By Mary Eileen Williams
Feistysideoffifty.com

Women over 50 have wrestled with a lifetime of mixed messages. In our formative years we were taught the virtues of adhering to the1950’s & early ‘60’s standards of conformity. That meant being “ladylike” and fashioning our futures based on the June Cleaver/Donna Read models of matrimonial bliss.

Mary Eileen Williams, author
“Land the Job You Love!”

One third of job seekers are now over 55!

How are we doing?

Mary Eileen Williams. Reinventing the
Spirit and Style of Aging

Mary Eileen Williams, the warm, lively and informative host of “Feisty Side of Fifty Radio,” promises her listeners: “Give me just fifteen minutes of your time and I’ll give you interviews with authors, actors, and experts who will inspire you to make significant and positive changes in your own life.” And, she delivers on the promise.

By Enid Weishaus, MSW, founder
Smarter, Bolder. Older™

Women Redefining Life after 50…

Smarter, Bolder, Older™ – a one-day event for women 50+ – grew out of my own experience of aging and conversations with other women. I am committed to changing the stereotype of aging and loss in midlife to one of vitality, embracing new opportunities and possibilities as women in midlife and beyond get clear on what matters and makes the most of this stage of their lives.

By Suzanne Braun Levine,
FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY,
10 Life Lessons for Women
In Second Adulthood

Second Adulthood is all about change…the changes that befall us and those we generate. The first without the second creates a miasma of disappointment. The second, if it doesn’t incorporate the first, is frustrating and discouraging…

By Mary Eileen Williams, Founder
Feisty Side of Fifty

There’s one special club that embodies our celebrated joie de vivre and legendary spunk, The Red Hat Society, and this remarkable organization has become the largest women’s social club in the world.

By Mary Eileen Williams, founder

Feisty Side of Fifty/ Baby Boomer Women

I always enjoy my conversations with Mary Eileen Williams on “Feisty Side of Fifty Radio.” She is an enthusiastic interviewer and friend of women over 50.

I am sharing her post on our most recent program because she again shows what a feisty supporter she is on my behalf and the subject of my next book about love, sex and intimacy in second adulthood…

FEISTY SIDE OF FIFTY RADIO

“LIVE,” JANUARY 14, 2PM ET

We are starting the New Year of FEISTY SIDE OF FIFTY Radio Programs with a Special Preview of my upcoming book – “LET ME COUNT THE WAYS: Finding Love, Sex and Intimacy in Second Adulthood.”

Mary Eileen Williams, founder of the popular “Feisty Side of Fifty” blog and author of HOW TO LAND THE JOB YOU LOVE! and I are launching a regular monthly program on “Feisty Side of Fifty” blogtalkradio.com.
We are launching the new program talking about Happiness in Second Adulthood. What makes us happy? How does happiness affect successful aging for women (and men)? Recent studies and the big role that friends – Our Circle of Trust – can play.
Tune in on September 8, …

10-Part Summer Radio Series with Eileen Williams – Feisty Side of Fifty
June 2010 — “Age is NOT a disease! Women like being 50, 60 and 70. We don’t want to go back to Thirty – it was too stressful,” say, Suzanne Braun Levine, author of 50 IS THE NEW FIFTY and Eileen Williams, the founder of the FEISTY SIDE OF FIFTY blog and radio show. The two experts on women’s lives are partnering on a 10-part blog radio series based on the life lessons in Levine’s book.
“The lessons are guidelines,” …