Late Bloomer Living Podcast

Mike Adsit was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 52 which was just the beginning of a renaissance for him because it led him to examine his unhealthy lifestyle.  During his recovery from chemotherapy in 2001 he found inspiration watching Lance Armstrong, a cancer survivor, win the Tour de France and decided that he would try bicycling to get in shape.  That decision led him to co...

Paula Stone Williams is an internationally known speaker on gender equity, LGBTQ advocacy, and religious tolerance.  She is also a Pastor and Pastoral Counselor in Boulder County, Colorado.  As a transgender woman, Paula brings a unique perspective to her work on gender equity.  We talk about what transitioning in midlife was like for her and the trials she faced on her journey to become her authe...

This week’s guests are Nicole Markel and Sandra Costello of the Messy Middle Roadtrip Podcast.  Nicole Markel is an entrepreneur in the wellness field on a mission to share her personal journey while battling an autoimmune condition and empowering others to live a healthier lifestyle.  Sandra Costello is an entrepreneur, photographer and coach who believes in brave moments and helping her clients...

This week's guest is Charlotte Japp, the founder of CIRKEL, a company that connects older and younger professionals for mutual personal and professional growth.  After graduating from Georgetown University, Charlotte started her career in creative marketing and saw the consequences of age segregation in the workplace. Older and younger professionals needed to connect and learn from each other, but...

Doris Fullgrabe of Your Love Profiles is a relationship coach who previously worked in leadership development and had a business preparing expatriate couples for their international assignments.  In her 40s, a move to New York for her husband’s job left her on shaky ground, so she took some time off to reevaluate her business and her purpose and ended up launching a new business doing something co...

The year 2020 is coming to a close.  It may not be pretty, but we made it!  That being said... Just because we're turning the page on our calendar doesn’t mean the challenges of this year are over, right?  So, how do we move forward when so much is uncertain?  Let’s talk about taking stock of the past year and planning for what’s next.

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...

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 her...

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 g...

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 network...

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 h...

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....

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 fac...

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.   (F...

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 the...

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...

Jon Stewart of JStu Music retired early from a career in Information Security to pursue a lifelong dream to be a songwriter and now he’s released 5 albums since 2017. In this episode, we talk about how he positioned himself to meet other songwriters during the Covid shutdown and how he tapped into all the project management skills he has acquired in his career working in the IT Industry.  It just...

Under the full moon in March of 2017, Despite the strong advice of a few friends, Emily Clement decided to burn a lifetime of her journals in a backyard fire.  The book burning created an amazing chain reaction. Helping her to purge the toxic thoughts, beliefs and stories that didn’t serve her.  She then took massive action.  She quit drinking alcohol, adopted a puppy, took an intense business cou...

Doug Motel is an award-winning playwright & actor, author, coach, artist and a popular international speaker on the subject of storytelling for business. He’s kind of the quintessential “renaissance man”... Last year, he was leading a workshop in Hawaii and had a personal revelation… He'd spent the year exploring all his passions and going wherever his creativity took him.  During that workshop, h...

Kevin Lane turned his passion for sand castles into a toy that builds not only sandcastles but family memories... and he did it in his late forties.  He's the Inventor and Founder of Create a Castle which just won the coveted “Toy of the Year” award.  But, he didn't do it alone.  His wife, Laurie, stepped up to help make it all happen by taking on operations for their web design business, Code Hou...

Are you one of those people who makes it look easy to do “all the things” when inside you’re really struggling? That was Kimberly Minor, my guest this week.  For most of her adult life she found herself in the role of that person people look to to get through a crisis, both in her business and private life…. At some personal cost.

This week I’m talking to a dear friend, Joe O’Callaghan.  Joe has worked for 20 plus years in the Stamford, CT Public Schools where he is currently the Dept. Chair for Social Work with a specialty in trauma and grief counseling.  Today we are talking about his own journey inward… and starting to write poetry as part of his contemplative practice.  

I'm going solo in this episode to talk about my journey producing a podcast so far, how to embrace being a beginner and move through all the uncertainty and discomfort that goes with it. 

This week we’re talking to Dr. Susan Bernstein. Once upon a time, she was a corporate consultant...a road warrior…. regularly booking 80 hours a week and putting everything she had into climbing the corporate ladder. After a car accident and a few other wakeup calls she realized that she was on the wrong path.   She went back to school to get her PhD in Somatic Psychology and now she’s an executiv...

This week we’re talking about fitness with Allan Misner. He’s the host of the 40+ Fitness Podcast, for which he has interviewed hundreds of health and wellness experts with a wide range of specialties.  He wrote the award-winning book, The Wellness Roadmap: A Straightforward Guide to Health and Fitness After 40. He also owns and operates a gym called Island Fitness in Bocas del Toro, Panama.