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“As a teen she was a self-conscious people-pleasing rule-follower until she found alcohol. And that deceitful friend would keep her out of balance for many years. She would drop out of college and get married for the first time after only dating for two weeks. But there is never such thing as too late, Nancy, at the age of 60, finally came into her own. Now she’s a “Recoveror.” She’s a survivor who’s choosing to thrive. Now, Nancy McKay is a self-confident, self-validated life-coach and another flourishing and phenomenal F50Woman.”

We Talk About…

• Equus Coaching
• Effect of being inauthentic
•  A legacy of suicide 
• Cancer, acceptance, and survival
• The safety that results from opening up
• Nancy’s future plans…

Quotes She Served Up:

“I was standing at the intersection of desperation and grace…”

“I didn’t get sober and survive cancer to be miserable. And I knew I was the only one who could change that”

“I’m not here to exist, I’m here to live and thrive”

“Emotions won’t kill you”

“You’re never too old to do something else”

The Words that Changed Everything: “I think you’ve had enough”

Advice for Her Younger Self: Listen to your inner voice, your inner wisdom

Recommended Book: “Untamed” by Glennon Doyle

Must Do Every Day: Drinking warm lemon water

Contact Information: 

Website: https://amazingoutlookcoaching.com/

YouTube: Nancy J. McKay 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancymckay/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amazingoutlookcoaching

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nancymckay_/

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“She came out of the womb wanting to explore the world. And once she found kayaking at camp, her love for the outdoors was solidified. But, like the rest of us she had to grow up. So, she shifted her focus and went to school. It would take her eight years to earn her bachelor’s degree. But she never stopped looking to see what was on the horizon. She would finally rise and realized that it was the blend of exploration, adventure, and people that made her, her. Tune in and listen to this chat with Zoë Routh; leader, coach, and overcomer and one strong and steady F50Woman.”

We Talk About…

• Being told you’re “Too Emotional”
• Cancer and Engagement at the same time
• Grief for the road not traveled
• Emotional intelligence
• The encouragement that changed her self-concept
• Talking to your older self
• Bushwalking

Quotes She Served Up:

“…you will leap again and again into the unknown learning to fly as you leap”

“Books gravitate to the human when the human is ready for them”

What Changed Everything: Getting feedback from a Boss, Cancer, and Trying to have Children

Advice for Her Younger Self: (Listen to read the letter Zoë wrote to her younger self)

Zoë’s Book: The People Stuff

Recommended Book: “Oranges Are Not Only Fruit” Jeanette Winterson

Must Do Every Day: Get outside and Meditation

Contact Information: 

Website: https://www.zoerouth.com/

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoerouth/

Podcast: Zoe Routh Leadership Podcast

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“She grew up as a farmers girl who always dreamt about being a writer. But when she grew up, she landed in broadcasting. And after 17 years in broadcasting, she would find out that she was fired by mail, when on holiday! Little did she realize at the time, that would be the thing that would free her into happiness. Come and listen to this chat with a woman whose story illustrates how pushing through today’s challenges reveals tomorrow’s joy. Come in and meet Romana she’s an astrologer, a published writer, and another perseverant and joy-filled F50Woman.”

We Talk About…

•  Astrology and food
• Broken spine, loss of friendships
• Job loss and love loss
• Job hunting after 40 and being called “overqualified” 
• Gardening out of shopping bags
• Who inspired her to pursue writing
• Mentors who helped her
• Joyful firsts getting her book published
• Happiness transformations
• Laughter yoga

Quotes She Served Up:

“Life wants to put us on the right path”

“Its not that you have to wait to think you’re happy enough to laugh, why don’t you laugh before and see what happens” 

What Changed Everything: 1. Skydiving accident & 2. Getting fired by letter while on holiday

Advice for Her Younger Self: Don’t be scared no matter what life serves you because everything in life turns out to be for your best.

Ramona’s Books: “Cooking with the Stars” 

Recommended Books: 

“The Elephant” 

“The Whale at the end of the world” by John Ironmonger

“The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” by Rachael  Joyce

Must Do Every Day: Walk the Dog | Laughter Yoga| Daily To-Dos

Contact Information: 

Facebook: Happiness Reloaded; https://www.facebook.com/groups/happinessreloaded

Website: https://www.romanahasenoehrl.at/

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Question: Do you remember when you lost your happiness?

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“Born a rebel she experienced alienation early. But that never deterred her from her life’s purpose. Her father dealt with his struggles very differently than her mother and she learned from them both. As a result, she has grown into her own position on diversity and equity and now Sonia Lewis is calling for openness and reconciliation in the hope of creating a world where all its children can play on a leveled playing field. Whether this talk encourages you to be bolder or pushes your buttons, it’s another boundary breaking true story that we all need to hear from another bold and fearless F50Woman.”

We Talk About…

• Not standing for the Pledge
• Whistle-blower repercussions
• Equity and Anti-racism work
• Building business capacity & the exit plan
• What equity means
• The thing that stops equity
• How to deal with being attacked
• Fearlessness
• The green light to success
•  What courage is and how to be it
• The importance of rest

Quotes She Served Up:

“Equity is my love language”

“Imagine a world if equity was really thought out, strategically planned…”

“I don’t think in the perspective of fear, I lean on what’s right”

“Be courageous enough to not know all of the answers”

“Fear is not this thing that is going to come get you, it’s mental”

Advice for Her Younger Self: Trust other people’s journeys

Sonia’s Book: “Monsters and Aliens” (*Available February 13, 2022)

Recommended Book: 

1.       “Autobiography of Assata Shakur” by Assata Shakur

2.       “The bluest eye” by Tonni Morrison

Must Do Every Day: Take a nap/rest well

Contact Information: 

Website: https://www.ascribesuccess.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ASCRIBEsuccess

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“Do people in your life keep telling you what you can’t or won’t ever do? Well, this woman, very early in her life, wanted to change the world but, people kept telling her what she couldn’t do. Despite the doubters, she continued to rise and achieve whatever she set out to do because her father had already infused her with an unshakeable and undeniable belief that she could do anything. Come and listen to how one woman never doubted herself and how she is helping others to thrive by being intentional with the words that they chose! This is another powerful story filled with real-life lessons from Terre Short another incredible and intentional F50Woman.”

We Talk About…

• Challenges in management as a very young person
• The power of belief and the multiplication of confidence
• The importance of the words people chose
• Accepting your female qualities to succeed
• Finally finding a female mentor
• What your “personal podcast” is
• Manifestation
• Living in the world of the “shoulds”
• The intersection of Woo-Woo and Win-Win
• Six personas of a thriving leader
• How to ask questions: what, how, tell me

Quotes She Served Up:

“Yes, You Can”

“The voice is a choice”

“Everybody has a book in them”

“We can choose words that inspire, support, and that influence…”

What Changed Everything: A Series of Successes & Competing in a Male Dominated World

Advice for Her Younger Self: 

1.  Show don’t tell
2. Maintain the “Of course you can” in your head
3. Compete with yourself
4. Meditate

Terri’s book: “The words we choose”

Recommended Book: “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants” by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Book to Read with Young Girls: Reviving Ophelia by Mary Phipher

Must Do Every Day: Meditate and Journal

Contact Information: 

Thriving Leader Collaborative – information about retreats

Free community and mini course for Thriving Leaders.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/thrivingleadercollaborative/?hl=en

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13986099/

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“Because the trauma she endured at an early age remained unaddressed, this naturally sensitive child was left feeling unsupported and helpless. Ill-equipped, she would move forward from there to make some questionable choices. However, slowly but surely, she would make her way to college, through grad school, and on to marriage. Now, she’s a writer, a coach, and a mediator with an amazingly healthy perspective about all the hurts in her life. Stay tuned and hear how Juli Geske-Peer persevered through childhood trauma, divorce, cancer, and more to become one seriously centered F50Woman.”

We Talk About…

·         Life lessons in waives 

·         Challenges as springboards

·         Effects of that old adage, “Boys will be boys”

·         What cancer taught her

·         The value of therapy and the gift of mediation

·         Finding and accepting unconditional love

·         Drive, belief, and purpose

Quotes She Served Up:

“How we show up every day impacts other people”

“There is something inside every one of us that has purpose”

“The sooner you follow your true path, the sooner you have an impact on the world”

“The more we learn the more impact we can have in a positive way”

What Changed Everything: Childhood trauma, Divorce, Cancer, Parenting

Advice for Her Younger Self: Believe in yourself

Juli’s Book: 5 Senses for Success: Strategies to Thrive in Any Arena 

Recommended Book: How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self do the work by Dr. Nicole LePera

Must Do Every Day: Reading and Morning Coffee

Contact Information: 

Website: https://peerperformancesolutions.com/

Facebook: Peer Performance Solutions

LinkedIn: Juli Geske-Peer

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Brownies for Breakfast with Lynne Bowman

“Every time the grease in my frying pan starts poppin’, I think of her and dream of better food. She’s Lynne Bowman and her story is one of loss, survival, and healing. She is a glowing 75-year-old woman who eats ‘Brownies for Breakfast!’ I want to eat brownies for breakfast and still look that amazing! She says that we can eat chocolate and be fully alive, healthy, and even diabetes free! Stay and give your full attention to this chat with Lynn, with an "e," Bowman; creative director, advertising manager, actress, makeup artist, screen writer, and author of a new and amazing book titled “Brownies for Breakfast.” Sold out for your health, she’s one energized and fully alive F50Woman.”

We Talk About…

• Effect of ill health on families
• The importance of community sitting and eating
• The gift of diabetes
• Caregiving skills as a pre-requisite for public office
• Healing with food
• How to have chocolate and more in a good way
• The loneliness of diabetes
• Lazy but still delicious cooking
• Broken relationships with your grocer
• Audio grocery store stress tour 
• Men’s work, women’s work, and kid’s work

Quotes She Served Up:

“If you don’t have blood sisters go find the sister you need, and become a sister”

“If you want to continue to make trouble for people you’ve got to eat right”

“To remain on your feet and mean as a snake you have to eat your veggies”

“What you buy and eat has a huge effect on the environment”

“Our bodies are brilliant, …but it can only do so many things at one time”

“Sleep should be holy”

“Sugar is more addictive than heroine”

“Woman, you are not the servant you are the teacher”

“There is a holiness about home …if you want to do good out in the world start at your kitchen table”

What Changed Everything: Early loss of her mother to chronic disease, abuse, and diabetes

Lynn’s Book: Brownies for Breakfast: A cookbook for diabetics and the people who love them

Contact Information: 

Website: www.lynnebowman.com

Facebook: Lynne Parmiter Bowman 

Email: [email protected]

YouTube: Lynne Bowman

Instagram: @LynneParmiterBowman

LinkedIn: Lynne Parmiter Bowman

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“As a young girl she had everything she needed, but not the things that she wanted. As she grew, she gained prosperity through employment, and she finally was able to get all the things she wanted. But this first-generation college student’s money mindset would send her life into financial imbalance. Until life knocked her into consciousness, and before she knew it, she was a Millionaire. Now she spends her time and energy helping others to financially thrive. And, yes, if you’re a woman over 50, like me, you can financially thrive too. And this is the perfect place to start – right here with this chat with Walli Miller, financial coach and one mindful and prepared Up-and-Coming F50Woman.”

We Talk About…

·         How her mindset about money was formed

·         Being a “value-ist,” 

·         Awareness elicited by 

·         What to align your spending with

·         Journey to financial awareness

·         Budget leaks

·         Conscious shopping

·         What F.A.T.T. stands for and how to cut it

·         Using investing to plan for the future

·         What the SMP is, and Index Fund investments

·         The history of our individual money mindset

·         The rules to building wealth

·         Cryptocurrency

·         Home as an asset or liability

·         “House Hacking”

·         The “F.I.R.E. Journey”

Quotes She Served Up:

“We need to learn how to cut the F.A.T.T.”

“The mindset matters more than the math”

“The number isn’t what matters, it’s about the feeling and the peace you have…”

“Poverty ran in my family until it ran into me”

“It’s never too late to start making good decisions”

“Money is not good or bad it is neutral, it’s just a tool”

 What Changed Everything: 

1st.       Receiving the Social Security earnings report

2nd.     Making good money but still financially trapped

Recommended Books: 

A Simple Path to Wealth by J.L. Collins

Cleaver Girl Finance by Bola Sokunbi

Website Mentioned: www.ssa.gov

Contact Information: 

Website: www.financiallythriving.com

Instagram: @financiallythriving

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“Do you want the world to change? Do you want your community to rise? Do you want your family to thrive? Do you want to have a better life? Then Get a Notebook! A new year is dawning. A new season in your life is beginning. From wherever you’re listening - whenever you’re listening, this episode applies to your life, right now. Because all positive change begins with you. Come in and learn about leadership from the inside out from Renita Alexander and Veronica Williams, two leading ladies, two experienced and wise F0Women. Why should you tune in at your age? Because We’re Not Done Yet!!” 

We Talk About…

·         Leadership

·         How you find your purpose

·         How to stay on the right track in your purpose

·         Who you can lead 

·         How to be an effective, authentic leader

·         Leadership framework

·         The value of soft skills

·         How to inspire ourselves

Quotes Served Up:

“Responsibility with no authority requires relationship”

“We can’t expect to lead others well if we are not leading ourselves”

“We wouldn’t be given the dream if we didn’t have the capacity to fulfill it”

“No, is a complete sentence”

“Self-awareness is a strategic advantage”

“God created us to be here for a purpose”

“…you need to search deeper to allow God to show you your value”

“If we don’t go through things in life, we will never discover our purpose”

“A test is so that we have a testimony”

“We can be shaken and come back unbroken”

Renita’s Contact Information: 

Website: www.leadershipunlocked.com

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renita-alexander/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LeadershipLocksmith

Veronica’s Contact Information: 

Website: https://www.allianceseminars.org/

Facebook: Alliance Seminars Coaching

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“As a young woman she explored her passions and searched for purpose. This search took her on a long journey to Africa. And on this journey, like most of us, she hoped to find real love. But after several attempts to find love, this hopeful romantic surprisingly wrote men off and wasn’t sure whether it would be for weeks, months, or years. She focused the next chapter of her life healing and transforming from the inside out. And it was after doing much inner work that she manifested Epic Love. And now she empowers conscious singles to go from single to soulmate at any age! Come and listen to Dr. Holly Battey, psychologist, matchmaker, coach, and image consultant. This is the story of another extraordinary F50Woman.” 

We Talk About…

·         Midlife awakening

·         Importance of engaging with a coach

·         Expediting paths to love

·         How she found epic love

·         The poem which reconciled the past

·         Facing fear of public speaking

·         Advice for those looking for forever love

·         Why hire a coach

·         Best age to find love

·         What makes love work

Quotes She Served Up:

“There are two important days in your life, the day you are born and the day you figure out why” ~ Oprah

“Do something different to get different results”

“Who we choose to partner with is the most important decisions we make as women”

“…your belief is the most important piece”

“What we say no to is just as important as what you say yes to”

Recommended Book: Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser

Must Do Every Day: Connecting with others

Contact Information: 

Website: www.Findloveatlast.com

Love At Last Masterclass: www.myloveatlast.com

Conscious Singles FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1178662715802614

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