Nan Dawkins: 1st Life – Big Data Entrepreneur | GAP Year | 2nd Life – (To come)

Nan Dawkins's Gap Year start in Australia

Susan Briggs Wright: 1st Life - Four-eyed & a TV Journalist; 2nd LIfe - Clear-eyed & a Memoirist

Susan Briggs Wright

Susan Briggs Wright remembers it like it was yesterday - 

Vicki Thomas: 1st Life – PR Executive and War Veteran Sympathizer, 2nd Life – Activist and War Veteran Supporter

BJ Dudley: 1st Life - Wife and Homemaker, 2nd Life - Widow and Soy Candle Maker

Lesley Freeman: 1st Life – Office Secretary, UK; 2nd Life – Volunteer Teacher, India

Judi Henderson-Townsend: 1st Life – Account Executive, 2nd Life – Mannequin Madame

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Lea Wait: 1st Life – Executive Speechwriter, 2nd Life – Mystery and Children’s Author and Antique Print Dealer

Lea Wait and grandkids

Shannon Ingram: 1st Life – Marketing Executive, 2nd Life – Professional Caregiver

                     

Patty Marks: 1st Life – Business Administrator, 2nd Life – Erotica Publisher

Patty Marks, CEO Ellora's Cave Publishing with male models

Ann Buttenwieser: 1st Life - Motherhood, 2nd Life - "Floating Pool Lady"

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New Year, New You, New Second Lives Club

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Happy New Year, and it is truly a new one for SecondLivesClub.com. We’re changing platforms in more ways than one!  As we come up with some new directions to enhance our community, this blog will continue with some guest posts but be more focused on identifying and promoting exemplary 2nd Life role models.  We want to feature one a week and, in fact you can help.  If you know of a 50+ woman who is in the process of establishing or already living her second life that you think stands out above the rest, let us know and we will feature her.  

Women taking bigger leaps and risks can make for livelier reading but these stories don't have to be about major makeovers. They don't even have to be about reaching the end goal but rather about taking those first baby steps.  And they don't have to be about saving the world, they can be about having a personal adventure. "Reinvention is really ambiguity fused with self confidence", as was redefined for us last night by Jan Pauley promoting her new book on this subject at the 92St. Y in Manhattan.  

Some of you may remember the profile we did on Susan who left her career as a film maker to write her first novel and start a nonprofit organization. And there's Marsha who left corporate America to build her own career counseling company. Maggie was a linguist before joining a real estate venture catering to empty nesters. Now let us introduce you to Annabel Davis who spent 20 years as a police constable in the UK and is now an in demand model and actress at age 60? Want to know how she did it? Read on…

Bring in Your Parents Day

Maryl likes this new LinkedIn program

Think of it as the reverse of Career Day at your school when parents would describe their careers to your class mates.  I would liked to have had Bring in Your Parents Day, which debuted last month, with my parents although I did bring them to my workplace once or twice. Even though I worked for a few major American corporations, I always had more nontraditional job titles that didn't automatically make clear what I actually did. Titles like General Manager-Media Centers, Director-Brand Web Experience, Cultural Arts Marketing Manager don't exactly conjure up images of someone being productive like a lawyer, teacher or firefighter. Know what the three most misunderstood job titles are today?