Piece for KuelLife.com about an architectural embassy tour in our nation’s capital.

“Kuel Life delivers relevant, curated, content to women 45+. We share and empower each other with expert advice and stories from real women; women who are our friends, neighbors, colleagues, and family. Women to whom we can relate. A virtual space where women come together in community and share our voice and experiences.” — Kuel Life founder, Jack Perez

Guest post of tips to relieve financial stress.

Tips on how to attract and retain talent, by guest blogger, Rachel Justus.

Five middle-aged adults describe their symptoms and how they’ve learned to cope (AARP Magazine)

Do you want to be inspired? Refresh your life with an engaging discussion/workshop with Maria Leonard Olsen, a Reveler, and author of 50 After 50: Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life.

Five tips for self-care to ensure long-term success, and the ability to enjoy one’s success.

#Midlife can be some of the most important years of our lives in #spiritual terms. My former classmate, Rev. Ann Ralosky, has not only explored how to navigate a #spiritualjourney through these years but also become a leading pastor of the United Church of Christ, at the age of 46.

“Maria Olsen found herself living alone, on her own, at 50 years old… for the very first time. What would have broken many people somehow inspired Maria to make changes. Lots of them. In her book 50 After 50 Reframing the Last Chapter of Your Life Maria takes us through her process of renewal and the 50 things she did to rebuild her life. In this stand-out interview on The Open Nesters Podcast, you get to hear my conversation with Maria. Truly thrilled to share this one!” — Host, Tessa Krone

So honored and excited to be part of this wonderful way of uplifting women in midlife. Design your next chapter with help from these insightful and inspiring women! Thank you, Yvonne Marchese, for putting together this amazing free offering! #midlifeuprising #latebloomer #latebloomerpodcast #fiftyafter50 #writeyournextchapter

“Lessons from Recovery: Reframe the Next Chapter of Your Life”

“We had a wide-ranging conversation with Maria Leonard Olsen, covering everything from parenting kids of all ages to addiction recovery to life as midlife moms. Maria says that the more she shares about fears and trauma, the more people she can help. Her self-revelatory book is just one way she is helping other midlife moms forgive themselves, and embrace their lives.”

Things to consider before undergoing appearance altering surgery or medical treatment.

Tips for recovering from addictions.

Featured speaker at the Empty Nest Summit, by Dare On! creator, Jodi Silverman.

Taking care of your mental health is essential to self-care, perhaps now more than ever.

This is also a season to reflect on our journey. Let’s take stock of what we have achieved, what we have overcome, and what choices we are making now as there are always things to celebrate and be grateful for.

I am going to spend much more time with the friends and family members who are dearest to me – says Maria Leonard Olsen, an attorney, podcaster, TEDx speaker and author of ‘50 After 50: Reframing The Next Chapter Of Your Life‘-. The pandemic brought the tenuousness of life into stark consciousness for me. I surround myself with people with positive energy and have learned how to have better boundaries with people. I am a recovering people-pleaser and would like to be able to say no more easily to things that do not feed my spirit. I also have increased my journaling and meditation. These activities help me to stay in the moment. Life’s challenges continue for all of us, and all we really have is the present moment.

Interview with Thrive Global: “Bloom where you are planted. Helping others does not need to involve grand gestures (though if you are in a position to effect large, positive change in our society, I applaud and encourage that). Even calling someone who does not have many friends or family is making our world a better place because you are here. You may be the only sunlight in that person’s life.”

Reading Ellen Warner’s The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty is like having one of those intimate conversations with each of 40 women from around the world as they share their formative experiences and advice for younger generations.

Their insights are particularly valuable in a country where intergenerational learning is often lost, where finding assisted-living housing for our senior family members is more common than moving them into our homes.

The Second Half profiles a curated group of interesting women who have hit their stride and used earlier experiences as “compost for what’s growing in the second half”, as one of the book’s subjects Luisah Teish, a spiritual anthropologist, aptly describes it.