“My executive coach told me once if I ever need a project where I could use a whole bunch of badass women in tech, she knows them because there are so many women who are laid off after the age of 50.”- Melinda Briana Epler, Founder and CEO of Change Catalyst, Host Empathy and Allyship PodcastChange […]
“…life’s ordinary patterns have paused for millions of people. In these last weeks and months before something resembling normality returns, we might ask ourselves, “What do I want ‘normal’ to look like?” Then, we can start preparing for a new and better normal than what we took for granted until a year ago.”Could this be a […]
“Once we may have left our work behind, today we take it with us…. Our working life is woven, warp across weft, into the texture of our domestic existence.”Richard Donkin, Author of “Blood, Sweat, and Tears”In the New Yorker Jill Lepore reports on the history of work in America and how we find ourselves shifting […]
“The transitions of middle age have a different flavor and cadence than those in our youth. We know ourselves better. We are more selective.” Our colleagues at the Modern Elder Academy have just published “The Anatomy of a Transition.” Authors Jeff Hamaoui and Kari Henley have put into words their experiences and findings from the […]
“I don’t know what I expected, but the inability to call out my resume gap (on LinkedIn) was immediately apparent. I had typed in “mom” into the blank space of the job title category, and I was surprised and disappointed to find that homemaker was the only option that popped up, which, of course, is […]
