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When The Sh*t Hits The Fan
Even though I'm not earning a six-figure income, I'm happier, healthier and passionate about my purpose.
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Shop Around Tours: Deborah Mayer
When 51-year-old Deborah Mayer was young, she thought she had it all planned out. While still in college, she began a career in the entertainment business, juggling school with gigs at television shows like One Life to Live and ABC News. Burnt out from the long hours of production after a season at The...
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Back to Work 7 Years Later
When her own mother and father became ill with Alzheimer’s disease and cancer, respectively, she decided it was time to step off the career path.
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SHE DID IT – The Silberstein Gallery: Ruth and Amy Silberstein
Buying art should be fun, not intimidating. At least that’s the philosophy of Ruth and Amy Silberstein, the mother/daughter duo behind The Silberstein Gallery in Boston, Ma. The Gallery has three generations of (female) history behind it. The background: Austrian born Hilde Gerst – Ruth’s mother — traveled widely after World War II, accumulating...
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Joining the Circus at 70
In 2004, at the ripe young age of 69, Silvia tried out for Cirque de Soleil.
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“Hot” Menopause PJ’s
Early onset menopause with severe night sweats that forced her to get up four times a night to change her soaked clothes.
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From Hollywood to Cape Town: A Life Changer!
Pregnant, newly diagnosed with HIV, terrified to disclose their status to anyone, and without access to life-saving information, these mothers-to-be had no one to turn to.
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Going Back to Work
A Conversation With irelaunch Co-Founder Carol Fishman Cohen
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Long Term Care Insurance: Part II
Some Answers.
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Going Back To Work: irelaunch.com
Launching a career after time spent at home isn’t always easy, but it can be done – and done successfully.
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Long Term Care Insurance – What To Do?
Long Term Care Insurance. It’s something we BA50s need to know about it. But it’s also a topic many of us are good at avoiding. Here’s the catch.
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Financial Infidelity
Like most illicit affairs, my days of overt financial infidelity are winding down. My daughter has a binding college acceptance in hand. But it seems that once you’re a shopping philanderer, you’ll always be a shopping philanderer.
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Retirement Home
Retirement is, in many ways, a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it’s oh-so-exciting to think about the final chapter of our lives, when we’ll finally have time to pursue our passions ......
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OMG I Need a Resume!
My heart sank as I desperately searched all the documents on my computer, repeating to myself, “Resume, resume….you must have a resume somewhere.
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Home Is Where the Art Is
When my mother won first prize the first time at the show at the Armory in Palm Beach, she said that she felt her mother’s hand guiding her. My grandmother, a very artistic and independent woman, would have been proud to see her success.
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Cancel Your Botox and Celebrate Your Pro-Age
Boom! Can you hear the sound? It’s the start of the Pro-Age Revolution led by 61-year-old makeup artist turned model turned founder and CEO of the first pro-age cosmetics line, Boom! by Cindy Joseph.
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Must-Know Advice for Divorcing Spouses (PS: It’s Really Something We Should All Know!)
According to Divorce Lawyer and sage Jacalyn Barnett, this time of year (the New Year) seems to be the number one time to consider separating as is September when the kids leave for school. Which is why BA50 Publisher Felice Shapiro went to Jaci to get the skinny on what BA50’s need to know.
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Flora Confections – Sweet Talk of Food Politics
Lazar, a native of upstate New York, may be one of the most educated, locally sourced confection-makers and chocolatiers in Chicago. She has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and an MBA and PhD in History and Education from Columbia University in New York.
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You CAN Reinvent Yourself
The biggest problem I hear from my friends over 50 is: "What next?"
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Swimming In the Middle of the Ocean
It’s Sunday afternoon and I am procrastinating. I have homework and a 10 page paper due in ten days and I just want to eat some pizza. You see, three semesters ago I enrolled in a Masters program at Simmons College in Boston
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