Late Bloomer Living Podcast

EP 29: Laura McClellan - How to Take Imperfect Action

My guest this week is Laura McClellan, the host of The Productive Woman Podcast.  She’s also a lawyer, a writer, a productivity enthusiast, and a tech geek.  We talk about how she finally committed to pursuing her lifetime dream of writing a novel and what it was like for her to start a podcast.  Married for more than 40 years to her high school sweetheart, with whom she's raised five amazing kids, she's passionate about encouraging women in their individual journeys as people, wives, mothers, citizens.

EP 28: Jen Riday: Ditching Overwhelm

This week’s guest is Jen Riday, the host of the Vibrant Happy Women podcast.  Jen is a mom of 6 children with a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies.  We talk about her journey from overwhelmed and frazzled wife and mom to life coach and podcaster.  In 2010 she had a traumatic miscarriage, which was her wake-up call.  From there, she took a deep dive into learning how to take care of herself and find what made her happy.  Now, she’s helping other burned out, overwhelmed moms get off the hamster wheel and find balance so they can love their lives again. 

EP 27: Cecilia Dintino and Hannah Murray Starobin - Twisting the Plot

Cecilia Dintino and Hannah Murray Starobin are co hosts of the Twisting the Plot Podcast where they speak with women who have discovered that life after 50 can be filled with imagination, inspiration, laughter, and endless possibilities.  They are both psychotherapists and lifelong friends.  Several years ago they started to wonder what was next for them in midlife… When they started looking for guidance they couldn’t find much on the topic of women in midlife, so they started bringing together groups of women to talk about their midlife experiences which led to collecting women’s stories and starting a podcast.  They are on a mission to rethink what’s possible for women as we age. 

EP 26: Debra Schwartzfarb - Job Search 2020

Debra Schwartzfarb is a highly skilled HR Executive with years of rich experience, who left a position she’d been in for 9 years in search of something that was a better match for where she’s at in this point of her career. She separated from that job expecting a normal job search and then the Covid shutdown happened, changing everything. In this episode we talk about how she’s approaching networking, staying relevant and taking care of herself. Debra is using her years of experience to uplevel her skills and attitude during a time that could be a real soul crusher. She’s a great example of someone who isn’t giving up.

EP 25: Thanksgiving in the year 2020

On this special Thanksgiving episode I share with you some thoughts on finding thanks in the year we call 2020.  I've been thinking a lot about Thanksgiving this year in a way that I never have before because, of course, this has been a year like no other.  I want to talk about finding gratitude and thanks in our lives even in the face of massive challenges, and how powerful gratitude is for our health and happiness.  I will also be sharing some of the stories you sent me telling your own stories of going from grief to gratitude. 

EP 24: Shannon Paris - When Life Happens

Shannon Paris is the Community Advocate & Operations Director at The What Works Network where she makes it look easy to bring together a group of diverse, small business owners to share tips, tools, frustrations and triumphs and she’s always looking for ways to keep the community engaged.  Formerly, Shannon was a buyer for Ten Thousand Villages which is a fair trade retail non-profit organization. During that time she saw first hand the amazing effects of business ownership on artisans in developing economies.  She identified herself heavily with her career, so when she was laid off a few years ago, she found herself a little “at sea”.  We talk about her transition to a career as a Community Manager in a digital workspace that she didn’t even know existed and how that has become a place for her to truly grow into herself.  She’s discovered that her passion for transforming lives and economies through business leadership is one that she can take with her wherever she lands.

EP 23: Nayla Bahri - 90,000 Hours

Nayla Bahri, my guest this week, said something that I can’t get out of my head… She said, “Most adults will spend 90,000 hours of their lives working which is more time than we’re going to spend doing anything else… How do we make it worth it?”.  Nayla is a leadership development expert who specializes in looking at how people experience work.  This week we are talking about resilience in the face of career challenges.  This conversation is timely as many people are having to dig deep in this crazy year we call 2020.

EP 22: Anthony Reed - Pushing the Limits

At the age of 50, Anthony Reed co-founded the National Black Marathoners’ Association with his friend, Charlotte Simmons.  Fifteen years later, they have grown from 2 people to about 16,000 members!  He’s also one of about sixty people in the world, who completed the marathon “hat trick.”  having finished over 100 marathons, completing a marathon on all seven continents, including Antarctica.   (Fewer than 225 people in the world have done that and he’s the first black person in the world to accomplish that feat.)   The last part of that hat trick includes finishing marathons in all 50 states.  He is now 65 years old, and still running.  He has published five books.  His sixth and latest book is From the Road Race to the Rat Race: Essays from a Black Executive Marathoner.  In this episode, we talk about the mindset required to bust through personal limits and what drives him to excel.

EP 21: Shulamit Ber Levtov - One Day at a Time

Shulamit Ber Levtov started her Masters in Counseling and Spirituality as a mature student with a goal to finish before she turned 50.  She wasn’t sure how she would find the time or money, but step by step she accomplished her goal.  A few years later she founded a holistic clinic in a small rural town which is now thriving.  Today, she works as a mindset consultant helping womxn stay sane as they ride the emotional rollercoaster of running a business.   When I first met her she told me “All my life I had wondered what I was here for but it only became clear in my 50s.”

EP 20: Linda Ruel Flynn - A Legacy of Joy

Linda Ruel Flynn was taking care of her sick mom and was tasked with keeping her mom’s flower pressing gift business up and running when her mother was too sick to do the work.  In the end, her mom passed away leaving Linda with the decision about what to do with her mom’s business.  You see her mom had always wanted her to take over the business, but that’s not what Linda wanted… until she did it at the age of 50.  She ended up doing things quite differently than her mother would have, finding true joy and love of the process.