Time Hacking Radio
58 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEverybody talks about growing a business and making more money. Those things sound great, but for home-based business owners, life is so crazy busy that we can't even THINK about growing our businesses until we figure out how to earn more time.
This podcast is about the things we as business owners can do to earn time in our day to do the things we want. You'll hear about tips, tricks, and tools that make life a little easier for home service business owners who are trying to do it all.
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Toddler ABCs
May 12, 2021 21:42 - 7 minutes - 7.14 MBMy kids have grown up in a daycare that their grandmother runs, which is nothing but fabulous. However, when grandma is in charge, you get certain perks, even though grandma tries super hard to be completely equitable. In the first two kids' lives, we send them off to daycare so they can come to the understanding that they are not the center of the universe before going to kindergarten. This dang pandemic has changed things for the third kid. Daycare rules make it so that kids basically ...
Parenting While Running A Business with Ana Rivera
May 07, 2021 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBFor a list of my favorite tools and tips, check out my resource page at resources.timehackingradio.com. For a super awesome podcast editor, check out mine. https://fiverr.com/jay717
Communication Time Hacks for Your Entire Business with Irum Rashid-Jones
April 30, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBFor a list of my favorite tools, check out my resource page at: resources.timehackingradio.com. For an amazing podcast editor, I highly suggest: https://fiverr.com/jay717
Kid Time Hack: Addressing Issues With a Coach
April 28, 2021 23:30 - 8 minutes - 7.67 MBAfter playing his first game with his new team, my 10-year-old was super frustrated and emotional. We're not the type of parents who handle things for our kids. In fact, we're quite the opposite. We teach our kids how to handle things for themselves. It's awful, and difficult, and terrifying, but I'm in the business of raising successful adults, not coddled kids. My husband helped my son to rehearse what he wanted to say to his coach. My husband hung back and let our son speak to his c...
Systemizing Your Business's Facebook Responses with Karen Sahetya
April 23, 2021 07:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBFor a list of my favorite tools, books, and classes, check them out here: resources.timehackingradio.com For an absolutely amazing podcast editor, check out mine at: https://fiverr.com/jay717
Futureproof
April 21, 2021 11:32 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBThe main topic of the book was automation and artificial intelligence with the thesis being that every single person and job on the planet is replaceable by a machine. The author discusses all of his reasons for coming to this understanding, but moving beyond the doomed future, Roose makes some powerful recommendations to help you survive the coming revolution. The book says that our best tool to fight the machines is our humanity. Humans like human-made things. There is still more value...
Suggested Reading for Easily Changing Your Habits
April 14, 2021 21:39 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBSuggested by a speaker a few years ago, I read Dan Millman's book, "Way of the Peaceful Warrior." It was a transformative fictionalized account of the mind shift the character took to come to the understanding that he was one with the universe. This book was the first time I was exposed to these larger, universal lessons, and that in itself was pretty transformational. I plan to read it again soon. I imagine that it is one of those books that you read multiple times and I expect that eac...
30-Day Plan to Accomplish it All
April 13, 2021 23:30 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBFor a list of my favorite tools, check out my resource page at resources.timehackingradio.com. If you're looking for an amazing podcast editor, I'm willing to share. You can find him here: https://fiverr.com/jay717
Visualization
April 07, 2021 07:00 - 10 minutes - 9.89 MBMy swimmer kid had a swim meet recently and she did great. As with many kids, one of her favorite events is the 50 freestyle. In this meet, she was seeded first and ended up getting first in the finals. What I've learned about competing in any 50-yard event is that since it's a sprint, you have to be perfect to beat the other people in the pool. Every little mistake can cost you. You have to have a perfect dive, perfect turn, and a perfect finish. As a spectator watching the event, you...
Virtual Learning Time Hacks for Elementary Students
April 02, 2021 22:39 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBFor a list of my favorite tools and tricks, check out my resource page at resources.timehackingradio.com. For a super awesome podcast editor who is excellent to work with, check out mine at https://fiverr.com/jay717.
Time Hacks For Your High School Student
March 31, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes - 34 MBFor more information about my favorite tools and tips and tricks, please visit my resource page at resources.timehackingradio.com. To connect with a great podcast editor, you can find mine here at: https://fiverr.com/jay717
Relationship Time Hacks
March 26, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 32.1 MBHear some amazing time hacking tips to improve your relationship with your person. If you're looking for my favorite tools and tips, check them out here: resources.timehackingradio.com. If you need a podcast editor, mine is awesome! https://fiverr.com/jay717/
My Favorite Design Tool
March 24, 2021 07:00 - 8 minutes - 7.85 MBFirst, the Finisher's Journal is an AMAZING planner that has totally revolutionized how I handle my days. I feel so much more focused on the actual tasks that matter. But, this episode is primarily about Canva. Canva is the design tool that I use every single day. I started to learn design by taking a class on Adobe Illustrator. Then I graduated to the Affinity suite. All of these tools are great, but it's a slow process for me to create something using them. Instead, I started using ...
Taking A Break Without Losing Momentum
March 19, 2021 07:00 - 7 minutes - 6.69 MBMy husband and I are working on a massive project right now. We call it "Multi-Family Migration". We have been grinding to get this done. It's all being bootstrapped so I'm the grunt worker and he's the face of this operation. Building a business is always hard, but for us, we're also running the same household. This means that we don't have the luxury of working together too often. At any given time, one of us is working on making a living to survive, while the other might be runnin...
Health Update
March 17, 2021 07:00 - 10 minutes - 9.37 MBFirst, for the first time in a long time I have caught up on my miles. I am going to hit 400 miles by my 40th. My pace to hit that target is 3 miles a day. (Actually, it's a little less, but whatever.) Usually, I have anywhere from 3 to 7 miles to catch up on, but not this week. I'm all caught up. Second, something funny happened. My brother wished me a happy birthday three months early. This was the wake-up call I needed. It kicked my butt into gear and I've been going strong sin...
Time Hacking Your Business Finance with Andrea Jenson
March 12, 2021 08:00 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBIn today's episode, Andrea Jenson shares her top hacks to systemize your business's finances. To connect with Andrea, find her at https://www.facebook.com/thecashflowcfo Or you can visit her website at https://cashflowcfo.com. To get a list of my favorite things, visit my resource page at resources.timehackingradio.com. I always recommend my awesome podcast editor! Check him out here: https://fiverr.com/jay717
New Time Hacking Series...
March 10, 2021 08:00 - 2 minutes - 2.67 MBComing next episode and once a week after that, I'll be sharing interviews that I conducted for my Time Hacking Summit. Join me on the next episode for the first of the series. If you would like a list of my favorite tools, check out my resource page at resources.timehackingradio.com. If you would like a super awesome podcast editor to work with, check out mine at https://fiverr.com/jay717.
The Anti-Time Hack
March 05, 2021 08:00 - 7 minutes - 7.13 MBI have been spending a lot of time on the phone lately because our customers have a lot of questions about chimneys. Really, there's nothing intuitive about lighting a fire in your house. There is a certain amount of fear that people have when chimneys are involved. The other day I spoke with a person who was buying a home with a metal chimney. Just like every other appliance, metal chimneys have a lifespan. This means, at some point in time, the entire system will need to be replaced. ...
My New Favorite Project Management Tool
March 03, 2021 13:24 - 6 minutes - 6.2 MBI'm creating a free 5-Day Challenge as we speak. I'm currently in the research phase of things. I have been focused on finding new and awesome tools. As is the case whenever I focus on something, the universe tosses me what I need. While in an online conference, I was listening to a speaker who was discussing how he was previously a hardcore Trello user. Trello is a tool that I've used on occasion, but I found myself wanting more from it, so I just didn't get into it. I never really t...
Finisher's Journal
February 24, 2021 11:59 - 5 minutes - 5.54 MBI still use my Rocketbook every day as my notebook. This journal is what one would use to create a bullet journal. It helps me to organize my thoughts. It is basically a quarterly goal acomplisher. In this episode I break down how I have been using this tool and how you can too. I love it...and minor update...I'm still using this journal at the time of publication and it actually helps. To get a link to that awesome tool you can find it here: resources.timehackingradio.com. To connec...
Lessons From My Current Reads
February 19, 2021 08:00 - 8 minutes - 7.55 MBThere is a very good reason why Marie Kondo is a mega superstar in the home organizing space. She so elegantly created a two-step process to organize your space. Get rid of the things you don't want. Organize what is left. It's that simple! Discard, then organize. I think the same thing is true for time hacking. All of the little micro-responsibilities add up to a great big pile of soul-crushing commitments. I don't have a solution to eliminate all of the things that you're doing tha...
Super Simple Laundry Time Hack
February 17, 2021 21:03 - 5 minutes - 5.38 MBComing with the intention to organize my closet, my aunt ended up helping me with my storage shed as well. The idea is that what is left in the closet is only the things that you need on a semi-regular basis. The rest is stored in the shed in a way that can be easily accessed, should the need arise. My aunt did the work, but I was the back-up team who did the purging. The result of this organization process was two complete cars full of STUFF to be removed. In this process, I realized...
Reverse Grocery List
February 12, 2021 08:00 - 5 minutes - 5.11 MBThis process takes a kind of a long time on the front end but SAVES a bunch of time on the back end. You need to record everything that you have in your kitchen. Everything that's in your pantry, freezer, and fridge…everything. Be prepared when doing this, if you're like me, you'll end up doing a kitchen clean-out session too. In this process, you'll be writing everything down like a massive inventory. I got hung up on the best tool to record all of this stuff, but I landed on a sheet...
Kitchen Time Hack
February 10, 2021 13:34 - 5 minutes - 5.02 MB@Rhinojulie is one of my recently favorite people. She is a fitness expert and all-around dynamic lady. I spoke with her on my Time Hacking Summit, which is when she discussed the massive benefit of an air fryer. In this conversation, Rhino Julie gave me permission as a mom, to let my kids eat what they'll eat and to feed myself with the good, healthy things. Kind of a relief. In this conversation, she suggested investing in an air fryer. An air fryer is a mini convection oven that s...
Maintenance Cycle
February 05, 2021 08:00 - 6 minutes - 6.17 MBMy daughter, who is a swimmer, is hardcore. Recently she's been feeling the anxiety that we're all living with, but in her case, her specific anxiety had to do with her swim times. She is a super hard worker, despite her hard work, her swim times were still getting worse. This then, made her even more anxious and made her work even harder. So, her body was revolting because she was EXHAUSTED. Her coach explained to her there are a few different kinds of workouts. What she is in right n...
Employee Schedule Flexibility
February 03, 2021 14:52 - 6 minutes - 5.8 MBI learned from my previous employment, that if you can't afford to pay your employees tons of money, you can instead give them more time, which could be flexibility with their schedule, or paid time off, or whatever other creative solutions you might be able to think of. We train our technicians by paying minimum wage, and immediately after passing training, we increase the hourly rate by $3. The way we historically handled it, however, was it was on the technician to organize themselves t...
How Time Hacking Is Like Home Organizing
January 29, 2021 08:00 - 6 minutes - 5.86 MBI'm making some stuff for you! I don't want to give everything away, but I'm going to tell you the end results I'm looking for from these offers. The first is a FREE 5-Day Challenge. The idea is to give you to the point where you can see the time challenges in your life that need to be eliminated. The second project is to craft a library of sorts. It consists of different time hacks that I use in my business that you would be able to easily implement in your own business. What I've be...
Comparison Hack
January 27, 2021 16:17 - 5 minutes - 5.06 MBIn a moment at the end of the episode, Dax Shephard spoke about comparing oneself to others by either up comparing or down comparing. (I can't remember the actual term...I think that's close.) In speaking about parenting, Dax Shephard's point was that all you have to do is go to the supermarket and down compare yourself to parents you see and you'll realize, "Hey, I'm better than that person," and you'll be confident in your ability. Without trying to crap on other people, I find myself l...
400 by 40
January 23, 2021 15:31 - 6 minutes - 5.79 MBI'm all about deadlines and milestones and the like. They help my brain to get in gear. For me, I've decided to complete two fitness challenges in 2021 all around me turning 40. Challenge number one is, I have to go 400 miles by the time I'm 40...which happens in May. This averages out to less than 3 miles a day. Simple. The second challenge is I have to do 40,000 situps and pushups this year. This one averages out to around 110 each day. Totally doable. If you would like to join ...
Distraction Free Device
January 20, 2021 14:36 - 7 minutes - 6.91 MBI am pro-technology, but at this point in time, my phone is so totally distracting. I specifically don't have the Facebook app on my phone, but I do have Instagram, which is the same. Also, coming off of the election cycle, I was in a news spiral that I can't seem to get out of. Together, those two apps are responsible for the majority of my time. I had resisted eliminating those two apps for a long time, but I think it's time to remove them. I will miss exchanging content with my 1...
Simple Tool For Paper Lovers
January 15, 2021 16:38 - 7 minutes - 6.73 MBAs I have confessed before, I am not the most organized of individuals. I try to start to be organized all the time, each time starting with a little notebook to jot my thoughts throughout the day. But, inevitably, I misplace the notebook. The other thing that happens is I will assign a separate notebook to a certain topic. Then, when it is time to record some deep and insightful idea about a given topic I can't find that specific notebook. I'm left recording this earth-shattering thou...
Getting to Success Immediately
January 13, 2021 08:00 - 5 minutes - 4.92 MBIf you're having a hard time because you're not seeing the results you're looking for, I would like you to think about your definition of success. A few years ago, I attended a teleconference by Michael Bernoff. He is a very dynamic speaker who gets his audience to take massive action. His former definition for success was "getting to do what you want, when you want, where you want, with whoever you want." However, the hack that he proposed was to change your wording. Instead of havin...
Time Hacking My Way Out of Anxiety
January 08, 2021 08:00 - 5 minutes - 4.69 MBIn order to combat my anxiety, I realized that the best thing I can do is to nail down my morning routine. For me, I had been starting with reading or learning and a kid on my lap. However, this little routine hasn't been working. Instead, I'm getting back to my daily highlight. Just focusing on the highlight helps to slow things down and put things back into perspective. If you're interested in any of the tools I swear by, check out my resource page at resources.timehackingradio.com. I...
Safety Program for Time Hackers
January 06, 2021 08:00 - 4 minutes - 4.49 MBFor us, since we don't have everyone together in one place, in general, even more so during a pandemic, so we've set up a virtual safety program. To start, OSHA has a billion free resources that you can use for your company's safety program and I downloaded them all. To time hack this, I made a massive folder in Google Drive where all of these OSHA documents live. I grouped them by category and created quick quizzes about what I had asked my team to read. The quizzes are Google forms tha...
Time Hacking Way to Pass a Certification Test
December 30, 2020 20:13 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBHere are the steps I took to time hack my studying: Get the reading material...don't stress about reading it. Peruse YouTube. Watch or listen to some free tutorials. Take some open-book practice tests early on. Take your time and figure out the right answer. Go back over your practice test and figure out why you got the answers wrong that you missed. Take the mandatory class. Study the numbers that are important. In my case, clearances were very important. I spent a week studying f...
Marketing Research Time Hack
December 16, 2020 13:31 - 8 minutes - 7.66 MBRand Fishkin, creator of Moz has created SparkToro. It is the coolest online marketing tool that I've ever encountered. For those of you who don't know, Dream 100 is a way to build traffic into your business. The idea is that by making real connections with your "Dream 100" the traffic that those people have coming to their business will help you with your business. Basically, it's a way to leverage relationships to drive traffic to what you're doing. Sometimes, finding your Dream 100 ca...
Experiment 6: Outsourcing Phone Services
December 11, 2020 08:00 - 10 minutes - 9.43 MBI've actually already been doing this one, but I wanted a win in case all of my other experiments fail. Due to the fact that I work out of my home and virtual learning is a thing now, I have been having a super difficult time answering the phones. Because of that, I decided to hire a virtual phone team. The phone team I hired is certified by Housecall Pro, which is the software we use for scheduling. Since this team is certified, they already know how to do the scheduling part. I just h...
Social Media Publishing
December 09, 2020 16:56 - 5 minutes - 5.08 MBI try really hard not to hang out on social media all day long. I'm a sucker, especially for Instagram and Pinterest. But my challenge is that I still need to publish. What is a gal to do? Here's what I want: I want to put out content when people are actually online. I want to put out content without having to actually sign in to my social media accounts. (I'm careful about when I do that.) I want to publish to four different places online. As it turns out I found a tool that ...
Upselling with Technology
December 04, 2020 16:17 - 6 minutes - 5.65 MBIf you've been listening to my podcasts, you know how much I LOVE Housecall Pro. They recently released an update that allows their users to send their customers to a different landing page than the standard one. I've been figuring out how to maximize cart value. In this case, I made a very simple landing page through Clickfunnels. The page thanks the customer for booking an appointment and it mentions some of our other services that they can still add to their appointment. The custom...
Facebook Hiring Technique
December 01, 2020 15:49 - 5 minutes - 5.37 MBI own a small chimney sweeping company and hiring is tough. If you've haven't listened to Tommy Mello's podcast it's called The Home Service Expert. (Here's a link to the episode I'm talking about.) He runs a super successful garage door company and he interviews business experts who can speak about running home service companies. In one of his episodes, he spoke to an expert named Danny Kerr. Danny shared how he leverages his network and his team's network for hiring. Brilliant. Abso...
Frank Kern Facebook Ad Experiment
November 24, 2020 19:26 - 7 minutes - 6.74 MBIf you haven't encountered my Time Hacking Summit...check it out! Here's how to access the All-Access Pass. I practiced Frank Kern's ad techniques on my own summit. I then used the same techniques for my husband's summit about soccer parenting. My next experiment will be to use this technique for my chimney sweeping company. In Frank Kern's course, he shows his students how to run traffic for cold traffic, warm traffic, and hot traffic. Obviously, converting cold traffic is the most c...
Making Environmental Practices A Profitable Part of Your Service Business
November 19, 2020 08:00 - 7 minutes - 6.51 MBA little bit about my back story...the obsession began in 4th grade, which is when my teacher, Miss Johnson, first exposed me to environmentalism. My dad was a water chemist and I grew up to work for a non-profit environmental organization. So, yeah, I like the planet and have for a while. Flash forward to the present day, however, and my company does not have a primary focus on the environment. Do we provide a valuable service? Yes! Are we saving any part of the planet? No. That's abo...
Experiment: Getting My Health Back
November 17, 2020 08:00 - 5 minutes - 4.84 MBIn my younger years I was a college athlete. I was never the most athletic individual, but I still had to get up early to get to the weight room, so that's something. Then, I had a couple of kids and I managed to get back in shape after the second one was born, mostly because I had a very physical job. Now, I've had one more kid and my job mostly involves sitting at the computer and typing. It's time to reel it in. Since we're all pandemic-ing right now I've picked an at-home workout re...
First Experiment Update: Daily Highlight
November 12, 2020 08:00 - 5 minutes - 5.48 MBIf you haven't listened to my previous episode about making a daily highlight, I'll tell you that the reason for doing this experiment is to make each day a little bit special. I wanted something in between checking all the boxes on a to-do list and creating an amazingly large goal that is so far into the future that it is easy to lose motivation. I've started writing daily highlights as a goal for what to accomplish for the day. In the beginning, it was going great because I was selecti...
Experiment #3: Hire a Virtual Assistant
November 10, 2020 08:00 - 7 minutes - 6.65 MBI knew I needed to hire a VA, but I didn't know how to do so. I've had some practice hiring freelancers on Fiverr, which has turned out to be super helpful and remarkably easy to navigate. Also, I expect that this is great practice for hiring the real thing. Hiring freelancers to fill in gaps in my knowledge has been the best thing for my personal use of time. My plan is to hire a VA who can handle my social media presence. I am HORRIBLE at content production, so if I can get help ther...
Let Your Partner Do Things Their Way
November 05, 2020 08:00 - 7 minutes - 7.24 MBEarly in my marriage...before kids...my mother-in-law, who had run a daycare for decades, pointed out that the happiest moms were the ones who let their spouse handle things their own way. Those moms didn't try to micromanage every part of the way their husband did things. They didn't care if their kid was dropped off by dad with mismatching clothes or whatever. She probably didn't know that this little nugget would have such a profound effect on me. It not only made it easier on my marr...
Crime and Punishment Parenting Time Hack
November 03, 2020 08:00 - 4 minutes - 3.8 MBDoes your kid manage to make every punishment fun? Try making your kid clean the bathroom when they mess up. Sure, they might end up liking to clean the bathroom, but hey, at least you get a clean bathroom out of the situation. Also, as an adult, wouldn't it be cool if you loved to clean the bathroom? I call that a win/win. Now, you don't have to always make them clean the bathroom, you can pick something else that you hate to do. Want more resources? Check out my resources page at re...
Experiment #2 Wednesday Night Brain Dump
October 29, 2020 07:00 - 5 minutes - 5.22 MBIf you missed my Time Hacking Summit, you missed out, but I'll share this little time hacking gem with you. Here are the steps: On Wednesday night, sit down with a Google Doc. Write out absolutely everything that needs to be done in personal and professional life. Filter top 5 Turn top 5 into real-life events on the calendar This goes hand-in-hand with experiment number 1, which is selecting highlights for each day of the week. Wednesdays are ideal because they are nestled nicely in t...
Update - My Virtual Receptionist Team
October 27, 2020 07:00 - 5 minutes - 5.42 MBA few weeks ago I hired a virtual receptionist team. I've now gone through the onboarding process, which was SUPER easy, and I'm a week into using their service. Here's a very quick status update. Here's how the onboarding process went: They set up a phone number that receives calls that I forward to them. I sat down and hashed out a bunch of FAQs including information about our area and our industry in general. They sent me a phone script that they wrote out and all I had to do was ed...
Experiment #1: Highlights
October 23, 2020 17:39 - 10 minutes - 9.84 MBWhen things started shutting down due to COVID time got super weird. I was forgetting things, there was no structure to my days or weeks, and my family was feeling the same. My theory was that if I could improve my efficiency and productivity things might get better. I realized that while efficiency and productivity are great, my actual goal was to just make time more memorable and meaningful. In the book, "Make Time" the authors pointed out that there are basically two ways to structure...