As we navigate our personal and professional lives, we have been exposed to the concept of climbing the "corporate ladder" or the "entrepreneurial ladder" to reach the peak of success. And, the "career success ladder". We are beginning to note that the corporate ladder and the career ladder do h...

As a woman entrepreneur, business owner, or executive, you are likely to be very familiar with the term “resilience.” Resilience is a term that is bantered around in our personal and professional circle that is meant to convey strength, perseverance, tenacity, and the ability to overcome obstacle...

If you have been feeling overwhelmed by the culture of hustle and life-hacks and the constant pressure to keep up in work and life, this blog post is for you. In researching this topic, I was shocked to learn that by the time hustle and life-hacks were constant terms in my life, I had already b...

As we age, many women begin to feel invisible and disconnected from the wider world. Ageism is  recognized as the "last acceptable prejudice" and there is no wonder that women worry about being invisible, lonely, and isolated. The fear of becoming alone and unfulfilled can appear all too real on ...

As a woman business owner, entrepreneur, and executive who is 60 plus, I am often asked why I continue to work when I could be enjoying "traditional retirement" or pursuing a full-on leisurely lifestyle. My response is simple. I choose to work! My choice to continue working brings me many benefi...

In recent blogs, I have encouraged you to analyze your anticipation of the years and even decades ahead as you enter a new phase of life. What's attractive to you in this phase? What fears and concerns do you have? Health! Top Attraction. Top Fear and Concern Interestly, women often share with...

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...