Going Solo

For 25 years, Tricia was employed at the same company. Facing an unexpected health crisis, Tricia’s career as a corporate executive ended in 2016. Listen as we discuss how Tricia felt about her previously unanticipated decision and what she did to reprioritize her life.

Sandra was employed in the financial industry for over 20 years, working her way up the leadership ladder. All seemed to be going well. Then, in 2013, there were changes in the industry. Upon the loss of her job, Sandra said “Yes” to her dream – to coach and support others to be the best version of themselves. Listen as we discuss how Sandra gained the confidence to take advantage of the opportunity that appeared as a result of her job loss.

Caroline Ceniza-Levine specializes in career change and has reinvented herself multiple times from traditional employee to co-founder of SixFigureStart, a career coaching firm in 2008; and CostaRicaFIRE.com, a real estate and FIRE site in 2017. Caroline is a Forbes Leadership columnist and the author of “Jump Ship: 10 Steps to Starting A New Career”.

We discuss:

Reinventing oneself from traditional employee to cofounder [2:02]

The benefits of having a business based on your personal goals [4:23]

Changes in the way people are being hired [6:36]

The omnipresent preference for young employees [7:59]

Why voluntarily walking away might make a big difference [10:11]

If you want to start a business, go all in [12:44]

Why you should focus on the sell first, not the marketing [15:28]

The emotional reactions that hit us after a sudden job loss [18:09]

Tips to help you overcome the drama of being unemployed [20:27]

Trends for late-career highly talented professionals [22:20]

Sonja began her energy work long before she knew that was her calling. She combines this energy work with massage to customize the best possible outcome for clients that have a wide range of ailments.

We discuss:

Living your life and schedule in your way [1:32]

Who the mayors of your business are [3:15]

Staying afloat while building your own business [6:37]

An energy healer with great analytical skills [7:54]

Choosing the clients that attract you and are attracted to you [8:47]

The most important performance data to look at regularly when tracking your business [10:02]

The deals you make with yourself to take care of your emotional health [12:06]

How to own your own value and get rid of feeling guilty [15:10]

The financial information they don’t give you in a classroom [17:35]

Tabitha Laser is a multi-faceted professional with over 25 years of leadership experience in a wide variety of industries ranging from oil and gas, energy, manufacturing, agriculture, construction and many more.

We discuss:

The key role of having a mission when you start a business [again] [2:30]

How to stay on the path you’ve chosen [4:53]

How to keep future leaders long term in an organization [7:00]

Coming a long way in a short period of time [9:20]

You don’t get any money back if you don’t put anything in [11:23]

The second-guessers and the supporters [13:40]

Building a network: why it’s a matter of asking, not money [17:15]

What beats the fear of being transparent about what you do [22:34]

The Winning Trifecta [23:28]

Her diverse background has provided her with numerous opportunities to work with government agencies and some of the world’s largest companies, including Fortune 500 companies like BP, 3M, and General Mills.

Stéphanie Virchaux is an ICF Certified Empowerment Coach, Motivational Speaker, Energy Healer and founder of SV Empowerment, LLC.

We discuss:

When your gut is telling you something has to change [2:31]

The conflict between intuition versus external fears [4:45]

The process of discovering yourself [6:26]

Why you should redefine what success means to you before starting your own business [8:31]

Being successful but not fulfilled [10:14]

A formula for a disaster [12:45]

Coaching and outside coaching tools to make it or break it [14:13]

Your zone of genius: how to go in when you’re stretched out too thin, scattered and burnt out [18:00]

The way to find what lights you up [22:34]

After working over a decade as a marketer for global beauty companies such as L’Oréal, Stéphanie realized that she was no longer fulfilled in her career. She decided to embark on a self-discovery journey to discover her purpose. That path led her to learn about coaching and in the process, she discovered her own purpose: be a coach with a mission to partner with ambitious high-performers and provide empowerment towards the discovery of self-fulfillment.

Brian Califano is the co-founder and managing director of Accelerating CFO.

We discuss:

-A 10-year burning desire to help small and mid-size companies go through major financial deals [2:42]

-Recognizing the right moment to stop dividing your time and never look back [6:25]

-Why it might ring hollow after climbing up the career ladder [8:30]

-What it takes to proactively make the jump into entrepreneurship [12:57]

-Why day one of being unemployed could be the most eye-opening experience you ever had [15:29]

-Being the right person for your next client [18:59]

-The path to becoming the premier CFO consulting company in the world [21:04]

-Brian started Accelerating CFO after realizing that there were many entrepreneurs and small- to mid-sized companies that needed a finance partner that can assist in managing their business using policies and procedures utilized by Fortune 50 companies. His true passion is to take his vast experience as a senior finance executive and help his clients maximize their net worth.

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Sherry Goldman is president of Goldman Communications Group, an award-winning public relations/marketing communications agency, which she started 22 years ago, after holding senior management positions at several international PR agencies and working in print and broadcast media.

We discuss:

-How to stand on your experience and story to build a new identity [3:13]

-How to stay successful when you feel vulnerable and abandoned [6:23]

-Relationships that will lead to referrals [10:47]

-Only you know you: why leaving some things behind closed doors is better for your confidence [14:49]

-The entrepreneurial spirit: you get what you put in [19:28]

-The lessons you learn when you lose 90% of your business [22:42]

Goldman Communications Group works with a range of companies (start-ups through Fortune 500 companies), brands, non-profit associations, and their executives, helping them tell their stories and create, communicate, and control their messages, reputations, and value propositions. The agency offers a wide suite of services including strategic counsel; messaging; media relations targeting traditional, social and online media; corporate communications/thought leadership programming; community/industry relations and engagement; reputation management and crisis communications, and new product launches. Sherry is also an adjunct professor in public relations at LIU/Post.

Ken Gorfinkle is a clinical psychologist with over 40 years of experience caring for adults and children with chronic medical illness, mood and anxiety disorders.

We discuss:

-A huge financial step over the cliff [3:17]

-Jumping into entrepreneurship in two stages [4:46]

-How to turn the loss of colleague contacts into something good [6:04]

-What to pay attention to when you’ve lost your job [8:55]

-Basic steps to deal with emotions after a job loss [11:55]

-Self-assessment as a strategy against ageism [15:26]

-How to overcome the barriers to becoming a freelance consultant after being an employee for many years [16:38]

-How to step back on your feet and start bringing in income as quickly as possible [18:58]

-The real time to evaluate who we are and what matters [22:06]

With his wife, Doris Ullendorff, Ken owns Common Sense Therapy, a unique private psychotherapy practice in New York. After over 25 years working at the bedside of people receiving in-hospital care for cancer, organ transplant, diabetes, congenital birth defects and chronic pain conditions, Ken continues to provide care and support for those with ongoing needs after acute care is in the past. Ken and Doris have developed a broad referral network of psychiatric and medical providers in the New York metropolitan area; clinicians with whom they enjoy a collaborative treatment approach.

In her company Dynamic Business Growth, Rochelle works with businesses that have reached a level of success and want to ramp it up. They are doing well and would like to continue consistent incremental growth. This means staff needs to be increased and operations revisited. Managing time, budget and resources can often get overwhelming. Success depends on the ability to scale the owner and the key staff.

We discuss:

-The ripple effect of businesses [2:25]

-The New York story: Why we need to get business up and running again [5:34]

-A whisper that got very loud [6:33]

-Ways to reduce the learning curve by years [9:10]

-How [not] to frighten yourself out of moving forward [10:45]

-How to surround yourself with the right people and not let anyone rain on your parade [14:24]

-You don’t have to get it right, you have to get it started [18:20]

-Are you story telling or boring telling? [23:23]