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Mary Radu, MS, MSW, CPCC - Certified Professional Coach - 707.963.2594
 
  • Act confidently.

  • Be masterful in your communications and actions.

  • Achieve a successful career transition.

  • Become an authentic leader.

  • Receive the recognition you deserve.

  • Fully enjoy both your work and leisure.

  • Live abundantly.

  • Define who you are beyond your career.

  • Express your creativity.

  • Discover and develop your legacy.
"It's incredible the work you do. Your coaching gave me gentle and powerful visualizations and guidance. The three things I wanted from the program were clarity, a decisive plan of action and life tools for how to do it...

And now a year later I'm living like an artist every day, being so true to myself. I have a peaceful feeling that I'm doing what I am meant to do."

Diane Marie Hammond
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Welcome to the Pathmaker Coaching Resource page. Here you will find a listing of free and low cost resources that can assist you in creating the lifestyle and career that you love. I'll be updating this page regularly so check back often and sign up for an email notice of current offerings and resource updates.

Let me know which of these resources you find of particular valuable for your situation. I also welcome your comments or questions about any of the information featured on my site. Call me at 707 963.2594 or send an email.

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Coach and Author, Mary Radu, guides midlife individuals and couples to find the core of what's truly important for life's next stage and get into action to achieve it.  She helps end the struggle and uncover career, lifestyle and retirement options built on experience and passion.  Get immediate tips and resources from her ezine plus a f.r.e.e sample of her audio/workbook program, Roadmap to Meaningful Midlife® at www.PathmakerCoaching.com or contact her at mary@PathmakerCoaching.com .

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Free Calculators/Assessments

I've always believed that the sign of a good resource person is one who doesn't find the need to recreate the wheel and can point you in the right direction.

The Longevity Game (age/health span calculator)

Having a sense of what your lifespan may be gives my clients a totally different perspective on how they live their lives today and the lifestyle decisions they make. Here is a fun assessment tool that will give you a peek at your future and show you where you can make small changes that will contribute to a longer, healthier, more fulfulling lifestyle.

The Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator

Here's another calculator that you can use for a $5 fee. "The Life Expectancy Calculator is a great tool to quickly assess what you are doing right and what you are doing wrong and where you can make important changes. "In terms of living to older age in good health, there is actually a great deal you can do!" Developed by Thomas Perls MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University Medical Center and Director of the New England Centenarian Study.

Volunteer Interest Survey

Here's a resource to explore more possibilities for your future. It's a free on-line assessment to identify your skills, interests and values and the types of volunteer opportunities that you may most enjoy, where you can begin to more fully express your passions. Volunteer work is also an excellent way to explore potential avenues for a next full or part-time career without the pressure of paid work.

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Thought Provoking Books

Princlples for Living

The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz

Four powerful principles for living. Beautiful in its simplicity. A shamanic teacher and healer, Don Miguel Ruiz exposes self-limiting beliefs and presents a simple yet effective code of personal conduct learned from his Toltec ancestors.

The Power of Intention, Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way, Dr. Wayne Dyer

This book might help readers land a better job, but it's more relevant for those who are ready to detach from an ego-driven life filled with quick fixes of happiness and step into a more authentic, joyful, and spiritually fulfilling life. His core teachings speak to tapping into a universal source of energy that he calls the "power of intention."

Emotional Genius, Discovering the Deepest Language of the Soul, Karla McLaren

All of your emotions - even dark and difficult feelings - are carriers of energy and information that have the power to protect and heal us, teaches Ms. McLaren. In this absorbing book, you will learn how to create a safe and centered inner foundation for working with your emotions ... release the patterns that block healthy emotional flow ... and retrieve the insights and healing energies encoded within each of your feeling states.

The Law of Attraction, Michael J. Losier

"I attract to my life whatever I give my energy, focus, and attention to, whether wanted or unwanted." Based on the works of Abraham-Hicks Mr. Losier provides a process for identifying and attracting more of what you want in your life.


Midlife Passages

Transitions, Making Sense of Life's Changes, William Bridges

A classic guide for understanding the process that we experience in each major life transition. Bridges gives insights and understanding into the endings, neutral "between time" zone and the new beginnings phase of each transition.

The Art of Possibility, Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

Through uplifting stories and personal anecdotes, these two creative life partners offer twelve practices that will open your eyes to new perspectives and possibilities in your life. I've found their tools useful in discovering new ways of approaching both personal and profession situations.

The Third Age: 6 Principles for Growth and Renewal After Forty, William A. Sadler, Ph.D.

Sadler uses real life experiences to demonstrate six core principles to guide you through your own life passage and to discover new avenues for productive and creative living.

Get a Life: You Don't Need a Million to Retire Well, Ralph Warner

Editor's notes: "Although few people in mid-life are ready to hear it, the chances of enjoying an active, fulfilling retirement have almost nothing to do with money. What really matters are the life choices you make before you retire. They will largely determine whether retirement will find you busy or bored, happy or lonely, healthy or sick. Includes insightful facts, strategies (both for finances and lifestyle) and interviews with happily retired folks."


Career and Finding Your Passion

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, Parker J. Palmer

With wisdom, compassion and gentle humor Parker comes from the Quaker tradition to explain how to find our natural gifts. "Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing" and our "limitations and liabilities are the flip side of our gifts".

Boom or Bust!: New Career Strategies in a New America, Carleen Mackay and Brad Taft

A career guide and workbook that assists Baby Boomers to understand the changes in the American workplace and to effectively manage their careers. It presents an 8 step approach that incorporates strategic planning into the job search process and includes descriptions of 27 career options of interest to mature workers

From Good to Great, Jim Collins

Collins focuses on what it takes for a Fortune 500 company to build a sustainable, long term company. It contains charts and graphs that are great for those who love them and not required for those who don't find them necessary. A key concept presented is the "Hedgehog Principle", based on a simple but powerful question that will impact your personal and professional life.

The Job-Loss Recovery Guide, Lynn Joseph, Ph.D.

Based on research Joseph provides techniques that can assist every job-seeker, whether currently employed or those facing an unexpected job transition.


Relationships

Passionate Marriage, David Schnarch, Ph.D.

Provides realistic strategies for couples who want to work together to overcome the sexual and emotional blocks that hold them back from finding fulfilling intimacy and love with each other. Using this material as a vehicle for communicating what is true for both spouses can open new doors and expand your relationship to what's truly possible!

If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path, Charlotte Kasl, Ph.D.

Dr. Kasl weaves Eastern philosophy into finding and creating a meaningful relationship with a partner without losing yourself. It's about creating love in your life, beginning with you!

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Motivational Quotes/ Words of Wisdom

Here are some inspirational quotations that can serve as reminders to stay open to the possibilities in your life and to travel your unique path. I invite you to download these quotes in a free Adobe file. Once downloaded you can print the pages with the quotes you find useful. Tack them up in your office, on your refrigerator or in you organizer as a daily reminder to keep moving on your unique course.

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Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.
Antonio Machado

One ship drives east and
another drives west
With the self-same winds that blow.
'Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
That tells them the way to go.


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It doesn't matter how well you walk the path if it's not your path.
Katherine Benziger

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Dr. Wayne Dyer, The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way.

We ask ourselves, 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous.' Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory that is within us and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
Nelson Mandela, 1994 Inaugural Speech as President of South Africa

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.
J. P. Morgan

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Tony Robbins

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Theodore Roethke

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Adlai E. Stevenson

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
Mary Webb

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.
Ruth Westheimer

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark

There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.
Claire Bloom

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
Carlos Castaneda

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
Carlos Castaneda

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Valuable Web Site Links

Third Age Inc.
Useful lifestyle, career and retirement resources

This site is focused exclusively on serving the needs of midlife adults -- generally those in their 40s, 50s and 60s. Their vision is "to rewrite the rules of getting older and transform the voice of aging from one of limitation to one of possibility". Inspired by the French term "Troisième Âge," ThirdAge refers to the concept of lifelong learning, self-development and fulfillment, and the period of life following young adulthood, yet preceding "seniorhood" and retirement. A time of life characterized by vital living, freedom, personal growth and enrichment.

BoomersTV

Boomers! Redefining Life After Fifty! is a forward-looking and substantive 6-part TV series broadcasted locally through PBS (see the web site for local listings). The series and website explore the central life concerns facing the Boomer generation. In addition to the TV series you'll find the companion website offers additional video, audio and text content relevant to midlifer!

Sounds True
Free downloads of meditations.

Sounds True mission is to disseminate spiritual wisdom. From the world's major spiritual traditions and the arts and humanities, they offer CDs by the leading authors, teachers, and experts of our times. These meditations offer useful tools to center the mind and body.

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Partner Links

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Web writing
Learn how to write tight, snappy web copy in your own authentic, powerful, passionate voice. with web expert Kendall SummerHawk. Kendall made it easy to write my website text. If you like what you see, contact Kendall through this link.


Web site design and hosting
Almost Everything Communications specializes in helping coaches, consultants, and other professional service businesses be impressive on the Web. They offer Web design, marketing and writing services to insure your Web site is not a headache or a money drain, but an effective. tool to help you attract new clients. Visit their site to see their portfolio and read more about how to plan a profitable Web site.

Logo Design
Myles Robson of Web Solutions for Coaches provides digital solutions for the independent professional.

Let me know which of these resources you find of particular valuable for your situation. I also welcome your comments or questions about any of the information featured on my site. Call me at 707 963.2594 or send an email.

If you have a resource you would like to add, please contact Mary.

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