Hollywood Pivot and Changing Careers at 50 with Ken Golde

Executive Leadership coach Ken Golde talks about “The F.A.S.T.. Way: Defining Your Feelings, Actions, Speech & Thoughts to Express Yourself for Ultimate Success,” to help you take authority over what you think, feel, say and do, to maximize your success and impact on the world.”

0:10 – Grew up in “The Valley”
1:30 – UC Berkeley
3:00 – Got handed a screen play at a party
4:00 – The movie business (screen play writer)
5:15 – Directed “The Job” (2003) (Daryl Hannah)
6:30 – Inspired by Paranormal Activity, Overfield, Blair Witch Project
8:30 – Sold a script to Walter Parkes
9:00 – Career as a screen writer
11:00 – 2019 through 2023 – declining industry
11:30 – Writers’ strike
13:30 – Need to change careers (50, divorced, twin kids)
14:30 – “Who am I” and “What do I do now?”
15:00 – Started studying leadership (from filmmaking)
17:00 – Choosing *who* you want to be
22:00 – A LinkedIn message “how to be a speaker”
23:00 – Enter Orly Amor (public speaker coach)
24:00 – Enter Vistage
26:00 – Speaking career launched
27:00 – Coaching career launched
30:00 – Became a Vistage member
30:30 – The F.A.S.T. Way (Ken’s system)
32:00 – Feelings. Actions. Speech. Thoughts.
38:00 – Scaling the business – online course
39:15 – Not the slow way
40:00 – Choose *who* you want to be
42:27 – end (Thank you, Ken, for being on the show)