Lift As You Climb

Heroes are the ones who have courage to be different, to change status quo, stand for something and start a movement that uplifts and inspires others. Heroes are not born. Heroism is not inherited or something you can purchase. SHEroes and Heroes evolve from struggles and trials and awareness.  Loubna Zarrou was shy, introverted and bullied as a child. She made a choice to rise above limiting circumstances and become a hero, role model and mentor for herself and many others...

“GO AHEAD – START A MOVEMENT!” I remember vividly where and when I heard that challenge and the electricity it triggered throughout my body! Instinctively, I knew in that precise moment my life, at age 60, was about to have greater impact. I was in a hotel ballroom in San Diego, attending a three-day conference. The year was 2015 and I was just beginning to get clarity about who I was in the next stage of my life and what mattered to me next. A movement. One word carries so much weight...

From a preschool age, Michele Bailey demonstrated her entrepreneurial skills and passion for spreading joy and gratitude. She continued to hone those skills and build businesses, teams, and relationships underpinned by her values and gratitude principles...

Entrepreneurs often joke that they are unemployable. After being your own boss for a while, it’s very difficult, if not downright impossible, to be an employee. True to entrepreneurial characteristics, I spontaneously recorded this extra episode to acknowledge that I started my first company thirty-two years ago and I never seriously wanted to have a J.O.B. – a job working for another business owner since...

Let’s continue our conversation begun in Episode 07 about friendships and why that is something that's very important in every woman's life. Previously, I shared a very personal and painful story about a breakup of a friendship, and how different that feels than the breakup of a romantic relationship. I‘ve concluded that not all BFFs are meant to be forever...

BFFs are meant to stay forever - or maybe not. As we go through life not all friendships are forever and sometimes the end comes before you expect it...

Balance, by definition, means status quo. It's a flat line, nothing is happening. If you think that you can succeed in moving forward and growing, evolving, living a full life, and neither one of these are moving; your professional life or your personal life; it's a fantasy! In fact, for anything to take place in this universe, there must be an exchange of energy. Things need to move, for anything to change and to happen...

I really had to drag my ass out of bed this morning. And that says something because I am a morning person. I do love waking up before the sun. I love beginning the day when it's quiet out there in the world, and I start to see the colors creeping into the sky. I think what am I going to do with this day, this time, this opportunity to grow again, evolve, live my life as an entrepreneur, as a woman who has many encores ahead of me? Today was hard...

Alice in Wonderland isn’t the only one having trouble fitting into her circumstances and environment frequently. As a woman, evolving, transforming, and growing to fit the part for my next stage of life, business idea, personal reinvention or relationship change, I think I could write a sequel to Lewis Carroll’s story and title it “Womanhood Wonderland”...

What's your expiry date? Seriously! Isn't that how society has planned it for us as women in our sixties and beyond, when we reach the “a certain age” stage, we are supposed to just go gently into that sweet night of obsolescence...