Reimagining Retirement, Friendships, & A Lot More with Helen Hirsh Spence

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“I'm too old to start a new career”“I shouldn’t exercise a lot because I can easily injure myself.”“Both of my parents died young, so I guess that’s my fate, too.”“I’d better give up driving now, even though my eyesight is good.”Sound familiar? Have you heard these gender myths bandied about, and maybe deepdown, you actually subscribe to some of them? That’s where Helen Hirsh Spence foundherself in her mid-sixties. She’d been an accomplished teacher, principal, andsuperintendent, yet she was stuck. She wanted to move forward toward something newand rewarding but had lost confidence in herself. She’d hit a wall—a wall she mistookfor depression. Helen started talking to her peers and discovered that many felt thesame way. What was going on? It took a while before Helen understood that she hadinternalized the negative myths about older women as “over the hill,” invisible, andincompetent. But she was none of those things. Listen to how the founder of Top SixtyOver Sixty found her way and what she is doing now. You might be surprised.helen@topsixtyoversixtyhttps://www.topsixtyoversixty.com/our-people/https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-hirsh-spence-a029a010/?originalSubdomain=cahttps://www.facebook.com/helen.hirshspence/