More Than Just A Business - Women and Seasons Above the Bottom Line

Hello.

And welcome to the inaugural episode of Seasoned Women, Serious Business.

I'm so delighted to be here with you and the fact that you are here

already tells me that you're wise enough to know that you want more.

It's a great thrill for me to create this new podcast after the experience

of hosting the Lift As You Climb podcast for the past three years.

And on that journey of evolving myself as a podcaster And most

definitely a seasoned entrepreneur.

I had conversations with hundreds of other women, seasoned

and serious about business.

And we all agreed there needed to be a space where we could come together

to share wisdom and to share our own experiences specifically as women in

our 50s, 60s, 70s, and beyond that have a very complex life of being an

entrepreneur, a business person, a leader, a family member, and more.

We are exceptional women with a diversity of experience and interests

and still on an evolutionary path.

That's the community that I like to be in, with other women who are recognizing

they are not ready to slow down.

But they are ready, perhaps, to shift gears and are ready for

more and different in their life.

And that's why this podcast was born, to create an environment where women like

you, like me and like others we know can come together and exchange information

and also recognize that we are not alone in the evolutionary challenges that come

our way as we figure out what we want next in our life and what now is a priority

for us that perhaps wasn't some time ago.

And so this is what you can expect from this podcast, seasoned women who are

serious about business, who are going to share the inside scoop generously,

authentically, without filters and reservations, the challenges they have

about their identity, and how that's changing and how they figure out who

they are now and what they want next.

We're going to share best practices and some humorous stories, but also give

a hand up to other women like us to help you figure out What is the path to

figuring out who your next best self is?

Who is the future self that you desire?

We're going to talk about influence.

How do we do more of what we love and positively influence others?

Whether that's your own family, your own community, or there's

a broader ripple effect.

Influence is where we're showing up and what we bring to the table

and how we influence others to become the best of themselves.

We're definitely going to talk about our impact because that's one thing

that I know about seasoned women that are not only serious about business but

serious about living, robust, vibrant, meaningful lives and that is impact.

Having an impact means living your legacy.

I mean, it's choosing your legacy now.

It's not something you're leaving to other people after you're dead.

It's choosing your legacy and then being present to refine it.

and really enjoy it.

And we have accumulated a whole lifetime of knowledge and experience, which is the

foundation for the incredible impact that we are spreading out farther in the world.

We are going to talk about inclusion.

Not only do we talk about it, but we are it.

We're a living, breathing example of inclusion because we're building a

global community for economic empowerment that is fueled by feminine values

and our passion to make a difference.

And we certainly cannot leave out inspiration because that's what we do

for each other in times of uncertainty or lack of confidence or just frustration,

exhaustion, and there are lots of reasons like any of those factors may be present

on any given day of our very, very busy lives as women with serious businesses.

Inspiration comes in many forms.

It comes in the humor of what it is to be a woman of a certain age

and how things are changing faster than we can change our hairstyle.

It comes with a vision for a new way to show up as our best self and to influence

others with unlimited possibilities.

We're on the fly, reinventing ourselves and just opening up all kinds of new

opportunities for decades more of incredible, rich, vibrant living.

No more are we going gently into that sweet night when we reach 60 or something

of age, and no more do we fit that paradigm of, well, it's time to retire.

Many of us are mothers, grandmothers, and even great grandmothers, but

it doesn't mean that's all that we are or all that we choose to be.

Now, personally, I love the fact that I wear a crown as a mother

and a grandmother and an aunt and a friend and a sister and a cousin.

I believe I make a better one in all of those roles, because there's also

so many more facets to who I am.

and whether it is that I choose at this time to continue to grow my business,

start another business, help other people with their business, I sell my

business, start a charitable foundation, or travel around the world, or write a

novel, or be the best damn grandmother in the world, doesn't mean that it

has to be only one of those things.

And in fact, The most richness and fulfillment comes from blending that

in the pot and tasting it and seasoning it a little more to create our lives.

So what's in this show for you?

Why should you come back to listen to future episodes?

Why should you subscribe to the channel, whether it's on a podcast app or on

the YouTube video version of this show?

Why would you share the show with other people?

Why would you create conversations about what you've just heard

or saw on one of the episodes?

Why should you be interested about who will be interviewed on this program coming

up, and how you may be someone who can contribute to the richness of the show?

And why you should perhaps be a sponsor of this program so that we can continue

to create more and better content?

Because in this environment, You're going to discover we are not alone,

that we are a powerful freaking force to be recognized, that we thrive in

community and collaboration, that if you take the cumulative experience and

knowledge and resources of each of our lifetimes, and you put that together

The impact will, without a doubt, be far reaching, and perhaps we will reach

that woman out there who is feeling alone and feeling very uncertain

about what her next best move is.

We'll help her with our conversations and sharing of personal experience,

first hand, real, not textbook!

This is not philosophical conversation.

This is everyday, in the trenches, real shit that we as seasoned women

have done, will do, and can talk about.

We will help others we hope in saving time and saving mistakes, and saving

money and saving heartache, because that's one of the best things that we

can do for each other is show, well, we tried that, and it didn't work because.

So that is what I think is one of the very, very best values and ROIs of this

program, is sharing good things, good experience, good knowledge, but also

sharing the other side of the coin.

This is not only about pretty ponies and ribbons.

This is about the hard stuff, the hard stuff about being a business person,

the hard stuff about managing staff and the disappointments and the challenges

and the joys that come with that.

The hard stuff of managing relationships as a woman and a business owner.

The hard stuff about what the hell just happened in the world that

turned my business upside down and changed everything from yesterday

to something like a foreign land.

We'll talk about what the hell!

I have to learn something new; new technologies, everything's changing again!

Do I have the heart?

Do I have the appetite?

Do I have the passion to expand and take that all in or find the people who will

support me to make that happen when I express my vision for how I believe my

business should be and how it can grow.

We're going to talk about what happens to our bodies, our health, physical

changes, everything which affects our energy and our capacity to keep on

running day after day, and why that isn't anything of importance to us anymore,

that perhaps we have gotten wiser and learned that We don't have to hustle.

In fact, we prefer not to.

We prefer to take a broader view of everything and make wise decisions,

and leverage everything we've already learned from decades of being in

business, making those mistakes before and learning from them.

We are different.

We are definitely different than we've ever been at any other time of our life.

We are thinking differently.

We have different priorities.

We have different values.

And we have way less fucks to give about a lot of shit that

used to trouble us before.

And so here in this community, the gloves are off.

We're going to share with each other about that and how we can

rise and ride on top of all of that.

So if this appeals to you, come back because I I am very passionate about

building this community and bringing to you and sharing the collective wisdom

of other seasoned women entrepreneurs, other real badasses, and together, oh

my gosh, we guarantee We will explore every avenue of being wiser and wise

enough to know that we want, at this time in our life, more flexibility, more

freedom, more financial certainty, more fulfillment, more fun, and all of that

adds up to a whole lot more life in our time and more impact in our ecosystems.

In the upcoming episodes, we're going to explore all the facets possible of

being a business owner and being at this time in our life deciding, hmm, maybe

I want more and maybe I want different - because I am more and I am different.

I'm hoping you'll come back and join me for the next episode and be

ready to hear a little more about the lineup of our guests and topics.