About KarenWith an extensive background and proven track record in the business world, Karen has developed and facilitated hundreds of personal and professional enrichment programs for company owners, senior executives, sales and marketing professionals and trainers in the United States and in Europe and she currently serves as an Advisor for United Senior Resource Center.
Karen’s book, Quality of Life: The 5 Stages of Retirement Success is available through book stores nationwide and on line, as well as through this website.
Karen and her husband live in South Bend, Indiana and have three daughters and ten grandchildren.
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One of my husbands new retirement hobbies is cooking. We'll try to share some of our favorites regularly. Enjoy!
Bruschetta al Pomodoro (Ray’s)
Ingredients
8 seeded, chopped roma tomatoes
5 leaves chopped fresh basil
2 cloves minced garlic
1 pinch dried oregano
1 dash crushed red pepper
1 pinch salt
1 jar garlic salt
1 pinch ground black pepper
1 jar olive oil
1 loaf Forest Rye Bread
Instructions
1. Preheat the grill
2. In a mixing bowl, combine the tomatoes, basil, garlic, oregano, red pepper, salt, pepper. Allow the mixture to sit for 10 minutes.
3. Slice the bread. Arrange the slices in a single layer on the grill. Using a brush coat the first side with olive oil and sprinkle with garlic salt. Grill the bread until the bottom starts to brown. Turn the bread over and coat with just olive oil.
4. Spread the tomato mixture on the slices.
5 Stages of Retirement Success
Through the process of developing self-awareness, encouraging exploration and embracing self-discovery, Quality of Life was written to inspire others to enjoy a meaningful retirement life that encompasses f
amily, leisure, self-expression, and contribution.
Please walk with me through
"Preretirement" to ....
"The First Year" to ....
"Moving Forward" to ....
"Live Life!" to ....
"Leaving a Legacy", ready to grasp the opportunities you will find.
Reading from your own perspective, I hope you will find yourself looking forward to your future, valuing your past, and enthusiastically living in the present to become a person you truly want to be.
Adventure Opportunities Purpose
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Next Book: Working My Way to Wonderful
(coming in Fall 2010)
Testimonials
"Karen's message touched our minds and our hearts and inspired me to take action. Her true talent is the ability to help her audience erase self-doubt, feel empowered and take action. Her dynamic insights and powerful advice has inspired me to go beyond what I ever imagined"
Amy Tuttle-Hellwig, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Training Manager and Conference Particpant
"She will help her readers and audiences to find the path to their own success, to look forward with an optimistic view of life, and to enjoy every moment of life."
Despina Platie, Athens, Greece
International Marketing and Public Relations
I believe that in my life, I will never again come across a person with such ability to transmit enthusiasm, empathy, and so professionally skilled at conveying messages....An energy giver.
Rosanna Cassamassima, Rimini, Italy
International Export and Marketing Consultant
"Quality of Life is more than a nuts-and-bolts, matter of fact retirment planning guide: it's advice from someone who's 'been there and done that' --and who cares."
Kim Nowatske, La Porte, Indiana, U.S.A.
Editorial Director, Family Ties Magazine
"Quality of Life is a book that sheds a whole new light on retirment. Though my retirement is many years away, I found myself realizing, for the first time, retirment isn't about 'not working'. It's an amazing new opportunity and journey."
Traci Capellman-DuVal, Elkhart, Indiana USA
Anchor, Fox 28 News
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Excerpts from Quality of Life
Message to My Readers
It is my pleasure to introduce myself and to share a little bit about my life with you. I am a wife, mother, grandmother, and daughter. I am also an entrepreneur, a conference host, a motivational speaker, a writer, and a mentor.
After thirty years in Corporate America I retired and after enjoying a prosperous, meaningful career life that gave me the opportunity to touch the lives of hundreds of people and to help them discover their own potential and to realize their own future. My husband and I spent a number of years commuting back and forth from our home in South Bend, Indiana, to Milan, Italy, and to Athens, Greece, where I enjoyed the opportunity to work with some wonderful people and to experience new cultures and new business opportunities.
My personal mission includes motivation, inspiration, and a deep desire to express myself in ways that help others discover themselves. I want to motivate, to inspire, and to guide other people through my writing, my seminars, and through my individual coaching to help them discover themselves and to strive to be the best they can be.
I want to create and to maintain a balance in life that supports a successful retirement that includes family, leisure, self-expression, and personal contribution. I want to make a difference in the lives of other people.
Through the launching of my first book, Quality of Life: The Five Stages of Retirement Success, I want to help you to discover your best self. Through the depth of my own experiences and the experiences of others who have shared so generously of themselves, I invite you to walk with me from preretirement planning, to the first year of discovery, to moving forward, to living our lives to the fullest, to leaving a legacy.
I sincerely hope you will enjoy reading Quality Of Life and that in some small way you will be inspired as you join me in our journey into our future. Please know that I have thought of you often as I wrote this book, and I have even imagined who you are and whom you will become. Just as the experience of writing this book has inspired me, I hope to inspire you. Together we can explore and discover, we can choose to wander off life’s everyday path, and each of us can become the person God intended us to be.
(new excerpts published regularly)
Excerpts from Quality of Life It is my pleasure to introduce myself and to share a little bit about my life with you. I am a wife, mother, grandmother, and daughter. I am also an entrepreneur, a conference host, a motivational speaker, a writer, and a mentor. After thirty years in Corporate America I retired and after enjoying a prosperous, meaningful career life that gave me the opportunity to touch the lives of hundreds of people and to help them discover their own potential and to realize their own future. My husband and I spent a number of years commuting back and forth from our home in South Bend, Indiana, to Milan, Italy, and to Athens, Greece, where I enjoyed the opportunity to work with some wonderful people and to experience new cultures and new business opportunities.
My personal mission includes motivation, inspiration, and a deep desire to express myself in ways that help others discover themselves. I want to motivate, to inspire, and to guide other people through my writing, my seminars, and through my individual coaching to help them discover themselves and to strive to be the best they can be. I want to create and to maintain a balance in life that supports a successful retirement that includes family, leisure, self-expression, and personal contribution. I want to make a difference in the lives of other people. Through the launching of my first book, Quality of Life: The Five Stages of Retirement Success, I want to help you to discover your best self. Through the depth of my own experiences and the experiences of others who have shared so generously of themselves, I invite you to walk with me from preretirement planning, to the first year of discovery, to moving forward, to living our lives to the fullest, to leaving a legacy. I sincerely hope you will enjoy reading Quality Of Life and that in some small way you will be inspired as you join me in our journey into our future. Please know that I have thought of you often as I wrote this book, and I have even imagined who you are and whom you will become. Just as the experience of writing this book has inspired me, I hope to inspire you. Together we can explore and discover, we can choose to wander off life’s everyday path, and each of us can become the person God intended us to be.
(new excerpts published regularly)
Message to My Readers
