Women entrepreneurs are happier than men entrepreneurs and women who don’t start their own businesses, and this well-being increases with age, according to a recent report by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. But there’s a catch. When women are first starting their businesses, their well-being dips significantly, in part because it is higher than men’s to […]
Ageless Entrepreneurs
Every day, I read articles confirming the rise in entrepreneurship. This is not a flash-in-the-pan trend. This is face of the economy of the future. And that face is decidedly feminine. Not only are women starting their own businesses at a consistently high rate, boomer women in particular are choosing this path as an alternative […]
Discarding the "Too Old" Myth
I doubt that anyone is surprised that the GOP is preemptively attacking Hillary Clinton based on her age. Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Karl Rove, Republican strategist, have both been busy in the media casting doubts on whether Ms. Clinton is fit to run for office based on age and health. […]
Ageless Beauty Does Exist
Sharon Stone has been in the media lately, from Shape magazine to an interview on Oprah Prime to Huffington Post coverage of both, saying she doesn’t want to be an ageless beauty, that ageless beauty doesn’t exist. She then goes on to explain: “We have to have internal health and internal wellness, . . . […]
Ageless Beauty
“Men . . . can still be sexy while they grow older, while women grow old and ugly!” —Violet, played by Meryl Streep in August: Osage County Recently, on the Golden Globes, Diane Keaton appeared onstage looking the epitome of agelessly beautiful, but almost immediately after, a L’Oreal commercial appeared showing Diane with all her […]
Lessons from Hunza, by Cecelia Hurwich
This post is a much abridged version of a remarkable journey described by Ageless Expert Cecelia Hurwich in “The Road to Hunza Valley.” Read every last transformative, vivid, ageless detail in the full article here. I had been fascinated by the health and longevity of the Hunzakuts—the people of the Hunza Valley in Pakistan— ever since […]
A Note from Karen
Greetings, as we enter 2014! Hang on to your hopes, my friend. That’s an easy thing to say, but if your hope should pass away, Look around, leaves are brown, There’s a patch of snow on the ground. —Simon and Garfunkel, “Hazy Shade of Winter” We did it! We made it through another year. . […]
Birds of a Feather Fail Together
It is human nature to seek out like minds, to befriend people like us. In business, people are more comfortable mentoring, grooming, and promoting people who look, think, and act like them, people they understand. As Google VP Megan Smith points out in her interview with Fortune, people aren’t necessarily conscious of the biases that […]
Lean In . . . or Out?
By now, you’ve probably heard of and perhaps read Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. In her book as in countless articles, women are advised to do this or do that to close the various gender inequalities in the workplace—in promotions (particularly to executive and board positions), […]
Your Social Edge
Whether you’re thinking of re-careering or starting a business, or you just want to rev up your existing career or business, recent trends point to a way 50+ women especially can capitalize on their strengths. Online recruiter Jobvite has reported that 94% of recruiters use or plan to use social media to find candidates. Although […]
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