Making it After 40 – Details, episodes & analysis

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Making it After 40

Lisa Rodriguez

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Education

Frequency: 1 episode/12d. Total Eps: 66

A podcast that explores what it means to be a person building a career in a creative industry after the age of 40.

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Grace Chon - Photography & The Healing Arts

Season 2 · Episode 64

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 • Duration 01:19:30

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In this episode, Lisa chats with photographer and hypno-coach, Grace Chon. Grace shares how she started her career in advertising and soon found herself building a creative career out of a what started as a hobby to help shelter dogs find homes. Grace has gone on to publish two books with another on the way and has an active career of shooting pets for many commercial clients. Additionally, this art has led Grace to dig deeper into her journey as healer. She has become a coach using hypno-therapy to help clients over their blocks and release their creative powers onto the world. Please enjoy Lisa and Grace getting vulnerable and a little spiritual.

Links:
Follow the show on Instagram at @makingitafter40
Follow Lisa Rodriguez on Instagram at @lisaroiriguez
Find Grace Chon on Instagram at @thegracechon

Music by Jeff Roi @jeff.roi

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Carrie-Ann Pishnak - Rockin' Awesome Improv

Season 2 · Episode 63

Tuesday, May 28, 2024 • Duration 01:17:57

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In this episode Lisa chats with actor, improvisor and Executive Director of Youth Academy of Dramatic Arts, Carrie-Ann Pishnak. Carrie-Ann was mainstay in the Second City Hollywood office where she worked behind the scenes for many years in marketing, producing Premium shows and taking the lead on the Really Awesome Improv Show. Since Second City Hollywood closed it's doors, Carrie-Ann has gone on to do a number of teaching jobs and carried on bringing improv to children via the Rockin' Awesome Improv show. Carrie-Ann shares with us the tools she uses to keep her focus on working in the creative arts throughout her life and allowed her to build such a unique and interesting career.

Links:
Follow the show on Instagram at @makingitafter40
Follow Lisa Rodriguez on Instagram at @lisaroiriguez
Find Carrie-Ann on Instagram at @rockinawesomeimprov

Music by Jeff Roi @jeff.roi

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Help fund the show by following the link when you click on the heart below to "Buy me a Coffee".

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Kris Demeanor - Making Music With Your Own Rules

Season 2 · Episode 62

Tuesday, May 7, 2024 • Duration 01:11:15

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In this episode Lisa chats with Kris Demeanor, a musician and sometimes actor based in Calgary. Kris shares how his father taught him to be explore creative via the medium of the visual arts, but then Kris translated that creative freedom to exploring an instrument. Starting a band with his buddies as a teenager, Kris and his bandmates explored their instruments and wrote their own rules when is came to making music. Kris shares how lifestyle choices have provided for the freedom to continue to grow and explore as an artist into his middle age. Kris has a new album out, Songs for My Father to Fall Asleep to, which you can listen to full wherever you stream music and on Bandcamp. Also, check out the video to his single Wolves, available at the link below.

Links:
Follow the show on Instagram at @makingitafter40
Follow Lisa Rodriguez on Instagram at @lisaroiriguez
Follow Kris Demeanor on Instagram at @kris.demeanor
'Wolves' music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqylElABTkc
Listen to the album on Bandcamp, Songs for my Father to Fall Asleep to
http://www.krisdemeanor.com/

Music by Jeff Roi @jeff.roi

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Carla Cackowski - Episodical Podcast

Season 2 · Episode 61

Tuesday, April 16, 2024 • Duration 01:08:03

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In this episode, Lisa chats with writer, improviser and podcaster, Carla Cackowski. Lisa and Carla met in 2017 when Carla was her improv teacher at Second City Hollywood. Carla shares her journey as an actor, starting out in Kentucky and finally landing in Los Angeles, which has now evolved to improvisation and writing. Carla shares her experience of living as an artist in Los Angeles and her own personal evolution with her art and her career.

Links:
Follow the show on Instagram at @makingitafter40
Follow Lisa Rodriguez on Instagram at @lisaroiriguez
Follow Carla Cackowski on Instagram at @carlacackowski
Check out Carla's Vintage shop @jacaranda.eve.vintage

Music by Jeff Roi @jeff.roi

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Help fund the show by following the link when you click on the heart below to "Buy me a Coffee".

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Jeff Pride - Self Tapes Here

Season 2 · Episode 60

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 • Duration 01:16:36

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In this week's episode, Lisa chats with actor and Self-Tape guru, Jeff Pride. Jeff started his acting journey in his 20's, but didn't find success until he properly trained and made a few tweaks to his image that allowed him to stand out to casting offices. After working behind the camera in casting offices, Jeff was primed to start his own business helping actors tape their auditions out his home. Jeff's journey offers inspiration and few lessons that we can all relate to with his grounded perspective and positive outlook. Jeff is funny and charismatic, which makes this episode such a delight.

Links:
Follow the show on Instagram at @makingitafter40
Follow Lisa Rodriguez on Instagram at @lisaroiriguez
Follow Jeff Pride on Instagram at @takepride_jeffpride
Tape with Jeff @selftapeshere

Music by Jeff Roi @jeff.roi

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Help fund the show by following the link when you click on the heart below to "Buy me a Coffee".

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Show transcript available on the show website.

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Mary Payne Moran - The Vita Gang Mysteries

Season 2 · Episode 59

Tuesday, March 5, 2024 • Duration 01:02:10

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In this first new episode back for the new season, Lisa chats with Mary Payne Moran, a chef by trade who was inspired to write a children's book about nutrition. Mary's story is full of ups and down and over coming challenges. Her culinary career did not end up as she first thought it would, but has been so rewarding in so many unexpected ways, including with the launch of her book. Lisa and Mary discuss rejection, perseverance and the notion that sometimes, success comes in it's own timeline, not in the timeline you had planned for.

Be sure to purchase Mary's book, The Vita Gang Mysteries: Who Stole Vita D? on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

Links:
Follow the show on Instagram at @makingitafter40
Follow Lisa Rodriguez on Instagram at @lisaroiriguez
Follow Mary Payne Moran: Instagram at @hailmaryfoodofgrace
Sign up for Mary's cooking class on her website: https://hailmaryfoodofgrace.com/

Music by Jeff Roi @jeff.roi

Support the Show:
Help fund the show by following the link when you click on the heart below to "Buy me a Coffee".

Emily Ziff Griffin - Revisited

Season 1 · Episode 39

Tuesday, February 27, 2024 • Duration 59:08

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In this episode, we revisit episode 39 with Emily Ziff Griffin, a writer of fiction books, essays and screenplays. Emily started her career in her early 20's assisting and then producing films with Philip Seymour Hoffman. In her mid-30's Emily came out of the creative closet and accepted that what she truly wanted to be doing was writing and creating the stories.

Her first foray into writing was her novel Light Years, which was influenced by her experience of losing her Dad to AIDS when she was 13 years old. Emily has continued her writing journey with screenplays, personal essays and in writers rooms. Emily discusses her approach to mining your core memories to produce works of fiction and the importance of knowing the "why" for each story you produce. Emily is full of insight and wisdom and this episode promises both.

Links:
Follow the show on Instagram at @makingitafter40
Follow Lisa Rodriguez on Instagram at @lisaroiriguez
Follow Emily on Instagram at @emilyziffgriffin
Read Emily's most recent personal essay, here.
Check out Emily's website for information on her book, workshops and one on one coaching. https://emilyziffgriffin.com/

Photo by: Lauren Pisano
Music by @jeff.roi

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Help fund the show by following the link when you click on the heart below to "Buy me a Coffee".

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Emily Barth Isler - AfterMath & The Color of Sound

Season 1 · Episode 58

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 • Duration 01:36:50

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In this episode, Lisa chats with, author and journalist Emily Barth Isler. Emily shares how she started her creative journey as an actor, but eventually found her true passion in writing. Emily writes regularly about sustainability, organic/eco-friendly skincare, and healthy beauty products for Oprah Daily, Allure, Organic Spa, etc. Emily's first book, AfterMath is an award-winning middle grade novel about grief, resilience, friendship, math, and mime. Her second book, The Color of Sound, is available for preorder now and will be released March, 2024.

Links:
Follow the show on Instagram at @makingitafter40
Follow Lisa Rodriguez on Instagram at @lisaroiriguez
Follow Emily Barth Isler: Instagram at @emilybarthisler
Website https://emilybarthisler.com/about
Pre-Order The Color of Sound
Amazon
Bookshop
Barnes and Noble

Music by Jeff Roi @jeff.roi

Support the Show:
Help fund the show by following the link when you click on the heart below to "Buy me a Coffee".

Elizabeth Boykewich - The EB Co.

Season 1 · Episode 57

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 • Duration 01:35:31

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In this episode, Lisa chats with former casting director turned Mindfulness & Leadership coach, Elizabeth Boykewich. Elizabeth had an incredible career in casting discovering the hottest and most talented stars, which culminated in her becoming the Head of Casting & Talent for Freeform. However, Elizabeth found herself pursuing a new calling by earning an MA in Spiritual Psychology, leaving the corporate casting world and began offering her services as a mindfulness and leadership coach. Elizabeth offers so much wisdom and shifts in perspective for those who might be struggling with their art. Check out Elizabeth's works at the links below.

Links:
Follow the show on Instagram at @makingitafter40
Follow Lisa Rodriguez on Instagram at @lisaroiriguez
Follow Elizabeth Boykewich: Instagram at @the.eb.co
Website https://theeb.co/

Edited by Hannah Parson @hkpar
Music by Jeff Roi @jeff.roi

Support the Show:
Help fund the show by following the link when you click on the heart below to "Buy me a Coffee".

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Show transcript available on the show website.

Adam Martinez - Finding Your Funny

Season 1 · Episode 56

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 • Duration 01:08:27

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In this episode, Lisa chat with stand-up comic, Adam Martinez. Adam started performing stand-up in Chicago in his mid-thirties, and even started taking improve at Second City Chicago, but before he could finish the program, he soon found himself relocating, thanks to his wife's career, to Orange County, California. There he was able to continue his improv training at Second City Hollywood, while continuing perform stand-up in room throughout Southern California. Now, 8 years in, Adam is making a name for himself, perfecting his craft and teaching others to do the same. Adam shares with us some inspiration, words or wisdom and tips to help you become your best self onstage and off.

Links:
Follow the show on Instagram at @makingitafter40
Follow Lisa Rodriguez on Instagram at @lisaroiriguez
Follow Adam Martinez on Instagram at @adammartinezcomedy

Edited by Hannah Parson @hkpar
Music by Jeff Roi @jeff.roi

Support the Show:
Help fund the show by following the link when you click on the heart below to "Buy me a Coffee".

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