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How Do You Start a Business After 50 When No One Will Hire You? Barbara Brooks Did It — and Built a Community of 24,000
Summary Barbara Brooks, founder of Second Act Women and pro-age keynote speaker, sent out 100 resumes in 2018 as an award-winning marketing director — and received ze...
Can You Start a Business After 50? Ande Lyons Has Done It—More Than Once
Episode Summary This episode answers a question millions of women in midlife are quietly asking: is it too late to start something new? The short answer, backed by dec...
From Fortune 500 to Founder: How Colleen Paulson Built Ageless Careers—and Why Women Over 50 Are the Most Underestimated Entrepreneurs in America
What happens when a top-performing Fortune 500 engineer decides the system isn't worth fighting anymore—and builds something better on her own terms? In this episode o...
How Do Women Over 50 Stop Starting Over? Donna Cravotta on Tried & New, Intentional Visibility, and Building From What You Already Have
What if the thing holding accomplished women back isn't a lack of skills or experience — but the pressure to start from scratch every time they want something new? In ...
From Amazon Alexa to AI Entrepreneur: Polly Allen on Burnout, Building a Business, and Creating Security on Your Own Terms
What does it actually take for a woman to walk away from a high-level corporate job—one with status, a good salary, and a brand name on the resume—and build something ...
From Nonprofit CEO to Cookie Entrepreneur: How Liddy Romero Built a $250K Business in Midlife After Divorce
What does it actually look like to walk away from a celebrated career — with nothing in your pocket — and build something new? Liddy Romero did exactly that. For sixte...
From Corporate Layoff to Coaching Empire: How Kami Guildner Built a Business Around Helping Women Entrepreneurs Find Their Voice
Kami Guildner spent nearly two decades building a career in oil and gas, rising to VP of Marketing and Branding before a 2008 layoff changed everything. What followed ...
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