Late Bloomer Living Podcast

EP 101: An Act of Kindness and a Sense of Purpose with Lisa Strom

Lisa Strom is a 30 year veteran teacher and Chair of the English Dept at Norwalk High School in Norwalk, CT.  For her 50th birthday. She set herself a goal to complete 50 acts of service for her 50th birthday, or as she calls it….Mitzvah 50.  She wanted to find a way to incorporate service learning in her classes in a way that highlighted the availability of education in the U.S. compared to accessing education globally. The culmination of her year of service has been fundraising $15,000 through a combination of small, individual donations and a grant from the Fund for Teachers Foundation to build a school in Malawi through an organization called buildOn.

EP 100 - Joy Ride

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EP 99: Midlife Renewal with Karen Herbert

Karen Herbert is a certified professional wellbeing coach, the founder and CEO of Themelios Coaching, and the creator of the Life In Abundance 6-month coaching program for midlife women, where she helps women find the purpose they crave as they transition to an empty nest. She started her coaching journey as she struggled with chronic Lyme disease and battled the mental health system for her family’s needs.

EP 98 Finding Your Creativity at Any Age with Maggie Smith

In a career that’s included work as a journalist, a psychologist, and the founder of a national art consulting company, Maggie Smith now adds novelist to her resume with the publication of her debut, Truth and Other Lies.  She never considered herself creative, but signing up for a creative retreat opened new worlds to her. 

EP 97: Midlife Uprising DAY ONE!

Today is Day One of the Midlife Uprising Summit.  This is a short episode with some inspiring sound bites from our speakers accompanied by an original song composed by Dana Benningfield who started composing music in midlife. 

EP 96: May the 4th Be With You

What does Star Wars have to do with Late Bloomer Living?  Listen to this super short (and silly) episode to find out!  Hint: It has a little something to do with embracing your “weird”.

EP 95: It’s About Who You Can Become with Michelle Oliver

Michelle Oliver has been building businesses, professionally training, and coaching within the small business sector for 34 years. An avid student of personal development for more than 30 years.  She offers a transparent conversation and relevant, valuable content with the intention of benefiting women in mid-life as they learn to value and bet on themselves and take the Entrepreneurial Leap.

EP 94: Better Than Fine with Lori Saitz

Lori Saitz is the CEO of Zen Rabbit and host of the podcast “FINE is a 4-Letter Word.” She’s an award-winning writer, speaker, and broadcaster as well as a nationally recognized expert in using gratitude and meditation as shortcuts to success.  Mourning the loss of both her mother and the end of her business had her questioning everything.  After 22 years of marriage and life, she was wondering where the girl she used to be had gone?  Her life was “FINE” but she felt stuck and lost.  She ended up deciding that “Fine” was definitely not good enough.

EP 93: Is This All There Is? with Julie Scott

Julie Scott is a Self-Expansion Guide, Speaker and Author.  Her mission is to help mature women prioritize their needs and gain confidence so they can stop worrying about "being enough" and just start living life.   After years of struggling with body image, people-pleasing and over-giving, Julie learned to uncover the beliefs and patterns that were holding her back. In doing so, she turned her life around and is now more confident than ever!  And now, she’s all about helping her clients feel good about themselves in mind, body and spirit. 

EP 92: I am Enough with Jen Robinson

If you could design a best friend who was equal parts motivational speaker, beauty expert, style coach and comedian, then her name would be Jen Robinson.

After turning 50 this year and being constantly discouraged by the messages projected to women over 40, Jen set her intentions toward creating social media “playgrounds” that celebrate women—and Making Up for Glossed Time was born. A rally cry for a pro-aging revolution, her platforms promote radical self-love and encourage women of all ages to live out loud.