Later in Life

For six years, Tori believed she was doing everything she could to stay safe. She was diagnosed with MCAS and CIRS, survived on one food, carried EpiPens everywhere, sold her house, sold her car, avoided restaurants, and slowly watched her world become smaller. She wasn't just living with symptoms. She was organizing her entire life around avoiding them. In this episode, we share the moment ev...

One of the strange things about loving someone is that sometimes you get a front-row seat to their healing. Not the Instagram version. The real version. The setbacks. The accommodations. The fear. The determination. The tiny victories that nobody else understands. This week on Later in Life, we talk about our trip to Toronto, Tori's first hotel stay in six years, the challenge of navigating severe...

What do mattresses, chemical sensitivities, friendship, and getting engaged have in common? Apparently... us. In this episode, we share the continuing mattress saga (yes, there are more mattresses), the story behind our engagement, and why our friendship became the foundation for everything that followed. We talk about what it felt like to "just know," moving quickly without feeling rushed, naviga...

This week on Later in Life, we finally tell the story of how we met. What started as a coaching call turned into a two-year friendship, daily conversations, voice memos, songs, album releases, failed attempts to create distance, and two people having completely different experiences of the same connection. In this episode, Tori shares what was happening behind the scenes long before Jackie realize...

This week on Later in Life, we attempt to solve a mattress crisis caused by chronic illness, detergent allergies, a crumbling 15-year-old bed, and what can only be described as lesbian survival mode. What starts as a simple Marketplace inquiry quickly turns into U-Hauls, plastic-wrapped mattresses, emergency cleaning missions, asthma attacks, and an unexpectedly emotional conversation about patien...

Welcome to the first episode of Later in Life. What started as a plan to tell our relationship story quickly turned into a conversation about the absolute chaos of our Mother’s Day weekend — losing the cat, meeting the parents, accidental allergic reactions, emergency room visits, cuddle alarms, laundry detergent wars, and what it actually looks like to build a relationship later in life. This epi...