My world disintegrated when my husband, my dearest friend for 53 years, took his last breath. I became a shipwreck of a woman. I cried, raged, numbed…and ate my way through month after month of solitude, despair, and anguish. I was a rudderless, splintered slab of a broken dinghy, banging its way through dark, endless seas of meaningless time.

Slowly, so slowly, I slogged my way back through the bleak landscape of grief and confusion to the brilliant world of regeneration and discovery.

My unraveling, joined with the experience of my past careers, have given birth to 55 And Bolder. This is the program for mature women — women like us! – who have been through the brutal white waters of life’s transitions…and now seek to recapture the fire, zest, and joyous creativity of our youth. (But let’s leave out the Ferragamo platform shoes and the polka dot shift dresses.)

Today I am on a mission to help more and more creative women who feel unhappy, isolated and dissatisfied with their lives to discover their own powerful purpose-driven project that fills their life with meaning and leaves therm feeling fulfilled, thrilled and fabulous.