Free Time with Jenny Blake

What would it be like if you became the only business that mattered to your customers? How can you get 100 percent of the people who eventually buy your products or services to tell their friends?These are some of the powerful questions John Jantsch poses in his latest book, The Ultimate Marketing Engine: 5 Steps to Ridiculously Consistent Growth. He walks us through how to scale by ensuring transformation for your customers and clients. You grow as they grow.What is the Ultimate Marketing Engine? As John says, "A successful customer."More About John: John Jantsch is a marketing consultant, speaker, and author of Duct Tape Marketing, The Referral Engine, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur, and The Ultimate Marketing Engine: 5 Steps to Ridiculously Consistent Growth. He is also the founder of the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network, which trains and licenses independent consultants and agencies to use the Duct Tape Methodology.❤️ Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review. Free Time is listener supported—consider donating to become a podcast BFF Insider and you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call with Jenny and private feed.📘 Books Mentioned: Pivot, Pivot, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, The Ultimate Marketing Engine, Duct Tape Marketing Revised and Updated, The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur, Subscribed, Retention Point, The Practice of Management🔗 Resources Mentioned: John the web: Duct Tape Marketing, Twitter: @ducttape, Facebook: Duct Tape Marketing, Akimbo Podcast🎙 Related Episodes: 016: IP Licensing with Lee LeFever, Pivot—145: The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur with John Jantsch and 70: Build a Referral Engine with John Jantsch💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join💸 Enroll in the Mini-Course: Free-up Founder Time💬 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 ‘casts: http://pod.link/freetime📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! https://itsfreetime.com/episodes/037 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Building on the first episode in the Notion walkthrough series, 034: Organizing Research and Ideas, in this session I'm sharing the next step: starting to shape big ideas. I share categories for notes that you can move across a nonlinear board as you map desired transformation for your future audience, when to map those to paper index cards, and why I don't recommend writing with long audio transcripts as a base.📘 Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business, Pivot🎥 Video: Notion Office Hours, sign-up for the free Author Toolkit to access the screensharing video version of this episode.🛠 Tools Mentioned: Notion, Loom🎙 Related Episodes: 002: Elimante Email With Cal Newport, 034: Organizing Research and Ideas — Notion Walkthrough #1, What Works: Going All In with Strategist Marie Poulin❤️ Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review. Free Time is listener-supported—consider donating to become a podcast BFF Insider and you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call with Jenny and private podcast feed with bonus episodes.💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Free Time listener survey💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join🗣 Submit a voice question or comment for future episodes: http://itsfreetime.com/ask📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! http://itsfreetime.com/episodes/036 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Whenever you have a choice of what to do, choose the more interesting path." (Credit to Dorie's friend Marion's mom)In this conversation with DC, one of my closest friends, we discuss how she "optimizes for interesting," says no to good opportunities, builds relationships by following her "no asks for a year" rule, and when to call on trusted advisors to ensure you don't quit something too soon. We're discussing her fourth book, The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World—be sure to grab your copy for even more insights on how to apply strategic thinking to your biggest vision.More About Dorie: Dorie Clark helps individuals and companies get their best ideas heard in a crowded, noisy world. She has been named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, and was honored as the #1 Communication Coach in the world by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards. She is a keynote speaker and teaches executive education for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School. Dorie is the author of The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World (her latest), Reinventing You, Stand Out, and Entrepreneurial You.❤️ Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review. Free Time is listener supported—consider donating to become a podcast BFF Insider and you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call with Jenny and private feed.📘 Books Mentioned: Free Time, Pivot, The Long Game, Reinventing You, Stand Out, Entrepreneurial You, Decoding Greatness by Ron Carrucci🔗 Resources Mentioned: Dorie on the web, Instagram: @dorieclark, LinkedIn, Dorie's TEDx Talk: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Russel Brunson's The Marketing Secrets Show🎙 Related Episodes: Pivot—58: Monetize Your Ideas with Dorie Clark, 66: Create Multiple Streams of Income with Dorie Clark, 33: Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following with Dorie Clark💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join💸 Enroll in the Mini-Course: Free-up Founder Time💬 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 ‘casts: http://pod.link/freetime📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! http://itsfreetime.com/episodes/035 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I'm walking you through my systems for capturing ideas and organizing them, as part of a multi-part series on my favorite tool for organizing life and work: Notion.📘 Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business, Pivot, Storyworthy (Matthew Dicks), Perennial Seller (Ryan Holiday), The Signature of All Things and Big Magic (Liz Gilbert), How to Take Smart Notes (Sönke Ahrens)🎥 Video: Matthew's Storyworthy TEDx Talk, Notion Office Hours, sign-up for the free Author Toolkit to access the screensharing video version of this episode.🛠Tools Mentioned: Notion, Evernote, Web Clipper for Chrome, Zbib.org (for citations), Captio iOS app, Marie Poulin's Notion Mastery course (where I learned everything I know!)🗽Photos: Reclining Liberty art installation🎙 Related Episodes: Pivot podcast — Your Book and Big Idea Part 1 (ep 207), Part 2 (ep 208), What Works: Going All In with Strategist Marie Poulin❤️ Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review. Free Time is listener-supported—consider donating to become a podcast BFF Insider and you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call with Jenny and private podcast feed with bonus episodes.💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Free Time listener survey💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join🗣 Submit a voice question or comment for future episodes: http://itsfreetime.com/ask📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! http://itsfreetime.com/episodes/034 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What makes you come alive? More specifically, how do you uniquely exert effort—for no other reason than the way it makes you feel? as Jonathan shares in his new book, Sparked, we’re all born with a certain “imprint” for work that makes us come alive. This is your "Sparketype®," your DNA-level driver of work that lets you know, deep down, you’re doing what you’re here to do.More About Jonathan Fields: Jonathan Fields—the Good Life Guy—delivers insights that spark purpose, possibility, and potential. On a decades-long quest to discover what makes people come fully alive, Jonathan is an award-winning author, Webby-nominated producer, business innovator, and host of one of the world’s top podcasts, Good Life Project. He is the author of Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive.❤️ Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review. Free Time is listener supported—consider donating to become a podcast BFF Insider and you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call with Jenny and private feed.📘 Books Mentioned: Pivot, Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive, Uncertainty, How to Live a Good Life, Career Renegade🔗 Resources Mentioned: Jonathan on the web, Sparketype.com Assessment🎙 Related Episodes: 47: Live Fiercely, Study Deeply . . . While Earning a Living — with Jonathan Fields, Ann Patchett | On Solitude, Writing & Indie Bookstores, Elizabeth Gilbert | Back Into the Light📰Article Mentioned: The Unfortunate Middle💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join💸 Enroll in the Mini-Course: Free-up Founder Time💬 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 ‘casts: http://pod.link/freetime📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! https://itsfreetime.com/episodes/033 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why are we so afraid of standing out? Being disliked? ****Trying business or marketing experiments that might fail? Jenny's longtime friendtor Mike Michalowicz is back sharing strategies behind his latest book, Get Different: Marketing That Can't Be Ignored!More about Mike: Mike Michalowicz ****(pronounced mi-‘kal-o-wits) is a business author with a clear mission: Eradicate entrepreneurial poverty. Today, Mike leads two new multi-million-dollar ventures, as he tests his latest business research for his books. His latest book Get Different (released September 21, 2021) will give you the tools to stand out in any market.❤️ Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review. Free Time is listener supported—consider donating to become a podcast BFF Insider and you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call with Jenny and private feed.📘 Books Mentioned: Pivot, Get Different: Marketing That Can't Be Ignored!, The Courage to Be Disliked, Giftology, Atomic Habits, The Comfort Crisis, Rejection Proof, Fix This Next, Clockwork, Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan, Surge, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur🔗 Resources Mentioned: Mike's (hilarious!) website: Mike Michalowicz, Instagram: @mikemichalowicz, Twitter: @MikeMichalowicz, Apps: PictureThis and Picture Insect🎙 Related Episodes: 024: Missing Mojo, Pivot podcasts: 164: Fix This Next (And Stop Keeping Up With The Entrepre-Joneses) with Mike Michalowicz, 37: Surge: How to Spot and Ride Trend Waves💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join💸 Enroll in the Mini-Course: Free-up Founder Time💬 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 ‘casts: http://pod.link/freetime📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! https://itsfreetime.com/episodes/032 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On navigating the creative gremlins that rushed in at the eleventh hour of finishing the Free Time manuscript editing marathon. Next up: getting ready to send to print! 😵‍💫❤️ Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review. Free Time is listener-supported—consider donating to become a podcast BFF Insider and you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call with Jenny and private podcast feed with bonus episodes.📘 Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business, Pivot, The Dip (Seth Godin), Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott), Taming Your Gremlin (Rick Carson)🎥 Video: Ira Glass on The Gap (between taste and talent)🎙 Related Episodes: 026: Five Trade-offs of Long-Term Singular Focus💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Free Time listener survey💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join🗣 Submit a voice question or comment for future episodes: http://itsfreetime.com/ask📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! http://itsfreetime.com/episodes/031 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Revealing the formula behind Free Time . . . with special guest host Michael Karsouny :)❤️ Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review. Free Time is listener-supported—consider donating to become a podcast BFF Insider and you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call with Jenny and private podcast feed with bonus episodes.📘 Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business, Pivot, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work📰 Article Mentioned: Psychology Today: Job, Career, or Calling?🎙 Related Episodes: Pivot episodes with Michael Karsouny💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Free Time listener survey💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join🗣 Submit a voice question or comment for future episodes: http://itsfreetime.com/ask📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! http://itsfreetime.com/episodes/030 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What would your experience of business-building be if you knew you were "funded by source"? Ksenia shares where she heard this powerful phrase, and how it guides every aspect of her life and work, from ceremonial cacao to conscious social media.More About Ksenia: Ksenia Avdulova is the founder of the award-nominated digital platform Breakfast Criminals and the host of Funded by Source podcast, focusing on expanded consciousness and entrepreneurship in the digital age. She created the Conscious Social Media Method to help people "playfully share [their] medicine in the digital realm" and "weave a new story of abundance – one that’s beyond the logic, spreadsheets and hashtags."❤️ Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review. Free Time is listener supported—consider donating to become a podcast BFF Insider and you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call with Jenny and private feed.📘 Books Mentioned: Pivot, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, Outrageous Openness, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World, Sacred Economics, The Yoga of Eating, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible🔗 Resources Mentioned: Ksenia on the web, Instagram: @fundedbysource, Apartment Therapy walkthrough of her cabin in the Catskills, BreakfastCriminals.com, CeremonialCacao.org, ConsciousSocialMediaMethod.com, MyHeartBowl.com🎙 Related Episodes: 52: Martha Beck on Enlightenment and Messages our Bodies Send, Jenny Blake: Systems, Spiritual Surrender, Membership Sites & Social Media Rebellion, Boyd Varty: Following The Track Of Your Life and Creative Process in The Digital Age, Michelle Sinnette: New Paradigm of Business with Legacy Cacao Founder💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join💸 Enroll in the Mini-Course: Free-up Founder Time💬 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 ‘casts: http://pod.link/freetime📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! https://itsfreetime.com/episodes/029 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quick Favor! Would you cast a vote for a Free Time book signing at SXSW? Click here or visit https://bit.ly/freetimepanelpicker. You will have to sign-in to vote, but you don't have to be attending in order to give your vote of confidence for my talk to make the schedule. Thank you in advance!!❤️ Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review. Free Time is listener-supported—consider donating to become a podcast BFF Insider and you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call with Jenny and private podcast feed with bonus episodes.📘 Books Mentioned: Free Time, Pivot, Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames, Creating Money, The Abundance Code, It's Not Your Money📰 Article Mentioned: NYT—Mudlarkers Scour the Thames to Uncover 2,000 Years of Secrets🎤 TED Talk: Stefan Sagmeister—The Power of Time Off🎙 Related Episodes: 024: Missing Mojo, 026: Five Tradeoffs of Long-Term Singular Focus💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Free Time listener survey💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join🗣 Submit a voice question or comment for future episodes: http://itsfreetime.com/ask📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! http://itsfreetime.com/episodes/028 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices