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Podcast Episode 83. Margaret in the USA. Starting a second business at an older age, transforming misfortune and changing location to change your life.

By rarebirds 24.09.18

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Podcast Episode 83. Margaret in the USA. Starting a second business at an older age, transforming misfortune and changing location to change your life.

Margaret Vandergriff is a relocation planning coach who founded Harvest Moon Coaching in 2016 to provide tools, strategies and support to help entrepreneurs, freelancers and remote workers find a place to live that they love.

Harvest Moon Coaching is Margaret’s second business. She started her first business at age 25 after relocating to Austin, TX from San Francisco, CA where she worked in fundraising for a nonprofit organization. Wanting to support nonprofits without having to work for one, she founded Momentum Grant Strategies to provide grant writing, research and consulting services to nonprofit organizations.

Listen in to this podcast episode to hear this multi-layered conversation between Margaret and Jo-Ann. The topics are varied by the common theme is change. Are you experiencing change?

You can also listen in via Soundcloud, itunes, Stitcher Podcasts, Google Play and Spotify

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

  • Entrepreneurship as independence
  • Using your life disappointments as inspiration
  • Why a relocation lifestyle business
  • Managing change
  • Starting a second business at an older age

MORE INFO ON MARGARET

Over 25 years, Margaret helped dozens of nonprofits find and access $20 million in grants for a variety of social services, community development and conservation programs and projects. The work was rewarding, but after two decades she felt burned out on grant writing, disconnected from and priced out of the city she’d loved for so long, and ready for a BIG change. So, when her daughter left home for college, she sold her house and followed her then husband to a depressed West Texas town where he’d taken a job.

Over the next 5 years, Margaret got divorced, married again and relocated two more times. Unfortunately, every relocation – even the third one she’d worked so hard to “get right” – had been a complete disaster. Wondering what she’d done wrong, she retraced her steps online where she found a confusing mess of opinions, rankings and “livability” scores, but no reliable, unbiased system to guide the relocation search.

This discovery inspired Margaret to adapt a method she‘d developed to find and match funding sources with nonprofits to create a system to help people take the guesswork out of finding a compatible place to live, save time and money looking, and feel confident they’ll thrive in the place they choose. Margaret currently lives in Iowa with her beloved husband Ryan, four cats and one bunny rabbit.

By rarebirds 24.09.18

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