Looks Like Work

Freeing Your Time & Reframing Productivity - with Liron Lavi Turkenich

What’s your relationship with productivity? Are you working to grow at all costs or are you centering ease & joy in your day-to-day? 
 
Today I’ve invited Liron Lavi Turkenich back on the podcast to join me in conversation about our last episode with Jenny Blake and her book Free Time. 
 
Together we talk about–
Reframing productivity so it’s not about growing at all costs
Creating systems that serve us
Letting go of the guilt we feel when time management tools don’t work for us
Writing ourselves permission slips to find our flow
How to find pockets of time to recharge
 
Liron shares so many amazing resources. You’ll definitely want to check out the links below, then please subscribe, rate & review the podcast wherever you listen. And subscribe to the LLW newsletter for more updates from Chedva!
 
Links:
Listen to Jenny Blake on episode 14 of Looks Like Work
Listen to Liron on episode 2 of Looks Like Work
Find Liron’s work & subscribe to her newsletter
Follow Liron on Instagram
Rahaf Harfoush 
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
 

Ease and Joy - with Jenny Blake

I love Jenny Blake’s book Free Time so much that my entire team is reading it together and implementing the ideas. So, as you can imagine, I am thrilled to have Jenny on the podcast today!
 
Jenny Blake is an author and podcaster who helps entrepreneurs move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. She is the author of Pivot and Free Time, which just came out in March.
 
In this episode, we talk about–
The value of adding “founder time” to your week
How to help yourself & your team members work exclusively on things you love
Learning to delegate so you can earn twice as much in half the time
Building your business to grow with ease
 
I love this conversation so much. I hope you’ll listen and share it! Then tune in next week for a follow-up conversation with past podcast guest Liron Lavi Turkenich about how we’re implementing the book in our work and lives.
 
Links:
Find Jenny’s book & podcast at itsfreetime.com
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Starting from Scratch - with Osnat Benari

What does it mean to you to start from scratch? How often have you done it in your career or life? This week I’m talking to Osnat Benari. Osnat is a product strategist and builder and an active mentor for startups and young professionals. She is the founder of Web3 strategy & creative agency DragonsCanFly and the author of Starting from Scratch, a book about managing change and making smart career choices.
 
In this episode, we talk about—
The three things you need to start from scratch
The importance of having a learning mindset
How to develop a personal board of directors
 
This conversation left me feeling so inspired to keep following my interests and starting from scratch. And now thanks to Osnat, I have a process to guide me.
 
Links:
DragonsCanFly 
Starting from Scratch
Follow Osnat on LinkedIn
From Fraud to Freedom by Phyllis Njoroge
 
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Being radically generous in business - with Amelia Hruby

This week I’m excited to welcome our Looks Like Work producer onto the podcast! Amelia Hruby is the founder of the feminist podcast studio Softer Sounds the host of Off the Grid podcast about leaving social media, and the editor of this show!
 
In this episode, we talk about—
her intentional process for starting her business
writing ourselves permission slips to “grow slow”
creating flexible, shame-free boundaries with our work
how radical generosity requires energetic sovereignty
 
This is a powerful conversation for entrepreneurs and anyone who wants to change their life and live in alignment with their values. I hope you enjoy it.  
 
Links:
Softer Sounds Studio
Off the Grid podcast
Courses Amelia mentioned: Feminist Business School, The Alignment Course, Laura Holway
Amelia’s podcast episode on energetic sovereignty
Amelia’s Podcaster Archetype Quiz
Quitted podcast
 
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Permission to speak - with Hadar Shemesh

How confident are you in your voice? In today’s episode, Hadar Shemesh joins us to discuss how she helps non-native English speakers raise their voice and cultivate permission to speak.
Hadar is a linguistics expert and communication coach who’s worked with companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, GM, Wework, Wix (and many more!). In this episode, she shares how pursuing her dream of becoming an actress made her hyper-aware of her “otherness,” and then led her to create a business helping speakers of English as a second language communicate confidently and joyfully in English.
We also talk about the lies of “standard” English, our bilingual households, combating perfectionism as content creators, and addressing conflict with a global audience.
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Links:
Hadar’s website
Hadar’s InFluency Podcast
Who is your madwoman in the attic?

Is it the age of anti-ambition or are we all simply exhausted?

2022 is being called the year of anti-ambition, but is that really the case? In this solo episode, Chedva unpacks her relationship with ambition – the good, the bad & the ugly of it – while refusing to agree that being ambitious is inherently toxic.
 
She explores: 
why entering the workforce was so important to her as an ultra-Orthodox woman
when her start-up ambitions led her deep into burnout
& how COVID made her face the realities of work amidst crisis
 
Tune in for an open and honest reflection on why we don’t actually want our work to be “on steroids.” As well as Chedva’s thoughts on how we can heal our burnout without giving up our ambitions in the process. 
 
Links:
“2022 may be the year my ambition truly dies” in The Cut 
The Age of Anti-Ambition in New York Times
Listen to Chedva discuss “Torah & Tech in Israel” on BBC’s The Documentary Podcast
“I’m not asking people to change their accent for me, just asking for basic respect” Maitreyi Ramakrishnan on Twitter 
Rejecting mispronounced & whitened names in Toronto Star
“It’s harder than ever to care about anything” in Time
‘My dark secret’: Orthodox women reveal their abortion stories in Forward
 
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Be the CEO of your career — with Maya Grossman

Are you waiting for career opportunities to come your way? Or are you creating opportunities to bring your dream job closer?
Maya Grossman is a marketing executive, blogger, speaker, podcast host, and best-selling author who helps people become the CEO of their careers. She’s worked with Microsoft, Google, Tesla, and many other successful companies. 
In this episode, she shares how she shifted from “Maya-the-travel-agen” to “Maya-the-marketer” to “Maya-the-career-coach.” We also discuss how to find your purpose & passion, ways to intentionally craft your career, and the magic of LinkedIn.
 
Links:
Maya’s website
Follow Maya on LinkedIn
Follow Maya on Instagram
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Bloom in the business you planted — with Elisheva Manekin

What can plants teach us about personal growth and business growth? A lot, it turns out!
Elisheva Manekin is a plant lover, home decor designer, and the founder of Loop Living. In this episode, she shares how her passion for plants led her to create a thriving e-commerce business, selling botanical wares for beautiful homes.
Together, we discuss: believing in ourselves even when others don’t, growing healthy & profitable businesses, managing a team, becoming confident with money, and more.
 
Links & resources:
Loop Living
Follow Loop Living on Instagram
Follow Loop Living on Instagram (in Hebrew)
Make Life Beautiful by Studio McGee
Katy Leeson tweet about overworking 
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Burning bright — discussing burnout with the Rooms & Words team

Have you ever felt burnout? When was the last time it happened, and how did you respond?
In this episode, Chedva shares her experiences with burnout and chronic illness as a successful entrepreneur. Then, she welcomes her team to the pod! Rooms and Words team members, Lauren Turner, Michal Shemesh and Navriti Sood join us to reflect on the first six episodes of Looks Like Work and to share their experiences with work, parenting, culture, and of course— burnout.
 
Links & resources:
Katy Leeson tweet about overworking
The 7 Types of Rest that Every Person Needs
Closing My Restaurant Forced Me to Learn How to Take Care of Myself
Can’t Even by Anne Helen Petersen 
Burnout by Emily & Amelia Nagoski
Rooms & Words
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Cultivating courage & creating boundaries with your work - with Gili Yuval

How often has a poem written by a stranger made you feel seen? Gili Yuval is a poet whose career spans marketing, events, museums, and more.
In this conversation, we discuss her career journey across countries, the challenges of setting boundaries with your work & your art, inspirations for and responses to her poetry about work, and transforming her writing into a business while keeping a 9-to-5 job.
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