A: This is one of the most frequently asked questions I receive for any of my online courses.

For "Create Your Dream Life After 50", "Embracing Your Sexuality After 50", and "Rewriting the Rules of Aging After 50", each course has a total of 15 modules, for a total of 45 overall modules. Every module in each course has a different length, but on average, they are between 8 and 15 minutes, with the longest just over 20 minutes.

I recommend setting aside 30 to 45 minutes a day to engage with at least one module. This includes not only the length of each module but also spending time with the journal prompts, affirmations, mirror-work, and inspired action items designed to help you integrate what you are learning.  

By focusing on one module a day, you will finish each course in 15 days. If you have more time and space to journey through multiple modules in a day, you can expect to complete either of the courses in about 5 to 7 days.

Having answered that part of the question, it's essential to add vital context to the time it truly takes to complete my online courses.

The real question isn’t how much time a course will take you, but instead:

· How much time do you spend worrying about your life, particularly the future?

· How much time do you think you spend reading about or watching the news and then complaining about the world’s sorry state of affairs? 

· How much time do you spend lamenting about things in life that don’t go your way? 

Consider these questions because if you truly want to improve the quality of your life, you will want to identify where you spend most of your time feeling upset, depressed, and uninspired.

When you honestly pinpoint these areas and add up just how much time you are wasting your life away with negativity, you will immediately see where you can replace those negative energies and wasted time by taking your inner journey through my three new online courses.

What I am saying here is that my online courses are about reclaiming your power to make time work for you and not against you. Each of the 45 modules in all three of my courses does not teach you to work against the immutable law of nature, which is change. They, instead, show you how to embrace change.

What this means is that when you change the story you tell yourself about life, you stop complaining about life. This is when you begin to create a life worthy of your dreams and desires.

Here is where time doesn’t slow down or speed up; it literally dissolves.

All of this happens because you no longer fret over how long something takes. You’re too focused on marinating in the juiciness of a beautiful life you have created for yourself and your loved ones to worry about time. 

This means you are in flow with the natural order of life. You are not resisting change; you are co-creating with change as your life steadily improves.

So, what is the most significant time investment for my online courses?

Letting go of the belief that you don't have time to improve the quality of your life.

A: Creativity isn't about how artistic you are. It's not even about imagining a new lifestyle after 50. Creativity is life, and life is an expression of creativity. In other words, by simply being alive, you are being creative in some way or form.

Here's an example:

You dressed yourself today, right? You decorated your living space, didn’t you? You've solved problems that others struggled with? If you can relate to any of these, you're creative.

The point is that you are creating your life from one moment to the next. What my online courses will help you do is become more conscious and intentional with how you create your life.

This is a question that I had to face in pursuing my dreams during my mother’s health issues, and again, two decades later, with the death of my husband, Joe.

It’s not a simple answer for anyone. Every person’s situation is unique, even if we can relate to what one another goes through in emotionally trying times.

I cannot answer this question for you, but I can offer up my own personal experience.

I have shared publicly my struggles with the loss of loved ones, including going into a lot of detail about how I overcame grief in my new masterclass. Despite how difficult it was when my mother was sick, and also following the devastating death of my husband, I still honored my dreams and desires.

In the case of Joe's death, I had to choose to accept that the quality of my life mattered. One of the very last things he said to me was, “Remember your dreams”. Joe wasn’t referring to remembering our dreams, because those died with him. What he was encouraging me to do was to follow my dreams after he died.

To escape the darkest periods of my life, I embraced my dreams by embracing the change that his death brought about. I also did this after my mother died by honoring my lifelong dream of becoming a full-time actress.

In fact, it was during the grief, loneliness, and self-doubt in my 70s that I battled with after Joe's death that my “See It, Believe It, & Achieve It” framework revealed itself. The framework was always there, as I used it to create my dream lifestyle in my 50s, 60s, and again in my 70s. But it took the devastating loss of my husband to bring that framework to a new level of clarity.

What I’m saying here is that in the midst of any breakdown in life, there is a breakthrough waiting to be discovered. Once you allow yourself to see that breakthrough, your lifestyle will change for the better.

As it relates to my new online courses, visualizing your dream lifestyle and learning to actualize those dreams amidst difficult challenges isn't about denying reality. It's about creating hope within it. In fact, some of my most successful students enrolled in my courses during a life crisis. They used the courses as their roadmap to navigate from surviving to thriving.

You can do the same for your life.

A: If you're reading these words on a computer, phone, or tablet, you have all the tech skills needed. And believe me when I say, if I can create online courses and use a computer, so can you.

I am as far removed from being tech-savvy as you can get. But that hasn’t stopped me from creating online courses or publishing content on social media platforms, such as my YouTube channel.

My courses are hosted here on Podia, one of the world’s premier online course platforms. Their platform is simpler than Facebook or even YouTube.

Also, every single module is available as a downloadable PDF, along with downloadable audio and video files. This means you can watch, read, and journey through the courses on your own device, when and where you choose.

A: No. My courses are not all just focused entirely on positive thinking. They are more about embodying your positive thoughts.

My online courses are rooted in real-world solutions because everything I share in my courses, and in all my content, is based on my own real-life experiences. And everything is backed up by the latest neuroscience studies in how to visualize a new life and rewire the neural pathways of your brain.

This is why the content I create is a cutting-edge blend of modern-age neuroscience + practical lifestyle tools + grounded spiritual awakening. There is no fluff, no temporary solution, or superficial approach to improving the quality of your life.

A traditional self-help course or books focused just on positive thoughts are at best surface-level. At worst, they insinuate that positive thinking can solve your problems without providing any substance to back it up.

Each module in my new courses invites you to look your challenges, problems, and limiting beliefs square in the eye, meet and greet them with authenticity, practical solutions, and then "transform them."

 A: Along with how long the courses take, this is one of the most often-asked questions I receive about my online courses. I’m going to address this here as I always do, in two direct parts.

Part 1:

A 15-day, 100% refund policy is in place from the day you enrolled in all three of Joanie Marx’s online courses. If you are seeking a refund within that 15-day window, please be sure to email [joaniemarx@gmail.com] and place REFUND in the subject line of the email.

We will take immediate action to initiate a refund to your payment method through Stripe, which is our third-party payment service. There are no refunds after 15 days of enrollment, regardless of whether you have completed any of the courses.

Any refunds issued after 15 days of enrollment will be in our sole discretion and determined on a case-by-case basis.

That was the first part of answering the question about refunds and whether any of my courses will work for you. Now, let us address the real issue here with refunds on courses that are designed to positively improve the overall quality of your life.  

Part 2:

When it comes to refunds for online courses like the kind I create, there is a brutal truth that few people want to face. But it must be said upfront and acknowledged.  

The worst thing you can do when you’re in charge of your life and have dreams and desires to fulfill, is to:

· Make other people responsible for your lack of genuine trust in yourself and your lack of genuine effort to fulfill your dreams.

· In other words, when you bypass your responsibility to create your lifestyle and place that responsibility onto others, you will always find disappointment rather than fulfillment.

What this means in relation to courses like mine is that I am not responsible for your willingness or unwillingness to honor your dreams and innermost desires. That responsibility is 100% on you.

I know what it is like to succeed in spite of the obstacles on my path. I know how many times I have felt like giving up, but I persevere. And I don’t listen to negative people telling me what I can and cannot be, do, and experience. My courses and my lifestyle are evidence of this.

People who dream of a better life and take little to no inspired action to make it happen will always look for refunds, excuses, and reasons why things don’t work out for them.

Those who dream of a better life and are willing to make adjustments in their current lifestyle to make room for their dreams and desires to emerge will always find success, even if their desired outcomes look different from what they initially visualized.

From ten years of acting classes to dozens of online and offline courses I’ve enrolled in, along with creating six online courses, I’ve seen my fair share of people asking for refunds.

And do you know what the #1 reason people want a refund from a course they were so eager to enroll in is?

It is because they do not believe enough in themselves to honor the original intentions of enrolling in the first place.

What are those original intentions? To fulfill their dreams and desires. Why else would someone take a course to learn a new skill, develop an existing talent, and improve their life?

Therefore, instead of worrying about whether any of my new online courses will work for you and hoping to secure a way out when you choose not to engage with them, consider the alternative for just a moment:

· What if my online courses DO work for you?

· What if a year from now, you're living a higher-quality lifestyle because you said yes today to signing up for my free masterclass, and then enrolling in all three of my courses for $749?

Speak Your FAQ Affirmations to yourself now or later:

1.  My questions lead to clarity

2.  I have everything I need to succeed

3.  I am always, and in all ways, supported to be at my best

4.  I trust my ability to learn new beliefs and new behaviors

5.  I am never behind, for I am exactly where I’m supposed to be

6.  I am fully capable of transforming my limiting beliefs into empowering ones