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How to Get Through Hell with Sheila Stone

Episode Summary

What do you do when everything, literally everything, falls apart around you all at the same time? What do you do when you feel lost and disconnected from your passions and abused and betrayed? Here is one woman’s story of coming through all of the above and how she did it.

Episode Notes

What do you do when everything, literally everything, falls apart around you all at the same time? What do you do when you feel lost and disconnected from your passions and abused and betrayed? Here is one woman’s story of coming through all of the above and how she did it.

Sheila is a tour creator and guide. She is the owner of Britain Your Way Tours and Women Sharing Cultures. She reinvented herself at the age of 50 when she went abroad for the first time and went back to school for her Bachelors and Masters degrees.

Quotes to remember: 

“Getting a degree meant more to me than having a degree. It showed me what I was capable of.” 

“Sometimes people treat this life like it’s a dress rehearsal.” 

Takeaways:

• Reinventing yourself starts with getting settled and having something to hold onto and work toward
• Treat yourself like you would a friend, with compassion and kindness
• Understand that you’re doing the best you can for who you are now
• Tapping into your passion can change your life
• Give yourself the space to heal and take small steps--it doesn’t happen all at once

What you’ll learn:

• About Sheila’s “year of hell” that included a job loss, bankruptcy, her husband’s affair, an economic crash, and downsizing
• How she found community despite being one of the oldest people at UCLA
• How she found herself and her passions, at the age of fifty
• Her experience doing stand-up comedy at fifty-two for the first time
• On remaining flexible especially during crisis

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• http://www.womensharingcultures.com/
• http://www.britainyourwaytours.com/

Links:

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