Reinventing Your Career at 62: An Inspirational Journey with Antionette Blake

Unlock the secrets to successful reinvention with our incredible guest Antionette Blake, a multi-award-winning Delaware blogger and social media strategist who transformed her career in her 60s.

Discover how she turned career setbacks into a thriving entrepreneurial venture and why embracing your unique strengths can lead to unparalleled success. Let Antionette's story inspire you to recognize your worth and seize new opportunities, no matter your age.

Antionette shares her journey from being laid off twice to becoming a full-time entrepreneur, detailing the pivotal moments that shaped her path. Learn how her passion for writing and connecting with women led to the creation of her first blog and eventually her successful business, A Blake Enterprises. Antionette's narrative is packed with actionable insights on overcoming fear, embracing change, and turning passion into profit—lessons that are particularly relevant for those navigating midlife career changes.

Get ready to be motivated by the concept of "owning your awesome" as we delve into strategies for uncovering your true potential and embracing your journey with enthusiasm. We'll explore the importance of self-care, mental wellness, and loving what you do. From practical ideas to inspiring anecdotes, this episode is a treasure trove of wisdom for anyone looking to reinvent themselves and shine their light brightly in the world.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Reinvention Rebels
• 5:50 Building a Successful Reinvention Journey
• 20:34 Uncovering Your Passion and Potential
• 28:27 Embracing Your Awesome Potential
• 37:01 Finding Your Passion in Midlife

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

If you do what you love and love what you do, success is inevitable. Now there'll be some ups and there'll be downs, there'll be tears and there'll be heartbreak, but just keep moving. Don't let anybody stop you and don't feel like you have to hide your shine.

Speaker 2: 0:29

Welcome to Reinvention Rebels Stories of brave and unapologetic women, 50 to 90 years young, who have boldly reinvented life on their own terms to find new purpose and possibilities. I'm your host, wendy Battles. I need to kick your fears to the curb, do it scared and step into who you are meant to be in midlife and beyond. These amazing women, these reinvention rebels, can help light your reinvention path. Come join us and let's get inspired together. Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the Reinvention Rebels podcast. I am your host, wendy. I am so excited you are here. If you are a newbie listener to the podcast, welcome aboard. This is the place to come for information and a ton of inspiration about reinventing ourselves in midlife and beyond and what's possible, which is pretty much anything. Okay, so I'm not going to be an Olympic athlete, so not that kind of possibility, but pretty much anything else is on the table. There are endless possibilities for what we can do and be and the ways we can step into the light, take center stage and play a starring role in midlife and beyond in new and bold and inspiring ways. So if you are looking for inspiration, motivation, ideas, the oomph to get moving, this is the place to be, and I'm really psyched that you're here Today. I am talking to Antoinette Blake and you're going to meet her in just a couple of moments. She started over in her 60s. She's going to talk about how that unfolded, what she did, what she learned and some suggestions for all of us about how we can get into action even when we're faced with circumstances that are not what we want, but we have to move forward in new ways. So lots of inspiration about how we can all try these ideas on for size and apply them in our own life, no matter where we are in the reinvention cycle. In this case, it's really all about Antoinette's career and what happened when she had a dead end. So I think you're going to find it really inspiring.

Speaker 2: 3:12

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Speaker 2: 5:18

So let's get on with this fantastic conversation with the inspiring Antoinette Blake. What happens when you're forced out of your job, can't find another one and decide to bet on yourself? How do you successfully reinvent yourself as a full-time entrepreneur when it's only been your side hustle, and how do you shift your mindset to charge what you deserve and know your worth? These are some of the questions we'll be discussing with my guest today, antoinette Blake. At 62, this reinvention rebel, is living on purpose, having reinvented herself in new, challenging and rewarding ways.

Speaker 2: 5:50

Many know Antoinette as the multi-award winning Delaware blogger. She is also a podcast host, vlogger, author, social media strategist, educator, coach and professional speaker. Strategist, educator, coach and professional speaker. Antoinette is the content creator of the Dell Blogger blog and hosts not one but two podcasts. Out and About with Antoinette and the Delaware Blogger podcast. As the owner of A Blake Enterprises social media marketing and consulting, she works with industry leaders, business owners and entrepreneurs, assisting them with strategies to help them broaden their brand and expand their exposure online. She is talented and oh so fabulous. Antoinette Blake, welcome to the Reinvention Rebels guest chair.

Speaker 1: 6:42

Wendy, thank you so very much for sharing your platform with not only me, but with some fantabulous women on your show. I'm so excited to be here, thank you.

Speaker 2: 6:56

I am so excited that you're here and before we delve into your Reinvention Rebel journey, I have to tell the audience how we met. It was very serendipitous that back in September last fall, we were together at an event for the Great Dames Organization, which is this really amazing organization that is based in the Philadelphia area, and you were there for the book launch because one of your good friends was featured in the book, along with me and many other amazing women, and we just connected and it was so cool.

Speaker 1: 7:33

Do you know what's so exciting with social media? You know we feel like we know each other, but when we literally see each other in person, the connection is phenomenal. It's like oh my God, I've been following person. The connection is phenomenal. It's like oh my God, I've been following you, now I meet you, so we're all like rock stars, right?

Speaker 2: 7:52

We are, we are. And I remember that I was already following you on LinkedIn and had actually listened to your podcast and then I was like I kind of know her but I don't, but now I really do, so it was all kinds of exciting and then I also had the pleasure of being on one of your amazing podcasts. So I'm so happy that I can return the favor and we get the benefit of hearing about your reinvention journey, and I want to start by talking a little bit about that. I know that we all reinvent for different reasons and in different ways, and your particular story, antoinette, is really born out of necessity. Can you tell us about the circumstances that launched your reinvention journey?

Speaker 1: 8:38

Yes, Wendy, thank you. Who would have ever thunk? You know, after graduating from Delaware State College at the time, Delaware State University now, I did a little time in elementary school because I received my BS degree in elementary education, but the money was terrible back in the 80s. It's still that way now. But I actually was hired by IBM while I was living in White Plains, New York. And, like I said, who would have thunk? You know, you go into a career you think you're going to stay there forever. You're going to leave, you're going to retire with the gold watch, you know, pre-millennial, you know, we just figured.

Speaker 1: 9:20

But after not one layoff but two layoffs, I was like, oh my gosh, I've not interviewed for a job in 32 years. Like I'm 55. What do I do? And, Wendy, let me tell you, I literally applied for so many positions using LinkedIn and using contacts and I never got a call back. And one day I was like that's trying to tell me that I don't need a job, I don't need to do a nine to five. But I didn't just say hey, put it in his hands and let it go. I had to make some decisions. We had to sell the big McMansion right, Because the bills were too much, you know, we sold the house, we downsized and I started back in 2012.

Speaker 1: 10:10

I actually started my first blog, which was DedevaDealscom, so I was reinventing myself before I even got to. So that was like the catalyst, because I loved writing as a teacher, as an educator, and I also loved connecting with other women. And there were so many free events at that time in the state of Delaware that I would literally just go like early Saturday, Friday, whatever, because I wasn't really, you know, like the kids were, my sons were grown, my husband and I had been married for like I think, almost 25, 30 years. So I started going to events and I started blogging about them and I was discovered I always use air quotes discovered by a wonderful woman, Ronnie. At the time, Ronnie Cohen was the executive director of the DFLI, which is Delaware Financial Literacy Institute, director of the DFLI, which is Delaware Financial Literacy Institute, and they presented all kinds of courses, free courses for people that were looking to make some changes in their lives, reinvent their life, and this was all free.

Speaker 1: 11:16

Like I said, this was the early 2000s and Ronnie had read a blog post that I had written about their annual event and she was blown away. That was her words. She was blown away, and, to make the story longer than it needs to be, I was discovered as a blogger and so I started and I said you know what I got to do this? And she said do you want to teach others how to do it? And when she said teach what?

Speaker 2: 11:42

You're like, yes, i's it, I do that.

Speaker 1: 11:44

But I was still working. But I, you know, I was doing this out of love. And one day, my friend I'll never forget, she said Antoinette, you've got to get paid for this, you really do. You're just giving away information. And I'm like you know what, lisa, I do. So I left work early. I had a three hour commute to work was so bad. And I left work early and I registered a Blake Enterprises and that was the cat. That was 2015.

Speaker 1: 12:11

And so I took what I was doing and I started monetizing it, whether it was blogging or teaching others how to blog, because I started out doing it free in local libraries and I said okay. And then when I, when the layoff hit, I said you got to do this in a way that you're going to earn some money. And I didn't know anything about social media at the time. It was called the Facebook, anything about social media At the time it was called the Facebook. But I knew I loved working with women of a particular age who had a business, like they've had businesses, and they were used to advertising on newspapers and magazines and flyers. And now social media had come in and just changed the game. So I felt that if I could do. If I could help them market themselves on social media Facebook, instagram, whatever the case was then I can make some money and I can help them. And so that was the beginning of Able Lake Enterprises, and I'm still.

Speaker 1: 13:13

I started out with maybe one or two clients. Now I'm looking here. I'm like I can't take any more clients. I'm still teaching, I'm podcasting and, thanks to you, I'm going to drop a little secret to you today, because when we met I love the whole concept, the reinvention rebels, and I was like I did that with DEDVDealscom, fashion Inforthen after 50. I said I'm not competing with the millennials and the Gen X, a, b, c, y, z. I am seasoned, so let me gear my blog and my podcast to the boomers and beyond. So, thanks to you, 2024,. I said I'm now going to shiv it and not try to be it for everybody even though some of them are millennials.

Speaker 1: 14:01

But now my Saturday blog, the Delaware blog, where I teach blogging. It's going to be towards boomers. I love it. Every Wednesday on my blog, delbloggercom, I have wellness Wednesday, so I'm providing health and wellness things for my boomers. So thank you, wendy, for coming into my life and having me say, hey, you know what? Because I can't compete. You know, the kids need to be influencers if they just go to the grocery store and drink a soda, right?

Speaker 2: 15:38

Right, exactly, exactly. But there's such an audience, though. That's such a great idea, and I think it's so important, as an entrepreneur just like yourself, that we really have this focus and that we know who our audience is and when we can narrow it down. It's just easier to find them and connect with them, not to mention people of a certain age often could probably use a little more expertise, coaching, ideas about really leveraging social media, as you're talking about. So I love this, and part of what I hear you talking about, antoinette, is how you have evolved in your reinvention journey.

Speaker 2: 16:16

You didn't know all the answers at the beginning. You had already started, but then you took this leap of faith when you got laid off, but even since then, you've continued to get clarity, to refine, to build new skills, to get clear about your audience, and I think so much of that is a part of us evolving that we can have a reinvention, basically, as you're saying, within a reinvention, as we get clearer about things. I know that when we had our little pre-interview chat, we were talking about this idea of doing a side hustle and turning it into a full-time gig, and I'm really curious about what has been the biggest lesson that you've learned about what it takes to reinvent yourself and do it in a way where you feel like you are charging your own worth, what you've identified as your worth, because I think we can easily lowball ourselves. It's so easy to do that. So how have you been able to make that shift and do that in your business?

Speaker 1: 17:23

Wendy, I have not. I don't want to say I wish I had of, but, as we both know, delaware is a unique state. You're either in the clique or you're not right. I've never been a follower, I've never been like I need to be a part of my legacy, the legacy that I leave. That dash in between it's going to be greater than the money that I've ever received or charged. Yes, I could probably charge a lot more, but then two things they would expect more and I'm not looking to be busting myself all day, every day, and my clients are the ones that need my assistance. They don't have the marketing budget and I'm not doing this for the money anymore.

Speaker 1: 18:20

My husband is now retired full pension. You know social security. I'm retired social security. So, if most of the people that know social security, when they add up your numbers, you can only make a certain amount right, and you can go above that. So I have, or I should have, charged more and taken less clients and I used to cry about it Like I can, I can and as a woman, we like, oh, we can't overcharge, but when I lay head to pillow, wendy, I do it with a clean conscious.

Speaker 1: 18:51

I'm happy with what I'm charging. Is it a lot? No, but I'm doing something for others that is helping them in the long run, and then my legacy will be one. You know Antoinette really stepped in and you know she really helped me out and you know she didn't charge me a whole lot and I'm comfortable. But for those that are younger or are just starting out in entrepreneurship or they're just reinventing themselves, what you said is charge your worth, ask for more and take less clients. If that works for you, for me I'm still very comfortable in what I charge.

Speaker 2: 19:30

I like how you've been able to identify that your mission is to be of service to others and that you lead with that as your legacy. And then you also figured it out. You said it's really not as important as that satisfaction I get from seeing people shine, from seeing my clients really hit a home run, and I think that that's so much of our evolution. I know, back in the day we're like I need more money, I need more money. And then you get to a certain point and you're like that's not as important as other things, and so I appreciate that.

Speaker 2: 20:03

But I think you're right we just don't often value ourselves enough. We're afraid to ask for more, whether it's at a job that we're offered and negotiating, or we break it on our own and we're trying to figure it out. So it takes some doing, I think, to kind of decide yes, I'm worth it. So what do you think is really key to people developing that mindset, that mindset of being a reinvention rebel where I'm worth it. So what do you think is really key to people developing that mindset, that mindset of being a reinvention rebel, where I'm going to kind of go for it and follow my dreams and trust that it's going to work out. Do you have any sage advice for our listeners who are thinking? You know, I hear Antoinette's story. I love how things unfolded for her and she found her path. I'm not sure what mine is yet. How can I develop my mindset? What would you say to that?

Speaker 1: 20:51

That's a really, really good question, Wendy, because in today's environment, especially with social media, we can have the attention span that less of a goldfish. So we're jumping from here to here, to here to here and the term passion. You know we throw that around, but that is what's going to wake you up every morning and put you to sleep every night. I do not. I truly do not believe that. God put us on this earth to work hard for years, and years and years and then die. I saw that at IBM. I saw that in corporate America executives working 30, 40 years. Sometimes you'd come into the office the next day and they were slumped over their desk because they had a heart attack and died. That was the reality then.

Speaker 1: 21:34

I love the generation now. They know that they need self-care, they need mental wellness, they need to take care of themselves, because you know what that job's going to be filled. So, to answer your question, most of us who are reinventing ourselves has done something for an extended period of time. We can pivot or shiv it. You know you love to talk, I love to talk. Podcasting is a perfect medium for us, right? Yes?

Speaker 2: 22:05

Yes, it is, you know it yes.

Speaker 1: 22:08

So if you want to start a podcast, if you want to start a blog, if you want to help others you know, I know if you've got bills, you want to make sure you get paid, but what is that that you've always wanted to do? Can you make that work for yourself? Yes, you can. I just think that we're all unique. We can do the same job. You can be a podcaster, I can be a podcaster, but it's your voice, your personality, that draws people to you. It's my voice. It can share our expertise. We can speak. We can just have a wonderful time. So, whatever it is that you've been doing your whole life, if you were working in corporate America, if you were an educator, you loved working with kids. What is it that now you can do to help those kids Find that passion?

Speaker 2: 23:03

Yeah, that makes such a difference, Tuning into that and I know it's not always obvious. I know that sometimes we have to do some digging to uncover what that is. Or maybe, if we do know, we don't know what to do with that, Like, oh I love doing X, but I don't even know how I would start doing that. So I think that if we give ourselves a little grace, if we say that this could be a new opportunity or adventure, if we're open to what that could bring because I think when we start speaking about what we want to do, I always find that doors open in mysterious ways. I think it's God or the universe or whatever you might believe in, but I do believe that we can kind of ease into it. So it's not like we have to know all of the answers.

Speaker 2: 23:49

And you're such a great example of this, Antoinette, of how you had this passion, how you love to write. You said I love to write and you took that passion and then it was mixed with some interesting circumstances or serendipity or meant to be, where you met this woman who was like and you're right, and that just kind of started it off. But you didn't know at the time that it was going to unfold in this way. You just said this is something I love to do. So to your point, yes, when we can key in on whatever that thing is, that's a really great launching off point for us, a point of departure to just explore. And sometimes I think if we can explore without expectations, like I don't need to know have all the I's dotted and the T's crossed, I'm just going to be curious. I think that that can lead to all kinds of things that we might not have even expected.

Speaker 1: 24:37

And Wendy, with the expansion because it's not new but with the expansion of AI, you can it's amazing If you just simply say you know what I love to do, this, that and the other you know, list out what you want to do. You give that to chat, gpt or any AI, and it will list out hundreds of ideas that you never, ever, ever, thought of and you go oh my God, what's? A great example is there's a man who has a YouTube channel and he grew up fatherless and he knew how hard it was to learn. You know what it was like to be a man, whether it was tying a tie or fixing a car, and he started a YouTube channel and young men follow him, millions of young men follow him, because he's just doing everyday things. Just for those that don't have a father or didn't grow up with a father, because you know this is a different world.

Speaker 1: 25:34

Like our kids don't know how to, how, to? You know, change a light bulb, iron, a clothes, when the lights go off and you got to go. Remember we used to have fuse boxes. Yes, right, because my generation, the boomers, we kind of coddled our kids and the lights go off and you got to go. Remember we used to have fuse boxes. Yes, right, because my generation, the boomers, we kind of coddled our kids, but some of us, who didn't like myself, my son, started washing clothes, their own clothes when they were eight. Oh, my gosh, they washed their clothes, folded their clothes, anything. Wow, they were eight years old. Taya is 31. Malik just turned 28. I don't make their bed, I don't fold, I don't do any of those. I don't iron. I taught them how to sew. They know how to put a button on. I love it. These are things that we have to teach, and I did a blog post. Will your kids survive without social media? Do they know how?

Speaker 1: 26:20

to hand wash a dish? Or are they Turn that common sense into something, whether it's going to a local community center, or why just teaching young ladies how to do this, teaching young men how to do that, or using social media TikTok, youtube, something, and you know what, if you do what you love and love what you do, success is inevitable.

Speaker 2: 26:51

I love that quote and so true. And that truly is about adopting that mindset, right, that mindset of possibility of victory, whatever that means for any of us, but that we can do whatever that thing is, once we at least get some inkling of an idea. So I really like that. I believe that we are so much stronger and smarter and accomplished than we often think we are. I don't think most of us give ourselves enough credit. We talked about that a little bit. With regards to asking for what we think we're worth when it comes to compensation, the theme of season six of the Reinvention Rebels podcast is Own your Awesome, and I would love to know, antoinette, what Own your Awesome means to you as it relates to reinventing yourself question.

Speaker 1: 27:51

You're good, I love your podcasting skills. Wow, wendy, wendy, wendy. Oh, my God, you know what? That's something I would really have to contemplate Because, like you said, we're all different, we're all unique and we've all grown up in different times and different eras. I grew up in the projects in New York back in the 60s and 70s, so my background, my upbringing, is completely different from somebody that grew up in Delaware, suburbia, wilmington, whatever. That's a hard question.

Speaker 2: 28:26

Wendy, or it could just be. What does own your awesome mean? Generally I know, but you, you hear own your awesome. What does that mean? We?

Speaker 1: 28:35

don't consider ourselves as being awesome, right? We don't. We think that you know, because I grew up in the projects, because I grew up in the city, because I grew you know all these excuses to say that I'm not awesome. Because if you say you're awesome, you're so conceited. You think you that you think you all that in a bag of chips girl, of what you so conceited? You think you that you think you all that in a bag of chips girl? But we are all awesome. We are all awesome when we're with our friends. Like, I like to say, like when we're with our friends and we're having, you know, just having a conversation, or when we're family having conversation.

Speaker 1: 29:06

When is the time that people listen to you? When do they shut up and listen to you, like that's your awesomeness. Whatever you're talking about, you know, and it could be fashion, it could be food, it could be knowledge, it could be religion, it could be anything. What is that? You know that you're really like when I started podcasting, when I teach others how to podcast and they want to know what do I talk about? Because this is a long game, right? We don't this, don't, don't talk about it here, right? We want to do this forever and ever and ever. So what is it that you can talk about all day, every day? That's your awesomeness.

Speaker 2: 29:40

I love that, that we all have something, and it's that thing that we naturally talk about, that we naturally gravitate to. And I think that when we can do a better job as women, especially of shining a light on ourselves, Because I've noticed that men they seem to much more easily be like well, you know, I'm pretty amazing. You know how they are.

Speaker 1: 30:05

They're like like like you don't think so you know, they just kind of assume like, yeah, who cares? Like really Right, that's where we have football and sports and soccer. It's like one team is better than the other. But what makes you individual awesome? Can you kick well? Do you find great bargains? Are you a thriftinista? I mean, I love being a thriftinista and I love finding things that was inexpensive. I loved finding food that was at small restaurants. What is it that you love to do and turn that passion into a profit you can do?

Speaker 2: 30:39

it. You can do it, we are doing it. Right, we're figuring it out, we figured it out and you know, just like you, I continue to evolve and get more clarity and figure things out. But, right, if we can do it, there's no reason anyone else can't in their own way. They might not be our way, they're going to be doing their own thing. Where they shine, where they figure out, they're awesome.

Speaker 1: 30:59

But absolutely any of us can figure it out if we decide we want to Right, and if we do it in a way that it's not you're not trying to be braggadocious about it, right? You're doing it because A it's something you really like doing. And my thing it's about the give back. Who is going to be getting something from what you're giving? It's all about the give back. That's what I said. I want the dash in between to be the most important.

Speaker 1: 31:30

I was born in 1961. I'm not sure when I'll leave this world, but when you say Antoinette, blake or Toni Cross pre-wedding and Wendy, when a new client comes to me and says you know what, antoinette, I've been following you, I love what you do, that is my reward. That is more rewarding. Yeah, I'd love the money, but the reward of someone saying I like what you're doing, I've been watching you, it's an amazing feeling, because we want that from our kids, right? We want our kids to grow up and be good people and they can only do that from what they're seeing, right? James Baldwin has a quote about you know, kids may not listen to you, but they'll never fail to imitate you right, that is so true, so true.

Speaker 2: 32:14

So we can all set the example and figure things out, whatever that might be. As we're wrapping up, I have to ask you one more question, and that is if you had to give listeners one piece of advice actually, you've already given them a lot but if you had to boil it down to one piece of advice about reinventing yourself and becoming unapologetic Because I talk a lot about how reinvention rebels are unapologetic They've given themselves permission to go for it on their terms about reinventing and becoming unapologetic about what you want. In midlife, that you would, or midlife or beyond, that you would impart to our listeners.

Speaker 1: 33:00

And Wendy, I've already given it. So I'm thinking like I'm looking around, going, okay, what else do? Cause I used to have like quotes all over, but I don't like to have quotes all over because I like to come like from the heart. And I said it before and I'm going to say it again If you do what you love and love what you do, success is inevitable.

Speaker 1: 33:20

Now, there'll be some ups and there'll be downs, there'll be tears and there'll be heartbreak, but just keep moving, don't let anybody stop you and don't feel like you have to hide your shine. Right, like grandma wants to say, you know, if you hide your light under a bushel, no one is ever going to see it. So let people know that you're there, you know. Let them know that you're passionate about what you're doing, whether it's audio, you know, visual, written, you know whatever. If it makes you happy, it's going to make someone else happy and don't worry about you know, especially in this world we're talking about. You know, we've got to go viral. You got to have all these followers. No, if one person, if one person takes away something that you have given, that's like amazing, like amazing.

Speaker 2: 34:11

Shine on, shine on. We all can find our shine. Beautifully put, antoinette. I know that people who are listening are saying where in the world can I find Antoinette, how can I follow Antoinette, how can I hear more of Antoinette's sage wisdom and how can I listen to her podcast? So tell us about where people can connect with you.

Speaker 1: 34:38

I'm going to make it really easy. My Linktree ID. You just go to Linktree, forward, slash A Blake Enterprises. All one word A Blake Enterprises. There are the links to my blog, my podcast, my social media platforms, my books, you know all is there. So linktreeid, linktree, forward, slash ablakeenterprises.

Speaker 2: 35:07

Perfect, and that will be in the show notes or Google Delaware.

Speaker 1: 35:09

Blogger.

Speaker 2: 35:10

Right or Google you or Google you. So people can Google Delaware blogger or they can go to the show notes, where we have a link directly to Abe Lake Enterprises on your link tree. Antoinette, I cannot thank you enough for gracing me with your presence today, for sharing your insights and wisdom, for helping us understand your Reinvention Rebel journey and how it's evolved and how you still continue to grow. Thank you for all of that.

Speaker 1: 35:43

And Wendy. Again, I want to thank you for what you're doing providing a platform for other Reinvention Rebels, because it's a safe space. I love your style and I just wishing you, you know, major, major success. So thank you again.

Speaker 2: 36:00

Thank you. This was awesome and I can't wait for the next time we get to connect and be on each other's podcast. So thank, you Thank you.

Speaker 2: 36:20

I love this episode with Antoinette Blake, and one of the things that I really tuned into was this idea of do what you love and love what you do. Life is so short. We are up against so many different things and we know it's pretty complicated, especially in midlife when we didn't see a lot of things coming and we're juggling a whole lot. So we need to find things that help us shine, that light us up, that we are passionate about, and she talked about finding those things that you are passionate about. I want to tell you about a free gift. That is all for you.

Speaker 2: 36:58

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