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Jenny Blake

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Jenny Blake is an author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping people move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams.

Her third book, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, launched March 22, 2022 and won seven publishing awards, including the Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence and the New York City Big Book award.

Jenny’s previous bestselling book, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, won the Axiom award for best business book in the careers category upon its release in 2016.

Jenny hosts two podcasts with over two million downloads combined: Free Time for small business owners, and Pivot with Jenny Blake for navigating change.

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	Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One 3.76 avg rating — 2,370 ratings — published 2016 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want 3.83 avg rating — 478 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business 4.13 avg rating — 313 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transparency: Seeing Through to Our Expanded Human Capacity by Penney Peirce (Goodreads Author), Romy Nordlinger (Narrator), Jenny Blake (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.31 avg rating — 51 ratings — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“the gut contains over 500 million neurons, equivalent in size and complexity to a cat’s brain, and is the source of 90 percent of our body’s serotonin production. The gut-brain is primal, forming in the womb before the heart- and head-brains. It”
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“This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts:
Fear knocked at the door.
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There was no one there.”
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