Molly Wilmer

At this point in her life, Molly's journey has taken her to a state of peace and joy, happiness and empathy that is unlike any she has ever known. She offers all that she has become and is still becoming to enable other people to reach their bliss, their “rapture” of being alive.

Molly Hughes Wilmer has been called the “Queen of the Cool Jobs” – she “followed her bliss” and got paid to have amazing experiences with fascinating people. She climbed Mt. Fuji with a birthday cake for a surprise sunrise breakfast celebration at the peak. She was the only woman in a Russian sauna during a break from learning about lumber mills. She has sailed tall ships in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas. She has enjoyed salmon fresh off a boat in Bergen. She has given talks on topics as wide-ranging as women and aging in Tokyo and on art and sailing in Hamburg.

She hasbeen tested – sometimes by her own invitation, and more often by surprise. She survived storms at sea and summited a snowy mountain on a moonlit night. She red-flagged a woman’s potential spinal injury and managed her wilderness evacuation. She was a caretaker for a dying loved one, managed a second loved one through a mental health crisis, and kept a third loved one alive during an allergic reaction. She helped first responders get communications equipment on 9/11. She chaired an international sailing regatta that took place one week after a hurricane put the entire facility under water. She held a scheduled investor quarterly conference call in a hastily reserved hotel when our headquarters were flooded by a burst water main the night before. That was after she had reassured 500 employees they still had jobs even though they didn’t have a place to work.

Through it all, she has grown. How she experiences and views life has been transformed. And, now Molly wants to share the joy of living life, the "rapture of being alive," as Joseph Campbell calls it.