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Episode 34: Courage Has No Expiration Date

Sandi Saksena on reinventing herself after 40 - and living entirely on her own timeline.

Society hands us invisible deadlines: start your career in your twenties, build your business in your thirties, slow down in your fifties. Sandi Saksena ignored every one of them. At 44, with no office skills and no formal business experience, she walked into a room of 50 candidates and walked out with the job. Twenty-eight years later, she left that same industry, not because she had to, but because she'd outgrown it. Then she built a company of her own.

This episode isn't a career-advice conversation…

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