Basia Vanderveen is on a quest to keep her energy high and sees life as more of a mental state than a physical one. After a 25-year successful career in marketing and communications, she changed tracks to go into real estate and she’s having a blast!
Licensed realtor Basia Vanderveen joins Sherrilynne Starkie in episode four of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast, to discuss life in their fifth decade.
Basia is on a quest to keep her energy high and sees life as more of a mental state than a physical one. After a 25-year successful career in marketing and communications, she changed tracks to go into real estate. She’s having a blast in her new career and is finding it opens up tremendous opportunity for personal growth.
“There's so much personal growth that happens in real estate because it's relationship after relationship after relationship and each one is very different,” Basia explains. “But truly, you have to know yourself to be able to relate to others. Real estate gives me opportunities for personal growth every day, and I’m always learning.”
In this interview, she shares with us a little of her own journey through her fifties and talks about the importance of having a supportive community at any age.
Basia Vanderveen, MBA, is a licenced Realtor and broker with Royal LePage Performance Realty and is in the top 10% of Royal LePage Agents in Ottawa. (Full disclosure: Basia was my agent when we sold my Mom’s house last year. She was excellent. My family was very happy with the service provided). She lives in Ottawa with her husband Tim and their two teenagers.
Sherrilynne Starkie started this show as a creative project with the goal of interviewing 50 women past their 50th birthday to learn how they see the world, what lessons they’ve learned and what advice they have for us all. She’s been blogging and podcasting for 18+ years as part of a successful marketing and communications career and looks forward to learning from the women she will interview.
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