Amanda Lamb

AGELESS: Opening Doors With Amanda Lamb

Society EN ↓ 80 episodes

This is a podcast for women, about women, featuring women. It's about what happens when we turn 50 and our culture quietly deems us irrelevant. There's a new generation of 50+ women who are redefining what it means to thrive in the second half of our lives. Whether you're still raising children, working, caring for aging parents, or just looking for your next chapter, my guests will inspire you. There's something for everyone in this two-year, 80-episode journey that was born out of my adult gap year after retiring from a 35-year career as a broadcast journalist. Join me as we unpack their inc...

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Amanda Lamb

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Mary Easley: From North Carolina's First Lady to grandmother and everything in between 29.01.2024 24:27

Mary Easley is a force of nature; there's no doubt about it. She smashed so many stereotypes when she went to law school fifty plus years ago, became an assistant district attorney, and then opened her own law firm. But most people remember Mary as North Carolina's First Lady when her husband, Michael Easley, was governor from 2001 to 2009. In this episode, she talks about her career journey, her...

Miriam Melvin: Elevating Black voices and becoming a fitness leader 22.01.2024 28:41

Mimi is a veteran local television news producer from Chicago who was swinging through North Carolina in the nineties on her way up the career ladder when a funny thing happened- her life . She met her husband and ended up blooming where she was planted. She works the early morning shift so that she can be at home with her two boys in the afternoons and evenings. It's not easy, but she vows to con...

Dr. Hope Seidel: From pediatrician to parenting coach 15.01.2024 20:16

Dr. Hope Seidel spent twenty years as a pediatrician doing what she loves, caring for children. But her journey hasn't always been an easy one. She was married to a doctor who suffered from addiction, which meant she was a single parent way before she ever got divorced. When he died in 2020, she had to process her grief along with the grief of her children. Hope started to realize that her real p...

Barb: A widow journeys through grief finding love online and a second chance at happiness 10.01.2024 28:11

Finding your person online seems like a modern love story ripped from a magazine article, something that doesn't happen to real people in real life, especially to people who have experienced tragedy. What if you suddenly found yourself a widow in your fifties, and you couldn't imagine the thought of discovering love again with someone else? Barbara's beloved husband, Michael, the father of her fou...

Sloane Heffernan: From NFL cheerleader to entrepreneur 03.01.2024 26:32

If not now, when? This is the question Sloane Heffernan asked herself more than a decade ago when she thought about leaving her career in television news to start her own company. But it would be ten more years after she scribbled this written declaration on an envelope on an airplane before she made the leap. From a small-town girl with limited opportunities, to an NFL cheerleader, to a televisio...