To 50 and Beyond | Midlife and Alcohol-Free Lifestyle

Episode 110

Going For It After Job Loss and Illness with Shelley Elkovich

A very interesting SHIFT in midlife after being diagnosed with a rare syndrome, my guest, Shelley Elkovich talks about taking a risk and going for it after job loss and rare illness.

Shelley (54) is the Taste Maven and founder of For Bitter For Worse. FBFW makes complex cocktails with love, not alcohol. Shelley started the business with her husband after life gave them lemons in the form of job loss and illness. For Bitter For Worse is a Portland, Oregon brand with big ambitions. They make drinks, and their mission is inclusion.

Topics include:

• Re-envisioning life in the middle
• Taking a big risk in starting a new business
• Kids and college and empty nest
• Disembarkment syndrome and the diagnosis process
• Finding alcohol-free beverages through the diagnosis
• GOING FOR IT Quickly
• Being unapologetic about being ambitious
• Flavors of non-alcoholic beverages

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Episode 109

Aging, Fashion and Brand Building with Susie Wright

Today, we are talking fashion, building a brand and business, and going forward in life and purpose even when the world is in crisis.

My guest today is Susie Wright, the founder of So Susie, a blog that helps women feel confident and proud!

Susie has been on the podcast FOUR TIMES and is coming to you today with encouragement to live your best life and make things happen!

Susie has been in the fashion industry for over 25-years, she is a personal stylist for Nordstrom, fashion blogger, and aging advocate.

Susie promotes finding key pieces that work well together and make you feel good in and wearing them over and over again.

We talk about fashion, denim, in particular, living an ageless lifestyle, going back to school and graduating college, adjusting to our new reality, curating social media, ageism in PR and advertising, and what she is doing now during the COVID-19 crisis to keep moving forward.

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Bonus episode

Embracing the Shift

In this episode, I talk about current events surrounding us with the COVID-19.

Some of us are shifting beautifully into our new reality, and others feel more like it's a BIG LOUD PIVOT.

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Episode 108

You Can Overcome Anxiety with Dennis Simsek

In this episode, I'm talking with Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy, about living a life free from anxiety, and chronic anxiety. Dennis shares his story of suffering from chronic anxiety in his late twenties to early thirties, and how he has overcome.

He lost great relationships with people due to his increasing anxiety levels during social interactions, and his fears of being judged wrongly by people.

If you are someone who has struggled with anxiety for years or it's new to you during perimenopause (and beyond), this episode will help you know you are not alone, and there are things you can do to turn it around.

Introducing Dennis Simsek:

Dennis Simsek is a Certified NACBT Life Coach and NLP Master Practitioner. Dennis helps individuals and groups see where the obstacles in their life are, and guide/mentor them to reach their goals and full potentials. Through his program, YouTube videos, articles, podcast episodes, and coaching sessions are all a reflection of what worked for Dennis and thousands of others worldwide to turn fear into freedom.

Topics discussed in the episode:

• What anxiety feels like
• Anxiety comes down to repressed rage
• The young age where the start of programming begins
• The four components of anxiety
• Survival mode vs. living life
• Not succumbing to an ego-mind
• The road to forgiveness
• Dennis' experience with antidepressants and what he used during his chronic anxiety
• The sensations of anxiety
• The night Dennis almost took his life
• Letting anxiety lead you by checking in with it constantly
• The identity level - looking at himself and what he thought he deserved
• Sacrificing your old beliefs, your identity
• Being completely upfront with others about your anxiety and not hiding
• The energy it takes to hide anxiety
• Renegotiating with yourself
• New programming - be open, be curious, be willing
• Replacing self-punishment with self-love

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The Unromantic Side of Drinking

Show Notes

Today's episode is all about the flip side of drinking and what happens when you think other people are able to "handle" alcohol. I spent two years in indecision about whether or not I needed to quit, wanted to quit, or could moderate. Those two years, exhausted me and I look back on them now as a big waste of time.

I don't want any woman in the middle of life to waste precious time thinking that alcohol is romantic. It's ethanol in a pretty bottle with a cool name.

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Episode 107 

Belonging in Long-Term Recovery 

In this episode, I talk with Ann VerSteeg about long-term recovery, being a single mom for decades, and overcoming some of life's most traumatic experiences.  With alcohol clouding life as a teenager, she never knew what was real or imagined until she got sober.

Annie is a 67-year old single sober badass with two adult children.  Annie got sober when her kids were six and four.  She was a midwife and then became a Lactation Consultant. 

She has an 11-year old Lab, Jimmy, two grandsons, and lives in San Diego, California. 

Some of the topics you will hear: 

• What depression feels like 
• Her Fertility Journey, not infertility journey 
• Getting divorced and dealing with the “new” wife 
• Betrayal and how it changes your life forever 
• Being a mom and letting go of control 
• Her daughter’s drinking at fourteen 
• Taking medication now for depression 
• Anti-depressants and how they have helped
• Annie's Sober Journey 
• At 30-weeks pregnant she learned her husband was in love with someone else and walked out the door. 
• Being a single parent and not feeling like she belonged 
• Repairing her relationship with her daughter today 
• Being single for 28 years
• Her parents drinking
• Losing her mom to alcoholism 
• It wasn’t hard for her to get sober 
• What a dry drunk is. 
• Long-term sobriety and how she reminds herself why she can’t drink today

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Episode 107

Belonging in Long-Term Recovery

In this episode, I talk with Ann VerSteeg about long-term recovery, being a single mom for decades, and overcoming some of life's most traumatic experiences. With alcohol clouding life as a teenager, she never knew what was real or imagined until she got sober.

Annie is a 67-year old single sober badass with two adult children. Annie got sober when her kids were six and four. She was a midwife and then became a Lactation Consultant.

She has an 11-year old Lab, Jimmy, two grandsons, and lives in San Diego, California.

Some of the topics you will hear:

• What depression feels like
• Her Fertility Journey, not infertility journey
• Getting divorced and dealing with the "new" wife
• Betrayal and how it changes your life forever
• Being a mom and letting go of control
• Her daughter's drinking at fourteen
• Taking medication now for depression
• Anti-depressants and how they have helped
• Annie's Sober Journey
• At 30-weeks pregnant she learned her husband was in love with someone else and walked out the door.
• Being a single parent and not feeling like she belonged
• Repairing her relationship with her daughter today
• Being single for 28 years
• Her parents drinking
• Losing her mom to alcoholism
• It wasn't hard for her to get sober
• What a dry drunk is.
• Long-term sobriety and how she reminds herself why she can't drink today

Reach out to Annie on Instagram.

Join Lori in 1:1 Coaching - schedule your free session today!

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Money Time: Downsizing, Budgets, and Money Language

In this episode, I talk about my family's downsizing experience, how we are budgeting and tracking our money, and the disempowering money language that is holding us ALL back from living an abundant RICH life.

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