21: Find Your Passion in the Second Act Through Meditation & Mindfulness
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Show Notes
Join me, Dr. Sarah Milken, in an open and honest conversation about why and how meditation & mindfulness can help us find our passion in “the second” act. Suze also explains how using and building meditation practices helped her self recreate in the second half of life.
Suze Yalof Schwartz is the founder and CEO of Unplug Meditation (and the app), the world’s first drop-in non-religious meditation studio. She is also an author, her book is called Unplug: A Simple Guide To Meditation for Busy Skeptics and Modern Soul Seekers. She is letting us in on the details of working in a high-stress job in the fashion industry, working as an editor for Vogue, Marie Claire, & Glamour magazine, and how she self recreated and started a whole new career, in her “second act”. Suze built a meditation company to help people, all around the world, live more calm and balanced lives.
We are going to dig deep into the details of Suze’s journey, in her “midlife remix”. We talk about the obstacles she faced in her journey living in New York building a career and then moving to Los Angeles and finding a new passion, meditation. We learn about how she created Unplug, her meditation secrets, and how she was able to pivot from one career she loved to starting over and pursuing something different in the second half of life.
Some highlights:
First job out of college working as an assistant to the PR director at Giorgio Armani
Getting interviewed for a job at Vogue by Anna Wintour
Leaving her job as a fashion editor and moving her family to LA
Starting a business and doing everything herself
Opening up the Unplug studio
Golden Nuggets from the episode:
Do not do the same job over and over again for the rest of your life
When starting a business it is really about the relationships we make, the people we meet, and how we feel about ourselves.
Secondhand stress is real
The biggest ideas happen when we are unplugged
Three things that happen in every meditation
Full transcript linked here.
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Suze Yalof Schwartz Bio:
Suze Schwartz, author, mother, founder, and CEO of Unplug Meditation App, and the world's first drop-in secular meditation studio. She was previously a fashion editor and "makeover guru" working at Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, and Glamour Magazine. After quitting her job in New York and moving her family to Los Angeles, she started taking hundreds of hours of classes. Suze realized that meditation needed a makeover and she was the one to do it. Suze's mission is to make meditation simple, accessible, powerful, and interesting enough so that everyone will want to practice it and experience the benefits for themselves.
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