Made for More After 50

A room for men who've been knocked down more than once and still aren't done.

I've had to start over more times than I can count.

I ran operations for a steel-hauling company for seven years. A hundred and twenty drivers. We never missed a load. Then the blast furnace blew, production stopped, and the mill went under.

I sold for a food company for five years, until they laid off a hundred and twenty of us in one move. Took the next sales job with a big pay cut and stuck it out two years in a place I never liked. Bounced around a few more after that.

Then I packed up and moved from Michigan to Florida for a fresh start, with not much else.

I started as a waiter. Made bartender in my first season, the first person in that restaurant ever to do it. Server. Lead server. Manager. Then general manager of a brand-new place. I opened it from scratch and ran it for almost four years. We turned it into a Florida Michelin Guide restaurant.

And then I walked away. Burnt out on managing people. Not because I failed. Because I knew myself well enough to know it couldn't go on like that.

Who this is for

The guy who's worked hard his whole life and is stuck anyway. The job market's been rough on him. He's in something that pays the bills but won't give him the life he actually wants. He's trying to figure out what's next.

And he's not about to ask for help. Because he's the one who figures things out. He's the one who never drops the ball.

I know that guy. I was him.

What this is

Made for More After 50 is a Facebook group. Not a course. Not hype. Honest conversation between men who've had real life and real loss, and aren't ready to settle for the smaller story the world is handing them.

Faith is somewhere in the foundation of it, because it's in the foundation of me.

There are two ways in. Pick whichever one feels right.

Join the Facebook group Get the three questions

The group is where the conversation happens. The three questions are where I'd start if you're not ready to talk yet.

The Second Half Starting Point

Before anything changed for me, I had to answer three questions. They're yours if you want them.

What's the real story? Not the resume version. The honest one. What actually happened, what it cost you, what it built in you.
Who would you become on the other side? If you stopped managing the situation and let yourself want something.
What's really been stopping you? Not money. Not time. The real thing underneath those.

Write them down. By hand if you can. It works better that way.

I'm not coaching from a textbook. I'm talking from scars, from late nights, from dealing with tough people, and from having to figure it out when everything fell apart.

That's the difference.

— James Blevins