Ashton Applewhite is a pro-aging advocate and author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism. She began blogging about ageism in 2007, speaking about it in 2012 and hasn’t stopped. Aging is not a problem to be fixed or a disease to be cured. We live in a world that encourages us not to think about aging. It’s time for a radical aging movement against ageism. And we need to start by confronting our own bias. Let’s ask ourselves how do we feel about age and aging? It’s difficult to go a day without seeing an ad for an anti-aging product or a new lifestyle to keep us young. We can’t stop getting older, but we sure can embrace it. As Ashton says, we’re all ‘Old People In-Training’.
New York Times Bestselling author Lyz Lenz is ‘reframing’ divorce and getting rid of the stigma. Her latest book, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage – and – Started My Life is a memoir/manifesto. Lyz debunks the myth of the ‘happily ever’ marriage scenario and gives us the straight talk about divorce. ‘The stigma exists because everybody is afraid of a liberated woman’.
Frances Perkins is a woman I’ve come to know, admire and am in awe of through Stephanie Dray’s newest novel Becoming Madam Secretary. The first female cabinet member in U.S. history, she was Labor Secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In a political time dominated by men, Frances Perkins was America’s leading advocate for workers’ rights and industrial safety. Fair Labor Standard Acts, Social Security…thank you Frances.
Retail pioneer and global trendsetter, Liz Lange, transformed maternity wear in 1997 and gave women the empowerment to shine. Her brand, Liz Lange Maternity, became a game-changer for celebrities and regular women alike.
In the early 2000s, Liz Lange became a household name as a retail pioneer and global trendsetter. Her licensing deals with Nike, Target, and HSN established her as a fashion icon, with her maternity collaborations and ready-to-wear line becoming wildly popular. Lange’s book, “Liz Lange’s Maternity Style: How to look Fabulous during the Most Fashion-Challenged Time,” published by Random House in 2003, further cemented her status as a fashion expert.
It started with a piggy bank, well sort of. Among Amanda’s late husband’s passions was financial wellness. Not finding anything but plastic children’s piggy banks, Amanda made her own, a solid wood piggy bank. A piggy bank with three compartments: giving, saving and spending. Her son’s financial education was not going to start in a plastic piggy bank. It was part of his father’s legacy, the Enduring Legacy Bank. And it turned out to be the start of Small Legacies.
