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Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business

Jenny Blake

WINNER OF SIX PUBLISHING AWARDS, including Pencraft Literary Excellence for Non-Fiction Business/Finance, American Bookfest Award in Entrepreneurship & Small Business, International Book Awards finalist, and NYC Big Book Award winner.


"A brilliant, insightful read."

--MORI TAHERIPOUR, author of Bring Yourself

"This book is a revelation--a detailed road map for building a business that fulfills you and serves the world, leaving anxiety and burnout behind. Jenny Blake's advice is both grounded and inspiring, and always connected to life as it is actually lived, at the human scale."

--OLIVER BURKEMAN, author of The Antidote and Four Thousand Weeks

"Wildly, wildly helpful. A chill, introvert-friendly birthday party for business owners."

--SARAH YOUNG, author of Expansive Impact


Time is not money. Time is life force.

Are you consistently doing the work that you and only you can do? Or are you burdened by busywork, the bottleneck blocking your company's profit and potential?

Your time is far more precious than money. It is your presence, your memories, your quality of life. As a business owner, you are already paying a risk and pressure tax. For many, growth fueled by added stress is not worth the trade-off. You have an urge to simplify and streamline.

Free Time is not about working as little as possible. Nor is it about creating a lifestyle business purely for one's own gain. It is about creating a life-giving business energizing every single person who is a part of it, from the owner to team members, to clients and community. Free Time is about making small investments now to create greater optionality in the future.

A more joyful business is within reach. Imagine:

  • Traveling, going off the grid, or handling family emergencies without panicking that everything will fall apart while you are gone.
  • Working 10- to 20-hour weeks, delegating the rest to a motivated, part-time remote team.
  • Answering questions with relief, knowing you don't have to "own" the next steps.
  • Empowering your Delightfully Tiny Team(TM) to answer their own questions before they even have to ask you.
  • Harnessing your creative energy for the strategic projects that excite you most.


Jenny Blake, author of the award-winning book Pivot and co-creator of Google's acclaimed Career Guru coaching program, is back with her signature blend of heart-based operating principles and practical tools. This book will teach you how to move from friction to flow through smarter systems and the three-stage Free Time Framework.(TM)

Free Time is a playbook to free your mind, time, and team for your best work. This book will teach you and your team to operate efficiently and intuitively, while earning abundantly, so you can make your greatest contribution as a business owner.


Book Details

  • Publisher: Ideapress Publishing
  • Publish Date: Mar 22nd, 2022
  • Pages: 336
  • Language: English
  • Dimensions: 9.25in - 6.50in - 1.00in - 1.50lb
  • EAN: 9781646870660
  • Categories: Small Business - GeneralTime ManagementWorkplace Culture

About the Author

Blake, Jenny: -

Jenny Blake helps forward thinking organizations and individuals map what's next. She is an international keynote speaker and author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One, winner of the Axiom Best Business Books award in the careers category.

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

After two years as the first employee at a political polling start-up in Silicon Valley, followed by five years at Google in coaching, training, and career development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 to launch her business. Originally from San Francisco, Jenny loves dogs, yoga, and buys too many books. She lives with her husband and their "angel in fur coat" German Shepherd.

Learn more at ItsFreeTime.com and PivotMethod.com.

Praise for this book

"A practical, commonsense guide for business leaders and beyond."

--Booklist

"An invigorating and informative time-management manual."

--Kirkus Reviews