Jenny Blake – Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business | Marketing with Magic and Serendipity

Jenny Blake is an author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping business owners move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams.

Jenny has previously been a guest on episode 83, where we spoke about finding balance between systems and spiritual surrender. 

This episode is a powerful exploration of running a business guided by intuition, serendipity and magic.

We discuss: 

• Overcoming fear-based thinking as an entrepreneur 
• High net freedom and high net growth over high net worth 
• What happened when Jenny gave herself permission to not earn any money 
• Betting it all on your creative flow: how Jenny sold a house to fund her book 
• “Stop swimming in the sea of shiny shoulds”
• Building your business intuition
• Jenny’s process for making business decisions
• The “sacred third solution”
• Making space for nonlinear breakthroughs
• The power of shifting from criticism to gratitude 
• Bringing gratitude into business
• Marketing a book with magic and serendipity 
• Jenny’s experience outsourcing social media 
• Running a business as a super introvert 
• Releasing micro guilt from not responding to people 
• For entrepreneurs who don’t enjoy managing other people: how to build your delightfully tiny team 
• The balance between trusting the flow of life no matter what and having a steady flow of money in your business 

Resources: 

• Ksenia Brief on Jenny Blake’s Free Time Podcast
• Paul Selig
• How To Surrender To Your Soul’s Purpose And Watch Your Influence Grow — Michael Beckwith on Mindvalley Podcast
• Sqaured Away – Military spouses who are your personal assistant
• Stephanie Huston

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Books mentioned: 

• Outrageous Openness by Tosha Silver 
• Martha Beck
• The Intuitive Way: The Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness by Penney Peirce
• Why Talking Is Not Enough: Eight Loving Actions That Will Transform Your Marriage by Susan Page
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle
• Radically Content: Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World by Jamie Varon

Related episodes: 

• 83 Jenny Blake: Systems, Spiritual Surrender, Membership Sites & Social Media Rebellion
• 130 Boyd Varty: Following The Track Of Your Life and Creative Process in The Digital Age

Connect with Jenny Blake: 

• Itsfreetime.com
• @jennyblakenyc on Instagram

Connect with Ksenia: 

• kseniabrief.com
• Ksenia’s email list
• Instagram @ksenia.brief
• YouTube Ksenia Brief
• TikTok @ksenia.brief
• Subscribe, rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts
• Follow the podcast on Spotify

About Jenny Blake:

Jenny Blake is an author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping business owners move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third book, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, launches March 22, 2022. Jenny’s previous book, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, won the Axiom award for best business book in the careers category in 2016. 

Celebrating a decade of running her own business after five years at Google, Jenny is an international keynote speaker, and licenses her Pivot Programs to clients like Google and CHANEL.

Jenny hosts two podcasts with over one million downloads combined: Free Time for Heart-Based Business owners, and Pivot with Jenny Blake to help others navigate change. After working at a Silicon Valley startup, then at Google for five years in coaching and career development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 to launch her own business. 

Jenny loves yoga and buys too many books. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and angel-in-fur-coat German shepherd. Learn more and take the Free Time quiz at ItsFreeTime.com.

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