My guest today is an active participant in the Cool Retired Women’s Club private Facebook group! She is from Canada and currently lives in California with her husband, Daniel. Linda Green Dupre has created an active and involved life since re

14: Nobody Else’s Footsteps Lead  Exactly Where You Are Going 

Feb 5th, 2020 12m 17s

Each of us has created a unique belief system and reality. It’s how we choose to live our lives. The speed and direction of your journey are determined by…Y.O.U. No one else. Nobody else’s footsteps lead exactly where you are going. Most o

13: The Importance of A Moment

Jan 22nd, 2020 12m 29s

Did you know you have the power to change your attitude and response, rather than react to things that happen around you and to you? Even when we are 50 60, 70, or 80 years old, we are still reacting to negative actions, words, and emotions th

12: I Am Mickie Zada

Jan 15th, 2020 9m 26s

Come on a short journey into the past with me: Imagine sitting in meditation, calm, relaxed, listening; it was about five in the morning, my quiet time. It was also about two years after leaving my marriage, and I was working on discovering M

11: This Woman Re-tired. Now She is Re-Fired!

Jan 8th, 2020 26m 9s

My guest is a member of the Cool Retired Women’s Club Facebook community … She is actually one of the very first Cool Women to join the Club!   As a little background, this amazing woman taught elementary school for 4 years, then married and s

10: See What You Learn by Doing One New Thing a Week

Jan 1st, 2020 7m 55s

Because of life choices, lack of confidence in myself, and a poor grasp of the parameters of healthy relationships, at the age of 53, I discovered I did not know who I was. Suddenly, I discovered that I could not say what I liked, what I wante

09: Instead, I Focused on What to Do Next

Dec 25th, 2019 7m 15s

Instead, I Focused on What to Do Next Some people seem to be on a Path the moment they are born: They Know what they’re here for and they focus on that reality. Others, like me, had no clue “what I’ll be when I grow up” … until I was pretty muc

08: This 36-Year-Old Designs Cool Clothes for Old Ladies

Dec 18th, 2019 27m 20s

This 36-Year-Old Designs Cool Clothes for Old Ladies “I had always wanted to impress my Grandmother”, my guest told me. “And, I am excited to be 60…I’ll be a criminal and I’ll get away with it because I’m old and cute!” This spunky young woma

07: 3 Ways to Avoid Eating All 36 Cookies

Dec 11th, 2019 11m 28s

When I was 53 and newly divorce, I was prone to get up out of bed at 2 a.m., get dressed, grab my car keys and drive to the nearest 24-hour store (4 miles away) to get a donut! Once, I received a huge box of Ghirardelli chocolates as a holida

06: The Only Way to do Great Work is to Love What You Do

Dec 4th, 2019 10m 22s

Often, because we are retired, we think we’ve exhausted our usefulness. We think we’ve provided all we can, that we have nothing more of importance to offer. Wrong! In this episode, Mickie discusses using her new-found passion and love for c

05: I Knew Where I Didn’t Want to Be Anymore

Nov 27th, 2019 32m 54s

Prior to retirement, my guest was a school teacher and counselor. When near retirement age, her father passed away and her mother was diagnosed with cancer. With her husband’s support, her decision was to retire, at age 48, to spend time wit

04: Here’s the Reality: My life has Become a Joke

Nov 20th, 2019 6m 8s

We’ve all laughed at jokes about old ladies walking along, completely misunderstanding each other, carrying on what seems from the outside to be a disconnected, yet ludicrously funny, conversation. In cartoons, the ladies are wearing big hats

03: I’m Not Retired: I Am RE-FIRED

Nov 12th, 2019 7m 54s

Re-tire-ment. I left my business career two years ago. It was with great joy and some trepidation that I stopped “working”. Isn’t that interesting? When we leave a career for retirement, it’s said that we stopped working. Society apparently

02: Mickie Isn’t Smart Enough to Go to College

Nov 12th, 2019 7m 6s

Somehow the hustle and bustle of life and in dealing with household and health situations, “other-ness” takes over. Especially as women our age, we often fell into roles of meeting external expectations … over the years, who we are got lost. W

01: Introducing Cool Retired Women's Club

Nov 1st, 2019 6m 5s

Time is an illusion. When we retire, we are catapulted into that reality. Somehow, suddenly, we became O.L.D. Not in our minds, but in the mirror…and in the faces of young people. When we retire we are forced to admit this fact: we have mo

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