This Week on WomanTalk Live: “Secrets to Making the Most of the Second Half of Life” with Barbara Schiffman

Barbara Schiffman

My guest this week, Barbara Schiffman, has lead one busy life.

At age 21, she loaded all of her worldly possessions into a U-Haul, bid her native Chicago farewell in the rear view mirror, and headed to L.A. to find work in Hollywood.

What unfolded for her has gone far beyond her expectations, including meeting her soon-to-be husband, Glenn, when she got  a job working with music legend Kenny Loggins, becoming the mother of an extraordinary daughter, and enjoying a life filled with adventures and miracles ever since.

Barbara’s worked with A-list talent and top Hollywood firms like Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Dreamworks, Harpo Productions, HBO, Miramax, and United Talent Agency (UTA), to name just a few.

From the late 1970’s through the 1990’s, her role as a busy Hollywood script consultant and creative producer was in the foreground, but behind the scenes she also focused on her quest for personal development and spiritual evolution, as well as on her family.

Since 1995, she has transitioned from working with fictional Hollywood stories designed to inspire people to improve their lives to supporting what she calls “true stories in progress” as a life and career coach, and most recently as a life & soul coach.  Her mission is to help people expand their lives from “the inside out and the outside in.”

Now in her sixties and just beginning her “second act,” Barbara continues learning new life lessons and spreading more Joy in the world every day. Experience plus observation has helped her create unique life balance coaching programs for cultural creatives, social entrepreneurs and just plain folks who are actively seeking resilient and exhilarating lives.

The books she has written and contributed to, especially her own Living in Balance for Boomers: Secrets to Making the Most of the Second Half of Life, are helpful life improvement manuals for people on every continent and in every age group. 

A Hypnosis Motivation Institute (HMI) trained Certified Hypnotherapist, a Certified Akashic Records Teacher/Advanced Practitioner and a Life & Soul Coach, Barbara excels at translating scientific methods, New Thought perspectives and ancient wisdom into supportive tools for everyday people to experience more balance and peace in their lives. She is a gifted and insightful teacher on the subject of balanced, successful living.

Tune in this week, regardless of your age, and find out how to recharge your energy bank to increase your Positivity reserves.  Create the balance you need so that you can take care of yourself and enjoy your life to the fullest.  That’s good news for any age.

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Justina Chen

Be sure to check out last week’s show – Survival Guide for the Blindsided and Brokenhearted – when I talked with award-winning young adult author, Justina Chen, about her first book, What Now?, a marching order survival guide for getting through the first thirty days and moving on after shock and heartbreak… based on an amazing personal experience.

If you missed the show or you want to share it with a friend, it’s in the podcast archive now.  It’s the June 22nd show!