A Higher Calling: From Flight Attendant to Book Publicist

Flying to countries all over the globe seems like a nice career, but after 35 years as a flight attendant Kathie Bennett discovered a passion closer to her heart.

For women like us who have spent numerous years creating our identities around our work or our families, taking a step in a new direction can feel like a katydid molting its exoskeleton. It’s unsettling and liberating in equal measures, possibly painful–we can’t ask the katydid–and we suspect, itchy.

In this regular feature on reinvention, we share stories of women who have scratched a new itch. We hope these stories may provide the insight and encouragement for others to leave their old skin–familiar and easy as it is–and go into a new world a little naked and scared. But not alone.

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Daughters (Many of Them) Reflect on Famous Fathers

The #MeToo movement seems to have spurred many daughters of well-known men to re-examine that key relationship in books, films, and plays.

She’s already a tireless philanthropist, activist, and author. What more can Maria Shriver possibly accomplish at 67? She tells us here.

Sick of seeing tiny teenage models in swimsuit ads? Us too. Here, 11 styles worn by REAL women—NextTribers at our recent beach retreat.

A group of NextTribers gathered to discuss a book about female pleasure and orgasms. Here are some of the ways we were shocked and liberated.

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RIP Mary Catherine Bateson, Who Saw Great Value in Women’s “Improvised Lives” »

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