A woman I know represents the perfect blend of patience and persistence. Widowed at a young age, she was left with little money to live on, so she had no choice but to get a job and work hard to make ends meet for herself and her children. With the savings she scraped together, she was able to buy a piece of raw land that, at the time, had no appeal for the average developer—located as it was, quite literally, on the road to nowhere. But you could not tell this woman that she had made a mistake, nor that she should sell the property and cut her losses. For nearly two decades years, the woman held onto that acreage, no matter how much she needed the modest profits a sale would bring. Eventually, her sacrifice paid off as the real estate markets caught up with her expectations and rushed way beyond, into a raging bull market. Ultimately, the woman made no less than “a killing” with the sale of the land, and immediately invested her profits in additional real estate which now generates a substantial stream of income.

Today, this woman is living in an elegant new home she designed for herself in an affluent area of Los Angeles’ posh Westside. While others are scrambling to avoid bankruptcy, foreclosure, and just plain financial meltdown, my friend is living a secure existence that she built for herself years ago when she insisted on heeding her instincts, and protecting her future.

The moral of this story is: Live for today, but save for tomorrow.

Two fully qualified and widely experienced life coaches, Lynn Hull and Julie Molner, are offering complimentary coaching to six mature and magnificent women who are seriously ready to make a significant change in their lives. They are seeking women fifty years of age or older who are new to the coaching experience; women who have dreams that haven’t been fulfilled or who have been thinking about making a change but are hesitant to proceed.

So why would these two life coaches be willing to coach six women at “no charge?”  It’s simple: Lynn and Julie share a passion for helping mature women draw on their wisdom to live fulfilling and satisfying lives no matter what their age. They also want to encourage more people to experience the power of life coaching. Hull and Molner have been on both sides, as coach and as client, and have seen firsthand the difference life coaching can make in a woman’s life. They fully realize that just the thought of change can scare people to the bone. 

Many times change, no matter how positive, can feel like leaping off a cliff. Sometimes the belief that results are too far into the future can cause avoidance to set in. Lynn and Julie have seen this in clients and experienced it themselves. With the guidance of a coach, you will set suitable goals that will be far more achievable than when going it alone.

The shared passion of Hull and Molner is so strong that it led them to co-author a book: Your Life Your Way: The Essential Guide for Women, even though they are geographically divided by thousands of miles and were both clueless as to “how” to write a book. Lynn who is British but now lives in France and Julie who is a life-long resident of Michigan in the U.S. both felt the yearning to move forward with their message to mature women, regardless of the many obstacles they encountered.  Within two years they had their book in print…proof that there is always a way—that it is never too late, and we are never too old. Each woman turned sixty while writing the book!

Lynn and Julie plan to walk alongside these magnificent women as they pursue changes, and will use their book as the coaching framework to support and encourage the women each step of the way.

You may also be wondering how they plan to do this considering the geographical distance between them. That’s also simple—remember, there’s always a way. Lynn and Julie plan to conduct three group coaching sessions (one at the outset, one mid-way, and one at the end) using teleconferencing.  In between they will provide individual coaching via telephone or computer voice service. They will also encourage the creation of a support system within the group. 

Lynn and Julie are doing this so that six worthy women will have the opportunity to experience coaching and achieve positive permanent life changes as a result.

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Edith Girard, now 80, was born in Romania. She was an active girl: skiing, ice-skating—and, by 16, a champion swimmer. Already fluent in Hungarian, German, French and Latin, it didn’t take long for her to learn English after she moved to the United States. She had prepared herself by reading English-speaking newspapers.

Romania, like the rest of Europe, went from a beautiful ski and summer destination before WWII to a Nazi-occupied prison of sorts. Edith’s father was Jewish, so she spent all of WWII hiding that fact. The end of the war was a short-lived victory for the inhabitants of that part of the world because in 1949 the Communists moved in and took over. Once again Edith’s family had to hide the fact that they were Jewish. On December 6, 1949 Edith’s father was told he had 24 hours to surrender his factory and family home. After that they were forced to live in tenement buildings.  Edith, her husband, and two children, lived in a two-room apartment.

During that period, Edith worked two or three jobs six days a week in order to make enough money to survive. Her day off was spent standing in line for nine hours to get the allotted four pounds of meat. If she wanted bread, that was another line.

Between the Nazi occupation and the Communist takeover, Edith and her family lived under these conditions for approximately 30 years. The educational and occupational opportunities were appalling and as her eldest child, a daughter, neared secondary school age it became apparent to Edith and her husband that their children would have no advantages. They made a very difficult decision to split up the family. Her husband took their daughter and escaped to Italy where he’d wait for his brother, a doctor in the United States, to secure them visas. When the time was right Edith and their son would join them stateside. It took her over three years to get the necessary visas.

Moving to the United States was a bittersweet experience; her degree in Statistical Economics was null and void. Her years of experience working in accounting were wiped clean. She had to learn English and start at the bottom rung of her profession, then work her way back up. The long years of stress from the separation and loss of her professional standing finally took their toll. Within a year of reaching the United States, she lost one of her lungs to surgery.

After working in the accounting department of Bostitch Staple for 20 years, Edith was able to retire and enjoy traveling throughout Europe, Canada, and the Western United States: Texas, Yellowstone, Seattle, Salt Lake City.

Over the years Edith has suffered from lower back pain resulting in two back surgeries earlier this year. She has started a daily regimen on the treadmill. She also does some light gardening. “Slowly” she says, “I now do everything in slow motion.”