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Patty: Welcome to episode number four of Her Legacy Podcast on this episode we have Andrea Ames the incredible Andrea Ames. She and I met at a conference that we were at we sat together just happened to you know meet up with some other women. We had a friend in common. Went to dinner. It was a phenomenal time and just talking about the old war stories of what it was like to be in corporate.
So Andrea has this amazing background and came from big companies she used to work at IBM and now she's ventured out on to her own. And this amazing transformation that she's going through and the cool thing about it is she's also bringing her corporate background and parlaying it into what she's creating now with a Membership Retention Strategy that she has to this is a membership that she's created helping people who have a membership retain their customers really cool.
Right. So in this episode were going to be hearing from Andrea her insights around what it's like to transition and what it means and how she came about to create this really unique process the system in this business says she is molding for herself. So on this episode I really enjoyed myself love talking to Andrea she's really great people and I'm sure you will find a lot of nuggets in here as well. So here we go.
Patty:
All right. And so is Andrea right I just want to make sure. Yeah because I've gotten into trouble when I've said Andreas I suppose Andrea Andrea Ames welcome to Her Legacy Podcast.
Andrea: Thank you so much for having me so excited to talk with you Patty.
Patty: OH MY GOD. Totally so I love your energy number one. And we met at a conference not too long ago and we sat and had dinner and we had so much in common.
So I believe there are no mistakes so I'm so happy to connect with you because not only do we share worst stories having been in corporate but we also just to have complementary businesses I think and I'll go more into that. But first let's get a little bit braggy shall we.
Tell me what is your superpower?
Andrea: I think my superpower is I'll call it influence. Many people have said I love your energy. And so for me I like to take that energy that passion and get people moving get them excited about something get them working on something interesting
I use it in my teens at corporate and I'll tell you it's a polarizing kind of superpower because some people are like yeah it's also let's go far away Andrea and some people are like oh my god she makes me tired.
Patty: What's your read for that? You know so being in corporate I mean can you give us a little snapshot because here's the deal. I am very passionate about the topic of building your legacy and I find that what we women especially Gen-Xers and above comes to this crass point where we were brought into this whole world of go to school get a good job climb the corporate ladder and as women I feel like we were in a way trailblazers right.
And I know you're definitely a trailblazer in your particular niche but then what happens is across crossroads. I'd love to get your corporate origin story if you will and right that epiphany that epiphany of when you were like I can't do this anymore.
Andrea: OK. So it may not be so much an epiphany as a slow maturation process at the end. We'll see how that pans out. So I was in corporate for about 35 years and I my background is all in content. So I started out as a technical writer. I worked for a university for a while. I've worked for investment...
Patty: Welcome to episode number four of Her Legacy Podcast on this episode we have Andrea Ames the incredible Andrea Ames. She and I met at a conference that we were at we sat together just happened to you know meet up with some other women. We had a friend in common. Went to dinner. It was a phenomenal time and just talking about the old war stories of what it was like to be in corporate.
So Andrea has this amazing background and came from big companies she used to work at IBM and now she's ventured out on to her own. And this amazing transformation that she's going through and the cool thing about it is she's also bringing her corporate background and parlaying it into what she's creating now with a Membership Retention Strategy that she has to this is a membership that she's created helping people who have a membership retain their customers really cool.
Right. So in this episode were going to be hearing from Andrea her insights around what it's like to transition and what it means and how she came about to create this really unique process the system in this business says she is molding for herself. So on this episode I really enjoyed myself love talking to Andrea she's really great people and I'm sure you will find a lot of nuggets in here as well. So here we go.
Patty:
All right. And so is Andrea right I just want to make sure. Yeah because I've gotten into trouble when I've said Andreas I suppose Andrea Andrea Ames welcome to Her Legacy Podcast.
Andrea: Thank you so much for having me so excited to talk with you Patty.
Patty: OH MY GOD. Totally so I love your energy number one. And we met at a conference not too long ago and we sat and had dinner and we had so much in common.
So I believe there are no mistakes so I'm so happy to connect with you because not only do we share worst stories having been in corporate but we also just to have complementary businesses I think and I'll go more into that. But first let's get a little bit braggy shall we.
Tell me what is your superpower?
Andrea: I think my superpower is I'll call it influence. Many people have said I love your energy. And so for me I like to take that energy that passion and get people moving get them excited about something get them working on something interesting
I use it in my teens at corporate and I'll tell you it's a polarizing kind of superpower because some people are like yeah it's also let's go far away Andrea and some people are like oh my god she makes me tired.
Patty: What's your read for that? You know so being in corporate I mean can you give us a little snapshot because here's the deal. I am very passionate about the topic of building your legacy and I find that what we women especially Gen-Xers and above comes to this crass point where we were brought into this whole world of go to school get a good job climb the corporate ladder and as women I feel like we were in a way trailblazers right.
And I know you're definitely a trailblazer in your particular niche but then what happens is across crossroads. I'd love to get your corporate origin story if you will and right that epiphany that epiphany of when you were like I can't do this anymore.
Andrea: OK. So it may not be so much an epiphany as a slow maturation process at the end. We'll see how that pans out. So I was in corporate for about 35 years and I my background is all in content. So I started out as a technical writer. I worked for a university for a while. I've worked for investment...
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