Do you want to be a victim or an actor?

This is the question to ask in a recession. The truth is, rough seasons like recessions can be seen as challenges or opportunities. To be an actor, you embrace your circumstances as opportunities to take action. You do what you can with what you have.

Videos have become a more engaging and dynamic medium than regular podcast audio. As a result, many content creators are turning towards YouTube as an interesting way to share their message with the world. 

As we age and enter a new phase of life, it becomes increasingly important to maintain social connections and build new friendships. For those aged 55 and older, retirement or a significant career change marks the beginning of their encore lives, where they seek personal fulfillment, social impact, and continued income.

When making the transition from Creating Your Encore Career] to an encore life, it's common to feel disoriented and unsure of what to expect. However, it's important to acknowledge that this is a normal experience and to adjust your mindset to focus on the positive aspects of the situation.

As a solopreneur Creating Your Encore Career, having multiple streams of income is crucial to building a sustainable business and achieving financial freedom. Today, we'll be discussing different income streams that you can explore to diversify your revenue sources. Specifically, we'll be talking about income streams for writers, coaches, teachers, and speakers.

Purpose has become a buzzword in recent times with associations of success stories and accomplishments. Unfortunately, this corporate view or "save the world" view of purpose has created a stigma surrounding the concept.

Are you being deliberate about Creating Your Encore Career? Instead of continuing on the same path, it's time to think bigger and consider long-term fulfillment. Bryan Gillette, founder of Summiting Group, shares some insights on reaching peak performance in your career. 

As you’re Creating Your Encore Career, less focus should be put on the idea of “ageing.” Rather, it’s important you’re able to shift your focus on longevity. That change of mindset alone brings about small changes and adaptations that are impactful in creating healthy foundations for the future.

It could be lonely being an entrepreneur. That’s why you have to have the dedication to push harder. At the same time, you have to stay playful to keep things fun, especially when you’re thinking of scaling the business. 

Especially when you’re Creating Your Encore Career, scaling a business can still be very challenging.

Much of our career is our identity. And it's easy to feel lost after you've given up that identity piece. But there’s more to life than your career. 

Leaving your old career makes way for Creating Your Encore Career. An encore career does not necessarily mean that it's paid or that it's full-time. It could be part-time or volunteer. 

We’re constantly bombarded with distractions and notifications in the tech world, and it takes bravery to make space in our lives, no matter which stage we’re in. How do you then address this issue of over-reliance on technology so you can improve productivity, whether at work or in your personal life?

A portfolio career isn't simply about leaving a corporate job and going into one new thing. It actually takes more than that. 

In fact, you might actually have to be doing several things to create your next chapter in life. You could have 50 different directions as to where you want to take your encore career – when you actually need to be doing just one thing: FOCUS.

As you’re Creating Your Encore Career, there can be so many adjustments that need to take place, and that makes balancing family and career can even seem more challenging.

Robert and Kay Lee Fukui, co-authors of Tandem: The Married Entrepreneurs’ Guide For Greater Work-Life Balance, Robert and Kay Lee neatly lay out many of the solutions to work-life balance in a handbook that teaches you how to succeed in marriage and business at the same time.

Deciding to launch a business as your second career can be an intimidating prospect. But sometimes, that pull can’t be ignored. That’s exactly what happened to Chris Lalomia, this week’s guest on Creating Your Encore Career.

As people live longer and healthier lives, retirement can mean 20 or 30 years of leisure. An encore career can be a rewarding way to spend this time. Though daunting, repositioning yourself in the market and polishing your networking skills can help you pursue your vision. With thoughtful planning, your encore career can be everything you hope for.

The world of work is rapidly changing with the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). As AI matures, it's becoming an increasingly unavoidable component of our professional lives, with tools like ChatGPT at the forefront of this revolution. In the latest episode of Creating Your Encore Career, Lynn explores the concept of AI and how pivoting to implement it into your workflow is crucial.

You can plan how your retirement will look, just as you were able to choose how your previous career progressed. You can enjoy the retirement that most fulfills you with some vision and forethought. In the latest episode of Creating Your Encore Career, Lynn reviews Mike Drak’s book Longevity Lifestyle by Design and discusses the concepts behind creating the retirement you want.

If you aren’t eager for retirement, you're not the only one. Instead, you might be anticipating not retiring. You can contribute to society in ways other than winning the next pickleball match by pursuing an encore career. You can become a silver entrepreneur and use your unique gifts to change the world.

Creating a new career after retirement can be an exciting life pivot. You’re starting a new chapter and experiencing work differently. Everything feels fresh and fun.

In this week’s episode of Creating Your Encore Career, financial advisor Justin Smith joined Lynn to discuss creating a plan for your next chapter and executing it. One of Justin’s central pieces of advice for your “victory lap” is understanding your particular financial situation.