The Long Game Castos https://the-long-game.castos.com Amy Calvert and Lisa Hardin spent more than 25 years building careers, leading teams, growing businesses and navigating change without ever actually meeting. When they finally did, they discovered they had a lot to talk about. The Long Game is about careers, leadership and reinvention, but it’s also about everything that happens along the way. Aging. Relationships. Family. Success. Failure. And the things women experience but don’t always talk about. With decades of experience behind them and plenty they’re still figuring out, Amy and Lisa bring two different perspectives to conversations about what they’ve learned, what nobody told them, what’s changed and what really matters now. Some conversations are serious. Some are funny. And some go places they never expected. Because the career is only part of the story. Life is the long game. Balance today. Prepare for tomorrow. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:52:27 +0000 en © 2026 https://episodes.castos.com/6abd8cbf54f7f8-90841679/images/The-long-game-graphic.PNG The Long Game https://the-long-game.castos.com Amy Calvert and Lisa Hardin spent more than 25 years building careers, leading teams, growing businesses and navigating change without ever actually meeting. When they finally did, they discovered they had a lot to talk about. The Long Game is about careers, leadership and reinvention, but it’s also about everything that happens along the way. Aging. Relationships. Family. Success. Failure. And the things women experience but don’t always talk about. With decades of experience behind them and plenty they’re still figuring out, Amy and Lisa bring two different perspectives to conversations about what they’ve learned, what nobody told them, what’s changed and what really matters now. Some conversations are serious. Some are funny. And some go places they never expected. Because the career is only part of the story. Life is the long game. Balance today. Prepare for tomorrow. The Long Game episodic Amy Calvert and Lisa Hardin spent more than 25 years building careers, leading teams, growing businesses and navigating change without ever actually meeting. When they finally did, they discovered they had a lot to talk about. The Long Game is about careers, leadership and reinvention, but it’s also about everything that happens along the way. Aging. Relationships. Family. Success. Failure. And the things women experience but don’t always talk about. With decades of experience behind them and plenty they’re still figuring out, Amy and Lisa bring two different perspectives to conversations about what they’ve learned, what nobody told them, what’s changed and what really matters now. Some conversations are serious. Some are funny. And some go places they never expected. Because the career is only part of the story. Life is the long game. Balance today. Prepare for tomorrow. The Long Game info@e2worldwide.com false https://feeds.castos.com/dxxwm yes <![CDATA[How did we not meet for 25 years!]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:52:27 +0000 The Long Game https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/72489/episode/2638806 https://the-long-game.castos.com/episodes/how-did-we-not-meet-for-25-years How do two women spend more than 25 years working in the same city, knowing many of the same people, crossing the same circles, working for the same place and somehow never meet?

That’s pretty much our story.  In our first episode of The Long Game, we talk about how a client sponsorship finally brought us together, how we reconnected afterward because we genuinely wanted to keep hanging out, and how quickly we realized just how much our lives and careers had been running parallel all these years.
And maybe the biggest surprise was the friendship itself. At this point in life, you don’t necessarily expect to meet someone new and have it click almost immediately. But it did.

We talk about that, the strange connections we keep uncovering from the past 25 years, and why we’re having so much fun figuring out where this goes.

Turns out, sometimes the right people show up a little later than expected

Chapters

  • (00:00:06) - Introducing the Long Game podcast
  • (00:00:51) - Two parallel careers that never crossed
  • (00:02:34) - How they first knew of each other
  • (00:04:17) - Redefining careers in a new season of life
  • (00:06:09) - The first meeting and instant connection
  • (00:09:07) - Building a fast friendship
  • (00:13:11) - Digital footprints and dating red flags
  • (00:16:11) - Believing in God's timing and life's seasons
  • (00:17:24) - Love stories and how they met their partners
  • (00:18:20) - The Amsterdam adventure story
  • (00:21:07) - Why now? Redefining careers in their 50s
  • (00:22:34) - Getting eliminated and finding purpose
  • (00:23:45) - Confidence, aging, and gratitude after cancer
  • (00:26:09) - The power of a female tribe
  • (00:29:38) - Celebrating Tulsa's powerful women
  • (00:31:14) - Wrapping up and looking ahead
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That’s pretty much our story.  In our first episode of The Long Game, we talk about how a client sponsorship finally brought us together, how we reconnected afterward because we genuinely wanted to keep hanging out, and how quickly we realized just how much our lives and careers had been running parallel all these years.
And maybe the biggest surprise was the friendship itself. At this point in life, you don’t necessarily expect to meet someone new and have it click almost immediately. But it did.

We talk about that, the strange connections we keep uncovering from the past 25 years, and why we’re having so much fun figuring out where this goes.

Turns out, sometimes the right people show up a little later than expected

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