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JJRR 64 Learning apps, the Loop Approach to management - Happy in Finland - with Ben Hughes

Release Date: 02/12/2020

JJRR 132 Why identity matters - 15 tips to shift your identity in 2026 - with JimJim

JimJim's Reinvention Revolution Podcast

#wellness #identity #jimjimsreinventionrevolution It’s 2026 and it’s time to kick off the year with JimJim! Listen to JJRR 132 as JimJim confronts his identity and shares 15 tips on how to shift your own identity in 2026. JimJim is feeling the confines of his current vs future identity as he shifts farther into wellness. What’s the challenge to your identity these days? 1. Speak in “I am” language 2. Design proofs, not promises 3. Upgrade the character you’re playing 4. Detach from the old story loops 5. Link wellness to entrepreneurial...

JJRR 131 Mornings in Key West 5 of 5 - Episode Quickies - with JimJim

JimJim's Reinvention Revolution Podcast

#wellness #keywest #jimjimsreinventionrevolution #hemmingway Join JimJim for a new episode quickies series – Mornings from Key West. Listen to JJRR 131 as JimJim finishes off a quickie series from Key West sharing daily thoughts and experiences from Key West and how he’s dealing with his new wellness / lifestyle journey. If you like this podcast style lmk ! Enjoy the episode? Share with friends! Subscribe in Spotify, Apple or Google Podcasts!

JJRR 130 Mornings in Key West 4 of 5 - Episode Quickies - with JimJim

JimJim's Reinvention Revolution Podcast

#wellness #keywest #jimjimsreinventionrevolution #meditation Join JimJim for a new episode quickies series – Mornings from Key West. Listen to JJRR 130 as JimJim kicks off a quickie series from Key West sharing daily thoughts and experiences from Key West and how he’s dealing with his new wellness / lifestyle journey. If you like this podcast style lmk ! Enjoy the episode? Share with friends! Subscribe in Spotify, Apple or Google Podcasts!

JJRR 129 Mornings in Key West - Episode Quickies 3 of 5 - with JimJim

JimJim's Reinvention Revolution Podcast

#wellness #keywest #jimjimsreinventionrevolution #fortzacharytaylor Join JimJim for a new episode quickies series – Mornings from Key West. Listen to JJRR 129 as JimJim kicks off a quickie series from Key West sharing daily thoughts and experiences from Key West and how he’s dealing with his new wellness / lifestyle journey. If you like this podcast style lmk ! Enjoy the episode? Share with friends! Subscribe in Spotify, Apple or Google Podcasts!

JJRR 128 Key West Mornings 2 of 5 - Episode Quickies - with JimJim

JimJim's Reinvention Revolution Podcast

#wellness #keywest #jimjimsreinventionrevolution #wickedlick Join JimJim for a new episode quickies series – Mornings from Key West. Listen to JJRR 128 as JimJim kicks off a quickie series from Key West sharing daily thoughts and experiences from Key West and how he’s dealing with his new wellness / lifestyle journey. If you like this podcast style lmk ! Enjoy the episode? Share with friends! Subscribe in Spotify, Apple or Google Podcasts!

JJRR 127 Mornings in Key West 1 of 5 - Episode quickies - with JimJim

JimJim's Reinvention Revolution Podcast

#wellness #keywest #jimjimsreinventionrevolution Join JimJim for a new episode quickies series – Mornings from Key West. Listen to JJRR 127 as JimJim kicks off a quickie series from Key West sharing daily thoughts and experiences from Key West and how he’s dealing with his new wellness / lifestyle journey. If you like this podcast style lmk ! Enjoy the episode? Share with friends! Subscribe in Spotify, Apple or Google Podcasts!

JJRR 126 Why wellness - How identity challenges change - Being Uncomfortable - with JimJim

JimJim's Reinvention Revolution Podcast

#wellness #identity #questdiagnostics #jimjimsreinventionrevolution In this episode JimJim goes wellness on ya! Listen to JJRR 126 as JimJim shares how health and wellness has taken over his world recently. Based on recent baseline testing results JimJim is focusing his efforts on wellness by tackling lifestyle, diet and exercise. A big disruption to diet and general productivity, JimJim is dealing with the challenge to identity as it relates to change. Listen up as perhaps it’s time to start your own wellness journey. ...

JJRR 125 Why the starving artist myth is dead - How to gamify your business - with Paul Eric Pape

JimJim's Reinvention Revolution Podcast

#gamifybusiness #paulpagedesigns #nebraska # jimjimsreinventionrevolution Paul Pape is a lauded artist / designer that produces custom toys, props and merch for the creative set but now is on a mission to kill the starving artist myth and gamify your business. Listen to JJRR 125 as Paul shares how his successful design business inspired other creatives to reach out for advice, spawning a new career as Game Master for creative entrepreneurs. Using a role playing game (RPG) metaphor, Paul realized creatives can quickly absorb business fundamentals and inject fun into...

JJRR 124 The Echo and the Voice, a first novel - How AI changes music production - with Mark Firehammer

JimJim's Reinvention Revolution Podcast

#markfirehammer #theechoandthevoice #jimjimsreinventionrevolution Mark Firehammer is singer / songwriter and entrepreneur who’s been following his inner creative voice ever since he dropped out of college. Now an author, listen to JJRR 124 as Mark discusses his first novel, the Echo and the Voice: a modern allegory about what gets lost when we trade creative truth for cultural belonging – and what it takes to reclaim it. Find out why Mark is using the penname JW Kindbloom and listen to the end as Mark shares his creative use of AI for music production and family relations....

JJRR 123 Online Fitness Focus for Creatives, Artists and Entertainers - with Trea Da Fit

JimJim's Reinvention Revolution Podcast

#fitness #jimjimsreinventionrevolution #mississippi #entertainment Trea Da Fit is an online trainer specializing in the unique fitness challenges for artists and entertainers. Listen to JJRR 123 as Trea shares how a comment from a coworker at his warehouse job turned into a growing online business. Based around his childhood passion of music, fashion and the arts, Trea’s unique approach is creating consistency for those living creative, unpredictable lives, improving health, wellness and productivity. Shoutout to Mississippi. 03:20s How Trea is helping artists...

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Ben Hughes is a serial entrepreneur and author who, after a couple lackluster ventures, found his home in the startup world as employee #1 of learning app Blinkist.com. Listen to JJRR 64 as Ben shares how after adventures in Australia and Berlin, he ended up back in his hometown of Helsinki, Finland managing remotely Blinkist's content creation team (in Berlin). Recently co-authoring the Loop Approach, Ben shares his thoughts on decentralized organizational management and his practice of meditation.

https://www.blinkist.com/

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/L/bo52824093.html

https://www.amazon.com/Search-Inside-Yourself-Unexpected-Achieving/dp/0062116932

https://www.penguinhug.de/

http://handbookofawesome.com/intro/

05:02s Is Finland the happiest country on Earth?

07:04s Finland and invention of the suana

09:14s Learning and apps, Blinkist.com, and content curation

11:59s Not a book summary company, offering key insights instead

15:47s Typical Blinkist customers / use cases

18:12s 2 minutes with Seth Godin audio blink from Blinkist

18:49s Joining Blinkist in 2012 as the first full time employee

21:38s Starting out as a management consultant and crashing into a kangaroo

25:17s Quitting the dayjob and moving to Berlin to start businesses with Sebastian Klein

30:40s Pivoting from first business Penguin Hug to wellness blogging

32:55s The genesis of Blinkist in Berlin, while Ben is in Helsinki

38:03s Creating content and tackling scalability in Berlin from Helsinki

45:02s The Loop Approach, Ben and Sebastian’s new management book

49:0s Pace of change driving distributed / decentralized management structure

53:49s Broader technology changes / opportunities / challenges

57:30s Staying curious to keep your mind open and honoring the finite time we all have

01:01:38s Opening up a new dimension with meditation and mindfulness

“Our purpose is basically just to inspire people to keep learning. We try to give them content that you know fits into this kind of modern, busy lifestyle that we’re all leading today.”

“I think it was confidence bordering on arrogance. I’m smart, you’re smart, how could we possibly fail to create a like million dollar business in a matter of months.”

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