Dr. Natasha Josefowitz was a professor of management for 30 years and is an internationally-known business consultant and keynote speaker. For ten years she had her own weekly program on public radio and a monthly television segment.
Dr. Josefowitz is the best-selling author and award-winning poet of 21 business and poetry books. Her articles and poems have been published in over a hundred newspapers, journals and magazines.
Natasha was inducted into the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame in 2015. She also received the Living Legacy Award from the Women’s International Center and was named as one of San Diego’s “Top Guns” by the San Diego Business Journal.
The Washington Post says: “Natasha Josefowitz is helping her generation, and those that follow, find their way into a successful, meaningful and fun older age…her optimism about aging is inspiring.”
Her books, available on Amazon, are linked below:
*A Hundred Scoops of Ice Cream
*Been There, Done That, Doing It Better! A Witty Look at Growing Older by a Formerly Young Person
*Fitting In: How to Get a Good Start in Your New Job (coauthor: Herman Gadon)
*He Writes, She Writes—A Dialogue in Contrasting Views Written in Verse (with Irwin Zahn)
*If I Could Touch the Sky… and Other Poems in Children’s Voices
*If I Eat I feel Guilty, If I Don’t I’m Deprived… and Other Dilemmas of Daily Life
*In a Nutshell: Feminine Verse, Feminist Verse
*Is This Where I Was Going?
*Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without—Hope and Healing after Loss
*Managing Our Frantic Lives: A Humorous and Insightful Look at What Makes Our Lives So Hectic, with 10 Strategies for Coping
*Natasha’s Words for Families
*Natasha’s Words for Friends
*Natasha’s Words for Lovers
*Over the Hill and Loving the View: Poems to Celebrate Growing Older
*Paths to Power: A Woman’s Guide from First Job to Top Executive; Instructor’s Guide to Paths to Power
*People Management: How to Be an Effective Leader in the Workplace
*Retirement: Wise and Witty Advice for Making It the Next Great Adventure
*Sex and Power: Workplace Issues
*Sixteen New Ways for Women to Succeed at Work
*Too Wise to Want to Be Young Again: A Witty View of How to Stop Counting the Years and Start Living Them
*Women’s Secrets: Witty Insights into the Thoughts, Feelings, and Dreams of Women
*You’re the Boss: A Guide to Managing Diversity with Understanding and Effectiveness
By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — In trying to deal with my grief after my husband died, I turned to books on grief and interviewed people who had lost a spouse or partner. It helped me to understand the emotions I felt and whether they were shared by others. I looked at the […]
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Natasha Josefowitz, The World We ShareSAN DIEGO — San Diego Jewish World thanks and would like to acknowledge those writers whose works appeared on this news publication during the month of November. They were: David Amos Kenneth Bandler Laurie Baron Jeremy Ben-Ami Dan Bloom Shoshana Bryen Stephen Bryen Dane Chapin Tamara Isaacs Ciocci Cynthia Citron Richard L. Cravatts Steve Diamond Joe
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Barry Shaw, Cynthia Citron, Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Eileen Wingard, Eric George Tauber, Fred Reiss, EdD, Ira Sharkansky, Lawrence Baron, Lloyd Levy, Mark D. Zimmerman, Melanie Rubin, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Natasha Josefowitz, San Diego County, Sheryl Rowling, Shoshana Bryen, Steve KramerBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — There are gestures belonging to another time that we don’t use anymore. There were ways of functioning on a daily basis that would seem foreign today. We relied on objects which are now obsolete. We all have our lists of nostalgia. I remember those wire baskets for
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Natasha Josefowitz, San Diego CountyBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California –Dear little smart phone, my little, 2- ´ 4-inch, constant companion. How can such a small thing sitting in my pocket replace an eighteen-volume encyclopedia Britannica as well as a shelf with phone directories, dictionaries, a thesaurus, and grammar, foreign-language, and medical reference books? You truly are a
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Natasha Josefowitz, Trivia, Humor & Satire
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) – During the month of August, San Diego Jewish World was privileged to publish works by the following writers and photographers. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you and to publicly express our appreciation. To access works by these contributors on San Diego Jewish World, type or copy their name into the
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Barry Shaw, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Eileen Wingard, Eric George Tauber, Fred Reiss, EdD, Lawrence Baron, Lloyd Levy, Mark D. Zimmerman, Melanie Rubin, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Michael Ordman, Mimi Pollack, Natasha Josefowitz, Sheryl Rowling, Shoshana Bryen, Steve KramerBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Thousands buried under rubble after an earthquake, countless migrants drowning in the Mediterranean trying to get away from wars to a safer shore, hordes of people in refugee camps with food and water in short supply, children used in the sex trade, police shootings, fires and floods,
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Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — It is interesting that while living in Paris, my parents resisted any French influence and continued their Russian way of life: eating Russian food, reading Russian newspapers and books, having Russian friends, and speaking Russian at home. My first tongue was Russian. In the U.S., they did the same
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Jewish History, Natasha JosefowitzSAN DIEGO (SDJW) – During the month of August, San Diego Jewish World was privileged to publish works by the following writers and photographers. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you and to publicly express our appreciation. To access works by these contributors on San Diego Jewish World, type or copy their name into the
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Barry Shaw, Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Edwin Black, Eileen Wingard, Fred Reiss, EdD, Ira Sharkansky, Lawrence Baron, Mark D. Zimmerman, Michael Ordman, Mimi Pollack, Natasha Josefowitz, Sheryl Rowling, Shor M. Masori, Shoshana Bryen, Steve KramerBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — When France fell, we knew we could not go home again. We lost everything and eventually, almost everyone I had ever known. When the Germans crossed into Lithuania, they took my grandparents out of their home, marched them to a nearby school, and shot them point blank. A
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Jewish History, Natasha Josefowitz, USA
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) – During the month of July, San Diego Jewish World was privileged to publish works by the following writers and photographers. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you and publicly express our appreciation. To access works by these contributors on San Diego Jewish World, type or copy their name
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Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Eileen Wingard, Eric George Tauber, Eva Trieger, Fred Reiss, EdD, Ira Sharkansky, Lawrence Baron, Lloyd Levy, Mark D. Zimmerman, Michael Ordman, Mimi Pollack, Natasha Josefowitz, Sheryl Rowling, Shor M. Masori, Shoshana Bryen, Steve KramerBy Natasha Josefowitz LA JOLLA, California — In October 1939, I was twelve years old. My parents, my six-year-old brother, and I sat in the basement of our Paris apartment with gas masks on every night as the sirens screeched that German planes were overhead. We fear they will drop mustard gas, which we were
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Jewish Religion, Natasha Josefowitz, USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — The shuttle car drops me off in front of the Shiley Eye Institute, part of UCSD Healthcare. I’m getting a clouded, natural lens removed and a clear, acrylic one put in. Even though cataract surgery is one of the most common procedures in the aging population and
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Natasha Josefowitz, Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (SDJW)—San Diego Jewish World acknowledges and thanks those writers whose bylines and photo credit lines appeared during the month of June and the first few days of July on its website. They included: David Amos Stephen Hazan Arnoff Laurie Baron David Bedein Edwin Black Dan Bloom Shoshana Bryen Stephen Bryen Garry Fabian Donald
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Barry Shaw, Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Edwin Black, Eileen Wingard, Eric George Tauber, Eva Trieger, Fred Reiss, EdD, Ira Sharkansky, Lawrence Baron, Mark D. Zimmerman, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Michael Ordman, Mimi Pollack, Natasha Josefowitz, Sheryl Rowling, Shor M. Masori, Shoshana Bryen, Steve KramerBy Natasha Josefowitz, PhD LA JOLLA, California — The Paris of the 1920s had cobblestone streets and horse-drawn carriages delivering milk in glass bottles with the cream on top—reserved for my father for his café au lait. Coal was thrown down a chute at the base of our apartment building, and blocks of ice were hauled
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International, Natasha Josefowitz