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Articles, Apps and Podcasts
Podcast – This is Fifty
App: Insight Timer (meditations to soothe your soul!)
Prime Women Redefining the Over 50 Woman
How Changing Your Story Can Change Your Life by Lori Gottlieb
Do Networking Events Move the Needle for Women?
Females Founders Are Changing the World. Please Stop Calling Them “Mompreneurs”
Goldman Sachs changes policy on IPOs – must have woman board member!
Brain Pickings by Maria Popova
https://darlingmagazine.org/celebrating-women-makes-successful/
Books
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Don’t Wait to Live…Live Now by Shontelle Mixon (member)
Sound Business Bites by Margery Miller (member)
The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience by Rupert Spira
The Great Awakening: Concepts and Techniques for Successful Spiritual Practice by Dr. Michael Sharp
Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One by Dr. Joe Dispenza
Dare to Lead by Brene Brown
Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
Confessions of a Recovering Helpaholic by Margery Miller (member)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Gift of Crisis by Susan Mecca (member)
This Land of Strangers: The Relationship Crisis That Imperils Home, Work, Politics, and Faith by Robert E. Hall
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
New Power by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms
The Four-Fold Way by Angeles Arrien
Outrageous Openness by Tosha Silver
Failing Forward by John Maxwell
You Are a Bad Ass by Jen Sincero
Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte
Goddesses Never Age by Christiane Northrup
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Headstrong — Surviving a Traumatic Brain Injury without Losing My Mind by Donna Valentino (member)
Heartstrong — Overcome Obstacles and Life Life to the Fullest by Donna Valentino (member)
Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury
Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without Blowing It by Peggy Klaus
Switchers: How Smart Professionals Change Careers – and Seize Success by Dr. Dawn Graham
Bulletproof Your Career by Patricia Romboletti
Stepping Out of Line: Lessons for Women Who Want It Their Way . . . In Life, In Love, and At Work by Nell Merlino
A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives by Thupten Jinpa
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive 4th Edition by Betty Edwards
The Snow Child: A Novel by Eowyn Ivey
Quiet Mind Epic Life: Escape The Status Quo & Experience Prosperity Now by Matthew Ferry
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Golf in the Kingdom by Michael Murphy
Don’t Push the River: It Flows by Itself by Barry Stevens
When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone
In the Flow of Life by Eric Butterworth
Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing by Caroline Myss
Retirement Your Way — The No Stress Roadmap for Designing Your Next Chapter and Loving Your Future by Gail M. McDonald & Marilyn L. Bushey
Getting Love Right: Learning the Choices of Healthy Intimacy by Terence T. Gorski
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman
The Voice in the Wind by Carla Neff Gordan
The Dragon Doesn’t Live Here Anymore by Alan Cohen
4-Hour Work Week by Tom Ferriss
Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone & Benjamin Zander
God on your Own by Joseph Dispenza
Heal Your Body by Louise Hay
Intentions at Work by Ann Ranson (member)
Letters to the Scattered Brotherhood by Mary Strong
Living with the End in Mind by Erin Tierney Kramp & Douglas H. Kramp
Now Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham & Donald Clifton
On Death & Dying by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Peace is the Way by Deepak Chopra
Power of Decision by Raymond Charles Barker
Power Through Constructive Thinking by Emmet Fox
Something More. Excavating Your Authentic Self by Sarah Ban Breathnach
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
The Game of Life by Florence Scovell Shinn
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes
The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It by Warren Farrell PhD and John Gray PhD
Prince Charming Isn’t Coming:
How Women Get Smart About Money by Barbara Stanny
Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves by Kate T. Parker
Midlife Orphan: Facing Life’s Changes Now That Your Parents Are Gone by Jane Brooks
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Michael Thompson PhD and Dan Kindlon PhD
Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray by Helen Fisher
The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live them and Reach Your Potential by John Maxwell
Movies
I Am not an Easy Man
Hearts Beat Loud — loved it!
RBG – loved it!! — saw it twice!!!
On the Basis of Sex
I Feel Pretty — Amy Schumer gave us some really important things to think about!
Given (Netflix)
Hector and the Search for Happiness (Netflix)
Juanita (Netflix)
Italian for Beginners (Amazon video)
Bread and Tulips (Amazon video)
Stranger Than Fiction (not sure where to find it!)
Music
Check out our Spotify playlist!