Life in Paradise on a Shoestring

At age 60, Tom got a job at a shipyard in Panama City, Florida after completing a 5000 mile sailing journey that started in California. He quickly acclimated to the business and got promoted.  The company culture was not team based, it was as if the different departments were competing with each other and didn't know they all had the same goal.  Using his recently acquired personal development skills he was able to get the teams to work together and build a culture of cooperation in the company.  Listen and learn how he was able to accomplish it.Did you get your Free Copy of Dawn's book yet?Other episodes you'll enjoy:Taking Command with Captain Tom: Learning to LeadTaking Command with Captain Tom: How Saying "Not This!" Led to Work I LovedConnect with me:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/midlifeinparadise/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dawndfleming/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnfleming/Website: https://www.lifeinparadisepodcast.comSupport the show

In this episode Dawn dives into how our relationships with ourself and others develops. In the home environment for sure, but also when we enter and go through the educational system.  In Claim Your Dream Life,  Dawn explains how we have BIG DREAMS when we are children, believing we can be and do anything we want.  Then we become conditioned over time to temper our dreams and be "realistic".  By they time we reach adulthood, sadly just earning a steady paycheck is often our new “Dream”.  What can we do?  Dawn believes the answer lies in revamping the current system as our Industrial Era educational system’s one-size-fits-all approach often leaves students disconnected with each other, bored and disinterested in learning. There is good news.A non-profit called Transcend is partnering with communities to LISTEN to young people and learn how we can reinvent learning and the educational system.Read the results of the 8 month listening study, Conversations with Kids: Insights From a Year of Listening. Use Transcend's Free Guide to start your own conversation with a young person.Did you get your Free Copy of Dawn's book yet?Other episodes you'll enjoy:How Radical Forgiveness Improves All of Your Relationships with Marina Valentina GeorgeTeaching and Coaching: I Love My Work That Makes a Difference with John FlemingConnect with me:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/midlifeinparadise/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dawndfleming/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnfleming/Website: https://www.lifeinparadisepodcast.comSupport the show

In this episode Dawn's guest is Marina Valentina George, an Emotional Release Facilitator and Coach who helps her clients find power in their pain and heal the heart.  As we delve into our quarterly topic of relationships and building community, the best place to start is the relationship we have with ourselves. If you don't have a good one, it's very difficult to develop good relationships with others.  Listen and discover:1. How and why childhood trauma can be a block to relationships.2. What happens  to us and our relationships if we do not clear the trauma.3.  How the healing process works and the different ways to approach the healing.4. Strategies, tips and techniques to build healthy relationships with others.To connect with Marina you can go here.  To access Marina's Free Gift/Mediation go here.Other episodes you'll enjoy:The Science of Happiness Part 7: How to Nurture Good RelationshipsIssues in the Tissues: Forgiveness is a Gift to YourselfConnect with me:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/midlifeinparadise/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dawndfleming/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnfleming/Website: https://www.lifeinparadisepodcast.comSupport the show

Although reluctant  to go to Las Vegas with her friend for a network marketing convention, Dawn got out of her comfort zone and went anyway.  Apparently, it was her date with destiny as the keynote speaker was Robert Kiyosaki.  Dawn had heard about his books, but never read any of them.The information she heard was truly life changing. In fact, Rich Dad Poor Dad is The #1 Best-Selling Personal Finance Book - Ever.  The Cash Flow Quadrant, is actually Kiyosaki’s second book.  It goes further in depth about the framework he introduces in the first book. They both books are both worth a read, in Dawn's opinion.  How much did you learn about money, finances and how to build wealth at home, or in school? These books really shaped Dawn's financial literacy and empowered her to live the life of her dreams instead of dying at her desk as a lawyer!  Listen and learn:1. The four different ways to make money.2. Why the "E" quadrant is the least favorable method.3. How leverage is better than trading time for money.4. Why getting out of your comfort zone can have miraculous results! Order you copy of  The Cashflow Quadrant.Captain Tom's Bonus Book Recommendation: How to Win Friends and Influence PeopleDid you get your Free Copy of Dawn's book yet?Other episodes you'll enjoy:Taking Command with Captain Tom: Learning to LeadChange, Work, Money or Your Life: August Book Review EpisodeConnect with me:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/midlifeinparadise/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dawndfleming/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnfleming/Website: https://www.lifeinparadisepodcast.comSupport the show

When she was in her mid-fifties, Diana Devi started feeling like she was fading, almost like she was becoming invisible. She wasn’t sleeping well, didn’t have any energy,  was gaining weight and didn’t have the spring in her step OR a desire to do much of anything!  She felt she looked older than she should and was worried that the rest of her life was going to be like that. Old, fat and wrinkled, no longer valued at work and stuck with unsatisfying personal relationships. She went to her doctor, thinking there had to be something physically wrong with her. After a thorough exam she was told there was nothing wrong with her, she was just getting older!  Shortly after, she encountered  an 80 year old woman celebrating her birthday at a local restaurant.  She was vibrant - laughing and having fun with her group  so engaged and fully enjoying herself.  Diana wanted to be that woman. Diana wanted to live her own story on her own terms. She admired Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren, women who've aged in their industry – one that relies on looks and they have kept working on their terms … They have aged beautifully and not gotten old.So with her 30+ years of medical experience as a pharmacist she read up on all the new  and exciting innovations in the medical field. She studied holistic methods and believes in treating the body as naturally as possible . She applied what she learned and Got Her Sexy BACK. So many people noticed the changes they started asking her for help.So she launched An Ageless Life to share her lessons and knowledge with women like her who  are feeling old, have  lost confidence and/or feel invisible.  So they can get their Sexy Back!Other episodes you'll enjoy:What is Work? The Highest and Best Use of Your Life EnergyEmbracing an Economic Satisfaction LifestyleConnect with me:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/midlifeinparadise/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dawndfleming/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnfleming/Website: https://www.lifeinparadisepodcast.comSupport the show

Few of us ever learn leadership and interpersonal development skills in school. While Tom learned many things on his journey to a remarkable career as an electrical engineer - how to work together and help others get along was not one of them. At age 50, while he was an avid fiction reader, he'd never read any personal development books.  What he learned was astounding. Listen and learn:1. Why many highly talented professionals struggle with leadership and management.2. What a difference taking a new and different approach can mean in your career.3. How developing interpersonal and leadership skills can open doors that otherwise might be closed.Did you get your Free Copy of Dawn's book yet?Other episodes you'll enjoy:Taking Command with Captain Tom: How Saying "Not This!" Led to Work I LovedConnect with me:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/midlifeinparadise/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dawndfleming/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnfleming/Website: https://www.lifeinparadisepodcast.com Support the show

In celebration of Labor Day, in the USA this episode is devoted to the workers of the world. Dawn shares information and data from the US, but the trend she discusses isn’t limited to that country.  There's a good reason we see so much labor unrest, with union workers striking, non-union workers organizing and pretty much all workers falling behind economically.Dawn examines the growth of CEO pay where compensation of the top CEOs has increased 1,322.2% from 1978 to 2020. Top CEO compensation grew roughly 60% faster than stock market growth during the same period and far exceeded the 18.0% growth in a typical worker’s pay.  During the pandemic the dramatic increase in CEO compensation was obscene. While millions were out of work, CEOs’ pay shot up 18.9% in 1 year. The CEO-to-worker compensation ratio was 21-to-1 in 1965. It peaked at 366-to-1 in 2000. In 2020 the ratio was 351-to-1. The makeup of CEO compensation is shifting away from stock options, to stock awards. Vested stock awards and exercised stock options totaled $20.1 million in 2020 and accounted for 83.1% of CEO pay.Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages that have grown much faster than the stock market, typical workers salaries, college graduates, and even the top 0.1%.   What can be done?Listen and discover:1. How primates (including humans) are hard wired for fairness and what happens when it is removed in scientific experiments2. Why we should care about income and economic inequality and how it impacts society.3.  Policy considerations to fix the corrupt CEO compensation system.4. What you can do at the individual level to make a difference and minimize the damage.Did you get your Free Copy of Dawn's book yet?Other episodes you'll enjoy:Change, Work, Jobs, Money or Your Life? August Book Review EpisodeConnect with me:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/midlifeinparadise/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dawndfleming/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnfleming/Website: https://www.lifeinparadisepodcast.comSupport the show

Ever get FIRED from a Job? Do You Like Change? Have you ever been frustrated by a job search? In this episode Dawn shares her story of getting a blind-sided firing at a law firm - which turned out to be the last job she ever had.  In this book review episode Dawn discusses three books about the important and timely topics facing Mid-lifers today: Change, Work, Jobs, Money and Living a Good Life.  First, Who Moved My Cheese?  is  a timeless business classic book that utilizes a simple parable to reveal insightful and profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life. Next, in Bait & Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover as a job seeker to highlight the professional people (like us!) who did  everything right—we got our college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive résumés—yet we have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial devastation, and not simply due to the vagaries of the business cycle.The social compact has changed, and yet many people are still playing by the old rules... Finally, for or over twenty-five years, Your Money or Your Life has been considered THE go-to book for taking back your life by changing your relationship with money. Hundreds of thousands of people have followed the nine-step program outlined in the book, to live more deliberately and meaningfully. Did you get your Free Copy of Dawn's book yet?Other episodes you'll enjoy:10 Ways to  Work in Paradise with Diane HuthWhat is Work? The Highest and Best Use of Your Life EnergyEmbracing an Economic Satisfaction LifestyleConnect with me:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/midlifeinparadise/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dawndfleming/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnfleming/Website: https://www.lifeinparadisepodcast.comSupport the show

At age 35, his co-worker and other people thought he was nuts to walk away from a "great job" as a lineman for a Seattle area power company.  It was a good union job with a good income, great benefits and tremendous job security. What's not to like? But after a divorce, Tom took stock of his career and life.  He wasn't sure what he wanted to do but knew only "Not This!"  With an uncertain future he returned to Southern California to live with his parents until he could figure it out.  His decision back then led to work he could have never imagined possible. Listen to his inspirational story and learn:1. The question he asked the "man in the mirror".2. Why settling for what is safe and secure may limit your potential.3. How opportunities come along when you have the courage to change.4.  The importance of a mentor and what it can mean to your futureDid you get your Free Copy of Dawn's book yet?Other episodes you'll enjoy:Taking Command with Captain Tom: Freedom from Fear and Asking for ProtectionTaking Command with Captain Tom: Leading YourselfConnect with me:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/midlifeinparadise/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dawndfleming/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnfleming/Website: https://www.lifeinparadisepodcast.comSupport the show

As an undergraduate, John Fleming wanted to be a teacher. After getting credentialed, his first student teaching assignment was unpleasant.  He worked in many industries, got a cushy government job and even started a Crossfit gym in his family's garage with his wife. Ultimately, teaching was calling him. Finally, at age 40 after returning to school to get his Masters degree - he landed his first teaching job.  Thirteen years later he pinches himself because he loves his work so much. Hear John's inspirational yet unorthodox story of how he finally found his calling and makes a difference in lives of the next generations. Listen and you'll learn:1. Why finding your calling later in life is a good thing.2. How "failure" can work to your advantage3. Why it's a good idea to interview the interviewer before taking a job.4. The importance of emphasizing attitude and effort in a culture.5. The way to show your child the light, when they don't listen to you!Did you get your Free Copy of Dawn's book yet?Other episodes you'll enjoy:I Found My Best and True Self While Teaching Around the World10 Ways to Work in Paradise with Diane HuthConnect with me:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/midlifeinparadise/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dawndfleming/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnfleming/Website: https://www.lifeinparadisepodcast.comSupport the show