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Aug 27, 2016 · View Alison Bossert’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members. Business Owner & Content Creator, LONG ISLAND THRIFTER · Executive with global expertise in ...
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For our second Innovation Issue, we interviewed Alison Bossert, the senior vice president of special events at Sony Pictures, and spoke to her about how she ...
May 3, 2019 · I spoke with Alison Bossert of Final Bow Productions, a celebration-of-life event company, on the challenges and joys of organizing end-of-life events. Her comments show that all types of event planning can be rewarding while opening my eyes to yet another career path for planners.
- A Rewarding Conversation About Death
- A Glamorous Job Takes An Unexpected Turn
- Why Aren’T We Prepared to Die?
- Celebration-Of-Life Planning Qualifications
- What Alison and I Agree on
- Some Parting Words
In our conversation, we laughed and cried and compared experiences with the deaths of others. I talked about what my maternal grandmother and both my parents had done to prepare for their deaths, detailing exactly what they wanted to happen after they died. I have a copy of my grandmother’s note to her children, my mother the youngest of four, tell...
Alison’s job of 17 years will no doubt appear to be one that many in our industry believe is the “lust after” job; planning events for Sony Pictures Entertainment. You know—the appearance of pure glamour! In that capacity, she met many stars and other important people in the field of entertainment. And because of her expertise in putting together e...
What Alison learned—or perhaps confirmed—was that more than 60 percent of Americans do not have wills. And what she suspected and later confirmed: People don’t want to talk about death—their own or that of others even when we know it is imminent. Alison told me what I suspected, too, and this 2017 studyfrom the National Funeral Directors Associatio...
What prepared Alison—other than a job that involved celebrations, red carpets and lots of logistics—to help plan an end-of-life event? She suffered three major losses in the space of just a few years: 1. Her brother died of glioblastoma; 2. she lost her job when Sony went through a series of layoffs; 3. and then her father died. Any one of those wo...
1. Write a will. Do it now.Even if you think you have nothing to leave or anyone to leave it to, there will be something someone wants. If you are a person of greater means, work with an attorney to ensure that all I’s are dotted and T’s crossed. 2. Plan now at whatever stage of life you are and help others do so. In the U.S., one of the first acts...
We all say things about not knowing what day will be our last. I hope you live many more days and in good health. But just as I teach in contingency and risk planning for meetings, put the plans in place now. Related Reading From the May 2019 Edition of Friday With Joan 1. Where Life, Death, Grief and Hospitality Connect 2. Q&A With End-of-Life Eve...
Jul 16, 2015 · When “Pretty Woman” executive producer Laura Ziskin died in June 2011 from breast cancer, Alison Bossert helped her stand up to cancer one last time.
Alison Bossert. Business Owner & Content Creator, LONG ISLAND THRIFTER. 3w. Join me in this exciting thrifting adventure as I explore the Habitat for Humanity Long Island ReStore in...
