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Welcome to Second Act Stories, a podcast focused on life and career change. In each episode, we bring you the story of a courageous individual who has made a decisive career pivot and is pursuing a more rewarding life in a second act. The stories are in their own words and the words of friends and family that helped them find a new path. Each episode examines the “before” and “after” phases of a life or career relaunch and offers lessons learned.
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Is it really midlife if you are just getting started? I bet you caught yourself telling yourself it’s too late to change careers, master something new, reinvent yourself, or just be daring...but wait - what was that? YES! You remembered that you're one smart cookie who can choose what you want. I'm your host, Allison Hare and I interview remarkable people who are doing it differently and IT’S WORKING. We discuss timeless, and new ways to approach our modern lives as late bloomers. And here’s ...
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Welcome to the Second Act Success Career Podcast, your go-to resource for inspiration and advice on how to navigate career transitions as you launch a business of your own. Hosted by Shannon Russell, a former television producer turned entrepreneur and career transition coach, this podcast is designed to guide and inspire you through the journey of transitioning careers and starting a business to pursue your second act in life. 🌟 Are you considering a career change? 🤔 Have you been dreaming ...
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How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business is a 20-episode limited podcast series designed for women ready to break free from the 9-5 grind and step confidently into entrepreneurship. Whether you’re dreaming of financial freedom, craving flexibility, or seeking a more fulfilling career path, this series will guide you through every step of the transition from employee to entrepreneur. Hosted by career transition coach Shannon Russell of Second Act Success, this series is a must-listen if you ...
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Are you ready to put yourself first in your 55+ years? Your host, Laurie Adams at 60+, successfully did that and is here now to help you discover what you want for your own, full second act in life. She lived in the people-pleasing era where young girls learned to put themselves last and how, as experienced, mature women they can rekindle dreams and realize them. A certified life and weight loss coach, Laurie, along with her variety of guests, share how they have shifted into their best year ...
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Postcards From Midlife

Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin

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Are you living in a hormonal hothouse, feeling a little overwhelmed and in need of some positive, uplifting and comforting guidance on how to lead a more magnificent midlife? Well, you're not alone and this podcast is for you. Hosts Lorraine and Trish chat with celebrities and experts on all things midlife, from menopause and perimenopause to parenting teens via fashion, beauty, wellness, nutrition, fitness, careers, relationships and finances. The witty duo, who have been editing glossy mag ...
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The Leap To Lead

Emily, The Leap To Lead

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Emily Rogers is the founder of The Leap to Lead and a transition and leadership coach for individuals and organisations ready to show up the way they have always desired. Whether women in leadership positions or stay at home mums who put their career on hold for their family, they wonder if there isn’t more they ought to be doing and they’re ready to take the leap to lead the second act of their lives. Drawing on her experience and the frameworks developed as a senior HR leader across multip ...
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Like a mixtape straight from the 80s, this show is jam-packed, blending talks, tips, and tools on entrepreneurship, career, and life at 40+ all with a dash of pop culture flair. I’m Barbara Brooks, your pro-age|solo-ager host, inspo speaker, and visionary behind SecondAct|Women - a company and community of badass women in their 40s, 50s, and 60+. Tune in weekly for juicy conversations, stories, and tips served with a side of sass. Because, let’s face it, 50 is the new fabulous! From conqueri ...
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Join us for unconventional conversations about life and leadership in Out of Office, hosted by Mallika Kapur. Tune in to hear newsmakers talk about things they don't get asked about in the office. Their childhood. Dreams. Mentors. Favorite books. Failure. Triumphs. Down time. Family and love. Because all these influences make them who they are and define how they lead.
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Welcome to The Happy Middle – a podcast for women who are deep in the messy middle bit of life. Join me for honest conversations, interviews and stories that will will leave you feeling reassured, supported and hopeful. We’ll be normalising the trickier bits of midlife, celebrating the good stuff and asking how we can turn the messy middle into a happier one. Categories: Self-improvement, Personal Journals, Careers Format: Weekly, for a season (12 weeks) with planned hiatus. Mixture of guest ...
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The After 50: Shades of Gray podcast is geared to the voice of women in their second and third act of life; though, like smart men read E.L. James' book, smart men will listen too. The operative word is smart, because if you are, you know it wasn't the whips and chains that caught most of us, it was about the story of love and redemption. Yeah, the tag line is "If it ain't dead, don't bury it". And we ain't. After 50 we lose our filters, we start to seek our authentic self and speak our trut ...
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Solopreneur Success Path | Have A Profitable Online Business

Tom Clairmont | Helping Solopreneurs Launch and Grow Their Business

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Starting an online business is easy. Getting clients? Not so much. Who Is This Podcast For? If you are thinking about starting, planning or launching an online business, OR, if you've hit a wall with getting clients and feeling overwhelmed, then tune in. Do you need a roadmap for how to have a solid foundation for your business so it can thrive? The topics I cover are all under this one theme: Launching and growing your business. I talk about all the things I needed to hear when I was starti ...
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Send us a text Are you a multi-passionate entrepreneur trying to merge your diverse interests into a fulfilling career? In this episode of the Second Act Success Career Podcast, host and career coach Shannon Russell sits down with Brittany Steptoe Wright, owner and lead designer at BSW Design, co-owner of Steptoe Carpentry, and host of the CEO Podc…
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Trish and Lorraine take you inside the remarkable world of crime writer extraordinaire Patricia Cornwell - from her challenging upbringing and complex relationship with her mother, through depression and an eating disorder, into the world of morgues, serial killers & the FBI. Discover what lies behind the 68-year old’s success and joie de vivre, wh…
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In Part One of this podcast, Episode 74 last week, I introduced how the act of pretending or engaging in imaginative play—while often associated with children—can be an incredibly powerful tool for adults seeking life change and developing a new identity. But today we get to move from play as a tool to seek identity to actually using it as a powerf…
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Taking a decidedly hard left pivot to do a cultural deep dive into the new buzzy movie that everyone is talking about, The Substance starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, and co-produced, written and directed by Coralie Fargeat. Shockingly insane, it was like nothing I ever expected and I"m not sure if I recovered. But despite the te…
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With 30 years of lifestyle journalism behind them and 6 children between them Lorraine & Trish identify the 9 household gadgets that have changed their domestic and family life. One of them costs under £2, another will give you the freshest breath ever and one is the best hair gadget ever invented. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in…
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Trish & Lorraine welcome back the gut health guru, Professor Tim Spector for some surprising new health updates. The duo are astounded by the results of his latest research into diet and menopause, the truth about the protein myth we have all bought into, the nutrient likely to be missing from your diet and what really helps to lose weight (clue: i…
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Pretending, or the act of imaginative play and visualization, can serve as a powerful tool for shaping your desired identity, especially if you have spent years focusing on others and often neglected your own aspirations. Yes! Pretending and play are the "work" of self development for childhood and well beyond. If you’re skeptical, try this—just st…
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Have you heard of emotional outsourcing? Me neither! I needed to bring this concept to you and remind us ALL to reconnect with our own powers and purpose when the world is trying to remind us that someone is wrong with us. NOPE! Not on my watch. Victoria Albina (she/her) is a Master Certified Somatic Life Coach, UCSF-trained Family Nurse Practition…
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Lorraine & Trish solve three listeners' life dilemmas: how to break-up with a friend you no longer want to see, how to help your older off-spring be more honest with you, how to be honest with yourself and what to do when those pesky family members steal your stuff at home (clue there is a phrase you can use!) Plus: the duo chit chat about TrIsh's …
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Bruce and Mira Brach opened Toy Utopia, an independent toy store, on May 27, 2022. Based in Red Bank, NJ, their aim was to create a “magical place that sparks interest, curiosity, imagination and creativity in children and adults.” The business is a leap for both of them. Bruce had managed a landscaping business for over 25 years. Mira was – and st…
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Send us a text Ready to leave the 9-to-5 grind and build a successful consulting career? In this episode of Second Act Success Career Podcast, host Shannon Russell chats with Amy Rasdal, founder of Billable at the Beach. Amy shares her journey from climbing the corporate ladder as a Silicon Valley CEO to creating a flexible, profitable consulting b…
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Lorraine and Trish meet award-winning psychologist, leadership coach and holistic healer Dr Lalitaa Suglani to find out why her new book, High Functioning Anxiety: A 5-step Guide to Calming the Inner Panic and Thriving could be the key to unlocking a joyful, happier life for busy midlife women. Learn how to break down the unhelpful patterns we get …
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Reinvention and moving into a better life, your best life at midlife-plus, begins with your aspiration—knowing what you want to go after. As told in my last episode, hope is a mainstay and foundational for transformation. It’s necessary to change life for the better because hope provides the initial motivation and belief that improvement is possibl…
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I've got a bone to pick with the personal development industry. I think you deserve better. And I'm going OFF on it. Timestamps: [00:00:46] Personal development dangers addressed. [00:04:52] The need for new terminology. [00:10:01] Healing vs. Being Broken. [00:16:41] The comparison trap in parenting. [00:18:06] Outgrowing your container. [00:30:17…
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Has your marriage or long term relationship hit a lonely wall of sadness and disconnection? If so Trish & Lorraine are here for you with their new bite size midweek episode of life advice. Today the duo find out why midlife is a relationship danger zone and get advice from Chie Nakano, a life coach at Compassion Centred Coaching, on how to resolve …
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Send us a text In this episode of the Second Act Success Career Podcast, host Shannon Russell dives into the "September Surge," the post-summer hiring boom that many job seekers miss out on. Discover how you can stand out from the crowd, whether you're looking for a new job, aiming for a promotion, or planning an exit strategy to start your own bus…
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Trish & Lorraine meet Kate Whale, founder of the stars’ favourite wellness retreat, The Body Camp, who shares a decade of experience helping women make personal mind and body breakthroughs. Discover what to do when you hit a wall, just can’t get started or need a mindset shift to get out of your comfort zone as well as what it means to take ‘Massiv…
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Fresh-start Fall? Well, maybe this season you're stalled and just stuck. But today I’ve got hope for you … literally “hope.” “Hope is not an emotion; it's a belief that you have the ability to improve your circumstances", said Angela Duckworth, author of the best-selling book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverence. “When we feel that we have t…
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Where are my fellow control freaks? Such an interesting and way more helpful perspective to rethink and redefine perfectionism. You know when you read a book and it’s so groundbreaking and helpful, you can’t help but tell all your friends, post about it? Well, I was the recipient of essentially being attacked on all sides that I needed to read this…
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In the first of their new midweek episodes, Trish and Lorraine share bitesize, expert advice on how to cope with September back-to-school and back-to-work overwhelm as well as empty nest grief. Discover the one easy trick that can transform your day-to-day happiness as well as the phrase every midlife woman should ban. Plus: get the lowdown on the …
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Send us a text This is your sneak peak of the new limited series podcast - How to Quit Your Job and Start a Business. If you are dreaming of leaving your 9-to-5 job to start your own business, then you must join Career Transition Coach Shannon Russell for this new series that will walk you from giving your notice at your corporate job to launching …
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Tune in to hear the 5 crucial steps you must take to give your two weeks notice and start building your own business! In this episode of the How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business limited series podcast, Career Transition Coach Shannon Russell provides a comprehensive guide to quitting your 9-5 job, so you can make your entrepreneurial dream a r…
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You want to create a business of your own, but which business model is best for you? In Episode #11 of the How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business limited series podcast, Career Transition Coach Shannon Russell explores the four major types of business models you can choose from. Whether you're considering a franchise, online business, brick-and-…
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If you are thinking about changing careers and you have dreams of giving your two weeks notice to start your own business, you've tuned into the right podcast! Understanding and defining your ideal customer avatar is crucial for your business's success, and Episode #12 of the How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business limited series podcast, is focu…
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Branding is key for building a successful business! Is your new business set up to stand out? In Episode #14 of the How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business limited podcast series, host and career transition coach Shannon Russell explores the crucial art and science of branding. If you are a woman ready to leave your corporate 9-5 job to venture i…
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In this episode of the How To Quit Your Job and Start a Business podcast, Career Transition Coach Shannon Russell explores the crucial mindset shifts you need to transition from employee to entrepreneur. Discover how women in business can embrace risk, develop a CEO mindset, and adopt a growth-oriented approach to succeed in business ventures. Shan…
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It's time to put your career transition plan into place with a 6 month timeline. Listen in to this episode of How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business with Career Transition Coach Shannon Russell. You will lean how to design a strategic 6-month plan to quit your corporate job and become a business owner. Learn how to set clear business goals, cond…
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What does your YouMap® say about you? In Episode #8 of the How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business limited series podcast, host Shannon Russell shares the transformative power of the YouMap® assessment for aspiring entrepreneurs. As a certified YouMap® coach, Shannon explains how this comprehensive tool can guide your transition from a corporate …
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Already thinking about how to expand your reach and attract customers in your new business? In Episode #16 of the How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business limited series podcast, host and career transition coach Shannon Russell discusses the powerful impact of business partnerships and strategic growth. Discover how forming strategic alliances wit…
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When you are ready to start over in your career, how do you decide which business idea to choose? If you are dreaming about leaving your 9-to-5 job and starting your own business, then listen in to this episode of the How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business podcast, hosted by Career Transition Coach Shannon Russell. If you want to choose the perf…
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Let's get your new business ready to launch and stand out from the competition from day one! In Episode #13 of the How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business limited series podcast, Career Transition Coach Shannon Russell provides crucial strategies to ensure your business stands out and attracts customers from the start. With the competitive market…
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Why do lead magnets crucial for your business success? You will learn all about the magic of creating lead magnets to capture your target audience in Episode #15 of How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business limited series podcast. Host and career transition coach Shannon Russell dives into the world of lead magnets, a powerful tool for attracting p…
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Women entrepreneurs are reshaping the business landscape! In Episode #19 of the How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business limited series podcast, host and career transition coach Shannon Russell highlights the remarkable rise of women in entrepreneurship. Discover how women are making significant strides in various industries and achieving tremendo…
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Ready to craft the perfect business plan for your new venture? In Episode #9 of the How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business limited series podcast, Career Transition Coach Shannon Russell provides expert guidance on creating a comprehensive and effective business plan. Learn why a well-structured business plan is crucial for your entrepreneurial …
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Ready to quit corporate and launch a business of your own? In this debut episode of the How to Quit Your Job and Start a Business podcast, Career Transition Coach Shannon Russell breaks down the top reasons women leave their 9-5 jobs to become entrepreneurs. Whether you’re looking for work-life balance, more flexibility, or financial freedom, Shann…
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This episode of the How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business limited series podcast is all about the critical steps you should take to research and validate your business idea. Join Host and Career Transition Coach Shannon Russell as she shares the critical steps to research and validate your business idea. Learn how to avoid costly mistakes and e…
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Have you been wondering how you can create an exit plan so you can quit your job gracefully? Join host and career coach Shannon Russell for this informative episode of the How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business podcast. Shannon will walk you through how to create a strategic exit plan to leave your 9-5 job the right way. Learn how to set a reali…
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How ready are you to make the career leap into life as an entrepreneur? In this episode of the How to Quit Your Job and Start a Business limited series podcast, Career Transition Coach Shannon Russell helps you assess your readiness to leave the corporate world and embark on your entrepreneurial journey. Shannon dives into essential areas like fina…
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Be prepared to face challenges head on as you embark on your entrepreneurial journey! In Episode #18 of the How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business limited series podcast, host and career transition coach Shannon Russell dives deep into overcoming common business roadblocks. Building a business can be exhilarating, but it also comes with its shar…
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Welcome to the final episode of the How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business limited series podcast! 🎉 In this milestone episode, host and career transition coach Shannon Russell talks about the crucial role women can play in celebrating milestones and building resilience throughout the entrepreneurial journey. Tune in to Episode #20 to discover: …
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Feeling overwhelmed managing every aspect of your new business? In Episode #17 of the How To Quit Your Job and Start A Business limited series podcast, host and career transition coach Shannon Russell explores the essential strategies for hiring and outsourcing to accelerate your business growth. Discover why outsourcing key tasks can be a game-cha…
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Lorraine and Trish are back with a new season and their first star guest is Strictly Come Dancing legend Janette Manrara. She talks to the duo about managing her career transitions from banking to dancing to TV presenting and why it took until her 40s to feel self love and body confidence. Janette also reveals how she and Aljaž Škorjanec manage mar…
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Are you feeling stuck in your 9-to-5 and dreaming about launching your own successful business? Welcome to the trailer for How To Quit Your Job and Start a Business, a limited-edition podcast series designed just for aspiring entrepreneurs like you! Hosted by career transition coach Shannon Russell, this 20-episode exclusive series will guide you s…
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Ah … those feelings: your dominant, real, authentic feelings … the ones we talked about in the last episode, no. 70. They are the clues to what’s going on with you, from elation to depression to confusion. I can’t think of a better example or time of year to talk about this, using what most of us have heard of as “the empty nest” syndrome. Your chi…
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It's season 13 and Lorraine and Trish are back on Sunday 8th September with the big midlife interview but they've also added a short extra weekly episode to give you life advice, tips and resources from the experts. Here’s a little sneak peek at what they have in store. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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