Dr. Natasha Josefowitz was a professor of management for 30 years and is an internationally-known business consultant and keynote speaker. For ten years she had her own weekly program on public radio and a monthly television segment.
Dr. Josefowitz is the best-selling author and award-winning poet of 21 business and poetry books. Her articles and poems have been published in over a hundred newspapers, journals and magazines.
Natasha was inducted into the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame in 2015. She also received the Living Legacy Award from the Women’s International Center and was named as one of San Diego’s “Top Guns” by the San Diego Business Journal.
The Washington Post says: “Natasha Josefowitz is helping her generation, and those that follow, find their way into a successful, meaningful and fun older age…her optimism about aging is inspiring.”
Her books, available on Amazon, are linked below:
*A Hundred Scoops of Ice Cream
*Been There, Done That, Doing It Better! A Witty Look at Growing Older by a Formerly Young Person
*Fitting In: How to Get a Good Start in Your New Job (coauthor: Herman Gadon)
*He Writes, She Writes—A Dialogue in Contrasting Views Written in Verse (with Irwin Zahn)
*If I Could Touch the Sky… and Other Poems in Children’s Voices
*If I Eat I feel Guilty, If I Don’t I’m Deprived… and Other Dilemmas of Daily Life
*In a Nutshell: Feminine Verse, Feminist Verse
*Is This Where I Was Going?
*Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without—Hope and Healing after Loss
*Managing Our Frantic Lives: A Humorous and Insightful Look at What Makes Our Lives So Hectic, with 10 Strategies for Coping
*Natasha’s Words for Families
*Natasha’s Words for Friends
*Natasha’s Words for Lovers
*Over the Hill and Loving the View: Poems to Celebrate Growing Older
*Paths to Power: A Woman’s Guide from First Job to Top Executive; Instructor’s Guide to Paths to Power
*People Management: How to Be an Effective Leader in the Workplace
*Retirement: Wise and Witty Advice for Making It the Next Great Adventure
*Sex and Power: Workplace Issues
*Sixteen New Ways for Women to Succeed at Work
*Too Wise to Want to Be Young Again: A Witty View of How to Stop Counting the Years and Start Living Them
*Women’s Secrets: Witty Insights into the Thoughts, Feelings, and Dreams of Women
*You’re the Boss: A Guide to Managing Diversity with Understanding and Effectiveness
By Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. Dear readers, This is the last column I will be writing. I have been writing to you for over 40 years. You may not know it, but I will be 97 and I think my time has come to put down my pen. Thank you for all your comments and […]
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Lifestyles, Natasha Josefowitz, Opinion*Editor’s note: This column is posted posthumously. By Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — I recently read about a Missouri Congressman who was among the majority that voted on a new rule forbidding women from entering the chamber with bare arms, requiring them to cover up. My initial reaction was: “Here we go
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Lifestyles, Natasha Josefowitz, Opinion*Editor’s note: This column is posted posthumously. By Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — There are definitely conspiracy theories against old people, and I can prove it. Whoever the conspirators are, they just want to make life harder for us seniors. Those of you who are young may not have noticed the terrible
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Two honorees of the Women’s Museum of California died on March 15. One was author and columnist Natasha Josefowitz who was 96. Lucid until the end, she had been writing columns for La Jolla Village News and San Diego Jewish World through the end of February. An archive of her articles that appeared on
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, California, Natasha Josefowitz, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — A few nights ago, I was having dinner with Marianne, a close friend. We were reminiscing about our European childhoods and the surprising similarities in our upbringing. Marianne was born in Germany in 1922. I was born four years later in France. We were eating root
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Lifestyles, Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — A few months ago, I was walking 4,000 steps a day using long strides. Then, one day as I was opening my refrigerator, the handle broke in two and I crashed onto the kitchen floor. An X-ray revealed a compression fraction in the L1 disk of
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Lifestyles, Natasha Josefowitz, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Just before the holidays, I was looking for some ideas for my next column when I started feeling unusually tired. A blood draw at the clinic showed an unexpected loss of forty percent of my hemoglobin requiring a trip to the ER. Now I had my
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Natasha Josefowitz, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — I was walking down the street one day when I saw a large sign: “Body Shop.” I stopped and thought, “How interesting! Maybe I can get a new body instead of this 96-year-old one. My current body doesn’t see so well, hear so well, or walk
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Lifestyles, Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — There are many types of prejudice, but they can broadly be placed into two categories: personal and institutional. Personal prejudice is not based on reason, nor on actual experience. It is a feeling rooted in suspicion, fear, and intolerance. It is a negative attitude and adverse
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Lifestyles, Natasha Josefowitz, Opinion, USABy Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Recently, I received an email that looked, at first glance, legitimate. It came from PayPal (with what appeared to be the company logo) and sought to confirm if I had “incurred a charge in the amount of $463. If this amount is not correct, please call
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Lifestyles, Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. About 25 years ago, Dr. Cliff Colwell replaced my right hip. The operation was successful; it has never bothered me since. However, at the time of the procedure, he advised me that my left hip had osteoarthritis and would also need a replacement soon. Twenty-five years later, I was standing
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Lifestyles, Natasha Josefowitz, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, Calif. — I was born on the saddest day of the year in Paris, France – the Day of the Dead! Catholics in France wore black on October 31 and went to cemeteries to honor the dead. There were no parties and everyone looked glum. When I was
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Lifestyles, Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. How do you decide? Do you prefer ad hoc or go through a process? Do you prefer action or caution? Do you look for information narrowly or broadly? Do you tend to opt for corporate or personal interest? Do you prefer continuity or change? Do you seek opinions or only
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Lifestyles, Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — How often have you heard people say that someone is spiritual? I always wonder what they mean exactly; when asked, no one has ever given me a satisfactory explanation. Current studies include a variety of definitions. There is still no widely agreed on definition of spirituality
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