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Free Time with Jenny BlakeAsking Better Questions and Designing Your Ideal Day with Claire Giovino“What am I pretending not to know?” There is tremendous power in asking better questions, whether it comes to ideal day design, creating systems in your business, or teaching someone how to help tame your inboxes.Today’s conversation with Claire Giovino covers all that ground and more. We talk about what qualities make email so vexing for many business owners, how to reduce fear and friction when delegating replies, and the importance of asking better questions—of yourself and in your business.More About Claire: After an extensive career in academia, Claire Giovino began optimizi...
2023-11-2438 min
The Better QuestionsHow Stored Trauma Shows Up In Daily Interactions - Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald"We have our most profound healing relationally and we are most profoundly triggered relationally — trauma both needs to be spoken and feels impossible to speak." Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald is a trauma researcher and author of Unbroken: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong, which you can preorder now. After spending over a decade researching and lecturing on grief and resilience, MC now helps her coaching clients alchemize their trauma responses into new tools of strength. We examine questions like: - What is the actual definition of trauma? - Where do t...
2023-02-281h 18The Better QuestionsHow To Navigate Criticism - Marguerite Imbert"Every book you see on the shelf is the product of a writer saying, 'That's good enough.'" Without any formal training, Marguerite Imbert became a chef, a writer for The Michelin Guide and author of the Amazon bestseller, Not A Cookbook. She teaches recurring writing workshops that focus on therapeutic writing and how to become your own project manager. Together we answer listener questions about overcoming psychological roadblocks involved in creating and sharing your work, including: - What does a creative life look like as a sober individual? - How...
2023-02-0432 minThe Better QuestionsHow Your Questions Shape Your Behavior - Dr. Marilee Adams"What we typically think of as thoughts are actually answers to the questions we ask ourselves.” Dr. Marilee Adams is the author of "Change Your Questions, Change Your Life" and founder of the Inquiry Institute, which teaches participants how to create the futures they want using resources like the Choice Map. What stood out to you in this episode? Tag @thebetterquestions and share your thoughts! This podcast is sponsored by CreativeMoneyCoaching.com. Book your free call here and never worry about money again.
2023-01-2229 minThe Better QuestionsHow To Make Decisions Without Regret - Benjamin Russack"Making a decision can be way more important than the result of the decision." Benjamin Russack is a marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and host of the podcast "Look, Just Tell Me What To Do." We begin with an honest examination of what it's actually like to be a therapist, then shift into discussing listener questions, including: - How can I make decisions without regretting them later? - What does it mean to be secure person? - Is manifestation actually possible? Do you have a question you'd...
2022-12-2336 minThe Better QuestionsHow To Stop Resisting Change - Jess Janz (Part Two)"Where is your life on auto-pilot? A lot of times auto-pilot is protecting us from looking at the things we need to change." Jess Janz is a writer and artist who calls herself a gatherer of words and questions. In Part Two of our conversation, we look at why naming what you want can feel uncomfortable, how to stop intellectualizing feelings, and how to overcome a resistance to change. Make sure you don't miss Part One of my conversation with Jess (How To Become A Full-Time Creative) by skipping back one episode.
2022-10-2727 minThe Better QuestionsHow To Become A Full-Time Creative - Jess Janz (Part One)"The times that I feel not creative are usually because I am away from myself, or because I'm avoiding speaking or admitting the truth to myself." Jess Janz is a writer and artist who calls herself a gatherer of words and questions. In Part One of our conversation, we examine the intersection between creativity and finances, and how monetizing your art can help or hurt your creativity. We also discuss when to share what you've created publicly (versus keep it to yourself), the difference between sharing with strangers versus people you know, and...
2022-10-2632 min
Look, Just Tell Me What To Do.MON€¥!! £OOK, WHY I$ IT $O IMPORTANT??What can money reveal about your personal relationships? Why is it taboo to openly discuss how much money we make? Today we speak with Claire Giovino, manager and host of the podcast "The Better Questions". Claire will also discuss the scarcity vs abundance mindset, unhealthy thought constructs around money as well as financial mistakes that we should learn to avoid.
How you can reach Claire:
Claire@thebetterquestions.com
Claire's podcast:
https://thebetterquestions.com
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2022-10-0244 minThe Better QuestionsHow To Navigate Ambivalent Relationships - Vanessa Van Edwards"Ambivalence is more dangerous and worse for your health and relationships than toxicity. The research is very clear on this — it takes so much more energy to be in ambivalent relationships." Vanessa Van Edwards is the author of the bestselling book Captivate, which has been translated into 17 languages and examines how people tick by decoding their body language and behavior patterns. Her new book Cues studies what makes a person charismatic. Vanessa is also the founder of Science of People, a human behavior research lab that studies the way people operate. The findings from her re...
2022-09-0131 minThe Better QuestionsHow To Build A Life That Combines Multiple Interests - Laura Maya"Ideas themselves are an act of artistic expression — you don't have to follow through on all of them." Laura Maya is the author of Tell Them My Name, a travel memoir that questions the stressors of "normal" life by viewing different cultures through new eyes. A self-described "multipotentialite," Laura has rejected the idea that you need one passion or purpose to define you, and has instead built a life by combining multiple careers, countries, cultures and creative pursuits. In today's episode, we discuss: Why Laura has gotten married 42 times What traveling reveals about...
2022-07-0141 minThe Better QuestionsHow To Examine Your Relationship With Money - Paula Pant"Look around: all of your clutter used to be money; all of your money used to be time." Money is one of those topics (like health) that affects each of us, whether or not we're interested. However, it can be a particularly loaded topic due to all the emotions attached to our financial stories, so uncovering our ingrained beliefs around money can be both enlightening and overwhelming: “I can either do what I love, or make money.” “I have to work really hard to make money.” “Money is the root of all evil.” “I have no control over w...
2022-03-1541 minThe Better QuestionsHow To Stop Second-Guessing Yourself - Jackie EndresI like to think of this podcast as a place for critical thinkers and deep feelers — Jackie Endres is the definition of both. In today's episode, Jackie joins me in the studio to examine an array of questions submitted by listeners, including: How much does your nature/nurture experience limit your capacity to change? (3:12 min) How can I stop caring about what other people think? (16:12 min) Should you stay in a relationship after infidelity has occurred? (26:03 min) How can I stop second-guessing myself? (35:18 min) Wh...
2022-01-0451 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Easily Set Boundaries - Sam Lamott (Part Two)"It's okay to withhold trust and make it be something earned; it's also beautiful to give somebody a ton of trust from the start and let them have something that they can lose." — Sam Lamott is the host of the How To Human podcast (which has reached over a million listeners) where today he interviews guests like Brené Brown on how to acquire the psychological skills needed to be a functioning, thriving adult. Sam also co-wrote the New York Times bestseller, "Some Assembly Required" with his mother, author Anne Lamott.
2021-10-0631 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Speak To Your Inner Critic - Sam Lamott (Part One)"I have this critic inside that is so abusive... but what's its motivation? It doesn't want me to get attacked from the outside so it's willing to attack me from the inside. That's when it's time to invite the critic to the table and say, 'I know you want me to make great work, but you can't speak to me that way — you're in my house.'" Sam Lamott describes himself as a “single dad, college drop-out, ex-meth head who came out of a ten-year bender at the age of 22 with severe clinical depression, a two-year-old, and zero...
2021-10-0430 min
The Better QuestionsHow Friendships Change In Adulthood - Kat Vellos"Learn how to enjoy your own company. Then when you meet other people, you'll come from this rich, deep place of having already experienced the beauty of your own friendship because you gave it to yourself first." Kat Vellos is the author of “We Should Get Together: The Secret To Cultivating Better Friendships.” Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes and TEDx. Kat's book was born from six years of in-depth research about how friendships change in adulthood and how they’ve changed over the past few decades, especially with the arriva...
2021-05-0542 min
This Organized Life: Decluttering Tips for Moms, Entrepreneurs and Professional Organizersep 211: Best of 2020Hi Friends! Today we are taking a walk down memory lane as we recap our most popular episodes of 2020. We looked at which ones were the most popular from you based on downloads, and which were my personal favorites. One thing is for certain, we’ve had some incredible guests this year on TOL, and I’m not going to lie, it was hard for me to choose my top five.As I sat down and listened to hours of content, what I found super interesting was that the one common theme that kept recurring from our guests is somet...
2020-12-2857 minThis Organized Life: Decluttering Tips for Moms, Entrepreneurs and Professional Organizersep 211: Best of 2020Hi Friends! Today we are taking a walk down memory lane as we recap our most popular episodes of 2020. We looked at which ones were the most popular from you based on downloads, and which were my personal favorites. One thing is for certain, we’ve had some incredible guests this year on TOL, and I’m not going to lie, it was hard for me to choose my top five.
As I sat down and listened to hours of content, what I found super interesting was that the one common theme that kept recurring from our guest...
2020-12-2456 min
Working Women's Wealth154 From teacher to successful business owner in 11 months with Claire GiovinoDrowning in emails? Your inbox just another to-do list that you’re not getting around to tackling? Recognising that many people felt the same way, teacher turned businesswoman, Claire Giovino founded InboxDone, a company of Remote Inbox Managers who do it all for you. If you are looking for a way to commercialise what YOU know, listen in on my conversation with Claire about her journey to six figures in 11 months. There’s no reason that you can’t do it too!
2020-10-1433 min
The Better QuestionsHow Your Self-Image Shapes Your Life - Dr. Kyra Bobinet"Everything we do or don’t do can be explained by whether it serves our self-image. We spend most of our energy promoting the image we want to project, maintaining the image we’ve already built, or hiding the image we don’t want others to see." Dr. Kyra Bobinet is an expert in behavior change and design thinking. After earning her Masters at Harvard and her medical degree at UCSF, Kyra kept hearing the same question from her patients: “If I know what I need to do, why am I not doing it?” She made it her...
2020-10-0544 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Find Common Ground With Anyone - Dr. Bina PatelDr. Bina Patel is an expert in conflict resolution. She conducts leadership training for the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, and corporations worldwide. We talk about how to spot toxic leadership in the workplace, why some people will never change their mind, and how to ask questions that connect rather than divide. If you’re enjoying these conversations, tap the 5 Stars, or share this episode with someone who you think would enjoy listening. That’s how the show will continue to grow! As always, you can submit your own questions, topic ideas or guest recommendations at TheB...
2020-10-0232 min
The Entrepreneur Way1593: Your Inbox Done for You to Increase Your Productivity with Claire Giovino Founder and Owner of In Box DoneClaire Giovino spent years optimizing inboxes for 7-figure clients who are leaders in their industries. Her background in higher education and counseling allowed her to represent clients with a superior level of communication and empathy. In 2017, she launched InboxDone and grew the business to multiple six-figures in 11 months with zero start-up capital. She currently manages a growing team of remote inbox managers and upwards of 3000+ emails a day — all while traveling the world! “I would say treating it like an experiment and keeping it fun and leading with curiosity if you are thinking of getting into it or j...
2020-06-1400 minThis Organized Life: Decluttering Tips for Moms, Entrepreneurs and Professional Organizersep 182 - Streamline your Inbox with Claire GiovinoHi Friends! Today on This ORGANIZED Life I am joined by Claire Giovino, founder of Inbox Done; A company that helps people reclaim control of their inbox. Claire currently manages a growing team of remote inbox managers and upwards of 3000+ emails a day. I invited Claire to come on the show today to talk about: The psychology behind compulsively checking email and how to break ingrained habits. How email disrupts deep focus and reduces productivity Why email is often the only thing successful professionals don’t outsource, which takes time away from the things that truly matter most (product creation, par...
2020-06-0350 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Connect Your Present Self and Future Self - Tracy DeLuca“So often, we design our lives unintentionally, or by default. Since our future self is still a stranger to us, still a theoretical self, the design process acts as the bridge between the action you take today and the future you want.” Tracy DeLuca is the founder of How Might We Design, a consultancy that helps companies and individuals design their dream businesses and ideal lives. She has taught at Stanford’s Institute of Design, Pixar, FitBit and TED. We talk about how to take back control of your days (especially in the mi...
2020-04-2735 min
The Ideas Lab PodcastCut yourself free from your email inbox with Claire GiovinoJust imagine that you never had to look at your email inbox, read or reply to any emails ever again. How much free time would you have? What could you use that time for in your business or in your personal life? That is a question I explored with Claire Giovino in today’s episode of the ideas lab podcast, because she has set up a business to do exactly this for her clients. She launched Inboxdone in 2017, and has grown the business to multiple six figures in just 11 months with zero startup capital. She currently manages a...
2020-04-2230 min
Frenzied To Financial FreedomF2F 62 Start a Business by Solving a Big Challenge with Claire GiovinoClaire Giovino’s passion for travel led her on a search for the perfect work-from-anywhere business. Learn how Claire’s background in higher education and counseling allowed her to uncover new ideas resulting in new clients and then serve them with a superior level of communication and empathy. In 2017, she launched InboxDone and grew the business to six-figures in 11 months with zero start-up capital. Claire’s wisdom and calm-but-mighty execution of an idea will inspire you!
2020-04-0100 min
Learning with LeslieHow to Free Yourself From the Stress of EmailIs managing your email for your business a never-ending struggle? In this interview with Yaro Starak and Claire Giovino, you will discover strategies to better manage your inbox.
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2020-02-1050 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Combine Your Skills Into a Life Statement - Dr. Michelle Chappel"We become our most powerful when we combine our passions and skills, allow them to commingle and play with each other. Because I think we're so fractured... when we blend our different strengths into a life statement for ourselves, we become more whole." After earning her Ph.D in Cognitive Psychology at Princeton and being voted "Most Inspirational Professor" while teaching cognition and creativity, Dr. Michelle Chappel left it all to pursue a career in music. She was called crazy by everyone around her, but she went on to win 17 Billboard awards with her songs topping international...
2020-02-0630 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Discern Between Distractions & Opportunities - Gary Vaynerchuk“I’m not crippled by being wrong... I’m only right 4 out of 10 times, but that’s more than enough to be successful." Gary Vaynerchuk is a 5-time New York Times bestselling author and one of the earliest investors in companies including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo and Uber. Gary immigrated to the US in 1978 and grew up in a studio apartment in Queens with his eight family members. After graduating college, Gary took over his father’s liquor store in 1998 and grew the business from $3 million/year to $60 million/year in just 5 years. To...
2019-12-3110 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Speak Up Without Diluting Your Message - Chuck Klosterman“When you realize you’re no longer doing things to achieve something else later, then this question suddenly looks at you very aggressively: “This is your life, why is this your life?" Chuck Klosterman is a best-selling author and journalist whose work focuses on popular culture in America. For years he wrote “The Ethicist” column for the New York Times Magazine and has also written for GQ, Esquire, The Guardian, The Washington Post and many more. We talk about how to share your opinions and ideas without diluting your message (especially in our technolog...
2019-11-0139 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Feel At Home Anywhere - Dr. Sharon Eve“We operate with a lot of irrational beliefs... Our feelings don’t come from the things that happen, they come from the beliefs about the things that happen." Dr. Sharon Eve is a psychologist who has worked with individuals and couples for the past 40 years. Her work focuses on integrating your past experience into your present life, identifying patterns in our thinking and underlying structures in our emotional responses. Dr. Eve’s acclaimed workshops have helped hundreds of participants master topics like “Developing listening skills”, “Overcoming Depression” and “Deepening Communication.” This episode is a little different. I sta...
2019-09-2326 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Own And Use Your Voice - Reema Zaman“The only people who ever say ‘Who do you think you are?' are projecting their own insecurity. Their sense of self has become reliant on you keeping yourself small. Where do we wish to place our loyalty — on other people’s comfort levels, or on our greater potential?" Reema Zaman is the author of the critically-acclaimed memoir I Am Yours. Her writing has been featured in The Guardian, The New York Times, Forbes and Vogue, and her memoir is currently being adapted into a screenplay. In I Am Yours, Reema writes about how she reclaims her...
2019-08-2332 minThe Better QuestionsHow To Turn Any Idea Into A Reality - Dale Backus“The decision to create or build something rarely backfires." After deciding college was not for him, Dale Backus decided to enter the Doritos Super Bowl contest. The winner of the contest would have a Doritos commercial aired right after the kick off and also win a large cash prize. Dale (and his friend) went on to not only win the first year, but a second year as well. The money they won funded their now multi-million-dollar company, SmallHD. We hear success stories like Dale’s all the time and tend to se...
2019-07-3135 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Use Rejection To Your Advantage - Sarah Curts“Rejection still has an impact on me, but you always have the choice to open up rather than shrink. When people reject you, get bigger." Sarah Curts was (and still is) a massage therapist, but in 2009 she had what she calls a dramatic psychic awakening. Today she runs a company called Body Insights, which allows her to incorporate her massage therapy experience into her readings by actively shifting stagnant energy on both physical and emotional levels. She is able to name the hangups individuals aren’t able to see clearly on their own. Sar...
2019-07-0830 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Change Your Life By Designing Your Day - Yaro Starak“What you focus on in the moment becomes who you are in the future… but until you find direction, every path looks interesting." Yaro Starak is blogger and podcaster who decided after graduating college that he would never work for someone else or have a real job again. Since the age of 19, Yaro has been running his own online businesses that have gone on to produce seven figures. He has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Foundr and interviewed in close to 300 different podcasts. The average lifespan of a blog is reportedly 3-4 months, whereas Yaro’s blog continue...
2019-06-0144 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Deepen Your Connections With Radical Honesty - Max Collins“Are we risking taking our relationships to a messy place, a vulnerable place where you don't know what you're about to say?" Bio Max Collins is an artist and photographer who specializes in large-scale murals. He first began pasting his street murals illegally, driven by the idea that art should be a democratic process where everyone is free to share and nurture the growth of a city through artistic expression. His work can be found in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland— but especially in his hometown of Buffalo, NY. Max...
2019-05-0927 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Become The Expert On Your Own Life - Dr. Denise Ernst“We try to fix things that are not ours to fix… when I am here in service of someone else, it is not about me and my solutions." — Dr. Denise Ernst Bio Dr. Denise Ernst is a psychologist whose research and teaching centers around a counseling method called Motivational Interviewing. This method helps people find the internal motivation they need to change their behavior, and thus their life. It is a practical, empathetic, strengths-based approach that takes into consideration how difficult it can be to make life changes. Highlights In this...
2019-04-2528 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Transform Your Conversations - Jonathan Fields“Because we are terrified of being outcasts and not belonging, we tend to sacrifice doing the things that fill us up in the name of being accepted." — Jonathan Fields (@jonathanfields) Jonathan is a bestselling author and founder of The Good Life Project, which has become one of the highest-ranked podcasts in the world. His podcast and books have been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Forbes, and many others. Highlights 1) The one thing to do to transform your conversations 2) How to do fewer things better 3) How...
2019-04-1133 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Question Your Fears - Karen Thompson Walker"How can we tell the difference between fears worth listening to, and all the others?" Bio Karen Thompson Walker is a New York Times bestselling author. She wrote her first book The Age of Miracles while she was still working as an editor in NY on the subway to and from work. The Age of Miracles has been translated into 27 languages, and was named one of the best books of the year by People, O: The Oprah Magazine, and Financial Times, among others. Her new book The Dreamers illuminates the mundane moments of life through the lens o...
2019-04-0331 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Be More Effective Than Efficient - Chris Guillebeau"Effectiveness is far more important than efficiency... If you're doing the right things, you can afford to be a little inefficient." Bio Chris Guillebeau is a New York Times bestselling author of several books, including The Art of Non-Conformity, The $100 Startup, The Happiness of Pursuit, Born for This, and Side Hustle. By age 35, Chris had traveled to every country in the world (193 to be exact). Since then, he’s launched a daily podcast called Side Hustle School (downloaded 2 million times a month) and leads the incredible World Domination Summit in Portland, Oregon every summer.
2019-04-0330 min
The Better QuestionsHow To Show Up When You Feel Like Hiding - Seth Godin"I feel like hiding every single day. The thing that counters it is generosity. If you can envision that you’re doing this work for someone else, then only a selfish person would choose to hide." — Seth Godin Bio Seth Godin (@sethgodin) is a best-selling author, speaker and entrepreneur. His daily blog is one of most popular in the world and his 18 books (including The Dip, Linchpin, Purple Cow and Tribes) have all been bestsellers. Highlights In this episode, we talk about how to make a commitment to yourself (and keep it...
2019-03-3017 min
The Yaro PodcastClaire Giovino: From Zero To Six Figures, Behind The Scenes Of The First Year Of InboxDone.comToday’s podcast is a little bit different. My guest is Claire Giovino, who is my partner and co-founder in our startup company InboxDone.com. Claire is also the voice behind the intro to this podcast, so you might recognize her immediately :-). Claire and I have worked together for several years, as she was part of my […]
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2019-01-2741 minPodcasts ArchivesClaire Giovino: From Zero To Six Figures, Behind The Scenes Of The First Year Of InboxDone.comToday’s podcast is a little bit different. My guest is Claire Giovino, who is my partner and co-founder in our startup company InboxDone.com. Claire is also the voice behind the intro to this podcast, so you might recognize her immediately :-). Claire and I have worked together for several years, as she was part of my […]The post Claire Giovino: From Zero To Six Figures, Behind The Scenes Of The First Year Of InboxDone.com appeared first on Yaro.Blog.
2019-01-2741 min
The Yaro PodcastClaire Giovino: From Zero To Six Figures, Behind The Scenes Of The First Year Of InboxDone.comClaire Giovino is my partner and cofounder for InboxDone.com. In this podcast, she explains how we went from 0 to 6 figures in a year. Click to learn more..
2019-01-2741 min