I just returned from an epic mastermind conference hosted by Mike Kim. Mike is the author of the best-selling book, You Are The Brand, which we’ve talked about extensively on Creating Your Encore Career. It was an amazing week spent with a group of my mastermind peers.

If you’re nearing retirement age but nowhere near ready to retire, you’re in the right place.

Here in this community, we are getting tired of or have already left our corporate careers and are stepping into an Encore journey. We want to make the most of our lives and keep contributing to a society that needs more workers.

Last week on Creating Your Encore Career, I taught how to stay relevant as you enter, create, and develop an Encore Career.

This process involves three key questions. Firstly, why do you need to develop your value proposition? Secondly, how can you keep your skills relevant? Finally, how will people find you?

The week before, we talked about people skills and emotional intelligence on the podcast. That whole idea is a starting point to today’s topic. It’s crucial that you get to know yourself and learn how to understand others. That could be a key source of value for you in your value proposition.

Let’s dive into all of that and more.

I recently had the opportunity to be on a panel where we talked about Beyond EI’s new masterclass and discussed emotional intelligence at length. We went into the various ways that emotional intelligence is misconstrued and clarified why it’s really about becoming remarkable and even more effective.

Fears and worries are part of any new endeavor. They certainly are for an Encore Career!

These fears come from a variety of places. Maybe you’re worried because there is no guarantee of success as an entrepreneur or perhaps you doubt that you have anything meaningful to share with the world.

Daniel Alfon is an expert on using LinkedIn for business. He joined LinkedIn in early 2004 and has since published many articles and exclusive content about advanced LinkedIn strategies

I’ve always been fascinated by technology. I’ve also always been fascinated by working with people.

As a classic Industrial Engineer, my whole career revolved around exploring how people and systems (aka, technology) come together to make things happen.

Have you ever read a business or self-help book only to forget most of the advice a few weeks later?

Did you ever listen to a podcast but then have trouble remembering the story you heard or the ideas discussed?

If you have, you know what it feels like for all that time to be wasted. What if there was an easy way to remember that required only two seconds a day?

Well, it just so happens that there’s an app that allows you to do just that. It’s called Brain Bump and we had its creator join us on Creating Your Encore Career.

Willpower alone will never lead to success. It certainly won’t help you create a successful Encore Career. You need more than willpower–you need habits.

If you’re a Boomer, it’s your second act. You have the opportunity to shape the second half of your life.

How are you making the most of that opportunity? You may be doing work or activities that are useful, but are they fulfilling?

I had James Woodall, a Certified Financial Planner and the owner of Woodall Wealth Management, on the show last week. Throughout his career, James has worked with people just considering retirement as well as with people who are still going strong at 95 years old.

An Encore Career is an incredible opportunity to pursue your passions in your later years. It is a means of leaving your corporate career and becoming your own boss. It is a path for making the most of your life even after retirement.

An Encore Career is an incredible opportunity to pursue your passions in your later years. It is a means of leaving your corporate career and becoming your own boss. It is a path for making the most of your life even after retirement.

Leading career coach, Steve Preston highlights why you should be thinking about creating a portfolio career

To help us understand how cultivating deep smarts can help us in our encore careers, I turned to the book Deep Smarts: How To Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap. Through engaging with this book, I found the following helpful tips to share with you today.

Dave has decades of experience in multiple roles, from chief human resources officer at John Deere to working in the private sector for the federal reserve bank. Dave has never been one to shy away from making changes he needed in his life and finding ways to make his skills transfer to whatever new pathway he had to take. In our discussion, he shared with me his journey and experiences to help you better prepare for what an encore career move could look like.

Your Message Matters is a book by Jonathan Milligan all about how to transform your passion into a platform. He sponsored a conference of the same name that is centered around the book. His mission is to help people create their own businesses that they’re interested in.

We know that it doesn’t look the way it did even 20 years ago. Retirement, how people spend their time once they’re retired, and who can be classified as a “retiree” have all shifted significantly in the 21st century.

This discussion is based off a book by Richard Leider and David Shapiro, Who Do You Want To Be When Your Grow Old? I was introduced to Richard by Modern Elder Academy. We went through several sessions together and had many conversations about purpose, especially purpose later in life.

Studies have shown that the best companies accelerate out of a downturn in this way. Who’s to say you can’t do the same in your Encore Career?