by WomenOver70 | Apr 21, 2021 | Enhancing Career, Podcast
Penny is a multinational PR executive with well-known clients such as Korean Air. She gained her prominence as a crisis management expert, is resilient, forward-looking and irreverent. ‘Curiosity”, she says, “is why I have remained relevant throughout my long and...
by WomenOver70 | Apr 7, 2021 | Enhancing Career, Podcast
Known to all as Raven, The Talk Show Maven, this gutsy woman reinvented herself from a $10/hr part-time worker to recipient of the 2016 Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award. From feeling like Casper the Ghost throughout her early years, Raven was spurred on by her...
by WomenOver70 | Mar 31, 2021 | Enhancing Career, Podcast
Experienced MBO facilitator, community health educator, volunteer and self-proclaimed matriarch of her family, Wilma Jenkins is a go-getter. After retiring from the original telephone company, AT&T with a huge buyout at 54, she started her own company, Ms....
by WomenOver70 | Mar 10, 2021 | Enhancing Career, Podcast
Living in New York City, Betty Rauch became a highly skilled marketer who was sought after by high-profile clients. When she retired, nonprofits became her passion, and soon she was marketing for causes she dearly believes in. This dynamic, talented woman is a...
by WomenOver70 | Dec 23, 2020 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season Two
After graduation, Julie Percell visited friends in Hawaii and has lived there ever since. She has enjoyed a rich entrepreneurial career in sales, training and teaching. Working closely with local associations and government to provide resources to startups and...
by WomenOver70 | Nov 4, 2020 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season Two
Since 1983, Dolly Kennedy has worked to keep the Dolly Steamboat filled with people. A natural-born publicist, she first worked with her husband, creator of the steamboat. They had a dream to put Canyon Lake AZ on the tourist map. They were so successful that the...
by WomenOver70 | Oct 21, 2020 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season Two
Lyn Williams has moved 25 times throughout her life. She says it was always fun and gave her a sense of adventure. Her mother made it an adventure, too, and each place they lived turned into home. Home, Lyn believes, is the stage for our lives, and it is up to us to...
by WomenOver70 | Sep 30, 2020 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season Two
Rita Wilkins is a nationally recognized interior design and lifestyle design, expert. Her TEDx Talk, Downsize Your Life, Why Less is More, tells it all. The inspiration for her downsizing journey began in Senegal where for the first time in her life, she experienced...
by WomenOver70 | Jul 8, 2020 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season Two, Social Service
Susan, age 71, reflects on the life steps that brought her from farm life in Minnesota, to advanced degrees and licensures in Virginia, to a faculty position in Oregon—a new Ph.D. at age 50. While on sabbatical from her work in marriage and family counseling, Susan...
by WomenOver70 | Nov 13, 2019 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season One
In this episode, Gail, Catherine, and Miriam discuss important lessons learned from profound life experiences. We travel with Miriam from Romania to Israel to Chicago, and through deaths of parents, a departure from her home of birth, and unanticipated motherhood....
by WomenOver70 | Oct 30, 2019 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season One, Social Activism
In this episode, Gail, Catherine and Pam discuss Pam’s unexpected pleasure in moving from a 75 hours-a-week leadership role (for 32 years) to forming new passions. Transferring her leadership expertise as head of a nonprofit organization, Pam is now a Climate Action...
by WomenOver70 | Sep 11, 2019 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season One
In this episode: Gail, Catherine, and Susan explore how Susan’s process for effective change—personal and organizational—emerged through her journey of personal transformation. At age 48, Susan engineered a major life turn, getting her GED so she could leave a...