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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 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.
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[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
Friday Dec 30, 2022
Friday Dec 30, 2022
“Reinvention is sexy and glamorous, but it doesn’t have to be a huge transformation,” says business strategist, coach and serial reinventor, Diann Wingert. Wingert, who likes to be challenged by the new and unfamiliar, has reinvented her marriage, her career, and even her religion. “I’m the kind of person who can make big, bold sweeping changes in a very short period of time,” she tells CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour. “But frankly, most people don’t need to do that.” Listen in to this conversation in which Wingert reveals what made her decide to transform her beloved career as a psychologist (backward looking) into becoming a life coach (forward looking) when she felt stifled by a traditional practice. Follow her tips for examining your own career and shifting into a model that feels more challenging and new!
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Bio: Diann Wingert became a business strategist, coach, and consultant after a 20-year career as a licensed psychotherapist. Her mission is to help women with big ideas and busy brains become focused, fired up, and flame-retardant. Diann is the creator of The Boss Up Breakthrough and host of The Driven Woman Entrepreneur Podcast.
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Friday Dec 23, 2022
Friday Dec 23, 2022
It’s harder to work towards your goals when you’re surrounded by people who make you question them, says Elizabeth Rosenberg, founder of The Good Advice Company. A large part of every successful reinvention is having the support system to encourage you to hang in there So how can you be kinder to yourself and hold space for yourself while you’re in the reinvention transition? Listen in to Rosenberg’s conversation with CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, to learn how she cultivated the difficult practice of allowing herself grace while creating necessary change, and how you can best support yourself on the journey towards your own reinvention.
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The Good Advice Company • LinkedIn • Twitter
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Monday Dec 19, 2022
Monday Dec 19, 2022
We’ve all had that seemingly unrealistic dream that seems to be waiting on the other end of corporate life. The lawyer who wants to be a novelist; the accountant who longs to be a chef. For Jennifer Turbo, her reinvention took her into that dream space – and made it a reality. Previously a technical writer for engineers and software developers, Turbo’s heart was in stand-up comedy. Listen in to her conversation with CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, to find out how, using a step-by-step approach (including relocating to a new city after a personal tragedy), she turned her dreams into a reality. “Here's a spoiler alert,” says Turbo: “Nobody knows what they're doing. And quite frankly, that's what makes it fun.”
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Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Jill Granoff is no stranger to career reinvention. As a student at Duke University, Granoff was convinced she would pursue a career in psychology, but somewhere along the way she found that it just didn’t fit. Granoff reinvented her career with an MBA in organizational behavior, moving from industrial consultation to the beauty industry. She spent a decade at Estee Lauder where she found herself desiring another transition. Shifting from the corporate world to the business of retail and later into the fashion industry, Granoff was responsible for internationally-recognized brands like Victoria’s Secret, Liz Claiborne, Kate Spade and Juicy Couture. Now the CEO of Eurazeo Brands, her latest reinvention has led her into the world of private equity. In this conversation with Covey Club founder Lesley Jane Seymour, Jill Granoff shares her experience of reinvention through a different lens, navigating a national financial crisis, and more. Listen in for her advice on how to leverage your relationships to pursue the work you truly want.
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Bio: Jill Granoff is Managing Partner of Eurazeo, a leading listed European investment firm with over $30 billion in assets under management, and CEO of Eurazeo Brands, its global consumer division focused on growth equity. Based in New York, she is responsible for leading investment activities and overseeing the performance of Eurazeo Brands’ portfolio companies globally. Ms. Granoff has a distinguished 30-year career leading consumer-driven companies and is best known as a strategist and brand builder in the beauty, fashion, and retail industries.
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Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
“I can’t control what happened, but I can control how I react to it.” This was Jane Enright’s guiding thought as she navigated the worst year of her life. When three consecutive tragedies occurred in the span of a year, Enright found herself recovering from physical injury, caregiving for a loved one, and grieving her best friend - all at once. A committed “glass half-full girl,” she was determined to become the CEO of everything. She wrote her first book, Butter Side Up, about the challenges she faced in that year while overcoming a traumatic brain injury. “When disaster strikes,” she tells CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour, “having a positive mindset is our best defense against getting swallowed up in that hamster wheel of dread and grief and loss. That’s not denying the feelings, but rather letting them go.” Listen in to her conversation to learn her advice for not just surviving but thriving through unimaginable sudden change.
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Bio: Jane Enright is an ordinary person who has survived some extraordinary things. An inspiring and humorous inspirational author, speaker, and positivity expert, Canada-based Enright is a former kindergarten teacher, strategic planner, and university lecturer, as well as the founder and CEO of Everything at My Super Awesome Life Inc. She is also the author of Butter Side Up: How I Survived My Most Terrible Year & Created My Super Awesome Life and Jane’ Jam: Inspiration To Create Your Super Awesome Life.
Jane speaks to audiences seeking answers to overcoming a fear of the unknown, grief, stress, loss, depression, anxiety, stagnation, indecision, sadness, and more. From top executives to stay-at-home moms, she is helping audiences throughout North America land “butter side up” find joy, successfully manage change, and learn how to create their super awesome after unexpected change.
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Friday Nov 18, 2022
Friday Nov 18, 2022
What if your entire life fell apart in the space of a single year? For Claudia Dreifus, that what-if became a reality. Growing up in New York, Dreifus was a student at NYU in the ‘60s and deeply involved in the Civil Rights movement. She built a career as a journalist, a craft she had practiced since she was a teenager. But in 1992, her life was upended. Dreifus broke up with a toxic boyfriend, sold her house, left her job, and was forced to start over. Listen in to her conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour as she explains why this “trifecta of personal change” forced her to reinvent both her career and her personal life. "You have to look around, you have to see what's possible," advises this writer and professor at Columbia University. "You've got to plant in different fields so that one of them bears fruit."
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Bio: Claudia Dreifus is an American journalist, educator and lecturer, producer of the weekly feature “Conversation with…” of the Science Section of The New York Times, and known for her interviews with leading figures in world politics and science. She is adjunct associate professor of international affairs and media at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University.
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Friday Nov 11, 2022
Friday Nov 11, 2022
"What is it that brings you fulfillment and satisfaction, outside of work and family commitments?" That’s the question Michael Clinton asks his readers in order to help jump-start their reinvention. After over 40 years in magazine publishing, including roles the publisher of GQ and president and publishing director of Hearst Magazines, Clinton felt that his life was missing “something”. He started to examine the possibility of a dynamic second half of life and decided to take action. For the last 25 years, Clinton has been running marathons all over the world, climbing mountains, flying planes; he has become a photographer and a philanthropist. His reinvention led him to back to school at 60 and inspired him to write a new book, “ROAR: Into Your Life (Before It’s Too Late)”. Clinton interviews 40 people from all walks of life about how and why they chose self-reinvention–and the tools they used to get there. In this conversation with CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, he shares the tools to overcome the two biggest challenges most people face when trying to reinvent, a practice for connecting to what you really want, and the one word in the English language we desperately need to get rid of.
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hael Clinton is a best-selling author, new longevity expert, thought leader, and keynote speaker on the changing face of what it means to live longer. He is also a writer-at-large for Esquire, and regular columnist for Men’s Health. A former president and publishing director of Hearst Magazines, he now serves as the special media advisor to the Hearst Corporation’s CEO.
He is also a photographer, has traveled through 124 countries, has run marathons on 7 continents, has started a nonprofit foundation, is a private pilot, is a part owner of a vineyard in Argentina, holds two master’s degrees, and still has a long list of life experiences that he plans to tackle.
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Friday Nov 04, 2022
Friday Nov 04, 2022
Suzanne Randolph has lived a life surrounded by art. Growing up in Harlem, she would tag along to dinner parties with her mother’s artist friends. Later, Randolph majored in art history and received an MBA in design strategy before going on to work for the New York City government and the not-for-profit art world. Art became a comforting presence and she traveled the world in pursuit of it. Although she had a successful career as a fine art advisor, Randolph felt that there was something missing from her life. She turned to reinvention. In this conversation with CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, Randolph shares how her reinvention led to recognizing a travel needgap for executive women, and how she set out to fill it with the Alix Experience, a company that creates unique travel experiences. Randolph reveals her advice for other women setting out to turn their passion into a business.
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Bio: Suzanne Randolph’s well-established career in the visual arts began with an early commitment to bringing the works of individual artists from around the world to corporate settings and public spaces within the public and private sectors. More recently, she has integrated the forward-looking principles of “design thinking” as a way of expanding SRFA’s business strategy and as the framework for development of ALIX, a global resource, which addresses the specific needs of executive women through the creation of meaningful experiences for its members.
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Friday Oct 28, 2022
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Born in Queens, Laura Noel moved to the Pennsylvania Amish country at 10 years old. Restless and troubled, she longed to get away from her difficult home life. College found her spinning her wheels until she discovered the Army ROTC. A former Marine, her father suggested the Air Force. Twenty-eight years later, Noel was a seasoned service professional with a master's degree in arts administration. During her time in the service she felt a longing to find her purpose and began teaching yoga, and mindfulness. Noel learned that following her curiosity was just as important as following her career path. In this conversation with Covey Club founder Lesley Jane Seymour, Noel discusses the reinventions that led her to creating Stretch Into Success, a consulting firm that combines leadership techniques with mindfulness coaching to help entrepreneurs find success and fulfillment.
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Laura Noel is a Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt and certified Proctor Gallagher Institute coach and facilitator who works with individuals, groups and companies in reaching their potential and achieving their personal and professional goals.
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