June is finally in full BLOOM! My new book is being published late this month, so I have a great sense of achievement (after watering, sowing, and more than a little sweat, let me tell you!) Late BLOOMERS are all the rage. How about the over-40 women you see on the screen: Meryl Streep, Diane…
I am so excited that my book is about to be published at the end of the month, hopefully in time for my birthday on June 19th. Entitled appropriately Get DARE From Here, it the result of much research into the desires and achievements of women over 40 in our culture – our dreams,…
Hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend – it was the most wonderful weather possible here in New York City. Today’s blog is a CALL TO ACTION! What we would like is for you wonderful women over 40 to write to us, as a comment, and share with us your DARES. I have…
As the month draws to a close, and we all enjoy another hot dog on this beautiful Memorial Day Weekend, I am pondering the incredible success of our May 6th workshop. The tips and suggestions from our expert panel were flowing. Carol Hoenig, a highly successful book publishing consultant, is a proponent of “Fake it…
DARE TRIUMPH- Go back to school! The workshop at NYU was so successful we are still reveling in the feeling! It was a TRIUMPH! The receptivity and evaluations for the event were all TOP-NOTCH. Unfortunately, we had so much response that we had to turn people away, so we will be organizing more of these.…
DARE-TRIUMPH may not be an easy proposition to wrap your head and heart around post-40, or post-50, but you can, and you must! So many women have in fact moved on from what they thought were insurmountable challenges and emerged as TRIUMPHS! Erika Kotite is a superb example of this. One of our terrific panelists at…
DARE TRIUMPH: Part Five: DARE-Supply can help! CHANGE OUR PRIORITIES? Yes! Some of the most respected adult development specialists tell us the best way for a healthy approach to our second half of life is to shift priorities in order to fulfill our true purpose. Jung talked of completeness. He said that when the…
DARE TRIUMPH: Part Four: The NYU Workshop Brainstorm! One of the most powerful elements of our workshop at NYU was the brainstorming session. We asked our over-40 participants to write their life history to date, and then their perfect obit! Then we asked the most thought-provoking piece, “What is keeping you from your perfect obit?”…
DARE TRIUMPH! Part Three: REWIND, REBOOT, AND RESURGE We all need inspiration! It really helped our participants at the May 6th NYU workshop to hear the stories of our role models – the women who have overcome huge obstacles, who DARED to find a new path, and follow their dreams. It certainly has always helped…
DARE TRIUMPH: PART TWO: Our workshop on May 6th at NYU was a personal and professional TRIUMPH for me. It created a template for future conferences – it was interactive, lively and inspirational, focusing in on the challenges and opportunities that affect the lives, career transitions, and philanthropic pursuits of women over 40. To inspire…
DARE TRIUMPH! The theme for this glorious month of May is DARE TRIUMPH! Having just completed an incredibly successful workshop at NYU, my sense of TRIUMPH is skyrocketing! So many DARE-ING kick-ass women registered! I am so excited to be helping women over 40 to move on, overcome challenges, reinvent themselves, and to emerge in…
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