Reading: #89: How To Reinvent During a Pandemic (Dr. Cecilia Dintino and Hannah Murray Starobin)

“Women 50, 60, 70, 80 have already experienced so much uncertainty, have already had so many rugs pulled out from under our feet, that [we] know how to recreate and reinvent,” says Dr. Dintino, co-founder of TwistingThePlot.com, a website and podcast that employs techniques borrowed from theater and art to help women answer the question of “What’s next?” In fact, Dintino and her co-founder Hannah Murray Starobin — who met each other in college and have been friends for 40 years — believe the coming “reboot, will require innovation…and getting out of the normative curve.” They are encouraging women to take on uniquely creative projects during the pandemic to bust out of the sense of invisibility and discover their true, inner-selves. “Be an outlier,” they tell Lesley Jane Seymour, founder of CoveyClub.com, in this conversation. “Do something that wasn’t possible before.”