Maturepreneurial Podcast: Interviews with Older Entrepreneurs | Online Business Tips | Learn From Those Who Have Succeeded

Mary Lunnen lives near the dramatic coast of North Cornwall, in the far south west of the United Kingdom. Her passion is helping people to find their way home to themselves; to rediscover their inner wisdom. She does this through the Dare to Blossom Rediscovery Process using a simple pack of cards with a single word and a colour.

This powerful tool brings people back into conversation with their own truth.

As well as one-to-one coaching, Mary runs workshops and online courses. She draws inspiration from her love of the sea and the natural landscape around her home, which she explores in photography and art.

Mary began her own journey of coming home after a diagnosis of cancer in 1994. She has been daring herself to blossom ever since. The diagnosis sparked a practice of journalling that grew into four published books and many articles and blog posts.

Since 2003 Dare to Blossom Life Coaching has supported individuals and business people around the world. Mary runs inspirational workshops and on-line programmes using all the skills she has acquired and focusing around creative visualisation using the theme of a 'Magic Carpet Ride'.

Believing that work/life balance is too simplistic, Mary specialises in helping people achieve balance in all aspects of their lives. Through goal-setting and action-planning she helps them move forward at the right pace for them whilst making real progress.

“Mary has helped me so much, to the point where I feel like I can breathe so much easier,” says one of her clients.

Mary’s other loves are writing, art and photography, which in turn add depth and substance to her business.

For relaxation, she also walks the Cornish coast and spends time tending her garden with her husband and two cats.

Joseph Aquino has more than 30 years of New York City real estate experience. No one knows the city better than Joe, who has assisted all of the top property owners and retailers during his long, illustrious career.

Capitalizing on his many years of experience, Joe recently launched his own company and brand: Joseph Aquino Commercial Real Estate Services.

Joe's specialties include; hotel, retail, office, showroom and industrial development projects. He has placed top retailers along Madison Avenue, in Soho, in the Meat Packing and Flatiron districts and in Nolita. Some of the tenants he has represented are Buccellati, Paul Shark, John Fluevog and Ports 1961.

Career Highlights

In 1992, Joe consulted for The 42nd Street Development Project, when Times was changing from the red light district into the family center it is known as today. He helped the state of New York create a retail use plan which described in detail all the wonderful things that could be done on the one block of 42nd street between 7th and 8th Avenues. He predicted the securing of tenants such as Disney, Madame Trussaud, and Blue Café, which turned out to be BB Kings.

Joe also foresaw the corporate sponsorship of Broadway theaters that occurred when Ford Company stepped in to rebuild the Lyric Theater and American Airlines financed restoration of the Selwyn theater (American Airlines Theater).

After reclamation and redevelopment of target properties in Times Square, crime decreased by 72% in the first year alone.

Joe represented Amtrak for the retail level development at Penn Station. He also represented the financial district's business improvement association, The Downtown Alliance, where he assisted in the analysis for big box retail development. In addition, he has assisted in creating and designing retail use plans of numerous national brand hotels and casinos across the United States.

Cartier Lease Renewal

Joe was privileged to represent Cartier when the 75-year lease on its flagship mansion at Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street was up for renewal. When Joe arrived on the scene, landlord and tenant were not speaking because ten years earlier, Cartier had sued the property owner, The Onassis Foundation, in a dispute over building services.

His assignment from Cartier was simple: “Get us in the good graces of the property owner and have them renew us or find us another location.”

After six months of painstaking negotiations with the property owner in which Joe was instrumental, Cartier remained in its iconic location.

Home in Manhattan, Connected Abroad

Joe is a well know commodity in the New York City landscape, which he also calls home. With the creative energy and vision for which he is so well known, he brings a fresh approach to work and relationships in the city that never sleeps.

Joe also travels extensively to bring back to Manhattan the best of European, Asian, South American, Mexican and Canadian brands and businesses. In fact, he recently launched a travel blog in which he shares with his audience news, information and insights from the many places he visits.

Joe founded and leads the SBS Worldwide Group, a collaboration of top real estate professionals who live and work within their respective markets throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, South America and Canada. There are over 35 active cities represented in this group.

The list of landlords Joe has worked with recounts the last 30 years of Manhattan real estate development history: Blackrock, Extell, Spitzer Enterprises, Hartz Mountain, Stahl Properties, Helmsley Organization, Coca Cola, Trump Organization, Tishman Speyer, Peninsula Hotels, Forest City Ratner, General Investment Development, CIM, Tahl Properties, Kensico Properties, Estate of Sol Goldman, Rosewood Hotels and Resorts, Taubman, Starwood Hotels, Westfield, Onassis Foundation and Minskoff.

Running on Lombardy Time

Joe often jokes that the day he arrives to a restaurant when it is packed, it will be time to quit the business. He runs on what he calls Lombardy Time, named for Coach Vince Lombardy of Green Bay Packers fame, who used to set his watch ten minutes fast so that he would be always arrive early to meetings.

Joe explains, "It is important to always be ahead of the pack and in leasing you want to be the first to get to the space. There are no second or third places in leasing. There is only one place, and that place must be first if you're going to secure the space for your tenant.”

Maggie Huffman is a career life coach, speaker and the author of three bestselling books.

Maggie spent 20 (mumble) years in the corporate world. Granted, it was in wine, but it wasn’t all sipping and spitting! She led large projects and cross-functional teams – many of them global. She had a unique career path, which was to fix a lot of broken systems, structures and processes. This gave her access to a wealth of tools and metaphors.

In her coaching practice today, Maggie will use anything at all that helps her clients to take inspired action and fulfill their true and full potential. These things can come from the world of science (neuroscience, quantum physics, nutrition), from the land of corporate (project and change management, executive coaching, process improvement), the world of woo (visualizations, thought work, metaphysics), the world of pop culture or from simply random, fun things (humor, jargon, sticky notes and Tombow markers.)

Maggie lives in a quirky, almost imaginary world that looks suspiciously like Stars Hollow (of Gilmore Girls fame), with a workspace straight from the set of The Good Witch, except that it is in Sonoma, California, where there really isn’t any snow. She thinks in a weird combination of metaphors, song lyrics and Excel.

Margaret Blood is Mil Milagros’ founder and serves as the organization’s Executive Director, responsible for working with the Board to shape the organization’s strategic goals and direction, for fund raising, building and managing partnerships with other organizations to help MM achieve its goals, and supporting the In-Country staff team in Guatemala.

Margaret is the founder, past President, and current Board member of Strategies for Children, an award-winning children’s policy and advocacy organization based in Boston.

Margaret holds a Master in Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish and business from Skidmore College.

For more than 25 years Lise has been photographing people from all walks of life, all ages, all flavors. She’s produced photographs for national ad campaigns, magazines, and corporations, and she offers personal branding imagery for women entrepreneurs. Both her clients and her subjects appreciate the warm rapport she establishes and the relaxed and supportive shoot environment.

In recent years Lise’s work has incorporated her growing involvement in the sustainable food movement. Her ongoing personal project is Grounded Women: Stories of Women Who Farm (link below). In addition to her photography work, Lise hosts a year-round CSA delivery site, bringing farm-fresh organic food to her community. She also teaches workshops on healthy eating, canning and fermentation. When Lise is not shooting for clients, she can be found out on a farm or in the kitchen.

Lise’s clients include Hanes, Dupont, Target, Motrin, State Farm, Northern Trust, Disney, Taryn Rose (the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever owned), Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, UCLA, Cooking Light, and Yoga Journal.

Lise has received awards from Communication Arts, AIGA, Graphis, PDN, and The Art Director’s Club of NY, among others.

You can contact Lise at [email protected] for photography assignments, speaking engagements about the Grounded Women project, or to nominate a farmer to be featured.

Paul D. Johnson is podcast host, writer, speaker, ministry leader, life coach and trainer.

In his 7th decade this past year, Paul launched The God Zone Show podcast - an interview-based show with guests who have useful resources to support family, business and community leadership, personal development, difficult people and predicaments, healing, miracles, science and faith.

Paul's past careers have included being a software engineer, a business consultant, a stock market day trader, real estate financier, property flipper and developer, radio and TV host, and college instructor.

Paul now uses the wisdom learned though the decades to develop resources and services that train others to receive amazing wisdom, live with inspired purpose, prosper through trouble, and help others do the same.

Paul speaks on:

Becoming a Rejection Specialist for Great Success, Marketplace God, Claim God Promises for a More Power, Authority, and Love Filled Life, How to Journey in the God Zone to Receive Amazing Wisdom, Live with Inspired Purpose, and Prosper through Trouble, 8 Ways to Success in Achieving Goals, and God, Is that You I Hear?

Calvin Correli is an artist, entrepreneur, and the CEO of a holistically focused, multi-million dollar software company called Simplero. Calvin is passionate about helping online business owners do exactly what makes them feel most alive and is currently branching out to bring all of his gifts, including his musical, spiritual and intuitive talents, into an exciting new service for entrepreneurs.

Calvin has been blogging since the late 1990s. A programmer by training and education, he founded his company Simplero after an epiphany he experience in February of 2008; namely, that we’re here to seek self-realization through entrepreneurship.

What started as software for his own online courses, quickly became a vehicle to empower other entrepreneurs who needed its support. Calvin believes that "entrepreneurship is about allowing the creative force of the universe to work through us and make manifest in the world whatever it is that we feel compelled to create, with that unique essence and vibration that only we can contribute. Entrepreneurship is not some mundane worldly pursuit separate from our spirituality. It is the ultimate expression of our spirituality."

In December of 2016, Calvin rebooted his blog as a vlog titled, The Calvin Show, wherein he shares his insights, advice, and personal experiences to support the success of others in finding who they are and loving themselves.

Dr. Joe Tatta is a doctor of physical therapy, board certified nutrition specialist and functional medicine practitioner who specializes in treating persistent pain and lifestyle-related musculoskeletal, metabolic and autoimmune health issues. His mission is to create a new paradigm around treating persistent pain and reverse our global pain epidemic.

Dr. Tatta's maturepreneurial endeavors include creating the Healing Pain Online Summit and hosting The Healing Pain Podcast, a podcast designed to broaden the conversation around discovering and using natural strategies for solving persistent pain. He is the author of the best selling book Heal Your Pain Now; A Revolutionary Program to Reset Your Brain and Body for a Pain-Free Life by Da Capo Press.

Prior to starting his own businesses, Dr. Tatta was a physical therapist. In 2000, he cofounded Premier Physical Therapy & Wellness, which he helped to grow from one to fourteen successful practices throughout New York City, Westchester County, and Connecticut.

Dr. Tatta is currently in private practice where he styles himself Chief Healing Officer. He also provides online health consulting to help people achieve a pain-free life free from chronic disease.

Lyn Slater founded her website and blog Accidental Icon in September 2014 because she was could not find a fashion blog or magazine that offered an urban, modern, intellectual aesthetic but also spoke to people who live “interesting but ordinary lives” in cities; people like herself, who are not famous or celebrities but who are smart, creative, fit, thoughtful, engaged, socially responsible and most importantly, clear and comfortable with who they are and reflect this in how they dress.

Lyn believes that fashion has the power to communicate at the individual, group and societal level; that it has the capacity to hold both oppressive and productive practices. Dressing can be purposeful and powerful. That is why Accidental Icon wants readers to think intentionally about fashion and to occupy their cultural space with self-awareness and purpose. A huge fan of “accidental occurrences” and making the most of them, Lyn also believes in serendipity, the kind that might lead to a professor becoming a fashion icon, for example!

Lyn as Accidental Icon is featured on the cover of Grey Magazine. She has also been profiled for articles in Vogue, Mexico, Harper’s Bazaar Brazil and Netherlands, Le’ Officiel Italia and Manila, Milk, Women’s Wear Daily, Marie Claire Espana and Brigitte.

Accidental Icon was identified as one of the Top 7 Blogs for Older Woman by Who, What, Wear and named as one of the Top Fifteen Senior Style Instagrammers to Follow by BuzzFeed.

Bill Belew has been an educator for most of his adult life. He founded a language school in Japan that grew to establish locations on two of Japan's main islands and eventually in Far East Russia (then part of the Soviet Union). He also taught university in Japan and he was invited to be a visiting scholar in Khabarovsk, Russia, which opened the door for his school in that country.

Bill has taught community college, college, graduate school. and marketing in an MBA program from Buffalo, NY to Silicon Valley here in the states. With his two degrees – a PhD in Education and an MFA in Creative Writing - if Bill knows anything, it’s that he can teach you!

Bill has written several books: Living English, Let’s Communicate, The Key, and Gee, I Wish I Had Been Drinking At The Time. Bill’s latest title, Marketing With Social Media, is currently being promoted by Kendall Hunt Publishing to ALL of the MBA marketing programs in the United States and was recently adopted by a school with over 17,000 students.

Bill began blogging in March of 2006. His sites garnered enough traffic over the years that eventually other major sites asked him to write for them ... then corporations from Shanghai to San Francisco to NYC started asking him, "How'd you do that?"

Bill has been pulled into consulting, another word for teaching, and now works with companies at all stages, from startups to major enterprises. Bill has created the largest private online forum devoted to content and inbound marketing - forum.billbelew.com - where he says, "I can teach more people" and "Maybe I can answer the same questions less often."

This Bill Belew did NOT dress the king.