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Time Hacking Radio
by Emily Martinez
Everybody talks about growing a business and making more money. Those things sound great, but for home-based business owners, life is so crazy busy that we can't even THINK about growing our businesses until we figure out how to earn more time. This podcast is about the things we as business owners can do to earn time in our day to do the things we want. You'll hear about tips, tricks, and tools that make life a little easier for home service business owners who are trying to do it all.
Episodes
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Toddler ABCs
My kids have grown up in a daycare that their grandmother runs, which is nothing but fabulous. However, when grandma is in charge, you get certain perks, even though grandma tries super hard to be completely equitable. In the first two kids' lives, we send them off to daycare so they can come to...
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Parenting While Running A Business with Ana Rivera
For a list of my favorite tools and tips, check out my resource page at resources.timehackingradio.com. For a super awesome podcast editor, check out mine. https://fiverr.com/jay717
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Communication Time Hacks for Your Entire Business with Irum Rashid-Jones
For a list of my favorite tools, check out my resource page at: resources.timehackingradio.com. For an amazing podcast editor, I highly suggest: https://fiverr.com/jay717
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Kid Time Hack: Addressing Issues With a Coach
After playing his first game with his new team, my 10-year-old was super frustrated and emotional. We're not the type of parents who handle things for our kids. In fact, we're quite the opposite. We teach our kids how to handle things for themselves. It's awful, and difficult, and terrifying, but...
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Systemizing Your Business's Facebook Responses with Karen Sahetya
For a list of my favorite tools, books, and classes, check them out here: resources.timehackingradio.com For an absolutely amazing podcast editor, check out mine at: https://fiverr.com/jay717
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Futureproof
The main topic of the book was automation and artificial intelligence with the thesis being that every single person and job on the planet is replaceable by a machine. The author discusses all of his reasons for coming to this understanding, but moving beyond the doomed future, Roose makes some...
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Suggested Reading for Easily Changing Your Habits
Suggested by a speaker a few years ago, I read Dan Millman's book, "Way of the Peaceful Warrior." It was a transformative fictionalized account of the mind shift the character took to come to the understanding that he was one with the universe. This book was the first time I was exposed to these...
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30-Day Plan to Accomplish it All
For a list of my favorite tools, check out my resource page at resources.timehackingradio.com. If you're looking for an amazing podcast editor, I'm willing to share. You can find him here: https://fiverr.com/jay717
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Visualization
My swimmer kid had a swim meet recently and she did great. As with many kids, one of her favorite events is the 50 freestyle. In this meet, she was seeded first and ended up getting first in the finals. What I've learned about competing in any 50-yard event is that since it's a sprint, you have…
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Virtual Learning Time Hacks for Elementary Students
For a list of my favorite tools and tricks, check out my resource page at resources.timehackingradio.com. For a super awesome podcast editor who is excellent to work with, check out mine at https://fiverr.com/jay717.
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Time Hacks For Your High School Student
For more information about my favorite tools and tips and tricks, please visit my resource page at resources.timehackingradio.com. To connect with a great podcast editor, you can find mine here at: https://fiverr.com/jay717
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Relationship Time Hacks
Hear some amazing time hacking tips to improve your relationship with your person. If you're looking for my favorite tools and tips, check them out here: resources.timehackingradio.com. If you need a podcast editor, mine is awesome! https://fiverr.com/jay717/
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My Favorite Design Tool
First, the Finisher's Journal is an AMAZING planner that has totally revolutionized how I handle my days. I feel so much more focused on the actual tasks that matter. But, this episode is primarily about Canva. Canva is the design tool that I use every single day. I started to learn design by...
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Taking A Break Without Losing Momentum
My husband and I are working on a massive project right now. We call it "Multi-Family Migration". We have been grinding to get this done. It's all being bootstrapped so I'm the grunt worker and he's the face of this operation. Building a business is always hard, but for us, we're also running the...
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Health Update
First, for the first time in a long time I have caught up on my miles. I am going to hit 400 miles by my 40th. My pace to hit that target is 3 miles a day. (Actually, it's a little less, but whatever.) Usually, I have anywhere from 3 to 7 miles to catch up on, but not this week. I'm all caught…
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Time Hacking Your Business Finance with Andrea Jenson
In today's episode, Andrea Jenson shares her top hacks to systemize your business's finances. To connect with Andrea, find her at https://www.facebook.com/thecashflowcfo Or you can visit her website at https://cashflowcfo.com. To get a list of my favorite things, visit my resource page at...
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New Time Hacking Series...
Coming next episode and once a week after that, I'll be sharing interviews that I conducted for my Time Hacking Summit. Join me on the next episode for the first of the series. If you would like a list of my favorite tools, check out my resource page at resources.timehackingradio.com. If you…
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The Anti-Time Hack
I have been spending a lot of time on the phone lately because our customers have a lot of questions about chimneys. Really, there's nothing intuitive about lighting a fire in your house. There is a certain amount of fear that people have when chimneys are involved. The other day I spoke with a...
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My New Favorite Project Management Tool
I'm creating a free 5-Day Challenge as we speak. I'm currently in the research phase of things. I have been focused on finding new and awesome tools. As is the case whenever I focus on something, the universe tosses me what I need. While in an online conference, I was listening to a speaker who…
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Finisher's Journal
I still use my Rocketbook every day as my notebook. This journal is what one would use to create a bullet journal. It helps me to organize my thoughts. It is basically a quarterly goal acomplisher. In this episode I break down how I have been using this tool and how you can too. I love it...and...
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Lessons From My Current Reads
There is a very good reason why Marie Kondo is a mega superstar in the home organizing space. She so elegantly created a two-step process to organize your space. Get rid of the things you don't want. Organize what is left. It's that simple! Discard, then organize. I think the same thing is true…
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Super Simple Laundry Time Hack
Coming with the intention to organize my closet, my aunt ended up helping me with my storage shed as well. The idea is that what is left in the closet is only the things that you need on a semi-regular basis. The rest is stored in the shed in a way that can be easily accessed, should the need...
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Reverse Grocery List
This process takes a kind of a long time on the front end but SAVES a bunch of time on the back end. You need to record everything that you have in your kitchen. Everything that's in your pantry, freezer, and fridge…everything. Be prepared when doing this, if you're like me, you'll end up doing a...
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Kitchen Time Hack
@Rhinojulie is one of my recently favorite people. She is a fitness expert and all-around dynamic lady. I spoke with her on my Time Hacking Summit, which is when she discussed the massive benefit of an air fryer. In this conversation, Rhino Julie gave me permission as a mom, to let my kids eat…
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Maintenance Cycle
My daughter, who is a swimmer, is hardcore. Recently she's been feeling the anxiety that we're all living with, but in her case, her specific anxiety had to do with her swim times. She is a super hard worker, despite her hard work, her swim times were still getting worse. This then, made her even...
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Employee Schedule Flexibility
I learned from my previous employment, that if you can't afford to pay your employees tons of money, you can instead give them more time, which could be flexibility with their schedule, or paid time off, or whatever other creative solutions you might be able to think of. We train our technicians…
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How Time Hacking Is Like Home Organizing
I'm making some stuff for you! I don't want to give everything away, but I'm going to tell you the end results I'm looking for from these offers. The first is a FREE 5-Day Challenge. The idea is to give you to the point where you can see the time challenges in your life that need to be…
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Comparison Hack
In a moment at the end of the episode, Dax Shephard spoke about comparing oneself to others by either up comparing or down comparing. (I can't remember the actual term...I think that's close.) In speaking about parenting, Dax Shephard's point was that all you have to do is go to the supermarket…
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400 by 40
I'm all about deadlines and milestones and the like. They help my brain to get in gear. For me, I've decided to complete two fitness challenges in 2021 all around me turning 40. Challenge number one is, I have to go 400 miles by the time I'm 40...which happens in May. This averages out to less…
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Distraction Free Device
I am pro-technology, but at this point in time, my phone is so totally distracting. I specifically don't have the Facebook app on my phone, but I do have Instagram, which is the same. Also, coming off of the election cycle, I was in a news spiral that I can't seem to get out of. Together, those…
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Simple Tool For Paper Lovers
As I have confessed before, I am not the most organized of individuals. I try to start to be organized all the time, each time starting with a little notebook to jot my thoughts throughout the day. But, inevitably, I misplace the notebook. The other thing that happens is I will assign a separate...
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Getting to Success Immediately
If you're having a hard time because you're not seeing the results you're looking for, I would like you to think about your definition of success. A few years ago, I attended a teleconference by Michael Bernoff. He is a very dynamic speaker who gets his audience to take massive action. His former...
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Time Hacking My Way Out of Anxiety
In order to combat my anxiety, I realized that the best thing I can do is to nail down my morning routine. For me, I had been starting with reading or learning and a kid on my lap. However, this little routine hasn't been working. Instead, I'm getting back to my daily highlight. Just focusing on...
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Safety Program for Time Hackers
For us, since we don't have everyone together in one place, in general, even more so during a pandemic, so we've set up a virtual safety program. To start, OSHA has a billion free resources that you can use for your company's safety program and I downloaded them all. To time hack this, I made a...
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Time Hacking Way to Pass a Certification Test
Here are the steps I took to time hack my studying: Get the reading material...don't stress about reading it. Peruse YouTube. Watch or listen to some free tutorials. Take some open-book practice tests early on. Take your time and figure out the right answer. Go back over your practice test and...
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Marketing Research Time Hack
Rand Fishkin, creator of Moz has created SparkToro. It is the coolest online marketing tool that I've ever encountered. For those of you who don't know, Dream 100 is a way to build traffic into your business. The idea is that by making real connections with your "Dream 100" the traffic that those...
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Experiment 6: Outsourcing Phone Services
I've actually already been doing this one, but I wanted a win in case all of my other experiments fail. Due to the fact that I work out of my home and virtual learning is a thing now, I have been having a super difficult time answering the phones. Because of that, I decided to hire a virtual…
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Social Media Publishing
I try really hard not to hang out on social media all day long. I'm a sucker, especially for Instagram and Pinterest. But my challenge is that I still need to publish. What is a gal to do? Here's what I want: I want to put out content when people are actually online. I want to put out content...
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Upselling with Technology
If you've been listening to my podcasts, you know how much I LOVE Housecall Pro. They recently released an update that allows their users to send their customers to a different landing page than the standard one. I've been figuring out how to maximize cart value. In this case, I made a very…
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Facebook Hiring Technique
I own a small chimney sweeping company and hiring is tough. If you've haven't listened to Tommy Mello's podcast it's called The Home Service Expert. (Here's a link to the episode I'm talking about.) He runs a super successful garage door company and he interviews business experts who can speak...
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Frank Kern Facebook Ad Experiment
If you haven't encountered my Time Hacking Summit...check it out! Here's how to access the All-Access Pass. I practiced Frank Kern's ad techniques on my own summit. I then used the same techniques for my husband's summit about soccer parenting. My next experiment will be to use this technique for...
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Making Environmental Practices A Profitable Part of Your Service Business
A little bit about my back story...the obsession began in 4th grade, which is when my teacher, Miss Johnson, first exposed me to environmentalism. My dad was a water chemist and I grew up to work for a non-profit environmental organization. So, yeah, I like the planet and have for a while. Flash...
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Experiment: Getting My Health Back
In my younger years I was a college athlete. I was never the most athletic individual, but I still had to get up early to get to the weight room, so that's something. Then, I had a couple of kids and I managed to get back in shape after the second one was born, mostly because I had a very…
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First Experiment Update: Daily Highlight
If you haven't listened to my previous episode about making a daily highlight, I'll tell you that the reason for doing this experiment is to make each day a little bit special. I wanted something in between checking all the boxes on a to-do list and creating an amazingly large goal that is so far...
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Experiment #3: Hire a Virtual Assistant
I knew I needed to hire a VA, but I didn't know how to do so. I've had some practice hiring freelancers on Fiverr, which has turned out to be super helpful and remarkably easy to navigate. Also, I expect that this is great practice for hiring the real thing. Hiring freelancers to fill in gaps in…
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Let Your Partner Do Things Their Way
Early in my marriage...before kids...my mother-in-law, who had run a daycare for decades, pointed out that the happiest moms were the ones who let their spouse handle things their own way. Those moms didn't try to micromanage every part of the way their husband did things. They didn't care if…
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Crime and Punishment Parenting Time Hack
Does your kid manage to make every punishment fun? Try making your kid clean the bathroom when they mess up. Sure, they might end up liking to clean the bathroom, but hey, at least you get a clean bathroom out of the situation. Also, as an adult, wouldn't it be cool if you loved to clean the...
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Experiment #2 Wednesday Night Brain Dump
If you missed my Time Hacking Summit, you missed out, but I'll share this little time hacking gem with you. Here are the steps: On Wednesday night, sit down with a Google Doc. Write out absolutely everything that needs to be done in personal and professional life. Filter top 5 Turn top 5 into...
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Update - My Virtual Receptionist Team
A few weeks ago I hired a virtual receptionist team. I've now gone through the onboarding process, which was SUPER easy, and I'm a week into using their service. Here's a very quick status update. Here's how the onboarding process went: They set up a phone number that receives calls that I…
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Experiment #1: Highlights
When things started shutting down due to COVID time got super weird. I was forgetting things, there was no structure to my days or weeks, and my family was feeling the same. My theory was that if I could improve my efficiency and productivity things might get better. I realized that while...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Everybody talks about growing a business and making more money. Those things sound great, but for home-based business owners, life is so crazy busy that we can't even THINK about growing our businesses until we figure out how to earn more time. This podcast is about the things we as business owners can do to earn time in our day to do the things we want. You'll hear about tips, tricks, and tools that make life a little easier for home service business owners who are trying to do it all.
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Emily Martinez
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