Photo: Lisa Arnold Photography
Diana Dunbar Place - Founder
Hi - here’s a link to a video from my conversation with photographer, Lisa Arnold in her inspiring “How Do You Want to be Seen?” podcast
Leaps of faith, rising strong from lightning strike moments and connecting the dots to live my most true and beautiful life — my “third act.”
My 40-year professional career includes: a decade in Boston with a leading international marketing & ad agency; ten years with America Online (AOL-Time Warner) in the exciting early days of the internet that culminated in a role as senior vice president. I have also started three entirely different entrepreneurial ventures. I co-founded Dunbar-Hunter & Associates, a cause-marketing firm (bridging corporations and nonprofits around a range of issues from aids, to homelessness, domestic violence and breast cancer), launched WonderBlink Photography, a dream I’d had since I was fourteen, and The Global Design Post, an online platform for designers.
Though each of these experiences was fascinating, remarkable and expanded my life and my mind, it is what happened around my business career — the little breadcrumbs that I followed — that have driven me, and were “calling” me all these years. Throughout my life, I have taken on mentor/advisor roles to a range of women as well as started several organizations including an angel network to serve and connect women. For a variety of reasons, I never put this personal passion front and center. Until now.
In my fifties, I found myself at powerful transition point. Despite the coinciding emotional challenges surrounding a cancer diagnosis, closing my latest entrepreneurial venture, and becoming an empty nester as my daughter headed to college -- I was filled with deep gratitude, joy and reignited passion for this next phase of my life.
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