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L. Scott Ferguson: [00:00:00] Time To Shine Today podcast varsity squad. It is Scott Ferguson. And I had a super high energy fired up, level up conversation with a good friend, Rani MacInnes introduced to me by the awesome sauce, Marc Mawhinney. My, both of them are Canadians from north of the border. Mark’s a very good friend of mine.

Somebody I respect immensely. And he’s like, you have to talk to my good friend, Rani. And I’m like, okay, if you say so, absolutely. And I’m so glad he put us in touch. She is an amazing. Woman beautiful inside and out. She has a company live a rubble life and she’s a lot There’s a lot of women out there that are dealing with ageism And really just kind of getting stuck and that’s her niche That’s her people like if a woman please in in the mid lifetime Please Share this with them.

Let them hear this interview because she dropped serious knowledge nuggets That might make them want to have like a really free, conversation with I did say free a free initial conversation with my good friend rani so please [00:01:00] like break out your notebooks If you’re a man break out your notebooks to learn how to work with women that are either Metapausal or kind of on their way there or dealing with the women’s challenges because I learned so much And how to like work with my Susan on that.

And also if you’re a woman, like, just please reach out to us. And I would love to make that warm introduction to Rani for you. So without further ado, here’s my really good friend, Rani MacInnes from live a rebel life. Let’s level up.

To shine today. Podcast Varsity Squad. This is Scott Ferguson, and I am super stoked to bring you this awesome conversation with my good friend, Rani MacInnes, and we got introduced by M Squared, Mr. Mark Mawhinney from The Coaching Jungle. Ronnie and I, Randy and I kind of played a little phone tag, or I guess you could say zoom tag or something.

So we actually sat down, we spoke about a month or so ago and we just hit it off, both being coaches both really wanting to lean into people and get them [00:02:00] to lean into their ultimate human potential. But, , Randy is a seasoned entrepreneur, has run several small businesses, including an award winning.

Brick and mortar boutique at liberal rubble life. She works with women in midlife on career transitions, workplace, reentry, pivots, or let’s say shifts or shivots. We can call it shivots and more with humor and heart in Ray. Thank you so, so much for coming on. And I, this is so blessed to actually have you on the mic, rocking it with you.

And please introduce yourself to time to shine today. Podcast RC squad, but first. What’s your favorite color and why

Rani MacInnes: I would say my favorite color is red

L. Scott Ferguson: red. Okay.

Rani MacInnes: Yes, because it’s bold. Yes. And it’s bright colors of flowers when they’re red are stunning. I love that. Yeah,

L. Scott Ferguson: without a doubt, without a doubt.

I love, I like purple because it’s like, I like the blue because I like to be chill, but then there’s a red side of me that kind of [00:03:00] So I’m a tourist,

Rani MacInnes: I’m a tourist, the bowl. So maybe that’s part of it too. The red, I love it.

L. Scott Ferguson: I love it. That’s right. April it’s tourist time. Okay. So let’s get kind of to the roots a little bit, , cause I know that you’re helping ladies in the midlife, , really lean into their ultimate human potential to really grasp on and know that there’s a whole second act.

To go, but like, , I know that you don’t look old enough to be in your second act. Okay, but like, let’s get to the roots like where we started kind of. , kind of coming up to where now that you’re really pouring into people.

Rani MacInnes: So you’re, you’re asking kind of what, what I feel about being in midlife?

No, just give me your story. Come on. Okay. Yeah. So I’ve had many different, like you said, acts in my life. I did an undergrad in anthropology, archaeology and museum studies. I worked 10 years in the non profit. I flew to Asia. I was a teacher in Japan. I had an awesome time with that. I [00:04:00] came back, this will age me, just as this thing called the internet was taking off.

It was like, what the heck is this thing? The internet. So, I went back and I did a master’s degree in digital publishing, which threw me right into the beginning of website development. So I worked for a lot of large digital companies, small to begin with because it was the beginning, but they grew very fast.

Worked with large clients like Nike and Nintendo building big websites. I was a senior producer for CBC, which is a big national radio station here. And then I decided To have kids late in life. I met this guy and I was older that it was like, Oh, let’s try to have kids. So once once we did that everything changed and I no longer wanted to work like I used to work.

But I still wanted to use my head. So that’s when it kind of like threw me into sort of the entrepreneurial world where I started creating companies. Yeah,

L. Scott Ferguson: and you had a brick and mortar company as well.

Rani MacInnes: I did. Yeah, so I started [00:05:00] off with like the first company I did was a dog services company. I mean, I can’t reach really be a dog trainer.

Yeah. So I was a dog trainer and I incorporated my company between two provinces. I had vans and employees and all this kind of cool stuff. Wow. Yeah. So that’s a whole story onto itself. And then I kind of went into flowers. I wanted to be a florist. So, , yeah, I always wanted to play with flowers.

There comes the red again. So I retrained myself as a florist. And I opened up a brick and mortar flower shop, which I ran for about five or six years. And yeah, shot that out of the park was awesome. And I closed that down just before COVID, which was great timing because the price of flowers just went.

Skyrocket in the room. Yeah.

L. Scott Ferguson: Yeah. Yeah. Coaching. How did we kind of move into that arena then? Because obviously all this travel experiences really kind of got you ready. Because, , me being a real estate broker and investor for so long, it’s like, if I was showing you and your hubby a house, it’s like, not only am I [00:06:00] But I’m a marriage counselor.

I’m sometimes a babysitter with her kids. So it parlayed into coaching. Right. Perfectly. Right. My coach is like, you’re ready to coach. I’m like, what are you talking about? What’s a coach? She’s like, I’ve been doing for you since 1999 and I still have her. Right. So. What was it that really had you lean into the coaching world which thank gosh you did that because you’re great.

Thank

Rani MacInnes: you.

L. Scott Ferguson: Awesome

Rani MacInnes: I think because for my whole life, I think that’s just been a natural part of who I am actually I think that i’ve always coached people I was always that go to person that people would come to to ask me questions as a matter of fact When I had my flower shop, you remember the old show called cheers?

Do you remember that show cheers? Yeah, okay. So and everybody yeah, everybody would sit at the bar You Yeah. So that’s what my flower shop became. It became kind of like a mini coaching place. People would just come in and shoot the right. They would just come and sit with me and talk. And so I’ve, I think it’s a natural kind of progression that I’ve always done it.

So [00:07:00] after I closed my flower shop, I went and started taking some courses to become a coach because I needed a little bit more background in that. And then COVID hit. And so that kind of put the kibosh on things. And I actually segued from the beginning of my coaching kind of education into working at a hospice.

So I actually went and worked at a hospice for two years as I’ve got all sorts of different things here. So I worked for a hospice, learned lots about death, dying, grieving, and bereavement. And then I just came and concurrently as I was doing that, I was coaching still.

L. Scott Ferguson: So

Rani MacInnes: I still have live a rebel life and I was doing that, but it was a little bit off the side.

And then in the fall of last year, I left the hospice and started this full time. So I’ve been full on since then.

L. Scott Ferguson: Got it. And what does live a rebel life mean?

Rani MacInnes: Live a rebel life means, , You just got to live large. You’ve got to not sit down and play by the rules. ,

L. Scott Ferguson: you

Rani MacInnes: can create what you want to create.

You do not have to sit in a little box and, [00:08:00] and play by the rules. Yeah. Yeah. So what do you

L. Scott Ferguson: think then makes a great coach?

Rani MacInnes: Listening.

L. Scott Ferguson: Okay.

Rani MacInnes: Right. Listening. Hearts. I, I say experience and yet that doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with age. I think it’s life experience. Right. So I don’t want to say experiences in, well, you have to be a certain age to be a coach,

L. Scott Ferguson: but I

Rani MacInnes: do think that if you have a variety of different experiences in your life, I think that you can bring that to the table.

Yeah. But the biggest, I think is heart and listening.

L. Scott Ferguson: Right. Great

Rani MacInnes: question.

L. Scott Ferguson: Age right our ages. It’s like we’re kind of like the silverbacks, right? It’s like we’re not young right where we’re like In in but we’re not old, right? We’re like, okay, but we’re just kind of there which I get approached a lot I mean granted i’m blessed to coach who I coach but it’s like people will still come up because I are both great listeners, I gotta ask you are you [00:09:00] A coach or a consultant or a coach sultan or which which way do you lean more coach?

Okay. Yeah. Yeah full on coach Yeah, gotcha. Yeah, and so yeah, what is your belief then in in coaching versus Trying to give advice like what is your kind of formula for that?

Rani MacInnes: Yeah, it’s really tricky, working with women in midlife I find that often As I’m coaching and I’m listening and I’m asking questions and trying to dig in often, they want advice.

They want to hear what I want to say to them. And I, I, , probably have to be pushed quite a bit to actually start offering my advice because that’s my story. Right? That’s that has to do with me. That does not have to do with the other person. What I have to say is just for me. So I have to ask them the right questions and nurture that so that they can figure out their own answers advice advices.

Yeah, it’s

L. Scott Ferguson: a slippery slope. Yeah, that’s the thing with my [00:10:00] clients like for what should I do when I first start working with them? I’m like, listen, everyone knows what they want. They just don’t know how to talk themselves into it. Right. So, and every, and to live a life of options and not obligations.

It’s like, there’s certain things that you’ve got to answer for yourself. Right. And it’s in like, what I’ll do sometimes, Renny is I’ll, if I’m blessed to coach somebody here in Palm beach, , I sit in their car with them. Why do I want to see how they keep their car? Cause you can really kind of see how they live their life, their car.

Right. Yeah. But secondly, , I put them in the driver’s seat and I’m like, listen, this. Rearview mirror here. It’s small for a reason. That’s your, that’s your past. That’s where things have happened. That’s where therapy happens. Like I’m not a therapist. This big windshield is here and it can be big and scary, but ever since 2011 or so, they’ve been putting this thing on the console called a GPS.

That’s what I am. It’s like, I can’t buckle your seatbelt if you choose to start the car and drive you anywhere. But if you get stuck. , you plug it in and we can work together to get there. Right. [00:11:00] I can’t do the work. So I love that you do your coaching because I’ve, I’ve tried to give advice before and they’ll come back and be like, Fergie, that was stupid.

Why don’t you tell me to do that? Do it. If they’re going to see it through. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

Rani MacInnes: Yeah. Well, I’ve had, I’ve had clients who’ve actually said to me, could you just tell me what I need to do? Can you just tell me, please respond to that. Rani. Well, I take a deep breath. Usually I have a little bit of a laugh.

And I say, , I could I could tell you, but I’m not going to, because this is your journey. This is your life, right? So let’s, let’s work on that. And, and 10 times out of 10, they go, right.

L. Scott Ferguson: It’s your story, right? Yeah.

Rani MacInnes: It’s your story. Yeah. Yeah.

L. Scott Ferguson: You said it a little bit earlier in our conversation. It’s like, you’re trying to tell someone else’s story.

It’s like, and then does it become authentic? I love it. Yeah. So if you’re in a. Discovery conversation. Make sure you’re the right horse for the course, the right coach. [00:12:00] Yeah. Right. What do you have is kind of a little secret sauce. If you don’t mind sharing to make me help them initialize, , kind of like identify that initial blind spot.

Rani MacInnes: You mean if they’re a coachable for me, if

L. Scott Ferguson: they’re coming to you to make sure you’re the right pit fit, but like, maybe you’re just kind of asking those questions. Is there something that you use? It’s maybe unique or something that helped them find that blind spot that they’re, that they’re sitting on.

Rani MacInnes: Hmm. I think a big part of it is spending a little bit of time talking to them to see if they’re open for change.

L. Scott Ferguson: Okay.

Rani MacInnes: Because, because if they’re not, if they’re not open, if they’re, if they’re truly, I mean, and being stuck is, is, is beautiful thing because it’s an opportunity. But I think that if they’re not open and they’re, if they’re rigid and they’re not interested in kind of exploring something else, I have a little bit of a.

Of a, of alarm that kind of goes off. I’m thinking, okay, are they going to be able to move forward? Are they able to do that? So not that I would not work with that person necessarily. It just might be a longer burn.

L. Scott Ferguson: Right. Love it. So [00:13:00] maybe you’re in this discovery conversation still. Is there any good question that you wish they would ask you, but never do?

Rani MacInnes: I have never had a client ask me why I want to coach.

L. Scott Ferguson: Right.

Rani MacInnes: Right. I’ve never had anybody ask that. They just, I think it’s because, , there’s this whole thing, Oh, , you have a website, you’re a professional, you have these certifications, you’re a coach, but they never asked me that. And I think that that’s a really important question because it, it talks to the, it speaks to the heart of the matter as to why I want to connect with them.

So I would love it if somebody asked me that question. So why do you want to coach? Because I want, well, I want to coach women in midlife because I’m a woman in midlife and I want to coach women in midlife to help them kick butt. I want them to get out of the spiral that they’re in, find the clarity, find the freedom to really move forward.

We’re living longer. , [00:14:00] we’re living like, I’ve got another 40 or 50 years I’m telling you that right now. Right. Yeah. God willing, . Absolutely. Right. Yeah, absolutely. So, , how, how can I, I mean, it’s, it’s just, it’s so thrilling to see women come kind of like full circle and figure out what no longer works for them, that they can ditch that in the past, right.

And then move powerfully forward. It’s, it’s a

L. Scott Ferguson: beautiful thing. Breathtaking. What’s, what’s the number one challenge? Like if you had to tally everything up right, that you see women. And we’ll just say 38 to 65 or whatever. Okay. , but like, what do you see their biggest challenges is if you had to say, put a marble in each jar for different challenges, which jar is the fullest, which challenge are you seeing the most?

Rani MacInnes: Okay, so 38’s a little bit different. 38 to 40s is a little bit different. But if you go a little bit past that into the sweet spot where I’m in I’d say ageism is the biggest thing. , women really bump up against this thing called ageism and , I, And it stops you cold, it stops you, like it’s one of those things where you [00:15:00] just, , you think to yourself, wait a minute, I, and you keep going along, this is what I find is that this is what I found with myself in particular too, is that you keep going on with life and you’re excited and you want to keep contributing and you want to keep doing these things.

And then suddenly you’re not getting the callbacks for interviews, suddenly you’re, or even if you get the interview, people are like, how old are you? Kind of thing. Right. And That ageism is just a real block. And it’s like, wait a minute. I don’t identify with my number. I am not that number. I am me. I have all this education.

I have all of this experience. I have all of this that I can offer this company. Why are they, why are they not calling me back? Why don’t they want to. Right. And so that is one thing that happens. I would say to the majority of women that I’ve worked with that come to me is ageism is a, is a huge thing.

L. Scott Ferguson: With that being said, are you seeing a lot of the people you coach and Rani kind of like maybe help guide them to setting up their own businesses? Are you seeing a little bit of that?

Rani MacInnes: Yeah. Yeah. Because that’s one thing that a [00:16:00] lot of women in midlife do do. They’re not ready to kind of like, but , close the door and say, I’m opting out just because companies don’t want me anymore.

L. Scott Ferguson: They’re

Rani MacInnes: like, no, I want to live the way that I want to live and I’m going to push forward. And so some women, not all women, but some women want to explore entrepreneurial ventures. And they want to create their own thing. And a lot of, a lot of women will start looking towards that, especially If they’re mid to late fifties into their sixties, that’s just an amazing time.

A lot of women do become entrepreneurs at that time.

L. Scott Ferguson: Are you finding even like a plethora, it’s my new word, of women that are married still coming to you or a lot of more of you are single?

Rani MacInnes: No, it’s, it’s hard. A lot of them are coming from messy separations, terrible divorces. Yeah. Like that’s, that seems to be happening in midlife and you get women in midlife who are in this sandwich.

So I’m a sandwich. Woman, I’m a sandwich woman. I have teenagers, so [00:17:00] I’ve got two teenagers and I’ve got a mom who’s 90. So, and there’s a lot of women, right. That are in this place. So a mother that’s 90 and teenagers, they, and I’m married, there’s a lot of stuff going on there. Plus I’ve gone through menopause.

So then you’ve got like perimenopause, menopause, you’ve got all these different things, biological things that are happening, it’s an intense, intense time

L. Scott Ferguson: for women. Yes. And a lot of people. Yeah, and a lot of people

Rani MacInnes: don’t, yeah, and a lot of people don’t talk about it. So actually one of the books that I was going to recommend for men, because I think that men really could do a lot more sort of well, actually, I think that as a, as a society and a culture, we should be teaching, this is my personal opinion, but I think we should be teaching.

About perimenopause and menopause to children in elementary school. I think we should start right from the beginning when we start talking about sex education. That’s extremely important, but so is the change of life. Sure. Because, because young girls get to this age, get to that age and they’re like, why am I getting hot flashes?

Why am I feeling this [00:18:00] way? What the heck is going on? Because nobody’s talked about it. Right. ,

And I think that there’s

L. Scott Ferguson: a huge.

Rani MacInnes: Okay, second, I’ve got I’ve got two of them. So there’s one called the man’s guide to menopause, everything you need to know, but we’re afraid to ask. And that’s written by Nikki Woods.

So it’s, it’s a really good a lot of people look at it as kind of like a trusted companion for men to sort of help themselves. And the other one is called men. Let’s talk about menopause, what’s going on and what you can do about it. And that’s written by Ruth Devlin. And it’s, it’s kind of more sort of funny.

It’s sort of more on the kind of the lighter side. Yeah. Very cool.

L. Scott Ferguson: No, I appreciate you sharing them. And because, , being 52, a lot of my friends, , some of the discussions we have is like waking up in a pool of sweat next to your wife, , I mean, it’s like, , like, well, it’s me, I’m don’t care.

I mean, I think it’s kind of hot, but , what I’m saying? Literally it’s hot. Metaphorically and literally. Yeah. So Randy, where does your [00:19:00] confidence come from? Because you are a very confident woman, okay, which is awesome, but you’re not cocky confident. Like, there’s not this, like, imposter syndrome shit that’s out there that’s behind your voice, behind your mannerisms.

It’s impressive. Like, where does that come from?

Rani MacInnes: You know, I don’t know. I’ve never been asked that question before. I don’t know. I, I, I sometimes, I sometimes just think that it’s just who I am. It’s who I was born. I’ve never been really anything else but that. Possibly, , a part of it might be my dad, my dad passed away 10 years ago, but my dad was always my biggest fan and he always said , Rani, you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it, anything, anything you want, don’t ever give up on your dreams and try it.

And so I think that was from a very young age, , he would always say that to me, do anything you want. And so I always believed that. And so it never stopped me. I’ve, , I’ve, I’ve, I’ve always. Done whatever I wanted. If I wanted to start a flower shop, I [00:20:00] started a flower shop. If I wanted to do the, whatever, I just did it, ,

L. Scott Ferguson: and

Rani MacInnes: and it’s about putting also risk in its place.

So from an entrepreneurial perspective I think that maybe for women, because women can be a little bit, not all women, but some women can be more risk sort of adverse. I think that there’s way to start up entrepreneurial ventures with little risk. Sure. You can actually do it without without it.

And I did that with my flower shop. So yeah, anyways. Yeah. So I don’t know the confidence thing. I have to mull that over a little bit more. It just

L. Scott Ferguson: seems natural, , because again, in, in my work and the women, some of the women that I work with, even, , it’s all a facade. It’s like, can I know it?

And as being their coach, I just asked. Three questions that I always have and I know that it’s it’s a facade. I can get right down to it But like with you it’s just saying it just seems that it comes across. There’s a great trade for coaching People are like they’ll lean into that be like, okay. No, she is actually authentic She’s not just out [00:21:00] here preaching which is which is great.

So ronnie, have you seen the movie back to the future? Yes, many times. Right. So let’s go back. Let’s get that DeLorean with Marty McFly. Let’s go back to the double deuce, the 22 year old Rani. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. What kind of knowledge nuggets would you drop on her? Not so much to change anything, but to maybe help her shorten a learning curve, blast through or level up maybe just a little bit quicker.

Rani MacInnes: Wow, 22 year old me I was graduating from the University of British Columbia and I got a grant to go run a placer gold mining museum in Wells, B. C., which had a population of 90 people. So it was a fascinating summer of living with , tree planters in a house called the tomato house that was had no electricity and no plumbing.

So what I would say to 22 year old me is, yeah, just keep doing what you’re doing, just keep doing what you’re doing because you are doing something that the majority of people that would never have done. They would never have moved [00:22:00] to a community of 90 people to run a. Dirty gold mining museum in the middle of nowhere.

Yeah. So that’s, that’s what I would say is just keep doing what you’re doing. That’s beautiful.

L. Scott Ferguson: You can’t get much better than that. It’s very neutral. , it’s not like, Oh, let’s look in the past and say this sucks and didn’t work. Or, and it’s not like. Oh my gosh, I gotta go after this. It’s like, be present, do your thing, and watch things unfold.

That’s beautiful. So, how does Randy want her dash remembered? , that little line in between your incarnation date and your expiration date. Hopefully it’s way down the line, your life date and death date, but how does Randy want her dash remembered?

Rani MacInnes: So how do people, how do I want people to think of me?

L. Scott Ferguson: Well, do you want to be remembered by people?

Rani MacInnes: Well, the, the flip, the flippant comment would be the birthmark.

L. Scott Ferguson: Okay.

Rani MacInnes: But yeah, because that’s been something that’s identified with me my whole life. Everybody’s always said that. But I think just happy sunshine. I don’t know, just, she lived life. She lived life to the fullest.

L. Scott Ferguson: Knowing you the little [00:23:00] as I have and blessed to get to know you, but it’s like, you just seem like someone that’s kind of like has some bumps and brews, but slid across home plate anyways, you still made the journey. You still got it done. You took risks, , and that’s what people see in that, that you really pour into people.

So that’s just my two cents on it. And if that means anything, but it’s my two cents. Right. So thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah. So what do you think people misunderstand the most about Ron Rani?

Rani MacInnes: Well, I think people, so I think that there’s a face that we show the world and then there’s a face that we don’t show the world.

So the face that I show the world is the happy face. Outgoing. Sure. Bubbly. That kind of face, like easygoing, right? The face that I don’t necessarily show the world is my more kind of I, I don’t know. I don’t know what, I don’t know what you’d call it, but like, I like astrophysics. I’m a nerd, pure nerd. [00:24:00] I like science.

I like, right? Like, and there’s like a whole bunch of, I know lots of. Stuff, stuff that I don’t talk about. Right. And I’m just quiet about that kind of stuff. That’s cool. I love, I’m a voracious reader, so like, I have like like a massive library that I read, I’m reading all the time and that stuff. I don’t, I don’t really talk about that.

Okay. And then unless, unless somebody starts asking me questions about something

L. Scott Ferguson: right? Then

Rani MacInnes: I might kind of bring it up. But yeah, and I’ve had lots of crazy stories that I don’t really talk about either. Like, I read books to killer whales once. I’ve worked at the Vancouver Aquarium. Like, I’ve got, , I had a snake and whatchamacallit, a boa constrictor as a pet.

I’ve had a tarantula climb up. There’s things that about me that I just, I don’t know. I just don’t talk about because I

L. Scott Ferguson: don’t know why. Are you an introvert that people think is an extrovert?

Rani MacInnes: Ah, yes, I am.

L. Scott Ferguson: Me too. What do they, that’s why, what do they

Rani MacInnes: call that? Yeah, the Omni Omni Vert. Is that what it’s called?

Yeah. So I just Omni vert. I, yeah, I

L. Scott Ferguson: mean, ’cause people see me and they’re like, oh, Fergie, right? Because I’m [00:25:00] on stage, I’m super high energy. I start every speech with a trampoline on stage. I’m like that guy, right? . But I also will go and, well, there’s a, there’s a little hack to that, so. If you see, , those little round trampolines.

So I’m the rebounder, a big rebounding. Cause , so I tell them like the whole two minutes that I’m out there first two minutes, I’m on the rebounder and I’m talking about the benefits. We love it. Right. And it cleans out your lymph system and blah, blah, blah. And then, but if you’re, if you’re in the audience and I’m on a rebounder, what are you doing with your head?

Unconsciously. So you’re already affirming everything I’m going to talk about when I’m speaking. So one I get the jitters out, right, but I’m also everybody’s ready to affirm that ready to get after with me. But afterwards, , I’ll do the obligatory shake hands, maybe go to the bar in the hotel, have a drink, but I go back to my room.

And I’ll get it. I got always have five books going at a time. And they all have different parts of my head. Mindset in life. Yeah,

Rani MacInnes: me too. I always

L. Scott Ferguson: have more than one book on the go [00:26:00] always They they will think man for a year next i’m like no not dude I’ll be the goat dude at starbucks sitting by myself with my kindle in front of me Just just pouring into myself and I enjoy it.

I’ve been to fine dining. I’ll go to capital grill and say Atlanta, if I’m speaking there by myself and I don’t care, it’s just, I love

Rani MacInnes: being by myself. You are my

L. Scott Ferguson: sister from another mister, man. You know what I’m saying?

Rani MacInnes: I love being alone. I, The only way that I can recharge is being alone. And, , I’m lucky to have a husband of my partner who totally gets that about me.

He’s, he’s very different than me, but he totally supports that about me. He knows like I will. Yeah, he gets it. I’m like, actually, we have a place in Washington and I said to him this morning, just before we got on here, I said, Hey, I’ve I got to go for a week. I got to go by myself. I’ll take her dog and I’m going to our place.

It’s called Black Mountain Ranch. I said, I’m going to go down there and I go down there for a week, two weeks, , and I’m by myself. I read, I write, I work. I do take my calls. I have my dog. I hike, [00:27:00] swim, whatever. But yeah, I can’t, I have to, in order to do this.

L. Scott Ferguson: Yeah,

Rani MacInnes: I need to recharge. Me too. And I need to be alone.

Alone in the silence. Yes. Alone. Yeah. I love it alone. I don’t like people around me then.

L. Scott Ferguson: Yeah. So Randy, what is your definition of a life? Well lived

Rani MacInnes: a life well lived is a life of no regrets. I don’t have any regrets. I know that sounds, maybe that sounds cliche. I’m not really sure, but I don’t, I don’t have, I don’t have any regrets.

Like I’ve, I’ve tried the stuff that I wanted to try. And, and and if I have that feeling in my gut, that if I want to try something in my gut goes like intuition, right. That’s something that we probably need to tap into more. But if my gut goes, Hey, New

L. Scott Ferguson: slow you goal. Yeah. Then I’m like,

Rani MacInnes: yeah, yeah. I’m like, okay.

I don’t, I don’t need to do that. I don’t need to cliff dive anymore. Right. I used to cliff dive. Nice. I don’t need to cliff dive anymore. Yeah. My kids are going bungee jumping. It’s like, dad, do I need to bungee jump anymore? Nah, I don’t think so. No. Probably not. probably not.

L. Scott Ferguson: I love it. I love it. [00:28:00] Time to shine today, podcast, varsity squad. We are back in Randy. We will, we will meet up one time, , if I’m ever in Vancouver, you’re ever stateside, whatnot, and go over some of these questions, , 15 minutes on each one of them, but today you have five seconds with no explanations.

And I promise you they can all be answered that way. You ready to level up? Oh, shoot. Okay. Yeah, let’s go. All right, here we go. Ready. What is the best leveling up advice you’ve ever received?

Rani MacInnes: Best leveling up advice that I received was from my dad, which is what you had mentioned before, which is you can do anything you put your mind to just go for it.

L. Scott Ferguson: Love it. Other say share one of your personal habits that contributes your success.

Rani MacInnes: I would say that at the end of every day, I make a list of the top one to three items that I need to complete the next day. So I have like scrap pieces of paper. I write the top three things down. I’m like totally old school or a post it note.

And then the next morning when I come into my desk, I nail those things off. Yeah. I get those [00:29:00] three things done and then I will create another list. And at the end of the day, I’ll put it together. Yeah.

L. Scott Ferguson: Five seconds, right? Let’s keep them short. Ready? Sorry, Matt. Okay, you see me walk down the street or you see me in the networking event there, Like Fergie looks like he’s in doldrums a little bit.

What book really helps with your mindset?

Rani MacInnes: Jen Sincero’s be a badass

L. Scott Ferguson: I just spoke with her a couple weeks ago Oh my god, i’d

Rani MacInnes: love to meet her So

L. Scott Ferguson: your most commonly used emoji when you text?

Rani MacInnes: Oh, it’s so that’s so cheesy the heart or the

L. Scott Ferguson: son I

Rani MacInnes: have a I have a birthmark on my face. So it was john boy walton or the guinea pig

L. Scott Ferguson: Oh my gosh, because my last

Rani MacInnes: name’s mckinnis.

Yeah.

L. Scott Ferguson: Yeah. Love it any hidden talent or and or superpowers that you have that nobody really knows about well until now You

Rani MacInnes: I’m a highly sensitive, intuitive person. Probably. I would, I’ve never really said this out loud, but probably a little bit like on an empath side. Yeah. Very cool. [00:30:00] Helps with the coach.

I would probably

L. Scott Ferguson: say, yeah. Chest checkers or Monopoly?

Rani MacInnes: Monopoly.

L. Scott Ferguson: Me too. Awesome. Headline for your life?

Rani MacInnes: Live in the sunshine.

L. Scott Ferguson: That’s awesome. Any superstitions?

Rani MacInnes: No,

L. Scott Ferguson: me neither. Me neither. Go to ice cream flavor.

Licorice. Love it. Not really, but I love it. I know, I know. Nobody, but

Rani MacInnes: you can’t find it anymore. It’s so hard. They just have to, to get

L. Scott Ferguson: some eat. You just have to go get some sambuca and just chill it and then . True.

Rani MacInnes: True. And you have to eat it. You have to eat it alone because your whole mouth gets black in your tongue and stuff.

It’s so gross. You have to be in the room in the dark eating it. .

L. Scott Ferguson: I love it. I love it. There’s a sandwich called the John Boy Walton mc Guinea pig. Build that sandwich for me. What’s on it?

Rani MacInnes: Okay. It’s got. NO MAYONNAISE.

L. Scott Ferguson: But it’s got,

Rani MacInnes: but it’s got, I hate mayonnaise. It’s just disgusting. It’s [00:31:00] got a, I would have to say it’s like organic, crunchy peanut, okay.

Butter, salted butter, organic, crunchy peanut butter and bananas.

L. Scott Ferguson: Oh, beautiful. Yeah. We’re besties for the rest of you for sure. So you got a time machine and you could go 20 years into the future or any time in your past for just one day and come back to present day. Past or present or past past.

Rani MacInnes: I have a past day that I’d love to go back to.

L. Scott Ferguson: Me too. There’s a kegger in like 1989. Yeah.

Rani MacInnes: I can’t talk

L. Scott Ferguson: about

Rani MacInnes: those

L. Scott Ferguson: favorite charity and organization like to give your time or money to

Rani MacInnes: anything related to animal rescue.

L. Scott Ferguson: Beautiful. Thank you for saying that last question. We can elaborate on this one a little bit, but what is the best decade in music?

60s, 70s, 80s or 90s.

Rani MacInnes: I love the 70s. Me

L. Scott Ferguson: too. I love disco 70s. Well, this goes on, but there’s lyrics and storytelling and as coaches, we get into that a lot, [00:32:00] right? And it’s like, , I’m

Rani MacInnes: all about the lyrics. Oh, my God. I can’t believe you said that because Ron. My partner, he’s not a lyrics guy. So, I mean, I like the melody and the lyrics, but it’s like the lyrics, it’s the story.

And I just, I just get lost. Like, I can just

L. Scott Ferguson: listen to Croce all day. Just the story. Yeah. I mean, it’s, , even go north of board to Gordon Lightfoot. What I’m saying? It’s like, yeah, it’s like legit. So how can we find you, my friend?

Rani MacInnes: You can find me in a bunch of different places. So my website which is live a rebel life.

com. You can find me on LinkedIn. That’s an awesome

L. Scott Ferguson: URL by the way.

Rani MacInnes: Live a rebel life. com.

L. Scott Ferguson: Yes. Yeah. That is awesome. Like legit. It was just there. Wow.

Rani MacInnes: Yeah, it was just there. I mean, I bought it back in 2017 or something like that. So that’s pretty awesome, Rani. That’s pretty awesome. You can find me, it’s a liberal life.

You can find me on LinkedIn. You can find me on Facebook, which is just Randy MacInnes. [00:33:00] Instagram it’s liver rebel life underscore. I can send you all these things. I’ll be in the

L. Scott Ferguson: show notes left. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Rani MacInnes: Yeah. Yeah. So those are the things.

L. Scott Ferguson: Yeah. So tell us a little bit about like you do have a 12 week rebel transformation program.

Correct?

Rani MacInnes: I do. Yes, I do. Yeah. So yeah, so that’s the rebel transformation program is so I work with women in midlife on everything career and life. Okay, so you can’t really separate the two because they kind of go together.

L. Scott Ferguson: Okay,

Rani MacInnes: so the rebel transformation is a little bit more tactical in that it is more career based.

So this is about, it’s a career program. It’s like strip, it’s starting right from the beginning. What are you, where’s your energy at? What’s your energy vampires and then moving straight through into a whole bunch of different things. Like, what are your personal values? What are your career values?

, that kind of stuff until we get to more of a, a tactical place of setting goals and doing all of that kind of stuff with a plan in between. Of course, we talk and address about things like your things that you’re stuck [00:34:00] on your clarity, the things that are muddying you up that maybe you don’t know that you want to actually change your job, or you’re fearful about changing your job.

So all of that stuff is in between. So that’s the 12 week program.

L. Scott Ferguson: Is it, is that a one on one? Because I know you also have a group coach program as well. Is the, is the Rebel, there’s a transformation one on one left?

Rani MacInnes: It is. Yep. It’s one on one. I love one on one. Yeah, you’re

L. Scott Ferguson: rolling out of a group program coming up, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. What’s going on?

Rani MacInnes: Yep. So the group the group program will come out in the fall. I’m also working on a digital course that I’ll also launch in the fall and a podcast. So I want to start a podcast.

L. Scott Ferguson: So what’s the name? Is it going to be live a rebel life?

Rani MacInnes: Probably, yeah, but I, I’m still trying to figure it out because I, I really want to bring in that element of, so it’s not going to be just about women and career, it’s going to be about women, and it’s going to be also about educating everybody about women and midlife go through.

So, and it’s, it’s going to be about everything. It’s going to be about [00:35:00] sex. It’s going to be about. Rock and rolls, whatever you want to talk about, man.

L. Scott Ferguson: I can make no promises, but I’ll work with seeing what I can do for Sincero to come on there. So it’s not like she’s a buddy of mine, but like we’ve spoken a couple of times where you’re just in Doral, Florida, a couple of weeks ago and, , hung out and , whatnot and stuff like that. But she is the most down to earth, chill chick.

Rani MacInnes: Oh my god, her book her book like seriously, I I don’t know if you see this I don’t usually dog your books. No, but i’ve doggered her book and i’ve given this away to so many people Yeah, so many dudes

L. Scott Ferguson: man You know what i’m saying? It’s like great She cracks

Rani MacInnes: me up, like the stories. She doesn’t bash things.

No, no. A guy

L. Scott Ferguson: can use it, and since there was just a badass, like legit badass. So give me one last solid Miss Rani and leave us with one last knowledge nugget we can take with us, internalize, and take action on.

Rani MacInnes: Hmm. I would say that if you [00:36:00] are a woman in midlife, you just know that you are actually at the best juncture of your life and to jump in with both feet.

And if you’re a man listening to this and you’re in midlife, I’d say, , do whatever you can do to support every woman that , in your life, like whether that’s your sister, your aunt, your mom, like whoever it may and learn, learn about what what. Issues and midlife stuff. Women

L. Scott Ferguson: have support those women.

I love it. And Scott, we just had a super fun conversation with my really good friend, Rennie that, , she went through different acts of life, lots of travel, lots of experiences. She’s always on the go person. But like me, it also has like the introvert side to her. We rejuvenate when we’re alone. , she wants you to like, kind of really live large, break the rules and not sit in a little box.

And with her, a great coach, she’s a coach that listens. See, she listens not only with her ears, but I can just see her listening with her eyes, like what I call lean listening with your neck, like really leaning [00:37:00] into who she’s talking to and just being there in that moment for the person. , When she starts, if you’re going to start working with a coach, if it’s not Rani, , ask the coach why they became a coach, like get their story.

Okay. And if you’re a woman out there with ageism and you’re dealing with that, please, please, please let me make a warm introduction. I’m a good friend. Randy. She’ll get you on the right track. She will help you. Tell your story to the world and lean into your ultimate potential. , if you’re men out there, like pick up the man’s guide to menopause and men, let’s talk about menopause because I literally what she’s talking about it.

I ordered them on, on Amazon. Cause there’s something I need to read, right? Susan, I just want to be out there with that. Like, , Rennie is somebody that is not someone that’s. Cocky, she’s very confident within herself and it really pours into the women which she coaches I mean randy’s out there planting trees She’s never going to sit in the shade of because she does things for the intention not the attention She’s not out there.

Look at me. Look at me She’s out there [00:38:00] doing the work and really point into the woman And again, if you’re a woman in your midlife know that you’re at the best juncture of your life Period. And if you’re a man out there, please support these women. Again, give of your time, give her your resources, give her your energy, help them.

We’re all in this together. And my good friend, Rani, she’s a go to person for those ladies in that midlife. And Rani, thank you so much. You level up your health. You level up your wealth. You’re absolutely stunning. Awesome energy. You’ve earned your varsity letter here at Time to Shine today. Thank you so much for coming on, love.

Rani MacInnes: Thank you. Awesome.

L. Scott Ferguson: Chat soon. All 

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