Ageless Beat Blog | Karen Sands

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.

Time With Sands – Remedying Ageism In The Workplace

Are there concrete recommendations you’re suggesting for remedying ageism in the workplace? – Lisa P. Well, first of all, if you’re riding a dead horse where you’re getting pushed aside, for one thing, you need to speak up and name it. You have to name it as the ageism it is. Name it when your […]

THE FUTURE OF INTERGENERATIONAL COLLABORATION

There was a time when the older you were, the more respect you garnered, but this was also a time of disrespect to youth, when children (and women) were supposed to be seen and not heard. Then in the 1960s and 1970s, the Baby Boomers turned this notion on its head, and the mantra flipped […]

WHO DEFINES US?

The conversation you have with yourself and others in your generation will be ongoing and multifaceted, but an excellent starting point is to consider these questions: What does your future story of aging look like? When you think about getting older, how do you define what that means for you? Do you ever see yourself […]

Time With Sands – Perceptions of Age

How do our perceptions of age affect how we treat each other? -Patty S We have to take a look at this and shift our whole take on what it means to be an older person, and it also perhaps even more importantly what does it mean to be a too young and/or too old […]

RESTORING or RE-STORYING?

The more we participate in writing the ending of our own story, the more satisfied we are with the arc of our life. ~ Carolyn Conger Instead of solely focusing on restoring our youth or other aspects of our past, we can transcend age and time by re-storying instead—ourselves, our present, our future, our assumptions […]

AGELESS AGENCY: YOUR STORY OF RECKONING, RESILIENCE & REINVENTION™

I’m tripping out on getting older…my awareness is shifting…subtle shifts. I admit I’m holding on to my thought that “I’m fine with aging” BUT lately… I’m noticing now that I’m the oldest in groups, in my circles… it’s beginning to get my attention. ~ Helene S., age 45 The stories we tell ourselves and one […]

Time With Sands – Age and Entrepreneurs

Are entrepreneurs more or less effective as we get older? My 35-year old thinks that the younger ones have an edge. What are your thoughts? -Keith M Entrepreneurship is where people who are 40/50 plus are really scoring. Because of our experience, both our failures and our successes in the past, combined with our hard-earned […]

Time With Sands – Age Audits

Would you recommend that HR be responsible for age audits? Or some other person or department? -Colette S. I would rather it be the leaders at the top spearheading the call because if we don’t … you know, the old expression, the Chinese expression, “The fish stinks from the head,” right? If we’re not […]

Time With Sands – Retiring…True Measure of Success ?

Many of us grew up thinking, if you retire at 50, you’re really good. But I’m not sure that for me retirement is the end game–the true measure of success. What are your thoughts about this? -Jen P. The new narrative is: “I get the opportunity to contribute to the world through my professional […]

JANUARY 2021 ABN

The Impacts of 2020 on Women: How do we approach 2021? COVID-19 cases continue to surge and our political climate is contentious at best. At times, it’s hard to believe all that has happened this year, and it doesn’t take a crystal ball to figure out that we are living in a time that will […]