Women of a Certain Age... women in the middle of their lives

12:30pm

Registration -- Sponsor & Café Vitae Open -- Sally Geardine will host Resume writing, critiquing, interviewing tips and general tips on job search strategies available for women in transition.Bring your resume.

1:00pm

Welcome -- Drs. Carol Orsborn & Jimmy Laura Smull will present In Full Bloom -- Enjoy an inspirational and rejuvenating introduction to a mini life mastery retreat for women at midlife and beyond. The retreat delivers a message to women that is simple but transformational from personal work issues and everything in between.

2:00pm

Discussion / Break

2:15pm

Lori Hope -- "How To Support Midlife Challenges Through Compassionate Communication" -- Lori delivers messages of hope, humor and compassionate communication -- which are useful to all of us on this journey we call midlife!

3:00pm

Discussion Session / Break

3:15pm

Karen Arnold / Kevin Williams of Future Decisions - "Second Phase" How to Transcend into the Next and Possibly, Greatest Part of Your Life! This presentation includes information on Boomer Trends, the myth of retirement, and how the "New Retirement" will impact both those retiring and the organizations from which they are retiring.

4:00pm

Discussion Session / Break

4:15pm

Susan Swartz, author of "The Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living After 50" Susan talks about mid-life women as not just any woman over fifty. Midlife women have a daring and a confidence and they can be ironic about life because they've been around to see so much. At the very least, as it says in her book, "they have survived teenagers, aging parents, multiple downturns in the economy, dubious mammograms and the half century mark. And they are unstoppable".

5:00pm

Discussion Session / Break

5:15

Dr. Sally Gelardin -- It Is Never Too Late... To Be An Entrepreneur or To Find Your Calling! Founder of The Job Juggler, Sally provides up-to-date job search strategies for women in transition and strategies on starting your own business and why midlife is a great time to make these transitions.

6:00

Closing -- Drs. Carol Orsborn & Jimmy Laura Smull, In Full Bloom An opportunity to reflect on the day and what you are going to take away from this experience to put to use in your life.

6:30pm

Dinner -- Buffet -- Networking & Sponsor & Café Vitae open -- The Job Juggler at work -- resume writing & critiquing, interviewing tips and general tips on job search strategies available for women in transition. Bring your resume to be reviewed.

8:00pm

MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL ®

8:30am

Registration / Café Vitae Career Center -- resume review, interview tips, job strategies and other career services. Bring your resume. Sponsor & Vendor Tables Open / Coffee / Tea

9:45am

Welcome

10:00am

Dr. Carol Orsborn will present In Full Bloom -- Enjoy an inspirational and rejuvenating introduction to a mini life mastery retreat for women at midlife and beyond. The retreat delivers a message to women that is simple, but transformational from personal work issues and everything in between.

10:45am

Discussion Groups / Café Vitae

11:00am

Susan Swartz, author of "The Juicy Tomatoes Guide To Ripe Living After 50". Susan talks about mid-life women as not just any woman over fifty. Midlife women have a daring and a confidence and they can be ironic about life because they've been around to see so much. At the very least, as it says in her book, they "have survived teenagers, aging parents, multiple downturns in the economy, dubious mammograms and the half century mark. And they are unstoppable".

11:45am

Buffet Lunch

Café Vitae includes: resume review, interview tips, job strategies and other career services. Bring your resume.

Discussion Groups with the experts: Health Issues: weight loss, menopause, balanced life, Single: parenting, dating, Career: transition, reentry, career calling, Finance: retirement, legacy, college, Entrepreneur at Midlife, Parenting Your Parents, Who, What & Where Am I going?

1:00pm

Karen Arnold / Kevin Williams of FutureDecisions - "Second Phase" How to Transcend into the Next and, Possibly, Greatest Part of Your Life! This presentation includes information on Boomer Trends, the myth of retirement, and how the "New Retirement" will impact both those retiring and the organizations from which they are retiring.

2:00pm

Discussion Groups / Café Vitae

2:15pm

Erin Kincheloe - Money Matters For Women -- Start With The Heart as President of Cents & Sensibility, a female friendly financial planning firm, Erin offers not only her unique credentials to work with all types of individuals but her own compassion to guide women who might otherwise not seek outside assistance

2:15pm

Dr. Sally Gelardin - It Is Never To Late...To Be An Entrepreneur or To Find Your Career Calling! Founder of The Job Juggler, Sally provides up-to-date job search strategies for women in transition and strategies on starting your own business and why midlife is a great time to make these transitions.

3:00pm

Discussion Groups - Café Vitae - Sponsors & Vendor Tables Open

3:15pm

Lori Hope -- How To Support Midlife Challenges Through Compassionate Communication. Lori delivers messages of hope, humor and compassionate communication, which are useful to all of us on this midlife journey.

3:15pm

Dr. Laurie Andreoni -- Weigh Beyond Beauty -- a women's program to lighten your body and enlighten your soul. Dr. Andreoni guides women to explore the physical, emotional and spiritual aspect of their relationship with food, weight and their image.

4:00pm

Closing -- Dr. Carol Orsborn - In Full Bloom -- An opportunity to reflect on the day and what you are going to take away from this experience to put to use in your life.

4:30pm

Grace White of Grace White Productions – "Comedy that is Guaranteed!"