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The Rev Craft Biz PodcastLeveraging Your Best YOU For Your Business - With Maghan Haggerty#046 - Maghan Haggerty, who is a Gallup Clifton Strengths coach, takes us through how to interpret any types of personality testing in order to leverage the best you for your best business, and she also points out that our unique combinations of skills is what makes entrepreneurs a richly talented group of people. Show Notes Website - maghanhaggerty.comProductive Flourishing - https://www.productiveflourishing.com/Clifton Strengths Coach - https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/253676/how-cliftonstrengths-works.aspxMarcus Buckingham - https://en.wi...
2025-03-261h 21
Free Time with Jenny Blake🦧 What to Do When You Lose Your Biggest Client (Part Two)What do you do when you lose your biggest client? If you haven’t already, listen to part one for some answers—264: What to Do When You Lose Your Biggest Client— and save these links for a rainy day :)The next time you’re going through something challenging in your business, remember: you are not alone! I hope you find comfort through the voices of some of my dearest friends, former podcast guests, and favorite Heart-Based Business owners who are speaking from experience about how they've handled situations just like this.If you want the full sco...
2024-02-0634 min
Free Time with Jenny Blake🦧 What to Do When You Lose Your Biggest Client (Part One)What do you do when you lose your biggest client? That was my Spotify search query for podcast episodes on this topic in the summer of 2023. It came up empty—there was not a single podcast episode on this topic. Of course not. Who wants to admit out loud and in their archives that they've lost their biggest client? In the past, I probably wouldn't have fessed up to this either. Except for the fact that now it's what I wish I could see, read, and hear. Today’s compilation episode is here to fix that!If you...
2024-02-0238 min
Free Time with Jenny BlakeMinimizing the Social Overhead of Managing Teams with Charlie GilkeyYou can calm chaos at work, but it starts with a reality check from Charlie Gilkey, delivered with his signature wit and generosity: You might not have a team problem, you have a you problem.It’s time to stop catering to air sandwiches, Crisco watermelons, broken printers, ghost plans, and other corrosive practices, and start implementing Charlie’s finely-tuned, road-tested systems instead.Today we’re talking about his new book Team Habits: How Small Actions Lead to Extraordinary Results. We also talk about scaling from maker to manager (and sometimes back again), accounting for those...
2023-10-2456 min
Free Time with Jenny BlakeThe Burdensome B’s—Four Red Flags Signaling it’s Time to Make The Big (Delegation) Leap“I’m at my wit's end.” That was the conclusion of a text message that broke my heart a little bit. when a friend and fellow business owner showed it to me the other day.Their team member sent it to them, expressing exasperation at the state of unfinished tasks in the business where they were waiting on an answer or action from the owner.Seeing it bummed me out for both of them because it was neither person’s fault per se (though we can all take responsibility, of course). As I say in Free Tim...
2023-09-2928 min
Free Time with Jenny Blake🎉 20+ Free Time Permission Slips for Small Business Owners (Part 1)Hey, hey, Free Timers, we have arrived at episode 200! 🎉 To celebrate, I’m giving you the ultimate permission slip compilation (two in fact). At the end of every episode, I ask our guests to give fellow business owners a permission slip to do something differently or drop something altogether. 📝 Permission Slips
🎧 123: “Pricing is Branding” — Anti-Time Management with Richie Norton — 📝 Rethink projects with too many steps or obstacles toward creating the lifestyle you want. How can you bake your dream into the process from day one?
🎧 188: Energy Capacity Planning, Pricing, and Finding Resonant Masterminds with Kelli Thompson —📝 Drop a...
2023-06-2327 min
Free Time with Jenny BlakeWhat Book Marketing has to do with Glass Blowing: Reflecting on Free Time’s 1-Year Bookiversary 🥂🎉 This week marks the one-year bookiversary of Free Time making its way into the world, and the two-year podiversary of launching this show. 🥂 As I reach these milestones, a question looms: Has the book writing, launching, and marketing been a success, as I would define it?In today’s solo, let’s ride the mindset rollercoaster of launching something new into the world, and I share specific one-year sales stats for those who are curious—similar to episode 096: Book Sales Stats—One Month Post-Launch 🎉 that I know many of you appreciated :) But first: there's an important detour that we need to tak...
2023-03-2445 min
Good Life ProjectHow to Finish What Matters & Get More Free Time | Spotlight ConvoHow many times have you said yes to something, started it, gotten halfway through, then either been distracted, run out of time, energy, money, ideas, motivation, or all the above? And, just kind of walk away, leaving something that could’ve been amazing unfinished? Never getting the chance to back in the I DID THAT glow of accomplishment and tell everyone around you, “hey, I DID that!” And, yes, I’m raising my hand here.And, what about being able to do what’s important without it also taking over your life, and leaving you living reactively...
2023-02-201h 22
Pivot with Jenny BlakePivoting from Google to Launching People Playbook with Tony McGaharanLeaving the cool shade of a corporate tree with a great salary and benefits to start a business is never easy. But making the call mere months before a global pandemic hits seems on the surface to be ill-timed—to say the least. Or perhaps cosmic. Don’t feel bad for Tony McGaharan, who is a pro at finding the silver lining in any situation. Suddenly the market for his budding business went from Belfast to global through virtual events, and his business is thriving because of it.In this conversation, we cover how he knew...
2023-01-2947 min
Free Time with Jenny BlakeDo Less — On Entropic Bloat & Business Haircuts ✂️As I share in Free Time, nowhere is entropy more visually evident than in older homes or ones in nature. I remember staying at a cabin in the Catskills, where I could see right before my eyes all forms of plants and animals encroaching on the once-pristine house. Without upkeep, a dead tree teetered precariously toward the roof, weeds started overtaking the grass, spiders made themselves comfortable in bathroom corners, giant carpenter ants traversed the kitchen counters, and we spotted a garden snake crawling into the crevices of the outdoor hot tub.Entropy, defined as a...
2023-01-0624 min
Productive Flourishing PodcastSpotify Live: Do we really all have the same 24 hours as Beyoncé? (Bonus Episode)Key Takeaways:[6:20] We are in a media environment that is saturated with messages about how much more we could be doing.[7:27] Charlie, Jenny, and Tara define capacity and what that means to them.[10:51] What are some of the things that can make working in a team overwhelming?[14:17] When our world gets too big, we tend to get disengagement and boredom.[15:38] The difference between rigidity and rigor in goal setting.[17:09] Why is it important to bring in conversation about rigidity versus rigor as it relates to capacity and...
2022-12-1556 min
Free Time with Jenny BlakeExploring Time, Money, and Energy Capacity with Tara McMullin and Charlie Gilkey (Replay)Do we really all have the same 24 hours as Beyoncé? That’s our tongue-in-cheek title, pulled from Tara McMullin’s new book, What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting, for a recent Spotify Live conversation.In this replay, Charlie Gilkey, Tara McMullin, and I explore the nuances of calculating time, money, and energy capacity so that we don’t tip into boredom or burnout. We share strategies for saying no, and discuss the costs of saying yes when we shouldn’t.One caveat: pardon our less-than-perfect audio quality! Because we’re cal...
2022-11-0858 min
What WorksEP 401: Do we really all have the same 24 hours?Do we really have the same 24 hours as Beyoncé? Yes. And no. And… it’s complicated.There is a never-ending stream of advice about how to make the most of your time. And honestly? Most of it is just bullsh*t. That’s because there is no way to hack yourself or your work to produce more in less time if your emotions are fried, your energy is drained, or you’re dealing with the effects chronic illness.This conversation—originally broadcast as a Spotify Live—is an unflinching look at what it means to consider our...
2022-11-081h 02
Free Time with Jenny Blake🎙 Join us TODAY for a Live Taping on Spotify! With Tara McMullin and Charlie GilkeyDo we really all have the same 24 hours as Beyoncé?Join us for a Spotify Live conversation on Thursday, October 20 at 1pm ET as we explore time, money, and energy capacity. Register here to join us »Your hosts:
Tara McMullin, host of the What Works podcast and author of What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting
Charlie Gilkey, host of the Productive Flourishing podcast and author of Start Finishing: How to Go From Idea to Done, and
Jenny Blake, host of the Free Ti...
2022-10-2001 min
The Creative Pivot - Actionable Inspiration for MidlifeFive Projects Too Many? Grow Your Heart Centered Business SeriesKristina Brummer and Heather Johnston are back with the second episode in the Grow Your Heart Centered Business Series. This episode Heather introduces the Five Projects Rule, a concept discussed by Charlie Gilkey, the founder of Productive Flourishing, in his book Start Finishing. This concept or rule was discovered on Jenny Blake's podcast Free Time.This episode came on the heels of our first episode. We started talking about time management and taking on too many projects. We hit record once we realized that it was a perfect conversation for all of the heart-centered leaders a...
2022-09-3028 min
Free Time with Jenny BlakeQuarterly Planning with Charlie Gilkey“I’m always stumping quarterly planning for business owners. It’s the Goldilocks horizon for strategy execution, project scoping, and team alignment.” Today I’m talking with Charlie Gilkey about why the quarter is an ideal time unit for strategic planning, how to apply his stepwise Momentum process to mapping projects and goals, and striking the balance between visioning and planning. Charlie also had an interesting response on why tracking metrics matters . . . and it’s not what you might think.More About Charlie: Charlie Gilkey helps people start finishing the stuff that matters. He's the founder...
2022-05-1042 min
Productive Flourishing PodcastJenny Blake: Create More Free Time (Episode 240)In this episode, Jenny Blake joins Charlie on the show to talk about free time and how systems can help us create more of it in our busy lives. The real goal of effective systems is to help us do our best work, free up our energy, and pursue what matters to us. Jenny and Charlie discuss what keeps people from building the right systems, why our ideas of hard work play into the systems we build, and how to start creating more free time in our businesses and personal lives. If you want more free time, this episode...
2022-03-311h 05
Pivot with Jenny BlakeStart Finishing: Pricing, Projects, and Momentum Planning with Charlie GilkeySometimes the Audio Gods just do not shine upon you, and that’s what happened during this super fun experimental interview with my brilliant friend Charlie Gilkey! My mic is “hot” (aka way too loud), but I hope you’ll forgive me and listen anyway, as Charlie shares SO. MUCH. GOLD!! We even go into “extreme coaching” mode together at the end, as we discuss topics from his new book, Start Finishing: How to Go From Idea to Done.A bit more backstory: we piloted a book club within Momentum for the first time this month, where MoMo’ers wer...
2019-09-291h 36
Productive Flourishing PodcastJenny Blake: Embracing Change (Episode 72)Many of us get stuck in life, because for some reason or the other we’re resistant to change. Being resistant to change is like being resistant to gravity, we might be able to counter some the effects of it, but it’s always going to be there. There are some amazing gifts that come from embracing change, and Jenny Blake joins me to jam about the ways to embrace change rather than to resist it. Ready? Let’s do this! Key Takeaways:[0:51] Thank you to our sponsor, SaneBox.com...
2016-03-0756 min