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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Sep 1, 2016 • 39min
44: Want Nothing, Have Everything: The Happiness Equation with Neil Pasricha
Neil Pasricha's writing is like a cup of hot chocolate, or as he would describe it in Awesome Thing #119, like watching butter melt on a hot piece of toast. It is comforting and delightful. His latest book is about what he learned along his own roller coaster ride of reaching smashing success with his 1,000 Awesome Things blog and books, then realizing he still wasn't happy. We break down topics like The Saturday Morning Test, the three time buckets, and many more. Enjoy!📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/44 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 28, 2016 • 50min
43: Humans are Underrated with Geoff Colvin
What can people do that computers never will? According to Geoff Colvin, that's the wrong question. It is futile to ask what computers will never be able to do, since they are accomplishing new, previously unthinkable feats at an astonishing rate. Instead, we must ask what it is that humans will insist continue to be performed by other humans?📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/43 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 21, 2016 • 27min
42: Are You High Net Growth?
The final countdown is on! PIVOT: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One launches in two weeks . . . !!! Today's episode is an excerpt from one of my favorite chapters, High Net Growth. I give an overview of career operating modes, how to assess your risk threshold, and share my pivot story of leaving Google, then resuscitating my business when I almost "blew up" two years later. You can download this as a PDF here. 📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/42 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 14, 2016 • 48min
41: The Progress Paradox with Gregg Easterbrook
According to Gregg Easterbrook, "The men and women at middle-class standards or above in the United States and European Union now live better than 99.4 percent of the human beings who have ever existed," including most of the royalty of history. And yet, we are no happier. How can this be?📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/41 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 9, 2016 • 47min
40: The Upside of Stress with Kelly McGonigal
Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist and Stanford lecturer, challenges the common belief that all stress is harmful. She explains how viewing stress positively can enhance resilience and even foster personal growth. The conversation highlights the significance of community and support during tough times, particularly in navigating chronic pain. McGonigal also discusses the power of music in fitness, noting how it builds connection and motivation. Ultimately, she emphasizes embracing discomfort as a pathway to deeper understanding and connection.
Jul 31, 2016 • 37min
39: Unmistakable: Why Only is Better Than Best with Srinivas Rao
This week’s guest, long-time blog friend Srini Rao, raises the bar on creativity. Don’t just create art, he says, strive for unmistakable art—output so unique it doesn’t even require a signature, and by nature eliminates all competition. It is yours and yours alone. And of course, achieving this is not a simple, straightforward feat. Check out this week’s episode on what Srini has learned from his own lowest moments, and from interviewing over 600 guests for his Unmistakable Creative podcast over the last six years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 24, 2016 • 24min
38: Behind the Book: Pre-Launch Rollercoaster Climb
A week after I returned home from the safari, I fell into a bit of a bliss crash (as my dad would call it). The trip was so exciting and rejuvenating, and on my way home I realized: my book is launching in TWO MONTHS. Two months!📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/38 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 17, 2016 • 38min
37: Surge: How to Spot and Ride Trend Waves
I always have a blast talking with Mike Michalowicz—Mike is the author of several business books, one of which—Profit First—completely changed how I handle my expenses and banking. But alas, today we’re talking about his latest book, Surge, on how entrepreneurs can make their own luck by learning to spot trend waves and ride them effectively, and when to “dump” a wave as it’s about to crash upon the shore.📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/37 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 10, 2016 • 51min
36: Kevin Kelly on Techno Literacy, Systems Thinking, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality
I almost fainted when today’s guest, Kevin Kelly, said yes to be on the Pivot Podcast. Kind, brilliant and the king of techno-literacy, Kevin is one of the great technologists, futurists, and thinkers of our time. We talk about how to get better at systems thinking, become more techno-literate in an ever-changing environment that fosters a constant “newbie state,” artificial intelligence, centaurs and robot whispering, virtual and augmented reality, why now is the best possible time to start a company, and much much more. I could listen to Kevin talk all day, but alas! Today’s episode is a digestable power-packed 50 minutes.📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/36 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 3, 2016 • 40min
35: Ego is the Enemy with Ryan Holiday
What happens when you reach previously unimaginable pinnacles of success . . . and still find yourself miserable? I’m stoked to bring you today’s Pivot Podcast with Ryan Holiday—marketing master, studier of Stoic philosophy, and author of several bestselling books. His first, Trust Me, I’m Lying—which the Financial Times called an “astonishing, disturbing book”—was a debut bestseller. His next books, Growth Hacker Marketing and The Obstacle is the Way were both published by Penguin/Portfolio, and his latest, Ego is the Enemy launches in two weeks! Fun fact: he has the last two book titles tattooed on each arm.📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/35 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
