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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 pivoting. Join Jenny Blake, award-winning author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, Life After College, and Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business, for intimate conversations with authors and friends on finding opportunities in unexpected places through practical tips and tools. Jenny’s motto? If change is the only constant, let’s get better at it. Subscribe now so you don’t miss an episode (released every Sunday) at pod.link/pivotmethod, view show notes at http://Pivo…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jenny Blake makes career uncertainty workable by connecting thoughtful guest conversations to concrete decisions, experiments, and professional action.
Pivot with Jenny Blake turns career change into decisions that can be examined, tested, and acted on. Guest conversations connect professional uncertainty with burnout, self-promotion, creative work, and the tradeoffs behind major business choices.
A possible next move gets a test drive before you have to call it a plan.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A candid account of pausing beloved work to make room for a larger business decision.
Jenny Blake's decision to pause Pivot and Free Time is a candid account of loving the work while realizing it has crowded out the attention needed to rethink the business.
A thoughtful reflection on trust, creative inheritance and carrying tradition into new work.
The episode finds its footing in the tension between trust and control. Its central idea is that a fixed picture of what should happen can be an expression of ego, while creative work asks for more openness to the present.
A grounded conversation about decision-making as agency when some alternatives remain unknowable.
Jenny Blake and Michelle Florendo make decision-making feel less like a hunt for the perfect answer and more like a repeatable practice of agency.
A grounded look at pausing a business and sitting with the doubts that follow.
Jenny Blake's conversation with her first coach and longtime Pivot Podcast collaborator turns a major pause into a close study of how decisions become something a person can actually live with.
A practical leadership conversation on expecting greatness without losing acceptance or forward motion.
Leadership advice often frames excellence as pressure; this episode is more interested in what happens when expectation becomes support. Jenny Blake and Natalie Kogan look at how to expect greatness without tipping into over-efforting, over-delivering, over-giving, or…
Lisa Bragg makes self-promotion feel practical by unpacking the time, money, and nerve behind professional recognition.
Self-promotion comes across here as a practical career skill, not a personality trait. Jenny Blake's conversation with Lisa Bragg, whose book Bragging Rights frames visibility as a way to help good work reach the people who need it, is most useful when it gets specific about how…
A candid coaching conversation about why ambitious career moves can stay safely out of reach.
Career choices stall under pressures that will feel familiar: doing what seems expected, staying practical, waiting for the perfect next step, fearing failure, undervaluing ability, running short on time, and thinking longer than acting.
Career power without apology.
Career confidence with a leadership edge.
Career clarity with backbone.
Jenny Blake and recurring co-host Adrian Klaphaak of Career Pathfinder discuss how people hold themselves back in career pivots, marking their 10th conversation in the series.
Jenny Blake interviews Luke Burgess about his book 'Wanting' and how understanding desire can help set better goals.
Jenny Blake interviews Paul Millard about his unconventional career path and the concept of the 'pathless path'.
Jenny Blake interviews Lisa Bragg, author of 'Bragging Rights,' about overcoming the 'hidden gem' syndrome and using purposeful self-promotion.
What's next?
Pivot with Jenny Blake features James McRae, author of The Art of You and Shit Your Ego Says, on creative reinvention after a New York City ad agency job loss.
Michelle Florendo tells Jenny Blake that decision quality is separate from outcome quality, and she ties that distinction to Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets.
Jenny Blake uses Pivot to announce that she is pausing Pivot and Free Time after nine years, while talking with her first coach, Adrienne Klapak.
Natalie Kogan says "having someone expect excellence from you feels really great," and separates excellence from perfectionism and over-delivering.
Jenny Blake interviews Kevin Kelly about his new book of wisdom for living, discussing career pivots and embracing change.
Jenny Blake interviews women's leadership coach Kelly Thompson about advancing in your career with clarity and confidence.