How to be a Successful Mid-Life Entrepreneur

01/05/17 • 24 min

Business Confidential Now with Hanna Hasl-Kelchner

If you’re well into your career and wondering if it’s too late to be your own boss and run your own business you’re going to love today’s guest. He’s the “mid-life entrepreneur expert,” Bill Seagraves, author of Be Your Best Boss: Reinvent Yourself From Employee to Entrepreneur.

WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER ABOUT BECOMING A MID-LIFE ENTREPRENEUR:

How to know if you’re ready to make the leap to and become a mid-life entrepreneur.
The key to success for a mid-life entrepreneur.
Why age and experience gives you an advantage.
How to decide between buying an existing business, a franchise, and starting from scratch.
How to use your corporate retirement accounts to fund your business without triggering a distribution.
The #1 fear holding employees back from becoming a mid-life entrepreneur and what to do about it.
And MUCH more.

GUEST:

Bill Seagraves helps mature employees reinvent themselves as entrepreneurs.

He’s an author, serial entrepreneur and business coach, with more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and business funding expert.

Bill’s own career has been an interesting journey. He began in the corporate world, in a product development and sales manager role. Recognizing he was an entrepreneur at heart, he moved on, bought a small business, engineered a successful exit after 8 years, and then went on to co-found a company dedicated to providing 401k funding and other lending services.

Building on his past experiences, he now pursues a broader business vision that includes not only funding, but also entrepreneur education. He does it through his current business, CatchFire Funding.

Bill is also the author of Be Your Best Boss: Reinvent Yourself From Employee to Entrepreneur.

RELATED RESOURCES:

Contact Bill and connect with him on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

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WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER ABOUT BECOMING A MID-LIFE ENTREPRENEUR:

How to know if you’re ready to make the leap to and become a mid-life entrepreneur.
The key to success for a mid-life entrepreneur.
Why age and experience gives you an advantage.
How to decide between buying an existing business, a franchise, and starting from scratch.
How to use your corporate retirement accounts to fund your business without triggering a distribution.
The #1 fear holding employees back from becoming a mid-life entrepreneur and what to do about it.
And MUCH more.

GUEST:

Bill Seagraves helps mature employees reinvent themselves as entrepreneurs.

He’s an author, serial entrepreneur and business coach, with more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and business funding expert.

Building on his past experiences, he now pursues a broader business vision that includes not only funding, but also entrepreneur education. He does it through his current business, CatchFire Funding.

Bill is also the author of Be Your Best Boss: Reinvent Yourself From Employee to Entrepreneur.

RELATED RESOURCES:

Contact Bill and connect with him on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

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Previous Episode

What You Need to Know About the Business Myth of Top Down Leadership

Business myths can hold you back by wasting your precious time and money. They’re the perfect example of business issues hiding in plain view that matter to your bottom line. Join host Hanna Hasl-Kelchner as she recalls memorable excerpts from some of this year's expert guests that bust the business myth of top down leadership.

WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER ABOUT THE TOP DOWN LEADERSHIP BUSINESS MYTH:

How changing times transformed top down leadership into a business myth.
Why business myths stubbornly persist.
The 3 reasons why the business myth of top down leadership needs to be busted.
The steps you can take to mitigate the harmful effect of the top down leadership business myth.
And MUCH more.

GUESTS:

MARK C. CROWLEY

Mark C. Crowley is a recognized workplace thought leader. He is a regular contributor to Fast Company Magazine and has been published in the Seattle Times, the Huffington Post, Reuters, CEO Magazine, the Great Place To Work Institute and USA Today.

And if you’re on LinkedIn you might have seen his article on employee engagement that was viewed over 350,000 times.

Mark is also the author of the book Lead From The Heart: Transformational Leadership For The 21st Century. His mission is to fundamentally change how we lead and manage people in the workplace.

Mark's book is currently part of the curriculum at five US universities. The book not only shows why traditional leadership practices have failed; but, also why we must adopt an entirely new mindset with respect to how we motivate employee performance going forward.

Forbes Magazine recently spotlighted his groundbreaking work, calling it “the future of workplace leadership.”

CHRIS VOSS

Christopher Voss is a former FBI hostage negotiator, who at the time he was with the Bureau was also the FBI’s lead international kidnapping negotiator.

Since leaving the Bureau in 2007 he founded and is CEO of

The Black Swan Group, a business negotiation coaching advisory firm, where he helps Fortune 500 companies through complex negotiations using his hostage negotiation strategies.

Chris also teaches in the M.B.A. programs at The University of Southern California and Georgetown University where he won a teaching excellence award. His program is one of the most sought after and interesting courses.

Students and clients have used his techniques to successfully negotiate everything from a husband-wife dispute over a Christmas tree, to a billion dollar Wall Street transaction.

Lucky for us, Chris’ strategies are now available in his 2016 book, Never Split the Difference.

DR. KITTIE WATSON

Dr. Kittie Watson is an internationally known listening expert. She’s listed as one of the top twenty-five most prolific women writers on the subject of communications. Kittie is also the President and founder of Innolect Inc., a global leadership firm.

Her work focuses on creating more inclusive cultures inside organizations. She has the remarkable ability to size up difficult situations and provide leaders with powerful solutions to build more collaborative teams that are more productive and agile.

Her various assessment tools are used around the world to help zero in on...

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How to Easily Add Social Selling to Your Social Media Marketing Mix

Is social selling a reliable part of your sales and marketing plan?

If your business is engaged in some social media because you think you’re supposed to, but you’re not getting much traction, you’re going to love today’s guest, social selling expert, Jennifer Dubow.

WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER ABOUT SOCIAL SELLING:

How to start creating your social selling plan.
How to figure out who influences your customer segment.
How even small businesses and startups can engage in social selling.
How to determine the most effective social media platform for social selling.
How to develop your social selling content strategy.
The key to success in social selling.
And MUCH more.

GUEST:

Jennifer D. Dubow is an award-winning Marketer and thought leader in social selling. She started her career as a consultant in Organizational Change Management for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in the US and UK. She’s continued to serve as a change agent in all of her subsequent roles.

While at IBM, Jennifer held several global roles in B2B enterprise software product and industry Marketing. As Social Business Transformation Leader of IBM Digital Sales, for example, she pioneered several first-of-a-kind global programs that increased sales and helped accelerate the adoption of social selling across 44 international sales centers.

As a matter of fact her program’s success was validated in an academic research partnership with Rutgers University. It was also featured in several books including The Social Employee: How Great Companies Make Social Media Work and Next Era Selling.

The depth and breadth of Jennifer’s consulting and marketing experience extends beyond big business. It includes organizations of all sizes and complexity, including a local B2C startup, Dognition, where she serves as Director of Marketing, and to industries ranging from Electric & Gas Utilities, Telecom, Food Service, and the Pet Industry.

In a nutshell, Jennifer enjoys influencer marketing and helping people effectively harness the power of internal and external networks of social influence to support their business objectives.

RELATED RESOURCES:

Connect with Jennifer on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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