50, NOT DEAD

In this episode, we speak with Michele Simon, JD, MPH; a workplace trauma lawyer, author, and fearless advocate for women in the food industry. Michele has always been one to call things as she sees them, and when she entered the industry that she loved and believed in, it shocked her to discover a culture of ill-treatment towards women. Despite the industry's apparent dedication to treating food with care and respect, the same could not be said for the treatment of women within it.

Michele's experience in the industry and creation of new knowledge led her to write a groundbreaking book, "Appetite for Profit: The Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back." 

Forced to sign a Non-Disparagement Agreement, Michele realized that her voice, and the voices of other employees, were being silenced. Her experience led her to a new career in lobbying for policy change. In our conversation, Michele shares her insights into the way that Non-Competes, Non-Disclosures, and Non-Disparagement agreements are used as weapons against employees, and how these agreements must be reformed.

Join us for a thought-provoking discussion about the natural food industry, the importance of speaking out against mistreatment, and the urgent need for policy change to protect employees' rights. With Michele's knowledge and passion, this episode is sure to inspire and empower listeners.

Get in touch with Michele:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelersimon/


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Are you in your 50's (or turning 50 soon) and ready to get to next?   Here are some ways I can help:

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• Join my next Mental Fitness Cohort to dive deep into what's sabotaging your success.

Barbara Birke brings an impressive depth of experience to her work as a holistic health coach.  Sports scientist, mindset coach, nutritionist, health coach with a background in the sporting goods industry, Barbara helps you "find your thrive". 
 
 In this wonderfully informative episode, we laugh a lot about being an age where there are lots of households with hormonal teens and hormonal moms...and how the side effects that can really suck, don't have to suck that badly after all. 
 
 Moms are moving into the "no B.S." phase of their lives just at the time it feels their teens are moving into the "it's all B.S." point of their lives. 
 
 Listen in and learn why it is best for everybody when you are healthy selfish; guard your sleep, eat nutritiously, don't let your blood sugar yo-yo all around, move and manage your stress.
 
 She ends with three tips:
 1. 7-9 hours of sleep
 2. Eat a plant-forward diet and mind your gut health
 3. Get outside for 20 minutes every day

Get in touch with Barbara:
https://optimum-you.com
https://www.instagram.com/youroptimum
https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-birke-75baa17/
https://calendly.com/optimum-you/strategy?month=2023-04


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Are you in your 50's (or turning 50 soon) and ready to get to next?   Here are some ways I can help:

• Download my Networking 101 guide  and take steps to further your reach!
• Book a call with me!  I offer multiple coaching packages based on where you are right now; ranging from re-entering the workforce to executive-level leadership coaching.
• Join my next Mental Fitness Cohort to dive deep into what's sabotaging your success.

Beth Henkes is the Founder and CEO of The Idea Hound and truly brings order to disorder with expected organization and assessment skills but adds creative flair that allows her to achieve unexpected success in challenging circumstances. 
 
 As a former Production Stage Manager in live production, she is an expert in crisis management, able to handle multiple moving parts and tight deadlines with ease. Her years in service spaces gives her exceptional customer experience prowess, she builds teams that provide views into all parts of a process to solve problems and create improvements while emphasizing unheard voices.
 
 So it is extremely frustrating to hear this energetic, creative, smart powerhouse share her tally of having 28 interviews from 12 referrals spanning 16 companies resulting in zero offers over a 12 month period.  How can that possibly be? 
 
 If that's not ageism, what is?
 
 Beth is the kind of person you could put in anywhere and she would kindly and firmly create order and results.  I would recommend her in a heartbeat.  I'd hire her if I had a company that wasn't a one woman show!  She shares her wisdom and wit in this interview.  Enjoy the ride.


Contact Beth:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethhenkes/
https://www.theideahound.com/


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Are you in your 50's (or turning 50 soon) and ready to get to next?   Here are some ways I can help:

• Download my Networking 101 guide  and take steps to further your reach!
• Book a call with me!  I offer multiple coaching packages based on where you are right now; ranging from re-entering the workforce to executive-level leadership coaching.
• Join my next Mental Fitness Cohort to dive deep into what's sabotaging your success.

Shana Kahn spent 24 years in the fashion industry and in her early forties saw her opportunity for growth and promotion continually and blatantly diminish. 
 
 In her words,  it was with shock and awe that she had to come to terms with the fact that though she was producing excellent results and helping grow the company she had been in for years, she was kept in a "nice and neat little box" training the younger generation for the jobs she wanted.
 
 She urges companies to have an open mindedness about their long standing, experienced employees. Don't assume they don't want (or can't) to continue to learn and grow.
 
 Her message to others in the Fashion Industry: Be true to yourself.  Keep pushing, trying, and developing yourself.  Don't stop and never give up.


Contact Shana:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shana-schatz-kahn-6528a965/

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Are you in your 50's (or turning 50 soon) and ready to get to next?   Here are some ways I can help:

• Download my Networking 101 guide  and take steps to further your reach!
• Book a call with me!  I offer multiple coaching packages based on where you are right now; ranging from re-entering the workforce to executive-level leadership coaching.
• Join my next Mental Fitness Cohort to dive deep into what's sabotaging your success.

Nova Newcomer is the Director Community Relations and Mariners Care Foundation spent a lifetime getting prepared for this role. Nova's love of baseball began as a child. During two years in Foster Care, Nova was allowed to stay in Little League, a place where she felt seen, where she had friends and where she had fun.  She's not sure who paid for her spot in Little League, her community came together for her to be there and she has given back to sport of baseball nearly continuously ever since. 
 
 She spent several years working for adidas where she learned the ins-and-outs of a big international communications role.  When offered an opportunity to make a big leap forward, she realized that it was a great opportunity....for someone else.
 
  Leaving to start her own communications consultancy, Nova wanted the non-profit world to benefit from the best marketing, branding , communications, and processes to carry out mission driven work.  Her company was integral in the founding of the Center for Women's Leadership at Portland State University.  
 
 Nova sat on the Board of  Friends of Baseball until they had an applicant that resonated so strongly with her that she resigned from her position to put her hat in the ring to become the Executive Director of the organization.  Nova discusses her passion for using baseball and softball to support youth and families and her goal to expand access to these sports.
 
 After eight years she realized that she was ready for something broader and resigned without a new job lined up.  It was a bold move and a big risk that paid off.
 
 Nova emphasizes the importance of taking risks in one's career and pursuing work that inspires and fulfills you. "Do your heart's work" she says. Inspiring, to say the least.
 
 Get in touch with Nova:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/novanewcomer/
 
 
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Are you in your 50's (or turning 50 soon) and ready to get to next?   Here are some ways I can help:

• Download my Networking 101 guide  and take steps to further your reach!
• Book a call with me!  I offer multiple coaching packages based on where you are right now; ranging from re-entering the workforce to executive-level leadership coaching.
• Join my next Mental Fitness Cohort to dive deep into what's sabotaging your success.

Shaema Talib, Vice President Strategy & Product in the Tech Industry and adjunct professor at two universities highlights  how drive and passion far outweigh age when she hires employees. 

Self professed as not having experienced ageism herself, she highlights that in her C-Suite position, what she looks for when interviewing candidates is how deeply a person cares about the things they are interested in.  She wants to hear about what job they want next, not just the one for which the candidate is currently interviewing. Drive is incredibly important to her and she looks for it and measures it. This conversation puts an interesting twist on how we can shape how others perceive us, regardless of our age.

Shaema is a leader who cares not only about performance, which she does, but also about growing individuals and herself. 

Connect with Shaema:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaetalib/


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If you'd like to share YOUR story on the 50 Not Dead podcast: contact me at  https://www.50NotDead.com/ or
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Are you in your 50's (or turning 50 soon) and ready to get to next?   Here are some ways I can help:

• Download my Networking 101 guide  and take steps to further your reach!
• Book a call with me!  I offer multiple coaching packages based on where you are right now; ranging from re-entering the workforce to executive-level leadership coaching.
• Join my next Mental Fitness Cohort to dive deep into what's sabotaging your success.

Harvard Business Review Editorial Audience Director, Nicole Smith, shares insights on writing the HBR article titled I was a Manager in an Ageist Workplace.    Nicole also just moderated an event with The Wharton School's Peter Cappelli titled Navigating Ageism at Work: The Forgotten DEI Factor.

Nicole found herself managing a team; over 50's who sat in one part of the office and the under 30's who sat in another part.  And they never, ever crossed territorial lines.  That is until Nicole came along and put them all on a project together.

She saw ageism, she impacted ageism, and she changed ageist practice in her place of work.  I love her practical way of approaching this and how it became a model for other departments.

Her advice to managers feeling stymied by ageism, find a project  you care about and put together a team of people of mixed ages together to solve it.

Get in touch with Nicole Smith:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoledoniellesmith/

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If you'd like to share YOUR story on the 50 Not Dead podcast: contact me at  https://www.50NotDead.com/ or
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Are you in your 50's (or turning 50 soon) and ready to get to next?   Here are some ways I can help:

• Download my Networking 101 guide  and take steps to further your reach!
• Book a call with me!  I offer multiple coaching packages based on where you are right now; ranging from re-entering the workforce to executive-level leadership coaching.
• Join my next Mental Fitness Cohort to dive deep into what's sabotaging your success.

Lys Hardy says her age is her superpower.  I love her already.

CEO and Founder of a groundbreaking new platform called Wemxntr.com, Lys and her partners are unapologetically focusing on women and minorities. 

Their platform allows employees to locate and connect with women and minority mentors across companies and locations.

As these are the most underrepresented groups in leadership positions, Lys realized that there was tremendous opportunity to tap into the experience "out there" by creating a tool for people to go beyond their own place of work, for mentorship. 

Brilliant, dynamic, funny and down to Earth, Lys is a powerhouse and I am excited for you to learn about the work she is doing. 

Think her age is slowing her down? NOT A CHANCE!

Connect with Lys:
https://www.accessmxntoring.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lys-hardy-32ba433/


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If you'd like to share YOUR story on the 50 Not Dead podcast: contact me at  https://www.50NotDead.com/ or
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Are you in your 50's (or turning 50 soon) and ready to get to next?   Here are some ways I can help:

• Download my Networking 101 guide  and take steps to further your reach!
• Book a call with me!  I offer multiple coaching packages based on where you are right now; ranging from re-entering the workforce to executive-level leadership coaching.
• Join my next Mental Fitness Cohort to dive deep into what's sabotaging your success.

Wynona Benson is not 50.  Not even close.  This working mom of 4, adjunct professor and runner, shares what it is like at the opposite end of the age spectrum.  Facing ageism as an Asian American, Wynona says that for years she could NOT WAIT to appear older because no one believed that she was the mom of 4. 

In this variation from our usual conversation, we explore gendered ageism that younger women face as well as older women.  Listen in to this inspiring conversation with a woman who gives it her all and who believes that by embracing the ageism issue NOW she might just have a shot of helping us change the narrative by the time she does turn 50. 

Connect with Wynona:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wynonabenson/


Get in touch with me to share your story or to learn about my Coaching practice:
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If you'd like to share YOUR story on the 50 Not Dead podcast: contact me at  https://www.50NotDead.com/ or
https://[email protected]

Are you in your 50's (or turning 50 soon) and ready to get to next?   Here are some ways I can help:

• Download my Networking 101 guide  and take steps to further your reach!
• Book a call with me!  I offer multiple coaching packages based on where you are right now; ranging from re-entering the workforce to executive-level leadership coaching.
• Join my next Mental Fitness Cohort to dive deep into what's sabotaging your success.

At 50, Barbara Simon-Evronsoglu's department, in a large, white-male dominant company, was dissolved.  She watched from the outside as it was reconstructed by a younger man.  Initially crushing, Barbara ultimately realized that the job hadn't been that great at all.  She was then able to accept the layoff with grace and she reconnected with her kids, with her family and with friends all over the globe. 
 
 After six years though she realized, "I'm not done yet".  She wanted to work. She had more to do, more to give, more to learn.  
 
 Listen in as this seasoned leader describes with honesty and candor, in her own words and through her own lens, what it is like to be a female in her 50's in a male dominated industry.  How grateful she was that the company that hired her "took a chance" on a "middle-aged" woman. There was no response from them when she pointed that out.
 
 She sees that she is one of the only women at her level but is hopeful that by "doing the right thing", this company can inspire its own leaders and leaders in other companies, and in other industries, by the halo effect. 
 
Do the right thing, hire qualified people of all ages, genders, and races and be the frontrunner, not the one that lags.  It has not been a quick, clean road; not for Barbara, not for any of us.
 
 It's been a real road though. One that many women will be able to relate.

Contact Barbara:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-simon-evrenosoglu-4b45b211/

 Get in touch with me to share your story or to learn about my Coaching practice:
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If you'd like to share YOUR story on the 50 Not Dead podcast: contact me at  https://www.50NotDead.com/ or
https://[email protected]

Are you in your 50's (or turning 50 soon) and ready to get to next?   Here are some ways I can help:

• Download my Networking 101 guide  and take steps to further your reach!
• Book a call with me!  I offer multiple coaching packages based on where you are right now; ranging from re-entering the workforce to executive-level leadership coaching.
• Join my next Mental Fitness Cohort to dive deep into what's sabotaging your success.