My podcast guest this week is a wife, mother, podcaster, and an actress/comedian. Jami Albright is a born and raised Texas girl and is the multiple award-winning, Amazon top 100 author of the Brides on the Run and the Small-Town Royalty series—they’re both sexy, swoony, and pee your pants funny. Jamie says that if you don’t snort with laughter, then she hasn’t done her job!

Jamie began her writing career at 50 and self-published her very first book three years later. She now has 7 books and makes a living with her writing.

In this episode, Jamie and I talked about:

• The interesting story of writing her very first book, including losing her first copy of the book. 
• Her experience moving to a new town, feeling sad and depressed, and finding her way through visits to the bookstore and her love of reading.
• The many challenges she overcame to publish her first book.
• The personal growth journey that began from this midlife pivot and continues by constantly...

This week's episode is inspired by an upcoming free training I'm doing this coming week. (To sign up, go to https://notyouraveragegrandma.com/spark). 

I'm excited to share Sparketypes with my audience and offer this training since it's something I do with my students in the Second Half S.P.A.R.K. School™ and it's very powerful information to have. 

What you'll get as part of this FREE training:

• The results of your Sparketypes assessment that reveal the work/activity that, when doing, most fulfills you, as well as the work/activity that most drains you.
• A 90-minute training that explains the different Sparketypes, why they provide such important value, and how they’ll help you get lit up and excited about life.
• A workbook with exercises that will guide you in identifying and implementing “sparked” activities immediately in your life.

Learning my Sparketypes made such a huge difference in my life when I first came across them almost 3 years...

Zehra Mahoon is a master mindset and law of attraction coach and manifesting expert. She is the author of twelve books on these subjects and the creator of the Unlimited 40 day law of attraction workout and the Unlimited Universe Mastermind.

After committing to completely transforming her self-worth in 2006, she went from being massively in debt to owning multiple properties and creating a thriving business, as well as healing her relationships.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Her journey of discovering the law of attraction and going from an investment banker to a manifesting expert and coach
• The process of writing her books, understanding energy, how to channel it and how it affects different people
• The sixth sense
• The difference between passion and obsession and her personal definition of desire

As a coach, Zehra helps individuals identify blockages that are keeping them from achieving success. She helps them change their self-talk and develop new thinking habits that open up...

Listen in to this week's episode as I share how I've activated so much abundance in my life with travel. I just love how travel experiences make me feel! And having those memories forever adds even more abundance into my life.

If you've been sequestered, like me, in your home from the Covid pandemic for what feels like an eternity, maybe this episode will get you thinking about booking that bucket list trip you've always dreamed of.

I recorded this episode, a couple of days before embarking on my own bucket list trip to Greece. As I was preparing for this trip, I thought it would be fun to take a walk down memory lane and share a few experiences from some of my favorite trips, along with the 4 biggest reasons I love to travel:

1. going to places I've never been and experiencing them for the first time.

2. seeing how other people live, immersing myself in their cultures, and learning about the foods they eat.

3. connecting with family and friends through shared travel experiences.

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Anna Whiston-Donaldson is a popular author and speaker whose New York Times bestselling book, Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love chronicles the raw, early grief of losing her 12 year old son in a freak accident. Selected one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2014, Rare Bird resonates with readers looking for hope in impossible circumstances. 

She also has a children’s book, A Hug from Heaven, that speaks to grieving children from the point of view of a loved one who died. Anna has been featured in The Washington Post, Ladies Home Journal, Woman’s Day, Time Magazine, and other publications both print and online. She lives with her family in the Virginia suburbs, has a blog titled “An Inch of Gray,” and is launching a podcast late 2021.

In this episode, we talked about:

• The crazy parallels between her life and mine, in 17 year intervals (aka cicada time), our kids traversed the same experiences.
• How she channeled her grief about losing...

In today's episode I share the 9 things I love most about Fall and why it's my favorite time of year. I don't know about you but during the Fall season, abundance comes so much more easily to me!!! 

And excuse the side stories but some of my favorite things about Fall come from childhood memories and traditions. You'll definitely learn more about me in this episode!

Listen in and send me a message on social media (links below) to let me know which of the 9 makes you feel most abundant.

If you like this podcast but haven't yet given us a 5-star rating or a review, please do! It will help increase the visibility of this podcast so that others will see it!!! #activatingabundance #notyouraveragelivespodcast

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Listen in to my conversation with Sandy Weiner, the founder of Last First Date and The Woman of Value. Sandy is an internationally known TEDx speaker, dating and relationship coach, women's empowerment coach, author, and podcast host who has had a varied career from artist to comedy writer/manager and now relationship coach.

Sandy is a perfect dating coach because she is still in the thick of the dating world herself. lIn fact, she openly shares a couple of recent experiences and I appreciated her honesty, coming from a very real place.

In this interview, we talked about:

• her challenging pregnancy and all the difficult decisions she had to make
• abortion and the stigma that comes with it
• gaining personal freedom after her divorce, which led to her taking action to accomplish her own dreams
• her biggest dating tips

Sandy was such a great guest and after listening to this episode, I’m sure you’ll be  inspired in some way whether or not you are in search of a...

Today's episode was inspired by the October 9th excerpt from the "Simple Abundance" book called "Coping with Stress" because it caused me to be aware that I've been feeling a bit stressed lately. And going back through the list today really helped me.

The 47 de-stressing suggestions I share are listed below, with the ones that personally resonated to me marked with an asterisk. I suggest you pull out the ones that resonate with you to help you de-stress in times of need.

1. Cultivate gratitude.
2. Turn your phone off.
3. Carve out an hour a day for solitude.*
4. Begin and end the day with prayer, reflection, or silence.
5. Keep it simple.
6. Keep your house picked up.
7. Don't over schedule.*
8. Strive for realistic deadlines.
9. Never make a promise you can't keep.
10. Allow an extra half-hour for everything you do.*
11. Create quiet surroundings at home and at work.
12. Go to bed at nine o’clock twice a week.*
13. Always carry something interesting to read.
14. Breathe - deeply and often.
15. Move - walk, dance, run, find...

Today my guest is Elena Hartz who describes herself as a 48 year old mother who is twice divorced, Russian-born (raised in Ukraine) and who immigrated to the US in 1993.

I was compelled to interview when I heard her story on her daughter's podcast. To hear the incredible story of her young life in Russia, her early marriage to a man who turned out to be a liar and an abuser, and her family's escape from Communist Russia, check out Episode 217 of the Manifestation Babe podcast. It's a long one but so worth it! (In this episode, we don't go into those details.)

We talked about so many things including:

• her perspective on the American dream and comparison to her way of life as a person who grew up in a communist society
• her difficult adjustment to her daughter's version of the American dream which is not the traditional one she had dreamt for her
• her big aha moment about manifestation and how it can backfire on us.
• her amazing take on "mistakes."
• her Rythmia experience...

Today I share the importance of human connection and a couple of examples of how it has brought abundance into my life this year.

This topic was inspired by a Disney movie I watched with my 3 year old grandson, who resisted watching it but then sat through it mesmerized the whole time! If you haven't seen "Soul," I highly recommend it.

I think the message of the movie is even more impactful after having gone through the pandemic as human connection was pulled from us suddenly and for a long period of time.

What humans have you lost touch with who you would like to reconnect with?

My hope is that this episode will inspire you to take action and CONNECT! If you receive this episode as a nudge from the universe and take inspired action to make a human connection, please reach out and let me know how it felt because I know it will bring more abundance into your life!

If you'd like to connect or reach out to ME, you can find me at:

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