Judy MacDonald Johnston: Prepare for a good end of life
Judy MacDonald Johnston: Felkészülés az életünk befejezésére
By day, Judy MacDonald Johnston develops children's reading programs. By night, she helps others maintain their quality of life as they near death. Full bio
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Judy MacDonald Johnston - EntrepreneurBy day, Judy MacDonald Johnston develops children's reading programs. By night, she helps others maintain their quality of life as they near death.
Why you should listen
Judy MacDonald Johnston is the Publisher and Cofounder of Blue Lake Children's Publishing, which develops educational reading tools for preschoolers through a program called the Tessy and Tab Reading Club. Johnston's credo, "love words early," and her focus on the earliest years of life, is an interesting foil for her other passion: Planning for end of life. Johnston's side project, Good [End of] Life, deals not with happy babies decoding symbols, but with a much more morbid topic: Death. Good [End of] Life is a set of online worksheets and practices that aim to help deal with difficult questions -- like who should speak for you if you cannot speak, and whether to fill out a do-not-resuscitate form -- before it's too late.
In the past 15 years alone Johnston has founded two other companies in addition to Blue Lake Children's Publishing: PrintPaks, a children's software company, and Kibu, a social networking site for teenage girls. Previously Johnston was a Worldwide Project Marketing Manager at Hewlett Packard.
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