time and earnings. Visit and get your early access to the Free Time Audio Book - Free Time Audio Book Sponsors: HubSpot: Learn how to grow better by connecting your people, your customers, and your business at HubSpot.com! Coda.io: The doc that brings it all together! Get your team all working together on the same page for free at Coda.io/fire!

Jenny Blake is an author and podcaster who helps entrepreneurs move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third book, Free Time, launches March 22. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. You can measure things in your business and do nothing about them. 2. Learn to work on the process rather than working on just the tasks. 3. Do less. Focus on the one thing you can build a smart system that can give you revenue, ease, and joy. You can prioritize a great time and earnings. Visit and get your early access to the Free Time Audio Book - Free Time Audio Book Sponsors: HubSpot: Learn how to grow better by connecting your people, your customers, and your business at HubSpot.com! Coda.io: The doc that brings it all together! Get your team all working together on the same page for free at Coda.io/fire!

Jenny Blake is an author, coach, podcaster, and keynote speaker. Her previously published book “Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One” won the Axiom award for best business book in the careers category in 2016 and has helped many business owners during the current pandemic crisis. She is now launching her third book,  “Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business”. We discuss: What a heart-based business is. How working in small teams can give you the flexibility and freedom to customize your business. Her transition from working for Google to beginning an entrepreneurial journey, focusing on doing the things she loves;  and some of the struggles she faced along the way. How everything she does is purposeful.. Realizing her zone of genius; creating and using her voice. The process of creating her team and employing the operational concept of the “ externalized mind” How and why she executed brand strategy for her Jenny Blake personal brand and books What she considers  “high net freedom” to be Why staying recharged helps you get through tough transitions How she counsels her community when they face imposter syndrome To connect with Jenny Blake:Podcast: https://itsfreetime.com/episodesWebsite: https://itsfreetime.com/Pre-order for Freetime Book by Jenny Blake: https://itsfreetime.com/book Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode of the podcast, head on over to the following links for more of my work and some valuable resources to get you started on your own branding initiatives. Until the next episode!VISIT MY WEBSITE:http://www.philipvandusen.com   JOIN THE BRAND•MUSE NEWSLETTER:  http://www.philipvandusen.com/muse   JOIN THE BRAND DESIGN MASTERS FACEBOOK GROUP:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/branddesignmasters/  SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL:http://www.youtube.com/c/PhilipVanDusen   FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER:https://twitter.com/philipvandusen   FOLLOW ME ON PINTEREST:https://www.pinterest.com/philipvandusen    LIKE MY AGENCY ON FACEBOOK:https://www.facebook.com/verhaalbranddesign  Bring Your Own Laptop - Adobe Training with Daniel Scotthttps://www.byol.me/philip   InVideohttps://bdmpodcast.com/invideo Discount Code: “PHILIP50”Tubebuddyhttps://wwwtubebuddy.com/philipvandusen   ____________________________The Brand Design Masters Podcast is targeted to entrepreneurs, designers, creative professionals and anyone interested in brand strategy, business planning, graphic design, personal branding, trends and marketing.Philip VanDusen is the owner of Verhaal Brand Design, a brand strategy and design agency based in New Jersey. Philip is a highly accomplished creative executive and expert in brand strategy, graphic design, marketing and creative management. Philip provides design, branding, marketing, career and business advice to creative professionals, entrepreneurs and companies on how to build successful brands for themselves and for the clients and customers they serve.

Jenny Blake is an author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping business owners move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third book, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, launches March 22, 2022. Jenny's previous book, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, won the Axiom award for best business book in the careers category in 2016. Licensing clients for her Pivot Programs include Google and CHANEL. Jenny hosts two podcasts with over one million downloads combined: Free Time for Heart-Based Business Owners, and Pivot with Jenny Blake to help others navigate change. After working at a Silicon Valley startup, then at Google for five years in coaching and career development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 to launch her own business. She loves yoga and buys too many books. Learn more and take the Free Time quiz at ItsFreeTime.com.

Welcome to an encore episode! There is no one else I'd “open up” the podcast for, than the one and only, Jenny Blake. I shared this interview with the Booked Out Facilitator group, and I think it's the perfect conversation to share with you today, as we close off the year and look to scheme + dream what we work on in 2022.This is the first interview Jenny has done to promote her fabulous (and much-needed) new book, Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love your Business. It's a playbook to free your mind, time, and team for your best work. It is an invitation to reimagine how you run your business.I want to share an excerpt about her book, so you get a sense of what you're in for in today's chat:“Your time is far more precious than money.  It is your presence, your memories, your quality of life. For many, growth fuelled by added stress is not worth the tradeoff. You have an urge to simplify and streamline.  Ask yourself: are you consistently doing the work that you and only you can do? If you are burdened by busywork, the bottleneck in the way of your company's profit and potential, this book is for you."  In this conversation, we also talk about choosing your niche, and how to build a business without social media. Jenny also takes us behind the scenes and shares how she uses Notion to capture and curate her ideas.After you listen, ask yourself this question: “What do you need a permission to do?”Jenny Blake is an author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping business owners move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third book, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, launches March 22, 2022. Jenny's previous book, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, won the Axiom award for best business book in the careers category in 2016. Licensing clients for her Pivot Programs include Google and CHANEL.Grab JB's preorder offer: Free Time on a Buy One, Get One, Gift OneClick here for show notes. Support the show (https://buymeacoffee.com/leannehughes)