Creating Your Encore Life

Jason Frazell is a growth and leadership coach for high-impact people and teams. He has a background in tech and is an expert personal brand strategist . Jason has coached high performers and job seekers that work at some of the most prestigious tech companies, including Google, Meta (Facebook), Coinbase, and Spotify. In this episode, Jason and I are sitting down to talk all about entrepreneurship...

Today's episode will be a fun one! My friend, Lisa McGuire, and I will be interviewing each other. Lisa is a Business Growth Advisor and Marketing Consultant. She loves helping people who feel called to their work integrate what they love doing with helping the people they serve. She specializes in strategy and business storytelling to give business owners the boost they need to get closer to thei...

In 2023, I'm focusing on questions. This idea came from a variety of sources I've been diving into lately. It was discussed in a book I was recently reintroduced to called A More Beautiful Question and in a course I recently took. In another book I read, The Highest Goal by Michael Ray, he talked about not focusing so much on goals but on questions. Ray calls these questions "live withs."  I've be...

Nikki Takahashi is a digital media designer, brand strategist, and the founder and CEO of Fetching Finn. Her agency gets clients noticed in person, online, and in print. Through her work, Nikki has helped over 300 entrepreneurs embrace and amplify what makes them unique.  On top of this, Nikki hosts the Square Peg Entrepreneur podcast, featuring industry disruptors and mavericks in business. She's...

There's one thing you should know if you're just beginning your Encore Career: it takes a community to build a career. You need people around you to help, support, and encourage you. This is the way to ensure that you grow and have success. We often recognize the importance of community in our personal lives. We spend time with friends and participate in hobbies. However, this is just as important...

Do you have limiting beliefs?  Maybe you wouldn't word it that way. Maybe you're simply tired of being stuck in neutral and can't figure out why. If that sounds anything like you, you're going to love today's guest. Matt Clark helps high performers experience a MindSHIFT using the neuroscience behind belief formation. He spent 15 years in NASCAR building high performance pit crews for championship...

Cameron King is an expert on all things video creation and marketing. He helps entrepreneurs create better videos so that they can build their personal brands, create impact, and get higher quality leads.  Cameron provides a variety of services in his line of work including video editing, video production, brand and content marketing, content strategy, and video animation. He's worked for huge bra...

I am currently taking part in The Purpose Course, hosted by the Modern Elder Academy. This class has been a very rich experience for both me and my business. Getting to learn alongside fellow entrepreneurs and benefit from their insights has helped me grow tremendously in my Encore Career. Because of this, I want to share some of the things we've been learning and discussing. In this episode, I'll...

Sarah St. John is the founder and CEO of PodSeam.com, a podcast production company. She is also an entrepreneur, podcaster, author, animal lover, and world traveler. Sarah has created several startups throughout her entrepreneurial journey of over a decade. Her goal is to show people how to launch and manage an online business on a budget. Today, she is joining us here on Creating Your Encore Care...

I just returned from an epic mastermind conference hosted by Mike Kim. Mike is the author of the best-selling book, You Are The Brand , which we've talked about extensively here on the podcast. It was an amazing week spent with a group of my mastermind peers. In this episode, I want to share my takeaways from the conference. I'm going to discuss the main topics of the conference, the things I lear...

If you're nearing retirement age but nowhere near ready to retire, you're in the right place. Here in this community, we are getting tired of or have already left our corporate careers and are stepping into an Encore journey. We want to make the most of our lives and keep contributing to a society that needs more workers. If that sounds like you, I want you to know about my upcoming Encore Career...

Today, you will learn how to stay relevant as you enter, create, and develop an Encore Career.  This process involves three key questions. Firstly, why do you need to develop your value proposition? Secondly, how can you keep your skills relevant? Finally, how will people find you?  Last week, we talked about people skills and emotional intelligence. That whole idea is a starting point to today's...

Emotional intelligence can often seem fluffy. It can be hard to figure out what it means let alone how to develop the skill.   This is why I love the Beyond EI model. They get down to brass tacks when it comes to emotional intelligence and teach specific actions to take to become more effective.    I recently had the opportunity to be on a panel where we talked about Beyond EI's new masterclass an...

Fears and worries are part of any new endeavor. They certainly are for an Encore Career!  These fears come from a variety of places. Maybe you're worried because there is no guarantee of success as an entrepreneur or perhaps you doubt that you have anything meaningful to share with the world. I've reflected on some of my own fears and worries recently (yes, they never go away!) and asked others wh...

On this episode, we are talking with Daniel Alfon. Daniel is an expert on using LinkedIn for business. He joined LinkedIn in early 2004 and has since published many articles and exclusive content about advanced LinkedIn strategies.  Over the years, Daniel has helped countless business owners leverage their LinkedIn presence to get more leads. In this episode, he shares all about his journey and th...

I've always been fascinated by technology. I've also always been fascinated by working with people. As a classic Industrial Engineer, my whole career revolved around exploring how people and systems (aka, technology) come together to make things happen. Early in my career, I learned several different programming languages. I was an early adopter of the PC. Later on, when I didn't see the use case...

Have you ever read a business or self-help book only to forget most of the advice a few weeks later? Did you ever listen to a podcast but then have trouble remembering the story you heard or the ideas discussed? If you have, you know what it feels like for all that time to be wasted. What if there was an easy way to remember that required only two seconds a day? Well, it just so happens that there...

Willpower alone will never lead to success. It certainly won't help you create a successful Encore Career. You need more than willpower–you need habits.  Today, I want to talk all about healthy habits and how to implement them. To help me do so, I'm going back over some ideas from the study, " Longevity and the New Journey of Retirement " by Edward Jones and AgeWave. They talk about the stages of...

It's your second act. You have the opportunity to shape the second half of your life. How are you making the most of that opportunity? You may be doing work or activities that are useful, but are they fulfilling? Whether you're leading a church group, working with the food pantry, or enjoying recreational activities, you need to come to terms with something: your fifth cruise may not be as interes...

This is Creating Your Encore Career And becoming a "Silver Entrepreneur", with your host Lynn Friesth. Lynn will share ideas and expert advice from people that are walking in your shoes and living their encore careers — where they want and at the pace they want. You'll start a company of one with confidence and knowledge to live a fulfilled life of freedom and ease. Lynn is a Coach and Leadership...

Episode 157: Conversation with a Wealth Advisor on Encore Careers with James Woodall Throughout the course of this show, we've talked about various aspects of creating your Encore Career. We've dived deep into mindset, marketing, and connecting with your ideal client. However, we haven't talked much about the financial side of an Encore Career. We'll step into that in this episode. Our guest on to...

STANFORD Magazine released an article a couple of months ago that began this way: "Today's youth likely have decades of 'extra' time coming to them. Psychologist Laura Carstensen wants them to spread those years out."   The article is entitled "5 Ways to Prepare for a Longer Life" and it's all about preparing young people for the 35 years they will have after retirement. The Stanford Center on Lon...

An Encore Career is an incredible opportunity to pursue your passions in your later years. It is a means of leaving your corporate career and becoming your own boss. It is a path for making the most of your life even after retirement. These are all incredible benefits and draws to creating your own Encore Career. However, when it comes down to practicalities, what are the key elements of one? What...

Do you want to do what you love while earning from multiple income streams? Having multiple income streams is possible with a Portfolio Career. It also allows you to reduce the risk if one income stream doesn't work out. In today's episode, we talk with Steve Preston about creating a portfolio career. Following a very successful management career, Steve Preston took redundancy in 2001 when his com...

Many of us would consider ourselves to be experts in something: maybe in our previous field of work, or with a tool that we've mastered, or a system that we've developed. Yet, when starting our encore career, we need to understand how to make that expertise work best for us. We may need to transfer knowledge to employees that work for us in our new careers, or we may need to market our expertise t...