route 66 installment #1: my mini-saga begins
Nancy A Shenker
I help companies transform, re-imagine, and scale. Brand marketer, innovator, content strategist & creator, and provocateur.
I ended 2021 with the "Wild and Weird Adventures of Scooter Girl."
A "lemonade from lemons" kinda woman, I turned an unfortunate accident into an 8-installment series about living temporarily disabled and learning from that experience.
I transformed it into a LinkedIn newsletter entitled "Gratitude and Resilience." It generated 2,500 subscribers. Go figure!
But now I'm shifting my focus for 2022 into a new kind of adventure.
2022 is an interesting pin on the map that is my circuitous life and career.
But I have no map to follow.
I'm a member of that first generation of women who had economic independence, big careers AND family, longevity, and the technology innovations that enable us to work from anywhere, anytime.
No one laid out the path for what we're supposed to do once the kids are grown, the marriage and corporate career are over, and we've saved just enough money to do stuff other than play pickleball and eat early bird dinner specials.
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So, I plan to be that cartographer and create my own "route 66" and chronicle my professional and personal journeys. I own the trademark for the term Silver Hair Playbook?, which is spot-on for this guide (although my hair is still brown, except for the chemically-enhanced blonde parts).
Think of it as?Nomadland or Eat Pray Love with better clothes, a lot more snark and humor, and lots of technology to guide me along the way.
It'll be about risk-taking, midlife adventures, how to age while remaining relevant and "un-geezer-like," and staying active and employed while getting older as a woman.
Please follow along!
P.S. I "celebrated January 1st by creating a micro vision board for January (shown below...more on that to come!), going for a long power walk, filling a giant garbage bag with random 2021 "stuff," (as part of my de-cluttering goal), baking some healthy breakfast treats and visiting a book store (as in a real brick-and-mortar building).
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Founding Publisher
3 年Love the title/concept. Following!
Real Estate Associate Broker at Houlihan Lawrence
3 年Looking forward to hearing about your newest paths and reactions.
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3 年You had me at #silverhairplaybook. You are so brilliant, Nancy. I am blessed to know you.
M.Ed., Graphic, Web, Instructional Designer, (AI) Content Developer and LMS Admin. for (e)Learning.
3 年Great article, great minds think a like! The image of my new daytimer is route 66, believe it or not, as it was from a postcard I sent my brother and re-discovered after going through his things. ;’( As we both had losses in 2021, another commonality.