Tuesday, April 18, 2006

East Valley Tribune | Daily Arizona News for Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale

East Valley Tribune | Daily Arizona News for Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale: "Irma Turtle led a very different life 22 years ago. She lived on Manhattan’s East Side and spent her days dressed in power suits marketing the products of Fortune 500 companies.

She was at the top of the advertising world, sought after by clients, and named president of advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather’s Brazilian office.

Then one day Turtle decided she’d had enough. And quit.

She traded the power suits, Madison Avenue lunches and $85,000 salary for the life of an adventure traveler and then what some would say is a frustrating and penniless existence —that of a humanitarian working in the remote
regions of Africa.

“I never looked back,” she says before taking a sip of tea in her Cave Creek home. “For the longest time there was this neon question mark going off over my head — so what, so what? What am I doing to help the world?” "

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