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Tips to Rally Your Skills over 40!
Before you can convince anyone else to rally for you, you need to rally yourself. Rev up your brainpower, learn new skills, improve your competence, increase your confidence, and strengthen your conviction that you are one DARE-ING kick-ass woman over 40! Here are tips that will help you do that! 1) Make sure you... »
Embrace the Role of Mentor, Coach, Guide: Become an Expert by Teaching It
You may have heard if you want to become an expert in a particular subject or skill, then you should try teaching it. I can certainly attest to that, now that I am teaching at NYU. Maybe you feel that once you’re 40 or 50 or 60, you’ve become a “subject expert” in so... »
Seeds of Doubt Lead To Seeds of Promise
Seeds of Doubt Lead To Seeds of Promise: How Stress Leads to Success In this blog-post, we are focusing on why it’s good for you and never too late to: 1) take up new physical activities, 2) engage in new social activities and 3) pursue new intellectual challenges that can make a positive difference... »
Over-50 Power Station: Dare to Rewire, Reboot and Resurge!
If that’s your urge, then take time, take stock and take care. Then, take action. Are you energized about learning and doing something new and exciting with every coming year since you’ve turned 50? Whether your response is a yelping “Yes!” a tentative “Well, maybe” or an anxious “Not really, but I know I... »
Share Your DARES
Share Your DARES with us - and download a free chapter from my new book: Get DARE From Here – 12 Principles and Practices for Women Over 40 to Take Stock, Take Action and Take Charge of the Rest Of Their Lives! Fill in your email address in the box... »
Why Is It So Important For Women of All Ages to Be Daring/Fearless at Work?
+ Why is it so important for women of all ages to be daring/fearless at work? First, let’s define what “daring” and “fearless” mean when we’re talking about work. In today’s economy, being daring and fearless at work means knowing what your deal is, and how to deal. In my book and in my... »
DARE hope for the best, but plan for the worst
With another year coming to an end, and the New Year looming, hopes, dreams and resolutions start playing around in our mind, I invite you to start thinking now, a little ahead of the crazies of the holiday season, about what you want to achieve next year. You need a PLAN! In one of... »
Tips for Over-50 Career Switchers
Our media cauldron is still spitting out assertions that baby boomers are retiring in record numbers, and continue to moan that there are simply not enough 30-somethings to fill this void. In fact, recent reports indicate there are more unemployed over-50 than at any time in history. Let me set the record straight,... »
Turn that Empty Nest Into Your Personal BEST!
In making the rounds to promote my book, Get DARE From Here!, I am enjoying the positive feedback from media and readers alike. Many of the questions and comments I receive relate to the Empty Nest. Others refer to, in order of priority, topics more or less snarky or snide: 1) Why in the... »
Nice review for my book, Get DARE From Here!
Nice review appeared on Amazon with a 5-star rating – I am so pleased: “A friend of mine recommended this book, and I was skeptical. Many self-help books for women over 40 feature authors droning on about “look how smart I am.” This book is different – I enjoyed it, learned from it, and... »
Do You Want to Write a Book? 6 Powerful Tips
My book, “Get DARE From Here!” - 12 Principles and Practices for Women Over 40 to Take Stock, Take Action and Take Charge of the Rest Of Their Lives – is finally available on Amazon, on Create Space, and soon on Kindle and practically everywhere else English is spoken, written and read. I consider... »
My Book is Published! “Get DARE From Here!”
My book has just been published! “Get DARE From Here!” Are you tired of hearing (or feeling) that as an over-40 woman you are “toast†or “past it?†I was! Get DARE From Here! - 12 Principles and Practices for Women Over 40 to Take Stock, Take Action and Take Charge of the Rest... »
DARE-ING Athena is manifesting! Oprah, Katie Couric, Christine Lagarde, and Maria Shriver.
Today we continue the theme of Athena, who seems to be manifesting in four strong, courageous, gracious women in the news recently: Oprah, Katie Couric, Maria Shriver, and Christine Lagarde. Oprah signed off this week, as did Katie Couric last week. Couric’s sign-off was the epitome of class and dignity. Oprah’s farewell “benediction” was... »
Take a Letter, Maria, and any other woman over 40 facing the unthinkable D-A-R-E!
Maria Shriver – about whom more words have been written in one week than almost any other wife since Jenny Sanford (who ultimately took her own hike and divorced ex-Governor “Soul-Mate”) – has called out for insights and advice from others who have faced critical transitions in their lives. Since Maria Shriver has little... »
Tina Fey: “Bossypants†or Visionary Intelligent Motivated Woman Over 40?
She is both! Gorgeous without conceit, this former cast member and head writer “Saturday Night Live” is also the star and producer of “30 Rock” and now is enjoying great success with her bestselling book, “Bossypants.” Tina makes me laugh so hard I literally scare people around  me and my eye makeup runs. Check... »
Calling Over-40 Women – Take the Quiz: Do You Have a Big DARE?
Take a short quiz – Do You Have a Big DARE? Is there something you have been dreaming of – just long to do, to create, to be? Are you thinking of leaving your current job, maybe starting a new business? Marching for a social cause or injustice? Learning scuba diving or mountain climbing?... »
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