Jenny Blake: Pivot Your Life (It’s no longer optional)
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
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🗓️ 5 September 2016
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible to optimize your career for money and meaning simultaneously? Or does one always take the lead?
We explore this and more in today's conversation with author, career and business strategist and international speaker Jenny Blake.
Jenny helps people organize their brains, move beyond burnout and build sustainable, dynamic careers they love. Her latest book, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One dives deep into how to methodically make your next career move by doubling down on what is already working. With two years at a technology start-up as the first employee, five years at Google on the Training and Career Development teams, and over five years of running her own business, Jenny combines her love of technology with her superpower of simplifying complexity to help clients through big transitions — often to pivot their career or business.
We talk through her own personal pivots that lead her to leave the clout of Google, write her first book, find herself in NYC with a dwindling bank account and what she did about it when confusion, uncertainty and fear crept in. She even turns the tables on me to share some behind the scenes pivoting happening in Good Life Project.
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| 0:00.0 | As a kid, like I said, I loved playing business, but in this moment I realized I don't want |
| 0:09.0 | to be CEO of some giant company someday. |
| 0:12.0 | That's not my aspiration. |
| 0:13.7 | And that was starting to be the first moment that I said there can be a different path. |
| 0:21.2 | So I first met today's guest, Jenny Blake, back when she was working at, ooh, a little |
| 0:26.3 | company called Google. |
| 0:27.3 | And she had the job that so many people thought, that's what I aspire to. |
| 0:32.2 | That's how I know I've made it. |
| 0:34.2 | Shortly after I met her, she left that job to go out on her own and really start her own |
| 0:38.9 | business, become an author, coach, speaker. |
| 0:42.6 | And it was a huge move. |
| 0:44.6 | And she has a new book out now called Pivot. |
| 0:47.1 | And it's really kind of fascinating because what she's doing is reframing the idea of making |
| 0:51.8 | these sometimes fairly substantial career shifts. |
| 0:55.3 | And saying, you know what, this is not actually a big disruptive thing that happens every |
| 0:59.6 | once in a long while in a career anymore. |
| 1:01.9 | This is your career. |
| 1:02.9 | It's a constant evolution on her words, a constant pivot. |
| 1:06.6 | So we spent some time deconstructing this idea and had to navigate it, but also really |
| 1:10.8 | looking at her personal story, looking at her journey. |
| 1:14.5 | And what kind of gave her the fortitude to make some really big moves and how that turned |
| 1:19.6 | into a process for her? |
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