I’m sure many of you already know Jen Louden, a personal growth pioneer who helped launch the self-care movement with her first book The Woman’s Comfort Book.
I’ve been a fan of hers since the first time I saw her sitting on Oprah’s couch talking about the power of retreats (I won’t tell you how many years ago that was, but let’s say I was sporting a lot fewer wrinkles).
She’s the...
Once Upon A Time, In a Galaxy Not So Far Away…
I was 46 years young and working in a brand new, high-level position that basically required me to create my job description as I went along.
I loved what I was doing, but it meant 70+ hour work weeks, lots of traveling and very little local or national support from my organization.
I was newly remarried after a 20-year marriage and several years...
It’s Day 2 of the Ultimate Blog Challenge and I feel like sharing something I created during the second week of the Prosperity’s Kitchen web reality show I’m competing in. We had to dig deep and create a manifesto for our business., also known as our “Big Why.”
After much soul-searching over the course of that challenge, it came to me that the following is the reason I...
We’re hot and heavy in the kitchen this week working on video marketing. It’s Week 11 of Prosperity’s Kitchen, the web-based reality show I’ve been competing in since mid-January and our project involves creating a video about our business which requires us to be on camera for at least one-third of the time.
Did I mention I hate being on camera?
Well, I do. A lot.
So this week’s project is a...
As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog post about burnout, it’s not uncommon for midlife business women to begin wondering if the thrill is gone when it comes to their career.
There’s numb routine. Or, there’s contentment. Joy. Rejuvenation. Does your work feel like love?
Here are 10 questions to ask yourself to help you uncover the answer (deep down, I think you already know the answer, but may need that...
Women in general tend to be hard-wired to please.
I might get some flack for writing that, but from everything I’ve experienced in the 50+ years I’ve been walking this earth, and from all the interviews I’ve done with women across the country and internationally, it’s a widespread phenomenon.
Part cultural, part genetic, part social dictates – women are givers (and that doesn’t mean men don’t give as well, but they tend not...
While working on developing products and services for the coming year, it occurred to me that I needed to ask a number of questions of the women I serve or hope to serve before I can create a workshop, retreat, e-book, or any other product that is spot on. So I began to do just that, and have spent the past couple of months talking with women all across the corporate...
When I first began feeling the rumblings that I wanted to change careers and follow my bliss, I continually chided myself for entertaining such “pie-in-the-sky” thoughts at my age. I was 41.
When I wasn’t sticking pins in my own balloon, I was freaking out about what exactly I’d actually DO for a living if I took the plunge and struck out in...
This week we celebrated World Gratitude Day, which was launched in 1965 at the International East-West Center in Hawaii during a Thanksgiving Dinner hosted by meditation guru Sri Chinmoy. Those in attendance, including delegates and high-ranking officials from more than a dozen countries around the world, pledged to celebrate gratitude and to count blessings from their home country every September 21 following.
In point of fact, I work really hard to be...
Someone asked me the other day why I refuse to refer to the transition that occurs for most career women in midlife as a “crisis.” While it’s true that the word “crisis” means a crucial or decisive point or situation, or a turning point, it also has about it an air of instability and upheaval.
There’s a negative connotation to the word, which perpetuates the stereotype of...
