Late Bloomer Living Podcast

EP 68: Dara Goldberg - Lovin‘ Midlife

Dara Goldberg of Lovin' Midlife was a Founding Partner and Vice President of a management consulting firm that worked mainly with nonprofits and philanthropies to help them increase their funding base and develop growth strategies.  She loved her work until she didn’t.  After beating herself up and a lot of soul searching, she eventually found the courage to walk away and is currently on the verge of something big.  She’s on a mission to make sure that other women in midlife don’t have the same experience she did and is bringing together a community to support women who are feeling lost in midlife and point them in the direction of both professional guidance and a community of midlife sisters who will embrace and support them.

EP 67: Amy Feierman - Embracing the Unknown

Amy Feierman was 38 when she realized she wasn’t happy anymore in her very successful business as an Amazon seller and coach.  Prior to that she had loved her business, but it was starting to feel more like a “J.O.B.”  than the entrepreneurial endeavor she had started out with.  She realized she needed a change and it was going to require her to get out of her comfort zone to explore her next move.   Also, she found that there was some Judo required in changing the way she was thinking about giving up that business in order to feel good about moving on.

EP 66: Kimberly Coleman - Participating in Her Own Miracles

Kimberly Coleman is someone who recognizes that she has participated in her own miracles. Her Christian faith is a lynchpin for her, she sees God’s work in her life everywhere, but she also sees that she is a powerful force in that equation, that her actions deliver results, that her actions have delivered her through some difficult times.  Even if you aren’t a “believer”, I contend that you have the power to participate in your own miracles, that you are already participating in miracles and maybe you just need to start noticing your power.

EP 65: Johanna Walker - The World Needs Your Voice

Johanna Walker is a public speaking coach and storytelling expert who helps entrepreneurs and leaders craft talks and presentations around stories that matter, but that’s not the career she planned on.  For years, she worked as a multi-disciplinary artist, eventually finding her way to the stage. Her body of on-stage work spans over 20 years - including performing at poetry slams, creating solo theater pieces.  Eventually she began helping others find their voices. She’s worked with adolescent girls, incarcerated women, senior adults, corporate CEOs, fledgling entrepreneurs, TEDx speakers and passionate change-makers. In this episode we talk about how opening her speaker coaching business at 49 forced her to grow in ways she couldn’t have imagined.

EP 64: Cat Corchado - Sisters in Service

Cat Corchado joined the Air Force as a young, single mother and served a full 20 years. She retired when she was 42 years old and found herself unprepared for the transition to civilian life.  She found that her 20 years of military project management experience did not translate to getting hired for a comparable civilian position. She ended up becoming a personal trainer and a Pilates instructor in her 40s.   She's 64 now and still teaching Pilates, but that's just part of her story.  Cat found that she was missing the connection to other military women, so she began working with the Women’s Veteran Network which is a nationwide network of peer support groups specifically for Women Veterans.  A little over a year ago, Cat saw a need to be able to reach more women veterans with information and inspiration, so at the age of 63 she decided to launch a podcast called Sisters in Service where she helps other women veterans make the transition from military to civilian life.

EP 63: Welcome to Season Two!

Welcome to Season 2 of Late Bloomer Living!  After a brief break I'm back to talk about where the podcast might go from here.  I will continue to bring you inspiring stories of people who are continuing to grow and take on new challenges in midlife.  In addition, we'll be talking about the tools you can use to get past roadblocks and self imposed limitations.   

EP 62: Where Are They Now? Season One Wrap Up

Welcome to the LAST episode of Season One…  When I was thinking about how to wrap up the first season, I wanted to do something special for you.  I reached out to a few of my guests from early in the life of this podcast and asked them to send me a short recording to give us an update on their lives since they first sat down to chat with me.  So…. this is officially a “Where Are They Now” episode!

EP 61: Charlene Lam - Grief, Grit, Grace

When Charlene Lam’s mother passed away unexpectedly at age 66 from a stroke she found herself unmoored.  As an only child, she was tasked with having to sell and empty her mother’s dream home.  Charlene had a background working with makers, artisans and designers to help them curate and sell their creations. Now, faced with a lifetime of collected, precious items that had been important to her mother she found herself feeling overwhelmed and unable to let go of anything.  That’s when she asked herself, “OK, if I was to do an exhibition about my mother, which 100 objects would I choose?”

EP 60: Bruce Wilhelm - The Path to Leadership

Bruce Wilhelm was in his late twenties when he was given the responsibility of running a successful tree service business that his father had built. He took on the challenge even though he didn’t feel ready.  After successfully growing the business he’d been given for many years, he made the decision to sell the business when he was 42.  He struggled with that decision, because he felt responsible for his employees' livelihoods, but he knew his personal growth waited for him on another path.  Many years later, he has discovered a passion for helping others develop their leadership skills.   

EP 59: Jessica Abel - The Dark Forest

Jessica Abel is an award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and writer, and is the chair of the  Illustration program at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.  In the past few years, she has evolved to become founder of the Autonomous Creative where she works with ambitious mid-career creative pros and businesses to help them stop grinding and carve out the deep focus needed to finish—and launch—the game-changing work they want to be known for.  In this episode we explore the messy middle of the creative process and how that relates to the messiness of a midlife reinvention.