Alisha Fernandez Miranda: Test Driving her Dreams

05/22/23 • 23 min

ALISHA FERNANDEZ MIRANDA is the author of “My What If Year”. She took a year off from her family and her job to test-drive her dream for a different kind of life. Alisha talks to former news producer Frank Silverstein about how she reached the age of 40, seemed to have it all with a wonderful husband, two happy children, and a successful business she. Yet, she says, she was desperately unhappy. She was afraid she’d somehow missed the boat on her biggest dreams and she decided to take a huge risk to explore the roads not taken, and maybe change the course of her life. Her ‘do-over’ adventure resulted in surprising stories and unexpected results.

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