Episode 108
More Than Just A Business - Women and Seasons Above the Bottom Line
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Seasoned Women, Serious Business! I'm your host, Isabel Alexander, and I'm thrilled to launch this new podcast for wise women who are seeking more from life and business. After hosting the Lift As You Climb podcast for the past three years, I've realized the need for a space dedicated to women in their 50s, 60s, 70s, and beyond, who juggle the complexities of entrepreneurship, leadership, and family roles.
In this episode, I share the vision behind Seasoned Women, Serious Business and what you can expect from our upcoming conversations. We'll delve into the unique challenges and triumphs of seasoned women entrepreneurs, exploring topics such as identity, influence, impact, and inclusion. Our discussions will be real, unfiltered, and packed with wisdom from women who have shattered ceilings and redefined leadership.
Tune in as we create a community where we can share experiences, support each other, and continue to grow and evolve. Whether you are looking for inspiration, practical advice, or a sense of camaraderie, this podcast is for you. Subscribe, share, and join us on this exciting journey.
00:00 Welcome to Seasoned Women, Serious Business
00:19 The Birth of the Podcast
00:50 Community of Seasoned Women
01:50 Podcast Goals and Expectations
03:17 Influence and Impact
04:06 Living Your Legacy
04:43 Inclusion and Inspiration
06:11 Embracing Change and Reinvention
08:02 Why You Should Tune In
09:51 Real Talk: Challenges and Triumphs
11:50 Health, Hustle, and Wisdom
13:27 Join the Community
About the Host:
Isabel Alexander
Your Next Business Strategist and Transformation Catalyst
Isabel Alexander's journey from modest beginnings to global recognition epitomizes entrepreneurial resilience and innovation. With over five decades of experience spanning diverse industries, she has become a driving force in shaping economic landscapes worldwide. Noteworthy accomplishments include founding a multimillion-dollar global chemical wholesale business and earning accolades such as Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women.
As a mentor and advocate, Isabel empowers women entrepreneurs through initiatives like the Lift As You Climb Movement and podcasts, guiding them from startup to maturity. Serving as Chief Encore Officer of The Encore Catalyst, she dedicates herself to coaching and educating emerging entrepreneurs. Her involvement in organizations like RenegadesReinventing.com and Femme on Fire underscores her commitment to leadership and business development.
Additionally, Isabel's advisory roles with government bodies and trade associations, such as Chair of the Canadian Association of Importers & Exporters, highlight her influence in shaping trade policies and fostering international relations.
Driven by her mantra, "Lift As You Climb," Isabel embodies the ethos of mutual growth and empowerment. With dual citizenship in Canada and the United States, she values her extensive family and embraces global connections through travel and professional engagements. Isabel Alexander's narrative serves as a beacon of inspiration, illustrating how visionary leadership and strategic advising can drive global entrepreneurship and economic independence forward.
Founder:
The Encore Catalyst Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/TheEncoreCatalyst )
and
Chief Encore Officer, The Encore Catalyst (www.theencorecatalyst.com) – an accelerator for feminine wisdom, influence, and impact.
also
Author & Speaker ‘Who Am I Now? – Feminine Wisdom Unmasked Uncensored’ https://whoaminowbook.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabelannalexander/
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Transcript
Hello.
Speaker:And welcome to the inaugural episode of Seasoned Women, Serious Business.
Speaker:I'm so delighted to be here with you and the fact that you are here
Speaker:already tells me that you're wise enough to know that you want more.
Speaker:It's a great thrill for me to create this new podcast after the experience
Speaker:of hosting the Lift As You Climb podcast for the past three years.
Speaker:And on that journey of evolving myself as a podcaster And most
Speaker:definitely a seasoned entrepreneur.
Speaker:I had conversations with hundreds of other women, seasoned
Speaker:and serious about business.
Speaker:And we all agreed there needed to be a space where we could come together
Speaker:to share wisdom and to share our own experiences specifically as women in
Speaker:our 50s, 60s, 70s, and beyond that have a very complex life of being an
Speaker:entrepreneur, a business person, a leader, a family member, and more.
Speaker:We are exceptional women with a diversity of experience and interests
Speaker:and still on an evolutionary path.
Speaker:That's the community that I like to be in, with other women who are recognizing
Speaker:they are not ready to slow down.
Speaker:But they are ready, perhaps, to shift gears and are ready for
Speaker:more and different in their life.
Speaker:And that's why this podcast was born, to create an environment where women like
Speaker:you, like me and like others we know can come together and exchange information
Speaker:and also recognize that we are not alone in the evolutionary challenges that come
Speaker:our way as we figure out what we want next in our life and what now is a priority
Speaker:for us that perhaps wasn't some time ago.
Speaker:And so this is what you can expect from this podcast, seasoned women who are
Speaker:serious about business, who are going to share the inside scoop generously,
Speaker:authentically, without filters and reservations, the challenges they have
Speaker:about their identity, and how that's changing and how they figure out who
Speaker:they are now and what they want next.
Speaker:We're going to share best practices and some humorous stories, but also give
Speaker:a hand up to other women like us to help you figure out What is the path to
Speaker:figuring out who your next best self is?
Speaker:Who is the future self that you desire?
Speaker:We're going to talk about influence.
Speaker:How do we do more of what we love and positively influence others?
Speaker:Whether that's your own family, your own community, or there's
Speaker:a broader ripple effect.
Speaker:Influence is where we're showing up and what we bring to the table
Speaker:and how we influence others to become the best of themselves.
Speaker:We're definitely going to talk about our impact because that's one thing
Speaker:that I know about seasoned women that are not only serious about business but
Speaker:serious about living, robust, vibrant, meaningful lives and that is impact.
Speaker:Having an impact means living your legacy.
Speaker:I mean, it's choosing your legacy now.
Speaker:It's not something you're leaving to other people after you're dead.
Speaker:It's choosing your legacy and then being present to refine it.
Speaker:and really enjoy it.
Speaker:And we have accumulated a whole lifetime of knowledge and experience, which is the
Speaker:foundation for the incredible impact that we are spreading out farther in the world.
Speaker:We are going to talk about inclusion.
Speaker:Not only do we talk about it, but we are it.
Speaker:We're a living, breathing example of inclusion because we're building a
Speaker:global community for economic empowerment that is fueled by feminine values
Speaker:and our passion to make a difference.
Speaker:And we certainly cannot leave out inspiration because that's what we do
Speaker:for each other in times of uncertainty or lack of confidence or just frustration,
Speaker:exhaustion, and there are lots of reasons like any of those factors may be present
Speaker:on any given day of our very, very busy lives as women with serious businesses.
Speaker:Inspiration comes in many forms.
Speaker:It comes in the humor of what it is to be a woman of a certain age
Speaker:and how things are changing faster than we can change our hairstyle.
Speaker:It comes with a vision for a new way to show up as our best self and to influence
Speaker:others with unlimited possibilities.
Speaker:We're on the fly, reinventing ourselves and just opening up all kinds of new
Speaker:opportunities for decades more of incredible, rich, vibrant living.
Speaker:No more are we going gently into that sweet night when we reach 60 or something
Speaker:of age, and no more do we fit that paradigm of, well, it's time to retire.
Speaker:Many of us are mothers, grandmothers, and even great grandmothers, but
Speaker:it doesn't mean that's all that we are or all that we choose to be.
Speaker:Now, personally, I love the fact that I wear a crown as a mother
Speaker:and a grandmother and an aunt and a friend and a sister and a cousin.
Speaker:I believe I make a better one in all of those roles, because there's also
Speaker:so many more facets to who I am.
Speaker:and whether it is that I choose at this time to continue to grow my business,
Speaker:start another business, help other people with their business, I sell my
Speaker:business, start a charitable foundation, or travel around the world, or write a
Speaker:novel, or be the best damn grandmother in the world, doesn't mean that it
Speaker:has to be only one of those things.
Speaker:And in fact, The most richness and fulfillment comes from blending that
Speaker:in the pot and tasting it and seasoning it a little more to create our lives.
Speaker:So what's in this show for you?
Speaker:Why should you come back to listen to future episodes?
Speaker:Why should you subscribe to the channel, whether it's on a podcast app or on
Speaker:the YouTube video version of this show?
Speaker:Why would you share the show with other people?
Speaker:Why would you create conversations about what you've just heard
Speaker:or saw on one of the episodes?
Speaker:Why should you be interested about who will be interviewed on this program coming
Speaker:up, and how you may be someone who can contribute to the richness of the show?
Speaker:And why you should perhaps be a sponsor of this program so that we can continue
Speaker:to create more and better content?
Speaker:Because in this environment, You're going to discover we are not alone,
Speaker:that we are a powerful freaking force to be recognized, that we thrive in
Speaker:community and collaboration, that if you take the cumulative experience and
Speaker:knowledge and resources of each of our lifetimes, and you put that together
Speaker:The impact will, without a doubt, be far reaching, and perhaps we will reach
Speaker:that woman out there who is feeling alone and feeling very uncertain
Speaker:about what her next best move is.
Speaker:We'll help her with our conversations and sharing of personal experience,
Speaker:first hand, real, not textbook!
Speaker:This is not philosophical conversation.
Speaker:This is everyday, in the trenches, real shit that we as seasoned women
Speaker:have done, will do, and can talk about.
Speaker:We will help others we hope in saving time and saving mistakes, and saving
Speaker:money and saving heartache, because that's one of the best things that we
Speaker:can do for each other is show, well, we tried that, and it didn't work because.
Speaker:So that is what I think is one of the very, very best values and ROIs of this
Speaker:program, is sharing good things, good experience, good knowledge, but also
Speaker:sharing the other side of the coin.
Speaker:This is not only about pretty ponies and ribbons.
Speaker:This is about the hard stuff, the hard stuff about being a business person,
Speaker:the hard stuff about managing staff and the disappointments and the challenges
Speaker:and the joys that come with that.
Speaker:The hard stuff of managing relationships as a woman and a business owner.
Speaker:The hard stuff about what the hell just happened in the world that
Speaker:turned my business upside down and changed everything from yesterday
Speaker:to something like a foreign land.
Speaker:We'll talk about what the hell!
Speaker:I have to learn something new; new technologies, everything's changing again!
Speaker:Do I have the heart?
Speaker:Do I have the appetite?
Speaker:Do I have the passion to expand and take that all in or find the people who will
Speaker:support me to make that happen when I express my vision for how I believe my
Speaker:business should be and how it can grow.
Speaker:We're going to talk about what happens to our bodies, our health, physical
Speaker:changes, everything which affects our energy and our capacity to keep on
Speaker:running day after day, and why that isn't anything of importance to us anymore,
Speaker:that perhaps we have gotten wiser and learned that We don't have to hustle.
Speaker:In fact, we prefer not to.
Speaker:We prefer to take a broader view of everything and make wise decisions,
Speaker:and leverage everything we've already learned from decades of being in
Speaker:business, making those mistakes before and learning from them.
Speaker:We are different.
Speaker:We are definitely different than we've ever been at any other time of our life.
Speaker:We are thinking differently.
Speaker:We have different priorities.
Speaker:We have different values.
Speaker:And we have way less fucks to give about a lot of shit that
Speaker:used to trouble us before.
Speaker:And so here in this community, the gloves are off.
Speaker:We're going to share with each other about that and how we can
Speaker:rise and ride on top of all of that.
Speaker:So if this appeals to you, come back because I I am very passionate about
Speaker:building this community and bringing to you and sharing the collective wisdom
Speaker:of other seasoned women entrepreneurs, other real badasses, and together, oh
Speaker:my gosh, we guarantee We will explore every avenue of being wiser and wise
Speaker:enough to know that we want, at this time in our life, more flexibility, more
Speaker:freedom, more financial certainty, more fulfillment, more fun, and all of that
Speaker:adds up to a whole lot more life in our time and more impact in our ecosystems.
Speaker:In the upcoming episodes, we're going to explore all the facets possible of
Speaker:being a business owner and being at this time in our life deciding, hmm, maybe
Speaker:I want more and maybe I want different - because I am more and I am different.
Speaker:I'm hoping you'll come back and join me for the next episode and be
Speaker:ready to hear a little more about the lineup of our guests and topics.
