Reimagining Retirement, Friendships, & A Lot More with Helen Hirsh Spence

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“I'm too old to start a new career”
“I shouldn’t exercise a lot because I can easily injure myself.”
“Both of my parents died young, so I guess that’s my fate, too.”
“I’d better give up driving now, even though my eyesight is good.”
Sound familiar? Have you heard these gender myths bandied about, and maybe deep
down, you actually subscribe to some of them? That’s where Helen Hirsh Spence found
herself in her mid-sixties. She’d been an accomplished teacher, principal, and
superintendent, yet she was stuck. She wanted to move forward toward something new
and rewarding but had lost confidence in herself. She’d hit a wall—a wall she mistook
for depression. Helen started talking to her peers and discovered that many felt the
same way. What was going on? It took a while before Helen understood that she had
internalized the negative myths about older women as “over the hill,” invisible, and
incompetent. But she was none of those things. Listen to how the founder of Top Sixty
Over Sixty found her way and what she is doing now. You might be surprised.
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