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Podcast: Women Who Dare

Sheehy, GailsmIn this recording of our 30-minute teleclass with best-selling Passages author Gail Sheehy, you’ll hear about women—Sheehy included—who have mastered their fear in order to achieve their potential.

Sheehy, who recently launched the “Daring Project,” encouraging women to be different so they can start dreaming dangerously, talks about what it takes to be daring and the pivotal times in her life when she was afraid to do something but overcame her fear. She’ll inspire you and give you the confidence to leave your comfort zone—and go all out for your dreams.

Listen to the complete 30-minute recording or read the transcript below.

Gail Sheehy is the author of sixteen books, including the classic New York Times best-seller “Passages,” named by the Library of Congress as one of the ten most influential books of our times. As a literary journalist, Sheehy was one of the original contributors to New Yorkmagazine, and has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1984. She a seven-time recipient of the New York Newswomen’s Club Front Page award for distinguished journalism and won the Washington Journalism Review award for “Best Magazine Writer in America.” A popular lecturer, she was named AARP’s Caregiver Ambassador in 2009.





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