Jean Marie Johnson

Writer

Jean Marie Johnson is the first to say that she entered this life “with an inquisitive mind, a mush-melon heart, a significant degree of sass and a passion for all things beautiful.” She secured her first full time summer job at the age of twelve as a babysitter, sold Avon and babysat throughout high school, won a scholarship to a commuter college and tutored and worked in the placement office for extra cash. In the ensuing decades, Jean Marie travelled extensively, both domestically, and abroad, supporting organizations in their quest to enhance the employee and customer experience.  Over time, she evolved as a writer, speaker and provocateur, channeling years of life experience to support women on their journeys to embrace and express the person they were born to be. While continuing her work as an organizational learning strategist and writer, Jean Marie also writes about the joys and challenges of cultivating an authentic, “perfectly-imperfect” life. Jean Marie holds a BA in Social Work and an MS in Human Resource Development and Counseling. In her spare time, she can be found walking, tending her herb garden, feeding her backyard birds, hunting for great finds and always cultivating the beauty and the raw authenticity around her.

A Chance Encounter

It was 1999 and “Y2K” was on everyone’s mind. Would our intricate infrastructure fail us? Would the world come to an end? Or would January 1, 2000 arrive with an

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Lifestyle Tweaks to Make this Winter

If you absolutely dread winter, or are at best “stoical” about it, here’s an opportunity to turn that around by: Rethinking routines Considering adaptations Managing temptations By putting yourself in

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Post-Retirement Reinvention

This is my book and these are my chapters. The pen sits firmly between my fingers, inching across the page that writes the next story of my next phase. I

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The Power of the Compliment

Back in the day, my team speculated that I had more shoes than Imelda Marcos. They even teased me about it. Most of the time I heard: “Cute shoes!” It

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Get Thyself a Dog Already!

  I am a crazy-ass animal lover. And, in my experience, we get far more than we give when we welcome an animal into our life. In fact, there is

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Articles By Jean Marie Johnson

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