by WomenOver70 | Apr 16, 2025 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
Mimi Donaldson, 77, is known for her rousing keynote speeches, compelling workshops, and in-house training programs. She has shared the keynote platform with Colin Powell, Katie Couric and Maya Angelou. She is now a speaker coach for TED Talkers, keynote speakers...
by WomenOver70 | Apr 9, 2025 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
Alice Rose, age 78, lived in Europe for 10 ½ years where she worked with childhood centers for military families. Alice’s love of travel and culture led her to Turkey twenty-five times, as well as other fascinating destinations. Upon returning to New Jersey, Alice...
by WomenOver70 | Mar 5, 2025 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
At 77 years old, Connie Inukai is proving that innovation has no age limit. A former technical writing instructor for engineers, Connie spent years teaching others how to create clear, effective reports. Little did she know that one day, she’d be writing her own—this...
by WomenOver70 | Dec 4, 2024 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
B. Rosemary Grant, PhD, Research Scholar Emerita at Princeton University, is world-renowned for 40 years of pioneering fieldwork, with her husband, Peter, on two uninhabited islands in the Galapagos archipelago.Their studies of Darwin’s finches in their natural...
by WomenOver70 | Sep 11, 2024 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Anne Burke, age 80, retired Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, began her career as a physical education teacher, earned her undergraduate degree as an adult student at the School for New Learning/DePaul University, completed a law degree while raising four...
by WomenOver70 | Jun 26, 2024 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
As an educational leader and mentor, Dr. Helen Benjamin tells stories about growing up in the segregated South, living and working in two worlds—Black and White, and helping younger Black professionals navigate their CEO roles in community colleges. In...
by WomenOver70 | Jun 12, 2024 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Mary Mitchell, age 74, sheds light on aging and ageism in her occasional column for the Chicago Sun Times, Starting Over. Mary ‘started over’ five years ago when she switched her journalistic authority on race relations in Chicago to concentrate on matters of growing...
by WomenOver70 | May 1, 2024 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Sheila Solomon’s career in mass media arts spans 50 years. She was among the first African American women to work in the newsrooms of regional and national newspapers. Sheila became a dedicated advocate for affirmative action—bringing people of color into the news...
by WomenOver70 | Mar 27, 2024 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Carol Stitzer, 80, lives life in the moment. All you have to do is listen to her and you immediately understand that she is positive, talented, energetic and happy. From early childhood education to development professional, fundraiser, artist and volunteer, Carol...
by WomenOver70 | Feb 21, 2024 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Carol Marin, age 75, is an award-winning television and print journalist renowned for her nearly 50 years of investigative stories on politics, public corruption, and organized crime. In 2016, Carol co-founded and directs DePaul University’s Center for Journalism...
by WomenOver70 | Oct 4, 2023 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Diane Valletta has moved from passion to passion throughout her life. Her mother, who died at 93, was her role model. She had a passion for activism and service. The same is true for Diane, whose desire for service has spanned her entire life. From Women Employed to...
by WomenOver70 | Aug 9, 2023 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Connie Goddard has reimagined who she is for her entire life. One thing remains constant: her love for writing and for history. Connie lived in Chicago for most of her life; she writes about the city’s history, that of the Dakotas where her family is from, and...