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24: Want More Time? Learn About Time-Blocking, Rocks, and A-Listers… Oh My! Jun 20, 2019

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These three things have given me more time and freedom. Time blocking, rocks, and A-listers. Oh my. I have learned these from a plethora of different people in my life, and they have also kept my personality type sane and given me so much energy.
People underestimate how much time they have available. They think they have so many more hours in the day and the week than they do. And what happens is we tend to over-schedule ourselves and live in a world of chaos, frustration, and irritation because we always feel “behind,” and our energy is scattered. It’s exhausting just thinking about it!
So, this episode is all about how you can take your time back and get the most out of it by doing these three things:
- Time Blocking: You only have 24 hours each day, you need to budget your time and prioritize.
- Identify your Rocks: What are the most important things in your world? Make room for these first.
- A-Listing: Friends, activities, and more. You must learn to set boundaries and say “no!” to those not on your A-List.
I have learned that setting these boundaries, time blocking, figuring out what my rocks are, deciding who my A-list friends are and what my A-list activities are, creates space for the happiness and life I desire. What do I enjoy spending my time doing and can I say no to certain things?
I promise you, the freedom that is going to come from doing this is going to change your life. I encourage you to just to practice, practice, practice over the summer. You could literally check in with yourself three months from today and ask yourself, “How much happier am I?”
“How many things that no longer served me have I said goodbye to and what freedom, new activities, new relationships, new money, new things have come into my life?”
All because you’ve learned how to time block, you’ve figured out what your rocks are, figured out your A-List and then said, “no.”
All right, Front Seat Lifers, thank you for listening. As always, I hope this inspires you and I appreciate your time!
For more about Jessica and her upcoming events, visit https://jessicabutts.com
Follow her on Instagram @frontseatlife for daily motivation.
Not sure what your Myers Briggs personality type is? Take a free personality assessment at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-personality-assessment/
Looking for a tribe of growth-oriented people and want to stay closely connected to Jessica’s coaching? Join the Front Seat Life Community for a small monthly subscription at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-membership-group/
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23: Five Steps to a NEW LIFE Jun 13, 2019

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I have five BIG lessons today that I would like to share with you in reflection of this somewhat monumental occasion for me, the eighth anniversary of my graduation from Graduate school. I am a big believer in looking back at the past and seeing how far you have come, and not just at the beginning of the year.
I was prompted to share these five steps today not just because of the date, but I have a lot of big changes happening in my world and remembering how I got to this point really inspired me to share today’s episode.
These are five of the main things that I’ve realized I have learned over the last eight years since leaving graduate school:
Letting go of the old and allowing the new.
Stepping into the unknown and feeling what that feels like.
Dreaming and planning. Visualizing, hanging out with like-minded people.
Your. Ass. Off.
Creating a new life takes new takes “new.” Act accordingly.
You’re going to want to listen to this episode because it has some mojo. I reveal what I understand, what big lessons I’ve learned by looking back at the last eight years and drilling down to the essence of what has really moved the needle for me.
These are the steps that have taken me from quitting my dreadful job, finding my path, getting into graduate school, opening my office and having one $10/week client, to pure awesomeness today. Looking back on those eight years I can hardly believe it, and could not have predicted it. But I was able to bring it into reality… with the help of these five steps.
Thank you again for listening. I hope that this has been helpful. I love bringing you this content. Please share this if it’s inspiring and you feel like it’s worthy and let me know how this is impacting you. As always, if you ever want to reach out or DM me or send me a message or send me love or something, I would love to hear from you.
For more about Jessica and her upcoming events, visit https://jessicabutts.com
Follow her on Instagram @frontseatlife for daily motivation.
Not sure what your Myers Briggs personality type is? Take a free personality assessment at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-personality-assessment/
Looking for a tribe of growth-oriented people and want to stay closely connected to Jessica’s coaching? Join the Front Seat Life Community for a small monthly subscription at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-membership-group/
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22: The 3 REAL Reasons I Journal Jun 06, 2019

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Journaling is not just some “woo-woo” bullsh!t, it’s for real. And today I’m going to reveal to you the three REAL reasons why I journal… and why you should too!
I gotta be honest, I get massive, massive pushback… probably from between 90 and 98% of my clients, I get massive pushback on journaling. People don’t get it. They don’t want to do it.
And I am here to tell you for the entrepreneurs, for the leaders in the world, for those who Jeff Olson calls the “Five Percenters,” if you want a more engaged and richer and more intimate and more successful and more authentic life, you have to start the practice of journaling.
Period. End of story.
Nobody, I know that it’s successful… The Tony Robbins’, the Gay Hendrick’s, the Orpah’s, the former Steve Jobs… All these people will say one of the secrets to their success is that they start every morning with a morning practice. And part of that morning practice is journaling.
So, listen to this power-packed episode which I hope inspires you to either start journaling or up your game with your current journal habit, because it’s a total game-changer.
I am, as always, insanely delighted to come to you and I’m so honored that so many of you are spending your valuable time listening and engaging.
For more about Jessica and her upcoming events, visit https://jessicabutts.com
Follow her on Instagram @frontseatlife for daily motivation.
Not sure what your Myers Briggs personality type is? Take a free personality assessment at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-personality-assessment/
Looking for a tribe of growth-oriented people and want to stay closely connected to Jessica’s coaching? Join the Front Seat Life Community for a small monthly subscription at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-membership-group/
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21: Compartmentalization Can Save Your Life May 30, 2019

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Are you like spaghetti or waffles?
This might sound bonkers, but stay with me here as I jump into the world of COMPARTMENTALIZATION. Girl, if you have no idea what I’m talking about, this episode is especially for YOU. I see you, intuitive types and judging types. Are you squirreling out? Do you get distracted with every shiny object or great idea, flitting from one thing to another and not really getting much done? I’VE GOT YOU. Truly, let me show you the way to make your life not only EASIER and more efficient – but more FUN!
Let’s stop f*cking around, chasing all the shiny things. Let’s get you started; learning how to complete 90-day goals, how to focus, and how to choose to be present IN THE MOMENT so you can get WORK done like the lady boss you are. Find out how a simple experiment with a raisin, yes, a raisin, can help you FOCUS.
Nobody has enough time to afford the option to waste it, especially you. You’ve got BIG ideas, incredible skills, and important shit to do.
For more about Jessica and her upcoming events, visit https://jessicabutts.com
Follow her on Instagram @frontseatlife for daily motivation.
Not sure what your Myers Briggs personality type is? Take a free personality assessment at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-personality-assessment/
Looking for a tribe of growth-oriented people and want to stay closely connected to Jessica’s coaching? Join the Front Seat Life Community for a small monthly subscription at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-membership-group/
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20: Yes, I Can with Guest Sara Dean May 23, 2019

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Zone of Genius? Zone of Excellence? WTF are those? Sara and I go deep today into defining these concepts. And we detail how we can get caught in our comfort zones sometimes, sticking to our Excellence and avoiding the discomfort that is required to push through to get to our Genius.
This wonderful conversation with Sara Dean, host of the Shameless Mom Podcast and Academy, reveals so many of the struggles we can run into as our businesses grow and require us to take on new roles, new duties. What so many of us do is jump in and think, “I got to do it all. I gotta do everything.” But that just won’t work.
Sara and I talk about how we often need to allow our Zone of Genius to evolve and how it is so important to listen to your body, which can often show you through somatic response what you should be focusing on, and what you need to be delegating.
Staying in your Zone of Excellence can feel great! You feel successful, you’re doing the things you are good at and it’s so comfortable… which is why so many get stuck there. But to grow and reach new levels, you must push past this and get uncomfortable.
Sara says, “I do the scary things and I have this firm belief that anyone can be Oprah. Oprah is not special. She is uniquely talented at what she does, but she’s not special. And all of us have those things in us.”
We have all these people that we look up to and we think, “Oh, well someone’s already doing that, and they have 7 million followers and a six-figure or seven-figure business. Why even bother? And we look at that and we don’t even try. And I think that for me, what I continue to tell myself is that anyone can be Oprah.”
“But you have to take the steps every single day. You must do the uncomfortable things. So I’ve just shown up and done the uncomfortable things over and over and over again.
This episode is packed full of inspiration and wisdom, and it all starts with your belief that yes, you can. You must listen to this one, it’s a doozy.
I’ll leave you with one final bit of awesomeness from Sara. You know I’m a huge proponent of a Morning practice, and Sara is too. However, when she first tried writing morning affirmations, she admits she thought it was “ridiculously cheesy.”
But now, after some practice and consistency, she says, “What I do is every morning when I write them, it gets me excited about what I’m going to do that day and it makes me immediately step into my power and recognize and acknowledge the direction that I’m going.”
Thanks again for listening, I so appreciate it! I hope this will help you to step into your power, and get you excited about the direction you are headed!
For more about Sara Dean and her Shameless Mom Podcast and Academy, go to https://shamelessmom.com/
For more about Jessica and her upcoming events, visit https://jessicabutts.com
Follow her on Instagram @frontseatlife for daily motivation.
Not sure what your Myers Briggs personality type is? Take a free personality assessment at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-personality-assessment/
Looking for a tribe of growth-oriented people and want to stay closely connected to Jessica’s coaching? Join the Front Seat Life Community for a small monthly subscription at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-membership-group/
Not sure what your Myers Briggs personality type is? Take a free personality assessment at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-personality-assessment/
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19: Purpose, Passion, and Resistance with Guest Mandi Ann May 16, 2019

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Determination, passion, purpose, mindset… and not living five minutes in front of your face. My special guest Mandi Ann and I talk candidly about what it took her to find the ideal path for her journey. A path which delivered so much passion and purpose, she became determined to write her new book and grow her business, despite the resistance which showed up.
We discuss how this devil (resistance) is always showing up, at every level of your journey… new level, new devil! But, if you can find ways to maintain your determination and focus, you can continue to move forward and upward.
Revealing some of the common stumbling blocks, we go deep into the importance of setting boundaries to maintain a laser-like focus. Setting boundaries and prioritizing almost becomes easier when you have decided on your path. Mandi says, “I truly do think that when you find that purpose, that passion, you will set those boundaries and you just do anything.”
And to continue to “do anything” can be really friggin’ hard when that damn devil keeps showing up with another challenge or roadblock. Mandi Ann and I tell some stories about the tough conversations we’ve had while setting boundaries, and I also let out of the bag my secret “dream job.”
Listen to this golden nugget-filled conversation, take the time and make the moment to get quiet, to settle down, to allow yourself to be open to possibilities. Thanks again for listening, I so appreciate it!
For more about Mandi Ann and her new book, Creating Your Purpose-Driven Business, go to https://www.mandiann.com
For more about Jessica and her upcoming events, visit https://jessicabutts.com
Follow her on Instagram @frontseatlife for daily motivation.
Not sure what your Myers Briggs personality type is? Take a free personality assessment at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-personality-assessment/
Looking for a tribe of growth-oriented people and want to stay closely connected to Jessica’s coaching? Join the Front Seat Life Community for a small monthly subscription at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-membership-group/
Not sure what your Myers Briggs personality type is? Take a free personality assessment at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-personality-assessment/
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18: How Intuition Can Be Your Biggest Blessing and Also Your Biggest Curse May 09, 2019

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A blessing and a curse, being an Intuitive can potentially be both at the same time. Join Jessica as she dives DEEP into Chapter 3 of her book, “Don’t Do Stuff You Suck At”. She gets literally into the HEART of being an INTUITIVE and how it can simultaneously be a huge advantage and the biggest affliction. Dive into this episode to see if your intuitive nature could be RUINING your life! Heads up that this is one SASSY episode, so you may want to cover little ears. Jessica is fired up and NOT holding back. Be ready for the truest of truth bombs, laughter, and tears.
Today’s episode was captured LIVE on 5/8/19 in her Instagram/Facebook-based Book Club. If you are not following this series and have not joined the Front Seat Life Community, you are missing out on amazing additional content, connection, and deeper discussion about these topics. Today’s podcast is just a taste of the deep dives we take together in the Community.
Join the upcoming Book Club covering Jessica’s second book, Don’t Do Stuff You Suck At, running May 6-17 at 7:00 am PDT on Facebook and Instagram. Get Jessica’s analysis chapter by chapter along with 4 accompanying handouts. Join at: https://tw183.infusionsoft.com/app/form/book-club-opt-in
Follow her on Instagram @frontseatlife for daily motivation.
Not sure what your Myers Briggs personality type is? Take a free personality assessment at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-personality-assessment/
Looking for a tribe of growth-oriented people and want to stay closely connected to Jessica’s coaching? Join the Front Seat Life Community for a small monthly subscription at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-membership-group/
Not sure what your Myers Briggs personality type is? Take a free personality assessment at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-personality-assessment/
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17: J’s and Wonky Summer Energy May 02, 2019

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“I’m about to go on a Rampage, quite honestly, this summer, like a straight up rampage to help people have the best summer of their lives.”
I’m going just going to keep it real right up front. What I’m going to talk to you about today is potentially going to just blow your mind. This is especially for the “J’s.” That’s not true. This is for everybody. But this shit today is, is a little off the hook. I remember learning about this and having it be potentially one of the most validating things I’ve probably ever learned. Learning about my personality type, the “J” personality type, which is 50% of the population, and how we react during weird, wonky, unstable summer energy.
When I learned this from Jenny Dawn, understanding that the summer comes with unstable “seasonal” energy because when summer comes, it’s this “free time,” which we feel as kids when suddenly school’s out and the days are long, and we get to play!
When we are in winter, we’re obviously hibernating, we’re closed in. This is a time to really work plans for our lives and doing all those things to take care of ourselves. That way when spring comes, we flourish out of those ideas and those ideas start to grow and they start to come out of us.
Then we go into summer and summer is this unstable wonky energy. Technically there isn’t a lot of productivity going on, but that is what this Front Seat Life “Summer Challenge” is all about. Because we can be productive, we can, and we need to because it’s three months out of the year. So, this Summer Challenge is to help you stay on track during this time.
These are all things that we seem to somewhat abandon in the summer. I hope and pray that you will stick with me over the summer because today’s episode, I hope, is helpful in just validating the wonkiness of summer. The biggest thing is keeping that schedule, understanding who you are, and being unapologetically who you are.
Go to my website at for more information about the Book Club, and my event in September, and of course, stick with me for this challenge. The Front Seat Life Summer Challenge is about showing up and continuing to be unapologetically who we are, to not do stuff that we suck at, to not pretend that we suddenly change in the summer, and to stay productive.
And the way that we need to stay productive is to have a schedule that we stick to, to get some sleep, to still do self-care, to have fun, to compartmentalize, and to make sure that we’re really, really clear about our life, love, and business goals. Again, I don’t know what this summer bullshit is, we just throw everything out the door and take the whole summer off, and then come September you’re three months behind.
I want to help you stay on task and I’m on a crazy passionate kick right now about wanting this to be the best summer of your life, to own who you are, to learn to, to have the best business, to have the best fitness and wellness and relationships of your life. I hope that you will join me all summer long and I can’t wait. Stay focused. Stay in your brilliance being unapologetically who you are and thank you so much for listening.
To find out more about Jessica visit https://jessicabutts.com/.
Follow her on Instagram @frontseatlife for daily motivation.
Looking for a tribe of growth-oriented people and want to stay closely connected to Jessica’s coaching? Join the Front Seat Life Community for a small monthly subscription at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-membership-group/.
To learn more about the new Front Seat Love Online Course for Couples, go to: http://www.frontseatlove.com.
Not sure what your Myers Briggs personality type is? Take a free personality assessment at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-personality-assessment/.
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16: Leaving A Sh#tty Job Apr 25, 2019

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“It’s when sh#t like this comes up… when you are stressed out, when you want to punch someone in the face for eating popcorn and they’re not doing their job… and you realize: I could be putting my talents to better use.”
All right Front Seat Lifers, this is a very special episode today. I have my very favorite person in the entire world on the podcast, my sister Erica. We pretty much hated each other during our teenage years, I think, as most girls did. But since then, we are the best of friends, deeply, deeply in each other’s lives. So much so, that when I started my coaching groups and my business a few years ago, my sister was my helper. I always had this vision of her being a part of my business for some reason. She’s funny, she’s engaging. She has an unbelievable work ethic. So, when I started doing my group programs, she was my helper. She was organized, she greeted people, she just loved on them.
She was brilliant at it, absolutely brilliant at it. The lovely and incredible side effect is that she sat in the back of the room working, doing diligence, being of service to all my clients for about two years and inadvertently heard everything that I was teaching them. Subconsciously, all of this stuff kind of seeped into her beautiful mind and all of a sudden one day she called me and said, “I think I want to start my own dog walking business.”
And I think my reaction was, “It’s about f-ing time and hallelujah, praise God!” because it was so obvious. She’s been a dog and cat lover, and animal rights activist since she was born. It seems like she just kind of came out of our mama loving on animals and wanting to be of service to animals.
It wasn’t just such an easy transition. She’s a hard worker, she’s organized, but she just needed, I think to hear the stuff that I was saying about how you can leap, that you can do the hard work. It’s not going to be easy. It’s going to take effort. She had to work two, three, even four jobs to make it happen, but the next hour is really the story of how this person in my life that I love so much made the leap. She left her shitty corporate job and made the leap and how she’s making more money and so much happier.
I know how many of you are listening right now that are in the exact same situation my sister was in and that you feel like you can’t do it. You don’t have the blessing from your family. You don’t know how you’re going to do it financially. And I’m here to tell you it’s not going to be easy. Erica had to run herself ragged just as I did and every entrepreneur I know does, and then at some point, “Oh my God, I can do this.”
I hope that you will sit down, listen to this episode. Yes, it’s a leap and yes, it’s terrifying, but when you can make that move and you’ve proven to yourself you can do it, you will feel as light as a feather. Or as Erica says, as light as one of the Olsen twins.
This is why so many of you are listening to this Front Seat Life Podcast and staying motivated and inspired in your life because so many of you want the same thing that my sister was able to do. Thank you so much for listening and enjoy.
“I have for sure had dog poop in my hair, maybe under my nails. It’s raining a week straight and it’s still a better scenario for me than the best day as a state worker. The worst day as a dog walker will forever be better than the best day as a state worker.” – Erica
To find out more about Jessica visit https://jessicabutts.com/.
Follow her on Instagram @frontseatlife for daily motivation.
Looking for a tribe of growth-oriented people and want to stay closely connected to Jessica’s coaching? Join the Front Seat Life Community for a small monthly subscription at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-membership-group/.
To learn more about the new Front Seat Love Online Course for Couples, go to: http://www.frontseatlove.com.
Not sure what your Myers Briggs personality type is? Take a free personality assessment at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-personality-assessment/.

15: Where Are You Going? Apr 18, 2019

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Who are you, where are you going, and how are you going to get there? These words came from when I was in graduate school. We were given some homework that summer before we started, and I read this book and it had those three lines in that book. Who are you, where are you going and how are you going to get there? And I specifically remember where I was. I lived in Issaquah, Washington at the time and I was at a park. It was a gorgeous sunny afternoon and I was reading at the park and at that moment I just had an epiphany, a light bulb kind of moment, a sad moment.
Front Seat Lifers, I have been taking you on a journey. For the past several months we have been focusing on who you are and how you show up in the world. And understanding the personality types of those around you, and how they are showing up and how this impacts your relationships.
That first question of “Who are you?” is so important, along with understanding your family of origin, your traumas, your personality type, and your core values. These things in our lives that don’t change and then the things that we can work on in relationships with other people. And it all comes down to really being the best version of ourselves. Being in our Front Seat, living our lives from the Front Seat and then showing up and being unapologetically who we are.
And once we have a pretty good idea to this “Who are you?” question, we can begin to try to answer another whopper. So today marks a big day, a big day because we are transitioning from the “Who are you?” into the second question, which is “Where are you going?”
That day in the park was a pivotal moment in my life. I was in my mid-thirties and I didn’t know who I was. I had lost myself in my marriage, lost myself in my career. I had lost my identity or maybe I never found it. And I sat there not only trying to figure out who I was but trying to answer this question, “Where was I going?” I started for the first time in my life to have a clear direction. I had signed up for graduate school. I had quit my job. I knew some about where I was going, but quite honestly, I was somewhat living about two or three months in front of my face. I didn’t necessarily have a long-term vision yet.
With today’s episode, we will begin to explore this tough question and I will help you begin to find clarity in your path. Once we have the vision, we will begin to fill in the necessary steps to get there, but this is the start. I want people to quit settling and start thriving. It makes me so sad when I watch people settle, to not have a plan, to not have any idea where they’re going in their life. Because here’s a fact. This is a fact. If you do nothing different, you can expect the same exact results.
Those visions that I had starting back then on that park bench are now happening and yes, it might take 10 years, it might take five years. Sometimes it takes five days or five months. That’s the part that I know that we are not in control over, but what we are in control over is what we do about it. And until you know the “why,” which is this vision for your life, all that stuff, you’re not going to do it.
That is the importance of what we’re going to talk about today, and as we go forward. I hope today’s episode is inspirational for you, motivational, and I hope that you will go on this journey with me.
If you want this summer to be a defining summer of your life, don’t let this summer go by like all the others and just waste it away. Join the Front Seat Life community. It’s the best investment you’re ever going to make. This summer is going to be an epic summer and I hope you will come along with us. I will see you next week. Thank you for listening.
To find out more about Jessica visit https://jessicabutts.com/.
Follow her on Instagram @frontseatlife for daily motivation.
Looking for a tribe of growth-oriented people and want to stay closely connected to Jessica’s coaching? Join the Front Seat Life Community for a small monthly subscription at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-membership-group/.
To learn more about the new Front Seat Love Online Course for Couples, go to: http://www.frontseatlove.com.
Not sure what your Myers Briggs personality type is? Take a free personality assessment at https://jessicabutts.com/front-seat-life-personality-assessment/.
Front Seat Life Podcast
https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/front-seat-life-podcast/

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