Make a Move: A Variety of Different Exercises You Can Do! If you’ve spent any time watching TV over the years, you’ll doubtless have seen various commercials advertising sports drinks, shoes, or other items to help boost athletic performance. In those ads, young, impeccably shaped people complet...

As you approach your 60s and almost seamlessly glide into your 70s, the idea of "retiring" from work and changing the pace of life can seem either daunting or liberating depending on your plans for this next phase of your life. If you aren't there yet consider that in 2017, Statistics Canada esti...

Anticipation vs Reality Testing Life after sixty is often viewed as the start of a winding down phase, a time for retreating from and leaving behind active engagement in our professional lives and even our personal lives. We begin to hear more prompting and inappropriate questioning about our pl...

We know that transitioning to a new phase of life is a natural event. We’ve had lots of experience by the time we reach our 60th birthday. We have experienced puberty, our reproductive years, and menopause. I recently heard a woman exclaim that puberty was a walk-in-the-park compared to menopausa...

 “How we need another soul to cling to.” – Sylvia Plath, American writer and poet1 When one thinks of the various maladies that can (sadly) cast a pall over people in their middle age (40-65), the usual suspects come to mind: cardiac issues, various diseases, arthritis and joint problems, and so...

Throughout our working lives, we have received those subtle and not-so-subtle messages through advertising and media about what our lives could, should, or will look like after the age of 60. Ageism and the double-whammy of gender and ageism draws a murky picture with many cliches perpetuated by ...

As a woman entrepreneur or executive, you have probably been immersed in reaching your goals and objectives for most of your life. You’ve explored new ideas, taken risks, made investments - all part of the journey that includes a fair amount of wandering towards success. But have you ever stopped...

It’s exciting to know that we have more choices than ever before to utilize our knowledge, skills, and experience as we continue to contribute to our world both personally and professionally. Many of us choose to become advocates and take on causes that are important to us. We might become advo...

The Basics: Start With Your Dream and Your Vision If you are a woman approaching a crossroads in your life and work and you find yourself dreaming of self-employment, here are a few basics you need to know to start. Dreams quickly give way to fear and self-doubt that you simply aren’t “ready”, ...

Let's continue our odyssey ..... Why It's Never Too Late to Become Self-Employed … to Live the Entrepreneurial Life! Is self-employment right for me? Is now the best time to become an entrepreneur? Many women executives are asking these questions as they contemplate the “return-to-work” and qu...