Welcome to our Episode 200 celebration...part 2! 🎉 These next 20 permission slips all about mindset, staying in the game, and the spiritual aspects of running a Heart-Based Business. Make sure to catch [last week’s episode](https://itsfreetime.com/episodes/200) which had 20 of my favorites about doing less, charging more, and working in your zone of genius.

You’ve heard of buyers remorse—but what about new hire’s remorse? That is the feeling of worry, regret or uncertainty that a new team member might have when taking a new role with your team. Today, returning guest Joey Coleman shares insights his new book, [Never Lose an Employee Again: The Simple Path to Remarkable Retention](https://amzn.to/42sgSCC).

Make sure to also check out our previous conversation 083: Breaking through Buyer’s Remorse—Never Lose a Customer Again with Joey Coleman.

Hey, hey, Free Timers, we have arrived at episode 200! 🎉 To celebrate, I’m giving you the ultimate permission slip compilation (two in fact). At the end of every episode, I ask our guests to give fellow business owners a permission slip to do something differently or drop something altogether.

This week, you’ll hear 20 of my favorites about doing less, charging more, and working in your zone of genius. Next Friday will be all about mindset, staying in the game, and the spiritual aspects of running a Heart-Based Business.

What’s the daily free time sweet spot? Between two to five hours, according to today’s guest, professor and researcher Cassie Holmes. In this conversation, you’ll hear about the wedding that wasn’t — sparking Cassie’s quest to determine the areas of highest agency for improving our own happiness, why time well spent is such a big factor to that end, the powerful question her now husband opened with on their first date, and how to buy better time.

When you catch a wishie, what do you yearn for? Today’s book club episode might shift your “wish” hereafter to just *one* powerful offering.

Tosha Silver’s grassroots-to-bestselling book Outrageous Openness: Letting the Divine Take the Lead is a cornerstone of my collection, one that changed my life when I first read it nearly a decade ago.

The stories from this book were adapted from two years of Tosha’s columns for the San Francisco Examiner*after she spent 25 years giving nearly 30,000 readings to people from all over the world. After OO became a self-published sensation, she got a traditional book deal and republished with Atria a few years later.

Tosha’s words from OO (as loyal readers affectionately call it) resonate daily in my mind and heart, reminding me to transmute *all* specific wishes and unmet needs or longings into just one—listen to today’s episode to find out what it is.

“Liking is the great fog of the mind.”—Todd Herman

You’ve heard the adage that people need to know, like, and trust you to want to do business with you. But is that really true?

Today’s guest, longtime entrepreneur and peak performance coach Todd Herman, believes liking is not nearly as important as respect, and can even prevent us from making strong decisions. We also cover how to organize your work according to your strengths, creating growth loops for growing the business, and making key adjustments as your business grows.

What’s it like to be at a conference with “fancy” people, when you’re the one feeling like you snuck in a side door as a seat filler? Okay, okay — that’s just my imposter monster talking. In today’s experimental episode, I’m taking you behind-the-scenes of the recent 5-day main TED conference in Vancouver, building on Pivot episode 325: 10+ Conference Networking Strategies with Alisa Cohn.

In full-on morning voice with a travel mic, I do a daily check-in about what I was nervous about, spontaneous serendipitous invites, fan-girling my favorite authors and podcasters, falling off the energy cliff, what gave me FOMO and JOMO, and my daily quest for coffee. Always. Find. The. Coffee.

Does the world really need this? This is one of the inevitable existential dilemmas of creative work. You have to decide that your work is worth your time and energy, because no one is asking you for it. Today’s guest, Jessica Abel, is someone whose work I have long admired for its richness and depth.

In this conversation, we talk about navigating the “Dark Forests” of creativity; go behind the business when one of her most successful books, Out on the Wire, was taking off; the causes behind cyclical burnout; three revenue-generating paths that she’s seen work best; and calculating your enough number as a small business owner.

Today I'm sharing ten more of my favorite recent GPT4 prompts and experiments for creative business owners.

This episode originally aired as a bonus episode for the private BFF community, as a follow-up to a case study on how ChatGPT has helped me draft a few solo podcast episodes.