Exceptional Women: Sal (Sally) and KK (Kelly) Jackson, better known as The Midlife Gals

Visit them on the web at:

• http://www.themidlifegals.com
• http://www.youtube.com/user/KKandSalGal
  

Email: themidlifegals@me.com

Phone: 512-481-9066

THE MIDLIFE GALS; Necessary Insanity

Our website consists of daily irreverent observations by two twisted middle-aged sisters in Texas.  The cast includes The Ancient One, our 86-year-old mother, three mischievous cats and a garden full of plants with stupid names.  Think Lucy and Ethel after those deadbeats, Fred and Ricky, Laverne and Shirley all grown up and haired over or The Smothers Brothers with bosoms.  Join us in dialog about our profane, insane, comedic outlook on just about everything.

We’re including what we call our ‘Hysterical Hystory’ for your amusement and to remind women that we all can change our lives:

• July, 2007 - We didn’t know what a blog was.

• August, 2007 - Posted our first essay on The Midlife Gals ® Blog
  

• October, 2007 - Approached by MORE Magazine about featuring us in an article.

• January, 2008 - MORE Magazine article on the stands with our feature as one of four blogs mentioned / Women of the Blogosphere, page 30  / Jan/Feb issue.

• March, 2008 - Entered video contest for The Greenlight Awards through an online video company, On Networks which was represented at the South by Southwest Film Festival.

• March, 2008 - Selected as one of four finalists for The Greenlight Award in the category of best original digital series concept for the videos we produce of ourselves on The Midlife Gals ® blog.
  

• April, 2008 - Approached by a very large online health network, The Health Central Network, to produce humorous videos and blogs for their website.   http://www.healthcentral.com/stop-smoking/c/55817/profile

• April 2008 - Our video, ‘The Jazzy Scooter Barrel Race’ won runner-up award and was featured on the Emmy award-winning program, Docubloggers.

• April, 2008 - Wrote, produced and acted in a fifteen-minute situation comedy pilot, The Cowpoke’s Ball, based on The Midlife Gals ® for network and/or cable distribution.

• May, 2008 - Interviewed for large article in local newspaper, Masters of Their Domain / June, 08 issue / The Austin American Statesman.

• August, 2008 – Asked by the Director of Programming to host a weekly, one- hour radio show, ‘The Midlife Gals; Necessary Insanity,’ on BlogTalkRadio  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/TheMidlifeGals

• September, 2008 – Signed with literary agent, Frank Breeden of Premiere Authors for our book, The Midlife Gals; Necessary Insanity.

• November, 2008 – Article in Austin American Statesman / social column, “Out and About” about The Midlife Gals’ fame.

• December, 2008 – The Midlife Gals’ website featured as one of Austin’s best websites / Austin Monthly magazine / Keep Austin Wired / page 134 / Dec. issue.

• December, 2008 – Launch of new YouTube video show , The Midlife Gals; Necessary Insanity.  Think Carol Burnet on meth.

     http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMidlifeGals

• December, 2008 – KK and Sal acted in an independent film, “Ultimate’s Guide to Flight,” directed by Scott Meyers of Entertainment Think Tank.

• March, 2009 – The Midlife Gals video picked as part of Reel Women’s film showcase at South by Southwest Film Festival, Austin, TX.

• April, 2009 – Asked to be regular writers for More Magazine online.  First article / May, 2009.

We’re midlife sisters who came back together to care for our mother, The Ancient One, and we’ve never been happier.  Lest you think we’re a hair off plumb…okay, well, that’s a given, but we also include our bios to show that we’ve been legitimately employed at times:

KK ... Kelly Jackson is a ‘Jill of all Trades and a Mistress of None.’  She has owned three small businesses, worked as a medical transcriptionist, assisted the daughter of a late President of the United States and a media guru who ran two successful campaigns for another President…one being a democrat and the other a republican. 

Kelly is a writer; she’s finished her first novel, a comic mystery called, A Texan Goes to Nirvana and is now working on a midlife guide book with her sister, Sally Jackson with a working title of, The Midlife Gals; Necessary Insanity.  Kelly and Sally have a blog entitled, “The Midlife Gals ” at http://www.themidlifegals.com, upon which the book essays are based.  Kelly’s next book, a yoga instructional tome is entitled, Yoga For Smokers, Drinkers, Meat Eaters and Non-Believers.

Ms. Jackson is a fifty-five-year-old certified yoga instructor living in Austin, Texas.  She has been divorced “a time or two” and presently resides with her sister and their mother, for whom she and her sister serve as baby-boomer caregivers.

Ms. Jackson calls herself a ‘cowgirl without portfolio,’ with a love of riding at every opportunity. Watching high profile golf in person and fishing are two activities that put a smile on her face.  She regularly tithes to Heifer International, The Wounded Warriors Program and the USO.

She is looking for a successful, creative, well traveled, handsome man with a flat stomach…oops, never mind, this is her bio not her journal.

SalGal
If you ask anybody in the industry who Sally Jackson is, they will tell you she is an accomplished casting director.  Having cast principal actors for directors such as Stephen Spielberg, Robert Redford, Sidney Lumet, Kevin Costner, Roger Vadim, John Milius and many other legendary filmmakers (see credits on IMDB.PRO), you would think Ms. Jackson would introduce herself as a casting director for major motion pictures that shoot in locations other than Los Angeles.  But to this multifaceted woman, it is her day job.

If you ask many upcoming, young actors in Hollywood, they will tell you that Error! Contact not defined. is the most inspiring and insightful acting coach they ever had.  Some of the biggest producers in the business will tell you that her script notes are invaluable in helping to develop characters for their upcoming productions.

Bookers at The Comedy Store on Sunset Blvd, The Improv on Melrose and the Ice House in Pasadena will laugh just thinking of her stand-up routines.  Ms. Jackson’s comedic writing (in conjunction with her sister, Kelly) has attracted attention, both nationally and internationally through their blog.  Still, she does not call herself a writer.

Ms. Jackson spent many years writing and reading scripts for well known players in Hollywood, casting for huge directors, training the young and brilliant in film acting, and baring her comedic soul to every night owl who would listen.  How does she introduce herself?  Where does she think her own brilliance lies?  How does she define herself professionally?
She calls herself an actor.

Exceptional women?  We think so, but then we’re no shrinking violets.  We’re honored to be noted among Corrie’s list of pretty exceptional women, and we invite you to step away from screaming silently into your pillows in the kitchen pantry.  If need be, we’ll speak for you!
KK and SalGal

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