Free Time with Jenny Blake

We talk about The Fiji Test often here at Free Time HQ on documentation and making ourselves replaceable every day. The central question: Could a stranger to the business take over without much disruption?That’s exactly what Shannon Minifie and longtime friendtor MBS put to the test several years ago. As he stepped aside as CEO of the company he’d been building for nearly 20 years, Box of Crayons, Shannon took the reins through a two-year transition process. If you haven’t listened yet, be sure to pair this with episode 051: How to Replace Yourself as CEO with MBS.Today we hear about Shannon’s side of the experience—navigating a pandemic while parenting young children as a newly minted CEO, and the inevitable imposter syndrome that comes with any leadership role. I chuckled at her reminders-to-self about not trying to impersonate Michael or “build a museum frozen in place” with his ways of operating.More About Shannon: Shannon’s career began in academia, where she wrote a dissertation on David Foster Wallace. In 2016, she embarked on a new path, starting a career in corporate learning and development, and took over as CEO at Box of Crayons (founded by previous guest Michael Bungay Stanier) in 2019. She encourages in her team an enthusiastic discernment that brings a depth of thinking to bear on everything Box of Crayons does.🌟3 Key Takeaways: The focus changes when you move from working with contractors to having a core team. It’s important to keep the client front and center.  Have an identity outside of work: your job is what you do, not all of who you are. Go on a listening tour with your clients and team members. Be curious, listen carefully and make connections to better understand what is happening at your company. Remember that something can be real and true, but not need immediate action.  📝Permission: To “earn your paycheck” over a long period of time. ✅Do (or Delegate) This Next: Take the advice a fellow CEO gave to Shannon—divide your time into four buckets: staying close to the client, staying close to the competition, calibrating your top team, and making your team and organization smarter. 📘Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever 🔗Resources Mentioned:  Shannon on the web, Instagram: @boxofcrayonsinc, Twitter, LinkedIn,  Page Two Publishing MBS.works  Coaches: Ernest Oriente, Jill Murphy 🎧Related Podcast Episodes:  051: How to Replace Yourself as CEO with MBS Brave New Work Podcast: When the CEO’s Fires Themselves with Michael Bungay Stanier and Shannon Minifie  2 Pages Podcast: Brave Choices: Channon Minifie x “A Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Never Do Again” 073: From CEO (Back) to Creator with Pat Flynn 081: DAOing and Prioritizing Progress over Perfection  💻 Access Free Time episode transcripts on Podscribe »🌟Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review.❤️Consider joining Jenny’s private BFF community, where you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call, a private podcast feed with bonus content, and a community forum to exchange ideas and feedback with fellow Heart-Based Business owners.💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join🛠 Get instant access to the Free Time Toolkit: http://itsfreetime.com/toolkit 💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Free Time listener survey☎️ Submit a voice question or comment for future episodes: http://itsfreetime.com/ask🎧 Make sure you’re subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! https://itsfreetime.com/episodes/115 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’ve got a Grab Bag this week with three favorite time-saving techniques, starting with an image I can’t get out of my mind by @jackbutcher of Visualize Value, followed by two listener submissions for the My Favorite Time-Saving System series.What’s your favorite tip or tool? Leave a review for the pod to share with fellow Free Timers at lovethepodcast.com/freetime, or submit it as a voice memo at http://itsfreetime.com/ask🌟 Key Takeaways:  “Failure is the frame, not the picture.” Remember that the specific event or experience you’re looking at isn’t the whole story; don’t judge something as a failure too soon. Create a virtuous circle by nurturing your current clients and encouraging word-of-mouth referrals. Improve retrievability in your business and your life by thinking your tasks through to their final outcomes and making sure the single next step after a current task is either already done, or so obvious it doesn’t have to be thought about. 📝Permission: From Karen—Not to take on new clients this quarter! Appreciate the ones you have, and watch as word-of-mouth magic grows as a result :)✅Do (or Delegate) This Next: From Lauren—put your trash bags (real and proverbial) where they will instantly save time for your future self. 📘Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One 🔗Resources Mentioned:  VisualizeValue.com Karen LePage Podcast Production: One Stone Creative 🎧Related Podcast Episodes:  028: When the Financial Tides Recede 104: Save Someone Next Steps 095: From Scavenger Hunts to Retrievability Speed with Nick Sonnenberg 💻 Access Free Time episode transcripts on Podscribe » 🌟Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review.❤️Consider joining Jenny’s private BFF community, where you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call, a private podcast feed with bonus content, and a community forum to exchange ideas and feedback with fellow Heart-Based Business owners. 💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join🛠 Get instant access to the Free Time Toolkit: http://itsfreetime.com/toolkit💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Free Time listener survey☎️ Submit a voice question or comment for future episodes: http://itsfreetime.com/ask🎧 Make sure you’re subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! https://itsfreetime.com/episodes/114 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes it seems like being a jerk pays off. Society often seems to reward the leaders who don’t mind stepping on others en route to the top. But if you don’t want to live that way, you’re among friends here and with today’s guest Julien Smith. We’re talking about avoiding leadership traps and creating positive boundaries in your business.More About Julien: Julien Smith is the co-founder and CEO of Practice, a business management platform for coaches. He was the co-founder of Breather, and is a New York Times bestselling author of three books. Two of these, Trust Agents and The Impact Equation, were written with Chris Brogan, and his third, The Flinch, was published with Domino Project in 2011.🌟3 Key Takeaways: Listen to people—more of them, and more often. Your clients and customers often tell you exactly what they want and need from your business. Consider reducing instead of expanding your income streams. Each brings new processes and systems to manage. You might see great success with fewer offerings. Experiment until you find what works, then kill everything else! 📝Permission: Look up: Have you experienced the sacred recently? Connect to something bigger than you, especially when you’re feeling stressed or stuck. ✅Do (or Delegate) This Next: Open up your life again by eliminating drudge work through software. Create a boundaries document that contains the things you do and don’t want in your life: the people you want to work with, the things that matter to you, the things you no longer want to deal with.📘Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? Find Your Red Thread: Make Your Big Ideas Irresistible 🔗Resources Mentioned: Julien on the web, Twitter: @trypractice, LinkedIn, his article: Open Coaching: $100,994 in 18 months as a part-time executive coach (3 hours/week) 🎧Related Podcast Episodes:  097: How to Find Your Perfect Problem with Jim McKelvey, author of The Innovation Stack (Part One) 099: How to Find Your Perfect Problem with Jim McKelvey (Part Two) 043: From Start-Up to Grown-Up (and Coach to Author) with Alisa Cohn 057: You+ vs. You 2.0 with MBS 085: Building an Aligned Audience with Brian Clark The Accidental Creative Podcast: Advice for Builders (with Julien Smith)  💻 Access Free Time episode transcripts on Podscribe »🌟Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review.❤️Consider joining Jenny’s private BFF community, where you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call, a private podcast feed with bonus content, and a community forum to exchange ideas and feedback with fellow Heart-Based Business owners.💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join🛠 Get instant access to the Free Time Toolkit: http://itsfreetime.com/toolkit 💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Free Time listener survey☎️ Submit a voice question or comment for future episodes: http://itsfreetime.com/ask🎧 Make sure you’re subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! https://itsfreetime.com/episodes/113 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As tough as it is to stomach sometimes, regret can be a helpful catalyst. As Daniel Pink shares in his latest book, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward, regret is better understood less as a thing and more as a process; one that doesn’t just make us human, it makes us better. “By making us feel worse today, regret helps us do better tomorrow,” he says. “Understanding its effects hones our decisions, boosts our performance, and bestows a deeper sense of meaning.” Today I’m sharing three big regrets, or strategic errors, in 11+ years of running my business.Special shout out: Thank you MoneySmartMom from Canada for the glowing review!What’s your favorite time-saving strategy? Share as a review on LoveThePodcast.com/freetimeIf you enjoy this episode, please share it with a friend! Visit pod.link/freetime🌟 3 Key Takeaways from Daniel Pink’s book: Foundation regrets sound like this: If only I’d done the work. Boldness regrets sound like this: If only I’d taken that risk. Moral regrets sound like this: If only I’d done the right thing. 📝 Permission: Forgive yourself and drop the guilt about what you coulda, shoulda, woulda done in your business (thank you SATC for that episode title!). Today is a new day, and you probably had valid reasons at the time for making the decisions you did. Celebrate the wins, too!✅ Do (or Delegate) This Next: What are your biggest business regrets? Leave me a voice memo and let me know at http://itsfreetime.com/ask.📘Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business  Pivot: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business  The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward 🔗Resources Mentioned: Jenny’s private BFF community🎧Related Podcast Episodes: 058: Look for Measurable Loops Pivot: 021: Reinvent Yourself With James Altucher The James Altucher Show: Pivot: The Difference Between Making Millions and Failure…Episode #183 💻 Access Free Time episode transcripts on Podscribe » 🌟Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review.❤️Consider joining Jenny’s private BFF community, where you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call, a private podcast feed with bonus content, and a community forum to exchange ideas and feedback with fellow Heart-Based Business owners. 💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join🛠 Get instant access to the Free Time Toolkit: http://itsfreetime.com/toolkit💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Free Time listener survey☎️ Submit a voice question or comment for future episodes: http://itsfreetime.com/ask🎧 Make sure you’re subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! https://itsfreetime.com/episodes/112 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is your relationship to information? Scattered and chaotic, or clear and navigable? Do you have streamlined systems for saving, distilling, and crafting original thought-leadership from what you encounter and store, or are you stuck when it comes time to create order from the chaos?Our guest this week, Tiago Forte, is here to teach you how to develop a second brain—a mindset that transcends toolset—through information-wrangling habits that will change the way you think and create.More About Tiago: Tiago Forte is a leading productivity expert who has taught thousands of people around the world how timeless principles and the latest technology can revolutionize their productivity, creativity, and personal effectiveness. Today we’re talking about his new book, Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential. Learn more at Fortelabs.co, and subscribe to his Building a Second Brain podcast.🌟 3 Key Takeaways: Building a Second Brain is not about any one piece of software; it is about acquiring a new set of tools in your relationship to information, such as the practice of distilling marginalia or highlights after you read a book or clipping articles you find interesting even if you don’t plan to do anything with them yet. Apply the “campsite rule” to information in your business—leave notes better than you found them. You can do this by adding things like commentary, highlights, bullets a heading, etc. “Only start projects that are already 80 percent done.” By the time you sit down to make progress on something, all the work to gather and organize the source material should already be done. 📝 Permission: Not to be everywhere on all channels. Pick just one place that best fits your personality and style. Treat that channel as a place for your unique artistic expression.✅ Do (or Delegate) This Next: What do people ask you about most? Build out an FAQ by answering that question thoroughly, and posting it somewhere on your website, in Google Docs, or Notion. Then send future inquirers the link instead of one-off email messages.📘Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One Building a Second Brain 🔗Resources Mentioned:  Tiago on the web, Instagram: @fortelabsco, Twitter, LinkedIn Building a Second Brain Book Resources Building a Second Brain Course Tools Mentioned: Readwise, Notion, Evernote, Instapaper, Pocket, Loom🎧Related Podcast Episodes:  034: Organizing Research and Ideas - Notion Walkthrough #1 036: Shaping Big Ideas - Notion Walkthrough #2 038: Tracking Progress Toward Finishing a Book (or Big Idea) with an Essay Tracker - Notion Walkthrough #3 101: Run Your Business with Exquisite Greatness and Tiny Art Projects with Alexandra Franzen Pivot: 135: The Bliss Engine with Jim Blake (aka Daddy-O!) Pivot: 281: Feeling Impostery? Become a Qualified Curator Instead of an Expert Pivot 183: Cultivating Opposites and Checklists with Alexandra Franzen  💻 Access Free Time episode transcripts on Podscribe »🌟Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review.❤️Consider joining Jenny’s private BFF community, where you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call, a private podcast feed with bonus content, and a community forum to exchange ideas and feedback with fellow Heart-Based Business owners.💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join🛠 Get instant access to the Free Time Toolkit: http://itsfreetime.com/toolkit 💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Free Time listener survey☎️ Submit a voice question or comment for future episodes: http://itsfreetime.com/ask🎧 Make sure you’re subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! https://itsfreetime.com/episodes/111 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are your business activities at the intersection of revenue, ease, and joy? If not, are you aware of what does fall into that sweet spot? Are you a bona fide Free Timer, Bordering on Bottlenecked, or Chief Everything Officer?Those are the three potential outcomes of the Free Time Quiz, and upon reviewing the data, it sounds like a lot of us are still holding onto tiny, tedious, and time-consuming tasks. Today I’m sharing the initial post-book launch quiz results with insights on how Free Timers are navigating their businesses. Alongside every data point, I give an antidote solution to help move the needle in the right direction.🌟3 Key Takeaways: Be aggressive about making your time for deep work! Create big (recurring) blocks of time in your calendar, and make them inviolable. Protect them even from your procrastinating self! Get to know your ideal customers a little bit better. How do they describe the problem you solve in their own words? What do they share over coffee with a friend? Your team and clients are better served when you are well rested. It’s not worth the thousand tiny cuts of saying yes when you don’t really want to.  📝Permission: Decline, reschedule, or remove three things from your calendar in the next two weeks. Really. Use that time for deep, pleasurable work instead. ✅Do (or Delegate) This Next: Run an experiment, ideally an A/B test, for a metric in your business that you’d like to improve. 📘Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business  Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One  Value-Based Pricing: Drive Sales and Boost Your Bottom Line by Creating, Communicating and Capturing Customer Value Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less (4th Edition) The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It 🔗Resources Mentioned:  Free Time Operations Dashboard Organization: Zapier, Notion, Calendly Podcast ads: Overcast Plugin: Just Not Sorry 🎧Related Podcast Episodes:  086: The Cyrano Strategy for Delegating Important Comms 034: Organizing Research and Ideas - Notion Walkthrough #1 036: Shaping Big Ideas - Notion Walkthrough #2 038: Tracking Progress Toward Finishing a Book (or Big Idea) with an Essay Tracker - Notion Walkthrough #3 032: Courageous Marketing With Mike Michalowicz 💻 Access Free Time episode transcripts on Podscribe » 🌟Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review.❤️Consider joining Jenny’s private BFF community, where you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call, a private podcast feed with bonus content, and a community forum to exchange ideas and feedback with fellow Heart-Based Business owners. 💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join🛠 Get instant access to the Free Time Toolkit: http://itsfreetime.com/toolkit💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Free Time listener survey☎️ Submit a voice question or comment for future episodes: http://itsfreetime.com/ask🎧 Make sure you’re subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! https://itsfreetime.com/episodes/110 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“A big life can weigh a lot . . . That’s why I was overworked—I was chasing the long-tail of my tasks into infinity. This is when the music stops and there aren’t enough chairs for everyone.” If the logistics of life and work are gobbling up your equanimity, listen to today’s conversation with Demir Bentley on how to turn things around and “win the week,” with joyful rewards baked directly into the planning process.More About Demir: Demir Bentley helps successful people who secretly struggle with their productivity. Demir has personally coached executives from Facebook, Google, Uber, PepsiCo, and Lexar. Along with his wife, Carey, Demir founded The Lifehack Method and their podcast Freedom Decoded: A Podcast from Demir and Carey Bentley. Today we’re talking about his new book, The Winning the Week Method: How to Plan a Successful Week, Every Week.🌟3 Key Takeaways: Your time is your inventory: in your weekly planning session, match your time demand to your time supply. Calendarize your task list, and add the good stuff first! Self-care, play, creative, quiet, social, time with a significant other. Build in flex time for UUW: Unplanned, Unwanted Work — and gamify your work through the Sticky Focus Game (timed sprints) 📝Permission: To add your “code patch” to the world’s knowledge base, even if you aren’t the world’s leading expert (yet!). And put the good stuff into your planning process. What ritual or fun or reward can you add to your weekly planning that will change it from a chore to be avoided into one of your most treasured tasks?  ✅Do (or Delegate) This Next: Carve out time to plan your week, every week. Pre-plan with your team as well, so that you’re truly digging into what is coming and stopping the unexpected things from becoming emergencies. 📘Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business  Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One  The Winning the Week Method: How to Plan a Successful Week, Every Week 🔗Resources Mentioned:  Demir on the web, LinkedIn, Twitter: @jokeye, YouTube Demir’s podcast: Freedom Decoded: A Podcast from Demir and Carey Bentley Selena Soo  Article: Here's What's Next for Chamath Palihapitiya's Social Capital SPACs Social Capital The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Graham Duncan (#362) 🎧Related Podcast Episodes:  016: IP Licensing with Lee LeFever 062: Made by Monday On Content "Frog" Batching   💻 Access Free Time episode transcripts on Podscribe »🌟Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review.❤️Consider joining Jenny’s private BFF community, where you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call, a private podcast feed with bonus content, and a community forum to exchange ideas and feedback with fellow Heart-Based Business owners.💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join🛠 Get instant access to the Free Time Toolkit: http://itsfreetime.com/toolkit 💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Free Time listener survey☎️ Submit a voice question or comment for future episodes: http://itsfreetime.com/ask🎧 Make sure you’re subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! https://itsfreetime.com/episodes/109 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you’re the bottleneck in a service-based business, consider freeing your time by building your bench. That is what I’ve done with the Pivot and Free Time coaching teams, through partner contractors who I pass coaching clients to while taking care of the marketing and back-end operations.Today I’m sharing a walkthrough of the six Notion systems powering these programs. If you’d like more detail on exactly how to scale your business with a coaching team, sign-up to access the full workshop at http://itsfreetime.com/scalecoaching.Notion Boards We Use to Run Our Coaching Team: Potential Clients Active Clients Coach Bios Coach Payouts Resource Hub Client-facing Pages 🌟3 Key Takeaways: Being ready to scale from a systems and offerings standpoint (even for services like coaching!) gives you flexibility, and lets you be ready for a big break. Sticker shock is unpleasant for everyone, so give a sense of what the investment is going to be at the beginning of a potential client’s interest process Less is more when it comes to tracking tools: Set up an active client tracker if you don’t already have one. 📝Permission: Not to fulfill all the 1:1 services in your business by yourself. Create a scalable service offering to retain potential clients by collaborating with, and directing work to, qualified subcontractors. ✅Do (or Delegate) This Next: Make a list of five trusted providers who you could partner with in a revenue share model. Consider how you’d want to vet, train, and onboard them to your method and systems, even if you’re not quite ready to launch into this full swing yet. Just having people in mind may open up possibilities. Could you run a small pilot with just one or two people as a next step? What’s the worst that happens if it doesn’t work? What’s the best that happens if it does? 📘Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One🔗Resources Mentioned:  Workshops: How to Scale a Coaching Team, Free Time Operations Dashboard Demo Tools: Typeform, Notion, Zapier, Kajabi, Calendly, Google Groups, Descript Programs: Career Pathfinder, Jenny’s private BFF Community, Pivot Coaching, Free Time Coaching, Jenny’s 1:1 Voxer Coaching 🎧Related Podcast Episodes:  075: Coaching Through the Free Time Framework with Wade Brill Pivot: 283: What Are You Here to Do? How to Find a Path That Fits with Adrian Klaphaak 34: Organizing Research and Ideas - Notion Walkthrough #1 36: Shaping Big Ideas - Notion Walkthrough #2 38: Tracking Progress Toward Finishing a Book (or Big Idea) with an Essay Tracker - Notion Walkthrough #3  🌟Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review.❤️Consider joining Jenny’s private BFF community, where you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call, a private podcast feed with bonus content, and a community forum to exchange ideas and feedback with fellow Heart-Based Business owners. 💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join🛠 Get instant access to the Free Time Toolkit: http://itsfreetime.com/toolkit💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Free Time listener survey🗣 Submit a voice question or comment for future episodes: http://itsfreetime.com/ask🎧 Make sure you’re subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! https://itsfreetime.com/episodes/108 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you pricing your products and services in an abundant sweet spot or a scarcity-inducing sink hole? How can you tell when your prices are too low or too high? How much of pricing is math, and how much is mindset? Or, perhaps you’ve been ruminating on these two most common questions: What should I charge for this? Is now the time to raise my prices? We're digging into all of this and more during this juicy follow-up conversation with financial behaviorist Jacquette M. Timmons. Listen to our previous conversation in episode 20 on Pricing Psychology.More about Jacquette: Jacquette focuses on the human side of money to help you see that you don't manage money—you manage your choices around money. She is the author of Financial Intimacy: How to Create a Healthy Relationship with Your Money and Your Mate, and creator of programs like The Comfort Circle™ dinner series and her semi-annual Pricing Made Human™ workshop. She hosts the More Than Money podcast, a show that explores the psychology, emotions, and math of money so that you can make better, smarter choices regardless of where you fall on the income or wealth spectrum.🌟3 Key Takeaways: When a launch doesn’t go as planned, change one thing at a time; changing your pricing should be the last variable you tweak Ask for feedback from customers who don’t purchase: is it price, format, timing, or something else altogether? Practice intuition in small moments, especially celebrating milestones, to build trust for taking bigger risks and decision-making 📝Permission: Quote a price that feels scary and uncomfortable. Detach yourself from the outcome and treat it as an exercise. Even if you get a “no” in response, know that just doing this at least once will already make it easier to say next time.✅Do (or Delegate) This Next: Identify the purpose of each program in your business: What is its job within your overall portfolio of offers? Is it a lead magnet, a major revenue driver, or something else?📘Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One Financial Intimacy: How to Create a Healthy Relationship with Your Money and Your Mate 🔗Resources Mentioned:  Jenny's Voxer Coaching (add your name to the waitlist) Jacquette on the web, Instagram, Facebook Jacquette’s podcast: More Than Money Monthly Comfort Circle dinners Financial Wheel Video: Essential Financial Planning for Couples on GMA 🎧Related Podcast Episodes:  020: Pricing Psychology with Jacquette Timmons  These Three Biases Cost Her More Than Money  💻 Access Free Time episode transcripts on Podscribe »🌟Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review.❤️Consider joining Jenny’s private BFF community, where you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call, a private podcast feed with bonus content, and a community forum to exchange ideas and feedback with fellow Heart-Based Business owners.💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join🛠 Get instant access to the Free Time Toolkit: http://itsfreetime.com/toolkit 💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Free Time listener survey🗣 Submit a voice question or comment for future episodes: http://itsfreetime.com/ask🎧 Make sure you’re subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! https://itsfreetime.com/episodes/107 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever driven down a highway and gotten a whole bunch of bugs sadly splattered on your windshield? Eventually, there are so many that you can't see the road in front of you. The same thing can happen with little bits of time clutter throughout your week. No one is a big deal, but in total they obstruct foresight and forward motion. Today I’m sharing how to identify the ways you may be creating time clutter and how to start reducing it. With only a few tidbits about the science of bug splatters.Special shout out to Shelley Hitz—thank you for the podcast review! I’d love to know: what has been your biggest aha from these first 100+ episodes? Leave a review and let me know!🌟3 Key Takeaways: It’s easy to interrupt yourself. A lot. Emails, questions, distractions… they all add to time clutter, so try to be mindful of when it’s happening so you can cut it down. Sometimes we work so hard at documenting and delegating that we go backwards in terms of creating time clutter! Look at your processes, and see if you should be re-batching anything that has been split up.  Make room for periods of deep observation so you can hear what your business is trying to tell you beneath the day-to-day juggle. 📝Permission: You have permission to try living on the uncomfortable side of free time; creating too much of it (or as close to that as you can get) just to see how it feels, and what it unearths for you.✅Do (or Delegate) This Next: Look at each item on your to-do list. Does this task spark joy? You have permission to Marie Kondo your time, not just your possessions.📘Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One  Expansive Impact: An Invitation to Lead in Everyday Moments The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing 🔗Resources Mentioned: Splatter-gories: Those bugs on your windshield can tell volumes about our environment, Mark Hostetler Thinks Gunk Can Teach Us About Insects, RescueTime research 🎧Related Podcast Episodes:  028: When the Financial Tides Recede 054: Ten T's of Successful Delegating Pivot 277: Expansive Impact and Spacious Scheduling with Sarah Young 104: Save Someone Next Steps 💻 Access Free Time episode transcripts on Podscribe » 🌟Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review.❤️Consider joining Jenny’s private BFF community, where you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call, a private podcast feed with bonus content, and a community forum to exchange ideas and feedback with fellow Heart-Based Business owners. 💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join🛠 Get instant access to the Free Time Toolkit: http://itsfreetime.com/toolkit💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Free Time listener survey🗣 Submit a voice question or comment for future episodes: http://itsfreetime.com/ask🎧 Make sure you’re subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! https://itsfreetime.com/episodes/106 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices