Pivot with Jenny Blake
409 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 188 ratingsWhat’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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13: Podcast: Upside of Being Invisible with David Zweig
November 01, 2015 07:18 - 27.9 MBDavid used to be what he calls “an invisible,” when he worked for a number of years as a magazine fact-checker. “If you read a great article, you never think to yourself, ‘Wow that was fact-checked beautifully,’” David said. “I had this job where the better I did my job, the more I disappeared. It was only if I made a mistake that people noticed me at all. It was such an unusual experience.” He sought to investigate what other professions and professionals share the same inverse relati...
13: Upside of Being Invisible with David Zweig
November 01, 2015 07:18 - 35 minutes“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 obscur...
12: Belly of the Pivot Beast: On Bouncing Back from Zero with Adam Chaloeicheep
October 25, 2015 06:20 - 32 minutesWhen 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 Chaloi...
11: How to Optimize for Revenue and Joy
October 18, 2015 06:25 - 30 minutesHow 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 a...
10: Behind the Book: Organizing, Writing and Gremlin-Taming
October 11, 2015 06:31 - 36 minutesHUGE 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/a...
9: Big News . . . We Have a Book Deal!! Behind the Proposal Process
October 09, 2015 06:29 - 39 minutesYes, 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://its...
8: Cyber Security for Dummies: The Least You Need to Know with Willie Jackson
October 04, 2015 06:35 - 51 minutesCyber 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...
7: How to Find Your Zone of Genius with Laura Garnett
September 27, 2015 06:37 - 35 minutesWhat 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 conversation...
6: How I Work with My VA: Systems and Strategy
December 21, 2014 07:23 - 34 minutesFor 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 ...