Giovanna Rossi interviewed me to discuss my book “Brave-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty” and “The transformative potential of embracing change. The importance of setting bold goals for personal growth. Strategies for overcoming fear and self-doubt, and much more!”
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324: How to be Brave with Lisa Niver
By Giovanna Rossi | November 30, 2023 |
https://player.captivate.fm/483dd2b1-3063-4607-9816-f9bb72f8e37b
“Hello well women! On the Well Woman Show today I interview Lisa Niver. Lisa is the author of Brave-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty and an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries and six continents. Discover her articles in publications from AARP: The Magazine and AAA Explorer to WIRED and Wharton Magazine, as well as her site WeSaidGoTravel. For her print, podcast, digital and broadcast segments, she has been awarded five Southern California Journalism Awards and three National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards. Niver is also the host of the award-winning podcast Make Your Own Map.”
We discuss today:
The transformative potential of embracing change.
The importance of setting bold goals for personal growth.
Strategies for overcoming fear and self-doubt.
The books she recommended were:
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution by Katherine Spillar
Giovanna’s episodes about turning fifty: Part 1Part 2
The WWS is thankful for support from Collective Action Strategies – a consulting firm that supports systemic change so that women and families thrive, and by the Well Woman Life Movement Challenge Quiz at wellwomanlife.com/quiz
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I met Giovanna on Women’s Equality Day 2023 in Los Angeles at the Take the Lead Conference when she was presenting “Be SELF-ish: How to set boundaries without sacrificing your career.” Kathy Spillar of Ms. Magazine accepted the Leading Media award at the conference and was also a guest on Giovanna’s NPR show.
NewsNation host Batya Ungar-Sargon talks about her new book, “The Jews and The Left,” her rift with Megyn Kelly and why antisemitism has spread like wildfire in America.
The entire toy industry in America was largely Jewish, from the company founders and executives to the designers and factory workers, from the wholesale distributors and the army of salesmen, to the retail outlets and the large department stores that sold them.
The Museum of the City of New York welcomed “The Roastmaster General” along with Katz’s Deli owner Jake Dell for a meaty talk on the Jewish deli’s legacy.
Alongside cultural outreach, the Ministry is also focusing on investors and infrastructure. Itzhakov said Israel is actively encouraging tourism-related investment through targeted meetings and investor conferences.
NewsNation host Batya Ungar-Sargon talks about her new book, “The Jews and The Left,” her rift with Megyn Kelly and why antisemitism has spread like wildfire in America.
The expanded campus will include multiple pavilions where visitors can explore the full arc of Holocaust history: the world that existed before, the horrors that unfolded during and the lasting consequences that continue to shape the present.
Historically, Jews have been accused of controlling politics, the banks and the media. I haven’t read yet that they control the weather, but that wouldn’t be any more bizarre than the other charges.
Once a society begins treating Jewish fear and/or pain as inherently dishonest, Jewish trauma as inherently political, or Jewish victimhood as uniquely undeserving of empathy, it creates a moral exception around Jews.
When we fall short — as individuals, as a people, whether everyday Jews or the Prime Minister himself — we must have the courage to face it honestly, call it what it is, and do better.
BRAVE-ish on NPR
Lisa Ellen Niver
Thank you to Giovanna Rossi for interviewing me on The Well Woman Show for NPR!
324: How To Be Brave With Lisa Niver – The Well Woman Show
Giovanna Rossi interviewed me to discuss my book “Brave-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty” and “The transformative potential of embracing change. The importance of setting bold goals for personal growth. Strategies for overcoming fear and self-doubt, and much more!” Listen Podcast324: How to be Brave with Lisa Niver
By Giovanna Rossi | November 30, 2023 |- The transformative potential of embracing change.
- The importance of setting bold goals for personal growth.
- Strategies for overcoming fear and self-doubt.
The books she recommended were: Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant 50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution by Katherine SpillarGiovanna’s episodes about turning fifty: Part 1 Part 2
The WWS is thankful for support from Collective Action Strategies – a consulting firm that supports systemic change so that women and families thrive, and by the Well Woman Life Movement Challenge Quiz at wellwomanlife.com/quiz
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