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Green Sheets for Red Flag Beds
It has often been said that necessity is the mother of invention. Especially when two smart mothers identify a need. One day Kirsten Lambert and Joan Ripple of Hingham, Massachusetts were walking...
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Three Rooms at the Inn
When one half of a couple is contemplating retirement, reinvention can be the result for both husband and wife. That was the case with Gay and Roger Squire, now owners of Squire House, an upscale...
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Work with a View
Just about all professionals are concerned with work-life balance. Not so many spend as much time thinking about their work-life view. Deb Martin (a freelance writer and editor originally from...
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Reinvention can be both exhilarating (when planned well) and exhausting (when executed prematurely). Before you run off in any new direction, consult this 9 Lives for Women New Year’s list of...
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5 Job Search Mistakes for 50+ Women
Reinvention can lead in many directions—not necessarily to a business of your own. You may want to use your skills in a new way, pursue a nagging dream (like the woman I wrote about who switched from...
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Secrets to Fuel & Fund Reinvention
It’s true that some people have a hard time getting off a certain career track. If you’ve been in marketing for 20 years and you want to reinvent yourself toward public health, it can be hard to get...
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Date Your Reinvention Dreams
Harvard Business Review blogger Whitney Johnson caught my attention when she tweeted her concept of “dating your dreams”. This makes sense to me because reinvention is so often making a dream happen—if...
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Baby Steps to Big Reinventions
Reinvention is one of those words that brings to mind people of great strength and force. The fact is, though, that many women who are masters in reinvention experience healthy fear and trepidation as...
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Promote Your Personal Brand in the Freelance “Gig Economy”
Tired of working for someone else? Determined that your reinvention will include freelance work? You’ve got the right idea to join a burgeoning employment market, but you still have to make sure that...
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When Necessity is the Mother of Your Re-Invention
Reinvention can sound like a luxury for the wealthy and secure. There’s a misconception that reinventors are the chosen few who can take lots of time to dream up jobs that will make them happy– whether...
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Buy Reinvention with Your Day Job
If your reinvention plan includes an entrepreneurial venture, don’t give up your day job too soon. The paycheck that automatically appears each month for your current job will disappear, and within...
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Working for Hope in the Global Village
In the tiny, quaint, affluent village of Southport, Connecticut, Barb Johnson sells an awe-inspiring collection of clothing and accessories to empower women to survive and thrive in remote villages...
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Sad Commentary on Lifelong Happiness
One of my broad-thinking Twitter friends, Nanette Fondas (@NanetteFondas), tipped me off to an eye-opening index that shows, by country, the average age at which people reach the lowest point of...
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Be A One-Minute Mentor
The best work+life suggestion I’ve read so far this year was tweeted by Kate Farrar (@KCFarrar), Director of Campus Leadership Programs at the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Kate...
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Choose Your Work+Life Path Based on Fit, Not Fear
Facebook and Twitter are cluttered with pithy quotes, and “thoughts of the day”. With so much to read I often skip over these motivational mantras—but one attributed to Cathie Black made me stop and...
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You’re Defined By Attitude, Not Age
My widowed father is 86, and on a good day he could pass for 85. Despite the fact that he inches forward with great trepidation, his back leans in more than Sheryl Sandberg and the wrinkles on his face...
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Career Reinvention: Out of Oil & Gas Come Semi-Precious Stones
Thinking about a complete career transformation? Read this story about Cynthia Lowrance Grano, a Connecticut entrepreneur who turned a commute to Wall Street into a walk through her garden. There was a...
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18 Tips for Career Reinvention by Labor Day
Itching to do something different in your work and life? Ready to leave Corporate America or jump back in to some kind of work after time at home? The summer months could offer the unstructured time...
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20 Women Share How Work+Life Decisions Changed Long-Term Financial Security
As research for my book, No Regrets: A Reality Check on Work, Motherhood and Long-Term Financial Security, I’ve connected with so many interesting women across the country. They’ve given me great...
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Your Own Business Could Be Many Shapes and Sizes
When I first started coaching women in 2002, it was always about how to find a job in an established company. In the beginning many women wanted what they knew–to continue working for (or return after...
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