The Second Act with Holly Seddon: Recent Episodes
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Kate McAuley was born and raised in Australia, where she experienced a difficult home life and couldn’t wait to escape. She left the country when she was 19 and has since lived all over the world. At the age of 42, after a traumatic divorce, she left London where she was then living and headed out to New York to start again. She says she is now living "a life I would never have dreamed possible.” She speaks honestly, openly and optimistically, and I found this interview incredibly inspiring. I hope you do too. * Follow Kate on Twitter
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Genevieve Roberts used her second act to go it alone as a single parent by choice. She talks movingly about her decision to have a daughter - and later a son - by herself, about the process of sperm donation in the UK and about the fascinating history of secret sperm donations.
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Jessie Madrigal's desire for a second act came after speaking to her mother on her deathbed. "Unexpectedly, yet unsurprisingly, she went on this very honest, very heavy monologue on regret… When your mother dies and her regret monologue is stuck on your head, on a loop, it gives you daily chills, over and over. And it pushes you.”
This episode features a raw and generous interview from Jessie and I'm very proud to bring this to you.
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In her forties, Cari Rosen changed pretty much everything about her life: she got married, had a child (and wrote a book about being an 'older' mum), changed job and took up marathon walking. As editor of Gransnet, she also has some fascinating insights on the realities (versus the myths) of post-40 life.
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John O'Farrell talks about the many pivots that have taken him through politics, screenwriting, authoring bestselling books, starting his own school and even writing for Broadway.
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In the first ever episode of The Second Act, Holly speaks to author Julie Cohen about giving fewer f*cks, rediscovering past passions, coming out, taking risks and much more.
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