How to increase the odds of finding fulfilling work at 50(ish) one coffee at a time.

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Jo talks about always feeling like the girl that never lived up to her potential. That changed in her early 50s when she discovered paddleboarding and became the first woman to paddleboard coast to coast. The experience expanded her idea of what was possible and resulted in a book, a podcast and numerous speaking opportunities.

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Yvonne Maclean-Howard never envisaged a 17-year career break but that’s what happened when she stepped out of the advertising world to start a family. Turning 50, realising her kids needed to be more independent and feeling she wasn’t done were some of the reasons she wanted to return to paid work but where do you start?

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We talk to Lisa Murphy - mindset coach, digital content strategy consultant, writer and founder of the 50 Forward Club, about how to create a life that allows you to try new things and pursue different interests. Lisa reminds us that our 50s can be a time to rethink what we want to do next, break from the status quo and make wild career changes.

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How do you go from a corporate career working for British Airways to owning and managing a successful restaurant in central Rome? We talk to Lorenzo Cuttica about his career journey and how by being open to possibilities and refusing to limit his thinking he was able to start a new career in a new industry in his mid-50s.

In 2015, Jane applied for over 180 jobs and got 5 interviews. After a 30-year successful career in advertising, she found herself in her early 50s, seemingly unemployable. Rather than moan about it, she decided to fix it and created The Uninvisibility Project to shine a light on the issue and get more midlife women hired.

Juliet Warkentin, Co-Founder of Mpoweredwomen.net is using all the experience she gained in a wide career that covered journalism, communications strategy and marketing to provide women with better information about menopause, sex and beauty in midlife.

Lisa has spent her career growing some of the world’s most exciting businesses including Ebay, Moo.com, Wool and The Gang and Starling Bank. She was there at the early stages when these companies were shaking up their industries. And she is doing it again - helping to reshape the way we think of women’s health as CEO of Daye.

Stefania is an Italian journalist living in Thailand. She’s also the the author of The Age Buster, a blog she created “to decode the cultural conditioning about aging”. We talk about embracing change, clearing the clutter of your life and also the importance of showing up every day, doing the work and nurturing what you sow.

Sometimes you just have to say F**k it and do it anyway. That’s what Katie did n 2011. She left her VP role in a big New York Ad agency and co-founded her own agency. One run and owned by 100% women (that puts Fancy in the 1% of agencies).