Fellow over 40 creator and past show guest the incredible Sharon Gillenwater at the New Media Summit with me in Austin, Texas. When you picture a room full of content creators, what do you see? If you're anything like me, your brain immediately serves up a vision of 22-year-olds doing something I don't fully understand on TikTok. It does not conjure an image of a 43-year-old elder millennial who spent almost two decades in corporate America and got called a dinosaur at 37.

For a long time, Hollywood had a pretty clear message about aging. It was, pretty much, don’t do it. You know it. The slow fade when an actor moves from main character to supporting role to bit part. The actress who becomes invisible when she hits 35. The man whose best years are framed in the past tense. The butt of the joke. The cautionary tale. And we absorbed that messaging as a society. But over the last few years, something has been shifting. We have seen recent mov

How Corporations Are Using AI as Cover for the Biggest Pay Cut in a Generation You're being conned right now. And I need you to understand exactly how it's happening. Pinterest just announced it's cutting 15% of its workforce —780 people—explicitly to fund its "transformation into an AI-powered platform." They're reallocating $35-45 million toward AI-focused roles while eliminating hundreds of existing positions. And they're not alone. Amazon's CEO has linked recent cuts of

If you haven't been under a rock, you've likely noticed that an issue that used to be considered taboo - menopause - is suddenly...