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PODCAST

Reinvent Yourself

Lesley Jane Seymour

A podcast offering tips and tricks for reinventing yourself by former More magazine Editor In Chief and creator of CoveyClub.com, Lesley Jane Seymour.

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#204 The Near-Death Experience That Forced My...

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2023/05/05

“My family was advised that they needed to come very quickly to say goodbye," says Geralyn Ritter. "My brother packed a dark suit for my funeral.” For Ritter, a near-fatal experience on the 2015 Philadelphia Amtrak derailment was the life-altering catalyst for a complete life and career reinvention. Her 2022 book, Bone by Bone: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing, details the story of her remarkable journey to recovery, moving through grief, trauma and healing. “The main reason I wrote it was to try to

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#203 When a Health Crisis Becomes a Transformative...

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2023/04/28

What would you do if, as a healthy 20-something on the verge of achieving your dreams, your world was shattered by a health diagnosis? Elena Sonnino thought her body was broken and her life as she knew it was over. Through years of treatments and mystifying test results, she was determined to reinvent her relationship with her body and transform her health. In this intimate conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour, Sonnino shares her incredible story of overcoming. "I realized along

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#202 When Your Personal Reinvention Leads to...

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2023/04/21

"When I think about reinvention, I think about finding talents, hidden parts of you that need to come out and be front and center," says Dr. Joan Fallon. With over 20 years of experience researching autism and related disorders, Dr. Fallon founded Curemark, a pharmaceutical company focused on developing therapeutic treatments for neurological disorders. In this inspiring conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour, Dr. Fallon explains how her personal reinvention led her to changing the

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29:59

#201 Reinventing Your Mindset About Aging (Judy Katz)

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2023/04/15

“You can give in to just sitting around or you can do something creative, do something wonderful, do something for other people, which really makes you feel good.” So says Judy Katz, who found her dream career in her 60s and is still living it up in her 80s! Actively working, dating, and inspiring others, Katz is a professional ghostwriter, publisher, and marketer. If you have any inkling that you feel that you’re getting old in your 40s, 50s, 60s, or beyond, listen in to her fabulous conversation

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36:30

#200 When Your Reinvention Leads You to Run for...

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2023/04/07

"Just follow your curiosity,” says expert reinventor Claire Campos-O’Neal, daughter of a first generation Mexican-American who ran for Texas State Representative for House District-51 in 2022. “If you want to know about the school board, just go to a school board meeting.” For Campos O'Neal, following her curiosity took her from volunteer work to politics to real estate and beyond. "Women don't self-nominate as much as men do and they run because they care about their community, not because it's a

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#199 Using Reinvention to Navigate Grief (Katty...

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2023/03/31

"For me, in the beginning, it was a journaling practice," says Katty Douraghy. What it became was a gateway to understanding and processing her own grief. Now her memoir Butterfly Years: A Journey Through Grief Towards Hope serves as a beacon for anyone struggling to deal with the regret and sadness of loss. After losing her whole family in the span of six months, Douraghy was blindsided by grief and forced very suddenly to find the resources to cope. In this inspiring conversation with CoveyClub

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34:55

#198 Reinventing Your Time Management Skills (Ashley...

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2023/03/17

“Older individuals in general are better at prioritizing time,” says Ashley Whillans, “But one thing I’ve also seen in some of my data is that older adults struggle a little bit to change their habits around work and meaningful pursuits outside of work.” An assistant professor at Harvard, a rising star in behavioral science, and author of the book Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life, Whillans is a wealth of information. But even for Whillans, there was a period when time

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36:20

#197 Reinventing Your Career Mindset After Decades in...

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2023/03/11

"I think many of us are living by what we decided we wanted 10 or 20 years ago and we're too afraid of course-correct." That's how Jackie McDougall felt after years in the television industry. After deciding at a young age that she wanted to be in television she left Boston for California at age 23 with $700 in her pocket and she never looked back. Years later, however, she noticed the 40+ demographic being overlooked in the talk show field, and she decided to do something about it. Now a coach and

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37:21

#196 Walking Away from the Golden Handcuffs that are...

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2023/03/03

What do you do when your biggest source of revenue is also your biggest source of serious, detrimental stress? Monica Froese found herself in that position 11 years into her career in technology. She was managing $15 million marketing campaigns while unknowingly suffering from postpartum PTSD. “The fear of failure is what holds us back,” says Froese now. “I fail all the time…but here’s the thing: when I set my mind to something, I don’t fail.” Listen in to her conversation with CoveyClub founder

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#195 Reframing Your Career (After Burnout) to Make it...

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2023/02/17

“It was more than just, 'Oh, I need a break,'" says Stephanie Smirnov. "It felt like something deeper than that." Many of us know the nature of burnout; that malaise between exhaustion and depletion that can raise its ugly head in either your work or personal life. Smirnov, who loved her work in PR for 30 years, suddenly found herself burned out and in need of a big change. “When I started to think about the things I loved outside of PR that fueled me,” she says, “I realized…I would love to do for

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32:23

#194 Reinventing Because You Can’t Walk Away from the...

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2023/02/03

What do you do when you feel called towards creative work, but the prospect of ditching your paycheck and your health insurance is impossible? For many, supporting a family financially doesn’t leave room for the risk of a total career invention (besides, maybe you really do enjoy your work! ) Yet you feel an itch to create, to reignite some aspect of your life. For Heather Frimmer, leaving her career in radiology wasn’t the answer. But she did figure out how to free her passion for writing. Listen

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36:21

#193 When You Don’t Fit Into the Corporate Box...

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2023/01/28

“I think the normal career advice we get is, if you have a lot of passions, you’ve got to choose just one,” says author, speaker, and teacher Sarabeth Berk. “Otherwise, how are you going to be successful if you’re trying to do 10 things at once?” Berk needed to answer that question. Feeling pigeonholed in her career, she set off on a series of research interviews with people who have multiple expertise and are successful. She dubs it "The Hybrid Career" which she outlines in her new book "More Than

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#192 Ditching the Financial Security of the Legal...

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2023/01/21

Taina Bien-Aimé has always been a groundbreaker. As a journalist, she spent years witnessing, researching, and documenting injustice against women around the world, especially the things that were holding them back and the areas where they most needed support. After years of fighting in the trenches for women's equality, Bien-Aimé returned to school in her 30s to earn a law degree so she could take her advocacy to the next level. Today, Bien-Aimé is the Executive Director for the Coalition Against

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#191 Reaching the Pinnacle of Corporate Success and...

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2023/01/06

"For some of us, we need to fall back into what we're doing," says Traci Schubert Barrett. "And for some of us, we need to leave." As a founding team member for HGTV, Schubert Barrett had reached the proverbial top of the corporate mountain and had everything she could want — success, a happy marriage, a family, even financial freedom. Yet she found herself wondering, “Is there more?” Despite being able to walk the C-suite of one of America's largest TV networks, she chose to leave and pursue the

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#190 How to Make Big, Bold Reinvention – Without...

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2022/12/30

“Reinvention is sexy and glamorous, but it doesn’t have to be a huge transformation,” says business strategist, coach and serial reinventor, Diann Wingert. Wingert, who likes to be challenged by the new and unfamiliar, has reinvented her marriage, her career, and even her religion. “I’m the kind of person who can make big, bold sweeping changes in a very short period of time,” she tells CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour. “But frankly, most people don’t need to do that.” Listen in to this

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#189 How to Cultivate Reinvention Support Systems –...

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2022/12/24

It’s harder to work towards your goals when you’re surrounded by people who make you question them, says Elizabeth Rosenberg, founder of The Good Advice Company. A large part of every successful reinvention is having the support system to encourage you to hang in there So how can you be kinder to yourself and hold space for yourself while you’re in the reinvention transition? Listen in to Rosenberg’s conversation with CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, to learn how she cultivated the difficult

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#188 From Technical Writer for Railroads to Stand-Up...

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2022/12/20

We’ve all had that seemingly unrealistic dream that seems to be waiting on the other end of corporate life. The lawyer who wants to be a novelist; the accountant who longs to be a chef. For Jennifer Turbo, her reinvention took her into that dream space – and made it a reality. Previously a technical writer for engineers and software developers, Turbo’s heart was in stand-up comedy. Listen in to her conversation with CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour, to find out how, using a step-by-step

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#187 Reinventing in Pursuit of the Work You Love...

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2022/12/14

Jill Granoff is no stranger to career reinvention. As a student at Duke University, Granoff was convinced she would pursue a career in psychology, but somewhere along the way she found that it just didn’t fit. Granoff reinvented her career with an MBA in organizational behavior, moving from industrial consultation to the beauty industry. She spent a decade at Estee Lauder where she found herself desiring another transition. Shifting from the corporate world to the business of retail and later into

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#186 Reinventing Yourself After the Worst Year of...

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2022/11/23

“I can’t control what happened, but I can control how I react to it.” This was Jane Enright’s guiding thought as she navigated the worst year of her life. When three consecutive tragedies occurred in the span of a year, Enright found herself recovering from physical injury, caregiving for a loved one, and grieving her best friend - all at once. A committed “glass half-full girl,” she was determined to become the CEO of everything. She wrote her first book, Butter Side Up, about the challenges she

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#185 The Year That Made Me Rethink Everything...

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2022/11/18

What if your entire life fell apart in the space of a single year? For Claudia Dreifus, that what-if became a reality. Growing up in New York, Dreifus was a student at NYU in the ‘60s and deeply involved in the Civil Rights movement. She built a career as a journalist, a craft she had practiced since she was a teenager. But in 1992, her life was upended. Dreifus broke up with a toxic boyfriend, sold her house, left her job, and was forced to start over. Listen in to her conversation with CoveyClub

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