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Hot Mess-Terpiece Theatre

The 4-Hour Workweek

Hot Mess-Terpiece Theatre

Jolenta Greenberg

After Shows, Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The ladies try to achieve the ultimate work/life balance with Tim Ferriss’s bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich.We love hearing from you! Reach out at 419-869-BOOK; email us at bythebook@panoply.fm; Tweet us @jolentag, @kristenmeinzer, @bythebookpod; and follow us on Instagram @jolenta_g, @k10meinzer, @bythebookpod. And if you haven't already, please join our By The Book Facebook community! https://www.facebook.com/groups/116407428966900/?source_id=475465442806687Also be sure to check out our website, created by the great Cameron, here:https://www.bythebook.panoply.fm/For tickets to our upcoming live show in New York, click here: https://thepit-nyc.secure.force.com/ticket/#sections_a0F1I000004osgLUAQ And huge thanks to this week's sponsors:Care/of, who delivers vitamins right to your door in personalized, easy-to-remember daily packs – perfect for a busy on-the-go lifestyle. For 25% off your first month of personalized care/of vitamins, visit takecareof.com and enter promo code BYTHEBOOKQuip, the electric toothbrush that’s a fraction of the cost of bulkier brushes — while still packing just the right amount of vibrations to help clean your teeth. Quip starts at just $25, and if you go to getquip.com/bythebook right now, you’ll get your first refill pack free with a Quip electric toothbrush. Sun Basket, the meal kit that makes it easy and convenient to cook healthy, delicious meals at home—no matter how much experience you have in the kitchen. Go to sunbasket.com/bythebook today to learn more and get $35 off your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Before we get started, we wanted to let you know that for the second year in a row,

0:05.7

we'll be performing a live show as part of the She Makes Me Laugh Comedy Festival here in New York.

0:13.8

It's happening Sunday, October 14th at 5 p.m. at the People's Improv Theater.

0:19.2

For tickets, go to the pit-nyc.com slash calendar or you can click on the link in the show notes.

0:28.5

A portion of the ticket sales will go to support Safe Horizon, the largest non-profit victim

0:34.1

services agency in the US. Again, this is happening Sunday, October 14th at the People's Improv

0:40.9

Theater in New York. We hope to see you there.

0:44.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:47.3

Hey, Kristen. Yeah, Jolenta. You've mentioned more than once on this show that you are a workaholic.

0:52.9

I love to work. I love to work. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.

0:57.8

I love to work. I love to work. Kristen always goes. Love it.

1:01.2

But what if I told you your life could be more interesting and more fulfilling by only working

1:07.9

four hours a week? First of all, I couldn't even afford to do that, and second of all, I don't

1:13.2

want to do that. Well, that is too bad because you are obviously about to do it. And so am I.

1:18.8

With the help of a little book called the Four Hour Workweek. Don't want to do it.

1:23.2

No, stop it. I didn't even get to say the Because part. Oh, because.

1:27.5

I'm Jolenta Greenberg. Oh, God. And I'm Kristen Mineser. And this is by the book.

1:54.0

By the book.

1:58.9

In each episode of By the Book, we choose a different self-help book to live by follow it to the

2:03.6

letter and weigh in on whether or not it actually changed our lives. Today, our book is The Four Hour

2:09.8

Workweek. Escape 9-5. Live anywhere and join the new rich by Tim Ferris.

2:14.9

Tim Ferris is an author and entrepreneur who grew up in the Hamptons, went to a prestigious private

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