Finding Adventure in Life's second Half (with Maria Johnson)
Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)
Danielle Bean
4.9 • 810 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week’s guest is
Maria Morera Johnson, author, podcaster and a powerhouse of wisdom and joy. Her newest book is A Beautiful Second Act, an inspiring and fun collection of personal stories and stories from the saints who found adventure in the second half of life. What a joy it was to chat with her! I know you are going to love this conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Girlfriends, episode number 468. |
| 0:02.4 | Finding Adventure in Life's Second Half with Maria Johnson. |
| 0:12.4 | Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Danielle Bean. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you. |
| 0:18.3 | Know Your Worth is a Woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy in daily living. |
| 0:21.9 | This week, our special guest is author Maria Johnson. |
| 0:25.0 | She's been on the show before. |
| 0:26.3 | She's a dear friend of mine. |
| 0:28.0 | And she's here to talk about her new book, A Beautiful Second Act. |
| 0:31.8 | Let's get started. |
| 0:35.1 | Hey, girlfriend, how are you? |
| 0:36.8 | Thank you so much for being here. I am so thrilled to be able to connect with you right here on the podcast again. So this week, I am sharing an interview that occurred live last week on Substack. If you're already a subscriber over at Danielle Bean.com, what are you waiting for? You're missing out on all the |
| 0:55.1 | fun because it's fun to have these conversations live. It's fun when you're able to join us and ask |
| 1:00.1 | your own questions and interact with the people that I'm talking to. It's really cool. It's really |
| 1:04.8 | fun. And I'm enjoying doing these interviews live and I'm going to be in the coming weeks I've got |
| 1:09.6 | several booked out for the next several weeks. So I'm going to be in the coming weeks I've got several booked out for the next several weeks. I'm going to be sharing lots of live interviews here on girlfriends in this way. |
| 1:16.3 | Of course, if you just want to listen right here in the podcast feed, totally fine. You can do that |
| 1:21.5 | anytime. I'm always going to be posting the recordings here in the podcast. But I'm really loving |
| 1:27.4 | doing these live events. |
| 1:28.8 | They're happening on Wednesday nights. I'm trying to be consistent with my recording schedule |
| 1:33.1 | and even the schedule of when I'm going live so that people can get in the habit of connecting |
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