What’s the thing you’ve been talking about doing, that you still haven’t started?
If you’re honest with yourself, you probably know exactly what it is. And you probably also know the reasons you’ve talked yourself out of it. The timing isn’t right. You’re not sure it’ll work. What if you fail? What if people judge you? What if it’s too late?
Our guest, Amy Goober, is here to call time on all of that.
Amy is an Action Coach, workshop leader, and speaker who has been building businesses, raising a family, and reinventing herself across four decades. She opened her first business, a cake bakery in Boston at 26 with zero business experience and a ponytail. She sold it seven years later to focus on her three children. Decades later, when her kids launched and life shifted, she didn’t shrink her world, she expanded it.
At 60, she launched Drive Your Life™, helping women stop overthinking and start taking action. Today, she runs Better Together Events & Community, leads Wandering Women Travel experiences, and recently co-authored a book with her 93-year-old mother.
She is not slowing down. She is speeding up. And she wants to take you with her.
What You’ll Learn:
- Why mid-life is one of the most powerful times to start something new, and why more women in their fifties and sixties are doing exactly that
- How Amy’s “open the parachute on the way down” philosophy has carried her through every major transition
- The Drive Your Life™ framework: how to figure out what you actually want, eliminate what you don’t, and start taking action without waiting for perfect conditions
- Why toe dipping beats all-or-nothing thinking, and how to test an idea before you commit everything to it
- How to widen your circle when life naturally shrinks it, and why in-person connection matters more than ever
- The accountability structure that actually keeps women moving forward (hint: it’s simpler than you think)
Key Takeaways:
You Don’t Have to Know the Whole Path, Just the Next Square. Amy thinks of life like a game board. You don’t need to see the whole thing. You just need to know where you’re going next. One square at a time gets you further than staying frozen waiting for the full picture.
Toe Dip First. Before you rent the space, invest in the course, or overhaul your life, try a small version first. Talk to someone. Volunteer. Test the idea. You’ll either get excited and keep going, or realise it wasn’t what you wanted. Either outcome is a win.
The Things We Regret Are the Things We Don’t Do. Rarely do people look back and wish they hadn’t tried. Far more often, it’s the things left untried that linger. If it won’t put you out on the street, give it a go.
Stop Talking. Start Doing. If you want to know what you truly want, listen to what you keep talking about but never act on, and ask yourself why. Sometimes it’s fear. Sometimes it’s that you don’t actually want it as much as you thought. Either answer moves you forward.
Women Need to Put Themselves Back on the List. Women are brilliant at supporting, encouraging, and showing up for others. The harder skill, and the more important one, is turning that same energy inward. What do you want? That question deserves an answer.
Confidence Is Built in Layers. You don’t need to feel ready before you start. You go to the coffee shop and say hi to three strangers. You make one phone call. You sign up for the small trip before the big one. Confidence doesn’t arrive before the action, it arrives because of it.
Key Resources:
Connect with Amy and explore everything she offers at amygoober.com
Get her book: As My Mother Always Says: 25 Lessons for Finding the Silver Lining
Join the Legends Club – a weekly accountability membership for women entrepreneurs seeking life balance and clarity. Includes weekly live accountability calls, LifePilot app access, complete LifePilot methodology, Life Canvas Masterclass, Annual Anchors Workshop, and private Circle community.
About Amy Goober:
Amy Goober is an accomplished Action Coach, workshop leader, and inspiring speaker who helps women get into the driver’s seat of their own lives. Her entrepreneurial journey began in 1986 when she founded The Icing on the Cake, a cake bakery in the Boston area, at just 26 years old. After building a thriving business, she sold it to her employees to focus on raising her three children. At 60, she launched Drive Your Life™, empowering women with the tools they need to take action on what matters most to them. Now at 65, she leads Better Together Events and Community, curates travel experiences through Wandering Women Travel, and is the author of As My Mother Always Says: 25 Lessons for Finding the Silver Lining — a memoir and life guide written alongside her remarkable 93-year-old mother.
A little reminder: You don’t have to have it all figured out to get started.
Pick the one thing you’ve been talking about doing and take one small step toward it this week. Not a perfect step. Not a big step. Just one. Because taking action almost always feels better than doing nothing, and the only version of this you’ll regret is the one where you never tried.