Changing Directions & Starting From Scratch - Coffee Chat

​There's an idea you've put on the back burner. A business, a pivot, a "what if" you keep moving aside because the timing's never right and you feel too far along on your current career to start over. I know that flame well — I once lit it under a dream I called "Marketing Town," watched it nearly go cold, and then heard it crackle back to life. That idea became The Village Workspace, a thriving and award-winning coworking space. Drawing on my book, Changing Directions and Starting from Scratch, I turn my framework into a working session for second-act founders. You'll name what's on your own back burner, build your list of "Balcony People" who pour courage into you (because, as I wrote, "excellence has a lot to do with proximity… nearness is powerful"), and map your first deliberate moves using Polé Polé — the "slowly, slowly" lesson I learned summiting Kilimanjaro at 50. You'll even reframe the "Beautiful No's," learning why, so often, "time is our friend." Starting from scratch after 40 isn't starting behind. It's starting with everything you've learned. Bring a pen and the idea you've been avoiding — you'll leave with a plan to finally light it.