She moved to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in the 1970s where she lived in an artistic expatriate community.

Under her leadership, the magazine became business oriented and promoted women in the field.

[1] In 1991, she founded Beverly Russell Enterprises and was a business consultant.

After the divorce of Beardwood, she married the photographer Jon Naar.

[1] Russell died on December 11, 2021, through physician-assisted suicide in Albuquerque, New Mexico, following a terminal heart diagnosis.