Midlife Enterpriser

In this episode of the Midlife Enterpriser, Dr. Shai takes us on a philosophical journey, reflecting more deeply on how to filter through the noise and distractions of our daily lives and pressures, to think about our true internal motivations. This helps us to find clarity as to how we can understand what drives us, what experience we bring to the table, and how we can create meaning to both our own lives as well as the world around us - unlocking our inner enterpriser and setting us on our most impactful midlife journeys ahead!  

As you seek out the inner enterpriser – you will be on a very personal journey and how deep you decide to go will be your choice. And we cannot forget that we are living in very strange times and probably face all manner of confusion from work and from home, BUT

Having said that as a Midlife enterpriser you already have the experience, tools and expertise to accelerate the journey so ask your self – what am I  waiting for?!

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common strands to how we progress in life.

In this episode, I talk to Dr. Jo Mills, Head of Entrepreneurship at the Genome Campus in Cambridge. This world-class centre mapped the human genome some 20 years ago and is currently at the centre of mapping the trajectory of the variants of corona virus across the UK.

In this world of top-class scientists, we are fortunate to have Dr. Mills – whose task it is to unlock the entrepreneurial spirit of those around her, helping support some of the scientists make their way into enterprise and to help promote and diffuse their knowledge for the betterment of human kind.

To set context – Jo and I worked together for 14 years at the Judge Business School in Cambridge where we had established pioneering ways to provide education for entrepreneurship.

I asked Dr. Mills to introduce herself and share her learnings and insights both from the work she has been doing the survey conducted to find out more about the motives and barriers to shifting career trajectories from pure science into enterprise.

We explore the idea of people being in their silos  engrossed in their work  and finding it scary to branch out into new endeavours.

We chat about how a life plan suddenly changes from an expected pathway into a seismic career change that becomes uncertain.

These fears, questions and issues of self-belief and confidence are common threads regardless of the career we transition out of – be it science or banking.

Join our conversation as Dr. Mills explores the transitions into enterprise that people go through in her domain of genomics and data science and gain deeper insights as how this applies to us all.

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In this episode I have a conversation with a friend and former colleague Vicky Steenkamp – who runs a business called Mindset and Soul, helping you to connect your body, mind and soul to live your best life. More information is on www.mindsetandsoul.co.uk/

This conversation with Vicky is about how we define success. In our sometimes meandering conversation we talk about when success is made up of small wins, meeting our deep values, that sometimes the journey itself is what it is and how we need to set aside our judgements of what constitutes success or for that matter what is good.

The conversation did not take us to the world of Key Performance Indicators, or making tonnes of revenues or complying with metrics imposed on us by the outside world, but it did take us into the world of meeting our deeper internal values.

We talk about labels and the Bhagavad Gita – and I shall return to the lessons from the Gita – well some of them – that we can use as Midlife Enterprisers to help understand the conflicting goals, duties and labels we sometimes have to deal with.

I really enjoy my conversations with Vicky – but I enjoy them even more when I listen again to the podcast – because she is so thoughtful and engaging, where even her silence speaks a 1,000 words. I hope you enjoy the chat as much as I did.

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This episode is based on a challenge my father put to me when I was a young parent and also making my way in management. He asked if I thought I would be someone that provided shade, where my children or people reporting to me would feel nurtured and could grow their creativity and sense of purpose or might I be someone who would, through a subtle change of angle become a shadow over them? The shadow that might stifle the sense of creativity and freedom to grow and develop. Where it might turn from nurture to suffocation.  Well, I though it time to explore this topic with two people; Dr Chiraz Ennaceur a recent entrepreneur and CEO who co-founded Corrosion Radar and Dash Dhakshinamoorthy a serial entrepreneur. I am delighted to have learnt some new insights on this topic.

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This episode is based on research that compared senior managers with serial entrepreneurs for their risk taking and decision making. Published in Nature in 2008 I was delighted to be part of the research and gained an important insight from it and the numerous entrepreneurs I have met over the 30 years. That entrepreneurs do not take risks - gamblers do. What entrepreneurs do is to set boundaries for themselves within which they put up with ambiguity and uncertainty that they are able to tolerate.  They know how far to push their comfort zones.

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The short poem I have recited here from Tagore, an Indian Poet from the early 20th Century is a wonderful metaphor for what a typical enterpriser grapples with. The poem was written at the time of India gaining independence from British rule. Tagore talks about being able to speak without fear, of not being blocked in by narrow domestic walls, where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way!  And he says so much more in a few short and powerful stanzas. I hope you find the poem inspirational. I like it because it captures the sentiment behind www.midlifeenterpriser.com

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