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The power of pruning! It's awesome to see how much you've achieved over the last few months. I can't wait to see how 2025 shapes up for you (and I'm excited for your book!).

Thought provoking. The three parts of yourself was a workable concept, but the idea of systematizing to the point of replacing humans in key systems, while prioritizing low skill gives me the ick-a great way to dehumanize and render your original vision lifeless. I prefer your idea of systematizing for the sake of doing your client work better. That’s aligned with how I like to run my business. That said, I’d also like to be able to travel a fair amount, so creating a community offering that mostly runs itself on its own people magic is my goal. Do you have any videos or recommendations for how to systematize in general, like how to approach that process? Thanks, Jessica!

I was trying to force my way through the audiobook just last week and kept thinking, "Dude, stop hassling and lecturing poor Sara and actually listen to her!" Thank you for giving me permission to DNF this one and reframing for me.

This has SO needed saying.

This is so helpful - thanks Jessica

Can I ask questions about the Pull method that you were able to implement? I am actually a research scientist in academia. But I find our PIs always just want more be done and faster. I personally even have a hard time knowing what my capacity is and feels like all I do every day is to push very hard on myself.

Thank you! You highlighted and explained the important points so well. I found the Pull Workflow explanations particularly helpful, since I struggle with adding too many tasks to my to-do lists or jumping from one thing to the next. I feel like I'm drowning in tasks I need/want to do (my TH-cam "Watch Later" list is a disaster). Your approach to "pulling" items into your workflow only when you are ready is a helpful mindset for me. And I appreciate the "issues" you highlighted. I'm not always aware of why advice doesn't quite work for me and often wonder what I'm doing wrong. Even though I'm white, male, etc., I'm often in a caretaker role, which makes some of these principles difficult to apply. It can lead to frustration in my situation without realizing why it's happening (I read the advice, try but can't do it because of my responsibilities, get frustrated at myself and others, repeat). Elucidating these issues and making them concrete helps me frame this type of advice to my situation more clearly. TY!

There are 100s of ways to connect and build beautiful relationships that have nothing to do with social media. But for those who truly love it, yay for them.

💯 agree!!! I quit social media in 2017 and love snail mail, referrals, workshops, blogging, youtube and my email family. I also support colleagues once in while with their masterminds. So much more peaceful

100% margin here. just comparmentalize those costs 😎

I have just subscribed and amazed that you don't have more followers. Excellent review, thank you.

Cal Newport is only deep to shallow people. People aren’t burnt out because they thought overworking themselves was a super neat idea. Many of us aren’t given a choice. Our managers and employers enforce this frenetic pace and threaten us with discipline or joblessness otherwise. Organizations will literally cite tactics like what he recommends as pretexts for letting some one go. Maybe this works for a tenured professor or a freelancer with sufficient security to choose what projects they pursue, but he’s not marketing to that narrow a demographic, is he? Ultimately, he’s written another book for people like himself. Like so much of self help, this is a book about success management.

As a working wife and mother, who is also a big fan of Cal Newport and his processes, I really appreciate your views on this. I hope he considers the burden of family responsibilities that productive women often face.

Very good idea, Social Media postings seem to just get a couple of likes and do not reach potential clients. I have saved the video and will set myself some goals to get refocused

Thanks.... By the way - you have very nice and clear voice.

I love SGS terminology - so true!

wow thank you very for this review / VERY practical with most of our situation

i like that u used 2 rules to mesure the book .(the 3 and 4 stars )

"White, cis, able-bodied men".. really! It wasn't as if power was handed over to them They worked their asses off to get there. No one is stopping any other race or gender. We keep on doing reverse-racism and then expect others to not be racists. Reverse racism is racism.

Thanks for the breakdown! It helps to see a transitional path that feels authentic.

Great video.

Great video. Loved your breakdown.

This is incredible advice! As an INFP I was so uncomfortable with some of these tips and I knew that the discomfort is costing my business dearly. I opened an integrative medicine private practice so the gifts and check-ins ideas are not as relevant but the rest of your advice (when I follow them) will increase my business’ functioning and effectiveness exponentially. For all those in healthcare reading the comments first before the video, watch this video so it can help you reduce your marketing time and increase your patient care direct and indirect (patient care prof dev) as well as personal time! I a more subscribed and looking forward to your other videos.

Love these tangible steps, Jessica! So helpful!

This is great and totally makes sense! Challenge accepted! 🎉

Such a great, real, video.

Thanks for insight and the transparency. I've never seen anyone identify the hidden advantages that many of internet creators have but have never talked about. Keep up the amazing work!

Thank you! I soooo love this detailed and transparent reality check!

Great explanation and examples, very clear. More people should understand this before investing time and effort into an inherently limited business model.

Excellent and actionable information, its nice to see an alternative view on marketing/sales that doesn't devolve into posting frequency and funnel building. Thanks Jessica!

Excellent insights and clear guidance on how to figure out where you are and what you need to do!

I'm a long fan of cal newport. I agree with everything you said. I like to see his interviews and podcast more than his book, because there he is confronted with these exact questions, and then he enters deep into these dark corners, not giving exact solutions, or simply saying, I don't have a solution other than you changing jobs. yet his views helped me a lot in my own life. specially if you are trying to build a business as I am. buy again, you are right. I was in the military for example when I met him. There if I say No to a task in my country, I can even get arrested for insubordination, so, I'm surrounded by politics, while trying to be the more honest as possible to my many bosses (the military has a lot of administration work too).

Love it Jessica. Made me think. Thank you!

That's a breath of fresh air, Jessica. I'm tired of hype and hacks!

Jessica, your insightful video provides a refreshing perspective on marketing, emphasizing genuine connections over digital noise. Your wisdom is invaluable. Keep shining!

Yes! It's so easy to put your head down and do all this great work you were excited to do as a freelance... and then realize you'd left sales and marketing systems unattended. I really like your take on "networking" (the good type), and also the role of long-form writing about your services as a way to hone your voice and technique. I'm finding that the more I explain my services, the better I'm getting at it, and the more opportunities I'm seeing.

Thanks Jessica - you must have read my mind because I am in the second year and just realised its a slump! I appreciate you making it real for me. I don't feel so alone in this solopreneur journey. Now to work on the three skills!

My experience with employers was their attitude toward assignment was "Shut up and do it." They did not analyze how best to achieve the organization's goals. It was "I pay you, here's the work." That doesn't mean slow productivity isn't worth pursuing, but like anything, you have to modify to your circumstances.

I really enjoyed your perspective. I dont always see the missing pieces that keep things from being the right solution until im trying it out myself

Excellent review. You give a very good insight into the content, the principles and discuss those in a wider context. This is combined with great presentation. I only wonder, why you have not so many followers yet. Outstanding work. I am particularly glad to hear the issue of indivdual solutions for systemic problems. A general issue of all self-help books. I appreciate about Newport that he, in contrast to many other authors, doesn't propose magical solutions. Rather his books stem from years of tinkering on thoughts. Granted he writes about his situation as a college professor and successful author. This is fair. But one should stop and think whether one's own situation is similar to his and whether the principles discussed in his book are applicable. I am looking forward to your next videos.

To be fair to Newport, a lot of the criticisms here are the classic reviewer's critique that he didn't write the book that she would have written - which, of course, was never his intention. Is it fair, for example, to expect him to have addressed the problems of late-stage Capitalism or the power dynamics in large organizations? Or the problem of childcare support? He had his topic and his focus, and he covered those areas very well; no book can cover everything. Perhaps Lackey should write her own book to cover the other areas of modern life she considers important.

Great review! I really appreciated your balanced approach and you pointing out the weaknesses of this book in a way that is not confrontational but constructive (which is hard considering they are the tipical eyeroll issues found in most books written by privileged cis white men). Also the video production is very good! Which is particularly impressive considering how small the channel is. Will check your other videos out!

Great info Jessica! Every entrepreneur needs to know this.

This was another great video!

This is great, Jessica!! Love the clear examples.

This is SO helpful! There's so much noise in the online space to get visible and I love the encouragement to get thoughtful & intentional about matching the model to the methods. So, so happy I found your channel on here ✨

Yay! So fun to see you here!

I love your clarity, Jessica!! Inspired!