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AGE IS NOT A DISEASE! – Embrace Your Age and Celebrate Yourself

glenlevy — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:38:23 +0000

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,” Levine says, “for embracing your age, feeling positive about yourself, finding your own voice and using it.” The series will cover all aspects of women’s lives – marriage, change and crises, friendships, health, aging, work and self-reinvention in open, honest and intimate conversations.

“Our initial idea was a three-part series for the paperback publication of “50 IS THE NEW FIFTY,” says Eileen Williams, “but, we had so much fun, we decided to continue and talk about all the lessons the book.”

For information on the series, please visit:

http://feistysideoffifty.com/2010/06/15/women-over-50-age-is-not-a-disease/

JUNE 15 TOPIC:

Age is Not a Disease (15 minute program) – Listen and Share

http://bit.ly/feistysideoffitybHYbQT

JOIN SUZANNE & EILEEN FOR A 10-PART

SERIES ON “FEISTY SIDE OF FIFTY RADIO!”

The program that celebrates Baby Boomer Women who are totally transforming the spirit and style of aging!

www.blogtalkradio.com/feisty-side-of-fifty

**UPCOMING LIVE Radio Broadcasts**

(LIVE BROADCASTS – Noon EST)

June 21 YOUR MARRIAGE CAN MAKE IT (Lesson #8)

June 29 EVERY CRISIS CREATES A NEW NORMAL (Lesson #5)

July 6 YOU DO KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO DO

WITH THE REST OF YOUR LIFE (Lesson #9)

July 9 ‘BOTH’ IS THE NEW ‘EITHER/OR’ (Lesson #10)

July 13 FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY* (Lesson #1)

Previously Recorded Broadcasts (On Demand Episodes):

June 17 NOTHING CHANGES IF NOTHING CHANGES (Lesson #2)

June 15 AGE IS NOT A DISEASE (Lesson #7)

April 9 Do Unto Yourself as You Have Been Doing Unto Others

(Lesson #6)

April 7 A “Circle of Trust Is a Must” (Lesson #4)

April 1 No Is Not a Four-Letter Word (Lesson #3)

Also, please visit:

www.feistysideoffity.com

Listen Live at 1 pm EST or Later!

About Mary Eileen Williams, M.A., NCC has twenty years combined experience as a career and life transition counselor, job search specialist, university instructor, and writer. She is a Nationally Board Certified Counselor. She is the founder of the popular blog: www.feistysideoffifty.com

LAND THE JOB YOU LOVE! 10 Surefire Strategies for Jobseekers Over 50 (is a guide and workbook with easy-to-follow steps, that simple to understand guaranteed to produce results.

NEW VIDEOS – “50” Is a Big Deal Birthday For Most Women and a Time Full of Promise!

glenlevy — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:45:28 +0000

YOUNGER WOMEN ARE LOOKING AHEAD!

A young staff member at Plume (my paperback publisher) interviewed me for two new videos to celebrate the paperback publication of “50 Is the New Fifty.” Because the interviewer was a young woman, I was reminded (again) of how important it is for women in second adulthood to be seen in our culture – to be visible and happy. We are each other’s horizontal role models. And, just as important, we are paving the way for younger women.

Younger women today are looking ahead. The fact that some of the things they may not be able to do now – or achieve now – will be there for them later is very reassuring for them. Many of them also have very open and intimate relationships with their mothers. And, when I saw younger women buying two copies of my book, many said they were buying a copy for themselves (because they are looking ahead) and another for their mother. As loving daughters, they believed the book would make their mother feel better in this transitional stage.

The new “Fifty Is the New Fifty” (Part 1 & 2) videos are on YouTube.

What could be easier?

Part 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXFKmZHqDrk

Part 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi7lDimhzTI

They are also available at Penguin Group USA http://bit.ly/c3cxA2 along with the Reading Guide. The Discussion Questions – “A Circle of Trust is a Must for Women” can spark a lively conversation at any gathering of women – young or older.

“MARRYING GEORGE CLOONEY: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis” – A New Book by Amy Ferris

glenlevy — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:14:43 +0000

Good Natured Hysteria – Shaken and Stirred with Hilarity and Honesty!

Some of the best laughs I have experienced in the last decade have been with my girlfriends about the absurd things that are happening to our bodies and our minds. We are laughing at the absurdity of it all, and we are laughing with each other. That is how we surmount the inevitable. But there is a genre of post-menopause support books that does just the opposite – the jokes are about self-contempt and the laughter is about humiliation. It is the reader who is being ridiculed, not the circumstance.

So when my friend Amy Ferris told me she was writing a book called MARRYING GEORGE CLOONEY: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis (Seal Press, September 2009), I hoped it wasn’t one of those.

It isn’t. It is very funny, though, and honest and true.
Along with fantasizing about George Clooney (and who doesn’t?), she establishes a mode of good natured hysteria as she copes with insomnia, hot flashes and her ever-expanding and constricting figure. She alternately cherishes and ridicules her loving husband Ken. At the same time she tries to come to grips with her Jewish mother’s newfound love of Jesus Christ, which is directly proportionate to her rapidly progressing dementia. The effort to transcend a fraught mother-daughter relationship (and whose isn’t?) provides a touching and hilarious subplot.

One of her many insights about a midlife crisis is that you know you are in one, “when there are no molehills, only mountains.”

For information about MGC and Amy’s 3:00 A. M. musings on her blog visit: www.marryinggeorgeclooney.com.

To pre-order book on Amazon.com click here