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August 28, 2022289: Stealing Wi-Fi as Career Strategy with Jenny Wood
Believe it or not, you can get mentorship from anyone you’d like by employing a strategy today’s guest calls “stealing Wi-Fi.” According to today's guest, Jenny Wood, the creator of Own Your Career at Google, you can get mentorship from anyone you like by paying closer attention to what they do and how they do it.

In this episode, The Jenny-s dig into multiple elements of career strategy, including navigating plateaus, sidelining imposter syndrome, and course-correcting when you screw up.

More about Jenny Wood: Jenny is mom to Ari, aged six, and Noa, aged almost five, and the Director of Americas Media Operations at Google. She is currently working on her first book. Learn more at ItsJennyWood.com.

🌟3 Key Takeaways:
When you’re asking for someone to sponsor you (or provide any other kind of mentorship), make it specific and time-bound, and don’t forget to include what you can provide to them as well.
When at a plateau: Consider making a lateral move. Sometimes a little zig-zag can help you push through stagnation.
Keep a failure resume, and celebrate those failures as reminders of when you take risks and make mistakes; remember that being vulnerable and sharing those stories allows others to empathize and connect with you.
✅Next Action: Ask for what you want. Your manager is busy, they don’t remember what you’re working on, what you need, or even what types of project excite you most. Remind them. (For pointers on this, check out Jenny’s LinkedIn Learning course, Figuring Out Your Next Move).

📘Books Mentioned:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing Your Career
Untamed: Stop Please, Start Living
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
🔗Resources Mentioned:
Jenny on the web, LinkedIn
Jenny’s Articles: Serendipity: 1, Spreadsheet: 0, Did Your Company Just Go Through A Reorg? Here's How to Thrive In It, The Rule of 3
David Moldower of Bookitect
🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
Bethanie Baynes’ podcast, Working Wife, Happy Life!
Three Points Podcast with Tony McGarahan
275: Charisma and Cues with Vanessa Van Edwards
Dorie Clark episodes: 184: Reinventing You + Pivoting in the Crisis with Dorie Clark, 066: Create Multiple Streams of Income with Dorie Clark, 058: Monetize Your Ideas with Dorie Clark, 033: Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following with Dorie Clark
Free Time episodes 103: How to Land a Literary Agent and Publisher with David Moldawer (Part One) and 105: “Don’t write the wrong book!” with David Moldawer (Part Two)

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51 min
August 21, 2022288: Embracing Uncertainty — Mic Flip with Adrian Klaphaak
When did you discover what you wanted to do with your life? I knew from a young age that I wanted to connect and communicate with people, and later refined that into a lot of people, helping them feel a sense of relief when navigating change, with plenty of practical tools to circumvent unnecessary confusion.
Learning to trust myself, and trusting that there is always something new emerging even when I’m in a dip, has been a lifelong process. My guest today, Adrian Klaphaak, returns to the show by interviewing me about career drivers and ongoing challenges. Be sure to also check out our earlier conversation in episode 283: What Are You Here to Do? How to Find a Path That Fits.
Do you ever feel that you are meant to be doing something else? Adrian has a special offer for Pivoters: If you aren’t sure what career path is right for you, check out his signature Career Pathfinder coaching program. It has helped thousands of people find their calling and use it to take their career to the next level. Visit apaththatfits.com/pivot and use the promo code PIVOT when you enroll. Happy pathfinding!
More about Adrian: Adrian Klaphaak is a coach, purpose guide, entrepreneur, therapist, and founder of A Path That Fits Career and Life Coaching. His coaching approach is holistic—a constant balance between getting results and a quest for meaning and fulfillment. He describes himself as “a deep seeker with a constant itch to make things happen.”

🌟 Key Takeaways:
You don’t need to settle on a single title or elevator pitch when asked “What do you do?” Share whatever you’re most excited to talk about at the moment.
Try to emphasize curiosity when you’re in the thick of uncertainty, even when you are getting impatient. Trust that solutions will emerge, but often take longer than your mind might think they should.
📘Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

🔗Resources Mentioned:
Adrian on the web, Yelp, Facebook, LinkedIn
Course: Career Pathfinder
Video: Finding Your Calling by a Path the Fits
Voxer Coaching Pilot
🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
047: Live Fiercely, Study Deeply . . . While Earning a Living — with Jonathan Fields
067: What Does Your Soul Know? Flow and Transparency with Penney Peirce
283: What Are You Here to Do? How to Find a Path That Fits with Adrian Klaphaak
Free Time 028: When the Financial Tides Recede

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42 min
August 14, 2022287: Solving Pivot Puzzles with A.J. Jacobs
Do you like puzzles? If you do, you’re far from alone. An estimated 50 million people do crosswords every day and more than 450 million Rubik’s Cubes have been sold. People like puzzles. In his new book, today’s guest, A.J. Jacobs, quotes Maki Kaji—the late godfather of Sudoku, who said puzzles are a journey, articulated with just two punctuation marks:
? → !
“Kaji said the key is to embrace the middle part, the arrow, the journey. Don’t be obsessed with endings and perfection.” Today, we’re talking about that arrow, the journeys we find ourselves on, and the different ways puzzles can come up in our lives.
More About A.J.: A.J. Jacobs is an author, journalist, lecturer, and human guinea pig. He has written four New York Times bestsellers that combine memoir, science, humor, and a dash of self-help. Today we’re talking about his latest book, The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life.

🌟3 Key Takeaways:
While outsourcing is critical to growing your business and freeing up more of your time, consider keeping research on your own desk. No one else will pick up exactly the same key ideas, details, or inspiration that you will.
Many of our ideas go nowhere, and that’s fine because that 1% that sticks can be huge. If an idea keeps popping up for you weeks after having it, pay attention to it.
Don’t keep up with the details of every news story. It’s bad for you, and for the world. It keeps you from seeing the big picture of how you can help the world.
Wear overalls.
✅Next Action: Try to go a week without gossiping. Some gossip can be good and valuable, but most of it isn’t helpful. Long term, it won’t make you feel good, so try not saying any negative things about people for a week and see how you feel.

📘Books Mentioned:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
🔗Resources Mentioned:
A.J. Jacobs on the web, Twitter: @ajjacobs, Facebook, LinkedIn
Article: My Outsourced Life
World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship
Spelling Bee
Duolingo
🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
061: Virtual Freedom: Overcome Superhero Syndrome and Start Outsourcing with Chris Ducker
207:How to Develop Your Book and Big Idea (Part 1)
208: Your Book and Big Idea (Part 2)
273: On Powerful Questions and New Neural Pathways
Arm Chair Expert: A.J. Jacobs (on puzzles and living biblically)
Making Sense: #110—The Change Artist, A Conversation with A.J. Jacobs
Tell Me Something I Don’t Know: Farming Without Sun or Soil and Eating Manna From Heaven: TMSIDK Episode 35
Free Time: 113: Pivoting from Breather to Practice While Setting Better Boundaries with Julien Smith

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1 hr 15 min
August 07, 2022286: Slow-Cooked vs. Pressure Cooker
Are you living in a pressure cooker? One of my all-time favorite meals is two-day slow-cooked ribs from a fancy restaurant, where the meat is so soft it falls right off the bone. (Sorry to my vegetarian and vegan friends who might not appreciate today's metaphor!)
I have an Instant Pot at home — a pressure cooker that produces a meal in mere minutes. Take stock about the work you’re doing and the path you’re taking: are you unnecessarily “cooking” your projects and goals with high-pressure settings, sacrificing quality in the process?
Today’s episode is about making sure that you’re spending time where you get the most joy and value, and being intentional about what you throw in the pressure cooker to complete quickly (and overcome perfectionism in the process).

🌟3 Key Takeaways:
Put your time and care into the projects that matter most, and try to be patient with yourself; as the Zen saying goes, “Nature doesn’t rush a flower.”
The glass could be half full or half empty, but is it the right container for what you want to drink? Don’t get so caught up in the details that you forget to ask if you’re going in the right direction.
Keep what Penney Peirce calls “an idea pantry” full of insights and nuggets that you can rummage through when you need to get something shipped quickly.
✅Next Action: Start a file or folder where you can collect ideas, inspirations, snippets, quotes and anything else you might want to revisit. When you need to create quickly, you’ll have a ready-made place to start thinking.

📘Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

🔗Resources Mentioned: Instant Pot

🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
056: Perfection Detox with Petra Kolber
073: What’s More Important to You Than Perfection?
112: Whose Voice is in Your Head? Perfection Detox Round 2 with Petra Kolber
160: 11 Ways to Maintain Momentum for Solopreneurs,
246: What is your job today? (You Decide)
Free Time 034: Organizing Research and Ideas - Notion Walkthrough #1

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18 min
July 24, 2022285: Cultivating Influence with Jon Levy
“I don’t want fans, I want friends.” This is one of many approaches to relationship-building that I admire in this week’s guest, super-connector Jon Levy. I learned that when Jon texts with “free for dinner tonight?” you cancel all plans and say YES. Both times I did, I ended up at one of his influencer dinners with famous actors, public figures, pro athletes, and C-suite executives.

Jon’s secret? Designing experiences to facilitate a shared sense of awe, connection, and accomplishment—with job titles revealed only at the end of the evening. Today we’re talking about these principles and more behind his bestselling book, You’re Invited: The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did!

More about Jon: Jon Levy is a behavioral scientist and New York Times bestselling author known for his work in trust, human connection, belonging, and influence. More than a decade ago, Jon founded The Influencers Dinner, a secret dining experience for industry leaders ranging from Nobel laureates, Olympians, celebrities, and executives, to artists and musicians. Guests cook dinner together, but can’t discuss their career or give their last name, and once seated to eat, they reveal who they are. Over time, these dinners developed into a community. With thousands of members, Influencers is the largest community of its type worldwide.

🌟3 Key Takeaways:
Say yes to invites. If you want higher levels of creativity, new relationships, new ideas—it’s going to happen outside of your standard routines.
Novelty is critical if you want to be noticed. What are you doing that only you do? Make that one of the key things you talk about and promote.
Instead of asking why you’re not on social media, or forcing yourself into it, ask “Why should I be on social media? If you don’t have a good reason, don’t stress about it!
✅Next Action: What next group invitation can you send? How can you create a memorable experience around it?

📘Books Mentioned:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
The 2 AM Principle
You’re Invited: The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence
🔗Resources Mentioned:
Jon on the web, Instagram: @jonlevytlb, Twitter: @JonLevyTLB
New York Times feature: Want to Meet Influential New Yorkers? Invite Them to Dinner
Video: Ted Talk: What Makes Us Influential?, Fortune: The Science of Adventure
Resources: Upwork, Notion
TV Show: Old Enough
Reddit.com
🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
228: How I Run My Business Without Social Media
263: Conduct a Relationship Audit with Ximena Vengoechea

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47 min
July 10, 2022284: The Art of Horse Whispering and Trust-Building with Grant Golliher
“Trust is not just a feeling. It’s also an action, and it’s a process that happens over time. Be slow to take, and quick to give.” These are just some of the gems that Grant Golliher has picked up in three decades of horse whispering, training, and teaching the art of trust-building. Today we’re talking about what horses can teach us about reading people and intuition.
More About Grant: Grant Golliher is a horseman and the proprietor of the historic Diamond Cross Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he teaches corporate executives, coaches, celebrities, and families from all around the world the skills necessary to tame troubled horses and become leaders and better people. Today we’re talking about his new book, Think Like a Horse: Lessons in Life, Leadership, and Empathy from an Unconventional Cowboy.

🌟3 Key Takeaways:
Honor the smallest try; congratulate the smallest progress.
We like to work hard for people we respect. We need to lead by example and be the type of leader that people are excited to be loyal to.
An argument can be made that we’re so afraid of abuse that we’ve stopped disciplining. There is an important place in work and life for firmness and boundaries.
📘Books Mentioned:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
Grant’s books: Think Like a Horse: Lessons in Life, Leadership, and Empathy from an Unconventional Cowboy, Horses Never Lie: The Heart of Passive Leadership
🔗Resources Mentioned:
Grant on the web, Instagram: @grantgolliher, @diamondcrossranch
Articles: Wyoming Honor Farm: Inmate/Wild-Horse Program
Video: The Superpower in You, How to Train Your Dog to Leave It with No Command
🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
140: What Horse Whispering and Entrepreneurship Have in Common with Eileen Kenney
Tim Ferriss interviewing Susan Garrett — Master Dog (and Human) Trainer (#200)
Susan Garrett’s Shape by Dog Podcast

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48 min
June 26, 2022283: What Are You Here to Do? How to Find a Path That Fits with Adrian Klaphaak
Instead of asking, “What should I do?” Ask yourself, “Who am I?” Today you’ll hear from someone who has been deeply influential in my life and career: my very first coach and longtime friendtor, Adrian Klaphaak, founder of A Path That Fits.
More about Adrian: Adrian Klaphaak is a coach, purpose guide, entrepreneur, therapist, and founder of A Path That Fits Career and Life Coaching. His coaching approach is holistic—a constant balance between getting results and a quest for meaning and fulfillment. He describes himself as “a deep seeker with a constant itch to make things happen.”

🌟3 Key Takeaways:
Getting discouraged is a part of figuring out what you should be doing with your life. The ‘dip’ is normal, and the way out is to explore your gifts and interests.
You can be laid off from a job, but you can’t be laid off from your purpose. Knowing your purpose is the ultimate protection.
Name the parts of you that feel the most strongly about the decisions you are making, it will make it easier to explore how you are really feeling.
✅Next Action: Be yourself. There are so many expectations for us to be a certain way, but we all have our own genius and unique way. The path to a fulfilling life is being authentic, using your gifts, and doing what you love to do.

📘Books Mentioned:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection
🔗Resources Mentioned:
Adrian on the web, Yelp, Facebook, LinkedIn
Course: Career Pathfinder
Articles: New York Times: The World’s a Mess. So They’ve Stopped Saving For Tomorrow, How to Discover Your Purpose
Video: Finding Your Calling by a Path the Fits
🎧Related Podcast Episodes:
177: Pivot Method as 4-Stage Coaching Framework [Workshop Replay]
47: Live Fiercely, Study Deeply . . . While Earning a Living — with Jonathan Fields
67: What Does Your Soul Know? Flow and Transparency with Penney Peirce
16: Stacy Sims on Somatics: Why How You Sit Might Cause Stress
72: BREATHE. From Burned-Out Bodybuilder to Yin Strength Trainer with Anders Varner
89: Turning Pain Into Purpose: Blind Adventurer Erik Weihenmayer on Kayaking the Grand Canyon, Climbing Everest and Building No Barriers

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49 min
June 12, 2022282: The Honor Roll Hangover with Melody Wilding
Believe it or not, your emotions are a competitive advantage: 90 percent of top performers are also high in emotional intelligence, and 92 percent of executives rate soft skills like the ability to manage emotions as a critical priority in today’s business environment.
That said, if you relate to the idea of being a Sensitive Striver, you may still be suffering from what Melody Wilding calls The Honor Roll Hangover—a tricky trifecta of perfectionism, people-pleasing, and overfunctioning. Listen in to this conversation for the antidote.
More About Melody: Melody Wilding, LMSW is an executive coach, human behavior expert, and author of Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work. She is a human behavior expert and executive coach and teaches graduate-level human behavior and psychology at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College in New York.

🌟 3 Key Takeaways:
Leave margin in your life for serendipity and fluctuations. Don’t be afraid to book yourself to only 80% capacity.
Protect your time and energy by protecting your calendar. Sensitive strivers need the time to switch gears between activities.
Trusting yourself is the antidote to perfectionism, overfunctioning, and people-pleasing. Depend on your intuition more.
📝 Melody’s Permission List:
I hereby grant myself complete and unlimited permission to:
In order to:
Specifically, I have permission to feel:
I have permission to be:
Specifically I have permission to push when:
I have permission to rest when:
I have permission to start:
I have permission to try:
I have permission to stop:
I have permission to let go:
Giving myself full permission and wholeheartedly believing in myself is important right now because:
I trust myself to:
📘 Books Mentioned:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work
Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
🔗 Resources Mentioned:
Melody on the web | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram
Video: Celebrating one year of Trust Yourself
Articles: Medium Article on Trust Yourself, Forbes on Being an Overfunctioner at Work
Related Podcast Episodes:
The Penney & Jenny Show (12 episodes)
277: Expansive Impact and Spacious Scheduling with Sarah Young
172: Self-Care for Empaths and HSPs with Sarah Santacroce
148: Penney & Jenny Show—Pivoting From Toxic Situations Toward Self-Entertainment
112: Whose Voice is in Your Head? Perfection Detox Round Two with Petra Kolber
73: What's more important to you than perfection? With Jenny Blake
56: Perfection Detox with Petra Kolber
78: How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t — With Andrea Owen

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44 min
May 29, 2022281: Feeling Impostery? Become a Qualified Curator Instead of an End-All-Be-All Expert
Self-doubt isn’t all bad. It means you’re stretching outside of your comfort zone, that you’re willing to learn, and that you aim to surround yourself with people who challenge you. So if you often grapple with imposter syndrome (or as I like to call it, an Imposter Monster sitting beside you), you are not alone. If you sometimes fall into the trap of feeling like you’re not good enough or ready yet to tackle your biggest creative aspirations, here’s a new perspective to consider.

🌟 3 Key Takeaways:
There is a big difference between acting like you are the ultimate expert, and being a curious and informed curator of ideas and resources.
One of the biggest gifts you can give others is curating people, and allowing them to connect and share with each other.
We have no control how a project is going to land in the world, so “don’t suffer twice,” in terms of worrying before you hit publish and after — just put it out there, then deal with what follows in the moment.
✅ Next Action: Shift your mindset from “I need to be an expert before . . .” to “I’m curious.” Start curating the people and ideas that inspire you, then share them with others through your unique lens and experiences.

📘 Books Mentioned:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
Perfection Detox: Tame Your Inner Critic, Live Bravely and Unleash Your Joy
You’re Invited: The Art and Science of Connection, Trust, and Belonging
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
🔗 Resources Mentioned: Shane Snow’s article on Intellectual Humility

Related Podcast Episodes:
251: Listener Q&A on (Furry) Imposter Monsters
112: Whose Voice is in Your Head? Perfection Detox Round Two with Petra Kolber
86: Grab Bag! Upcoming NYC Workshop, BookRx on Interviewing Tips, and the Upside of Awkwardness
56: Perfection Detox with Petra Kolber
Penney & Jenny 8: Embracing Liminal Space (July 2019)

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16 min
May 15, 2022280: Supercharged with Simon Alexander Ong
“Energy introduces you before you even speak.” We all sense that energy is contagious; the question is, how well are you protecting and recharging yours? That’s what we’re discussing today with Simon Alexander Ong: strategies for creating a not to-do list, for recognizing energizers and drainers in your life, and why slowing down is a superpower.

More about Simon: Simon Alexander Ong is the author of the brand new book Energize: Make the Most of Every Moment. He is also a personal development entrepreneur, coach, and public speaker. His work has seen him invited onto Sky News, BBC Radio London and LBC Radio to be interviewed, while in 2018, Barclays UK featured him in a nationwide campaign asking him questions on how families could embrace better lifestyle habits. His insights have been featured in HuffPost, Forbes, Virgin, and the Guardian.

🌟 3 Key Takeaways:
Stop treating your health as a side hustle, and shift your focus from time management to energy management.
Create a “Not-To-Do” List of items you commit to not do that will free up time to focus your energy on things that really matter to you.
Say “no” more often so that you can say “yes” to bigger opportunities later.
📘 Books Mentioned:
Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
Energize: Make the Most of Every Moment
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal
Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive
The Go-Giver: A Surprising Way of Getting More Than You Expect
The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World
Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
🔗 Resources Mentioned:
Simon on the web, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube
Exercise: Ideal Day Mad Lib
Video: Bill Gates and Warren Buffett on Charlie Rose
Josh Allan Dykstra, #lovework, LoveWork
Related Podcast Episodes:
047: Live Fiercely, Study Deeply . . . While Earning a Living — with Jonathan Fields
275: Cues - On Charisma with Vanessa Van Edwards
027: Intuition And Frequency With Penney Peirce
047: Live Fiercely, Study Deeply . . . While Earning a Living — with Jonathan Fields
Free Time 035: The Long Game with Dorie Clark
Free Time 039: Permission to Glow with Kristoffer (KC) Carter

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What’s next for your career and creative projects? Pivot with Jenny Blake launched in 2015 to help us better embrace fear, insecurity, imperfection, and intuition as the superpowers they are while…

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