Badass Women at Any Age Bonnie Marcus

Sparked by the tragic loss of her father, Judy Wilkins Smith set out on an unexpected journey as a writer that developed into much more.   Judy is a highly regarded Family Patterns, Systemic Work, constellations expert, transformational coach, motivational speaker, and author who is passionate about individual growth, visionary leadership, and positive, accelerated, global change. The Founder of System Dynamics for Individuals and organizations, she has 18 years of expertise assisting high-performance individuals, Fortune 500 executives (Chevron, JP Morgan, Kellogg's, ExxonMobil), and legacy families end limiting cycles and create lasting breakthroughs and transitions into peak performance. She is a regular guest on TV news and entertainment shows and is the author of Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation Through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns.
 
 What You Will Hear in This Episode: 
1:55 Judy’s personal story
5:20 Constellation work defined
12:26 What we can learn about money from our generational DNA.
15:33 Our relationship with money
19:49 Gender and money
26:55 Common blocks regarding our relationship with money
 
Quotes
”Money is not a commodity, it is a relationship, and the way you show up for money is the way it will show up for you.”
“It’s really creating the environment to have a healthy relationship with money that opens up the ability for money to flow to you.”
“You've gotta invest in money, if you want money to invest in you.”
“When you start to realize that you are valuable and you can add value and you have something to give and you offer it, the money will flow.”
“You are as valuable as you think you are.”
 
Mentioned:
JudyWilkins-Smith.com
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Gendered Ageism Survey Results
Forbes article
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
IAMMusicGroup



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A life long lover of music,  Jennifer Ritvo Hughes found her calling as a college student sitting in the back of a concert hall.  A musician herself,  Jennifer was passionate about integrating her business savvy and love of music into a successful career supporting the arts.  Jennifer is CEO of American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra overseeing their daily operations, fundraising efforts, community engagement, and promotion of the globally renowned Israel Philharmonic in the United States.  Jennifer received a master's degree in musicology from Brandeis University and has led a variety of performing arts organizations and initiatives, including Boston Bass Chorus. Cantata Singers and Wellesley College's first ever Arts at Wellesley initiative. 
 
 What You Will Hear in This Episode: 
1:18 Jennifer’s personal story
6:31 Greatest challenges
10:19 Lesson learned and work life balance
14:32 Challenges relative to gender and age
20:05 Confidence and courage as a young executive director
23:28 The role of the arts in cultural change
 
Quotes
”I really love bringing creativity to  the business side of things as much as the artistic side of things. And I think that when you are challenging yourself to be as creative as your counterparts on stage. That's when magic happens.”
“Your strengths can also be your weaknesses if they're on overdrive.”
“I don't think music is a universal language, but I think that music can communicate universally.  I think that music has that power to create a shared experience, a shared emotional response beyond language and to me, that is the essence of our shared humanity.”
 
Mentioned:
American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic
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Boston Early Music Festival
eConnect with Bonnie
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonniemarcus
https://twitter.com/selfpromote
https://www.instagram.com/self_promote_/
Gendered Ageism Survey Results
Forbes article
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
IAMMusicGroup



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Raised with a lot of personal agency, Lydia Sherrer learned the value of hard work and personal responsibility from observing how her entrepreneurial father ran his business.  Lydia is the award-winning and USA today bestselling author of Love, Lies and Hocus Pocus Universe of Books, which has sold over half a million copies worldwide.  Most recently, she published her Gamelit series, Trans Dimensional Hunter, with New York Times bestselling author, John Ringo, and has written stories for several Black Tide Rising anthologies. Lydia Co-owns Chenoweth Press with her husband David Cher, and together they publish their own books and games to a growing audience of science fiction  and fantasy fans.
 
 What You Will Hear in This Episode: 
1:40 Lydia’s personal journey
7:40 Choosing writing as a career
24:70 Advice for women interested in writing as a career
31:05 Self publishing
 
Quotes
“We as humans have incredible powers to over come things….if we just believe we can.”
”It’s really important to understand your personality, your working strengths, your weaknesses, where your passions lie, and where your abilities lie.”
“Moderating expectations and having realistic expectations is very important in the publishing industry, and it is possible to get realistic expectations, but you have to be willing to reach out, to make relationships, and to ask bold questions with the knowledge that when people say no, it's not personal.”
 
Mentioned:
LydiaSherrer.com
Love Lies and Hocus Pocus
 
eConnect with Bonnie
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https://web.facebook.com/bonnie.marcus/ 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonniemarcus
https://twitter.com/selfpromote
https://www.instagram.com/self_promote_/
Gendered Ageism Survey Results
Forbes article
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
IAMMusicGroup



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Annoyed by the lack of representation and the  way society media portrayed middle aged women, Michela Di Carlo decided to do something about it.  She embarked on a journey and launched an online magazine to help empower women over 50 and reframe midlife as a colorful journey.  Michela is a seasoned, bilingual lifestyle journalist (Italian/English) with a Masters in Communication Sciences from the University of Rome.  Living between Manchester and The Eternal City,  former feature writer for the most influential Italian National newspaper “La Repubblica”, regular contributor for ANSA, the italian major news agency, she is the founder and chief editor of CrunchyTales.com, the popular first solely illustrated online magazine for sassy, badass women over 50.  Focusing her work on inspirational content to empower women feeling stuck in the second act of their life and highlighting the bright side of growing older, Michela is also the creator and producer of the first pro-age live radio show format called “The Beauty of Aging”.  She also has curated and chaired several talk-shows around the UK promoting a refreshing approach to aging, partnering with several charities and players including Chester University, StoryHouse and the Open University.  Currently holding the role of Adjunct Professor in Food Design at The University of Tor Vergata in Rome, she believes mature students are the best and she continues to be a fierce Late Bloomers advocate determined to change the narrative on aging while promoting the benefits of lifelong learning.
 
 What You Will Hear in This Episode: 
2:57 Michela’s personal story
6:23 Biggest challenges in launching her magazine, Crunchy Tales
10:57 Things Michela learned about women over 50
15:01 Crunchy Tales format,  illustrations and popular articles
22:10 Gendered ageism in UK vs Italy
30:56 Writing Crunchy Tales in english
 
Quotes
“I think that midlife is a time of reawakening, it’s a time when you finally pursue what you always   dreamt about.”
“We wanted to show that midlife is anything but a gray, dull time of life, so we encourage women to develop a new path maybe a more authentic path.”
 
Mentioned:
CrunchyTales.com
MichelaDicarlo.com
eConnect with Bonnie
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https://web.facebook.com/bonnie.marcus/ 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonniemarcus
https://twitter.com/selfpromote
https://www.instagram.com/self_promote_/
Gendered Ageism Survey Results
Forbes article
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
IAMMusicGroup



Purchase my book Not Done Yet on Amazon: 
 
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At 50 Suzette Mullen couldn’t shake the feeling that, despite her successful professional and family life,  there was something missing.  Focusing on her passion for writing,  Suzette began working on a memoir that led her through a personal journey and discovery of  her true authentic self.  Suzette Mullen (she/her) is a memoir and nonfiction book coach, retreat leader, and the author of the new memoir The Only Way Through Is Out, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, today.com, among other outlets. As a book coach, Suzette focuses on amplifying the voices of LGBTQ+ writers as she guides them to find their deeper stories and define their big ideas. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Wellesley College, and the mother of two sons, Suzette made a big leap professionally and personally at midlife and now lives in Pennsylvania with her wife and their rescue pup.
 
 
 What You Will Hear in This Episode: 
1:41 Suzette’s personal story
5:44 Writing and self discovery
10:54 Alignment and authenticity
16:07 Overcoming fear and self doubt
25:30 How Suzette helps her clients dig and find their deeper story and the results
 
Quotes
“The only way through is out.”
“When you're out of alignment in one part of your life, it impacts every other part of your life. And then when you are in alignment and when you're living authentically  in one part of your life, it impacts. The rest of your life.”
“I wasn't willing to go to my grave without knowing who I was fully.”
 
Mentioned:\
 
Website
The Only Way Through is Out
Instagram
 
eConnect with Bonnie
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https://web.facebook.com/bonnie.marcus/ 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonniemarcus
https://twitter.com/selfpromote
https://www.instagram.com/self_promote_/
Gendered Ageism Survey Results
Forbes article
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
IAMMusicGroup



Purchase my book Not Done Yet on Amazon: 
 
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As Molly Sider approached her 40s panic set in.  Unsure of her life decisions and what lay ahead she chose to focus on what interested her and began the long, brave and arduous work of discovering herself, her purpose and her joy by sharing her story and encouraging others to do the same. Molly is a midlife change coach and the creator and host of the podcast “I Am This Age,” proving you’re never too old to make a significant change. When Molly turned 40, she needed proof that she wasn’t too late or too old to find her “extraordinary” career, love, friendships – she sought meaning in all of it and found her life purpose in the process. Now an ICF-accredited CPC, motivational speaker, and podcast host, Molly coaches people in midlife, turning their “crisis” into meaningful change and helping them to write their next life chapter with clarity and confidence.
 
What You Will Hear in This Episode: 
1:50 Molly’s personal story
 5:21 Storytelling
10:53 Courage
15:33 Lessons learned about people in midlife
25:33 Midlife crisis in men vs women and doing the work to overcome it
 
Quotes
”We're very unique in the details of our stories. We're not so unique in the thoughts, feelings, and emotions in our stories,”
“If you're grounded and you're focused, you know who you are and you're in a much more empowered position to take on new challenges and be your authentic self.”
“​​It's scary to change because you gotta let go of a lot of things that maybe you're scared to let go of, but it's so important.”
 
Mentioned:
MollySider.com
@mollyatthisage
Instagram
I Am This Age Podcast
 
eConnect with Bonnie
https://bonniemarcusleadership.com/
https://web.facebook.com/bonnie.marcus/ 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonniemarcus
https://twitter.com/selfpromote
https://www.instagram.com/self_promote_/
Gendered Ageism Survey Results
Forbes article
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
IAMMusicGroup



Purchase my book Not Done Yet on Amazon: 

If you enjoyed this episode of Badass Women Podcast, then make sure to subscribe to the podcast and drop us a five-star review.