Would you like to make a podcast? After all, if we can do it, then you can too. Listen to two low tech, over-40, podcast newbies share their top tips.

Making a podcast is an easy, independent way for you to get your ideas out to an audience. We had no idea what we were doing when we started but 40 episodes later we've learned a lot. We hope we can inspire you to give it a go.

We talk you through how we developed the idea for The Right Side of 40 podcast. We share how we recorded, edited, and published the episodes. We also built a website and launched a social media marketing campaign. We know we got some things right and there are things we wish we had done better. However, we are proud we tried something new post-40.

Episode length: 65 minutes

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Empathy, communication, active listening, critical thinking, creativity, time management, lifelong learning. These 'soft' skills make us good at our jobs but are often thought of as 'nice to have' rather than core competencies that will get you recruited for the job you want. However, things are changing.

We talk to Lena Rantsevich about rethinking recruitment. Lena is launching an app called Reputy that allows people to evidence their 'human' skills to build up a profile that makes them more attractive to employers and helps people to change jobs more easily because of these transferable skills.

We talk core skills, hot beverages, introverts, mothering, and how reframing your experience or hobbies - including Caroline's quilt - could get you the career change you have been craving.

Episode length: 71 minutes

Further reading and other resources

https://www.rightsideof40pod.com/resources

If you enjoyed this episode then listen to Episode 25 on workplace mindset and wellbeing, or Episode 14 where Helen tells us how she became a social worker drawing on skills she developed during her life that had prepared her for a challenging but rewarding career change post-40. In Episode 33, Polly Collingridge talks to us about how Cultural Intelligence, otherwise known as CQ, is a key value for organisations who wish to create better connections between their workforce and clients. In Episode 6, Louisa Steensma-Williamson describes how you can look at your core skills and reinvent yourself after redundancy.

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Warning: This episode contains references to depression and suicide.

Could a neurodiversity diagnosis help you in mid-life? As greater understanding emerges that ADHD and autism present differently in women to men, more women are accessing tests for neurodiversity post-40.

We talk to two cousins about their post-40 assessments - Joanne Limburg was diagnosed with autism and Lisa Gee was diagnosed with ADHD. Throughout their lives they knew they were considered 'odd' or 'different' and that assumptions about their behaviour have affected their education, life and work.

We discuss the negative economic effects of neurodiversity for those who struggle to work full-time or fit into a traditional workplace structure. We also learn some new ways of understanding neurodivergent traits including spikiness and fizziness!

Lisa and Joanne tell us how their diagnosis has enabled them to be more open about their conditions in the workplace and the relief they have felt at now being able to access support and help.

'The sense that... I might be entitled to something, I might be entitled to help, I might not have to struggle in the way that I thought everybody struggled but just managed it better.'

'And I might be able to forgive myself for struggling and allow myself to struggle and allow myself to say, you know what, I'm not going to do this or I'm taking time out because it's harder for me than other people.'

Episode length: 65 minutes

Further reading and other resources

https://www.rightsideof40pod.com/resources

If you enjoyed this episode then listen to Episode 25 on Workplace mindset and wellbeing. Zeenat Noorani talks about creating workplaces that make everyone feel valued and how this particularly benefits the neurodivergent.

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