by WomenOver70 | Aug 28, 2024 | Advocates for Women Aging, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Susan Baur, 84, has been a writer, historian and psychologist for 50 years. As a child, nothing grabbed her passion like listening to her father’s stories which seemed to describe other worlds that exist inside our own. Pursuing these other worlds ever since, the...
by WomenOver70 | Aug 21, 2024 | Podcast, Reinvention, Season Five, Season Four
Karen Ross, 76, is a champion who keeps reinventing herself. Self-confident, curious and proactive, Karen never stops finding new ways to stay involved, support herself and others, and meet interesting people. She thought she would be a musician and entered college...
by WomenOver70 | Aug 14, 2024 | Advocates for Women Aging, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Elderwerks’ dynamic CEO and Founder, Jennifer Prell, understands older adults. She believes elders deserve respect and loving care. She gets worked up when talking about how difficult it often is for older people, no matter their income level, to find proper housing...
by WomenOver70 | Aug 7, 2024 | Podcast, Reinvention, Season Five, Season Four
The hardest part of getting older is the realization that some dreams are never going to be realized. Some situations are not going to change. Jackie Greenbaum, however realistic she remains, has lived her life as though dreams are meant to be followed. Discouraged...
by WomenOver70 | Jul 31, 2024 | Podcast, Reinvention, Season Five, Season Four
If we are looking for what we enjoy doing, then, logically, we’re going to be good at it. Joyful thoughts spiral upward. We are on this planet to love and be loved, to be truly authentic. Gail Sussman Miller, Inspired Choice.com, believes how we think, and...
by WomenOver70 | Jul 24, 2024 | Podcast, Reinvention, Season Five, Season Four
Wendy Green, founder and host of Hey, Boomer,! knows about personal transformation first-hand and coaches women to “live the meaningful, purposeful life they want to live.” Wendy left the world of corporate training to focus on women’s experiences of growing older—as...
by WomenOver70 | Jul 17, 2024 | Advocates for Women Aging, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Sally Jean Fox’s 2023 book, Meeting the Muse After Midlife: A Journey to Meaning, Creativity, and Joy, tells her story of finding joy in being creative after 50, as she explored gardening, clowning, improv theatre, storytelling, and singing. Always keen on writing,...
by WomenOver70 | Jul 10, 2024 | Advocates for Women Aging, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Cheri Boublis is Senior Director for Hospitality Services at Plymouth Place in LaGrange Park, Illinois, a model for active community living. Cheri collaborates with the leadership, residents, vendors, and the larger community to offer wide-ranging services for adults...
by WomenOver70 | Jul 3, 2024 | Podcast, Reinvention, Season Five, Season Four
Joy has always been a part of Beverly Pimsleur’s life. Her extended family in Louisville KY loved to be together, to dance, sing and have fun. She recognized the importance of language from a young age and started learning French in high school. She met her...
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 18, 2024 | Advocates for Women Aging, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Do you want to share housing but find the transition scary? We often live in shared housing when we are single: college, roommates in camp, at conferences, during our early careers. Living with housemates as we age is no different. Annamarie Pluhar, 70, is a...
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...