Second Curvers

It is never too late or too early to be who you want to be. Second Curvers are a growing community of people who see life as a flow, embracing new roles, new jobs, new challenges and being themselves, rather than standing in line and comparing themselves to the person in front. To second curve is to embrace a radical reinvention. The only thing it requires is the courage to act and step into the unknown. One little step. Anyone can second curve. Second curving is not defined by age. Are you in your twenties in a job you dislike? Are you retired and bored? Are you stuck in a rut and can't see a way out? The biggest barrier to getting on to the next curve is You! Second Curvers podcast is all about WORK! Our new podcast launches on Tuesday 6th February. Are you a Second Curver, ready to be ignited?

We would love to hear from you. Do send me a dm on Instagram (@secondcurvers) or email us at [email protected]

Today we will look back to our interview with Coss Marte, an ex-inmate who is now a successful entrepreneur and founder of ConBody.Speaking to Coss has been so incredible. His raw honesty, incredible journey, and desire to make something good out of something so bad has been very moving. During our interview, we touched upon a wide variety of issues, but the one story that stayed with me was our discussion about redemption. Coss shared with us how hard was to start from scratch when he was out of prison."Giving people a second chance that was one thing that I was struggling with when I came home."

"Three felonies on my record … It was like a stamp for life. So ConBody was basically born out of desperation," he said.

In this short excerpt from the interview you will hear his thoughts on inmate redemption and what could society and large corporations do to help bring them back to positive ways once they are out.

Today we are looking back to a fantastic interview with Veronica Chou from Season 2: Meet The Sustainability Advocates. Veronica Chou is a Businesswoman, an Entrepreneur, and a Sustainability Advocate. She has seen every aspect and angle of the fashion industry and came to the realisation that her future is in sustainability. Today, she is the founder of Everybody & Everyone, an eco-innovative and size-inclusive sustainable fashion brand. She is investing in innovative ideas and making a huge impact in the sustainable clothing industry.Her motto is: “Spread Love, Do Good, Live Sustainably. Eco is for Everyone.”

I hope you will be inspired by this insightful story about sustainable fashion and the innovations it brings.

 

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In this 10 minute short, we discuss change, how to accept it, embrace it, and flow with it as part of life and part of growth. My guest today has known and navigated radical change. The Incredible Emma Slade was a high flying financial analyst when her life took a massive turn. She was held at gunpoint in Jakarta. Emma survived, and coming out on the other side, she went down a long road to a new way of living. Today, she is a Buddhist nun.

Emma tells me about this extraordinary life-changing moment, and how she knew she wanted to do something meaningful with her life. She shares with us her thoughts on handling change, making change, and finding our own unique direction in life.

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One of the subjects that comes up time, and again is failure. In this short, I discuss failure with the epic and spectacular Sian Sutherland. She is a serial entrepreneur, having launched a branding agency, set up a restaurant that in short order had a Michelin star and built an innovative global skincare business, which was subsequently sold to the hut group a few years ago. Sian leaned into her calling and co-funded A Plastic Planet, a global campaign organization with a single goal to ignite and inspire the world to turn off the plastic tap for good.With Sian, we unpack the brilliance of failure, embracing what we don't know and being our own unique selves.

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Many of my guests have talked about the importance of taking risks to show yourself what you're made of and grow in every aspect of your life. All of them believe that if you play it too safe, you will miss out on the many adventures and opportunities that life brings. I always say, give it a go take the leap. What is the worst that can happen? My dear friend and guest, Gerad kite is a big proponent of going out of your cosy zone and taking a risk. Many years ago within a space of a few weeks, he left behind a successful business in London, which he built in his early twenties and moved to San Francisco with one suitcase and nowhere to stay. Today we will hear how he was feeling while taking a risk and changing his life. Over the coming weeks, we will launch the Double Espresso With Dee shorts. 10-minute podcast episodes with key soundbites from my amazing guests. We will revisit themes that matter to you, risk, letting go, overcoming adversity, embracing failure, making a change, identity, how to be you and many more. If you have a question or feedback on the series send me a message on Instagram (@deedoubleespresso) or email me at [email protected] Visit my website: https://dee.biz/

My guest today is the incredible Pirie Jones Grossman. Pirie started working in L.A. and over the following 20 years became a well-known actor and then a very high profile presenter and TV host for E! Entertainment, Fox, NBC, CBS and ABC. She was famous, fabulous, and part of an L.A. power couple. But privately, she struggled deeply after hitting rock bottom. Pirie left L.A. for good and settled in Sun Valley, Idaho. Over time, she broke through, found herself and decided to change her life.

Today, Perry is an international bestselling author, a soul-centred, transformational life coach and TEDx speaker and co-founder and co-host of podcast Own Your Throne. I highly recommend reading her amazing book Conversations With Pirie: 30 Stories of People Who Reinvented Themselves

Today through her own experiences, Pirie works with clients to empower their life path, enabling them to learn and recover from their life events, and rise like a phoenix to fulfil their potential.

I am sure you will love our conversation as much as I did.

Points of discussion:

Introduction (00:00)

Going back to Pirie's early childhood (02:45)

Moving past childhood trauma (07:59)

Building the next chapter (10:37)

Pirie's first marriage (13:46)

Moving to L.A. and starting a professional career (15:21)

Second Marriage and suicide attempt (20:18)

Leaving LA (24:39)

Becoming a mother (28:54)

Road to reinvention (34:51)

Coaching as life mission (40:07)

Final words by Dee (44:23)

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Speaking to Octavia today reminded me that we are all constantly working through a cycle of change. Sometimes we seem to see life as a series of steadier moments, punctuated by dramatic shifts. Often, as she points out, change might happen quickly, but the ripple effects last much longer. My guest today is Octavia Goredema - author, entrepreneur and career coach, British by birth and resident of LA. Octavia is the founder of Twenty Ten Agency a career coaching company that works with individuals and also major corporations to help them advance the leadership development of underrepresented employees. She is the author of the book PREP, PUSH, PIVOT which helps women of colour navigate the key moments that define their careers.“While change might happen suddenly, the ripple effects from that change can take much longer…” - Octavia GoredemaThank you for listening to this week's episode. And thank you to Octavia for her energy and for her wisdom. Points of discussion:

Introduction (00:00)

Going back to Octavia's decision to relocate to the LA (02:15)

Twenty Ten Agency Launch and Growth (06:36)

What has changed from when you started your agency (09:28)What are a few things large corporations should lead with after COVID (15:03)

Push, Prep, Pivot Book (16:12)How Octavia dealt with her fears (22:33)

Epiphany moments (23:49)How to get ahead of yourself - Octavia's secrets (29:08)

The best advice Octavia have been given to (31:25)Key Takeaways by Dee (33:22)

 

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George Taktak and I had a fabulous high-speed conversation about the highs, the lows, and the challenges of humanizing and scaling mental health support. We also discussed how George's creative talents, he is both an artist and a poet, contributing vitally to his high growth business and his wellbeing.George is an entrepreneur, mental health activist, and founder of How Mental - a social movement of more than a quarter of a million people whose mission is to make mental health care accessible to all. The Genesis for How Mental started some years ago, born out of Georgia's own struggles and his experience of a harrowing mental pain.He was so beautifully honest and inspiring to talk to. I am always amazed by his passion, his knowledge and his refusal to accept the status quo.

Points of discussion:

Introduction (00:00)

George's experience of working as a banker (03:01)Dealing with the loss of a family member (05:31)How did George turn the corner and started his next step on the journey (11:54)How is he supporting himself today (16:04)View on isolationism of technology (21:35)Growth of How Mental movement (23:27)

Role of creativity (27:25)

The biggest moment of change/epiphany (30:24)Takeaways by Dee (34:21)

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It's a special joy to interview your friends, and I feel so lucky to have talked to Édéenne today. She has such an incredible vision and the real grit to keep going, no matter what. Édéenne is a high jeweller having founded her jewellery house in Paris in 2003 after a major life-changing epiphany.We talked about her life-changing experience and transition from businesswoman to a high jeweller. I loved her insistence that we have to keep looking for experiences all the time, not watching the trains go past, but jumping on the right one when it comes along. And her epiphany at the bottom of the lake is just such a hypothetical train. But it is also a testament to the power of nature and how the answers are always there, if only we were listening.

Nature plays a big part in her work - from the butterfly to ivy leaves and precious stones. And this links her own belief about trusting her instincts, thinking in her heart about what she wants to do with her life, and how she wants to enjoy it. We discuss her incredible story, this moment of radical change in her life and why we all need to feel the fear and embrace it because surprises await us.

Points of discussion:

Introduction (00:00)

Epiphany story (02:53)Starting over - pursuing a new career (05:51)The biggest challenges Edeenn had in the early years of becoming a fine jeweller (10:52)The creative process (15:30)Changing the personal name (18:05)What excites you the most, today? (22:12)

Edeenne's advice to someone who needs to make the change (24:34)

If you could make one piece for one person in the world, who would that be? (26:42)Takeaways by Dee (28:05)

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