Gail Sheehy Biography

Gail Sheehy is an icon of American journalism a sought-after speaker and groundbreaking pioneer for women. The author of 17 books Sheehy is now embarking on a speaking tour to offer a thrilling showcase of the transformative power of daring. Based on her New York Times best-selling memoir Daring: My Passages (2014) Sheehy’s popular new program threads personal narrative with 50 years of public history laying bare her major life passages and taking a hard look at what accompanies today’s undying ambition of “wanting it all.”
Daring: My Passages dramatizes some of the most startling scenes of Sheehy’s extraordinary life – from dodging bullets on Bloody Sunday to discovering how Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher used her sex appeal to help end the Cold War to her own stirring romance and years of creative caregiving for New York magazine creator Clay Felker. In addition Sheehy has created The Daring Project an interactive website that dares audiences to be different dream dangerously and learn to act confidently. She will share exciting interviews of accomplished women such as Gloria Steinem Katie Couric and Arianna Huffington as well as the chances they took the fears they overcame and the early daring moments that catapulted them to success. She encourages audiences to submit their own daring moments and a select few will be interviewed and featured on The Daring Project website.

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