Sofa Series: More Strength, More Stories

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Welcome to Seasoned Women, Serious Business, the podcast for entrepreneurs

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aged 45 to 75 and beyond who've changed lives, challenged status

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quo, who are wise enough to want more and gutsy enough to create it.

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Join me, your host, Isabel Alexander, a seasoned business owner, as I

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serve up the Knowledge and best practices for life and business,

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along with unfiltered wisdom from other women entrepreneurs and leaders.

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Whether you're looking to reignite your passion for your business,

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unlock new ones that build your legacy or simply shake your head at the

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wisdom that dismisses old paradigms and celebrates vibrant women just like you

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//web.descript.com/b961cf36-43d2-426c-b4dd-28f0d479279f

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Isabel Alexander, DOB: You want to record an episode?

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We should do a shorty.

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We got a little short one.

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All right, what would you like to talk about?

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Hey, welcome back.

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Seasoned Women, a serious business with the spicy duo.

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Jackie Wieselik, Isabel Alexander, both in our almost 70s, and

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we're just sitting on the sofa.

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chatting with you.

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Yep.

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Sharing it.

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Sharing some things.

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Jackie Wszalek, DOB: Yeah.

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Isabel is about to turn 70, as we talked about in our last podcast and

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our last video, and I've been there and heading toward the middle of it.

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And we're just talking about What it feels like?

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Did it meet our expectations?

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Did it lower, did we have to lower expectations?

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What does the next decade look like?

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How much fun can we have?

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Isabel Alexander, DOB: Oh, I like the idea of looking at the

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decade in advance, a trip plan.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I like it.

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And I can't believe that those words are actually coming out of my mouth

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because it wasn't too long ago that I thought it was like the world was flat

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and I would just fall off after 65.

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And lo and behold, and I I really changed it up, flipped it down the

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side, did the hokey pokey, turned myself inside out, because I got a

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divorce in, I was what, 68 years old?

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Moved, started a new business, changed my whole Yeah, and a hip replacement.

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Jackie Wszalek, DOB: And a hip replacement.

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Also in the middle of that is Which

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Isabel Alexander, DOB: really helped with my Hokey Pokey, I

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Jackie Wszalek, DOB: have to say.

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Now the hips are moving good.

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Yeah.

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And that was an incredible journey in and of itself.

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I think when we're in pain, there's a whole different way

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to, view the world, right?

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Because you're looking at it through eyes that are just hanging on.

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Isabel Alexander, DOB: Yeah I didn't ever want to say this publicly, so here I am.

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Here we are.

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We bring out the best in each other.

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Yeah, I I really did.

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I had a, I was having a hard time.

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I was struggling emotionally.

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As well as physically cause I felt broken, and I also had this story playing in

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my head that only crippled old people hobbled around like that, had to use

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a cane couldn't get up off the chair without a lot of grunting and grimacing.

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So on, on us.

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And good fucking God, when I dropped something on the floor, , it

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could stay there , because getting down was not on impossible.

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Getting up was impossible.

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Yeah.

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So yeah.

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I think that's something worth talking about because definitely, and

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I know we were going to talk about the decade, but yeah, guess what?

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Jackie Wszalek, DOB: Honestly, we give it.

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Isabel Alexander, DOB: Put your seatbelt on everybody.

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It's going

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Jackie Wszalek, DOB: to be a bumpy ride.

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are wise enough to want more.

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Isabel Alexander, DOB: make very quick turns and we don't always signal.

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Oh, we are at a stage of our life that parts of us are wearing out.

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Yeah, we need maintenance.

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Yeah, we need maintenance.

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Absolutely.

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And there's a lot to be said.

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We're blessed to have great, Medical Advancement and Pharmacopeia, although

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I am way leaning to a return to natural medicine and food as medicine and

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what generations of our grandmothers past knew about how to heal ourselves.

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But there's the emotional part of healing as well, right?

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and having friends is a big part of that.

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That's a big medicine because as I got down into that spiral of pity party,

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feeling sorry for myself, feeling very anxious about being a burden

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to anybody else because of my lack of mobility it just, it does spiral.

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It does.

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Jackie Wszalek, DOB: And I think most of us, At least I can speak.

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Very hard to ask for help, right?

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And all that does is isolate us.

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People want to help.

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There's no question about it.

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So we have to learn that lesson for sure.

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Isabel Alexander, DOB: But it's hard when you've always

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Jackie Wszalek, DOB: been the one given the help.

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It's pretty impossible some days or feels impossible.

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And

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Isabel Alexander, DOB: so I think that's something, especially for

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women who have been business owners.

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Jackie Wszalek, DOB: Yeah.

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Isabel Alexander, DOB: and Leaders.

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And we got this.

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Yeah, we're taking care of everybody else.

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We're running through, putting people under our arms, charging forward.

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So it is not

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something we know how to do.

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Jackie Wszalek, DOB: No, it's not in our lane, that's for sure.

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So once you do reach out, you find that people want to help, it's a good thing.

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Isabel Alexander, DOB: Yeah, so that, that's a big conversation again,

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because there's lots of different reasons why we may go through some

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blips with our health or have to adjust.

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Some of the activities that we used to do.

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Yeah.

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But then instead of taking away, there's this like wonderful

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opportunity to add new Exactly.

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And add more and add different, and I am not like my friend here who is.

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Been doing yoga forever.

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Consistently, I have not taken care of myself physically.

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That's something that is definitely more important for me now and

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I'm running out of excuses.

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I can't say my hip hurts.

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So I can't do that.

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But going to the pool in the morning is a big deal for me.

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But again, don't feel alone if you're out there going Oh my god, I am ashamed.

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Jackie Wszalek, DOB: Yeah, there's a million reasons to feel bad, there's

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a million reasons to feel good, and find some friends who are with

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you in that journey to feel great.

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Isabel Alexander, DOB: Yeah, and no, you're not alone and if you give voice

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to it, a remarkable thing happens.

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You find out the person sitting across from you goes,

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Oh, I thought it was just me.

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Yeah.

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And that's what I love when we get women talking to each other in a safe

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place, when we're all feeling like we can trust each other to be very

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vulnerable and then you'd be able to go,

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yeah.

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Jackie Wszalek, DOB: And then you can say, we've got this, right?

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We've got this.

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How nice is that?

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Isabel Alexander, DOB: Yeah, absolutely.

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All right, so we're going to work on that.

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Jackie Wszalek, DOB: We've got a million things.

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This might take us till our 90s to finish up these

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Isabel Alexander, DOB: conversations.

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I'm glad.

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I know.

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I'm really glad because I think this is a joy, and I feel this is a public service.

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Absolutely.

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And we hope you think so too, and we really appreciate it.

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We'll, love for you to spread this out and share with other people because,

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it's not like we're bored but we feel like we wanna, we want to share this

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with others and other women and other, and just, gosh, we are all busy holding

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up the sky, so we gotta help each other.

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Okay.

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All right.

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That was a quickie one.

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We have another interview coming up.

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We're going to bring a third person into the living room.

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So stay tuned.

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The details of that interview, an episode with a very spectacular woman will be

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forthcoming, but right now it's a secret.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Yeah.

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We'll be back.

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Be back.

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We'll be

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back soon.

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Until next time, keep thriving, keep vibing, and keep living your legacy.