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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 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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Friday Mar 10, 2023
Friday Mar 10, 2023
"I think many of us are living by what we decided we wanted 10 or 20 years ago and we're too afraid of course-correct." That's how Jackie McDougall felt after years in the television industry. After deciding at a young age that she wanted to be in television she left Boston for California at age 23 with $700 in her pocket and she never looked back. Years later, however, she noticed the 40+ demographic being overlooked in the talk show field, and she decided to do something about it. Now a coach and host of The Grown Ass Woman podcast. "My work has morphed not just for the creative folks," she says, "but for a variety of women who want to do something. They know they want something...but they're not exactly sure how to get there." In this conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour, McDougall shares her insights for taking the knowledge gained in corporate life and twisting it to fit your personal practice. Listen in for her tips on dealing with imposter syndrome, positioning yourself as an expert, and facing the fear so you can do more of what you love.
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Friday Mar 03, 2023
Friday Mar 03, 2023
What do you do when your biggest source of revenue is also your biggest source of serious, detrimental stress? Monica Froese found herself in that position 11 years into her career in technology. She was managing $15 million marketing campaigns while unknowingly suffering from postpartum PTSD. “The fear of failure is what holds us back,” says Froese now. “I fail all the time…but here’s the thing: when I set my mind to something, I don’t fail.” Listen in to her conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour to learn how she reinvented her career by becoming an entrepreneur and healing her postpartum trauma, how a visit to the White House inspired her to take action on an important cause, and her advice for navigating your own career reinvention.
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Friday Feb 17, 2023
Friday Feb 17, 2023
“It was more than just, 'Oh, I need a break,'" says Stephanie Smirnov. "It felt like something deeper than that." Many of us know the nature of burnout; that malaise between exhaustion and depletion that can raise its ugly head in either your work or personal life. Smirnov, who loved her work in PR for 30 years, suddenly found herself burned out and in need of a big change. “When I started to think about the things I loved outside of PR that fueled me,” she says, “I realized…I would love to do for others what executive coaches did for me. I love helping people discover their best.” But she loved the people she worked with and didn’t want to uproot everything. What did she do? She reinvented herself from within. Smirnov changed her perspective on her workplace by bringing a big new idea to her boss. That allowed her to completely reimagine and reframe her work within her agency as an executive coach. Listen in to her conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour to learn how she navigated overwhelm and reimagined her role inside the business she loved without leaving.
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Time Stamps:
2:50 - What drew Smirnov to a 30-year career in PR
11:00 - Experiencing burnout, her "Aha Moment" and how she made her pivot
19:20 - Smirnov's mindset around failure
21:00 - Networking for beginners
26:20 - How to make a pivot within an organization
29:00 - Therapy and coaching - what's the difference?
33:00 How do you know if you need an executive coach?
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Friday Feb 03, 2023
Friday Feb 03, 2023
What do you do when you feel called towards creative work, but the prospect of ditching your paycheck and your health insurance is impossible? For many, supporting a family financially doesn’t leave room for the risk of a total career invention (besides, maybe you really do enjoy your work! ) Yet you feel an itch to create, to reignite some aspect of your life. For Heather Frimmer, leaving her career in radiology wasn’t the answer. But she did figure out how to free her passion for writing. Listen in to her conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour as Frimmer describes how she carved out the time and resources to take her hobby of writing to a whole new rewarding level.
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Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
“I think the normal career advice we get is, if you have a lot of passions, you’ve got to choose just one,” says author, speaker, and teacher Sarabeth Berk. “Otherwise, how are you going to be successful if you’re trying to do 10 things at once?” Berk needed to answer that question. Feeling pigeonholed in her career, she set off on a series of research interviews with people who have multiple expertise and are successful. She dubs it "The Hybrid Career" which she outlines in her new book "More Than My Title: The Power of Hybrid Professionals in a Workforce of Experts and Generalists." Listen in to her conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour to learn how she built an online course to help others find their momentum so they can look beyond their title to uncover the diversity of work they’re truly passionate about.
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9:09 - What it means to be a creative disruptor
13:05 - What are professional hybrid identities?
17:17 - How to find your own professional identity
21:00 - What is a hyprid elevator pitch and how can it help you reposition yourself?
32:58 - Sarabeth's favorite resources and suggestions
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Friday Jan 20, 2023
Friday Jan 20, 2023
Taina Bien-Aimé has always been a groundbreaker. As a journalist, she spent years witnessing, researching, and documenting injustice against women around the world, especially the things that were holding them back and the areas where they most needed support. After years of fighting in the trenches for women's equality, Bien-Aimé returned to school in her 30s to earn a law degree so she could take her advocacy to the next level. Today, Bien-Aimé is the Executive Director for the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. Listen in to her conversation with CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, to learn how she left the financial security of her corporate career to pursue the work that she felt called to do.
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Taina Bien-Aimé (she/her) has three decades of experience defending the rights of women and girls at the national and global levels. She is currently the Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), one of the oldest international organizations dedicated to ending trafficking in women and girls and commercial sexual exploitation as practices of gender-based violence and discrimination.
Prior to this position and for twenty years, Taina was involved with Equality Now, a global organization working to promote the human rights of women and girls, first as a founding Board member and subsequently as its Executive Director for ten years. She was also a Director of Business Affairs at Home Box Office and practiced international corporate law at the Wall Street law firm, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.
Taina holds a Juris Doctor from NYU School of Law and a degree in Political Science from the University of Geneva/Graduate School of International Studies in Switzerland. Taina has extensive media experience and was honored with a number of awards for her work and campaigns to uphold the human rights of women and girls globally. In 2021, she was listed on the inaugural 2021 Forbes’ 50>50 Women Who Have Made a Social Impact.
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Friday Jan 06, 2023
Friday Jan 06, 2023
"For some of us, we need to fall back into what we're doing," says Traci Schubert Barrett. "And for some of us, we need to leave." As a founding team member for HGTV, Schubert Barrett had reached the proverbial top of the corporate mountain and had everything she could want — success, a happy marriage, a family, even financial freedom. Yet she found herself wondering, “Is there more?” Despite being able to walk the C-suite of one of America's largest TV networks, she chose to leave and pursue the answer to that question. In this intimate conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour, Schubert Barrett discusses how she discovered her “more” and found true, sustainable fulfillment. Listen in for her insights on how to navigate your own journey of career reinvention, even if you're not sure where to begin.
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We’ve gone through all the predetermined mile markers set before us, checked all the boxes, and now society tells us we have only one mile marker left to pass - retirement. Or do we? We are living in an age that has begun to redefine retirement along with how and when we work. What does this mean for us at midlife and how can we reimagine the second half of our life in a way that matches who we are today? And what about those pressing questions that arise at this stage of our life: Who am I really? What do I want? Is there more out there for me? Wrestling with these questions is natural, especially in this post-pandemic world. Having the answers is not. Traci Schubert Barrett, entrepreneur, podcast host, and author of the new book What If There's More: Finding Significance Beyond Success, will give us a framework to redefine success on our own terms, decide what we want from the second half of life, and challenge us to embrace a life that is significant to ourselves and those around us.
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Bio
Former HGTV executive Traci Schubert Barrett has been there. As a founding team member of the cable television network, Traci achieved what most would define as the pinnacle of success—office in downtown Chicago, traveling all over the country for work, rubbing elbows with HGTV talent—but, the longer she held that position, the more dissatisfied she felt with her life. She began to wonder, “What if there’s more?” So, she took the risk of her life, walked away from her comfortable corporate job, and devoted time to finding significance in her life beyond professional success.
Now, as a woman in midlife, Traci has found her purpose. As an executive coach, podcast host, and author, Traci helps other women who are asking themselves “what if there’s more?” navigate the second half of their lives.
Time Stamps
[8:06] Creating HGTV
[13:18] Leaving her executive position to look for fulfillment
[24:26] How to cope with fear of the unknown and fear of losing your identity
[28:56] What she chose to do after discovering her "more"
[34:31] Schubert Barrett's advice for getting out of the "golden handcuffs" when you think you can do more