Join me this Wednesday, January 30th for an encore edition of The Heather Taylor Show, Boomer Radio in the Nation's Capital. It's designed to make this year your best yet!
Executive Recruiters: When It Comes to Job and Career Transitions, How Boomer Friendly Are They?
If you've been successful in your current job, but feel ready to make the transition to a more satisfying one, it's important to know about what skill sets you'll need and where career opportunities can be found. Ever wondered whether an executive recruiter could help you? Veteran executive recruiter Dorinda White, president of Washington, DC based Rindi Media International, joined me to help answer that and other questions about the current media job market. Her company is a creative media firm specializing in communications, marketing and public relations.
Writing in Midlife: An African-American Writer Reflects on Midlist Fiction
What's it mean to be an African-American woman writing midlist fiction today? Award-winning novelist, author and boomer Martha Southgate joined me to reflect on her perspective of the challenges of midlist African-American fiction writers today. She discussed her recent essay, "Writers Like Me," published in The New York Times in July. Her novels include Third Girl from The Left, The Fall of Rome and Another Way to Dance, and other nonfiction articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, O, Premiere and Essence.
What's Cooking?: Taking the Hassle Out of Meal Planning
Trying to get fit or prevent weight gain, but are having trouble coming up with meals that yell, "quick, healthy and delicious" this summer? We chatted with Aviva Goldfarb, author of The Six O'Clock Scramble: Quick, Healthy and Delicious Dinner Recipes for Busy Families (St. Martin's Griffin Publishers) and publisher of the subscription email newsletter of the same name (see her website).
Be sure to contact me at theheathertaylorshow@yahoo.com Stay tuned for a brand new lineup of shows in February!
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Power of Attraction: Calling All Boomers to the Peace Corps and New Rules for Marketing to America's Largest, Wealthiest and Most Influential
Be sure to join me on Wednesday, January 23rd at noon for a lively discussion of Boomers and the Peace Corps and how to tap the Boomer market, what author Matt Thornhill describes as America's largest, wealthiest and most influential group. (A rebroadcast from October 3, 2007.)
The "Hardest Job You'll Ever Love": The Peace Corps Wants Boomers
If the words Peace Corps only conjure up images of twentysomethings working in rural villages, think again. While today's Peace Corps still recruits college-aged adults, energy and effort is now being used to recruit Boomers because of our experience and wisdom. As organizers put it, "the end of work can be the beginning of adventure. With a public service twist." Join me for a conversation with two Peace Corps volunteers (one who returned to the field when she was 64 years old!) about the Corps' nearly 50 year history and its mission today.
The Secret to Attracting the Boomer Market
Matt Thornhill, co-founder of The Boomer Project and co-author of Boomer Consumer, Ten New Rules for Marketing to America's Largest, Wealthiest and Most Influential Group offers insights on how entrepreneurs and other business leaders can attract today's enormous Boomer market.
At 7 p.m. at Olsson's Books & Records-Penn Quarter, 418 Seventh Street, NW, please join me as I moderate a panel discussion entitled, "What's Next? Finding Satisfaction in Our Work and Personal Lives." The panelist include Ginger Pape, co-author with Diana Holman of Repotting,
10 Steps for Redesigning Your Life, and Julie Jansen, author of I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This. (See earlier blog entry for more details.)
And please keep in touch! Email me at theheathertaylorshow@yahoo.com.
Heather Taylor
Host and Executive Producer
The Heather Taylor Show
Boomer Radio in the Nation's Capital
WMET 1160 AM
http://www.heathertaylorshow.com/
http://whatsnextradio.blogspot.com/
The "Hardest Job You'll Ever Love": The Peace Corps Wants Boomers
If the words Peace Corps only conjure up images of twentysomethings working in rural villages, think again. While today's Peace Corps still recruits college-aged adults, energy and effort is now being used to recruit Boomers because of our experience and wisdom. As organizers put it, "the end of work can be the beginning of adventure. With a public service twist." Join me for a conversation with two Peace Corps volunteers (one who returned to the field when she was 64 years old!) about the Corps' nearly 50 year history and its mission today.
The Secret to Attracting the Boomer Market
Matt Thornhill, co-founder of The Boomer Project and co-author of Boomer Consumer, Ten New Rules for Marketing to America's Largest, Wealthiest and Most Influential Group offers insights on how entrepreneurs and other business leaders can attract today's enormous Boomer market.
At 7 p.m. at Olsson's Books & Records-Penn Quarter, 418 Seventh Street, NW, please join me as I moderate a panel discussion entitled, "What's Next? Finding Satisfaction in Our Work and Personal Lives." The panelist include Ginger Pape, co-author with Diana Holman of Repotting,
10 Steps for Redesigning Your Life, and Julie Jansen, author of I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This. (See earlier blog entry for more details.)
And please keep in touch! Email me at theheathertaylorshow@yahoo.com.
Heather Taylor
Host and Executive Producer
The Heather Taylor Show
Boomer Radio in the Nation's Capital
WMET 1160 AM
http://www.heathertaylorshow.com/
http://whatsnextradio.blogspot.com/
What's Next? Finding Satisfaction at Work and in Our Personal Lives: The Second in a Monthly Author Event at Olsson's Books & Records in DC
Wondering what's next for you in the quest to find and balance our work and personal lives? Join me Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 7 p.m. to explore that question at the second in a series of monthly panel discussions sponsored by Olsson's Books & Records and The Heather Taylor Show, Boomer Radio in the Nation's Capital. Entitled, "What's Next? Finding Satisfaction in Our Work and Personal Lives", this month's panel features Ginger Pape, co-author with Diana Holman of Repotting, 10 Steps for Redesigning Your Life and Julie Jansen, author of I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This.
For every woman who feels stuck in her current life, there is now an answer: “repotting.” Repotting 10 Steps for Redesigning Your Life is for 21st-century women who don’t need a better daily planner—they need a better life. Diana Holman and Ginger Pape offer answers to the question: “How do I change my life?” No matter where you are on your life’s journey, the ten-step process helps in the development of a personal repotting plan.
I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This is the perfect guide if you want to find gratifying work but aren’t sure how to get started. Author Julie Jansen, now in her fifth career, gives simple, actionable steps for six situations that are typical of disgruntled workers (i.e., where’s the meaning; bored and plateaued; and yearning to be on your own) in this inexpensive manual. Taking you step-by-step through the process, Jansen urges readers to start by looking inward.
Hope to see you there!
Heather Taylor
Host and Executive Producer
The Heather Taylor Show
Boomer Radio in the Nation's Capital
http://www.heathertaylorshow.com/
http://whatsnextradio.blogspot.com
For every woman who feels stuck in her current life, there is now an answer: “repotting.” Repotting 10 Steps for Redesigning Your Life is for 21st-century women who don’t need a better daily planner—they need a better life. Diana Holman and Ginger Pape offer answers to the question: “How do I change my life?” No matter where you are on your life’s journey, the ten-step process helps in the development of a personal repotting plan.
I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This is the perfect guide if you want to find gratifying work but aren’t sure how to get started. Author Julie Jansen, now in her fifth career, gives simple, actionable steps for six situations that are typical of disgruntled workers (i.e., where’s the meaning; bored and plateaued; and yearning to be on your own) in this inexpensive manual. Taking you step-by-step through the process, Jansen urges readers to start by looking inward.
Hope to see you there!
Heather Taylor
Host and Executive Producer
The Heather Taylor Show
Boomer Radio in the Nation's Capital
http://www.heathertaylorshow.com/
http://whatsnextradio.blogspot.com
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Conquering the Fear Factor: Retirement and Empty Nesting
On this week's edition of The Heather Taylor Show, we'll tackle the fear factor: how to retire fearlessly, and how to make a comfortable transition from a home inhabited by our children to an "empty nest". (The show is a rebroadcast from October 31, 2007.)
Scarier Than Ghosts and Goblins?
What's scarier than ghosts and goblins on Halloween? Not being ready for retirement! But taking away the fear doesn't simply involve smart financial planning, according to Randy Burnham, clinical psychologist and co-founder of My Next Phase, a retirement planning company. Burnham is a co-author of a new book, My Next Phase, The Personality-Based Guide to Your Best Retirement. He joins me to talk about how "personality, not your bank account, holds the key to a successful retirement."
Entering the Empty Nest Phase With Confidence
How many women are emotionally ready for the so-called empty nest stage of their lives? According to clinical psychologist and journalist Dr. Carin Rubenstein, the answer is most of the 30 million American women between the ages of 40 and 60. Through intensive research and conducting over one thousand interviews, Rubenstein discovered that Boomer women are "redefining themselves, reconnecting to friends, jobs and spouses, and creating full, rich lives afer their mommy roles have waned." Dr. Rubenstein joins me to talk about her new book, Beyond the Mommy Years, How to Live Happily Ever After...After the Kids Leave Home.
For those listeners in the Washington, DC area, be sure to attend the second of a monthly series of book events sponsored by The Heather Taylor Show and Olsson's Books & Records. I'll be moderating an hour long Q & A author book event. Here are the details:
Wednesday, January 23, 2008, 7pm
Olsson's-Penn Quarter, 418 7th St. NW
Washington, DC
202-638-7610
Panel Discussion led by Heather Taylor with Ginger Pape & Julie Jansen
Heather Taylor, host of The Heather Taylor Show, Boomer Radio in the Nation’s Capital on WMET 1160 AM moderates a Q & A event with Ginger Pape, co-author with Diana Holman of Repotting and Julie Jansen, author of I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This, about finding satisfaction and balance in our work and personal lives.
For every woman who feels stuck in her current life, there is now an answer: “repotting.” Repotting: 10 Steps for Redesigning Your Life is for 21st-century women who don’t need a better daily planner—they need a better life. Diana Holman and Ginger Pape give you the answers to the question: “How do I change my life?” No matter where you are on your life’s journey, you can apply the ten-step process and come away with a personal repotting plan.
I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This is the perfect guide if you want to find gratifying work but aren’t sure how to get started. Author Julie Jansen, now in her fifth career, gives simple, actionable steps for six situations that are typical of disgruntled workers (i.e., where’s the meaning; bored and plateaued; and yearning to be on your own) in this inexpensive manual. Taking you step-by-step through the process, Jansen urges readers to start by looking inward.
Have a great week and keep in touch!
Heather Taylor
website: http://www.heathertaylorshow.com/
email: theheathertaylorshow@yahoo.com
Scarier Than Ghosts and Goblins?
What's scarier than ghosts and goblins on Halloween? Not being ready for retirement! But taking away the fear doesn't simply involve smart financial planning, according to Randy Burnham, clinical psychologist and co-founder of My Next Phase, a retirement planning company. Burnham is a co-author of a new book, My Next Phase, The Personality-Based Guide to Your Best Retirement. He joins me to talk about how "personality, not your bank account, holds the key to a successful retirement."
Entering the Empty Nest Phase With Confidence
How many women are emotionally ready for the so-called empty nest stage of their lives? According to clinical psychologist and journalist Dr. Carin Rubenstein, the answer is most of the 30 million American women between the ages of 40 and 60. Through intensive research and conducting over one thousand interviews, Rubenstein discovered that Boomer women are "redefining themselves, reconnecting to friends, jobs and spouses, and creating full, rich lives afer their mommy roles have waned." Dr. Rubenstein joins me to talk about her new book, Beyond the Mommy Years, How to Live Happily Ever After...After the Kids Leave Home.
For those listeners in the Washington, DC area, be sure to attend the second of a monthly series of book events sponsored by The Heather Taylor Show and Olsson's Books & Records. I'll be moderating an hour long Q & A author book event. Here are the details:
Wednesday, January 23, 2008, 7pm
Olsson's-Penn Quarter, 418 7th St. NW
Washington, DC
202-638-7610
Panel Discussion led by Heather Taylor with Ginger Pape & Julie Jansen
Heather Taylor, host of The Heather Taylor Show, Boomer Radio in the Nation’s Capital on WMET 1160 AM moderates a Q & A event with Ginger Pape, co-author with Diana Holman of Repotting and Julie Jansen, author of I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This, about finding satisfaction and balance in our work and personal lives.
For every woman who feels stuck in her current life, there is now an answer: “repotting.” Repotting: 10 Steps for Redesigning Your Life is for 21st-century women who don’t need a better daily planner—they need a better life. Diana Holman and Ginger Pape give you the answers to the question: “How do I change my life?” No matter where you are on your life’s journey, you can apply the ten-step process and come away with a personal repotting plan.
I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This is the perfect guide if you want to find gratifying work but aren’t sure how to get started. Author Julie Jansen, now in her fifth career, gives simple, actionable steps for six situations that are typical of disgruntled workers (i.e., where’s the meaning; bored and plateaued; and yearning to be on your own) in this inexpensive manual. Taking you step-by-step through the process, Jansen urges readers to start by looking inward.
Have a great week and keep in touch!
Heather Taylor
website: http://www.heathertaylorshow.com/
email: theheathertaylorshow@yahoo.com
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep: Saving for Retirement and "Test-Driving" That Dream Job
Greetings for the New Year!
We'll begin 2008 with a month of encore presentations of The Heather Taylor Show, Boomer Radio in the Nation's Capital. Here's a preview of the next broadcast on
Wednesday, January 9, 2008 from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m.:
Sensible Strategies to Help You Save for Retirement
Saving for retirement is easier than you think. That's the encouraging message of Dallas Salisbury, President and CEO of Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). He joins me to offer a dose of practical, demystified advice about the often complex world of preparing for saving and retirement in the Boomer bonus decades. (www.ebri.org)
"Test Driving" That Dream Job
If you've often wondered about what might have been when it comes to your own particular career path, Brian Kurth asks you to consider a vacation--a special kind of vacation. In the second half of the show, the Founder and President of Vocation Vacations Brian Kurth joins me to share his company's prescription for helping you to explore ways to make your worklife dreams come true. The key is a risk-free, "vocation vacation"--a novel approach to find out what it might be like to realize that dream, whatever it is--wine bar owner, talent agent, sports announcer, chocolatier, choreographer, architect--the sky's the limit. (His new book, Test Drive Your Dream Job: A Step by Step Guide to Finding and Creating the Work You Love has just been published by Hachette Group USA.) (www.vocationvacations.com)
We'll begin 2008 with a month of encore presentations of The Heather Taylor Show, Boomer Radio in the Nation's Capital. Here's a preview of the next broadcast on
Wednesday, January 9, 2008 from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m.:
Sensible Strategies to Help You Save for Retirement
Saving for retirement is easier than you think. That's the encouraging message of Dallas Salisbury, President and CEO of Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). He joins me to offer a dose of practical, demystified advice about the often complex world of preparing for saving and retirement in the Boomer bonus decades. (www.ebri.org)
"Test Driving" That Dream Job
If you've often wondered about what might have been when it comes to your own particular career path, Brian Kurth asks you to consider a vacation--a special kind of vacation. In the second half of the show, the Founder and President of Vocation Vacations Brian Kurth joins me to share his company's prescription for helping you to explore ways to make your worklife dreams come true. The key is a risk-free, "vocation vacation"--a novel approach to find out what it might be like to realize that dream, whatever it is--wine bar owner, talent agent, sports announcer, chocolatier, choreographer, architect--the sky's the limit. (His new book, Test Drive Your Dream Job: A Step by Step Guide to Finding and Creating the Work You Love has just been published by Hachette Group USA.) (www.vocationvacations.com)
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