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Category Archives: Age Bias

Menopause and Business Women with Executive Midlife Coach Adelle Martin

Age Bias, Intercultural SparkBy shossDecember 3, 2020

Let’s talk menopause! When her male doctor said “you’ll have to choose between menopause and your high-powered career,” Executive Midlife Coach Adelle Martin decided to get to the bottom of what was happening to her body. Then 40 and experiencing early menopause, Adele embarked on a quest to fully understand why her body was changing…

The Whole Argument was in My Head

Age Bias, intercultural communicationsBy shossApril 20, 2020

There’s nothing like being stuck inside your house to take time to ruminate over things. Thinking of the perfect come back to a conversation from months ago. Configuring the perfect plan to respond to someone who offended you.   In the past you might have let it go, even forgotten. But now we have so…

Chicken soup

Checking Bias by Assuming Positive Intent

Age Bias, Unconscious StereotypesBy shossNovember 12, 2019

Every day lessons on bias. I thought I was just ordering soup. I was ordering soup at a coffee shop a few weeks ago. The young woman behind the counter could not have appeared more bored. Her head was resting on her hand. Atop her elbow that was resting on the counter. She could barely…

Boomer vs. Millennials

Making Whoopie vs. Netflix and Chill

Age Bias, Marketing, Media, Popular CultureBy shossNovember 11, 2019

Boomers vs Millennials. Or not really “versus.” We just have totally different cultural contexts. From Ellen to Oprah to Eugene Levy and his son, the Boomers and Millennials compete to see who knows more about the other.

BTS

BTS Article Exposes the Ignorance of Outsider Syndrome

Age Bias, Marketing, Media, Popular CultureBy shossNovember 8, 2019

A big ‘hullaballoo’ came across my Twitter feed this week. “Would a Person of Color (POC) be assigned an article like this for a major publication?” the chain started. The “article like this” in question was by a middle-aged reporter who was white, covering a group he was first hearing about: BTS. Beware Outsider Syndrome…

Age is Relative Short Skirt

Who Decides What You’re “Too Old” For?

Age BiasBy shossNovember 7, 2019Leave a comment

Because age is experienced differently for every person. It’s about being who you are, knowing who you are, and not trying to be something or someone else.

Shoss Intercultural Talk Midlife Crisis

Follow this One Easy Rule to Avoid a Midlife Crisis

Age Bias, Post-50 SeriesBy shossApril 24, 2019

What’s the one rule to guarantee you will avoid a midlife crisis? It’s easy! Never make a bad decision in your entire life. Midlife Empowerment Coach Bitsie Thompson says a midlife crisis is not inevitable. “Just make only good decisions every day of your life until you’re 50. That’s the best way to rest-assured that…

Do we have age bias or has technology made us too impatient?

Age Bias, IntergenerationalBy shossSeptember 21, 2018Leave a comment

I asked a male-millennial-something to take a picture of me at a recent event. I was merely closing another app before opening the camera when he starts giving multiple instructions, reaching over to tap things, and telling me which buttons to push as though it were my first time holding such a ‘newfangled doohickey.’ “Thank…

Life is an Adventure for Jerry Witkovsky

Age Bias, Intergenerational, Post-50 SeriesBy shossMay 18, 2017Leave a comment

This past March, one week before his 89th birthday, author and grandparenting activist Jerry Witkovsky was honored with Jerry Witkovsky Day in the Village of Deerfield. (Read about it here in the Chicago Tribune/Deerfield Review). This is the same Jerry Witkovsky who self-published a book in 2013, has over 1200 followers on Facebook and Twitter…

Ed Wojcicki, Lifelong Learner of Leadership and Writing

Age Bias, Post-50 SeriesBy shossApril 22, 2017Leave a comment

Ed Wojcicki likes to think of himself as one of what Studs Terkel* called, the “et ceteras of history” “They’re the billions of people who won’t even have their 15 minutes of fame…yet we have our time and place in history and what we do matters,” said Wojcicki. “They’re good parents. They’re good citizens. They’re…

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