The Art of REAL Life!

Join us today for Women Lead Radio as Joanie Connell, your host of REAL Life Lessons, interviews Rose Hagan, Owner & Artist at Serendipity Gallery, LLC.

Rose Hagan, describes herself as a gallery owner and artist as well as a recovering lawyer—a retired managing counsel of trademarks at Google, no less. Have you ever thought about scrapping your traditional career and following your passion in art or something crazy like that?  It sounds impossible, but it’s not.  What it takes is courage, resilience, flexibility, and independence. 

Rose Hagan began her career as a lawyer before pivoting to pursue her love of art.  After attending Stanford University and Harvard Law School, she practiced as an intellectual property attorney at law firms in Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas before joining Google as its first trademark attorney.  After 7 wonderful years at Google, she retired from law to pursue a career in art.  Rose works with paint, digital media, and fused glass to create vibrant artwork inspired by nature.  She is the owner of Serendipity Gallery in St. Louis, MO and is one of the co-chairs of Gallery House in Palo Alto.  

Joanie Connell is your host for REAL Life Lessons, a show where REAL (resilient, empowered, authentic, limber) women speak about what it takes to be successful in the real world. Using the REAL Life model, Dr. Connell, author of Flying without a Helicopter, interviews highly successful women about the unanticipated aspects of work life that no one prepared us for.  Though important for everyone, these lessons are particularly useful for women who were raised by helicopter parents, women who didn’t learn life’s lessons growing up in a protected world.