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Summary: What would you risk to follow your dreams? Karen Schaler walked away from an Emmy-award winning career as a broadcast journalist--and cashed out her 401(k)--to move to New York City and establish herself as a screenwriter at age 40. You might have heard of some of her work, especially at this time of year: Schaler wrote the Netflix mega-hit movie, “The Christmas Prince,” which premiered in November 2017.