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Free Time Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business Time is not money. Time is life force. Your time is far more precious than money. It is your presence, your memories, your quality of life. As a business owner, you are already paying a risk and pressure tax. For many, growth fueled by added stress is not worth the trade-off. You have an urge to simplify and streamline instead. Ask yourself:
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Are you consistently doing the work that you and only you can do? Or are you burdened by busy work, the bottleneck blocking your company’s profit and potential?
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Free Time is not about working as little as possible. Nor is it about creating a lifestyle
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business purely for one’s own gain. It is about creating a life-giving business energizing every single person who is a part of it, from the owner to team members, to clients
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and community. Free Time is about making small investments now to create greater optionality in the future.
Jenny Blake Jenny Blake helps forward-thinking organizations and individuals map what’s next. She is an international keynote speaker and author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One, winner of the Axiom Best Business Books award in the careers category.
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Jenny hosts two podcasts with over one million downloads combined: Free Time for heart-based business owners and Pivot with Jenny Blake for navigating change.
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After two years as the first employee at a political polling start-up in Silicon Valley, followed by five years at Google in coaching, training, and career development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 to launch her business. Originally from San Francisco, Jenny loves dogs, yoga, and buys too many books. She lives with her husband and their “angel in fur coat” German Shepherd.
Stress is a systems problem. This was one of the more arresting statements I’ve read in a business book in a long time. Jenny offers an important vision of entrepreneurship freed from burnout and overload. — CA L NEWPO RT , NE W YORK T I ME S BE ST SE L L I NG AU T H OR OF A WO R L D W I T H O U T E MA I L AN D D E E P WO RK
Hustle is dead. It never worked very well, and now it’s burning us out. Jenny Blake is back with a generous, helpful and
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It is not about working harder, it is about working “right-er.” Bigger results, better flow, less effort; welcome to Free Time. — MI K E MI CH A L OW I CZ , AU T H OR OF C L OC K WO R K , FI X T H I S NE X T A N D G E T D IF F E RE N T
As Jenny Blake says in Free Time, ‘how we bake is as important as what we make.’ Having run a multinational organization and now my own Delightfully Tiny Team, I know that heart-based business is possible for organizations of any size, and we need it now more than ever. — HOWARD BE H A R, AU T H OR OF ‘ T H E MAG I C CU P ’ A ND FORME R P RE SI D E NT OF STAR B U C K S CO F F E E
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