Jenny Blake - Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business

Advance Praise forFree Time

As Jenny Blake says in Free Time, how we bake is as important as what we make. Having run a multinational organization and now my own Delightfully Tiny Team, I know that Heart-Based Business is possible for organizations of any size, and we need it now more than ever.

Howard Behar, author of The Magic Cup and former president of Starbucks Coffee

This book is a revelationa detailed road map for building a business that fulfills you and serves the world, leaving anxiety and burnout behind. Jenny Blakes advice is both grounded and inspiring, and always connected to life as it is actually lived, at the human scale.

Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote and Four Thousand Weeks

With heart and smarts, Jenny teaches us how to think big, be strategic, and make time for what really matters. Free Time is an essential guide to running a business without running yourself into the ground.

Ximena Vengoechea, author of Listen Like You Mean It

Jenny Blakes phenomenal book Free Time taught me how to rethink my business, creating smart systems to focus on what matters most.

Antonio Neves, author of Stop Living on Autopilot

The go-to manual for running Heart-Based Businesses with ease, joy, and financial abundance.

Farnoosh Torabi, host of the award-winning podcast So Money

It is not about working harder, it is about working right-er. Bigger results, better flow, less effort; welcome to Free Time.

Mike Michalowicz, author of Clockwork, Fix This Next, and Get Different

Wildly, wildly helpful. Free Time is a masterful blend of tools, tips, and frameworks to free your mind, time, and teamagainst a backdrop of pure delight. Imagine the most helpful entrepreneurial workshop youve ever attended, but held in an ice cream store with an infinite array of flavors. Grab a copy for yourself and your business-owning best friends.

Sarah Young, founder of Zing Collaborative and author of Expansive Impact

Hustle is dead. It never worked very well, and now its burning us out. Jenny Blake is back with a generous, helpful, and more caring alternative.

Seth Godin, author of This Is Marketing

Leave it to Jenny to come up with an ultra-simple, seemingly innocent concept and turn it into a profundity with many mind-expanding insights! Free Time successfully balances our brain and heart, rocking between the mental ah-ha! and the deep intuitive mmm-hmmm.

Penney Peirce, author of Frequency, Leap of Perception, and Transparency

Stress is a systems problem. This was one of the more arresting statements Ive read in a business book in a long time. Jenny offers an important vision of entrepreneurship freed from burnout and overload.

Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of A World Without Email and Deep Work

After reading Free Time, I have gone from being semi-retired to relaunching my business. Jennys wisdom shines through, especially as she presents the intersection of systems thinking and heart. I am truly inspired, but now, with a new path forward.

Denny O. Clark, disability workforce inclusion advocate and co-founder of Pinnacle Performance Consulting

A brilliant, insightful read that provides an actionable framework for reimagining the way we work. Jennys depth of knowledge from her corporate and entrepreneurial career provide a fresh perspective on company culture and value-centric time management.

Mori Taheripour, author of Bring Yourself and faculty member at the University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School of Business

Jenny is openhearted, honest, and highly insightful. What makes her particularly unique is her willingness to pull back the curtain on her own business. Free Time is a delightful mix of grounding and spiritual strategies, plus uber-specific and systematic.

Lindsay Pedersen, author of Forging an Ironclad Brand

A vision that knits together the aspirational, spiritual, and operational.

Herb Schaffner, president of Big Fish Media

For any entrepreneur who has felt stressed out or overwhelmedand dare I say, thats most of usFree Time will come as a revelation. Her crystal-clear thinking, smart advice, and rock-solid systems will give your business a powerful boost, while maintaining your joy and sanity.

Dorie Clark, author of The Long Game and executive education faculty at Duke Universitys Fuqua School of Business

A refreshing and informative outlook on how to create change in the world without sacrificing our soul.

Petra Kolber, author of The Perfection Detox

For anyone who wants to keep their team tiny, their business elegant, and their life delightful.

Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit and How to Begin

Most entrepreneurs start their businesses in search of freedom; but to hold on to it, we have to protect our time. Free Time is a treasure trove of inexpensive, efficient ways to liberate ourselves from tasks that drain the life out of usso we can reclaim our peace, freedom, and passion.

Elaine Pofeldt, author of The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business and Tiny Business, Big Money

You may think having more free time is a fantasy; not with this book. This is Jenny Blake at her best, architecting the unique path for you to achieve Free Time. Your business can be freeing and lucrativeJenny will show you how.

Laura Garnett, author of The Genius Habit and Find Your Zone of Genius

This book will help you harness your innate strengths while recognizing how to work in a manner that leads directly to success. Jennys frameworks are so practical and actionable that you will feel inspired by the work you want to do, while learning how to delegate and avoid busywork. All of us want to make certain our time is valued and not wasted. Free Time is your foolproof solution. I need more room on my bookshelf!

Allison Kluger, lecturer of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business

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