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A

t age 61, Belle Kohen
feels she's finally able
to "figure out who
I am and what I want to do on
this Earth:' She has even given
herself a new nickname, the
Original Female Silver Fox.
Not that she's been twiddling
her thumbs waiting for inspira-
tion to strike.
A mother of two and grand-
mother of five (with another
due in April), Kohen has been a
dental hygienist, office manager,
corporate consultant, pet store
owner, advertising specialties
salesperson and personal life
coach.
Now she's a writer, online
radio and TV star, online
Belle Kohen teaches women to "unleash
magazine publisher and coor-
their bold."
dinator of women's empower-
ment retreats — and the living
embodiment of her own maxim,
She briefly owned a Petland store
"You're never too old to unleash your
in West Bloomfield and then started a
bold."
business making T-shirts and sports
Kohen grew up in West Bloomfield,
uniforms, which eventually became a
where her parents were among the
licensed advertising specialities com-
Jewish pioneers in the northwest sub-
pany.
urbs.
When her parents grew infirm, she
In 1974, she attended Kalamazoo
took over running their property man-
Valley Community College and got
agement firm.
licensed as a dental hygienist. She met
her husband, Jerry, at the University
New Career Move
of Detroit dental clinic when he was
A few years ago, Kohen realized that her
completing dental school; they've been
life's calling was to help other women,
married almost 40 years.
especially those over 50, to discover
Jerry now lives in Oak Brook Terrace, what will make their life meaningful.
Ill. where hers chief of the dental ser-
In 2011, she took a one-week inten-
sive course at "Coach University" in
vice at a veterans' hospital. Kohen
Florida, became certified as a life coach,
commutes between Illinois and West
Bloomfield. In Michigan, she lives
and started counseling clients. She
developed a website, www.coachbelle.
with her Havanese puppy, Minnie, in a
corn, where she offers to take women
condo owned by her mother, who has
"From Daunted to Daring" in a 15-min-
relocated to Florida.
ute life-coaching phone call.
When their children were young —
Visitors to Kohen's website can
Ari, 37, lives in Lincoln, Neb., and Ilana
(Liss), 34, in Cincinnati — the Kohens
also sign up for a free audio training,
lived in Windsor, where Jerry worked
"How to Midwife Your Own Midlife
as a dentist and Belle ran his office.
Makeover."
For nine years, they were in a carpool
Beth Greenapple of Southfield, a
from Windsor to Hillel Day School in
freelance writer, met Kohen in 2012
Farmington Hills.
through a women's networking group.
Kohen spent the next several years as
"When I found myself struggling with
a consultant helping dental practices all
getting my business started, she was
over the country.
looking for clients like me. We agreed
In 1990, when her son reached high-
to work together," said Greenapple.
"With her help, I organized my
school age, the family returned to West
Bloomfield.
days so that I had a particular time

