Chapter 3 Lifestyle
Welcome to the Chapter 3 Lifestyle Podcast!This is your space for inspiration, tips, and real-talk about embracing life after 50.
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I’m Giving Myself 90 Days to Figure This Out (opens the original)
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Here are show notes for the podcast episode: --- **Episode 4: I'm Giving Myself 90 Days to Figure This Out **Summary:** Michelle, 59, is done wondering "what's next" and decides to find out. In this first episode, she launches a 90-day experiment to build an online business from scratch — with zero audience, zero online income, and zero roadmap. No guru promises, no overnight success story. Just real numbers, real failures, and real results, reported as they happen. **In this episode:** - Why Mi
Why do we get Happier when we get Older? (opens the original)
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The Happiness Curve: Why We May Get Happier as We Age Michelle Wollet reflects on why she feels happier now despite aging challenges, and shares research on the U-shaped “happiness curve,” which finds life satisfaction often dips to a low point around the late 40s (with one study across 145 countries placing it at 48) and then rebounds. She notes the curve doesn’t account for individual factors like health, money, relationships, and loss, but appears frequently enough to prompt explanations: exp
Why do We Think We Have to Earn Rest? (opens the original)
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Leisure Guilt: Why We Feel We Have to Earn Rest Michelle explores why she and her husband Joe feel they must “earn” rest, describing how Joe’s childhood pressure to work and avoid being called lazy carried into adulthood and how she similarly struggles to relax without guilt. She examines research linking perfectionism, achievement, and performance-based self-esteem to compulsive overworking, and discusses “leisure guilt,” the uneasiness felt when doing leisure instead of being productive, which
I am 59 and I Still Have Plans (opens the original)
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I Have Plans: Home, Life, and Money After 50 Michelle Wollet introduces “I Have Plans,” a show for women over 50 who aren’t ready to slow down and want to carve out time for themselves while still being wives and mothers. She shares that at 59 she feels younger than she looks, doesn’t want to retire, and wants to explore new interests beyond her 41-year real estate career, including travel, decorating, building, entertaining, creating, and learning. She describes a recent business attempt—creati
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