Jenny Blake: Systems, Spiritual Surrender, Membership Sites & Social Media Rebellion
Top 3 Lessons for Heart-Based Business with Former Google Career Coach
Founder of Pivot Method Jenny Blake is a Google Career coach who became an entrepreneur that helps forward-thinking individuals and organizations like CHANEL and Microsoft map what’s next.
Jenny has had a profound impact on my life and entrepreneurial journey after we met at a women’s retreat in New Jersey a few years ago. Jenny has a unique ability to combine spiritual surrender with being the queen of systems and optimized revenue streams.
I have learned a ton in this interview and know you will enjoy it, too!
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Topics we cover:
- How to find harmony between systems and spiritual surrender in business
- How to simplify and systematize your revenue streams
- The positive side of people unsubscribing from your email list (similar to “Reverse scale” mentioned by Shawn Askinosie)
- Why it’s important to measure opportunities by revenue AND what feels easeful and joyful to deliver
- How Jenny uses time blocking to create mental space
- How she transitioned from using her name for her business to “The Pivot Method” to help scale her offering
- Creating a membership site as an alternative to course launch model
- How she runs her membership community, “Momentum”
- Can your business be successful without social media? (Hint: yes! Jenny shares her alternative approach)
- What role abundance mindset plays on her entrepreneurial path
- Tips for running a business if you’re an introverted, highly sensitive person
- How to create content with built-in listening
- How to create one piece of content and repurpose it for multiple platforms
Jenny Blake’s top 3 pieces of advice for entrepreneurs:
1. Drop the attachment to having answers
2. Have built-in listening in your content
3. Commit to entrepreneurship and know you can overcome any problems
Resources:
- Conscious Social Media Program
- Outrageous Openness Letting the Divine Take the Lead by Tosha Silver
- The Heart Bowl
- Free-up Founder Time: Free mini-course to create ease and flow, and heart-based business-building
- Kajabi online course and membership site platform
- Be a Free Range Human—Busting Business Myths with Marianne Cantwell on Pivot Podcast with Jenny Blake
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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About Jenny Blake:
Jenny Blake is the founder of Pivot Method, a growth strategy company that helps forward-thinking individuals and organizations map what’s next.
She is an international keynote speaker, and the author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One, which won the Axiom Best Business Books award in the careers category. Jenny also hosts the popular Pivot Podcast, which CNBC listed among 6 podcasts to make you smarter about your career, and Entrepreneur selected as one of the top 20 female-hosted business podcasts.
After two years at a technology start-up in Silicon Valley, followed by five years at Google in Training and Career Development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 where she has been running her own consulting business in the years since, helping innovative organizations like Google, Microsoft, and CHANEL incorporate the Pivot Method into their global career development and manager training programs.
Her motto: if change is the only constant, let’s get better at it. Today you can find Jenny at PivotMethod.com and on her Pivot Podcast.
Quotes by Jenny Blake:
- “It’s important to geek out on systems and then release it. Trust that the perfect next step will be shown.”
- “You might think “only if I have X number of people on my list [or Instagram], I can do certain things”. My list has had no bearing on the amount of incredible, priceless, surprising, serendipitous things and people that have come my way.”
- “Create great work and people will be naturally drawn to it and want to share it.”
- “I don’t obsess over numbers. I’m more focused on the quality of people and opportunities that come my way. That’s never been a straight line correlation. Anything can happen at any time.”
- “What if my business could grow without me?”
- “Create a [social media] platform around what you most love to do and what you’re best at.”
- “Instead of creating content all the time, create one piece of content, then repurpose and repackage it.”
- “Drop the attachment to having answers. Take guesses, experiment and see what starts to work.”
- “The more you can surrender, trust and find a place in your heart that knows it’s going to be okay, the more you will enjoy the process of creating.”
- “The best pivots start from what is working.”
- “Serendipity is my dating app.”
