The Second Chapter

Lyn Yeowart has been a writer for most of her career, but decided to go back for a creative writing master's degree some 30 years after graduating with an education degree. But Lyn's biggest change may have been something that was less to do with writing and career, and more to do with self and worth.

Lyn is the author of The Silent Listener. Propelling the reader back and forth between the 1940s, 1960s and 1980s, The Silent Listener is an unforgettable literary suspense novel set in the dark, gothic heart of rural Australia. 

CW: Lyn and I do discuss childhood abuse, which may be upsetting to some listeners. As always, I try to discuss important topics like these with careful consideration and with the feelings of my guest and my listeners at heart. Lyn's story is ultimately joyful and inspiring. 

For more on Lyn and her work, go to: www.lynyeowart.com  www.lynxwriting.com

Instagram: @lynyeowartauthor

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#womenover35 #wearebadass

On The Second Chapter, serial careerist and founder of Slackline Productions, Kristin Duffy, chats with women who started the second (or third… or fifth!) chapter in their careers and lives, after 35. You’ll find inspiring stories, have a few laughs, and maybe even be motivated to turn the page on your own second chapter!

Of course we’d love to hear what you think- and if you love the show, please leave us a 5-star rating and review on podchaser or Apple podcasts.

Jane Griffin is a former BBC and ITN television and radio news reporter with over 25 years of combined experience in journalism, corporate communication, B2B PR, and crisis communication.

Thanks, in part, to a nudge from a former manager, Jane launched her own PR business, Positive Story - not just putting a positive spin on business-to-business PR but actively seeking companies who promote sustainable and ethical business practices and who share her values.

Jane and Kristin talk about why 'having it all' isn't all it's cracked up to be, the joys of living near the Euro Tunnel when you have a £1 employee fare, the amazing companies Jane's helping to get the word out about and why it sometimes takes a good nudge to find your ideal career direction.

You can find out more about Jane and Positive Story at:

www.positive-story.com

Instagram/Twitter: @positivestorypr @PositiveStoryPR

LinkedIn: Positive Story Limited

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• Instagram: @the_second_chapter_podcast,

On Facebook and YouTube as Slackline Productions

#womenover35 #wearebadass

On The Second Chapter, serial careerist and founder of Slackline Productions, Kristin Duffy, chats with women who started the second (or third… or fifth!) chapter in their careers and lives, after 35. You’ll find inspiring stories, have a few laughs, and maybe even be motivated to turn the page on your own second chapter!

Of course we’d love to hear what you think- and if you love the show, please leave us a 5-star rating and review on podchaser or Apple podcasts.

Kim Carpenter is a keynote speaker, executive coach, author, creator of World Changing Women and founder and CEO of People at the Center. Much of Kim's job is taking a stand for good business and making the workplace more humane but before she could help others align their own lives and values, she had to align her own -- something that required selling all of her things, traveling the world and finding what really matters.

For more on, or to connect with, Kim:

www.peopleatthecenter.com

Linkedin.com/in/kimcarpenter

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#womenover35 #wearebadass

On The Second Chapter, serial careerist and founder of Slackline Productions, Kristin Duffy, chats with women who started the second (or third… or fifth!) chapter in their careers and lives, after 35. You’ll find inspiring stories, have a few laughs, and maybe even be motivated to turn the page on your own second chapter!

Of course we’d love to hear what you think- and if you love the show, please leave us a 5-star rating and review on podchaser or Apple podcasts.

Widowed in a brutal fashion at 35, Jen Zwinck took some unusual steps to start her second chapter - steps that included moving with her two-year-old to a small Caribbean island.

Now Jen has found her "why" through Widow 180 podcast and the Widow Squad- working with other widows to come together, learn new ways to travel the path through grief and uplift each other on the journey to rediscovering a new life after loss.

CW: This episode of The Second Chapter does contain descriptions of grief and loss that some listeners might find distressing. However, Jen's story is ultimately one of hope and living again.

You can find and follow Jen at:

Instagram: @widow_180

Facebook: Widow 180 Community with Jen Zwinck

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• Instagram: @the_second_chapter_podcast,

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#womenover35 #wearebadass

On The Second Chapter, serial careerist and founder of Slackline Productions, Kristin Duffy, chats with women who started the second (or third… or fifth!) chapter in their careers and lives, after 35. You’ll find inspiring stories, have a few laughs, and maybe even be motivated to turn the page on your own second chapter!

Of course we’d love to hear what you think- and if you love the show, please leave us a 5-star rating and review on podchaser or Apple podcasts.

Like so many previous The Second Chapter guests, Liz Bieler followed the path she was told to follow, and for a long time, gave up a creative life she craved.

Since letting her creativity flow -- and boy did it flow! -- she's become a jazz singer, a voiceover actor, and now an author with Alice in Condoland now available, and more books coming soon.

For more on Liz, go to her website (after listening to the podcast, of course!) LizBieler.com

She's also on

Facebook: @LizBielerAuthorVocalist

Instagram @lizbieler

Alice in Condoland is available on Amazon in several countries and Barnes & Noble.

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On The Second Chapter, serial careerist and founder of Slackline Productions, Kristin Duffy, chats with women who started the second (or third… or fifth!) chapter in their careers and lives, after 35. You’ll find inspiring stories, have a few laughs, and maybe even be motivated to turn the page on your own second chapter!

Of course we’d love to hear what you think- and if you love the show, please leave us a 5-star rating and review on podchaser or Apple podcasts.

This week Kristin is speaking with Kate Oakley.

Kate is the founder of Your Future Fit. After 25 years in HR, she's fired up to help women with their physical and mental health in peri- and post-menopause. She realized she wasn't too old to start at 50, and she's on a mission to make this stage of her life- and yours- the best.

You can find Kate @yourfuturefit on Instagram!

From Kristin: This is season NINE of The Second Chapter and I’m BACK with more brilliant and inspiring women who have changed their lives and/or their careers after 35. If you don’t already know, I’m your host, Kristin Duffy, and I’ve had my fair share of changes myself, so it’s a subject that’s close to my heart!

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Subscribe, review and share The Second Chapter- wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts or on podchaser.com

- For more, go to thesecondchapterpodcast.com

- If you like what we do, buy us a virtual coffee! https://ko-fi.com/thesecondchapter

• Twitter: @slacklineprodu2,
• Instagram: @the_second_chapter_podcast,

On Facebook and YouTube as Slackline Productions

#womenover35 #wearebadass

On The Second Chapter, serial careerist and founder of Slackline Productions, Kristin Duffy, chats with women who started the second (or third… or fifth!) chapter in their careers and lives, after 35. You’ll find inspiring stories, have a few laughs, and maybe even be motivated to turn the page on your own second chapter!

Of course we’d love to hear what you think- and if you love the show, please leave us a 5-star rating and review on podchaser or Apple podcasts.

When Covid Lockdown squashed her fledgling business, a recruitment agency aimed at helping over fifties get back into the workplace, Stephanie Oram started writing.

The result, Wax, Whips and My Hairy Bits- An Erotic Comedy of Errors, written under pen name SJ Carmine, has been as high as number two on Amazon's best bestseller list, and has started a whole new chapter for Stephanie.

Stephanie talks with Kristin about how she, a "loud Northern nobody who swears a lot" turned to writing to ease her anxiety, the funny reason not all men like her book and why women aren't like they're portrayed in 50 Shades of Grey.

Find Stephanie on

TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@sjcarmineauthor

Instagram: instagram.com/wax_whips_and_my _hairy_bits

And her books on Amazon: amzn.to/2SeO1Ad

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• Twitter: @slacklineprodu2,
• Instagram: @the_second_chapter_podcast,

On Facebook and YouTube as Slackline Productions

#womenover35 #wearebadass

On The Second Chapter, serial careerist and founder of Slackline Productions, Kristin Duffy, chats with women who started the second (or third… or fifth!) chapter in their careers and lives, after 35. You’ll find inspiring stories, have a few laughs, and maybe even be motivated to turn the page on your own second chapter!

Of course we’d love to hear what you think- and if you love the show, please leave us a 5-star rating and review on podchaser or Apple podcasts.

Katharine Esty has had her fair share of chapters and is now living as an 80 something, which is also the title of her book, Eightysomethings- A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness. Eightysomethings includes interviews and advice on life in your eighties, how to have difficult conversations with parents and relatives in their eighties and beyond, and why getting older isn't what you think.

Katharine speaks to Kristin about her six-plus (and counting) career chapters, how she came to realise and embrace the fact that she's old, and her love life at 88.

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Katharine Esty, PhD, 88, is a best-selling author, psychologist, a widow, a mother, a grandmother, and an activist for aging well. She’s on a mission to dispel myths about old age and to end ageism, which limits and undermines the most experienced among us. She lives in a retirement community west of Boston. Her recent book, Eightysomethings- A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness, was published by Skyhorse. You can subscribe to her monthly newsletter or visit her at www.katharineesty.com . Copies of her book may be purchased here.

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• Twitter: @slacklineprodu2,
• Instagram: @the_second_chapter_podcast,

On Facebook and YouTube as Slackline Productions

#womenover35 #wearebadass

On The Second Chapter, serial careerist and founder of Slackline Productions, Kristin Duffy, chats with women who started the second (or third… or fifth!) chapter in their careers and lives, after 35. You’ll find inspiring stories, have a few laughs, and maybe even be motivated to turn the page on your own second chapter!

Of course we’d love to hear what you think- and if you love the show, please leave us a 5-star rating and review on podchaser or Apple podcasts.

Martina Clark has lived a fascinating life, taking her to 90+ countries, seeing her in the room with world leaders, activists, and educators, and now as a writer, with her book, My Unexpected Life, an International Memoir of Two Pandemics, HIV and Covid 19.

Martina had several major changes after 35, an age doctors never even expected her to see. She talks with Kristin about her time in the UN, a very difficult marriage and how it all started when testing positive for HIV changed everything.

For more information about Martina and the book:  martina-clark.com 

Cover photo by Timothy Haines ©2021

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• Twitter: @slacklineprodu2,
• Instagram: @the_second_chapter_podcast,

On Facebook and YouTube as Slackline Productions

#womenover35 #wearebadass

On The Second Chapter, serial careerist and founder of Slackline Productions, Kristin Duffy, chats with women who started the second (or third… or fifth!) chapter in their careers and lives, after 35. You’ll find inspiring stories, have a few laughs, and maybe even be motivated to turn the page on your own second chapter!

Of course we’d love to hear what you think- and if you love the show, please leave us a 5-star rating and review on podchaser or Apple podcasts.

Johanna Elizabeth left a career as a midwife to become a photographer, now specialising in boudoir photography for women. But it's so much more than pictures in lingerie.

Kristin speaks with Jo about her lifetime of empowering women and helping them to feel seen and how her own diagnosis of autism at 47 is now helping to empower her.

For more on Johanna Elizabeth:

www.johannaelizabeth.com

www.facebook.com/photographybyjohannaelizabeth

Boudoir page: www.facebook.com/boudoirbyjohannaelizabeth

www.instagram.com/johannaelizabethuk

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.johannaelizabeth.com

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• Twitter: @slacklineprodu2,
• Instagram: @the_second_chapter_podcast,

On Facebook and YouTube as Slackline Productions

#womenover35 #wearebadass

On The Second Chapter, serial careerist and founder of Slackline Productions, Kristin Duffy, chats with women who started the second (or third… or fifth!) chapter in their careers and lives, after 35. You’ll find inspiring stories, have a few laughs, and maybe even be motivated to turn the page on your own second chapter!

Of course we’d love to hear what you think- and if you love the show, please leave us a 5-star rating and review on podchaser or Apple podcasts.