Episode #008 – Sophie Gluhaich – The Queen of Social

ABOUT SOPHIE:

• I am 84 years old
• I married young. I was 20 years old
• I had a good married life
• I was a stay-at-home my which I love. That was my ambition in life anyway, and that was an achievement
• I was a widowed young. I was 53 years old and I never remarried
• I always have girl friends which I highly recommend to all women
• Don’t be totally tied to one person
• You do need to have an expanded life
• Girl friends are the greatest assets that you can have besides your children
• You do need to have a girl friends so you can do your girl thing
• I really was not a club person up until I lost my husband
• I joined women in touch which is a fantastic group here in Gilroy
• My thing is, you have to make your own fun
• You can’t expect people to make your fun for you
• The other thing, make yourself available
• When somebody needs you, or asks you to do something, do it, because if you’re constantly, “I can’t do it” or “I don’t want to do it.” Pretty soon, people don’t want to even deal with you anymore
• So you do have to be available
• I make myself as available as I possibly can in order to participate whether its’ with my family or friends
• I am blessed with 5 wonderful grandsons
• I am blessed with 2 wonderful sons and 2 awesome daughter-in-laws
• And that’s another thing, you should include you daughter-in-laws or son-in-laws as you do your own children
• Being blessed with my 5 grandsons, and each one, I have a special connection with because they are all such wonderful individuals
• That is one of my greatest achievements and loves of my life
• I always wanted to be with them, do things with them, and thank God my daughter-in-laws were so wonderful to include me and let me be part of their lives
• I was fortunate to have a good relationship with my mother-in-law too, and I thing she was great role model for me
• She only had 1 child, but then I became her daughter
• I always understood that and I wanted that relationship with my daughter in laws.
• You may not agree on everything all the time, but you agree to disagree

WHAT ARE MOST KNOWN FOR

• Probably for my baking

ADVICE FOR YOUR YOUNGER SELF

• I can’t think of anything that I have ever regretted that I did not do
• Or that I would do differently
• I pretty much like the way my life went
• I have never made a grave mistakes that I regretted
• I was brought up strict, and I followed the rules
• I knew what could, couldn’t, should or shouldn’t do
• And of course, I married made me happy and also made my parents happy
• I had a good married life
• There’s anything that I would have done different
• It also makes me feel so good that my family includes me in so much
• It is wonderful that I am included and everything
• I have a lot of my friend say, “Oh my Gosh, I can’t believe how much you are a part of your family.”
• We always have our traditions and that’s another thing that my daughter-in-laws embraced which has made our family even better
• That is the key to success
• Your family is always be first
• I am not invested in any particular friends, I have different groups of people that I do different things with
• I don’t invest myself to one person, because to me, the most important people are my family
• Anything that comes after that is just frosting on the cake
• I have my monthly meeting with women in touch
• We have over 200 women in this club
• This club started in 1986, and I think I joined in 1989
• Shortly after that, I ended up going through the offices
• I have been their bulleting person for years now
• I also play poker once a month with a poker
• I go to plays or movies
• I have gone on long trips for days or even a week
• And we also have short trips
• I went to Abba just recently and it was fantastic
  

WISDOM

• Be a joiner
• Have girl friends
• If somebody calls you and invites you out, go!
• Push yourself to do it

HEALTHIEST HABIT

• I don’t drink any soft drinks since high school

MOST GRATEFUL FOR

• For my life and family

FAVORITE FOOD

• Mexican food

FAVORITE BOOKS

• Magazines

GUILTY PLEASURE

• Chocolate

FAVORITE MOVIE

• Mama Mia
• I like the 2^nd one better

COFFEE OR TEA

• Coffee

FAVORITE T.V. SHOW

• I watch Fox News

FUTURE PLANS

• I just want to keep going to where I am going
• All things are good

Check out the previous episode here with Susan Beadles

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