EP274: Juliet Funt - How to Take Back Control of Your Time

Juliet Funt: Work shouldn't be the hardest part of people's lives, and it should be a joy to come and contribute, and it should have ease, and it should be humane and not designed for a robotic adherence to productivity standards that, that crush good people. And that was the heart of the work. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a great one. Our guest is the CEO of the Juliet Fund Group, a training and consulting firm that helps organizations, their leaders, and employees flip the norms of business in order to reclaim their creativity, productivity, and engagement. She's also the author of A Minute to Think: Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Business, And do your best work. Juliette Funke, welcome to the show. Thanks, I'm glad to be here. Great to have you. And, you know, I always love having an episode where we step back and go, wait a second, are we doing what's best? Are we sharpening the saw? Can't wait to get into that. Juliette, tell us about your career journey leading up to this point. Sure, I spent about 10 years as a keynote speaker on the circuit consulting and speaking on the topic that we'll talk about, and then we translated that IP into a company and training programs, and we built a company. And then for about 10 years, we've been in organizations making measurable change, helping people have a better experience of work, removing some of the waste— we call it the decrapification of work— helping them have less emails, meetings, decks, reports, and measuring those Transitions. And so that's been the last 20 years.

Michael Palmer: Wow. So you've been doing— you've been, you've been in this. This is it, baby. This is my lane. I have one lane. I always think it's interesting when the author comes up with the next book that's the completely different topic, because I think I'll be talking about this, uh, for the rest of my career. This is definitely my passion and my expertise. You know, we talk about lanes a lot, you know, the, the whole niche idea, and it's powerful. It really is powerful. And you're proving