Help for senior start-ups

Nushin Elahi boosted her coaching business after becoming a qualified pilot and writing a book linking coaching and flying.  Find your wings and fly: Life lessons from the cockpit. She has also recently started a course based on her book and is aimed at women struggling with a sense of becoming invisible and irrelevant as life moves on. She says the flying imagery helps people visualise the journey they are taking.

She says: “I saw many women struggling to tap into a joyful sense of vitality after a lifetime of helping others, feeling invisible and irrelevant. My own journey to becoming a pilot helped me rediscover my own youthful confidence and the adventure of life again. I’ve since helped other women do the same. None of them has yet taken up flying though!”

Previously Nushin had been an arts journalist. Her career switch and new business was aided by doing a course at the Startup School for Seniors.

The School helps people aged 50+ to take any idea and turn it into a business. It’s a fully online, part-time programme that runs for eight weeks and the next round starts on September 19th.

Startup School for Seniors is for people who have always wanted to start a business but have no idea how to start, would welcome meeting others with whom you can share your business idea and receive feedback, who want to build their confidence and improve their chance of success and who want to create an income stream from their hobby, passion or work experience.

Run by social enterprise, Advantages of Age, the course is delivered online by entrepreneur Suzanne Noble [pictured above] and business coach Mark Elliott. They create a fun, interactive learning experience and support participants in progressing week by week. Fully funded places are available to qualified London residents.

Another graduate of the course is Max Wallace who set up his wellbeing business, Health Defence CIC, in March 2020. He told workingwise.co.uk that he found the Start-up School for Seniors “a godsend” and could not praise the organisation’s co-founders enough. “I cannot even put it into words,” he says. “If you are in a dark place you cannot listen or speak. It’s like you are in a box. I couldn’t even speak properly without getting emotional. Suzanne and Mark, along with my wife, family and friends, centred me.”

*Register for the new course at startupschoolforseniors.com

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