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I consider free time a verb—it’s something you can get better at. It’s about looking for small steps you can take today to set your time free far into the future. This is a place for business owners with Delightfully Tiny Teams to explore a guiding inquiry:
How can we earn twice as much in half the time,
with joy and ease,
while serving the highest good?
To that end, I send Time Well Spent round-ups on a weekly(ish) basis on Fridays, and publish two Free Time podcast episodes (guests on Tuesdays, solos on Fridays).
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I have been so delighted by Substack as a reader and writer that I moved all of my activities here:
#PivotList by Jenny Blake that goes with the award-winning book Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One and the 🎧 Pivot podcast.
💌 Time Well Spent (you’re here!) that goes with Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business and the 🎧 Free Time podcast.
Rolling in D🤦🏻♀️h with Jenny Blake: Divine disaster diaries from a breadwinning business owner living in New York City—twice weekly personal essays.
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About the Author: Jenny Blake
Jenny Blake is a podcaster and the author of three award-winning books, including Life After College (2011), Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One (2016) and Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business (2022).
She has two podcasts with over two million downloads combined: in 2015 she launched Pivot with Jenny Blake for navigating change (in the top 1% of podcasts), and in 2021 she added Free Time with Jenny Blake to set your time free through smarter systems (top 2.5%).
While at Google, her corporate alma mater, Jenny co-created a global drop-in coaching program called Career Guru that is still thriving today. Prior to that, she worked as the first employee at a political polling startup in Palo Alto later acquired by YouGov America. During her time at UCLA, she majored in political science and communications, interned at Rock the Vote, and graduated magna cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa honors.
Jenny is a lifelong bookworm and aims to work ~10-20 hours each week, leaving plenty of time to take her angel-in-fur-coat German shepherd Ryder to the park to play with sticks on their favorite grass-covered hill every afternoon. She lives in New York City with her husband Michael, a contemporary fine artist from Beirut, Lebanon.
