This month marks the first anniversary of the launch of my positive aging, coaching business: Your Future Reimagined (YFR) Coaching. It should be noted that for the first 56 years…
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Listen as Mike Kennedy shares how becoming part of a team helped him refocus his entire life and career. An inspirational plus educational story, one that we can all identify...
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Unemployment is never easy and I would suggest even more traumatic for those over 50. Older workers who do lose a job spend longer periods out of work, and if they…
There is a common thread running through the stories of all the successful 50+ entrepreneurs I have interviewed for my ongoing series. They are some of the happiest, most engaged…
Too old to hire, too young to retire.” Many of the nearly and newly retired are finding this to be true. Michael Kennedy, a life coach studying later-in-life business entrepreneurs...
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Most definitions of resilience go something like this: the ability to recover from setbacks, adapt to change, and keep going in the face of adversity. Last week I had the distinct…
Imagine that your job of almost twenty years comes to an abrupt end. A job that at 61 you still enjoyed and continued to be very good at. Imagine further…
When Barbara Boustead’s mother, Mary Hyatte, could no longer manage on her own, Barbara took on the role of meticulously managing her medical and financial documents, negotiating with creditors and advocating on…
Not all 50+ entrepreneurs wait until they are retired to launch their start-ups. Such is the case with Al Wilson, 61 of Manassas, Va. Health and fitness has always been…
Jeffrey Nash is very good at retail sales. In fact he was often the top salesperson at the national retail clothing chain where he worked in Las Vegas. He was making a…
The story of the early days of Zelda Wisdom reads like fantasy fiction. The company must have appeared by many to be an overnight sensation. But dig a little deeper and like…
Too old to hire…too young to retire, if you find yourself in this number this series is for you. If you have friends, family or contacts in this number please…
A couple of years ago I, like so many 50 something executives, found myself looking at the prospect of yet another job search, after 30+ years as a consumer products…
Robin K Blum founder of In My Book® started a new chapter in 2000, at the age of 50, as a first time entrepreneur. In the late 90’s Robin was working part-time for…
Quick, tell me how many successful entrepreneurs you can name who started their businesses in their fifties or later? Now tell me how many started their business in this millennium?…
I am the first to admit to you that it took me far longer than it should have to see the writing on the wall. After all I spent the first…
A pretty basic question with a not so simple answer. Most people when contemplating retirement more often than not list the following as the things they look most forward to: Spend…
The old model for retirement focused on rest, relaxation and leisure. For the majority of boomers, looking at 20 to 30 years in retirement or more, a new model is…
The recession of 2008 and it’s negative impact on both retirement portfolios and career prospects created a significant increase in next chapter entrepreneurial ventures. The rise of the Boomer Entrepreneur has…
Ongoing health aside we should not be concerned about Peyton Manning’s transition into retirement. Yes after a long and storied 18 year career there will be an adjustment period, but have…
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