New Business In Later Life

Today we’re tackling the frustration so many later-life entrepreneurs can only whisper about: posting, speaking, showing up, being visible. Yet, still feeling invisible. My guest is Sandra ten Hoope from Dare to Displease — a corporate attorney turned storytelling strategist who helps business owners turn their lived experience into the message that finally cuts through the noise. If you feel you’re doing everything ‘right’ yet struggling to be seen, heard, or remembered, this conversation will show you exactly what’s missing — and how your story can change everything. KEY TAKEAWAYS 1. Your story is your sharpest visibility tool: The missing piece isn’t more content, it´s using your lived experience as the message. That is what will finally cut through the noise. 2. You don’t need to share a huge trauma : What resonates with people is your journey from “then” to “now,” along with why you do what you do. It´s not about how dramatic your past is. 3. Speak to one person, rather than the whole internet : Treat every post or email as a conversation with the earlier version of you who is still stuck. When you do that, your message becomes crystal clear and more impactful. 4. Consistency is the key : Don´t give up if you don´t get a lot of likes and comments, that is normal, modern audiences are often silent. They are listening and once they trust you enough, they will buy into what you offer. Showing up regularly with story-led content grows your audience and drives results 5. You control how deep you go : You can still grow your brand and build trust by sharing carefully chosen parts of your story. You are in control of how deep you go. BEST MOMENTS Sandra: “Nobody, apart from usually ourselves, expects us to suddenly make that leap and talk about that story with such confidence and clarity. I still stumble, I still fall, and that is just all okay. We will get there one step of the time, one story hurdle at the time.” Sandra: "I speak to the one person who obviously resembles myself, that one person that I was 10 years ago that would love to have had the knowledge that I have now." Sandra: "It's all about that transformation. For everybody, be it small or big, transformation has changed something in his or her life." Ildikó: "A person's story is the strongest selling point, because people buy into people." Ildikó: “Write your own thing, use your own voice, and then let AI split it up and repurpose it.” Do you want results quicker and prefer a private deep dive alongside my group programmes? Just ask me to work with you personally here - https://www.encorepreneurs.club/contact-us/ GUEST´S INFORMATION https://substack.com/@stopwafflingstartselling Sandra´s book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Do-Not-Try-HIM-Home- ebook/dp/B08GV7DBG2 HOST BIO Ildikó Sealey is a Property Professional, Networking Host and Podcast Host serving her local and wider community. In the property business with her husband since 2019, their core values are revitalising neglected properties so they can provide modern, future-proofed, comfortable homes for people. Recognising a gap in the local networking scene, Ildikó started co-hosting Property and Business Network in March 2024, bringing together the best in business in Plymouth and surrounding areas in Devon and Cornwall. With a rich background in administration, social housing, arts and crafts, education, business, and mindset, she is passionate about empowering her fellow 50+ Encorepreneurs on their journey. Through her business, podcast shows and networking events, she makes an impact, proving that age is no barrier to success in the business world. This Podcast has been brought to you by Disruptive Media https://disruptivemedia.co.uk

Today we’re talking about the silent pressure crushing so many midlife entrepreneurs: juggling ageing parents, families, work, and life — all without the systems to hold it together. My guest is Louise Monaghan, founder of Dead Organised, who helps overwhelmed people in the sandwich generation build simple, humane systems that take them out of chaos and back into control. If your life admin is running you, instead of the other way round, this conversation will show you the systems that make everything lighter. KEY TAKEAWAYS 1. Prepare Before the Storm, Not During It: Midlife isn’t you “falling apart” — it’s a life stage you were never taught to navigate. When you normalise talking about and preparing for aging and death before these things become a reality, you swap firefighting for calm, practical readiness. 2. Run Your Family Like You Run Your Business: You already use systems at work: roles, meetings, delegation. Use them at home. Family meetings, WhatsApp groups, and clear tasks turns looking after family members in need of care into a shared, humane and more manageable family experience. 3. The Right Food Is Your Foundation: Ultra‑processed food quietly undercuts your future self. Research increasingly shows it makes you more vulnerable to health issues, including dementia. Quick, from‑scratch cooking isn’t a hobby; it’s a simple system that protects your brain, energy, and resilience as a midlife founder. 4. Decluttering Really Lightens the Load: Swedish death cleaning isn’t morbid; it’s an act of love. Decluttering, especially doing it as a family while sharing stories behind objects, and deciding what stays or goes lightens your load now and spares your family from chaos later. BEST MOMENTS Ildikó: "I consider myself to be in later life because I'm over 50, and it's a sheer fact that I'm closer to the end that I am to the beginning. And there's nothing sinister about it. It's just a fact, isn't it? " Louise: "We're learning more about hormones and oestrogen ... we don't have to be incontinent when we're old…our lifestyle is so important as we age." Louise: "The correlation between our diet and dementia, which is the biggest cause of death in the UK, the correlation is huge." Louise: "When you're firefighting, when you're in it, you do not have time to do the research, to find things out, to put things in place. And also, you're grieving.” Louise: "The statistics show that 100% of us are going to die, so it's a sure thing, and but we don't talk about it." Do you want results quicker and prefer a private deep dive alongside my group programmes? Just ask me to work with you personally here - https://www.encorepreneurs.club/contact-us/ GUEST´S INFORMATION https://dead-organised.com/ LINKS TO ILDIKÓ ´S SERVICES AND RESOURCES https://www.encorepreneurs.club https://www.encorepreneurs.club/routine-club https://www.encorepreneurs.club/my-gift-to-you HOST BIO Ildikó Sealey is a Property Professional, Networking Host and Podcast Host serving her local and wider community. In the property business with her husband since 2019, their core values are revitalising neglected properties so they can provide modern, future-proofed, comfortable homes for people. Recognising a gap in the local networking scene, Ildikó started co-hosting Property and Business Network in March 2024, bringing together the best in business in Plymouth and the surrounding areas in Devon and Cornwall. With a rich background in administration, social housing, arts and crafts, education, business, and mindset, she is passionate about empowering her fellow 50+ Encorepreneurs on their journey. Through her business, podcast shows and networking events, she makes an impact, proving that age is no barrier to success in the business world. This Podcast has been brought to you by Disruptive Media https://disruptivemedia.co.uk

In this episode, Ildikó sits down with Pete Cann - The Laughter Man, a recruitment agency owner and empowerment coach. Together they explore something most later life entrepreneurs overlook: the “energetics” of business and reinvention. From Britain’s Got Talent to laughter yoga, Pete shows how breath, movement, and deliberate joy can turn nerves into excitement and much needed energy.  If you’re building a business on your own and feel your energy getting drained this conversation offers a deceptively simple yet impactful approach to give yourself a boost and build resilience. KEY TAKEAWAYS Energy Flows Where It’s Welcomed: Not everyone will “get” you - chasing their approval drains your power. When you intentionally lean into the people who resonate with your energy, their enthusiasm amplifies your impact and naturally brings more skeptical people along for the ride. Vibration First, Strategy Second: Energy is contagious and foundational. We “vibrate” at the level of the people, thoughts, and practices we repeat. Laughter isn’t a side-effect; it’s a tool to shift state. By laughing on purpose — through breath, body, and play — we raise our emotional frequency first, so clarity, courage, and connection can follow. Manifest What Matters, Not Just What Shines: Successful manifestation starts with naming what truly lights you up e.g. freedom, connection, creativity, time with loved ones – and holding that vision. When your attention and emotion stay anchored on what genuinely matters, life quietly arranges more of it. Your Superpower Feels Like Ease: Pete sees your superpower as the thing you do in “flow” — the work that feels natural and energising. Pay attention to where effort feels light and impact feels big; that’s the gift you’re here to lean into. BEST MOMENTS Ildikó: "Don't pay attention to the ones who don't like you or don't get you, just pay attention to the ones that do." Pete: "When you give your energy to people that suck your energy away, you're going to be left nothing. But if you're giving your energy to people that can reciprocate and give you energy back, then you're going to vibrate at this higher vibration." Pete: "Entrepreneurship and solopreneur, is lonely. Going out and meeting people, especially people that are high achievers, you'll start naturally vibrating at that vibration." Ildikó: "In the morning, when my alarm goes and I open my eyes the very first thing I do is smile.” Pete: “My role is to connect with people, inspire people, and make people feel good and I've got a team that can do all the other lifting for me.” GUEST´S INFORMATION https://petecann.com https://www.wimhofmethod.com HOST BIO Ildikó Sealey is a Property Professional, Networking Host and Podcast Host serving her local and wider community.  In the property business with her husband since 2019, their core values are revitalising neglected properties so they can provide modern, future-proofed, comfortable homes for people.  Recognising a gap in the local networking scene, Ildikó started co-hosting Property and Business Network in March 2024, bringing together the best in business in Plymouth and surrounding areas in Devon and Cornwall.  With a rich background in administration, social housing, arts and crafts, education, business, and mindset, she is passionate about empowering her fellow 50+ Encorepreneurs on their journey.  Through her business, podcast shows and networking events, she makes an impact, proving that age is no barrier to success in the business world. This Podcast has been brought to you by Disruptive Media https://disruptivemedia.co.uk

Today, Ildikó  and her guest talk about something later life entrepreneurs rarely admit to experiencing – crisis and trauma to the point where everything breaks and you need to decide who you are going to become next. Her guest is Anna Lempriere, a newly ordained minister and a lifelong Yogi who understands the messy human side of reinvention.  If you are rebuilding yourself, not just your business, then this conversation could give you some truth, clarity, and maybe the permission you didn't even know you needed to be successful in later life. Let's hear it from Anna. Do you want results quicker and prefer a private deep dive alongside group programmes? Ildikó offers one to one mentoring - https://www.encorepreneurs.club KEY TAKEAWAYS Reinvention Is Cyclical: We don’t just “pivot once.” Identity, beliefs, and purpose move in cycles and spirals over a lifetime. Periods of descent, confusion, or loss are often invitations to shed an old self and allow a new expression of who you really are to emerge. Life Transitions Can Feel Like Trauma and Become Power: Menopause, bereavement, relationship endings, or leaving a long-term career can feel like identity-level earthquakes. These “dark nights of the soul” are painful, but they also surface buried stories and wounds so they can be worked with, integrated, and turned into wisdom. Following an Inner Calling Takes Real Courage: Leaving a well-paid, respectable corporate role to pursue soul-led work is terrifying. It asks you to trust that you are enough, that life will support you, and that your gifts can sustain you. Authentic Leaders Let Go of Perfection: The pressure to appear perfect and all-knowing is exhausting and fuels burnout. When leaders show vulnerability, humanity, and real backstory, others relate more deeply and trust more fully. BEST MOMENTS Anna: "I work a lot with women that are either in perimenopause or menopausal. This is a radically powerful shift that can feel utterly devastating but is so incredibly empowering as well." Ildikó: "What you put out there comes back. What you think about is what you attract back." Anna: " If you can really tap into why you're here as a human being, and what lights you up as a soul, that radiates out of you, and that attractive, that's magnetic." Anna: "Most of the time human beings change when they have no choice." Anna: "You don’t need to bear your soul on social media…it’s your soul and it’s not to be sold, it’s sacred." When I started over at 50, I learned the hard way that health routines are the backbone of business success, now I help others to establish strong routines. Join here - https://www.encorepreneurs.club/routine-club GUEST´S INFORMATION  www.speakyoumethod.co.uk – join now for a late January start, to find the confidence to recognise and not be afraid to use your real voice. https://www.linkedin.com/in/reverend-anna-lempriere-9925003 https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Can-Heal-Your-Life/dp/0937611018 HOST BIO Ildikó Sealey is a Property Professional, Networking Host and Podcast Host serving her local and wider community.  In the property business with her husband since 2019, their core values are revitalising neglected properties so they can provide modern, future-proofed, comfortable homes for people.  Recognising a gap in the local networking scene, Ildikó started co-hosting Property and Business Network in March 2024, bringing together the best in business in Plymouth and surrounding areas in Devon and Cornwall.  With a rich background in administration, social housing, arts and crafts, education, business, and mindset, she is passionate about empowering her fellow 50+ Encorepreneurs on their journey.  Through her business, podcast shows and networking events, she makes an impact, proving that age is no barrier to success in the business world. This Podcast has been brought to you by Disruptive Media https://disruptivemedia.co.uk

In this episode, Ildikó sits down with Becky Loto to look at confidence in business, particularly for older entrepreneurs and women or those coming back after adversity. They discuss rebuilding after unexpected and devastating life events, tackling imposter syndrome, protecting your energy and more. Becky’s story is one of resilience, reinvention, and the power of community. Whether you’re struggling with self-doubt, considering a career change, or searching for a supportive network, this episode offers real-world advice, uplifting stories, and the encouragement you need to move forward. KEY TAKEAWAYS 1. Harness Resilience in Adversity: When business and life throw unexpected disasters your way, remember that resilience is built by moving forward together. Losing everything in a storm taught Becky the value of leaning into community, sharing what you have, and seeking out the silver linings. Often, it´s them who spark new beginnings. 2. Build Supportive Networks: Show up for others, foster genuine relationships, connect people who need something with those who can help them and share opportunities. Your network will become your safety net. It will be a source of referrals, advice, and encouragement. 3. Actively Build Your Confidence and Take Action: Success starts with self-awareness. Recognise and confront self-doubt, set healthy boundaries, and don’t wait for the “right” time. The best time to invest in yourself, seek help, or find the confidence and courage to make changes is now. 4. Connect Mind, Body, and Purpose: Sustainable business comes from habits that fuel both your body and mind. Regular exercise, reflection on your deeper “why,” and surrounding yourself with positive energy givers create the clarity and stamina needed for long-term fulfilment. BEST MOMENTS Becky: "One day is now - Stop waiting for one day - let's do it now." Becky: "I think it's actually easier when something dramatic like that happens, because you have no choice - you've got to pivot really quickly." Becky: "Everyone bought something. So, the community, when something disastrous happens, is phenomenal." Becky: "You've got to have that resilience - you've got to know why you're doing it. That's going to help you on those days that are rough." Ildikó: "In my model, spiritual health is when you find your purpose and when you find your alignment with your values. Emotional health is connecting with people, nurturing relationships and setting your boundaries." GUEST´S INFORMATION https://www.facebook.com/becky.loto HOST BIO Ildikó Sealey is a Property Professional, Networking Host and Podcast Host serving her local and wider community. In the property business with her husband since 2019, their core values are revitalising neglected properties so they can provide modern, future-proofed, comfortable homes for people. Recognising a gap in the local networking scene, Ildikó started co-hosting Property and Business Network in March 2024, bringing together the best in business in Plymouth and surrounding areas in Devon and Cornwall. With a rich background in administration, social housing, arts and crafts, education, business and mindset, she is passionate about empowering her fellow 50+ Encorepreneurs on their journey. Through her business, podcast shows and networking events, she makes an impact, proving that age is no barrier to success in the business world. This Podcast has been brought to you by Disruptive Media https://disruptivemedia.co.uk