Are You Ready for Your Startup Journey?
According to McKinsey's research, most CEOs admit that they were not prepared for the top job. The ones who performed best are "excellent in a few areas and do a solid if not exemplary job in the others" (CEO Mindset).
Sadly, most people who start a business have expertise in only one or two functional areas and lack the generalist skills they need to succeed in that 'top job'. School didn't prepare you to run a business, most online startup resources follow 'traditional corporate planning' methods that don't work for startups, and most startup programs help you to plan in one area only ... either marketing or finance or sales, for example.
That was my inspiration for creating my 10-Step GET STARTUP READY Program, the only course series that is uniquely designed for startups and embeds agile methodology - a proven accelerator to help you succeed sooner!
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About Janine - Your Startup Coach
Hi! I'm Janine Lang, a planning nerd, writer, and business owner.
After a successful 35+ year corporate career, I transitioned from 'corporate closet dreamer' to 'startup CEO (which of course stands for coaching entity owner). In my retirement career, I am committed to helping other 60 somethings to transition 'from stuck to startup ready.'
Whether you are a corporate closet dreamer still stuck in a full-time job or 'retired and restless' after exiting your full-time career, I'd like to help you discover your dream retirement career and to start living it ... like I do every day!
Begin Your Startup Journey Here!
Are you are a 'corporate closet dreamer' feeling stuck in a corporate job and ready for your next chapter?
Are you 'retired and restless' and looking for an opportunity to do meaningful work again, but on your own terms?
If so, I'd like to help you to design your dream retirement career and to start living it ... like I do every day!
Let me introduce you to my 10-Step GET STARTUP READY PROGRAM that helped me to discover my freedom and design the career of my dreams. The program consists of a series of 4 courses that will take you through 4 main phases ... one course for each phase.
How Do You Learn Best?
OPTION 1 SELF-PACED: If you like to work at your own pace, then choose the Self-Paced option. With this option, there are over 100 videos, lots of handouts and a workbook in the 4 courses that will give you everything you need to work through the program, at a pace that works for your schedule. And you can revisit the videos again and again!
OPTION 2 GROUP COACHING: If you prefer to work with a coach, join one of the two 8-week GET STARTUP READY cohorts that are offered every year - one in the fall and one in the spring. With this option, you will attend a live sprint call and a live Q&A session every week, meet other like-minded 60 somethings as part of a community and share your experiences and learnings.
Regardless of which option you choose, when you complete all of the carefully designed activities in the GET STARTUP READY program, you will experience the breakthroughs that are possible in each of the courses. You will get out of the program what you put into it! By finishing all 10 steps that are critical for a successful launch, you are building a core competency of your planning skills, fostering the right mindset and success routines, and creating a set of maps for navigating your journey ... increasing your chance of living your dream life!
Choose the Option 1 Self-Paced OR Option 2 Group Coaching Below!
START HERE FOR THE SELF-PACED OPTION
1. GET ILLUMINATED
By Choosing Your Winning Business Idea
Are you struggling to decide what type of business to start? If so, learn about the four sources of all winning business ideas, leverage them to identify potential ideas, and validate which one is most likely to be exciting AND lucrative!
2. GET INSPIRED
By Discovering Your Passion, Purpose and Polar Star
Do you have the clarity and confidence you need to start your journey? If not, learn an approach to fostering the right mindset and motivation to fuel your startup, and apply it to your journey!
3. GET READY
By Developing Your 3 to 5-Year Vision Map
Do you have a clear vision of what your ideal business will look like 3 to 5 years from now? If not, learn an approach to developing an agile vision map, build your long-term planning skills and create your vision map that will guide you to success on your startup journey!
4. GET SET, GO!
By Creating Your Launch Plans
Are you ready to step into your new role as startup 'CEO'? Learn about the habits of successful business owners and define your personal success routine. Learn an approach to developing a 1-year agile roadmap as well as weekly and daily agile action maps, build your short and medium planning skills and create a set of launch maps to prepare yourself to launch!.
START HERE FOR THE GROUP COACHING OPTION
Are you looking to work with a coach who has 'been there, done that' and will guide you through each step to prepare you for launch?
If so, this group coaching option is for you!
Join the 8-week cohort where you will experience the readiness transformation, as part of a community of like-minded 60 somethings interested in architecting their dream retirement career.
All four courses in the 10-step GET STARTUP READY program have been bundled together in this one exciting offer!
Learn About the 8-Week Cohort
Another Resource to Prepare You for Your Startup Journey
Because we learn more from our failures than our successes, I'm developing an entrepreneurial book series - one book for each course in the GET STARTUP READY Program, that will educate you about the biggest mistakes startups make in each of these 4 phases and how to avoid them!
In 2024, I released my first book - GET INSPIRED: Fuel Your Startup with Passion and Purpose. See the description below!
Introducing GET INSPIRED: Fuel Your Startup with Passion and Purpose!
Learn the top 10 mistakes that startups make related to their motivation, how to avoid them, and how to use the lessons to discover your passion, your purpose, and your polar star. In this book, you will learn about the barriers that keep us stuck until we shift to an entrepreneurial mindset.
Alex Wong scowled as he hit the snooze button on his alarm clock. Realizing that it was Monday morning, he pulled the covers over his head. But after a few minutes, that wrenching feeling in his gut didn't go away. A couple of weeks later, Alex felt a surge of excitement and a boost of confidence as he left his last coaching session with Janine to begin his entrepreneurial journey.
GET INSPIRED is the story of how Alex got unstuck in his career and found the courage to start a business.
If you’re ready to stop being a ‘corporate closet dreamer’ or 'retired and restless', this book is for you!
