Jeanne Stawiecki quit smoking 20 years ago and hasn’t looked back. She has run the Boston Marathon and run marathons on all 7 continents. Climbed Mt. Everest and Mt. Elbrus in Russia, the highest point in Europe. She has won two Guinness World Records. All this by the age of 57.
A woman doesn’t have to give up her femininity to be strong, says Stawiecki, sitting in her living room surrounded by souvenirs from her two trips around the globe. And she certainly doesn’t have to fade into the woodwork after menopause.
“Every single woman is going to get to be this age,” she says, looking decades younger than she is. “Why should we become invisible?”
“When you step out of your comfort zone the first time, it’s difficult,” says Stawiecki, a petite blonde with a girlish laugh and arms cut like Venus Williams’s. “But it’s addictive.“
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