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A podcast offering tips and tricks for reinventing yourself by former More magazine Editor In Chief and creator of CoveyClub.com, Lesley Jane Seymour.
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Friday May 26, 2023
Friday May 26, 2023
"What purpose can this pain serve?" asks serial reinventor Rebecca Contreras. From childhood abuse and neglect to poverty and addiction, Contreras has risen above all manner of challenges in her life. She recounts these experiences in her book, Lost Girl: From the Hood to the White House to Millionaire Entrepreneur, and in this intimate conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour. A must-listen for anyone who has ever contemplated leaving their corporate job and venturing into the unknown, her insights will empower you to embrace change, find the tools you need, and ignite your entrepreneurial spirit.
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About Rebecca Contreras
Rebecca Contreras is currently the President & CEO of AvantGarde LLC (AG), a consulting firm she cofounded in 2011 which focuses on HR, organizational development, business operations, and technology. Her company has grown to over 110 employees spread all over the country and their offices in the Austin and Washington DC area have clients in 26 different government agencies. Rebecca is also an author and thought leader. She recently launched her new book LostGirl: From the hood to the White House to Millionaire.
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Website • Facebook • LinkedIn • Instagram • Book
Time Stamps:
9:00 - Surviving childhood trauma, navigating poverty and wellfare
13:00 - Working as a commissioned officer for President George W. Bush
15:00 - Leaving government work for entrepreneurship
21:00 - How to get involved with your local Chamber of Commerce to grow your business
23:00 - The obstacles women 40+ face when starting their own businesses
26:00 - Advice for physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing after 50
29:00 - How mindset applies to success
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Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
When the pandemic shook the world in the spring of 2020, Stacey Birch, a career bartender with a special-needs son, was in Bali working on a 12-month plan to reinvent her life. “Bringing Bob his beer and ranch dressing was no longer fulfilling,” she observes wryly. So after turning 50, she entered a contest to learn social media in Bali. Then Covid struck. “I crashed hard,” she CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour in this wildly candid and humorous conversation. Hear how Birch pivoted her goals, made the decision to uproot her life to Mexico, and reinvent herself as a retreat host and social media entrepreneur.
About Stacey: This Canadian single mama and career bartender turned her passion for puppies, margaritas and the 'gram into a total midlife pivot. At age 50 I moved to Mexico, healed myself through dog rescue and started a thriving social media business. It took a lovely combo of luck, determination, insanity and, well, the magic of IG to completely start anew. And now I would like to in turn take all that I have learned and help others rewriting their stories, starting anew to truly embrace this free marketing tool and community builder! I am launching a full course called the Midlife Social Savvy Course as well as hosting 1:1 personal branding retreats in Tulum Mexico...a content creator's dream.
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Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
Do you ever wonder how the most popular speakers and coaches land guest spots on top podcasts? Writer and podcast publicist Alice Draper knows the secret sauce. “Let’s say you’re leaving corporate and you’re starting a business,” she says. “Look at the examples around you…you’re bringing your own unique value.” With podcasts becoming the new platform for information and visibility, it’s important for entrepreneurs to understand how to use podcast guest-speaking to enhance their personal brand. In this conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour, Draper shares her practical advice on creating the perfect pitch to secure great podcast appearances. She also provides a downloadable outline for crafting a compelling pitch and shares actionable steps to get started.
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About Alice Draper
Alice Draper is a podcast publicist who is on a mission to make publicity easy and accessible for underrepresented women entrepreneurs at all stages of their businesses. When Alice started building her business, she knew that publicity, in the right places, would garner her the authority she needed to position herself as a high-end copywriter. And so, she started pitching magazines like VICE, Refinery29, HuffPost, and Business Insider. This came with an unplanned skill — the art of the pitch — which is how she ended up pivoting her business towards publicity. She has been running Hustling Writers for over two years and in this time, she has secured her clients in over 500 podcasts including countless top 1% and top 0.5% podcasts. When Alice isn’t building out publicity strategies or thinking of new story angles, she is taking advantage of her location independence by house-sitting with her partner in places like Tbilisi, Nairobi, or Cape Town.
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Friday May 05, 2023
Friday May 05, 2023
“My family was advised that they needed to come very quickly to say goodbye," says Geralyn Ritter. "My brother packed a dark suit for my funeral.” For Ritter, a near-fatal experience on the 2015 Philadelphia Amtrak derailment was the life-altering catalyst for a complete life and career reinvention. Her 2022 book, Bone by Bone: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing, details the story of her remarkable journey to recovery, moving through grief, trauma and healing. “The main reason I wrote it was to try to help other survivors,” she tells CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour in this candid conversation. “It has been enormously healing for me to be able to share my story.” Listen in to hear her insights on overcoming and the resources that supported her along the way.
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About Geralyn Ritter
Geralyn's doctors use the word "miraculous" to describe her survival and recovery. Today she lives a full life inspired by gratitude and offers hope and healing to many others. She is known for her distinctive laugh that fills a room and determined resilience in the face of personal and professional challenges. A recognized expert in healthcare policy, Geralyn was determined to re-start her career after years of disability leave following the accident. She is currently executive vice-president at Organon & Co., a new company dedicated to women's health. Prior to the launch of Organon in 2021, she was a longtime senior vice president of Merck & Co., Inc., one of the largest biopharmaceutical companies in the world. At Merck, her passion was leading the Company's engagement on social and community issues and supporting forward-thinking governance at the highest levels of the company. Geralyn and her husband Jonathan have been married for almost 25 years. Jonathan and their three sons traveled every step of the recovery journey with her, and their experiences as unexpected caretakers are an important part of her story.
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Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
What would you do if, as a healthy 20-something on the verge of achieving your dreams, your world was shattered by a health diagnosis? Elena Sonnino thought her body was broken and her life as she knew it was over. Through years of treatments and mystifying test results, she was determined to reinvent her relationship with her body and transform her health. In this intimate conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour, Sonnino shares her incredible story of overcoming. "I realized along the way that I wasn't broken, my heart and my soul weren't broken,” Sonnino observes. “I was just experiencing some things, and all of those experiences led to the reinvention of who I am today."
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About Elena
Elena Sonnino is a life coach, yin yoga teacher, and author. But what most people say about Elena is that she brings delightful sparks of energy to everything she does. Elena is on a mission to help you transform the walls of survival mode into doors of possibility so that you can step into the spotlight of your life as your most rooted and nourished self. Her work helps you get out of your head and into your body as your source of wisdom, and moves you from beyond shoulds and into delight, one day at a time. At home, Elena enjoys watching the sunrise, tending to her many plants, riding her Peloton bike, and impromptu kitchen dance parties.
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Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
"When I think about reinvention, I think about finding talents, hidden parts of you that need to come out and be front and center," says Dr. Joan Fallon. With over 20 years of experience researching autism and related disorders, Dr. Fallon founded Curemark, a pharmaceutical company focused on developing therapeutic treatments for neurological disorders. In this inspiring conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour, Dr. Fallon explains how her personal reinvention led her to changing the world of autism. Pass it along to anyone who needs to know about the groundbreaking work being done in the treatment of this disorder.
About Dr. Joan Fallon:
Dr. Fallon began her research on Autism and related disorders over 20 years ago and founded Curemark as a platform to develop product candidates to address her findings. Dr. Fallon has both clinical expertise and academic experience—the former from running a private practice specializing in pediatric development, and the latter as an Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Yeshiva University.
Dr. Fallon has played an integral role in two very successful (and unprecedented) medical ventures. She was an Oxford Health Plans board member and helped achieve underwriting authority from New York State, for alternative and complementary medicine where none had yet existed. She also helped implement a cost-effective, interdisciplinary health plan for Oxford that increased the level of quality care for all children enrolled there. Dr. Fallon has written numerous scholarly articles, lectured around the world on developmental problems in the pediatric population and served on the Board of Directors of the ICA and Kentuckiana Children’s Center. She serves as a Senior Advisor to the Henry Crown Fellows at The Aspen Institute, as well as a Distinguished Fellow at the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College/Columbia University. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Franklin & Marshall College. Dr. Fallon holds a B.A. degree from Franklin and Marshall College, a DC degree from Palmer University, and has completed the coursework for the MSc in clinical investigation from Harvard University’s joint program with Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Friday Apr 14, 2023
Friday Apr 14, 2023
“You can give in to just sitting around or you can do something creative, do something wonderful, do something for other people, which really makes you feel good.” So says Judy Katz, who found her dream career in her 60s and is still living it up in her 80s! Actively working, dating, and inspiring others, Katz is a professional ghostwriter, publisher, and marketer. If you have any inkling that you feel that you’re getting old in your 40s, 50s, 60s, or beyond, listen in to her fabulous conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour which will inspire you to toss that old idea out. As Katz says, “There's just so much you can contribute up to the last breath.”
About Judy
Judy Katz is an award-winning ghostwriter, editor, book publisher and promoter of 50 books, and still going strong. She also writes a blog called CelebrEighty to help change perceptions about “old age.”
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Friday Apr 07, 2023
Friday Apr 07, 2023
"Just follow your curiosity,” says expert reinventor Claire Campos-O’Neal, daughter of a first generation Mexican-American who ran for Texas State Representative for House District-51 in 2022. “If you want to know about the school board, just go to a school board meeting.” For Campos O'Neal, following her curiosity took her from volunteer work to politics to real estate and beyond. "Women don't self-nominate as much as men do and they run because they care about their community, not because it's a stepping stone to something else.” In this conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour she shares what running for office without a political background taught her. Listen in to learn her tips for stepping into the political scene as a civilian and what she learned about making your voice heard.
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About Claire Campos-O'Neal
Claire Campos-O'Neal is a former candidate for the Texas House of Representatives, an education advocate, mother to two young boys, and budding entrepreneur. Since running for public office Claire has had a passion to share her campaign journey and give others a glimpse behind the political curtain.
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Friday Mar 31, 2023
Friday Mar 31, 2023
"For me, in the beginning, it was a journaling practice," says Katty Douraghy. What it became was a gateway to understanding and processing her own grief. Now her memoir Butterfly Years: A Journey Through Grief Towards Hope serves as a beacon for anyone struggling to deal with the regret and sadness of loss. After losing her whole family in the span of six months, Douraghy was blindsided by grief and forced very suddenly to find the resources to cope. In this inspiring conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour she shares the experience of discovering her own resilience and her advice for others on learning to let go and move through the grieving process. "Don't think you're the only one who's going through this," she says. "There's a whole community of people out there who are feeling your pain, who will celebrate your joy, and they will celebrate your growth."
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Friday Mar 17, 2023
Friday Mar 17, 2023
“Older individuals in general are better at prioritizing time,” says Ashley Whillans, “But one thing I’ve also seen in some of my data is that older adults struggle a little bit to change their habits around work and meaningful pursuits outside of work.” An assistant professor at Harvard, a rising star in behavioral science, and author of the book Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life, Whillans is a wealth of information. But even for Whillans, there was a period when time stress was impacting her life. In this conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour she shares her fabulous tips that will help you break down your time into three areas so you can manage time and not let time manage you.
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