Barbara Gordon is the author of the best selling autobiography, I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can and a novel Defects of the Heart. Her last book, Jennifer Fever, was a provocative look at a middle aged man who turns in his spouse of many years for a newer, much younger, sexier model. Other nonfiction works include Older Men, Younger Women (which also includes a chapter on Older Woman, Younger Men Relationships).
In addition to having been a writer for NBC's The Today Show, Ms. Barbara Gordon is also a three time Emmy award winning film maker. Some of the subjects explored in her documentaries were: Dalton Trumbo: A Profile Slumlord, The Plight of Returning Vietnam Veterans Victor and Marchetti: Former CIA Agent.
Ms. Barbara Gordon has contributed to PBS's The Great American Dream Machine and Black Journal. She also has written for Parade and numerous other magazines. Over the past few years she has given scores of lectures and speeches throughout the United States to women's groups, college campuses and town halls on many topics.
Based on her own life and her interviews and her interviews with hundreds of women, Ms. Barbara Gordon speaks on the subject of new beginnings, "starting over", you can begin again. Her lectures are a popular mix of inspiration laced with heavy doses of humor and first person anecdotal experiences.
Beneath the humor is the powerful message urging women and men not to buy into the prejudices or the slogans of the day to ignore the pounding messages being thumped into our psyches i.e, that woman of a certain age of over the hill sexually, that mental illness stamps you with a stigma you can never escape. Create new mantras, tune out the culture blasting these messages at you as thousands of women have who have successfully, like Ms. Barbara Gordon started over, even in the middle of their lives.
- Speech Topics
- I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
- Jennifer Fever
- Starting Over - Transitions in a Women's Life