Imagine Yourself Podcast

Bonus: Life Lessons from Grandma Susie

July 18, 2021 Imagine Yourself Podcast Season 3
Imagine Yourself Podcast
Bonus: Life Lessons from Grandma Susie
Show Notes Transcript

There’s probably no better way to learn valuable life lessons than looking to our elders. As a follow-up to our previous episode entitled Second Chances at Life and Love , we had a chance to reflect on what we learned, actions we’re taking and ideas for you. Lanee thought back to her Grandma Susie who held the key to some major inspiration! Interestingly, it wasn’t just about what she did in her youth, but what she did in her later years that gave us some potentially life-changing lessons. Click play for some timeless “Grandma Susie motivation” and many other marvelous takeaways from our previous guest, author Jeanne Hussin.

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Lanée Blaise [00:00:02]:

Welcome to this week's bonus episode on Imagine Yourself. We are Lanee and Sandy, and we love doing the bonus episodes because we give you all the goods on what we've learned from the past episode. And we always welcome you to kinda weigh in yourselves. Take a look at our website, imagine yourself podcast So on Facebook, we're on Instagram. You can subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Apple changed things, so you have to follow us by clicking that little plus sign in the upper right side if you wanna make sure that you're able to listen to all of our So it's every week, but this particular one is a good one. We talked with author Jean Corvassi Hussan all about getting 2nd chances in life and love and also talked about giving back and how when you give back, You end up somehow getting back to. Big time.

Lanée Blaise [00:01:03]:

Sandy, yeah, talk to us a little bit about what you learned.

Sandy Kovach  [00:01:08]:

First of all, I just got so much from her energy, and I definitely recommend going back to the episode before this and Taking a listen to her story, Jean is 60, just recently found love again, has just written a book. Her career is booming. And She reminded me that, you know, I'm in the stage of life where okay. So I'm about to be an empty nester. I'm in my fifties, and I'm kinda gliding maybe a little bit. I'm using that line. I've peaked. Oh.

Sandy Kovach  [00:01:40]:

But She's inspired me to look at things a little bit differently. And, you know, it's not for everybody, and people have different Stages in their life where they want to accomplish things, but I'm feeling like I need to take some action because I do have Kinda more ambitions. What about you?

Lanée Blaise [00:01:59]:

She made me think about if we're still alive, there's obviously something left for us to do or give or learn in this world. It is just still wide open for whatever age, whatever stage that you're going through. She even gave that perspective of the 2nd chance in

Sandy Kovach  [00:02:23]:

Love Yes.

Lanée Blaise [00:02:24]:

In career, in life, in all those things. And so my grandma Susie had called me one day. I mean, she has since passed away, but back when she was right before 90, She called me one day. She said, pumpkin, I want you to goggle this gentleman for me. Can you hear me? Let me goggle it for you. And I said, well, who is this gentleman? She said, well, okay. Back when I was married to your grandfather, you know, I couldn't really pursue this. Grandfather's passed away for years now, and I want you to reach out to this man because we work together, and I could have had a crush on him, you know, if I wasn't married.

Lanée Blaise [00:03:08]:

So I want you to find his phone number, and I'm gonna call him because you never know. We might be able to kinda get together. Oh. I said, yeah. But now if he is married or something and if a wife has to hang up. So all of this to say, This chick was ready for a 2nd chance at love in about 88 years old.

Sandy Kovach  [00:03:30]:

Did you goggle him?

Lanée Blaise [00:03:31]:

Oh, yeah. I googled him. I don't know what Have a I have a feeling that maybe the whole hanging up on the phone with the wife might have happened because she never gave me an update on this dude, and she never got to Tell me that she got to meet him or anything, but she was open and she was ready for that 2nd chance at love to Try something new out of her comfort zone. She didn't even know how to say Google properly, but she was ready.

Sandy Kovach  [00:03:56]:

But she knew what she wanted to do. Yeah. It didn't matter how she said it.

Lanée Blaise [00:04:00]:

And she wasn't afraid to look funny with all this or afraid of the whole whim. Remember decades ago, we used to work together. She had Enough confidence to go for it. And the only reason I bring this up is because I challenge anyone who is ready to Make a phone call that might affect their career or network with someone that might affect their career or Reach out to someone from the past or whatever. Sometimes that's a little safer or someone that you don't know to see if there's any romance It's possible there. There's just so many things. Do the things on your bucket list. That's just what Jean taught us.

Lanée Blaise [00:04:41]:

What do you think about all that, Sandy?

Sandy Kovach  [00:04:43]:

I think that's so cool. It just goes back to, no. You haven't peaked. And and as long as you're here, God has you here for a reason. And whether it's you know, if you're, widowed or divorced or Never been married and looking for love again, or if you are like I was talking about, maybe it's time to stop gliding so much and start thinking what's next. And then the piece that you mentioned earlier as well about volunteering, and that's her book. I See Old People was about how she became involved with helping seniors, Especially after the death of her mom and seeing how she could affect the care and how we, as a society, treat older people. That kinda became her mission, and it ended up blessing her in so many ways as well.

Sandy Kovach  [00:05:35]:

So all of the things, you know, Go for it. You're never too old. You're never done, and maybe it's not even an age thing. Maybe you just feel for whatever reason, well, it's inappropriate for me to do that. Well, why? So goggle the person or call them up.

Lanée Blaise [00:05:49]:

See what happens. You have plenty of things to focus on so you can live your best life. Everybody's talking about living your best life, and we just wanna make sure that you think of some Actual ways to really make that happen and to kinda push fear out of the way because we don't wanna be so afraid of How we're gonna look or how we're gonna sound when we try to pursue these dreams and goals and missions and fun things that we end up not even trying. That would be the tragedy.

Sandy Kovach  [00:06:26]:

And you said fun things too, and that also made me think that I have become kind of a boring person. I need you.

Lanée Blaise [00:06:34]:

I need you. Honey, maybe you need to hang around with some of these little young sisters of mine, and and we do some fun things because that's the other part Jean told us about hanging around younger people. I have all these younger sisters. They are, like, 14 years younger than me, and so I have to kinda keep my game up. And they always laugh at me because they're always like, Lanee is doing something crazy whenever she's around us It seems age inappropriate, but it's fun. I just say go for it. That's what these bonus episodes are for, to kinda Kick us all into gear after we learn the lesson and then we do the lesson.

Sandy Kovach  [00:07:12]:

That's right. And we wanna inspire people to do the same thing. And like you said at the beginning of the podcast, message us. Let us know what you're doing. Hook up with us on our website via social media, imagine yourself podcast.com, and, Drop us a note. Whatever age and stage of life you are, if you can pass along either if you have a question or if you have an inspirational story for us, That just helps a lot of people because we will pass that along.

Lanée Blaise [00:07:38]:

Absolutely. So we always end it with something imagining imagine So imagining something fun and vibrant to do in these next stages of your life. Thank you for listening.