Dawn Barton: The Exciting Life After Mid-Life

Summer Reading Series! Where did women get the idea that they should shrink back once they get to mid-life? We may not have the same beach body we had in our 20’s, but we have so much more to offer in wisdom and experience. During my conversation with Dawn Barton, she challenges the myth that it’s all downhill once you hit mid-life.  She reminds us that we are the best we have ever been. We talk about her latest book Mid-Life Battle Cry, finances, the importance of friends, how joy can come out of tremendous pain and the transformational power in community.

A multibillion-dollar direct sales company put Dawn on their Times Square billboard in the summer of 2018. In Dawn’s thirty years of sales and marketing, she has been a top producer at every company she’s worked for. Most recently, she was the #7 Sales Director in Mary Kay when she took a leap of faith and left it all to write her first book, Laughing Through the Ugly Cry. Dawn has been a public speaker for more than ten years, giving talks about cancer, joy, female empowerment, and direct sales. When she’s not encouraging other women to find joy and humor in even the most difficult of circumstances, you can find her living happily ever after in Florida, with her husband, daughter, parents, mother-in-law, two horses, four dogs, and three cats (and a partridge in a pear tree).

Connect with Dawn: https://dawnbarton.com/

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Quotes:

“I need like a flashing Vegas sign, because I question, I think we all do, question the whispers.”

*“I think I have experienced more joy than most people have because I’ve experienced more pain than most people have.”

“It is in the valleys that we know Him at a very different level.”

*“It really is in a valley that we know Him so much deeper.”

*“We’re the best we’ve ever been, it’s not the time to sit back, it’s time to step two steps forward.”

“I start getting really proactive about doing things that are positive triggers for me.”

“You do not need to be qualified for the thing that He calls you to.”

“Do not stop from pursuing your passions and the things He’s calling you to because you don’t understand the full picture. You just need one step.”