by WomenOver70 | Jan 8, 2025 | Podcast, Reinvention, Season 6, Season Four
Barbara Ellison always wanted to have a TV show. Since waking up from her widow’s fog after her husband died when she was in her early 60’s, she has not stood still. She says, “I had no idea who I was, or what I was meant to do. The labels attached to me –...
by WomenOver70 | Dec 11, 2024 | Podcast, Reinvention, Season 6, Season Four
Jan Shaw King, 71, is a strong, resilient woman whose courage led her to create illustrative works that live on in all of our memories. Her first mentor was her grandmother who taught her to see colors and shadows and be brave enough to follow her path. You may...
by WomenOver70 | Nov 27, 2024 | Podcast, Reinvention, Season 6, Season Four
Holly Zeinfeld, 79, has moved 22 times and lived in 8 states during her marriage to Steve. They were partners in life and in work until he died a little over a year ago. Holly cared for him in home hospice for 7 years with periodic help from her son. Everywhere Holly...
by WomenOver70 | Nov 13, 2024 | Podcast, Reinvention, Season 6, Season Four
Wendy Cole, age 76, was 67 when she decided to live out in the world as the female she was born to be. As a young person, Wendy was informed by ‘authorities’ that she was a male with a psychological condition that was untreatable and uncurable; she was “a freak.”...
by WomenOver70 | Oct 30, 2024 | Podcast, Reinvention, Season 6, Season Four
On the northshore of Chicago, there has existed a magical boutique gift store for 37 years. Its name: The Yellow Bird. Recently the shopping center where it had thrived all those years, was sold to make room for new residential buildings and some commercial. Yellow...
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 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 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 | Feb 28, 2024 | Podcast, Reinvention, Season Five, Season Four
Educational equity, intercultural communication, and teacher education are the threads of Dr. Gretchen Wilbur’s 30+-year career as an educational leader. Upon retiring from DePaul University in 2019, Gretchen traded an urban lifestyle in Chicago for the rural...
by WomenOver70 | Feb 7, 2024 | Podcast, Reinvention, Season Five, Season Four
We love all our interviews. However, meeting Betty Werrenrath in person, and interviewing her in her apartment at the Presbyterian Homes in Evanston, IL was a unique experience that we would not have traded. Betty is inspiring, positive, upbeat and interesting. She...