“Only challenge produces the opportunity for greatness. Given the extraordinary challenges the world faces today, the potential for greatness is monumental.” James M. Kouzes/Barry Z. Posner Challenge is the Opportunity For Greatness Our Challenges are the Call to Greatness For so many of us, the last few years have been personally and collectively challenging. […]
A Visionary’s Journey to GeroFuturing
What’s a GeroFuturist? It is a unique word, and it’s because my role is unique. It really started way back in my early, early career where I became a futurist by chance. I didn’t expect it. I ended up in financial services after having been an educator and a serial entrepreneur, as many of you […]
Coming Full Circle: A Visionary’s Holiday Story
My holiday miracles started arriving early this year. It all started with my daughter. She emailed me during a private invite-only conference that she was attending as an invited corporate top executive. In her email, she shared how she felt that I belonged with the women she was with and wished I was there with her […]
Feminism and Age
An article in the New York Times, “Who Is a Feminist Now?” explored the willingness of celebrity women to self-identify as feminists. Those who didn’t identify as feminists gave reasons based on what Andi Zeisler called a “Fox News version of feminism.” Those who eschew the label tend to think feminism is about women having […]
Ageless Stories are Timeless
One of the reasons KarenSands.com is set up to provide information for post-50 women as well as the people who serve them is that these goals are intertwined. Many boomer women are entrepreneurs or considering starting their own business, and those who aren’t are likely to work for companies that will need to pay close […]
No Senior Moments Here
When you think about getting older, how do you define what that means for you? Do you ever see yourself as being “elderly”? Do you envision yourself when you hear the words “senior citizen”? (And let’s face it, that’s probably the most ridiculous of the terms out there considering we don’t have “junior citizens” or […]
How May I Connect You? #TBT
Guest post by Anne Garland, managing director of eWomenNetwork (Greater Hartford and Shoreline chapter) and founder and creative director of Anne Garland Enterprises. Here’s one secret which I have learned over decades of exploring and adventuring toward success and fulfillment: “Having it all” (whatever “it” means to you, individually) can ONLY happen when you build […]
We Are the 51% #TBT
For this weeks’ #TBT (Throwback Thursday) I wanted to share this post I did on pay equality. With the conversation still going on four years after I originally wrote this it was interesting and sad for me to see things that have not changed. But as we continue to discuss these many unequal threads I’m […]
Women, We Need to Talk
Over the past few months, I’ve traversed the country speaking and reporting, and everywhere I go, I keep hearing the recurring theme of “reimagining.” This paradigm-changing phrase is a favorite of mine, and now it is morphing into a meme . . . especially around retelling our generational story and our her-story. For post-50 women […]
Owning Up
In another post, I talked about an attribute of visionaries: being truth tellers. They stand up for what’s right, regardless of the consequences, speaking the brutal truth when it needs to be said, and acting on that truth in their everyday lives. But being a visionary does not mean being perfect. Sometimes telling the truth […]
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