Power of the Pivot Podcast
If you are ready to pivot your “I can’t into an I can, then you are in the right place. Susan Salzman, host of the Power of the Pivot, explores how women of the “what’s next” generation who are ready to say NO to everyone around them so they can say YES to themselves. Building on her 35+ years as a founder and CEO, she is guiding brands, creatives, and entrepreneurs to tap into the knowledge, build their confidence and prove to everyone that building a business in your 50s doesn't have to SUCK! Tune in to hear how she and her guests use simple tools, tips, and resources to navigate both the highs and lows of aging in a modern world. The truth is, age is just a number, and if you are ready to reinvent, realign, and redesign your life after 50, then join this community of strong, passionate, and fearless women!
Episodes
54 episodes
054: How to Merge Technology and Genuine Connections
The question is, can we as humans compete with technology? Especially AI.One of my clients uses Chat GPT for everything. A friend of mine talks to Siri all day long. She uses it like you, and I may have used 411 to gather phone numbers ...
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Season 2
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Episode 54
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34:24
053: How one Word can Inspire your Vision for Success in 2024
Every December, I sit down with the women in my mastermind, and we pick our word for the following year.Before we do that, we reflect back on the word of the previous year and see how it may have inspired our growth and creativity.<...
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Season 2
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Episode 53
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32:15
052: Micah Siva’s Path to Monetizing Her Food Blog: Embracing Jewish Identity Through Food
I have two sets of friends - those that cook and those that don't.There is minimal grey area when it comes to what goes on in the kitchen.I, as you know, love to be in the kitchen. I delegate many other things, but cooking is no...
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Episode 52
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55:49
051: Redefining Cannabis and Merging it with Jewish Humor: My Conversation with Tokin’ Jew
As someone who prefers to smoke my buzz, I am not surprised by how mainstream it's becoming. Although still very much an uncomfortable or taboo subject, I would say that 90% of those in my inner sphere eat some dose of edible, have a fa...
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Episode 51
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51:23
050: Unleash Your Inner Storyteller: A transformative workshop for women over 50
We all have people around us who can and will support us - even when unsure of what kind of support we need. That's precisely what Sheryl Wachtel and I discussed in this week's podcast episode. Conversation, collaboration, and comm...
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Episode 50
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27:19
049: At 67, Shirley Lipner is in her Prime A.K.A. The “Fuck-it” Years!: Her journey to Becoming a Psychic Medium
When the universe is speaking to you, paying attention is essential.No one knows this better than my weekly guest, Shirley Lipner, psychic medium and clarity coach. Her gift teaches her clients to recognize what’s already inside them. <...
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Episode 49
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44:52
048: How Relationships Shape Our Well-Being with Joleen Porcaro Duddy: The importance of community in Aging
Relationships and friendships are rooted in my emotional state. They can easily affect how I feel or don’t feel. And because so many of mine have stood the test of time, I take them very seriously.It was both
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Episode 48
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47:09
047: Emotional Exhaustion and Self-Care: How Melissa Meyers pivoted in her 50s
This week on the podcast, Melissa Meyers and I discuss what it takes to build an online space in your 50s and how it’s not always easy. The hard part is staying focused and not giving up even when all the doors are closing in your face. And tha...
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Episode 47
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33:17
046: Dear Resume - You’re Dead To Me: How being pithy will help you stand out.
When did you last update your resume?If you are anything like me, you have multiple versions of the same thing buried in Google Drive. Because the resume is dead, it's time to find a new and improved way of showing others that your valu...
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Episode 46
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34:41
045: Navigating the Changing Online Space: Carla Besinger’s Transformative Pivot
Putting a square peg in a round hole is way more common than you might think.Taking your big idea and transforming it into something viable, like a book, digital course, PDF guide, or subscription model is no easy task. Regardle...
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Season 2
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Episode 45
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49:55
044: Retirement? Not So Fast! Baby Boomers Capitalizing on New Opportunities
The conversations around community, belonging, and connection have been a common theme lately.Research shows that many baby boomers, 55 or older - about 50% did retire in 2021. Which was inspired by the pandemic. Believe it or not, toda...
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Episode 44
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15:58
043: From Intuition to Empowerment: Tapping into the Universal Heart with Nicole Hoegl
In this episode, you will meet Nicole Hoegl, an intuitive, healer, DEI expert, and an all-around amazing human whose main goal is to continue to grow and help others do the same.Over the years, Nicole has taught me to lean into my intui...
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Season 2
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Episode 43
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42:39
042: Fu%k You Cancer: Finding Motivation in the Face of Adversity
When did life become so hard?As a little girl, fantasized about what my life would be like one day, never would I have imagined a world where there was so much hate (I am sure you have read about the woman in Lake Arrowhead who displaye...
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Episode 42
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13:59
041: Juggling Responsibilities: Career and Family in the Face of Mortality
Since the beginning of time, women have not been given the credit they deserve when doing the most incredible job balancing family, child raising, career, being the number one caregiver, and cheerleader. All while placing ourselves on the sidel...
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Episode 41
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49:21
040: Age Is Just A Number: Manifesting Dreams and Seizing Unexpected Opportunities
You know what pisses me off? When conversing with someone, and they tell me that I am "overqualified," why is no one inviting me to sit at their table? And if you have been in situations like that yourself, it's no wonder that w...
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Episode 40
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18:36
039: Rewriting the Narrative: Empowering Women in the Aging Process with Lori Kleiman
Have you ever really taken the time to look back on your life without regret, with appreciation, and with deep and meaningful love for yourself?It's not an easy task, especially for most of you that have spent your entire life, taking c...
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Episode 39
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43:38
038: Achieving Clarity in a Digital World and How to Simplify Your Tech Stack
It's never an easy decision to create change.If you think you're alone - you are not. Not sure if it's an age thing or a confidence thing, or it's just the sign of the times. But the possibility of building something from nothin...
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Episode 38
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22:18
037: Keeping it Real with Deanna Fenton
Are you currently experiencing information overload?I know I am.With Instagram feeling more and more like a bunch of late-night infomercials and with the newly launched platform, Thread, are you struggling to keep up?
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Episode 37
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53:57
036: Lessons Learned-Pre Google + Social Media
Did you know that the average attention span of someone around the age of 50 is about 8.25 seconds? That's 4.25 seconds less than what it was in the year 2000.FYI - a goldfish has a 9-second attention span - that's .75 seconds long...
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Episode 36
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22:36
035: Finding Your Unique Selling Proposition: Secrets to Standing Out in a Saturated Market
Would you categorize yourself as a member of the “Sandwich Generation?”Someone over 50, stuck in between your grown or launched children and your aging parents?If you are, organizing multiple areas of your life can get complicat...
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Episode 35
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33:45
034: Five Stages to Success: Defining, Creating, Scaling, Habits, Automating
Have you ever thought about the “cost” of doing business, first name?The financial, physical, and mental cost of it all?After reading that 90% of new businesses fail and 10% of those fail within the first year and 45% of them wi...
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Episode 34
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19:04
033: Permission to Not Be Perfect: Building a Structured Support System
As we approach the end of the second quarter, it's hard to ignore the challenges we've faced in the past year. However, we've also made significant progress and it's time to prioritize what's next.In this week’s episode ...
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Episode 33
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38:13
032: Why it's Important to be Flexible and Prioritize Yourself
I was conversing the other day with a client and she asked me if she was the only one whose emotions waffled as much as hers.And the answer was NO.None of us are robots, even though the chatter and obsession around AI might be t...
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Episode 32
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16:55
031: From Showbiz to Photography: Finding Your Personal Image
With more and more women gliding into entrepreneurship, the need to share your personal persona all over the world wide web is becoming the norm.None of the people I know likes this part of the game. But, with the need for speed, you go...
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Episode 31
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35:36
030: Success with LinkedIn: Monetizing Your Expertise & Ideas
In a recent Shopify survey of 1532 parents (62% = mothers), one in six indicated that they are very interested in entrepreneurship.That’s a lot of women running around like a chicken with their heads cut off. A.K.A. not knowin...
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Episode 30
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16:43
