Do you believe it's too late to live the
life you've always wanted?
Well tune in today and find out why
it's never too late to create an amazing
life even late in life! Thanks so much for
tuning into 2nd Act TV. I'm really
happy to welcome Kristin Kaufman to our
program today Kristin thank you for
joining us
Oh thank you i'm delighted to be here
Kristin is the founder of Alignment, Inc.
and the author of the popular series
Is this seat taken?
Kristin is also a prolific writer and a
five-star keynote speaker and just an
all-around really great inspirational
person, so we're really happy to have her with us
Kristin on 2nd Act TV as you know
you know we're all about recreating life
after fifty and believing that you know
we can live a great life after fifty and
that's kind of what attracted me to your
message so give us a little bit of
background of how you arrived at this
point in your life and you know what was
your company and your books are all
about
okay great well I'm a recovering
corporate executives and in 1983 my
first job out of college was with
Hewlett-Packard Company and I stayed
there for a little over twenty-one
twenty-two years rose up the ranks, left
running a very large global business
unit for them
marvelous experience and I left Hewlett
Packard when I felt that I was out of
alignment with where the company was
going to be heading and I left to go to
software incredible experiences. It was a
scrappy environment where you had to do
more with less it was not like running a
three billion dollar business unit at
Hewlett-Packard. Not to belabor this but
I did get sick while I was there and as
divine providence would have it I was
asked to join an effort with Mayor
Bloomberg out of New York City to help
reform the educational system in New
York City. I thought I was going to go
for a week and three years later I came
back and it was that experience that
really set me on the trajectory to start
this company, Alignment, Inc. I was going
to ask, out of alignment, tell us what you mean
by that. Right well you know that term
had never really been used it was kind
of my term because
I felt like I was not in sync and I came
to realize that my definition for
alignment is loving what you do
being good at it most importantly having
it tied to something greater than
yourself and if you don't love it
you're probably not going to be that
great at it. yeah well and that kinda goes
towards you know waking up after 50
a lot of what we talk about
and finding you know your real purpose
and passion or just wanting something
that is more meaningful that is what I'm
hearing you say. Yes and I you know I
don't think I think they change I think
in life what fulfilled us and what we
were aligned to and with in our twenties
thirties and forties evolves over time
and it's not to say that we were out of
alignment when we joined it just means
that we perhaps outgrew it or to use my
phrase we lost the plot it was no longer
compelling for us. So really what you're
what you're describing is not just from
a career perspective but this can apply
in any area of your life with
relationships and everything,
especially as it relates to after 50
It's all integral it's very difficult if
not impossible to not align your
personal life your spiritual life your
professional life
it all needs to be working together for
true fulfillment and to help us reach
our potential as women and as human
beings for that matter. Well and to your
point, the headline that I love
of your your article, is it too
late, which we're going to talk about in another segment about
the whole idea of when we turn 50
do we have time to recreate our life?
yes absolutely and you know I know we're
going to talk about my books later but
the impetus for the second book of the
is this seat taken book series was
just that, in my work with Alignment, Inc
my profession has led me to meet CEOs
and men and women for that matter
leadership teams that are out of
alignment
they are no longer in love with their
job they're out of alignment with the culture
in which they're working you name it
I've seen it and many of them will say
it's too late
I've got golden handcuffs on I can't
leave what am I going to do now? And that
was what caused me to write that second
book I felt very called to write it
because I do not believe it is ever too
late and that second book is all about
people some famous some not famous some
totally anonymous to everyone on your on
your in your listener base that
literally either had faced bankruptcy
two three four five times and at age 60
65 and in one case 80 completely started
over and this is not what I call the
three cups of tea people the people that
had already made their millions of
dollars and are going to go build an
orphanage in Nepal. All these are people that
truly did not know what they were going
to do to put the next meal on the table
they had lost confidence they weren't
really sure how they were going to move
forward and therefore I wanted to
highlight their stories and every one of
the people that I wrote about in that
second book went the road less traveled
they created their own life as they
wanted it to be which is a really
powerful message
well and I want to get into some
very specifics of that message and some
specific steps that our viewers can
apply you know in their own life because
I'm sure lots of us are in this situation I
know I was and probably always will be
so let's hold you over for another
segment and we'll come back and hear
about them specific steps of recreating
your life after fifty your career even
when you think it's too late it's not!
See you in a minute.
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