Final Episode of Lift As You Climb: A New Beginning

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Welcome to the Lift As You Climb podcast, where it's all about the

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journey and the joy of discovering who you are now, deciding who you want

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to become, and embracing your genuine identity, influence, and impact.

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In each episode, we'll explore how life's experiences have prepared us for what

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we choose to do next and how to create our Encore, write our own script, and

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star in the next stage of our lives.

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I'm your host, your Encore strategist, and transformation catalyst, Isabel Alexander.

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Hello and goodbye.

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Today, I am recording the last episode of the Lift As You Climb podcast.

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This is not an end, but it is a beginning.

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But let me explain more about that a little later.

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First, let's talk a little bit about what we've experienced and what we've

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shared together in the past three years.

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105 episodes of this podcast have proceeded today.

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It's been an incredible journey and an incredible season of my life as

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we've shared times that affected all of us, changing what we believe about

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ourselves and the world and learning to become more of the best of us.

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And isn't that what Lift As You Climb is all about?

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What it was always intended to be and what it will continue to be.

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But this podcast is coming to an end.

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And a brand new one is born out of those three years of living, becoming more

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of myself and learning more about who I want to be, , what I want more of.

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We've talked a lot about figuring ourselves out and really leaning into

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the wisdom of who we are as women.

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Decades and decades of transformation, reinvention backing up, going forward,

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and with all of that, even though some of it was uncomfortable at times,

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perhaps even painful for some of us, there was also a great deal of good that

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happened for all of us in learning more about ourselves and how to build our

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own success ladders and be confident in the choices that we're making because

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we've come to know more about ourselves.

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And of course, for me, it's not about just having my own success,

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but collaboration, the power, in fact, I believe the responsibility

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of giving a hand up to others.

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Based on our own experience and our own wisdom, we empower others

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to build their own success ladder.

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Economic independence and empowerment for women, girls, families will

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always be a part of who I am and what validates my existence

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through this journey called life.

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That's why I've shared with you my own personal story, , the anguish and the

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joy of growing up into my 40s, 50s, 60s, and now, approaching my 70th

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birthday, figuring out as I traveled through this womanhood wonderland,

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really what is it all about, Alfie?

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What's important to me?

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What's no longer important?

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Evolution is a really necessary healthy part of our journey, because if we stop

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trying to figure out who we are, if we figure that we have expired, and there

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is an episode about what's your expiry date, then nothing really matters.

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Not only have I been able to share my own experiences with you, the good, the bad,

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the ugly, and the, oh, my goddess, did not expect that to happen to me, but I've

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also been able to bring to you and share the wisdom, the laughter, the tears, the

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education from some incredible guests that helped us look at how Age is just a number

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that is really a stereotype, and really, what the hell, we get to choose how much

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more life we're going to have in our time, and really what those numbers mean to us.

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I've celebrated birthdays with you, and I will continue for a long time,

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I've celebrated women that shattered barriers, were the original

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gangsters, who were Forbes authors, shared the stage with Oprah.

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I've talked about women business coaches and authors, speakers, and really badass

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entrepreneurs, all of whom share in common the fact that they were on this

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journey of figuring out who they were in their encore periods of life -not

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singular, but multiple encores, which is what we can only hope to aspire.

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And they were willing to share their own experiences generously,

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authentically with you and me.

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And we talked about, how women impact the economy and how

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we do things so differently.

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Born out of this experience of learning to podcast and learning to be a YouTuber

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and being able to share with you my life's purpose, which is defined by the

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title of this podcast, Lift As You Climb, I've had this opportunity to grow along

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with you and really challenge myself to sit in this uncomfortable place

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in front of you and reveal the truth.

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I don't have all the answers, but I'm not going to stop investigating.

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On this journey of Lift As You Climb, what I've learned is there are so

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many of you out there that get that.

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That want more of that, that understanding that our life has purpose

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and our life has meaning only if we are able to decide on what our legacy

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is and to live it and direct it and influence it now while we are alive.

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And during that, as we learn more and become more of ourselves and lift

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ourselves, We are also able then to reach back to our sisters, other women,

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other people, and by example, show them that it's really worth making the

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effort to go through the metamorphosis, to make the difficult transformations

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and transitions in life, always in search of, okay, Who am I now?

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And who is this next best version of myself?

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As a result, what I've decided is I really feel most impassioned, most empowered,

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as someone who can lift myself and help others lift themselves with my focus

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on women of a certain age, women like myself, in their 50s, 60s, 70s, and

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beyond, who are the small and medium sized women business owners of the world, who

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have an amazing impact on economies, not only their own, their families and their

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employees and their contractors and their circles of influence in their community.

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And those circles keep getting bigger and bigger because we are, we

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ebb out into the universe with our influence as women entrepreneurs.

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and that's why I recognize, I had a fabulous season of three years with

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Lift As You Climb, being more general in terms of, let's talk about identity,

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let's figure out the ways that we as women show up as the best version

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of ourselves, and showcase other entrepreneurs, other women, other leaders,

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that give us examples as trailblazers to model ourselves after, or just to

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spark another idea, which is totally different of our own, but understand,

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oh gosh, we all have so much in common.

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Every single one of the people that I've interviewed on this show will share, they

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suffer from identity crisis, imposter syndrome, pivoting decisions in their

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life, relationships up and down overcoming the beliefs and Paradigms of the Past.

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This is what's important for all of you to hear and know.

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You're not alone.

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We are all going on this human journey and growing on this human journey together.

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And so today I'm growing again.

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I am stretching a new set of butterfly wings.

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I've come out of my cocoon of thinking for a while.

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That's why there haven't been a lot of episodes lately, because

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I've been thinking what do I think is important to me now?

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And that is a new focus and a new show which is launching next week.

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And so if you're here subscribed to my channel now, you're automatically going

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to receive the announcement about the new show and about the new season, and why

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it is so frigging exciting and wonderful that we are here as collaborative lifters

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and climbers together and that we're ready to launch into a new frontier.

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Stay tuned,

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subscribe here.

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Follow us on social media because we're going to be announcing the launch of a

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new podcast and a new YouTube channel that specifically is about what I

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think is the most important community that I can be part of and that I can

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make a contribution to in the next season of my life and perhaps yours,

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and that together collectively our wisdom will have significant impact

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and our legacies will be even more influential, impactful, and a hell of

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a lot of fun while we are here present on this earth to live and enjoy them.

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Thank you for your support, your interest.

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The episodes of the past three years don't go away and there's rich,

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juicy, sassy content in all of them.

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This opportunity to again grow with you and you never know who we're

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going to interview, who we're going to discover, but if you stay tuned

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and find out about the show, you may know in fact, you may be someone that

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should be on my next show as a guest.

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Or you may have someone to refer and I hope that you have questions,

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ideas, suggestions, feedback for how we make it the richest, most

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satisfying content possible.

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All right.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for spending this time with me.

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I hope our conversation added value to your day and expanded your

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vision for your legacy and impact.

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Please join me in increasing my impact and expanding my reach to even more people

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As You Climb Movement, where you can engage, be inspired by and grow

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with a tribe of like-minded people.

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As I evolve as a podcaster and spokeswoman for collaboration and

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economic empowerment, your input and feedback are especially important.

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To me, I welcome your suggestions and questions to hello@theencorecatalyst.com.

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Until we meet again, please remember your success may be the foundation

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for someone else's to together we can raise success ladders around the world.