By Karen and Erica

Please join us fo the second event in our series Visible & Vital, part of our collaboration with Revel.

Revel is a social platform and trusted space for women over age 50 to connect with new friends, online and in person, and explore a variety of experiences.

Our culture focuses on the losses that come with aging, but good things happen too. We are more patient, compassionate, less judgmental, and accept ourselves to a degree we couldn’t in our youth. While our physical beauty fades, we compensate by finding strength and courage that wasn’t there before. We’re no longer competing, we’re collaborating. In acknowledging that our need for connection is mutual, we Revelers create a welcoming environment where we can share our joys, fears, concerns, and common spirit.

With Revel, we are creating Visible & Vital: a six-part series bridging generations and geography. We will have candid conversations with compelling women who are tackling big issues that impact us all. These discussions will unite women across the country, of all ages and stages, who want to reimagine and redefine the next phase of their lives.

Our second talk on Visible & Vital airs today, Thursday, April 8, at 3 pm EDT, noon PDT. We will speak with Sharon Weinberg, of whom more below. For our first, we spoke with Stacey Rosen, a doctor revolutionizing women’s health. In later segments, we will be featuring a marine biologist who invented a remarkable, ocean-crossing, career; a major designer who understands what we want from our clothes; and an angel investor who will speak about the non-financial joys of investing in woman-owned companies. For the grand finale, Erica and Karen will talk about their careers, and the foundation those careers gave them for their adventures with Lustre.

Sharon Weinberg, grew up near New York City. She went to Johns Hopkins and Columbia Law School, practiced law for a while, married and had children. To find a job more compatible with motherhood, she switched to Investment management at JPMorgan. She rose to become a managing director--taking her children to work when she had to, teaching her colleagues that part of work/life balance was having a curious child around once in a while.

In her 50s, Sharon decided she needed a couple more gigs before she retired. She went to work for New York’s Empire State Development, which provides seed and early-venture funding to high growth startups, and then founded her own business to provide capital, mentoring and consulting to startups, and became an advisor to a mission-driven online birth control platform. Now she finds herself in another new venture—this time The Chatham Bookstore. Sharon is stylish, witty and direct, and she plans to work until she is 100. At least.

Please join us. You’ll love Revel, and Sharon, and will be inspired to do something different. Regularly!