Your Next Stop with Juliet Hahn

Julie Flakstad is a speaker, writer and founder of The Midlife Truth Project, an initiative aimed at better understanding the myriad of transitions that women face, often simultaneously, as they settle into their 40s + 50s. Having helped create and produce over 350 events, workshops and programs over the past 10 years, Julie is currently working on a documentary about menopause + midlife. An advocate of cross generational learning, she is passionate about bringing women of all ages together around complex and vulnerable topics and her work was most recently featured in Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper.

Julie also serves as a mergers + acquisitions advisor helping entrepreneurs navigate the process of scaling and selling their businesses. Her other ventures include having founded and successfully sold Blow, a hair-care products and services company, recognized by industry leaders for creating blow outs as a new category in beauty.

Julie holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a B.A. from Hamilton College. She lives in Old Greenwich, CT with her husband, two teenagers and two Flatcoat Retrievers, Tiko + Bowie.

Follow her @JulieFlakstad and learn more at julieflakstad.com

Remarkable Quote:

"The Midlife Truth Project allows women to pause and connect the dots during this unique time in their lives."

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Join me in this solo episode as I expose the realities of dyslexia, sharing my personal journey and hopefully empowering you by challenging society's perception of intelligence.

Remarkable Quote:

"There's so many times that I thank my dyslexia. There's other times when it's frustrating. But it's really cool to see where my grit from failing constantly has taken me in life, especially now."

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With a background in US and South African presidential politics Wendy is an adjunct lecturer at Boston University in Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship. As a creative entrepreneur herself, she is a co-founder of Creative Re/Frame, infusing creative approaches with her clients from MIT, to the US State Department.

Wendy is a creative connecter, social impact and community organizer, thought partner and an all-around Get Stuff Done person.

She is a published author of Behind the Wheel: A Mother's Journal of a Year on the Road, and is busy working on publishing her second book. You can find her writing on wordpress. https://absurdmusingsblog.wordpress.com/

Wendy holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science from St. Olaf College and a Master's in Urban and Environmental Public Policy from Tufts University.

You can find Wendy on, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Remarkable Quote:

"Embrace adventure and face challenges head-on, knowing that you have the strength to overcome them."

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Britney Crosson is a social media thought leader, specializing in personal branding, that encourages business owners and creators to use their existing skills, talents and knowledge to create exciting content that will make a positive impact on their audiences.

She is the host and executive producer of top global marketing podcast, The Social Sunshine Podcast, owner of Fun Love Media, an online marketing and media agency based in Houston, TX, and the founder of Small Biz Social Society, a membership that helps ambitious entrepreneurs stand out on social media.

A performer since childhood, Britney naturally fell in love with social media back in the MySpace days because it felt like one big stage! And she hasn't stopped posting since! You may have seen her on social media dancing on her exercise equipment or hyping up her audience with a motivational business chat. With over 16 million views and counting, she's positively impacting lives all over the world through her videos.

When Britney's not working hard on her businesses, you can find her having a dance party with her two kiddos or cuddled up on the couch with wine and her husband watching their favorite tv shows.

You can find Britney on Instagram, LinkedIn and Website. Also, check out her business Website, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Remarkable Quote:

"A live audience in front of you is so special. You can see someone smile, you could see someone cry. Whatever the scenario, it's really special."

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Laura is a wife and mama to 10 amazing people. She is the founder of Mama Systems, a coaching business that helps mamas bring peace to their homes through systems so they can be intentional with their people and show up as the best mama possible.

You can find Laura on Instagram and Facebook and check out Mama Systems.

Remarkable Quote:

"It feels like I've found the magic sauce and then I get to share it with somebody else and they see the results, too. It's so life-giving."

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Jon Harris serves as Chief Executive Officer of AthLife®, which was initially established in 2004 to provide educational and career advising services to post-professional, professional and collegiate athletes. Current partners include the NFL Players Association, The Players Trust (powered by the NFL Players Association), NBA, National Basketball Retired Players Association, NBA Players Legacy Fund, MLS, MLB Players Association, and the NHL. On an average day, more than 650 current and former professional athletes are in service with AthLife advisors working on one-to one career fundamentals and educational advising.

For more than 19 years, AthLife has also created and executed in-person programs for professional sports teams and more than 40 college and university athletic departments. In that time, AthLife Unlimited evolved as a division of AthLife to work with sport and entertainment brands to deepen their relationship with fans, including a now 15 year relationship with Marvel Entertainment, while also building and launching the company hustl. To create NIL opportunities in the world of sport and entertainment.

Jon also serves as Board President of The AthLife Foundation, a non-profit aimed providing support and resources to kids in our nation's most challenged but promising communities. As of 2023, the Foundation has raised and distributed more than a million dollars to high schools, along with training and supporting the academic coaches in 15 states while annually impacting more than 10,000 deserving kids that play sports. He is also a founding member of the Foundation for Teamwork, home of the Joe Moore Award, that recognizes the best offensive line unit in college football, and recently joined the board of The Institute of Sport and Social Justice where he got his start in 1995 as an intern.

Prior to forming AthLife, Jon served as Manager of Player Development for the National Football League, where he was hired to establish and manage the NFL's Continuing Education Program. The program was designed to assist active NFL players with all aspects of continuing education including degree completion, graduate school preparation, and guidance for continuing education as it relates to personal development. For six years previous to his time at the NFL, Jon helped build the NFL's education program while working for the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (now the Institute of Sport and Social Justice) where he rose from Intern to Associate Director.

Jon earned a master's in management of Public Service from DePaul University in 2000, penning his thesis titled The Affects of Achievement in Higher Education on the Career Transition of Retired NFL Players. He is certified in the Strong Interest Inventory and a member of the National Career Development Association, and for more than 25 years he has been an active member of The National Association of Academic and Student-Athlete Development Professionals (N4A). He earned his bachelor's degree from DePaul in Political Science in 1995. While studying Political Science at DePaul, Jon was a four-year letterman in basketball and four times was named to the Conference All-Academic Team. His accomplishments were recognized by being named to the '14 Under 40' class by DePaul in 2012. He and his wife Keri are raising four remarkable children who undoubtedly will change the world for the better.

You can find Jon on LinkedIn and check out AthLife.

Remarkable Quote:

"One thing I noticed with me is that when I grab onto an idea that I'm really passionate about, whether it was playing college basketball or starting a company, it probably takes about nine years in my life for the idea to turn into something pretty meaningful."

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Bette Fetter is the CEO of Young Rembrandts and author of Being Visual. She has been teaching children how to draw for over 40 years.

In this episode, you will learn the following:

1. How Bette Fetter turned her passion for art into a successful business
2. The importance of taking risks and exploring new opportunities
3. How franchising can help a business grow beyond its current limitations

Bette Fetter, founder and CEO of Young Rembrandts and author of the Amazon #1 bestseller, Being Visual, began her career as a professional artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Northern Illinois University. Through her education, participation in various forms of the arts and experience with Montessori education, Bette gained first-hand understanding of the value of the arts for developing minds.

Remarkable Quote:

"We have to be involved. Our body needs to be involved. Our voice, our hands. We need to write things, draw things, map it out, make stars doodle. That's how information gets into us. It goes through our body, into our hands."

"Are you creative or not? We all have the right side of the brain. Have we developed it? Does our education system think it's important, and what do we do with it? But if you're a scientist, you should be able to come up with some new ideas if you're an engineer. Everybody needs that creative right side of their brain."

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Maryam Sharifzadeh is the founder of Zass and Office Yoga. She grew up in the Bay Area and went to school at UCSD for her undergrad. After college, she worked at Cal and Stanford before starting her own business. She is passionate about helping people stay healthy and fit, and her programs reflect that.

In this episode, you will learn the following:

1. How Maryam Sharifzadeh's background in swimming led her to start her own business in sports management
2. How Maryam Sharifzadeh's experience of training for a marathon swim taught her to enjoy the process
3. How Maryam Sharifzadeh's work in sports management helps athletes find careers after their sports

You can find Maryam on LinkedIn and check out her Business.

Remarkable Quote:

"I don't think I was ever not doing the right thing because everything I've done in the past has helped me get where I am. But I really knew I was doing the right thing with office yoga because everything was so exciting. I didn't care about anything else. And I think that's when I really knew I was in the right place, which is great."

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Jeff Dwoskin is an Internet marketing pioneer. In 1995 he founded an online marketing venture that rapidly established its dominance. Under Jeff's skillful leadership, the venture blossomed into a highly successful, multi-million dollar enterprise. USWeb — at the time the world's largest web development firm — acquired Jeff's interest in 1997. Jeff is also an award-winning stand up comedian. Jeff is an avid tweeter and his tweets have been featured on Laughs TV, CNN.com, People.com, and numerous other media outlets. Jeff was listed as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs to follow on twitter. Jeff's current venture is Stampede Social. Jeff created Stampede Social based on the belief that fan engagement should be easy and measurable for brands, agencies and creators. Stampede Social improves the fan experience and gives brands and creators the tools, and data they need to increase their marketing ROI, raise sponsorship value, accurately attribute and create more meaningful engagement on Instagram.

In this episode, you will learn the following:

1. How Jeff Dwoskin used his creative skills to make a statement at his college, leading to the start of his marketing career.
2. Jeff Dwoskin's comedic journey, from taking a comedy class to achieving success as a comedian.
3. Jeff Dwoskin's inspiration for creating his podcast and the challenges he faced in getting it off the ground.

You can find Jeff on Instagram, Twitter and check out his business, Stampede Social, on Instagram, LinkedIn and on their Website.

Remarkable Quote:

"You have to do what you love. You ever stand somewhere where you have to jump into water from like 10ft? You know how hard it is to mentally send your body over the edge. But when you do it once, you're like 'let's do it again!'"

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Stephen Key is the world's leading expert on how to license a product idea and a 2018-2019 AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador. As an independent inventor, he achieved repeat success commercializing products ranging from simple novelty gifts to complex packaging innovations. He is currently the patent strategist for Fishbone Packaging, the environmentally-friendly solution for single-use plastic rings.

In 1999, he cofounded inventRight, the coaching program that has taught inventors from more than 65 countries how to harness the power of open innovation and the licensing business model to bring their ideas to market.

He is the author of One Simple Idea, Sell Your Ideas With or Without a Patent, Become a Professional Inventor, and Licensing Ideas using LinkedIn.

To help creative people become profitable inventors, he has written more than 1,000 articles for Forbes, Inc., and Entrepreneur magazines and published over 900 videos on his popular YouTube channel inventRightTV.

In this episode, you will learn the following:

1. How Stephen Key overcame his learning disability to become a successful product developer and licenser.
2. How Stephen Key successfully jumped into different industries applying the same principles of curiosity, persistence and relationships.
3. How an accidental product idea changed Stephen Key's life and led to success in the packaging industry.

You can find Steve on LinkedIn, Twitter, Amazon Bookstore and check out his business Website.

Remarkable Quote:

"If you can find something you truly love, you're going to be very lucky, and you're probably going to be successful at that."

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