
273: Navigating Time Anxiety, Reducing Inbox Dread, and Creating Ease Loops with Chris Guillebeau
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How can we earn twice as much in half the time, with joy and ease, while serving the highest good? Join Jenny Blake, award-winning author of Free Time: Lose the Busywork and Love Your Busine...

👋 Hello Free Timers! While we’re still not resuming the podcast’s regular publishing schedule, I’m popping into your feed today to share a...

“How do you decide who has the power to judge you? Who are you seeking to please? Is that validation directly in alignment with how you are...

Hi Friends! Although the podcast is still paused, I'm dropping into the feed this week and next with two very special conversations :) Today...

As I round the corner into this ninth year of podcasting and after over 700 episodes, today I’m announcing a pause for both shows. Listen in...

“I don’t get on the airplane—and definitely not the stage—unless all invoices are paid in full.” When my friend and fellow keynote speaker J...

What mysterious ingredients make a book launch successful? What number of first-week and first-year sales truly make a difference to a book’...

Laura Mae Martin has a fascinating role as the Executive Productivity Advisor at Google in the Office of the CEO—one that she helped create...

While the title of this episode, The Framework Framework™ is tongue-in-cheek, I’m pulling this out of the BFF bonus vault because it’s one o...

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...

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....

“I am great in the early, messy days and I know that about myself, so I designed my business around serving others in that stage.” In this c...

“Things today are waaayyyyy better than Things have ever been. Cavemen had sticks. In the Middle ages they had typhoid. We have iPhones and...

If you’re anything like me, you may find conducting online launches for your programs or events exhausting and sometimes even cringe-inducin...

“Whenever you have a choice of what to do, choose the more interesting path." In honor of our upcoming Free Time x Long Game IRL event in Mi...

Before you post anything, ask: Why am I posting this? Is this within my brand guardrails? Even still, you may find yourself in hot water som...

What’s on your business owner to-do list? Here’s a peek at mine, full of items large, small, and existential. This is another crossover from...

“We don’t want our time to be spread thin like peanut butter on a slice of toast. You will have greater impact when you concentrate your eff...

I'm so excited to bring you a listener submission today from Renee Rubin Ross about my summer Voxer coaching pop-up. I've done these two sum...

“It wasn’t about being better than others, it was being ourselves, and true to our ideals in our work.” That’s just one of many gems from to...

Today is a crossover episode from the Pivot podcast celebrating eight lessons learned from over eight years of podcasting. The Free Time pod...

“’Something I always say: at the very least, do it for the plot. Do it for the story. Be bold in life, mostly because not being bold is bori...

”In a society that glorifies titles, visibility, reach, and the grind, taking a beat to opt out of all that isn’t easy,” today’s guest Mel D...

Just because you use pretty words that sound nice doesn’t mean they are effective. Although we know what we do because we do it all the time...

The phrase is emblazoned at WeWorks across the globe: in large neon lights across lobby walls, bedecking laptops via swag stickers, and prin...

“The biggest breakthroughs came from the random side projects that I had no expectation would turn into anything.” Josh Kaufman is a longtim...

Are you running a Franken-Brand? A quick, inexpensive logo here. And then someone a few months later tries to write the brand strategy. And...

Has your business brand become stale, perhaps to the point of being a liability? After a few years, especially with major pivots, you may ru...

What do you do when a business area becomes energetically draining, or the income isn’t flowing? Today’s guest has many intuitive superpower...

How can you get paid for who you are, not just what you do? Today’s guest, Terry Rice, is teaching us his Golden Link Strategy for creating...

“What am I pretending not to know?” There is tremendous power in asking better questions, whether it comes to ideal day design, creating sys...

"For the first time in a decade, I feel free again." That’s how one of my earliest blogging friends, longtime community leader David Spinks,...

“The world doesn’t need another expert.” So says today’s guest, Andrew Davis. Experts rely on hacks, tips, tricks, teaching, preaching, and...

“You do not need to cannibalize your healing for content.” Today, I’m in conversation with longtime blog-turned-IRL friend Nic Antoinette, d...

If you have been in business for any amount of time, then you know the feeling when a launch just isn’t working. The sales are crawling, you...

“I only write books for problems I can’t otherwise solve,” Nir Eyal says. “I don’t write my books for my readers; I write my books for mysel...

Abundance was my word of 2019. I’d love to tell you I meant abundance in the broadest possible sense, appreciating the bounty already in my...

What is your relationship to rest? How about your caretakers’ relationship to rest while you were young? What examples did they set? What at...

“Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to...

You can calm chaos at work, but it starts with a reality check from Charlie Gilkey, delivered with his signature wit and generosity: You mig...

“As long as we settle for thinking inside the brain, we’ll remain bound by the limits of that organ. But when we reach outside it with inten...

I’m excited to bring you this crossover episode with Rose Cox, founder of The HSP Business School and host of The Sensitive CEO Show ****pod...

Intuition is always speaking to you in subtle ways. Are you listening? Intuition isn’t a gift that is only bestowed on a special few; everyo...

“Let’s build ESPN.com for strength, and convince everyone they can lift weights.” With this mission in mind, the first six months of buildin...

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” —Maya Angelou Earlier this summer, I arrived late one day to the podcast...

When we say trusting ourselves, which self are we talking about? Which parts of ourselves can’t be trusted? That’s what we’re exploring toda...

This is a free preview of this month's bonus episode for paying Free Time subscribers. Listen to the full episode (plus 100+ in the archives...

“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 s...

“Nobody’s soul is moved by swag.” So says longtime friendtor of the pod, John Ruhlin, founder of strategic gifting company Giftology. Since...

I used to refer to myself as a hot mess often in the early blogging days circa 2008, until someone scolded me saying it wasn’t a nice way to...

“A book is not about something. A book is for someone.” That’s the mantra that drives AJ Harper’s work, that includes ghostwriting over one...