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Rising Above Life’s Challenges to Follow a New Passion with Kathy Casey
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Rising Above Life’s Challenges to Follow a New Passion with Kathy Casey
Kathy Casey sits down with Yuliana today to share her own phoenix tale of how she reinvented herself and followed her passion after losing a part of herself to her divorce and forced retirement. Both of these life events naturally had significant impacts upon Kathy and the path her life was following, Through courage and compassion, Kathy overcame these obstacles and today shares how this has fueled her to become the woman she is today.
Kathy begins the conversation by talking about her divorce as one of the events that reshaped her life, from meeting her ex-husband and enjoying a whirlwind romance in Italy to how she had to face some realizations after the divorce. She also discusses the other event that shaped her life - her forced retirement at 56 - and realizing that she based her identity heavily on her profession. She then delves into finding and following a new passion and how she plans to settle upon retirement. The episode ends with Kathy talking about the one song that resonates with her life, a song about gratitude and compassion.
Episode Highlights:
- The challenging events that redirected the course of Kathy’s life
- Questioning her judgment after making a life-changing decision
- Falling in love with a man and a city
- Experiencing the impacts of forced retirement
- The realizations after her divorce
- How Kathy defined herself by a job and title
- Following a new passion
- Settling after retirement
- Having compassion for yourself and others
- One song that resonates with Kathy’s life
Quotes:
“I was walking in a coma through my own life.”
“It was a difficult marriage and a difficult divorce, but I think both did set me up for what I would become in later life.”
“All my life my professional work was anchored in writing, but I was always kind of a pen for hire. And now I finally I'm writing for myself.”
“One of the things that I feel like I've learned, and I'm continuing to try to learn in my work with animals and animal organizations, is compassion.”
“A lot of us have difficulty showing ourselves compassion.”
“Sometimes when you don't know where to turn, or which way to move, the only thing to do is just to stay out in the world.”
“I do have a tendency to isolate like a wounded animal. I'll lick my boots in the corner... When I lost my job, not really knowing what to do next, I just stayed in contact. Just stay out in the world and something will drop into your lap.”
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