Let’s Hear From an Expert: Walker Thornton, Sex Educator
You write and speak about sex in the hopes of educating your audiences. You also counsel midlife women (and men) about sexual issues. What have you found are the most common challenges when it comes to sex for women in midlife? The biggest challenge I see for women,...
Let’s Hear From an Expert: Bobbie Carlton, Founder of Innovation Women
You founded Innovation Women, an online speakers bureau for entrepreneurial and technical women. What need did you seek to fill with your company? It’s 2016 and we’re still attending events where all (or at least most) of the speakers are “all-male, all-pale” or the...
Let’s Hear From an Expert: Jennifer Gefsky, Co-Founder of Après — redefining women’s re-entry into the workforce
You recently founded Après. What need did you see that you are seeking to fill? We founded Après to connect women looking to reenter the workforce with companies seeking talent and diversity. There are more than 3 million college-educated women in the U.S. looking to...
Let’s Hear From an Expert: Marcia Kester Doyle, Author of Who Stole My Spandex?
You recently released your first book, Who Stole My Spandex?: Life in the Hot Flash Lane. Tell us more about this collection of stories and what inspired you to write it… Whenever I related a family story to friends or relatives about the strange antics occurring in...
Let’s Hear from an Expert: Rebecca Forstadt Olkowski, with Dr. Sharone Rosen on The 2 Boomer Broads Podcast
Rebecca, tell us a little about your backgrounds and what led you to work together. I’ve worked for over 35 years as a professional voiceover actor in Los Angeles doing voices for film, television, cartoons, video games, and anime. However, Sharone and I met at a...
Let’s Hear from an Expert: Kelly Epperson, Nonfiction Ghostwriter
You are a ghostwriter. Tell us more about what that means. People are always intrigued when they hear the word “ghostwriter” and some actually do think that I write ghost stories. (Nope!) As a ghostwriter, I am the wordsmith and strategy mentor to take you from idea...
Let’s Hear from an Expert: Maureen Tillman, College with Confidence Founder
You are a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 35 years of experience working with adolescents, families and adults. Why did you feel a particular need to support young adults and parents through the college experience, and into adulthood, with your practice, College...
Let’s Hear From an Expert: Esther Greenhouse, Environmental Gerontologist
As a specialist in the relationship of the built environment to the well being of seniors, what trends are you seeing? First, finally people across society are beginning to see the importance and impact of good design. More builders are reporting having clients...
Let’s Hear From an Expert: Dorie Clark, Author of Reinventing You
Your book focuses on professional reinvention. When thinking about my audience of women in midlife, what challenges do you see them struggling with midway through their careers? I think the biggest struggle is that many mid-career professionals assume – erroneously –...
Let’s Hear From an Expert: Lisa Tener, Book Writing Coach
In interviewing women in midlife, I come across many who are writing, or wish to write, their first book in their 40s, 50s, and beyond. As a professional book writing coach, focusing on nonfiction, do you think everyone has a book in them? Not necessarily everyone,...