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Description: This week I am speaking with my wife Lotus. It has been a while since I recorded an expat episode and I thought that you would enjoy her perspective. We have been living in Ajijic Mexico for 3 years. We just sold our condo in Austin Texas and by the time this episode is published I hope we have a contract accepted on a house in Ajijic. I want you to hear her perspective because before...

Description: This week I am speaking with Janine Vanderburg who wears multiple hats today. I am speaking with her in this episode about her leadership role in the Encore network. Let me read some of her bio: An encore champion and longtime community activist, Janine Vanderburg is in her encore career leading  Changing the Narrative in Colorado , a campaign started in 2018 to change the way people...

Description: This week I am speaking with Chris Farrell . I have had Chris on the podcast three other times. I had him on in episodes 2 , 177 , and 201 . So you can tell he is one of my favorite guests. Chris is currently a senior economics contributor at Marketplace, American Public Media's nationally syndicated public radio business and economic program. He is also an economics commentator for M...

Description: This week I am speaking with Mustafa Ammar who can be found at ThePassionMBA.com. Mustafa pitched me on the idea of doing an episode around PTSD and our careers. We are calling this episode How to deal with Career PTSD in the post-Covid World. This episode is sponsored by Career Pivot. Check out the Career Pivot Community . Make sure and pick up my latest book, Repurpose Your Career:...

Description: This week I am speaking with Elizabeth Sumner Wafler. Elizabeth is a former school teacher, an aspiring women's fiction author, and an editorial and writing coach. Let me read you a snippet from her website: As an evocative writer, I bring strong images, memories, or feelings to mind. You will find my work filled with vivid metaphors, unique prose, and detailed descriptions that make...

Description: This week I am speaking with my good friend John Tarnoff. I have had John on the podcast in episodes 208, 152, and 120. John has been the most frequent guest on the podcast in the 4 and 1/2 years I have been producing this podcast. I consider John Tarnoff to be a peer, colleague, and friend. John specializes in helping those in the 2nd half of life reinvent themselves. In 2017, he pub...

Description: This week I am speaking with Diana Wu David who is the author of Future Proof: Reinventing Work in an Age of Acceleration . Let me read you her about section on LinkedIn: I am a former Financial Times executive, author of Future Proof: Reinventing Work in an Age of Acceleration, and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School's EMBA Global Asia. I started out my career working on...

Description: This week I am speaking with my two friends Ryan Rhoten and Andy Foote . Ryan is a brand specialist with CareerBrand and Andy is an Advanced LinkedIn Strategy coach with LinkedInInsights.com.  Together they are the co-authors of the book LinkedIn Made Simple – Fat Strategies in a Thin Book. I have had both Ryan and Andy on the podcast previously. Ryan in episode 42 and Andy in episode...

Description: This week I am speaking with Tami Forman Executive of Path Forward. Path Forward is a nonprofit organization on a mission to empower people to restart their careers after time spent focused on caregiving. We fulfill this mission by working with companies to create and run mid-career internships — also known as "returnships" — that give professionals a jump start back to their careers...

Description: This week I am speaking with Matt Blumberg, CEO, and founder of Bolster.com , an online marketplace for interim and fractional executive roles. I was introduced to Matt by Tami Foreman, executive director of Path Forward, who was on the podcast in episode #128 . Matt is the board chair for Path Forward . I interviewed Mike Harris from Patina Solutions back in episode #221 . Patina Sol...

Description: This week I am speaking with Keith Stolzenbach, who I was introduced to by my friends at EnCorps STEM Teachers Program . Keith spent much of his career as a professor at MIT and UCLA. When he decided to retire in his late 60s he decided to become a high school science teacher. With the help from the EnCorps program, he is now a chemistry teacher at what is referred to as a Title 1 hig...

Description: I just returned from a 4 week trip to Austin Texas where my wife and I were vaccinated, I renewed my Texas driver's license and took care of a lot of other business. I put out the word that I was interested in having meetings with anyone who wanted to chat with me while I was in Austin to my email list and to my personal Facebook page. I had 26 people take me up on the offer over a 4...

Description: This week I am speaking with Wendy Marx who previously was on the podcast in episode 181 . Wendy is a personal branding expert and she recently wrote a blog post on job-hunt.org called How Boomers Can Shore Up Their Personal Brand During the Pandemic Wendy and I discuss and expand on what she discussed in that post. This episode is sponsored by Career Pivot. Check out the Career Pivot...

Description: This week I am speaking with David Jenkins. David is one of the founding members of the Career Pivot membership community who has gone from running a realtors association to being a Small Business Development Center consultant before retiring more than a year ago. David has a long history in city and state government in the area of planning and zoning. David started a blog last year c...

Description: This week will be a different kind of episode. My wife and I arrived back in Austin a little less than a week ago. We have a lot of things to do while we are here to get properly vaccinated. You should read my blog post from last week where I compared the COVID-19 response in Mexico and the US. We will be in Austin for a month to get both vaccination shots of the Pfizer vaccine. This...

Description: This week I am speaking with Rebecca Bloom and Joan Lambert from Amava.com. Amava's Mission Statement is as follows: Our mission is to empower people and organizations with research-based solutions to keep individuals and teams active, engaged, and socially connected. I have partnered with Amava to provide opportunities to the Career Pivot community. I run a circle for them called So...

Description: This week I am speaking with Mike Harris CEO of Patina Solutions and Patina Nation. I was introduced to Patina several years ago as Patina Solutions provides fractional and interim leadership opportunities for the members of the Patina Nation community. Patina Nation is primarily made of executives and managers who have 25 or more years of experience and are looking for gig work. Belo...

Description: Judy Stelling's bio is as follows: As GetSetup's Director of Guides, Judy works with both Guides and GetSetup's learning platform to help design, deliver and facilitate classes for older adults that are interesting, relevant, and fun.   Passionate about life-long learning, using tech to make people's lives better, and eliminating workforce age barriers, her work at GetSetup helps brin...

Podcast #219 - Carol Fishman Cohen Discusses the State of Back to Work Programs in the COVID-19 World Founder of iRelaunch. I had Carol on the podcast way back in Episode #80 . I wanted her back to discuss the state of back-to-work programs. Here is a bit of her bio: Carol Fishman Cohen, builder of corporate career re-entry programs and leader of the iRelaunch #returntowork community (now nearly 8...

Description: This week I am speaking with Dean Wade. Dean is a member of the Career Pivot membership community who is making an interesting pivot by moving into the world of voice-over. Dean has an extremely eclectic background. She started out as a television journalist, television weatherman, then a stockbroker, then went into pharmaceutical sales, had his own uniform business and several more t...

Description: Our guest speaker, Kevin D. Turner, is an organizational and personal branding phenom. After honing his skills at SONY, Stone VC, American Teachers, Thomas Nelson, and the AHA, he opened his own branding firm, TNT Brand Strategist, with his wife Dana S Turner. He is proof to "Pivot you have to Prove it" pulling off 5 in his career. From Fortune 50 Sales and Marketing to VC, to Public...

Description: This week I interview Jeffrey Shaw. His bio is as follows: How many people can say they've never worked for anyone else? Selling eggs door-to-door at 14 years old began a lifetime of self-employment. As a small business consultant, Jeffrey Shaw coaches self-employed and small business owners through all the business growth and personal development they need for a successful business....

Description: This week I interview Fawn Germer. Let me read you her official Bio: "Fawn Germer is the irreverent, beloved best-selling author of nine books including the Oprah book, Hard Won Wisdom . She has been a keynote speaker for more than 80 Fortune 500 companies and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize four times for her work as an investigative reporter. Fawn's first book was rejected by e...

Description: This week I bring back Diann Wingert from Diann Wingert Coaching. Diann is a former licensed therapist and now coaches entrepreneurs. Her tag list, "My Jam", is helping others like me be successful in work and life. She also has "The Driven Woman" podcast. I know Diann from the Smart Passive Income Pro online community  where we both are members. I had Diann on the podcast in December...

Description: Thom has authored twelve books on the power of business relationships, sales, networking, presentation skills, and entrepreneurship, and regularly speaks to corporate, law firm, and convention audiences. He sets the tone for better engagement at industry events as the opening keynote speaker or the Master of Ceremonies. The unique Conference Catalyst Program has become a "meeting plan...