Women may be considered irrelevant after 40 but should we be?

Published: Jan. 30, 2018, 10:30 a.m.

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Show Highlights

Terri loves to participate and attend events organized by women because they tend to send home goodies as parting gifts.

Terri and Jacqueline talk about how their kids are being more difficult and angsty; Jacqueline\\u2019s daughter Julia is stepping into her own and is encountering resistance with Jacqueline and her other daughter Naomi. \\xa0Terri is experiencing something similar with her daughter Rachel and they are both struggling with the shift. \\xa0\\xa0

Jacqueline talk about the importance of recognizing when others are disrupting the pattern and shifting with the pattern disruption.

Terri talks about how hard she works to have a better relationship with her children as they go through their teenage years and her need to have a more harmonious situation than she had with her parents. \\xa0

Terri talks about how hard it is to redefine who she is as her kids need her less and as she ages and is often overlooked or dismissed because of her age and appearance

They talk about an article that came out citing that women over the age of 50 have so much to offer when starting up a company

Jacqueline talks about having known some women over the age of 40 who knew what they wanted and stood stall with who they were; she had good role models for aging

Jacqueline talks about how scary it is as a parent to let go of managing your kids and letting them figure it out on their own. \\xa0\\xa0

As their kids are getting older, and are pulling away, it is acting as a great reminder to let go and focus more on themselves. \\xa0\\xa0

Jacqueline talks about being a fangirl to marketing consultants instead of popstars

Terri talks about her mentoring at the CSU Biotechnology Symposium students in Santa Clara, CA

Terri talks about how often she gets dismissed in her investing work when people find out her degrees are from a Cal State school and expressed thanks to Neil Stanley for commenting that he wonders how anyone could ever dismiss her. \\xa0

Terri talks about how she is proud of being a helicopter pilot, being a Tesla early adopter and how she often uses these things when she isn\\u2019t grabbing the attention of others in her work and investing. \\xa0The men perk up when they otherwise dismiss her. \\xa0\\xa0

Terri shares her conversation with her friend Eva who is a new mom and who is concerned about being able to contribute to the women\\u2019s movement at the same level and Terri reminded her that her focus needs to be on raising her child and eventually she will have time to give back at the level that she wants. She reminded Eva that there are ebbs and flows to the time that is available to contribute at more extensive levels. And that creating good members of society is an important role in society.

Jacqueline talks about how being a parent is a boot camp for other things in life. \\xa0

Terri talks about how as parents we have to get outside of ourselves to learn how to coach, mentor and guide our children so that they know how to think and act independently when they leave the house college. \\xa0

Terri talks about how she was drunk the first semester of college as a result of her parents having been incredibly strict. \\xa0She sobered up her second semester and ended up engaged but not focused on school. \\xa0The drug/alcohol options were so limited at that time versus what is available now both in high school and college. \\xa0\\xa0Terri is using the show Grown-ish to feed her information to have conversations with her son Adam. \\xa0\\xa0

Terri talks about how we are in this fabulous place of change and we have huge opportunities to make a significant shift. \\xa0Jacqueline responded with how we have been focused externally and now we have an opportunity to focus internally. \\xa0\\xa0

Jacqueline talks to how important it is to practice compassion as we make this shift \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0

Words of wisdom

Practice radical compassion for yourself

Continue to grow and develop

You are an individual with needs, desires, and dreams and there is going to be an ebb and flow to available time and energy. \\xa0Remain in tune with who you are\\u2026remain the pilot in your own life regardless of who is in your aircraft. \\xa0\\xa0

Terri talks how important it was to her to share her vulnerability over the loss of her friend\\u2019s husband over the weekend and how importance it is for her to have her kids see her being vulnerability. Terri continues to strip away the adaptations that no longer serve her and continue to redefine who she is and her own definition of success. \\xa0

Jacqueline talks about how women are able to process both the emotional and the rational and yet men are not able to do both at the same time. \\xa0And men are not able to recognize that women can do both. \\xa0\\xa0

Feel free to reach out to Terri and Jacqueline if you need help feeling empowered. \\xa0\\xa0

They both send out a little extra love and compassion. \\xa0



Call to Action

If you want to come and co-work with Terri and Jacqueline at Terri\\u2019s house in Redwood City. send an email to PilotingYourLife@gmail.com and we will figure out how to make it happen. \\xa0\\xa0



References in the Podcast

Aviation cocktail: \\xa0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_(cocktail)

Helsin Gin: \\xa0https://www.macwellcreative.fi/helsingin

OP Financial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OP_Financial_Group

TheVault: \\xa0https://www.thevault.co/

NAWBO: https://www.nawbo.org/san-francisco-bay-area

Neil Stanley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiljstanley/

Black-ish: \\xa0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-ish

Grown-ish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grown-ish

Jaycees: \\xa0http://www.usjayceefoundation.org/

Mario Martinez: \\xa0https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Weightlifting/Features/2018/January/15/Remembering-Mario-Martinez



Contact

You can follow Jacqueline on Twitter at @jacquelineStee or find her on her website at www.jacquelinesteenhuis.com.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:\\u202f https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.\\u202f

Feel free to email Terri at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.



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