Late Bloomer Living Podcast

Yvonne Marchese
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Late Bloomer Living is a weekly podcast hosted by Yvonne Marchese about exploring just how juicy life can get as you get older. It's about staying curious, taking up space and refusing to believe the good part is behind you. Every week features conversations with people who are proof that it's not all downhill after 50. I also talk with experts about the stuff nobody prepared us for: menopause, brain and gut health, midlife style, late-life entrepreneurship. **Season seven is the Salty Sisters season. Each episode is fresh from the live show I co-host with Cat Corchado. Salty Sisters is real talk for grown women who are done pretending midlife is a crisis. We go live Fridays at 3pm ET on the Late Bloomer Living YouTube channel, and the audio lands here on the podcast every Wednesday. For anyone who has felt stuck, invisible, or worried that it's too late to go after a dream.

  1. 2d ago

    Are You Resisting the Best Part of Aging? with Kat Miller

    Somewhere around 40, I started catching my reflection and thinking, "Wait. Who is that?" It wasn't a curious question. It was more of a flinch. Eighteen years and a lot of unlearning later, I mostly like the woman looking back. That took some work. And yet…. Even after all these years, I’m not immune to wanting to look younger.  This episode starts off with my own confession.  Kat Miller knows that flinch, too. When she was younger, she picked herself apart: the chin that never quite showed up, the neckline, the knees that bumped out. Now people tell her how pretty she was back then, and her answer is perfect: "I never saw it, so it was completely wasted on me." I'm Yvonne Marchese, and on this Salty Sisters replay, Cat Corchado and I talk with Kat. She has been a counselor for nearly 40 years, and she's a TEDx speaker, a Wonderment Catalyst and the founder of Age Freely. She's writing a book about what she calls declines and expansions. She doesn't sugarcoat the declines. Things slow. Things sag. But she's convinced something grows alongside every loss, and we miss it because we're staring so hard at what's slipping away. We get into why Kat sees life after 60 as a developmental stage full of invitations, what a slower brain might be handing us, and who makes money keeping us afraid of getting older. I also blurt out an opinion about "cute" old people, and Kat calls it ageist. She's not wrong. And somewhere in the middle, I admit that I've been more afraid of aging than of dying. If that one lands for you too, pull up a chair.   Connect with Kat Miller Website: https://agefreely.com Older: A Renewable Life card game: https://www.agefreely.com/the-older-game Instagram: @katagefreely 🌻 If you’re feeling inspired, I’d love for you to share your thoughts about this episode on social media and tag me @latebloomerliving. 🌻 Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode! 🌻 Need a little more FUN in your life? The PLAYshop is a self-guided video you can dive into anytime, whenever you're ready to play. 🛼 💥 https://www.latebloomerliving.com/play Come hang out with us in the free Late Bloomer Living Community, where we trade stories, ideas, and a little mischief as we figure out midlife together. Join here: https://www.latebloomerliving.com/community

  2. Sep 30

    Your Inner Critic Has a Name (and She's an Ageist) with Wendi Knox

    What if the voice telling you you're too old isn't really yours? On this Salty Sisters replay Cat Corchado and I talk with Wendi Knox, author of The Way of the Dragonfly: Flight Instructions to Transform the Way We Age. At 50, Wendi was the only female SVP/Creative Director at one of LA's biggest ad agencies. Then she was laid off without warning. She ended up sobbing in her backyard and asked the universe one question: am I too old to reinvent myself? She came home from a walk with her dog to find hundreds of red dragonflies swirling over her patio umbrella. She had no idea yet what it meant. Wendi spent decades making award-winning commercials for Honda and Acura. Now she's working on a harder brand: aging. She published her first book and had her first solo art show at 65. At 72, she's here to talk about her new book, The Way of the Dragonfly: Flight Instructions to Transform the Way We Age. We get into: 🌻 Edna, Wendi's inner critic, who turns out to be an inner ageist (and sounds suspiciously like someone she used to know) 🌻 Cat's answer to Edna: an inner hype woman named Queen 🌻 Gray hair, fire-engine red at 90, and why women get judged either way 🌻 Invisible woman syndrome and the leopard-loving aunt who refused to disappear 🌻 How to stay in the moment when fear of aging starts to spiral Somewhere in there I admit I've always been more afraid of aging than dying. It gets salty, it gets honest, and there's a lot of laughing. 💟 Find Wendi and her books at wendiknox.com. --------------------------------------------------- 🌻 If you’re feeling inspired, I’d love for you to share your thoughts about this episode on social media and tag me @latebloomerliving. 🌻 Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode! 🌻 Need a little more FUN in your life? The PLAYshop is a self-guided video you can dive into anytime, whenever you're ready to play. https://www.latebloomerliving.com/play 🎉 Come hang out with us in the free Late Bloomer Living Community, where we trade stories, ideas, and a little mischief as we figure out midlife together. Join here: https://www.latebloomerliving.com/community

  3. Sep 23

    Self-Care After 50: The S Word, Yarrr!

    Cat and I have a confession. The word "self-care" makes us both cringe a little. That phrase is pushed in our faces so often that it's starting to feel like one more thing on the to-do list. So in this replay of our Salty Sisters livestream, we call it "the S word" instead, and we talk about what taking care of yourself looks like in midlife. It's not all bubble baths and spa days. Some context: As I was planning this episode, the calendar gave me three gifts on one day. It was National Rice Krispie Treat Day, the day before National Talk Like a Pirate Day, and smack in the middle of Self-Care Awareness Month. So yes, I eat a Rice Krispie Treat on camera. Yes, we read self-care affirmations in pirate voices. And no, neither of us can do a convincing pirate. Cat does every accent except that one. Under all the "yarrr," though, it turns into one of our most honest conversations. Cat opens up about a hard year and the things that got her through it, from ugly crying to hiding in her car in the garage playing phone games so she wouldn't snap at anyone she loved. We talk about how hard it is to take care of yourself when you're caring for someone else, and why an hour of help is worth asking for. (And please don't spend that hour at the grocery store.) In this episode: Cat's "Cattitude Day," and why everyone deserves one, even if it's only five minutes behind a locked bathroom door The way we talk about our bodies matters. Our midlife tummies have been through a lot. They deserve better nicknames than "the pooch" or "middle earth" Feel-good playlists, dancing at stoplights, and two 60-year-old men skipping down the beach Cat's rapid-fire top five: breathing, sleep, movement, water, and food The hill I'll die on: taking care of the basics is what makes play possible It's messy, it's sticky, and it's a reminder that laughing with a friend counts as self-care. 🌻 If you're feeling inspired, I'd love for you to share your thoughts about this episode on social media and tag me @latebloomerliving. 🌻 Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode! 🌻 Need a little more FUN in your life? Come to The PLAYshop! Go to https://www.latebloomerliving.com/play to get in on the fun! 🛼💥

  4. Sep 16

    Your Story Isn't Over with Valerie Thurston

    Valerie Thurston never planned to write a book when she was 78, but after the death of her husband 17 years ago, a story stayed with her until she finally gave herself permission to write it.   In this episode, Valerie joins Yvonne and Cat to talk about grief, legacy, self-publishing, and her novel Food Poisoning: A Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and the Fight for Legacy.   This is a grounded, heartfelt conversation for anyone carrying a story, a loss, or a second chapter that has been waiting to be lived.

  5. Sep 9

    Building Confidence Through Repitition, Curiosity and Small Steps

    Nobody's ready. I'm still not ready to do half the things I do.   I'm Yvonne Marchese, and this week my Salty Sister Cat Corchado and I get into where confidence actually comes from, which is not where most of us keep looking for it. Confidence is the receipt. It's not the ticket that gets you in. Cat learned an entire business late in life by pushing buttons until something worked. I sat on the idea for this podcast for two years before I pressed record, and the reasons I gave people were not the real reason. A few things that came up: - We get into the "getting ready to get ready" trap. - Why eleven minutes of exercise may be the key to getting started. - How play develops your courage muscle. - And the permission slip nobody hands you: you're allowed to try a thing, hate it, and be done with it. Somewhere in the middle of all this we accidentally named a segment. "Have you fallen down on your diaper lately?" 😜   So what's the thing you're still waiting to feel ready for... — Season 7 of Late Bloomer Living is the Salty Sisters season. Every Wednesday you're hearing the audio from Friday's live show on YouTube, where you can jump in with questions while it's happening. Come find us at 3pm Eastern on the Late Bloomer Living channel. Cat's free 11-Minute Challenge runs October 5–9. Sign up at smallspacepilates.com. Not in the Late Bloomer Living community yet? It's free, and it's where this conversation keeps going: latebloomerliving.com/community

  6. Sep 2

    Welcome to Season 7: It’s Getting Salty Around Here

    Six years. 281 episodes. And today I'm shaking it up like a snow globe. Not because it's broken. That's the part I want to talk about. For the next three months or so, Wednesdays on Late Bloomer Living belong to Salty Sisters — the live show I co-host with Cat Corchado. Same feed, same day you've always found me. There's just going to be a second voice in it now, and I think you're going to like her. Cat is an Air Force veteran, a movement specialist, and the founder of Fit for Life Alliance, which she started in her sixties. She hosts a podcast called Sisters in Service. She has the best laugh I've ever heard and she says things I would never think to say. We met on Clubhouse in 2021, ended up in the same mastermind, and figured out fairly quickly that we were more fun together than apart. In this episode I get into why I'm doing this. Some of it is about creative restlessness — six years is a long time to make anything the same way. Some of it is about the strange loneliness of making an interview show, which nobody warns you about. And some of it is about a personal project I'm not ready to talk about yet, which needs hours I don't currently have. Here's what's actually new, and it's the part I'm most excited about: we do this show live on Friday afternoons, and you can be in it. Not listening to a conversation I already finished — in it, while it's happening, asking the guest your own question. That's never been possible here before. Fridays at 3pm ET. My YouTube channel, Cat's LinkedIn, and the Sisters in Service Facebook page. Come say hi in the chat so we know you're there. https://www.youtube.com/@latebloomerliving/live **And hit the subscribe button while you're there! When did you last change something that wasn't broken?  Something perfectly fine that had just stopped being interesting? I'd love to know.

  7. Jul 1

    We Were All Programmed to Feel Old — And It's Making Us Shrink

    If you've ever caught yourself thinking "I'm too old for that" — this one's for you.   After six years of hosting a podcast about ageism, I still catch myself having ageist thoughts. About myself. And I think that's worth talking about honestly — because the truth is, none of us chose these beliefs. We absorbed them. Long before we were old enough to question them, we were being taught what aging was supposed to look like, what older women were supposed to want, and when it was time to stop trying.   And when we don't question that programming? We shrink. We talk ourselves out of things before we even try. We make ourselves smaller — not because we have to, but because nobody ever told us we didn't have to.   In this Season 6 finale, I'm getting honest about the ageist thoughts I still catch myself having, why that's not something to be ashamed of, and what it actually takes to start changing the beliefs that are quietly limiting you.   Season 7 launches September 2nd

  8. Jun 24

    Her Age Is a Superpower — Trish Appello

    At what age are women officially supposed to stop starting new things? According to Trish Appello, never. At 55, Trish gave herself permission to do the thing she'd always wanted — and what followed was background work on Orange Is the New Black, a film producing certificate from UCLA at 62, and eventually creating The EffYou 50s, a comedy series about four women who decide the rules of midlife simply don't apply to them anymore.   In this conversation, we talk about what it actually looks like to start before you feel ready, how she built her way into the film industry one scrappy step at a time, and why she says her age isn't a liability — it's a superpower. If you've ever caught yourself asking "who do I think I am?" — this one's for you.   🌻 If you’re feeling inspired, I’d love for you to share your thoughts about this episode on social media and tag me @latebloomerliving.   🌻Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode!    🌻 Need a little more FUN in your life? Come to The PLAYshop!  Sign up for the waitlist and get in on the fun! 🛼 💥   You can also join the Late Bloomer Living Community for more fun and inspiration as we navigate midlife together. Find out more at https://www.latebloomerliving.com/

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Late Bloomer Living is a weekly podcast hosted by Yvonne Marchese about exploring just how juicy life can get as you get older. It's about staying curious, taking up space and refusing to believe the good part is behind you. Every week features conversations with people who are proof that it's not all downhill after 50. I also talk with experts about the stuff nobody prepared us for: menopause, brain and gut health, midlife style, late-life entrepreneurship. **Season seven is the Salty Sisters season. Each episode is fresh from the live show I co-host with Cat Corchado. Salty Sisters is real talk for grown women who are done pretending midlife is a crisis. We go live Fridays at 3pm ET on the Late Bloomer Living YouTube channel, and the audio lands here on the podcast every Wednesday. For anyone who has felt stuck, invisible, or worried that it's too late to go after a dream.

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  • Creator
    Yvonne Marchese
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    292
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2020 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Late Bloomer Living Podcast

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