We are women who don't believe age defines us. We are women who believe substance is the new sexy. We are women who are kicking ass, not sitting on it. We are women who love to have a good time as long as we we are home by 10. We are Girls Gone 50.
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Call Me by My Name
By a certain age, being called “Miss” seems like a punchline but I much prefer it to what happened to me the other day when I stepped up to the counter at a trendy, high-end fast food chain in LA.
Permission
My voice can be heard, pealing above the throng, or flinty below the bellowing, I can stand in this square of my own making, being all that I am, knowing that even if not quite hip, heedless hits thumbs up or down, polls be damned...
For the full poem by writer M.E. Mishcon, click on the link.
Welcome to the club. No IDs needed.
Nice to meet you! We’re two fearless over-50, still-working-for-a-living women who are excited and admittedly shaking in our low-heeled boots about starting a blog. It didn’t exactly help when a teenage daughter’s reaction to us becoming bloggers was, “Oh, how cute!”.
Far from being cute, this blog is intended for all women over 50 to explore, encourage and share tales from the field of this spectacularly freeing, frightening, confusing, hilarious, emboldening time of life. The fact is, being fearless doesn’t mean we no longer have fears. (Watch for our upcoming posts on, “Things that keep us up at night”.) It means we ultimately don’t let fear stop us from living a relevant, fulfilling and empowered life. We use fear to motivate us because we don’t want to see it win.
Ad dudes, listen up!
Ever wonder what happens to all those golden people in ads, ages 25-40, that brands love to target? Unless we're mistaken, they actually get older along with the rest of us, who become more accomplished and, generally, have more disposable income.
Having spent decades working in the notoriously ageist advertising industry, we saw a market opportunity that 30-year old dudes coming to work in shorts and a graphic-T are just not able to see.