Pivot with Jenny Blake
Jenny Blake
What’s next for your career and creative projects? Pivot with Jenny Blake launched in 2015 to help us better embrace fear, insecurity, imperfection, and intuition as the superpowers they are while pivoting. Join Jenny Blake, award-winning author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, Life After College, and Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business, for intimate conversations with authors and friends on finding opportunities in unexpected places through practical tips and tools. Jenny’s motto? If change is the only constant, let’s get better at it. Subscribe now so you don’t miss an episode (released every Sunday) at pod.link/pivotmethod, view show notes at http://PivotMethod.com/podcast, and learn more about Jenny’s private community at http://itsfreetime.com/bff ❤️ If you're looking Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway, visit https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot. Check out Jenny's other award-winning podcast Free Time for Heart-Based Business owners at pod.link/freetime.
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Apr 1, 2018 • 45min
92: Adulting to Win: Powerful Questions and Pivotal Plot Points with Paul Angone
What is fear keeping you from doing? Is it worth it? Are you afflicted with an additional form of OCD, Obsessive Comparison Disorder? What are the pivotal plot points of your story, the triumphs and the tragedies? What sacrifices are you willing to make to honor your soul values?These are the powerful questions that my longtime friend Paul Angone asks and collects in his new book, 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties. The book covers four categories that we also dive into on the podcast: adulting to win, careerish, relationshipping and finding your signature sauce. I love Paul's humility and humor, and I can't wait for you to see which of the questions we cover might just change your day, your week, or your life :) 📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/92 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 25, 2018 • 58min
91: Divine Time Management — Putting Faith Forward in Business and Love with Elizabeth Grace Saunders
When my friend Elizabeth pivoted from time management author and coach to divine time management, her faith-based practice of "trusting God's loving plans for you," and with the release of her new book in November, I wanted to have her on the show. But I was nervous at the same time.Is it okay to put faith forward in business? On the podcast? I'm not Christian—would that adversely affect the interview? Would it be divisive in any way for listeners? Our culture prides a separation of church and state, but what about spirituality and business?📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/91 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 17, 2018 • 45min
90: Inside the Mindset, Systems and Strategies of charity: water's Chief Operating Officer Lauren Letta
In Pivot I ask what your sliding doors career/s might be: in a parallel universe, if time, money and judgement from others were not a factor, what other career paths could you see yourself taking?I play this game with friends even while going about life in New York, calling out alternate reality careers when I see them. For example, in one scenario I’m a book-color-coding consultant for wealthy people's personal libraries, traveling up and down Manhattan and beautifying their bookshelves. 📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/90 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 14, 2018 • 58min
89: Turning Pain Into Purpose — Blind Adventurer Erik Weihenmayer on Kayaking the Grand Canyon, Climbing Everest and Building No Barriers
"My father had been like a broom, constantly sweeping me out into the world, and my mother was like the dustpan gathering up the shattered pieces and rebuilding me, only to have my father sweep me out again."—Eric Weihenmayer, No Barriers: A Blind Man’s Journey to Kayak the Grand CanyonThis week's guest, Erik Weihenmayer, needs no introduction beyond his incredible life story and mission, and I cannot wait for you to meet him. Erik is an adventurer, author, activist and motivational speaker, who has also become a celebrated and accomplished athlete despite losing his vision at the age of 13. " 📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/89 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 5, 2018 • 59min
88: Artist Seth Price on Finding Freedom in Bad Ideas, Balancing Commerce and Creation in Business
“Ultimate freedom would mean having just enough money not to have to think about money, and not to have to work all the time.”—Artist Seth Price, F*ck Seth Price*Language warning for this week's episode if you have kiddos around! Per the book title above :)*I am so excited about this week's guest that I was at peak awkwardness during the interview, so please forgive a few choppy edits here and there! I normally don't edit "in line" for the Pivot pod to keep things as natural (and perfectly imperfect!) as possible, but in this case I cleaned up the recording for clarity and concision so that you could get the very best of Seth Price's brilliant mind and philosophy as a renowned multi-disciplinary visual artist. 📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/88 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 26, 2018 • 1h 25min
87: Penney Interviews Jenny—We Are Souls: On Past Lives, Alignment Practices, Conscious Creation and Non-Icky Marketing and Manifestation
We're back! Penney Peirce and I continue our ongoing series based on her vast spiritual oeuvre—this time with the microphone tables turned. She's interviewing me as we dive deeper into past lives, alignment practices, saying no to "sexy shoulds," clearing one's personal field to contribute to collective energy healing, marketing and manifesting in an authentic way, and so much more. Be sure to check out Penney's new book, Transparency: Seeing Through to Our Expanded Human Capacity, for which I was delighted and deeply honored to write the foreword :) 📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/87 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 17, 2018 • 14min
86: Grab Bag! Upcoming NYC Workshop, BookRx on Interviewing Tips, and the Upside of Awkwardness
If you're based in NYC or know someone who is, come to my workshop for reluctant writers on Saturday, February 24! Register at http://caveat.nyc/events and use promo code WRITENOW for $5 off. Introducing BookRx! Submit Your Question for the Pivot PodcastI read anywhere from 5-10 books a month, and probably to a fault, I'm the friend that is always throwing out book recs or "cures" for issues that friends are experiencing. In this week's Grab Bag episode I pilot a brand new feature that I've had in mind for a while, called BookRx. It's a listener-submission format where I suggest non-fiction book "prescriptions" for what ails you or what you're most curious about—and riff on the benefits of awkwardness.📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/86 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 9, 2018 • 57min
85: Musician Trevor Hall on Karma, Healing, Soul Maps From the Stars + Fruitful Darkness Song Premiere
"Mama well she told me time / is such a wonderful gift / You're not running out / You're really running in."—Lyrics to You Can't Rush Your Healing, by Trevor HallI am absolutely elated to bring you this week's guest—one of my favorite artists, singer/songwriter Trevor Hall. Trevor's divinely-guided music is infused with soul and spirit, and lifts me (and so many others) up who crave connection to meaningful lyrics and exquisite melodies.📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/85 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 3, 2018 • 47min
84: Former CIA Agent Michele Assad Returns: On Transforming Insecurities Into Intuition and Faith
"Though trepidation has haunted me every step of this journey, I have a trusted force that I cannot see."—Michele Rigby Assad, Breaking Cover: My secret life in the CIA and what it taught me about what's worth fighting forWhen faced with life-or-death situations on a daily basis, Michele Rigby Assad knew she had to turn to something greater than herself for support. Drawn toward international affairs as a child obsessed with reading National Geographic, she later spent 10 years working undercover in the CIA, interrogating terrorists while stationed in the most dangerous war zones across the Middle East.📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/84 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 27, 2018 • 45min
83: Pivot From Working in the Morgue to the Ministry with Former Forensic Pathologist Dr. Thomas Andrew
As soon as I saw this New York Times feature story, As Overdose Deaths Pile Up, a Medical Examiner Quits the Morgue, I knew I had to have Dr. Thomas Andrew on the show.A shift from our typical author guest, Dr. Andrew is working on an incredible career pivot-in-progress. Upset by how many opioid deaths he observed after 20 years as a forensic pathologist (he performed over 5,800 autopsies in the morgue), Tom recently retired and is heading to divinity school so that he can counsel people in his community while they’re still alive.📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/83 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
