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Leaving Chiropractic for Health Coaching in Midlife: Dr. Sam Graber on Rebuilding Your Identity and Your Business
Episode SummaryDr. Sam Graber spent decades as a practicing chiropractor before walking away from disease-focused medicine to build a health and life coaching business...
What Happens When Caregiving Interrupts Your Midlife Business? A Conversation with Wendy Green
Episode SummaryWhat happens to your business when an aging parent moves in and needs your care? Wendy Green, founder of Hey Boomer and host of the Boomer Banter Podcas...
How Do You Turn a 20-Year-Old Business Idea Into a Movement for Girls? Featuring Jacqui Fishman of This Girl Can! Change the World
Episode SummaryJacqui Fishman spent decades as a creative marketing strategist before reviving a shelved apparel line into This Girl Can! Change the World, a mission-d...
How Do You Build a Financial Plan for Midlife Entrepreneurship? Cindy Morris on The Benson Agency and Women Who Changed the World
Episode SummaryHow do you build a strategic financial plan for entrepreneurship after 40 — one that includes retirement savings, catch-up contributions, and a paid-off...
How Do You Turn Perfectionism Into a Leadership Superpower After a Midlife Layoff? Kristen Harris on Building Her Own Boat
Episode SummaryAfter more than two decades leading global technology teams at Oracle and serving as VP of Services at an AI-driven consulting firm, Kristen Harris was ...
How Do Family Caregivers Build the Business That They Need? Anne Patton on Founding A Better Life and Our Back Office Colorado
Episode SummaryWhen the school and disability-services systems couldn't give her son Chris — now 42 and living with autism — the life he deserved, Anne Patton built th...
How Did a Tenant's Meth Contamination Turn a Banker Into an Entrepreneur and Public Policy Advocate? Kathi McCarty of Meth Toxins Awareness Alliance
Episode SummaryWhen a tenant secretly manufactured methamphetamine inside Kathi McCarty's Colorado log cabin, she discovered that meth contamination in rental and resi...
How One Ad Executive Built a Business Around the Customers Everyone Else Was Ignoring — With Susan Colby of Grace Creative
Episode SummaryMost advertising agencies chase the youngest consumers in the room. Susan Colby built a thriving creative agency by doing the exact opposite. This episo...
How Do You Build a Business Around Your Values — and Actually Live Them? | Angelle Fouther of Kindred Communications
Episode SummaryWhat does it look like to launch a strategic communications firm in the middle of a global pandemic — and build it entirely around a commitment to equit...
How Chelle Johnson Went From Corporate Burnout to Building a Fleet: Fractional Talent, Executive Coaching, and Entrepreneurship After 50
Episode SummaryAfter two decades as a talent acquisition executive at Fortune 500 companies, Chelle Johnson found herself successful on paper — and spiritually deplete...
How a 30-Year Executive Assistant Built a Multiple Six-Figure Business by Betting on Herself — Featuring Bonnie Schutz
Episode SummaryFor women who have spent decades being indispensable — and invisible — this episode is the roadmap you didn't know you needed. Bonnie Schutz spent nearl...
How a Decades-Long Media Career Became a Launchpad for Entrepreneurship — Featuring Ramona Schindelheim
Episode SummaryThis episode is for every woman who has spent decades building an impressive career and wonders whether that experience can fuel something entirely her ...
How Melissa Davey Became an Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker at 65 — and Why She Refuses to Be Invisible
Episode SummaryWhat happens when a 65-year-old corporate executive decides that her biggest career is still ahead of her — in a field she has never worked in? This epi...
The Dream She Carried for 50 Years: Stella Fosse on Writing, Self-Publishing, and Claiming Your Creative Life After 60
Episode SummaryWhat happens when a woman who spent 30 years writing 32-volume FDA regulatory submissions finally sits down to write the books she's dreamed of since sh...
How Do You Build a Business That Fights Ageism — and Actually Makes Money? With Jan Golden of Age Friendly Vibes
Episode SummaryMost birthday cards treat getting older like a punchline. Jan Golden decided to change that. In this episode of Build Your Own Boat, host Janine Vanderb...
How Art Can Fight Ageism: Meg LaPorte on Nonprofit Entrepreneurship, Intergenerational Partnership, and Creative Activism
Episode SummaryCan art change how society sees older adults? Meg LaPorte, co-founder of Art Against Ageism, built a nonprofit that uses public art, interactive install...
How One Robin Salls Built a Magazine — and a Movement — for Women Embracing Midlife on Their Own Terms
Episode SummaryRobin Salls didn't wait for the media to notice women in midlife. When she looked around and couldn't find a single magazine that reflected her experien...
How Do You Turn a Passion Project Into a Business After 50? Sky Bergman Did It With a Film, an Airbnb, and Zero Regrets
Episode SummaryThis episode answers a question many women over 50 are quietly asking: is it too late to build something new? Sky Bergman — award-winning photographer, ...
She Built Scaffolding, Not a Safety Net: How Alrie McNiff Daniels Left a Health Foundation to Launch a Consulting Practice at Midlife
Episode SummaryWhat does it look like when a seasoned communications professional leaves a respected philanthropic institution in her early 60s—not because she was pus...
How Do You Fight Age Bias at Work? Sheila Callaham Built a Global Nonprofit to Answer That Question
Episode SummaryAge discrimination in hiring is not a fringe issue—it is a structural one, and Sheila Callaham has the three-year job search spreadsheet to prove it. Af...