Late Bloomer Living Podcast Yvonne Marchese

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. 

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 goes to show that when we make a shift in midlife and jump into something new, we bring with us a lifetime of experience that we can apply to our new adventures.

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 course, rebranded her business, let go of one-sided friendships, took herself to Cancun, and spoke at her first TEDx event.

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, he realized he needed to “pick a lane” as he puts it. That inspired him to launch a new business, at the age of 58, capitalizing on all of the marketing expertise he’s garnered over the years and making his tools and tactics available to help new businesses tell their story.

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 Hounds.  Both of them had to step into being a beginner in order to keep an older business running to pay the bills while they built a new business.  Who says you can't be an "overnight success" in midlife?

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.