214: Navigating Life’s Transitions, Insights From Leading Books
Release Date: 09/21/2023
225: Taking A Sabbatical From The Podcast
Creating Your Encore Career
Are you ready to navigate transitions and create an encore life? That's exactly what we're exploring on this podcast! Unfortunately, I am taking a brief sabbatical to care for my 97-year-old mother. But don't worry, this isn't the end of our journey together - it's a transition that I'm eager to share and learn from. While the podcast takes a short nap, I'll be maintaining our connection with weekly newsletters and bite-sized social media posts. This episode marks both an end and a beginning, a stepping stone into something new. I'm sharing the reason behind my pause - a transition...
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224: REPLAY: Boomer Reinvention with John Tarnoff
Creating Your Encore Career
Today, we’re listening to a replay of one of our favorite episodes with John Tarnoff. Tune in to listen here → As Boomers, we have to constantly reinvent ourselves, just like companies do. And one of the most effective ways to do that is to pull together different pieces of ourselves to create something new. Reinvention doesn’t come from nothing. It comes from seeing ourselves in a new light. John Tarnoff had a long career in the entertainment business. After his tech startup went bust, he decided to go back to school to earn a Master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology – a...
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223: Transitioning Gracefully, Notes From 2 Pre and Post-Retirement Surveys
Creating Your Encore Career
Are you prepared to reimagine your retirement transition? In today’s episode, I’m guiding you through the uncharted territories of retirement, breaking down preconceived notions and replacing them with genuine insights from two revealing surveys by the Retirement Coaches Association and the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies. Go here to listen → Unpack the non-financial fears that accompany retirement, from the loss of identity to a sudden lack of routine, and learn how to manage them. Understand that retirement is a significant life change, taking a year or more to fully...
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222: How to Turn Your Expertise into an Income Ecosystem that Overflows with Cash
Creating Your Encore Career
Imagine a life where you transform your expertise into an income ecosystem that overflows with cash. Envision a journey towards a successful encore career, unshackled by corporate life, and immersed in the freedom of doing what you love. In this episode, I’ll be introducing an exciting training opportunity with Mike Kim, a personal branding guru and Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author. Go here to listen → Mike, a dear friend and mentor throughout my Encore Career Journey, has been pivotal in my transition from corporate life to running an independent business. He's...
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221: REPLAY: How to Improve Your Presentation Skills and Get People to Listen
Creating Your Encore Career
We’ve all attended a presentation only to leave and immediately forget everything we’d learned. Why does this happen? Likely, the presenter wasn’t interactive, didn’t make the presentation fun for everyone, and didn’t tell stories. These common mistakes make the audience bored and unlikely to retain any information. Go here to listen → On the other hand, when presenters connect to the right energy, connect with their audiences, and perform their presentations, the impact is amazing. Both the presenter and the audience members enjoy themselves and are left with a powerful...
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220: REPLAY: Habits, Not Willpower, Will Create Your Successful Encore Career
Creating Your Encore Career
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. Go here to listen → 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, “” by Edward Jones and AgeWave. They talk about the stages of retirement and the disorientation that comes with it. When we retire, we disrupt the habits of work we've had for 30-40 years. All of a sudden, we’re launched into a new environment. Additionally, in...
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219: My New Resource on Navigating Transitions
Creating Your Encore Career
Ever felt that life's transitions are too challenging to navigate? As your guide through this journey, I’m offering a fresh perspective on embracing the unexpected twists and turns of life. From those unexpected career turns to health hiccups, relationship storms to financial instability – nothing is too daunting for us to conquer together. So here’s an arsenal of pragmatic tools and inspiring narratives, interspersed with thoughtful questions to help you shift your perspective – from seeing life's uncertainties as roadblocks to viewing them as stepping stones that lead you to a...
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218: Relationships are Vital to Having a Great Encore Life
Creating Your Encore Career
Ever felt that a strong network of relationships can be the secret potion to a fulfilling life? You're right! Join today’s conversation as we uncover the profound impact of relationships, specifically drawing wisdom from “The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness.” Go here to listen → We lay out the art of checking in, the strength in vulnerability, and the delicate balance of personal growth with nurturing relationships. We’re also going to take you on a journey of exploring personal dreams and life transitions. Imagine transcending the...
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217: REPLAY: How Can I Stay Relevant in My Encore Career?
Creating Your Encore Career
Today, you will learn how to stay relevant as you enter, create, and develop an Encore Career. Go here to listen → 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 for today’s topic. It’s crucial that you get to know yourself and learn how to understand others. That could be a key source of value for you in your value proposition....
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216: REPLAY: Getting the Support You Need in An Encore Career
Creating Your Encore Career
Today, we are going to be talking with Chelsea Brinkley. I have known and admired Chelsea for several years now and she is a very smart and amazing person. Every day, she helps entrepreneurs and freelancers create efficient businesses so they can create the life they desire on their own terms. Go here to listen → In 2016, Chelsea and her husband decided to leave their corporate jobs and become full-time remote workers. They wanted the freedom to be able to travel often, work from wherever they were, and live where they wanted. They ultimately wanted to enjoy life and not have to wait for...
info_outlineHave you ever stood at the precipice of a life transition, completely unsure of how to proceed? We've all been there. In this fascinating episode, we open up a new conversation around our life's journey, examining how we let go of ego embrace new inspiration, and take on challenges as we age.
Go here to listen → http://www.lynnfriesth.com/podcast1/214
Drawing stories from our own lives and rich insights from leading books, we uncover the differences between a three-stage life pattern and a longer life pattern, sharing tips on how to find renewal in each transition.
As our journey continues, we delve into several insightful books that can offer guidance during midlife transitions. 'The Big Leap' by Gay Hendricks, 'Wisdom at Work' by Chip Connolly, and 'The Good Life' by Robert Waldinger and Mark Schultz, to name a few. These literary gems help us identify our upper limit, discover our zone of genius, and understand the importance of community and co-generation in finding joy and fulfillment.
We also discuss the groundbreaking Harvard Project, which revealed that a fulfilling life is not always about wealth. So come along, let's navigate these transitions together, equipped with wisdom from various authors and practical tools for successful transitions.
We'll dive deeper into these concepts:
- The different tools and techniques we can use to navigate life's transitions
- How to let go of our ego in the second half of life
- Discovering new inspiration and taking on new challenges in the third half of life
- The differences between a three-stage life pattern and a longer life pattern, and finding renewal in each transition
- Having a positive mindset about aging
- Leveraging the ritual of storytelling and generational perspectives to help us reinvent ourselves
- William Bridges' Transitions book and his three steps for successful transitions.
- Other books on midlife transitions, upper limits, zones of genius, and the importance of community
Now, for some action steps:
- To get started on Your Encore journey, sign up for my resource: 5 Key Questions to Ask Yourself if You Want a Successful Mindset
Resources:
"The Big Leap" by Gay Hendricks
"Wisdom at Work" by Chip Connolly
"The Good Life" by Robert Waldinger and Mark Schultz
"Falling Upward" by Father Richard Rohr
"The Third Chapter" by Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot
"The 100-Year Life" by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
"Transitions" by William Bridges
My Resources:
A quick guide to help you get started on your Encore Journey
My Website
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— Lynn
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