When your adult children have finally moved on to their own lives, some women find the only way to jumpstart their own bliss is by relocating. “I'd always imagined we’d live forever in our big, beautiful suburban home where I'd given birth to my daughter two days after moving in 24 years earlier,” says CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour in conversation with Covey Editor at Large, Deborah Marquardt. “But once she and my older son had vacated the nest, the house felt like a mausoleum to sadness; every inch reminded me of their childhood and reinforced how they were now finally gone. Plus the town is so kid-focused that I could walk down the street naked and if I didn’t have a child with me no one would notice.” Seymour and her husband downsized in New Orleans, a city they’d visited on vacation for 30 years. “We wanted warm weather, a university town—where we can teach or learn, interesting culture, diversity of age and economic backgrounds, beautiful housing, a lower cost of living, and people open to newbies. We got them all—and more. Plus we have a 31-year old marriage. Sometimes you just have to jump off the high dive in order to start learning and rediscovering yourself—and your spouse-- again.”
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#166: How to Reinvent Your Relationship to Your Children’s Education (Caitlin Meister)
#165: When Job Loss Leads to Understanding Your Own Story (Kate Eckman)
#164: Reinventing Your Sleep During Menopause: Solutions! (Hasti Nazem)
#163: Investing Your Life’s Savings in Your Career Reinvention (Janet Gurwitch)
#162 When a Pandemic Trashes Your Business (Paula Floyd)
#161 When a Literal Explosion Forces You to Rethink Your Professional Identity (Christine Bader)
#160 Science as a Platform for Reinvention (Ariel Garten)
#159: When Career Transformation Leads to Personal Reinvention (Kristine Deer)
#158 Reinventing When Life Makes You a Double Caregiver (Laurie James)
#157 Running Her Side Hustle on One Hour a Day (Nicole Malcolm-Manyara)
#156 Graduating from Smith College at Age 67 (Ann Dowsett Johnston)
#155 Growth is in the Struggle (Jennifer Pate)
#154 Don’t Think of it as a Reinvention, But as a Next Step (Marlene Wallach)
#153 Pay Attention to Your Intuition (Sandy Weiner)
#152 How a City Inspired a Reinvention (Debra Shriver)
#151 When Your Parents Expected a Doctor But You Do Everything Else (Catherine Balsam-Schwaber)
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