Episodes
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
"It's our responsibility to be more vocal and visible about who we are," says Celebrate the Gray founder Stephanie O'Dell. "So when you're asked your age, say your age...because then perception and reality start to get closer." A true reinventor, O'Dell is changing the way women 50+ are represented in media and everyday advertising. She started Celebrate the Gray as a blog before revamping the business into its current iteration: an agency that promotes real, midlife women as models and spokeswomen for brands and advertising agencies. Listen in to her conversation with CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, to hear how her personal reinvention led her to advocacy and how the world of fashion is shifting to include women who look like us.
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Friday Jul 28, 2023
#212 She Wrote the Guidebook for Midlife Reinvention (Joanne Lipman)
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Friday Jul 28, 2023
"Almost all women will have to reinvent," says veteran journalist and author Joanne Lipman. "There's no guidebook for us...that's what I wanted to do." During the pandemic, she embarked on the journey of writing her bestselling book, Next!: The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work, to be such a guide. Listen in to her enlightening conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour to learn Lipman’s secrets for revamping your life and career through practical tips and empowering stories drawn from her groundbreaking work on closing the gender gap. You’ll discover the foundations of Lipman’s four-stage process for reinvention and the steps you can take today for lasting change.
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Friday Jul 21, 2023
#211 The Secret to a Successful Reinvention (Katie Fogarty)
Friday Jul 21, 2023
Friday Jul 21, 2023
"If you're thinking about reinventing...keep your network strong," advises journalist turned career coach Katie Fogarty. "You need to tell people what you want to be doing, what you're excited about, what you're looking towards...because then they can be helpful." Fogarty has gracefully navigated various reinventions in her own life - from TV news writing to global PR firms, Capitol Hill, and teaching in Japan. Her secret? A deep love of learning and a fearless willingness to embrace discomfort. In this conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour, Fogarty explores how her career reinventions led her to starting her own business, The Reboot Group, and her popular podcast, A Certain Age. Listen in as she shares her insights on owning your age, adapting to change, and embracing the magic of reinvention.
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Friday Jul 14, 2023
#210 What to Do When You’re Bored With Your Job (Shilpa Kulshrestha)
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
She was called the one with the Midas touch, but for Shilpa Kulshrestha, having four graduate degrees (!!) and a decades-long successful career didn't feel like enough. "I realized that no, this was not something that was going to get me to the greatest heights in life," she tells CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour in this important conversation. "In the hustle and bustle of life, somewhere I started giving my bare minimum." Learn how Kulshrestha took the leap to leave her boring rote job and travel the world, engage with world-renowned thought leaders, and finally discover and remove the blocks that were holding back her happiness.
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Friday Jun 30, 2023
#209: He Decided to Start a New Business – Every Year! (Sean Castrina)
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Friday Jun 30, 2023
"Find the one thing [your competitors] aren't doing that other people would like," says serial entrepreneur Sean Castrina, "and carve your complete business model around that." The founder of the Weekend MBA, author of four bestselling business books, and host of the "10-Minute Entreprenuer " podcast has started more than 20 companies in the last two decades. In this conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour, Castrina reveals his secrets for successful startups and how he decided to commit to starting one business venture every year.
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Thursday Jun 22, 2023
#208 Taking Her Reinvention Story to the Stage (LeeAnn Marie Webster)
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
LeeAnn Marie Webster's life is truly a one-woman show. Multiple reinventions took her through a series of careers that include lawyer, speed dating event owner, and business coach. Next week she will add "star of the stage" to her list. Her autobiographical stage production, "Fancy Meeting Me Here", which plays at Chicago's Den Theatre from June 22-24, recounts her journey of coping with the loss of her brother when she was a child, searching for her calling, and the personal transformation that happened along the way. In this conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour, Webster shares the hard-won lessons of reinventing across the years and explains why she refused to stay in a professional box. "I want to do something that makes my heart sing," she says. "The more women can tap into their story and inspire and encourage others...the better the world is."
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About LeeAnn Marie Webster
LeeAnn Marie Webster is the creator of No Regrets Formula™, host of the Full Self Expression Forum, and star of Fancy Meeting Me Here, an autobiographical stage show. She is an attorney turned international keynote speaker, Moth Story Slam winner, and entrepreneur with 20+ years’ experience in marketing and business development. LeeAnn guides accomplished women leaders to live with no regrets so that they can have more impact, fulfillment & fun. LeeAnn is also an Ironman® finisher and she recently summited Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro
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Friday Jun 09, 2023
#208 Reinventing Your Relationship to Uncertainty (Jill Griffin)
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
“The more you experience an emotion versus resist the emotion…you create self-confidence.” Career strategist, executive coach, and renowned speaker Jill Griffin has been on a personal odyssey to reinvent her relationship to uncertainty. After an 18-year quest to understand the traumatic brain injury that changed her life, Griffin developed not only clarity around her personal health, but also a collection of tools to deal with anxiety. In this intimate conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour she shares the mindset shifts, non-negotiable needs, and crucial insights that helped her heal.
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About Jill Griffin
Jill D. Griffin has a 20+ year history of creating strengths-based cultures of innovation and is responsible for creating repeated and consistent results. Her passion is building inclusive workplaces and helping individuals, and teams increase well-being while developing positive and productive team dynamics.
Jill’s executive coaching, strategy, content development, and innovation have generated multi- millions in revenue for the world's largest agencies, start-ups, and well-known brands. She has worked with the brands we all know and look up to, including Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Samsung, Citibank, Unilever, American Honda Motors, Martha Stewart, Mondelez, and Hilton Hotels.
Advertising Age recognized Jill as one of the "25 Women to Watch", and she was named one of the "50 Most Influential People in Content Marketing" by NewsCred. She’s also a two- time winner of AdWeek-Mediaweek's Media Plan of the Year.
As a founding member of 212, NY's Digital Advertising Club, Jill was a recent visionary award recipient along with the other founding members. Jill has written articles for HuffPost, Fast Company, Glassdoor, and Metro UK. She’s been featured on WorkLife podcast with Adam Grant, from the TED Collective and quoted by leading media outlets like AdWeek, Advertising Age, Forrester Research, The New York Times, Newscred, MediaWeek, and The Wall Street Journal.
Jill hosts The Career Refresh podcast and is an experienced ICF® Professional Certified Coach and a Gallup® Certified Strengths Coach. She works with organizations to create strengths- based cultures to increase performance, profitability, productivity, and retention.
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Time Stamps:
4:48 - Dealing with sensitivities and navigating healthcare
7:15 - Understanding functional medicine
11:11 steps for getting clear on your strengths
13:45 - What Griffin has learned about brain health
21:46 - How (and why) the brain makes up stories and how to rethink a situation
27:10 - Determine your own non-negotionables
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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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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
#207 From Bartender to Social Media Maven (Stacey Birch)
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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