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The She Leads Podcast, with Adrienne Garland
The She Leads Podcast, with Adrienne Garland
The She Leads Podcast, hosted by Adrienne Garland, is the podcast for women leaders and women entrepreneurs who are sick of sugar coating what they say and how they say it. Each week, Adrienne explores entrepreneurial stories, businesses, and challenges that women entrepreneurs face with a wide range of guests who are open to sharing their authentic stories in a refreshing and real way. For far too long, women have been sugar coating our voices, thoughts, and opinions, but that stops here and now! The She Leads Podcast, formerly Sugar Coated, is the place where women leaders can express their brilliance without sugar-coating anything. This podcast offers a platform for super-practical, actionable advice for women to overcome challenges and to make a significant impact on our families, our communities, and our world. Adrienne Garland, CEO of She Leads Media - entrepreneur, media producer, and adjunct professor rejects the notion that women must be deferential to those currently in power and pull back our opinions. Join Adrienne as she dives into raw conversations with brilliant women leaders and entrepreneurs - sans Sugar Coating!
December 04, 2020

What It Means To Reinvent Yourself, With Lesley Jane Seymour

Today’s guest is Lesley Jane Seymour, the founder, and CEO of Covey Club. She’s also an editor, author, and entrepreneur. Adrienne and Lesley discuss the power that women hold, and the amazing things we can do with our families, relationships, companies,

What It Means To Reinvent Yourself, With Lesley Jane Seymour
The She Leads Podcast, with Adrienne Garland
What It Means To Reinvent Yourself, With Lesley Jane Seymour

Today’s guest is Lesley Jane Seymour, the founder, and CEO of Covey Club. She’s also an editor, author, and entrepreneur. Adrienne and Lesley discuss the power that women hold, and the amazing things we can do with our families, relationships, companies,

🙋‍♀️ Lesley was a speaker at the She Leads NYC conference and her story was an absolute hit! 1:19
⭐ On Covey Club’s ‘Positive Morning’ call, Lesley realized that she built another family for women in the second half of their lives. 2:13
📰 When she was a 10-year old, Lesley turned to magazines to remedy the isolation she experienced due to parent’s divorce. 5:05
💜 Covey Club was created after More Magazine folded and loyal readers approached Lesley’s social media channels, asking her to create something new for them. 7:39
🧚‍♀️ Everybody has a thread and it's not accidental, even if you get knocked off course, you will come back to the thread somehow. 11:35
🙌 The most important thing is to spend time finding the thing that highly motivates you.14:25
😲 The fashion industry told her ‘You're never going to make it here. You're too nice.’ 16:31
👄 Getting over a ‘Good girl’ complex. 19:55
💵 In your own business, you have to deal with everything, especially the money and charging for your services. 21:51
😇 Lesley is very open person who likes to welcome people around her as part of her family. 23:58
💃 When you are an entrepreneur you get to pick and choose your team and clients, and it is giving you such a relief. 26:36
🤸‍♀️ Reinvention is behind almost everything Covey Club does. 27:38
🎙️ Lesley is the host of the ‘Reinvent Yourself with Lesley Jane Seymour’ podcast where women talk about their amazing life stories and how they reinvented themselves. 29:13
🙏 There is so much to be grateful for in life even during the pandemic. 32:43
🚚 Lesley fell in love in New Orleans and moved away from New York after 40 years. 34:56
🦸‍♀️ In New Orleans you’re living very close to history and you either love it or not. 40:00
💣 Covey club has a book club, DIY articles, library of webinars, Positive Monday Mornings, B2B services, classes and events. 45:26
😆 Her Insta account is a meme account designed to make us all laugh in these crazy times.
👱‍♀️ Don’t forget to register for She Leads 2020 LIVE ONLINE - December 8th - to hear from more incredible women just like Lesley: https://hopin.com/events/she-leads-2020-online

Connect with Lesley:
https://www.coveyclub.com/
https://www.coveyclub.com/podcast/
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lesleyjseymour/
Story everyone should read: https://www.coveyclub.com/blog_posts/my-daughter-my-enabler-linda-olson/