72: How to Flip Your Lifestyle So You Can Work Less and Live More (Joceyln Sams)
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Ever wished you could work less so you could live more? After an incident with her son's childcare provider, Jocelyn Sams realized she was giving too much control of her life to other people. She and her husband Shane decided to give up teaching and create an online business so they could have the flexibility and freedom they needed to spend more time with their kids - all while working only 10-15 hours/week. In this episode Jocelyn shares exactly how they did it.
Today's guest is Jocelyn Sams, part of the dynamic duo behind FlippedLifestyle.com. Jocelyn and her husband Shane are former school teachers. After years of bad bosses, job losses, and frustration at work, they started an online business. That business made it possible to quit their jobs, spend more time with family and earn millions in passive income online - all while working only 10-15 hours per week! Now, they are helping other families do the same by connecting with people through their Flipped Lifestyle podcast, website and inside their Flip Your Life community. Sign up for Jocelyn's free 168-hour Time Management Challenge.
Nuggets of Wisdom from Joceyln:
"We can't let other people run our lives anymore."
"He said we were going to start an online business, we were going to build passive income streams and we were going to quit our jobs. I thought he was crazy at the time, but little did I know, we would do just that."
"When you do as you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
Some of Joceyln's Favorite Things:
Personal habit: "I calendar everything."
Easy meal: Chicken Lettuce Wraps (P.F. Changs copycat)
Favorite kitchen gadget: Cuisinart Electric Teakettle
Joceyln's Favorite Books: Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
Best advice received: "Take action and make things happen."
Joceyln's Happiness Formula:
"Take control of my time + prioritize the things that are really important in life + helping others find the same type of freedom we have found."
A Challenge from Joceyln:
"Put everything on a calendar, starting with your non-negotiables like work, sleep, eating dinner, eating lunch.... Once you get those things on there, move on to the things you want to do - things like working on a business, spending more time with your children - whatever it is you want to do, calendar those in after your non-negotiables. This will help you see where you're really spending time versus where you WANT to spend time."
Resources
168-hour Time Management Challenge
Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income
Chicken Lettuce Wraps (P.F. Changs copycat)
Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
Vibrant Happy Women Facebook Group
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, episode number 72. |
| 0:05.0 | We have to do something different. |
| 0:07.3 | We can't let other people run our lives anymore. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, stories of vibrant women living happy lives. |
| 0:17.8 | And now your host, Jen Ryday. |
| 0:33.2 | Hey, friends, Jen Ryday here. And welcome to Vibrant Happy Women. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:39.2 | Super duper glad. Well, the Vibrant Happy Women Academy is open for enrollment this week and it will close on July 30th for a few months. We are doing some really amazing things. If you feel like you |
| 0:47.0 | want to get better at creating a self-care routine and you want to add meditation to that mix, |
| 0:53.9 | then you'll want to be in with us before we |
| 0:56.1 | close it. We are starting the calm in the chaos meditation challenge. It's a 10-day |
| 1:03.3 | challenge right there in the academy and I'm creating the meditations. It's one of my favorite |
| 1:08.3 | things to do. And those of you who have followed me for a while, |
| 1:12.0 | I guess, you think they're pretty good, which great. I'm so glad. Meditation is a big part of my life. |
| 1:17.7 | It's how I stay grounded. It's how I forgive. It's how I let go of self-pity. It's how I think |
| 1:24.8 | positive thoughts about people. I have to go back to that calm and centered place again and |
| 1:29.1 | again. And I'm going to teach you my strategies in this 10-day calm in the chaos guided meditation |
| 1:36.6 | challenge. I would love to have you join us. And again, that will be in the Vibrant Happy Women |
| 1:41.2 | Academy. Enrollment is closing on July 30th. The Academy is the place |
| 1:47.2 | for you if you want to get really centered. You want to be more patient and calm and happy. |
| 1:55.0 | And I'm essentially sharing all the things that have helped me with my six kids, with a business, |
| 2:00.4 | with some special challenges |
| 2:02.7 | in our family, how I've learned to essentially be happy most of the time. Now, don't get me wrong, |
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