Ageless Beat Blog

The Ageless Beat Blog is for audacious, conscious entrepreneurs, world shakers and change makers who want to Rock Your Age! Posts are focused on the latest news, trends, and opportunities for 40+ women and men, as well as those who serve the 40+ market. I share information, tools, resources, strategies, and visionary insights about the future, as well as personal and professional mastery, including exciting trends, principles, and strategies that will help you transform your life in ways that transform the world and create Ageless Futures Across Generations.

The Puppet Master is Powerful

Women tend to have the blessing and the curse of being invisible, especially as we approach 50 and beyond. The negative side of being invisible is the world no longer seems to notice or care about us or what we have to say—if they ever did in the first place. We seem to lose our voice […]

The Catch 22 Truth Telling

We can generally agree that telling the truth is the right thing to do in most situations. Yet often we hold back, saying what we think others want to hear, or simply holding back an opinion or idea when we suspect it won’t be well received. Of course, not all opinions should be shared, especially […]

Time vs. Voice: Whose side are you on?

It is not surprise news that I talk and write about women leaving their corporate careers to start their own businesses. Honestly, who can blame them? The glass ceiling is still in place. Then throw in the now debilitating silver ceiling into the mix and women are out the revolving doors. The economy isn’t great. […]

Telling The Truth Is A Hard Thing To Do: Part 3

Everyone is talking, but saying nothing! ~Roseanne Cash, Black Cadillac Whether it’s the Russia-Trump story, the latest of fall of a senator or an evangelical icon, we are being deluged with true stories about people who held onto truths, then fell from glory. Perhaps that’s the only way a rebalancing of power in our democracy […]

Telling The Truth Is A Hard Thing To Do: Part 2

Live a life you want! ~Seal Like so many of my peers, I was learning for the first time, that I, unlike my maternal ancestors, could make my place in the world of men as well […]

Telling The Truth Is A Hard Thing To Do: Part 1

Just a numbers game! Feeling just the same. ~Roseanne Cash, Black Cadillac album Have you ever asked yourself: Am I an imposter or the “real deal”? So many of my high-flying clients have asked just that question. Telling the truth is a hard thing to do. So sometimes we don’t. instead, we push things out […]

Right Angle Precession

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved. R. Buckminster Fuller Last weekend, I sat in the lazy Spring evening with a dear friend to say goodbye. We all gathered outside on the genteel front porch, surrounded by splashes of outrageous colors in wafting fragrance from their lovely- tended perennial […]

3 Ways Technology Will Help You THRIVE

3 Ways Technology Will Help You THRIVE by Downing Van Buren, Learn How With technology advancing at such a breakneck pace it’s easy to feel outdated, out of the loop, or left behind. It seems every day phones and computers get faster and more complicated. Maybe you’ve felt it’s just not worth trying to learn […]

Future Cast Your Long Term Success

Everyone wants long term success. But it is elusive for most. Long term success is dependent on knowing where you are now and where you are headed. Then closing the gap. Frequently. Continuously. Whether it’s your business, your career or your life at home., it’s easy to get off track, lose touch or get buried […]

Being Human Being Visionary

Visionaries are not perfect ascended beings. They make mistakes, they take the wrong path, they struggle with obstacles—in other words, they are human. Being conscious of our own visionary voices, and the visionary potential in those we lead, also requires being conscious of our own stumbling blocks, particularly those that come from within. Being an […]