second acts | LEANING OUT Blog

Jan 8, 2020
3 min

Toward a New Rite of Passage

Knowing I had “aged out” about 3 years before my agency happened to mention it, I was prepared for the conversation, lawyer on hand...

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Engage Your Whole Self to Make the Worst of Times, the Best of Times

Marge Watters

Jul 5, 2019
3 min

Engage Your Whole Self to Make the Worst of Times, the Best of Times

Back in the ‘60s when we graduated from high school and headed off to university the world was opening up for us in ways our mothers could n

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Adrienne Wax

Apr 9, 2019
3 min

Turning Passion into Profit

I’d worked about 25 years in the advertising industry (which is about the equivalent of 50 in dog years). The industry had stopped being...

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Nancy L. Maffucci

Jan 17, 2019
4 min

Madonna, Lady Gaga and Me

A few years ago, I get the news. My job, along with others in my area, was being eliminated. I had been on the inside of countless reorganiz

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Barbara Stewart

Mar 10, 2018
8 min

Planning for a Non-Retirement

Much of financial planning focuses on retirement. But what if your client isn’t planning to retire?

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Toward a New Rite of Passage

Engage Your Whole Self to Make the Worst of Times, the Best of Times

Turning Passion into Profit

Madonna, Lady Gaga and Me

Planning for a Non-Retirement

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