The Viewing Room – ᘡ Adventures with the Estrogen Army ᘠ

Field Report: Sandra rebuilt her Haiti workshop & hired 5 people!

It's always exciting when we receive a field report on one of the women that we have invested in through the "Adventures with the Estrogen Army" project. This one is especially cool because it comes from the entrepreneur... Read more

Borrowing a little childhood magic to reboot a bad day

Sue Braiden
June 30, 2016June 30, 2016
Pep Talks, The Viewing Room
awe, childhood, contentedness, creativity, fun, good ideas, happiness, heart, hope, joie de vivre, joy, kindness, levity, magic, memories, movies, optimism, perspective, playfulness, reboot, reflection, reset buttons, simplicity, soul, spark, spontaneity
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You don't have to be Alexander to have a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Sometimes, you just have to get out of bed, and that's enough. So when you have one of those days, what to do? I've found that... Read more

Tomorrow is 90. Today’s the day to do it! (…or as Lorraine says: time to grab life by the balls!)

Sue Braiden
June 11, 2016June 11, 2016
Pep Talks, The Viewing Room
ageing, appetite, authenticity, boldness, dreams, empowerment, enthusiasm, fearlessness, fulfillment, happiness, hunger, joie de vivre, joy, mindfulness, New York, pep talks, perspective, procrastination, purpose, reflection, reinvention, sass, spark, video, wholeheartedness, wisdom, zest

Every now and then someone points me in the direction of an "Adventure Diva" that's is just so full of sass that I end up with tears rolling down my cheeks for hours after from laughing so hard. 90-something New... Read more

Where’s the Beef? (and how a really bad movie can be a really great tool for checking in with yourself)

Sue Braiden
May 18, 2016May 18, 2016
Good Question!, Ideas, Memetics and Blurts, The Viewing Room
adaptability, ageing, bucket list, clichés, courage, craves, disappointment, expectations, fearlessness, fulfillment, fun, good question, gutcheck, happiness, joie de vivre, levity, magic, movies, needs, playfulness, potential, self-worth, spontaneity, wit, wonder, zest

I'm always on the look-out for good Adventure Diva movies, and when I stumbled across "I'll See You in My Dreams" on Netflix, I thought I'd found one. I was wrong. The premise was a woman named Carol confronting her age,... Read more

J. K. Rowling on the Power of Failure and Imagination

Sue Braiden
March 31, 2016August 10, 2019
Diva Celebs, Later in Life, Pep Talks, The Viewing Room
adaptability, authors, boldness, capacity, commencement, courage, daring, education, empowerment, failure, graduate, Harvard, hope, imagination, inspiration, reinvention, resilience, tenacity, truth, video, vulnerability, wisdom, worthy
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As adventure divas we may be faced with similar fears: we're too old, we don't have enough money, we don't have enough courage. These old scripts that we read from don't serve us well. They become... Read more

Ballet at 84! Carla Steenkamp Sheills’ Empowering Class.

Holy Estrogen Army moment, Batwoman! I had goosebumps watching this! Think that's a funny reaction? Watch this through to the end, and tell me when Prokofiev's "Dance of the Knights" comes on you don't get it. An empowering... Read more

What do you get when you turn James Bond into a woman? An Adventure Diva nearly banned from network tv …

Okay, ladies, I'm about to stir the pot with a little Adventure Diva debate: What do you get when you turn James Bond into a woman? In this case, 1920's fictional Aussie sleuth, Phryne Fisher, and attempts to ban... Read more

What are you afraid of? (Not much after watching 82-year-old nurse-turned-action-hero, Kay D’Arcy!)

Sue Braiden
April 20, 2015August 11, 2019
Asset Building, Good Question!, Later in Life, The Viewing Room, Women Like Me
actress, ageing, Agent 88, asset building, courage, daring, determination, dignity, empowerment, England, fear, fearlessness, Hollywood, hope, inspiration, Kay D'Arcy, martial arts, nurse, open-mindedness, perspective, pioneering spirit, reinvention, resilience, tai chi, taking charge, video, wisdom
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Ten years ago, if you had asked me what I was afraid of, I would have told you: heights, a world chocolate shortage, and snakes. Today? Getting old, getting sick, being alone, being irrelevant, peeing my pants and dying. Ageing... Read more

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