Today’s guest embodies the term “young at heart.” Anyone who encounters her would describe her as joyful, funny, and spontaneous.

She calls herself a porcupine trainer – her term for the sticky situations and prickly people we all have to face on a daily basis. She is a columnist, humorist, and broadcaster.

Her Beacon Award-winning TV Show, My Home Town, formed the basis for her best selling book, “True Tales of Puget Sound.” Her podcast, Swimming Upstream, airs on the SOB Network. (SOB stands for Spunky Old Broads. The hosts are women over fifty.)

She has been an award-winning broadcaster, columnist, and speaker for the past 40 years so to call her an expert is an understatement. She has come a long way from the “unemployable” widow with six kids who couldn’t drive on the freeway on her own.

Please join me in welcoming Dorothy Wilhelm.

In this episode we discuss:

• her thoughts on leadership: “The ability to move forward even when you’re not sure you’re right and the understanding that if you lead and take people with you, you’re responsible for them.”
• her beginnings of leadership raising 6 kids who are all successful and believe she had nothing to do with it.
• how being an army wife taught her to do what you’re told to do.
• how becoming a sudden widow gave her the push to monetize her skills.
• her early goals of wanting to be a cowgirl or a singer on the radio.
• her start in radio as a creative living expert “I was Martha Stewart before she ever thought of it … AND she was a guest on my show.”
• her career beginnings in the middle of her life.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.OnTheSchmooze.com – episode 210