1355: The Cost Benefits of Outsourcing with Jenny Blake

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Jenny Blake is the author of the new book Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business. On the show, Farnoosh and Jenny talk about the power of outsourcing, how to easily free up time in your day while still moving closer to your goals and some of the best tech resources for supporting our busy lives. Whether you're an entrepreneur, parent or a determined human living through the stress of 2022 (or all of the above), this episode is for you! More about Jenny: She launched her business in 2011 after five years at Google and two years at polling start-up, YouGov America. She is the author of many books, including: Life After College and Pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	SoMoney is brought to you by CNET, the site that shows how to navigate change all around us.
0:06.5	SoMoney Episode 1355 had a let go of the burden of busy work with Jenny Blake author of the new book
0:12.3	Free Time. You're listening to SoMoney, with award-winning money guru Farnoosh Karabi.
0:19.2	Each day, in a 30-minute dose of financial inspiration from the world's top business minds,
0:24.4	authors, influencers, and Farnoosh yourselves. Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double
0:31.5	coupons? Sorry, you're in the wrong place. Seeking profound ways to live a richer half your life.
0:37.8	Welcome to SoMoney. We have so many inboxes now. For every social media platform, if you're on one
0:45.7	or more of them, for email, for text messages, for LinkedIn, it's like every time a new platform
0:50.9	is invented, we acquire a new inbox. And so I just think this trend over time is peak paying.
0:56.8	Like, none of us are really equipped to handle this much. I call it the crush of the inbound.
1:02.4	Welcome to SoMoney, everybody. I'm Farnoosh Karabi. Our guest today is Jenny Blake. Jenny is a
1:08.4	friend of the show. She's been on a couple of times. She's a multiple best-selling business book,
1:12.9	leadership book author. Her latest is called Free Time. Lose the busy work, love your business.
1:19.7	But even if you don't own a business, even if you just have a lot of overwhelm in your personal
1:24.5	life, in your relationship life, in your life as a parent, this episode covers a lot of ground.
1:30.0	And the advice in her book transcends the workplace. A little bit more about Jenny. She launched
1:35.2	her business after five years at Google and two years at a political polling startup YouGov
1:40.4	America. She's the author of three books, including Life After College, Pivot, the only move that
1:46.0	matters is your next one and now free time. Lose the busy work, love your business. And in our
1:51.6	conversation, Jenny and I talk about some of the systems that she recommends for earning back your
1:56.5	time, how to create an externalized mind and be detached from details, how to eliminate task
2:03.8	bloat with some simple calendar hacks. And if you are a bread-winning woman, if you make more in your
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