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201: Strengthen Your Systems (for Solopreneurs)
Pivot with Jenny Blake
04/28/20 • 33 min
Do your systems spark joy, or are they cluttering your mind and creating bottlenecks in your business? If the flow of your work is a river, where are the eddies? Where is the water flowing, and where are the rapids ahead?
Are you telling yourself unhelpful stories like, “I’m not good at technology?” If so, or even if you love systems (like me!) and want to improve your systems-thinking mindset even further, this episode is for you.
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349: Embracing Doubt and Going for “Good-Enough” Work with Simone Stolzoff
Pivot with Jenny Blake
11/19/23 • 42 min
As relationship expert Ester Perel says, “Too many people bring the best of themselves to work, and bring the leftovers home.” This is one of several notions that sparked today’s guest, Simone Stolzoff, to reconsider his relationship to work. We’re talking about his unique approach to researching his new book, The Good Enough Job, interviewing over 100 primarily white-collar workers, but only featuring nine stories in depth. His goal is that you’ll treat this book—and our conversations—less like a textbook and more like a mirror. “I hope [it] prompts you, as writing it did for me, to examine your own relationship to your job.”
More About Simone: Simone Stolzoff is an independent journalist and consultant from San Francisco. A former design lead at the global innovation firm IDEO, he regularly works with leaders—from the Surgeon General of the United States to the Chief Talent Officer at Google—on how to make the workplace more human-centered. His feature writing on the intersection of labor and Silicon Valley has appeared in The Atlantic, WIRED, The San Francisco Chronicle, and numerous other publications. Today we’re talking about his new book, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work.
🌟 3 Key Takeaways
- If all your needs were met, what would you do with your life? How might that inform the work you do to get paid versus the activities that nourish your spirit?
- Michael Norton at HBR asks millionaires two questions: How happy are you on a scale of 1 to 10? And how much more money would you need to get to a 10 out of 10? Regardless of whether people had $1 or $2 or $5 million, respondents all answered the same way: that they’ll be happier when they have two to three times more money than they have now.
- You may still experience grief even if you’re making a decision that can be a better path for you in the future.
✅ Try This Next
Consider how your identity is shaped by the people you are surrounded by. Find communities that can reinforce an identity of yours beyond the commercial value you contribute to the world, beyond your professional life. What group/s can you join where what you do for work doesn’t matter to them at all? (Think intramural sports or even time outside with pets :)
🔗 Resources Mentioned
- Simone on the web, IG, Twitter, LinkedIn
- Simone’s Substack: Simone Stolzoff
- Articles: NYT—Please Don’t Call My Job a Calling
📚 Books Mentioned
- The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work by Simone Stolzoff
- The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story for Work and Life by Paul Millerd
- Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business
- Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
- Life After College
🎧 Related Episodes
- Pivot x RadReads: Conversations with Khe Hy (Spotify Playlist)
- Pivot: 341: Pivoting From Prestigious Consulting Jobs To The Pathless Path With Paul Millerd
- 321: ChatGPT as Universal Intern and Excellent Advice for Living with Kevin Kelly
- Free Time: 203: 🎢 Riding the Emotional Rollercoaster of Launching with Natalie Lue
- 205: Why Paul Millerd Turned Down a $200K Two-Book Traditional Publishing Deal
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199: In Brilliant Conversation with Steve Morris
Pivot with Jenny Blake
04/26/20 • 58 min
Steve Morris is on a mission to help organizations and their leaders rise to their potential to live and work wholeheartedly, all while making a positive impact on the world. We last spoke in episode 173 on Beautiful Questions for Challenging Times, which many of you gave us great feedback on—thank you!
Today we’re taking a page out of the Co-Active Training Institute’s playbook on Brilliant Conversations, the context for their recent open Zoom call. As CTI defines it, a Brilliant Conversation has the following qualities:
- Larger than how we hold a regular conversation
- Intentional conversation where there is no answer, no destination, no problem to solve
- Resist the temptation to converge; allow ourselves to expand, to explore, and to play
- Place and a space where contributions come from ideas, emotions, intuitive hits or spirit or strategy—we use all of us as a resource and our entire field to contribute.
- Divergent nature, where as so many conversations aim to converge
- Call upon on our “brilliant mind” or collective consciousness. We create a brilliant mind together, rather than a singular mind.
- The process is organic and flowing, much like polishing a brilliant diamond.
- You leave with more questions than you had when you came
- We tap into a larger mystery and unfolding that is playing out around us
- You are attuned to what life then starts offering you back as you walk the world with these questions in your heart, spirit, and mind
I hope you enjoy this unfolding, wandering, improvised, in-the-moment conversation with Steve! Be sure to also check out his free Care Package for COVID-19.
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228: How I Run My Business Without Social Media
Pivot with Jenny Blake
05/27/20 • 28 min
If social media drains you, yet continues to dangle itself as a “sexy should,” this episode is for you. I share my own process—mindset shifts and business focuses—that allow me to keep moving, even without platform-building or posting on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or Tik Tok. From a business perspective, social media is a means to two primary ends: social connections and media (consuming and contributing). I share how I work toward both of those in ways that energize me, even without directing my attention toward the platforms above. This episode ties in to topics covered in 142: Creative Economy Lessons from “The Great Race to Rule Streaming TV” and episode 219: Swimming Upstream—A tale of two platforms. Subscribe to my weekly(ish) curated PivotList newsletter at http://pivotmethod.com/pivotlist » I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Pivot listener survey at http://pivotmethod.com/survey Submit a question or comment for future episodes at http://pivotmethod.com/ask Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/228
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346: Finding Clarity While Navigating Change with Marc Lesser
Pivot with Jenny Blake
10/29/23 • 36 min
“If it’s not a paradox, it’s not true.” So says today’s guest Marc Lesser, long-time mindfulness teacher and business leader. In his latest book, he considers what would happen if Homer Simpson, the Buddha, and Alice in Wonderland walked into a proverbial bar. How would each react to tricky situations? What would be the integrated way forward? We also talk about being asked to leave his previous company, Brush Dance, after fifteen years and how he navigated a new phase of his career as a result.
More About Marc: Marc Lesser is a speaker, facilitator, workshop leader, and executive coach. He is the author of five books, including the Zen of Business Administration, and his latest, Finding Clarity: How Compassionate Accountability Builds Vibrant Relationships, Thriving Workplaces, and Meaningful Lives. Marc’s podcast Zen Bones: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times features interviews, supportive tools for creating more meaningful work, and potent mindfulness practices to develop yourself, influence your organization, and change the world.
🌟 3 Key Takeaways
- Humans have evolved to be anxious and dissatisfied (two distinct purposes of evolution to stay alive and to pass on our genes). During meditation practice, or throughout your day, ask yourself: What does it feel like, in my body, to be satisfied? To not need or want anything?
- “There are even gaps in our efforts to close all these gaps between what we want and what is. Very little goes exactly as we might want it to, and if it ever does, that doesn’t last long.”
- Wholeheartedness as the cure for exhaustion. As David Whyte says, “The antidote to exhaustion isn’t rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.”
✅ Try This Next
The next time you feel anxious or stressed, try flipping your thoughts with these two prompts: “The story I’m telling myself is...” followed by “The story I want to live by...”
🔗 Resources Mentioned
- Marc on the web, IG: @marclesser, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook
- Articles: Stop Giving Away Your Power, Cutting Through Frustration, Surprise Yourself, “The World is Its Own Magic” (a quote by Shunryu Suzuki in Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind)
- TEDxPresidio: Leadership, Attention, Focus
📚 Books Mentioned
- Marc’s books: Finding Clarity, Know Yourself, Forget Yourself and Z.B.A: Zen of Business Administration
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
- Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) by Chaede-Meng Tan
- Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business
- Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
- Life After College
🎧 Related Episodes
- Marc’s podcast: Zen Bones: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
- Pivot: 327: 🐺The Wolf You Feed — On Addiction, Recovery & Codependency — and What We Get Wrong About All Three with Eric Zimmer
- 309: Wayfinding and Developing Identity Agency with Ciela Hartanov
- 307: Pivoting from Google to Starting People Playbook with Tony McGaharan
- Free Time: 001: All-in on Heart-Based Business
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200: Flow
Pivot with Jenny Blake
04/27/20 • 11 min
From my heart to yours, in celebration of episode 200 ❤️ Thank you for listening!
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62: Real Artists Don't Starve with Jeff Goins
Pivot with Jenny Blake
06/04/17 • 50 min
Is it possible to do creative work and make a living? What does it take to thrive, not just survive?
This week I'm thrilled to chat with bestselling author, keynote speaker, and popular blogger Jeff Goins. Listen on as we bust myths behind the starving and solo artist, discuss the return to creative patronage (and how you can become your own best patron), why "exposure gigs" are out and charging for your work is in, and striking the balance between exploring a variety of interests while focusing enough so see meaningful projects through.
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194: Deep Souls with Kathryn Haydon
Pivot with Jenny Blake
04/21/20 • 50 min
Pivot Insider and creativity expert Kathryn Haydon is back to discuss her emerging studies of Deep Souls, building upon her background in education and creativity. As she describes in her article, 7 Strengths of Deep Souls: The Thinkers We Need But Rarely Understand:
"Is Everyone a Deep Soul? The underlying traits that fuel deep soul strengths are universal characteristics of creative thinking. Research shows that nearly all of us have an intense combination of these strengths in early childhood, but they get dulled over time—especially during our school years. Deep souls, however, have resisted this dulling. They can't help it. The intensity of their ability to think differently cannot and will not be stopped.”
Listen in as we discuss the seven strengths, and how to best support and encourage the deep souls around you in life and work.
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256: Saner Arguments—Discourse vs. Debate with Bob Gower
Pivot with Jenny Blake
11/19/20 • 67 min
When discussing fraught, divisive, or high-stakes issues it's so easy to get defensive, triggered, and hurt—sometimes even doing irreparable damage to relationships we hold dear. Communications pro Bob Gower returns to Pivot to help us understand something crucial before we engage in our next argument: is this discourse or a debate?
He outlines the difference between the two in his fantastic piece, Rules of Engagement: 5 Steps to Better Arguments: "In discourse, the goal is to eventually align. Debate is discourse's more flamboyant cousin where people with opposing views intend to remain that way at the end of the conversation.”
In this wandering conversational stroll, we explore what it means to be a “good person,” when "agree to disagree" does and doesn't work, intent versus impact, when not to "poke the bear," releasing the urge to have an opinion on everything (or enter into an argument with every person in the first place), why Bob shut-down several of his social media profiles, and how he boils this all down into his day-to-day practices and intentions.
As longtime listeners know well by now, awkward is the name of the game for subjects as tricky as these! For intrepid listeners, our hope is that by hearing us work through (in real-time) some of these more challenging aspects of tough conversations, it will give you a chance to explore where you stand and what approach you want to take—knowing there isn't always just one "right" answer.
Resources Mentioned:
Bob’s website, LinkedIn, Instagram
Bob's books: Radical Alignment: How to Have Game-Changing Conversations That Will Transform Your Business and Your Life and Agile Business: A Leader’s Guide to Harnessing Complexity
Articles: Rules of Engagement: 5 Steps to Better Arguments, How to Be Wrong Like a Man, From Sex Cult to C-Suite
Podcast: Conspirituality
Book: Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Reddit: Late Stage Capitalism
Related Pivot Podcasts: 204: Radical Alignment: Getting to Hell Yes with Alex & Bob, 240: The Beauty of Conflict with CrisMarie Campbell and Susan Clarke, 148: Penney & Jenny Show—Pivoting From Toxic Situations Toward Self-Entertainment
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338: Is Midlife Messing with Your Enoughness? + Busting Not Enough Scams with Mandy Lehto
Pivot with Jenny Blake
09/03/23 • 51 min
“Legacy isn’t something you leave, it’s something you live.”
These are just some of the wise words from this week’s guest, Mandy Lehto, who shares strategies for letting go of being a hard-o-holic, nexting, navigating mid-career pivots, and busting all manner of other “not enough” scams.
More About Mandy: Mandy Lehto is a speaker, writer and coach with a Doctorate from Cambridge University and in her former career she was a director at a global investment bank. Mandy is the host of Enough, the podcast, a show for recovering perfectionists and overachievers. When Mandy isn't coaching leaders, she's parenting her two musical teenagers with her husband, or walking Herbie, her toy poodle, on Wimbledon Common.
🌟 3 Key Takeaways
- “Legacy isn’t something you leave, it’s something you live.” What if you embraced more of who you are, quirks and all, rather than trying to please or achieve?
- Not-enough scams are false beliefs, that once we play through them enough times, becomes automated. Our mind wants to automate as much as it can.
- Nexting is our compulsion to continue being dazzled by the mirage shimmering on the horizon that the next thing for sure will fill the void inside us.
✅ Try This Next
Pick your inner critic that hogs the mic and name it, even something provocative (Mandy’s is Judgy Janet). And also name your inner champion, the wise voice that’s always rooting for you. Give them fun names so you don’t take this all too seriously :)
📚 Books Mentioned
- From Strength to Strength by Arthur Brooks
- Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business
- Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
- Life After College
🔗 Resources Mentioned
- Mandy on the web, Instagram: @mandylehto, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest
- People: Arthur Brooks
- Articles: Jennifer Lopez article in Vogue
- Video: Mark Hyman’s podcast with Robert Waldinger
🎧 Related Episodes
- Enough, the podcast: 50: Is Middle-Age Messing with your Enoughness?, 36: Busting your not-enough scams, I’m burnt out but I keep pushing
- Pivot: 319: Who’s Sitting in the Board Room of Your Brain? with Adrian Klaphaak, 329: Five Types of People-Pleasers from The Joy of Saying No with Natalie Lue, 282: The Honor Roll Hangover with Melody Wilding, 056: Perfection Detox with Petra Kolber
- Free Time: 180: 📉 Diminishing Returns and the True Costs of Shiny Shoulds, 166: Crashing into Quiet Time
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How many episodes does Pivot with Jenny Blake have?
Pivot with Jenny Blake currently has 400 episodes available.
What topics does Pivot with Jenny Blake cover?
The podcast is about Entrepreneurship, Podcasts, Business and Careers.
What is the most popular episode on Pivot with Jenny Blake?
The episode title '349: Embracing Doubt and Going for “Good-Enough” Work with Simone Stolzoff' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Pivot with Jenny Blake?
The average episode length on Pivot with Jenny Blake is 44 minutes.
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Episodes of Pivot with Jenny Blake are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Pivot with Jenny Blake?
The first episode of Pivot with Jenny Blake was released on Dec 21, 2014.
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