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.
America’s 250th birthday arrives at a time when things have been especially lousy for Jews. But gratitude is a great Jewish value, so we’ve created a very special birthday present: an e-book with 250 reasons to be grateful for America.
Wandering through narrow streets filled with cafés, restaurants and small boutique shops, it was easy to understand why so many Israeli visitors fall in love with Greece and keep coming back or simply stay permanently.
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America is not modern Israel’s creator, and Israel is not America’s dependent. The two nations have influenced one another and benefited from one another, but the deepest roots of that relationship predate them both.
Vance is not the first political leader to lose his temper because somebody, somewhere, criticized a policy of his. And it’s not the first time the vice president has tried to bully an American ally through the tactic of public shaming.
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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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