Reinvent Yourself
329 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsA podcast offering tips and tricks for reinventing yourself by former More magazine Editor In Chief and creator of CoveyClub.com, Lesley Jane Seymour.
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#77: How to start your dream reinvention for $20K or less (Amanda McIntosh)
January 24, 2020 14:50 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBHow does a professional musician and self-described “book worm” start a fabulous niche beauty product for under $20,000? By noticing a “glaring hole” with a “low barrier to entry” and jumping in. Amanda McIntosh, was on her way home from a concert when she realized she didn’t have any more washcloths for her special skincare routine. She was grossed out by the grey, half-wet wash cloths left on her shower rail. “My practical brain got started, asking, ‘How do you change the process?’” McIn...
#76: How to relaunch your career after a break (Mika and Ginny Brzezinski)
January 17, 2020 18:08 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MB“Women [who have had a career break] feel dislodged from the rest of the world and they feel everybody sees it,” says Mika Brzezinski co-host of TV’s Morning Joe, founder of KnowYourValue.com, and co-author with her sister-in-law Ginny, of the new handbook “Comeback Careers” Rethink, Refresh, Reinvent Your Success at 40,50, and Beyond” (https://amzn.to/2NqJBUM). “I want to tell them, it’s all right not to know what’s next. They have value. They may have to take a big step back, use a side h...
#75: Ditch your 50-line To Do List for a 5-line Priority List (Tonya Dalton)
January 10, 2020 15:16 - 36 minutes - 50 MB“Overwhelm is not having too much to do, it’s not knowing where to start,” says Tonya Dalton, serial entrepreneur and author of “The Joy of Missing Out: Live More by Doing Less” (https://amzn.to/2sa7598) a “mini course” in a new organization paradigm. Dalton believes most productivity manuals fail women because they are written by men who can’t account for or understand the multi-faceted, multi-pressured lives real women lead. “Women have a lot more guilt, lean in more to productivity and...
#75: Ditch your 50-line To Do List for a 5-line Priority List (Tonja Dalton)
January 10, 2020 15:16 - 36 minutes - 50 MB“Overwhelm is not having too much to do, it’s not knowing where to start,” says Tojna Dalton, serial entrepreneur and author of “The Joy of Missing Out: Live More by Doing Less” (https://amzn.to/2sa7598) a “mini course” in a new organization paradigm. Dalton believes most productivity manuals fail women because they are written by men who can’t account for or understand the multi-faceted, multi-pressured lives real women lead. “Women have a lot more guilt, lean in more to productivity and...
#74: Reinventing how marketers view you (Vaughan Emsley)
December 20, 2019 16:43 - 39 minutes - 54.8 MB“It’s not that marketers are stupid,” says Vaughan Emsley, founder of Flipside, a startup ad agency dedicated to flipping marketer’s perceptions of men and women 50+ away from images of people “sitting home watching daytime TV” to what he calls “The Second Coming of Age”—in which people 50-70 act and feel like they’re 17 again. “It’s just muscle memory. [We’re taught] that the rising generation is more interesting than the previous generation—and that was always true. “ Emsley, a 25-year ve...
#73: Reinventing by moving to a new city (Lesley Jane Seymour)
December 13, 2019 16:17 - 48 minutes - 66.7 MBWhen your adult children have finally moved on to their own lives, some women find the only way to jumpstart their own bliss is by relocating. “I'd always imagined we’d live forever in our big, beautiful suburban home where I'd given birth to my daughter two days after moving in 24 years earlier,” says CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour in conversation with Covey Editor at Large, Deborah Marquardt. “But once she and my older son had vacated the nest, the house felt like a mausoleum to sad...
#72: Have a growth mindset about everything (Jill Gwaltney)
November 29, 2019 21:54 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBWhat do you do after you work in your family printing business for twenty years and you make it successful enough to sell? You realize you are “loosing [your]self” and you need to reinvent. Because you "love solving customer problems”, you start a digital ad agency named Rauxa. (Never mind that you have zero experience in advertising). And you fill it with 70% women (in a sector that is known for male dominance and is rife with #MeToo issues and complaints). “Being a woman is an advantage f...
#71: The benefits (and challenges) of persistence (Candy Gold)
November 22, 2019 17:02 - 47 minutes - 64.7 MBWhen (now) Broadway Producer Candy Gold (The Heidi Chronicles, Hadestown, Jagged Little Pill & more) was a novice reporter in Boston flying around the country to cover everything from politics to entertainment discovered she was pregnant, she knew she'd have to cut back her crazy job. She chose the perfect “mom job”: freelance. Which worked fine until the economic downturn of 2008, when all freelance dried up. A random television ad for a local cable station inspired her to pitch (and win) a...
#70: 3 things you may be accidentally doing to sabotage your job search (Dr. Nayla Bahri)
November 15, 2019 15:52 - 38 minutes - 52.2 MB“High achievers say that all they have to do is work harder or out perform everyone around them in order to succeed,” says Dr. Nayla Bahri, PCC, Leadership and Development coach, Columbia University. “But it may not be productive. [My research shows people] do best if they’re willing to do the inner work [before they] open LinkedIn and apply to 100 jobs. Burnout is why it’s not working. People are addicted to interviewing—[to the point where] they don’t want to get out of bed.” Bahri tells...
#69: How to function in the Zone of Genius (Genecia Alluora)
November 01, 2019 15:14 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MBWhat do you do when you’ve been “Miss Singapore” and an image consultant, owned a successful cafe retail chain, and have a quarter life crisis? If you're Genecia Alluora, it means you decide to spend $100,000 in online courses from around the world to learn how to “function in my zone of genius.” Today Alluora runs the Soul Rich Woman, South East Asia empowerment network (https://www.soulrichwoman.com/). She says it's “for Women who love the ‘F’ word”— “being Fabulous, having Freedom and F...
#68: Reinventing your body by finding new f*cks to give (Oonagh Duncan)
October 25, 2019 15:14 - 40 minutes - 55.2 MB“For fad diets you’re relying on discipline, motivation and willpower,” says award-winning uber fitness expert, trainer and author (“Healthy As F*ck” https://amzn.to/2VvndML) Oonagh Duncan. “But that eats your energy. So you fall of the rails and fall into a f*ck-it spiral. These binge/purge relationships are corrosive to your sense of self.” Oonagh, a former “passionate smoker” and anti-sweat-er, talks to CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour about how to disrupt your habit loop by identify...
#67: Squeezed out? Fight Back. Here’s How. (Vera Gibbons)
October 18, 2019 15:28 - 41 minutes - 56.7 MBWhat do you do when you’re a beautiful, high-flying, financial reporter for the top networks in the country (MSNBC, CBS, CNBC) and suddenly your segments are dropped from the air because all anyone wants to watch is Trump and politics? You fight back by creating a daily newsletter called NonPoliticalNews.com which covers—you guessed it—everything but politics! Gibbons talks with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour about how she downsized her apartment to pay for her launch, how she’s gathe...
#66: Putting her thought-leader network to work for health research (Carolee)
October 04, 2019 17:04 - 38 minutes - 53.5 MBShe’s so famous that she goes by a single name: Carolee. And you probably knew her jewelry company of the same name because the designs were available in over 700 retail stores nationwide. She sold that business in 2001 and created AccessCircles.com, an invitation-only network for thought leaders that focuses on wellness, health, and life planning and funds major projects with American research centers in the areas of sleep and heart disease. Carolee Friedlander talks with CoveyClub founder...
#65: Shattering stereotypes of women in the army (Jessica Scott)
September 20, 2019 12:00 - 39 minutes - 54 MB“Every narrative about the army is negative,” says romance novelist (the Coming Home series (https://amzn.to/2HnBANt)) and former officer in the army, Jessica Scott. “It’s about PTSD. For women it’s about sexual assault. I wanted to tell stories of how fun the army is, to tell our stories.” Scott details for CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, how she began writing romance novels because she was bored in officer-training school, wanted to change how women in the army were portrayed, and ...
#64: Control is an illusion (Lydia Slaby)
September 06, 2019 15:04 - 40 minutes - 55.7 MB“Control is a coping mechanism,” says author (Wait, It Gets Worse https://amzn.to/34rUTPM), cancer survivor, and total life reinventor, Lydia Slaby. “It works until it fails.” And it failed when Slaby was 33, a freshly minted JD/MBA with a new job in Chicago and was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma that featured a tumor the size of a grapefruit on her sternum and heart. Two years of emergency care—including open-heart surgery—left her clear that her high-powered, uber-stressful life had...
#63: Personal Branding 101 (Joanne Tombrakos)
August 17, 2019 11:54 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MB“A personal brand is how we sell ourselves. If you’re not clear about [what it is], you can’t move forward,” says personal branding expert Joanne Tombrakos. “There is a degree of bragging that comes with it. Women hate it. They look at it as boastful and they feel like an imposter.” Tombrakos, who teaches branding at NYU and runs her own branding agency, talks to CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour about how she has reinvented herself several times and has created a free downloadable workb...
#62: Reinventing through fear (Ruth Soukup)
August 09, 2019 13:48 - 40 minutes - 56.1 MB“There are seven fear archetypes. One through three that are more prevalent. They are in your subconscious. You experience them as truth, not fear.” Ruth Soukup should know. She found herself at 24 divorced, abandoned by her family, having filed bankruptcy, and in so much despair that she couldn’t get out of bed. Her father (“who didn’t want me”) convinced her to start working out three times a week, and that “one step at a time, gave her a spark of hope.” Soukup called a new therapist, boug...
#61: Creating a platform that allows you to make meaningful connections (Gina Bianchini)
August 02, 2019 15:38 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MB“True communities deliver meaning. It’s why people are put on earth. Even the most busy or lazy people are about mastering something together.” Or so says Gina Bianchini, founder of Mighty Networks, the private social networking host for our CoveyConnect app [LINK to join]. The Stanford Business school graduate (and Cupertino native) speaks with CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, about growing up in the heart of Silicon Valley, as the descendant of Italian immigrants, living through th...
#60: From music industry artist to cannabis entrepreneur (Aliza Sherman)
July 19, 2019 12:26 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MB“We have a lot to learn—especially about educating women about cannabinoids and how to access the medicine,” says Aliza Sherman, founder of Ellementa.com (https://ellementa.com/wellbeing/), a site that offers women education about the health and wellness benefits of cannabis—stories about cannabis as a sexual aid, reviews of edibles, or CBD bath salts. Sherman speaks with CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, about why the cannabis industry is a great place for female entrepreneur—it’s “li...
#59: “Even at 63 years old, I can’t imagine sitting by the pool; I’m not done” (Susan Feldman)
July 12, 2019 14:05 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MBThough Susan Feldman had worked in retail eight times (creating, among other things, swimwear for Ralph Lauren and Polo Jeans), it wasn’t until she moved to L.A., bought a home and had to decorate it that she hit it big. “We launched One Kings Lane in five months in March 2009. We sold it to Bed Bath & Beyond which just celebrated its 10th anniversary,” Feldman tells Lesley Jane Seymour, founder of CoveyClub.com. Feldman launched Get in The Groove (https://getinthegroove.com/) as a high-to-...
#58: Reinventing after a diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder II (Shaillee Chopra)
July 05, 2019 14:45 - 39 minutes - 54 MBShe was a high-flying, ambitious, mother, wife and healthcare strategist. On a flight home from meetings in Saudi Arabia she had what she thought was a heart attack. It turned out to be a panic attack and it turned her life upside down. “I’d dealt with depression all my life—since I was three…I overcompensated by achievement,” she tells Lesley Jane Seymour, founder of CoveyClub.com. “I didn’t want to admit my imperfections.” Using psychotherapy, prayer, medication, exercise, meditation, and ...
#57: Always be in the mode of reinventing (Adrienne Garland)
June 28, 2019 14:16 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBHer first reinvention happened when she was getting her MBA: the investment bank she was working for was fined and she had to move over to marketing. That’s where she spent her life—working for a toy company, then at a news wire for PR until it was hit by internet disruption. In 2013 Garland put together a conference for entrepreneurs and She Leads Media was born. “Don’t wait to reinvent yourself when the situation arises,” she tells Lesley Jane Seymour, founder of CoveyClub.com. “Be in the ...
#56: Reinventing because of life’s randomness (Lisa Lori)
June 21, 2019 18:12 - 44 minutes - 60.6 MB“When you get sick, you learn about the randomness of life and you have to accept it and get on with it,” says Lisa Lori, owner of Perfect Provenance, a unique live and online outlet in Greenwich, CT (https://www.theperfectprovenance.com/). Lori was a top PR maven creating memorable Absolute Vodka campaigns for Tom Ford and Gucci. Then at 33 she was diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease. “I had to rethink my life,” she tells Lesley Jane Seymour, founder of CoveyClub.com. After taki...
#55: Take back your life by reinventing your relationship with your phone (Tim Kendall)
June 14, 2019 15:30 - 36 minutes - 50.3 MBWhen Tim Kendall was president of Pinterest he’d come home from a long day at work and notice he was sneaking off to the pantry to look at his Instagram feed. Even when his two kids, 2 and 3, were excited to see him! “Facebook has a profile on me and understands timing that will maximize my time spent there,” he tells Lesley Jane Seymour, founder of CoveyClub.com. “They hold messages at bay. The pings and emails are carefully crafted and precisely timed to send to you.” He also noticed: suic...
#54: Reinventing after losing yourself in motherhood (Nicole Jennings)
May 24, 2019 14:13 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MB“I used to be outgoing, confident, loving fashion," says Nicole Jennings, wife of famous football player Gregg Jennings, who after having her fourth child, discovered that she’d immersed herself so deeply in motherhood that “I found myself lost in that world.” Clothes in her closet ran from size 4 to 14 and her identity felt equally amorphous. Jennings talks with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour about how she found her way back to her true self by pulling in a trainer and a grief couns...
#53: Helping lawyers reinvent (Julie Anna Alvarez)
May 17, 2019 14:29 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBShe was a lawyer with degrees from Harvard who “loved helping others” more than practicing law. So she segued into feng shui then career planning. Now she’s the Director of Alumni and International Career Services for Columbia Law School and guides other law grads as they reinvent. Join CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, as she speaks with Alvarez about her unique ability to understand the barriers (financial, identity) and how to transfer a lawyer’s unique communication, analytical, a...
#52: Failure was not on her menu (Evelyn Isaia)
May 11, 2019 14:14 - 33 minutes - 45.4 MB"In the end, it will be ok. And if it’s not ok, we’re not at the end.” That’s what Evelyn Isaia, who left a 30 year career in finance to create RatatouilleAndCo.com, a catering company that trains and employs refugee women, told herself to get through the hard times of becoming an entrepreneur. Isaia talks with CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, about how to identify the intersection of your passions and interests and how to simply refuse to entertain failure.
#51: Reinventing after burnout (Debra Boulanger)
May 03, 2019 14:49 - 34 minutes - 47.1 MB“The key to happiness is to not believe what you’re thinking”—or so says serial reinventor Deborah Boulanger of TheGreatDoOver.com. Join her conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour in which she discusses her radical first step in reinventing herself at 55 when she hit burnout in her job, menopause, and a failing marriage all at once (hint: it started with a 10 day silent retreat). What she discovered: “Once you have the intention to create the life you want to live, it falls ...
#50: When she couldn’t find great career advice, she invented it herself (Kathryn Minshew)
April 26, 2019 23:38 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MBKathryn Minshew wanted to work for the CIA. But she ended up in Rwanda working on the HPV vaccine, then consulting for McKinsey & Company. Then she got involved with tech and discovered there were no online sites with actionable tips for managing your career. That’s when The Muse, a site that now attracts 75 million users, was born. Join CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, in discussion with Kathryn Minshew who discovered that helping others reinvent, helped her reinvent herself. “Every...
#49: Reinventing because you no longer believe (Tova Mirvis)
April 19, 2019 15:50 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBImagine turning 40 and being afraid to drive on the highway. Being afraid of the freedom that might bring. Afraid of breaking with a strict religious tradition in which you grew up. Tova Mirvis did just that. Married at 22 to a man she dated for just 12 weeks, Mirvis knew she risked leaving everything behind—including her identity as a mother and a community member-- if she walked away from her tightly knit Orthodox jewish community. But she did it and wrote the book, “The Book of Separation...
#48: When disruption forces you to reinvent (Bonnie Levison)
April 12, 2019 13:31 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MBBonnie Levison was a tall, "very shy," suburban mom. Then, after 18 years of marriage, her husband came home one day and said he wanted a divorce. After wallowing in self pity, Levison sat down at the computer and asked herself what she really needed more of in her life. The answer: humor. She typed “comedy classes” into Google and launched a career of writing and producing and performing stand-up comedy. Levison started the Nantucket Comedy Festival (still going today) and now travels the...
#47: Resetting to slow life down (Rachel Lightfoot)
April 05, 2019 15:19 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBRachel Lightfoot was flying high at Google and YouTube where she learned digital marketing from the ground up and taught it to Nike and Coca-Cola, even to celebrities like Will Smith. “I was living this fantastic life. I was on the fast track. I had a beautiful home, a husband. Before I had kids I thought, ‘My God, I’ve done it!’” Once her children turned one and three, however, the feeling wasn’t joy and excitement, but “deep sorrow” because Lightfoot says her mind was "always on the job a...
#46: Reinventing through “subconscious surviving” (Tashyra Ayers)
March 29, 2019 14:08 - 41 minutes - 56.4 MBShe was a single mom at 14 and became the caregiver to her younger brother shortly after that when her mother passed away. Yet Tashyra Ayers managed to create a career in the health care industry and start in a radio show on the side. At 38, she is about to be an empty nester (Davon is off to college in the fall) and so will be reinventing again. Join CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, in an incredibly honest discussion with an amazing lifelong learner who says “Reinvention takes sha...
#45: Moving out of stuck (Julien McRoberts)
March 22, 2019 14:31 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MBJulien McRoberts took decades to discover the common thread behind all of her reinventions. “It was that I’ve been producing my whole life!” That was the ah-ha moment that stitched together her early years in L.A. as a casting director, a decade of running animal shelters, and 12 very successful years as a top-flight print photographer (check out her website at JulienMcRoberts.com (https://julienmcroberts.com/). McRoberts tells Lesley Jane Seymour, founder of CoveyClub, that as print publ...
#44: Reinventing to find your place in the world (Gretchen Rubin)
March 08, 2019 15:08 - 41 minutes - 56.3 MBGretchen Rubin didn’t become The Happiness Lady by accident. She was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor when she realized that she was not really interested in the law, but in “power, money and sex.” She went to the library and took a book on how to sell your book proposal, followed it, and never looked back. Today Rubin is the author of “The Happiness Project” (https://amzn.to/2Us6uJe) and now, “Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for H...
#43: The simple phrase that reinvented my life (Susan Hyatt)
March 01, 2019 18:07 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MB“What if you spent all that time on growing your life instead of shrinking your body?” So asks Susan Hyatt, author of the new book Bare: A 7-week Program to Transform Your Body, Get More Energy, Feel Amazing, and Become the Bravest, Most Unstoppable Version of You (https://amzn.to/2TVSx5U). In an energetic discussion with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour, the Indiana native reveals how she ditched real estate (which made her miserable) to follow her heart into life coaching where she n...
#42: Finding time, money, freedom, happiness ("Downsizing Ninja" Rita Wilkins)
February 22, 2019 19:29 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MBRita Wilkins was an interior designer with 11 closets and 9 rolling racks of clothes. But it wasn’t until she traded her 5000 square foot home for a 867 square foot apartment that she found what she was really looking for: time, money and freedom to travel. Wilkins talks with CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, about the year that changed her life and what made her realize that stuff could not fill the loneliness she felt. You can find Rita at Design Services, LTD (http://www.designser...
#41: Reinventing after taking down your boss (Gretchen Carlson)
February 08, 2019 18:12 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MBEvery night her mother put her to bed, telling her she could be anything she wanted as long as she was willing to work hard for it. That support created a girl who knew how to stand up and speak for herself—even in grammar school when she was put into the wrong (remedial) reading group; speaking up got her moved. So when the former Stanford grad, Miss America and CBS and Fox anchor found herself suing her boss for sexual harassment, it was that “ability to know I worked very hard that carrie...
#40: When the birth of a daughter forces you to reinvent (Mary Beth Ferrante)
February 02, 2019 01:02 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBShe’d worked in corporate consumer strategy at banks. But after giving birth, she noticed how unsupportive her company became when she was looking for flexibility, how suddenly she was seen as less committed and less likely to be promoted. This “millennial feminist” created LiveWorkLead.com to instruct both companies and individuals on how to bring working mothers back into the workforce in a logical, supportive manner that will make them productive.
#39: Reinventing with a weekend “side hustle" (Gillian Garrett)
January 25, 2019 14:27 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBShe was the daughter of pharmacists and a busy copywriter in the beauty business. She was also raising kids. But she loved making organic body scrubs and selling them at local fairs. Then she got in front of the buyer from Whole Foods and her weekend gig, Gilly’s Organics, took off.
#38: Reinventing after tragedy (Laura Dinsmore)
January 18, 2019 16:59 - 41 minutes - 56.6 MBLaura Dinsmore had the perfect life. Then a drunk driver killed her husband and left her alone with a two year old child. “Responsibility moved me forward,” she says. Join CoveyClub Founder Lesley Jane Seymour in discussion with Dinsmore who explains how visualization and “flipping negative self-talk" helped move her through several reinventions and finally to Founder, President and CEO of Quadrant Health Strategies.
#37: Her dry cleaning bill made her do it (Sarah LaFleur)
December 28, 2018 15:45 - 38 minutes - 53.3 MBShe wanted to be an aid worker in Zambia but after college, got sucked instead into management consulting. After she quit, she couldn’t find a job but noticed her $300 interview dress was burning a $1000 dry-cleaning hole in her budget. Sarah LaFleur, CEO of MM.LaFleur, talks with CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, about how that simple problem prompted LaFleur to explore and create a multi-million dollar fashion business based on her “idea for better workwear for working women."
#36: Reinventing against the odds (Louise Phillips Forbes)
December 07, 2018 15:40 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBShe had a southern accent, wore a leotard and cowboy boots with holes in them. She even had a learning disability. Louise Phillips Forbes talks with CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, about how she used hard work, her "gift of gab,” and an incredible spacial memory to create a $200 million real estate business.
#35: Reinventing to fill up her empty nest (Jeannie Ralston)
November 30, 2018 18:38 - 32 minutes - 44.1 MBShe was a successful magazine and newspaper writer whose photographer husband had wanderlust—forcing them to uproot and home-school their kids around the world—from South America to Mexico. She even wrote a book about the successful lavender farm she ran outside of Dallas. Then when her last child left home Ralston launched NextTribe.com, a virtual and IRL space for women 45+ to connect and create new friendships.
#34: “Fake it till you make it!” Reinventing with moxie! (Barbara Warren)
November 19, 2018 16:14 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBJoin CoveyClub.com founder Lesley Jane Seymour’s rollicking discussion about reinventing in the fashion world with Barbara Warren, co-founder of White + Warren and now PerennialProject.com a fashion site for women 50+. Learn how her eye for seeing the missing items in a woman’s wardrobe led to the invention of the cashmere “Travel Wrap” and perfect cashmere T-shirt. Warren reveals hot new labels to watch that will make women look fabulous while staying comfortable.
#33: Reinventing after cancer (Tamika Felder)
November 09, 2018 18:14 - 36 minutes - 50.3 MB“Life comes with an end date—so we have to make the best of whatever we have now.” So says former television producer Tamika Felder who was given a cervical cancer diagnosis at age 25. Felder joins CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour to explain how beating the odds gave her a new direction in life and offers her tips for women facing the ultimate reinvention mandate from cancer.
#32: Reinventing by teaching fearlessness (Randi Levin)
November 07, 2018 04:03 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MBShe claims she’s not a coach but a “transitional life strategist” who uses her own reinvention—from corporate cog to entrepreneur—to help others reimagine themselves. She instructs on shifts in thinking, time management, and most important, on how to catch your inner confidence thief: “fear.”
#31: When life forces you to reinvent - after an abusive relationship (Vani Murthy)
October 26, 2018 16:46 - 33 minutes - 45.5 MBVani Murthy came to the U.S. from India and was totally economically dependent on her husband. She talks with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour about how, when he became abusive, she made a plan—and escaped. Vani's miraculous story tells of believing in herself, finding help, getting her accounting degree, and forging a new life. Lesley and Vani are joined by Yesenia Maldonado, who runs BetweenFriends.com, the agency that helped Vani (and women like her) escape abusive relationships.
#30: Helping women achieve economic equality (Fran Pastore)
October 19, 2018 04:02 - 36 minutes - 49.5 MBFran Pastore grew up in a tight male-dominated Italian family. She watched how all her female relatives were disempowered and forced to become dependent on a male for their future. Fran talks to CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour about how and why she decided to gather her fate into her own hands by applying to college (her mother stopped talking to her because of it!) and eventually opened the Women's Business Development Council of Connecticut (CTWBDC.Org) that supplies free support se...
#29: When you decide to reinvent everything at once (Pamela Redmond Satran)
October 12, 2018 15:01 - 36 minutes - 50 MBShe was a best-selling author (“Younger,” “The Possibility of You”), owned a successful baby-naming site, had marriage of 33 years, a big house in the suburbs, kids and a picket fence. And then she turned the age at which her mother died. Her book “Younger” was optioned by "Sex & The City’s" Darren Star and she decided to start over.