Rebecca speaks to Loraine Midda MBE about how the key to her fulfilling encore is retaining the flexibility that sustained her throughout her career to date. Loraine explains there is a well-known Yiddish saying: "We plan, God laughs". Being agile has been a watchword in an unplanned career. Spending almost 20 years in fashion retail, and then switching to a 30-year career in digital(latterly as Head of Member Services, Parliamentary Digital Services for the House of Lords) was definitely not something in her plan. Along the way, family, life, and work led to many stresses which in turn led to a jopurney in Mindfulness, coaching and mentoring. In this next iteration of life for Loraine it is about giving back. Working with charities, non-profits and concentrating on Trustee and NED roles in addition to introducing Mindfulness in order to bring more compassion into the world. Loraine can be contacted at LoraineMidda@outlook.com or on Instagram @engagingmindfulness.

In episode 9 of the From Work Life to New Life podcast, Mike is joined by Michael Ison. Mike explores Michael's Journey into his current fulfilling encore exploring some of the important elements to reflect upon when it comes to finances and planning for a fulfilling encore. 

Michael is a qualified lawyer and tax, trust and pensions advisor and has worked with many professionals over the years helping to maximise the way they can get their money and assets to work hardest for them.

In Episode 8 of our podcast, Rebecca talks to Deb Boulanger, the CEO of The Great Do-Over, founder of The Launch Lab for women entrepreneurs and host of the Life After Corporate podcast. She helps smart, accomplished women leaders make the leap from corporate to entrepreneurship. 

Over the last 20 years, Deb has launched dozens of services that generated hundreds of millions in revenue for her clients and launched and grew a single division at Gartner, Inc. from 0 to $32 million in 30 months. She has taught and advised hundreds of new and aspiring women entrepreneurs to use these same proven strategies to test their business ideas and validate their money-making model.  The link to Deb's periodic training programs for new entrepreneurs is https://thegreatdoover.com/secrets and you can also follow her on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/debboulanger-thegreatdo-over/