Pivot with Jenny Blake

Jenny Blake

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Nov 8, 2015 • 1h 54min

14: Systems, Hacks and Shortcuts for Solopreneurs

Happy November! As I shared in my latest JB.me behind-the-business update, Pivot for Pivot, we have postponed the book launch from March to next September. My initial resistance turned to great relief as I realized I could actually enjoy some time off over the holidays! Read the behind-the-scenes recap for the biggest mindset mistake this move highlighted, and how I corrected course.While my editor Natalie reviews the latest draft, I spent the month of October furiously studying podcasting and audio editing. I am getting ready to take the Pivot Podcast “pro” by getting it on iTunes . . . with fancy intro and outro music and all that jazz. I am very close! In the meantime, check out the 9 existing episodes on SoundCloud.📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! http://itsfreetime.com/episodes/14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 1, 2015 • 35min

13: Upside of Being Invisible with David Zweig

“These days we are expected to live our lives at the same time we brand the shit out of it,” my friend Stacy said to me last year. That sentiment stuck with me, and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head since.Selfies, Snapshat, blog posts, Periscope, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter—when do we get a break to simply live our lives and do the work?It can be a tough tradeoff to make—particularly to those of us who have chosen more public-facing careers—toil behind the scenes and risk obscurity, or obligingly participate in Social Everything to build our platforms?It was hard enough for me to deal with daily life during the roughest moments of my 2013 pivot, let alone think about what to blog about during that time.📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! http://itsfreetime.com/episodes/13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 25, 2015 • 33min

12: Belly of the Pivot Beast: On Bouncing Back from Zero with Adam Chaloeicheep

When is it time to wipe the slate clean and start over when you hit a breaking point in your career? How can travel play a role in the reflection process? How do you bounce back from zero when you have wiped out your savings? What makes graduate school worth the time, energy and money? How do you build a business, even when you don’t love the initial work that is coming in? How can you embrace fear, uncertainty and failure? Today’s episode features one of my closest friends, Adam Chaloiecheep, brand strategist and founder of ABC Design Lab. I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I did!📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! http://itsfreetime.com/episodes/12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 18, 2015 • 30min

11: How to Optimize for Revenue and Joy

How often do you come down with a Case of the Mondays? It can be a strange feeling to avoid your to-do list on a big project when you run your own business or side hustle: if you are the one calling the shots on schedule and strategy, shouldn’t it be energizing much more often than not?However, for one reason or another, we often let fear and shoulds take-over (myself included) and suddenly find ourselves at a fork-in-the-road with projects we care deeply about.📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! http://itsfreetime.com/episodes/11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 11, 2015 • 36min

10: Behind the Book: Organizing, Writing and Gremlin-Taming

HUGE thanks to everyone for all of the wonderful emails, tweets and comments about last week’s announcement for The Pivot Method. I think my emoticon-loving heart might explode from seeing so many exclamation marks in one week! As promised, I’ve recorded two very scrappy “podcast” calls for those who submitted questions.📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! http://itsfreetime.com/episodes/10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 9, 2015 • 39min

9: Big News . . . We Have a Book Deal!! Behind the Proposal Process

Yes, we—there is no way this would be possible without you here reading, and for that I am grateful beyond words.The Pivot Method will be published in hardcover by Portfolio/Penguin in early 2016, one of the top business and career imprints, and I could not be more thrilled! Their vision for the book blew me away, and I feel very lucky to be in such great hands over this next leg of the JB journey.📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! http://itsfreetime.com/episodes/9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 4, 2015 • 51min

8: Cyber Security for Dummies: The Least You Need to Know with Willie Jackson

Cyber crimes are increasing at a staggeringly multi-exponential rate. Ignorance about our devices and online security is no longer acceptable; cyber crimes affect over 1.5 million victims per day. That’s 18 victims per second, 556 million victims per year, and over 600,000 compromised Facebook accounts per day. [Source] The recent Sony hack was so sophisticated the FBI says it would have gotten past 90 percent of firms. This is not something we can afford to ignore, especially for those of us who run online businesses.Today I am thrilled to introduce you to my good friend, web strategist and performance expert Willie Jackson. As he says on today’s podcast:📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! http://itsfreetime.com/episodes/8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 27, 2015 • 35min

7: How to Find Your Zone of Genius with Laura Garnett

What does it take to find your Zone of Genius and stay there? What are the key ingredients to peak performance? What are the biggest barriers? If you think of your career as a car, what are the two biggest “headlights” that help you see clearly and do your best work? How can our challenges serve as fuel for opportunity? I had the pleasure of asking these questions to Laura Garnett, peak performance strategist for Fortune 100 CEOs, in a recent interview for my Pivot book.Our conversations were so inspiring and informative that I couldn’t bear to wait an entire year to share with you when the book comes out! I hope you enjoy as much as I did📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! http://itsfreetime.com/episodes/7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Dec 21, 2014 • 35min

6: How I Work with My VA: Systems and Strategy

For those of you considering hiring a virtual assistant in 2014, I cannot recommend it highly enough — this is easily one of the best things I did for my life and business last year. And yet, control freak that I am, I did not go down without a fight!For YEARS I had read all the books (4-hour Work Week chief among them), and knew the importance of delegating and not being a bottleneck. But each time I tried to move forward with hiring someone, I got overwhelmed, discouraged and gave up. Who to hire? US or overseas? What should I delegate? How do I do it efficiently? Can I trust them?  Thankfully I gave it another go by hiring someone in October, and I’ve been hooked ever since. After just four days of working together, she became indispensable to my daily workflow.📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! http://itsfreetime.com/episodes/6 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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