Lizness School Special: Moving Forward After Losing a Spouse
Satellite Sisters
Mudbath Productions
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Special Release for Satellite Sisters: On today's Lizness School, we hear two stories from listeners whose big transitions were not by choice. Both of them are longtime Satellite Sisters and regulars in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group. First we talk to Kathy Douglass, who lost her husband Ron last fall. Since then, she's sold or packed or shipped everything and moved from Minnesota to a town in France she'd never even visited before. Then Liz reads from a message from Doris Matter, who shares what her life as a widow is like on what would have been her 50th wedding anniversary. There's no right way to adjust to losing a partner. There's only your way. Email us about your experience with a life-changing transition at liznessschool@gmail.com.
Also today, update from Leah who ran her half marathon in Nashville! Woo hoo! And an advance look at the next few episodes including our special Side Quests episode coming up next.
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If you are new to Lizness School, we suggest you listen to Season 1 to hear all about Liz's year as a Stanford Fellow. Everything from Neuroscience and Chinese History to Pickleball! Plus a great community experience with her fellow DCI Fellows.
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| 0:27.5 | just in the race. You're built to win it. Hello and welcome to Lizness School. This is episode |
| 0:35.7 | 219, season two, episode 219. And I'm Liz Dolan. I'm the Liz and Lizness. And today with me, of course, my millennial mentor, Leah. How are you doing, Leah? |
| 0:48.2 | Fantastic, Liz. We had big weekends, both of us. |
| 0:51.9 | Well, yours bigger than mine, I'm going to say. |
| 0:55.2 | I don't know. |
| 0:56.1 | So please share. You had a big breakthrough. |
| 0:58.8 | You accomplished one of your big goals for the year. |
| 1:01.4 | I did. Everybody, I finally did a race. |
| 1:05.4 | I did my Nashville run. |
| 1:07.3 | Okay. |
| 1:07.6 | It was very tough. It was 92% humidity, Liz. Do you know what that feels like? |
| 1:15.7 | Sounds terrible. It's horrible. Everybody slowed way down. You just can't help it. You're just like, oh my gosh. But I didn't quit. I got that metal. And I finished my goal. |
| 1:45.1 | Okay. That's great. That's great. Because you were being very hard on yourself when you decided not to do the L.A. Marathon, but to do a race in your new home city of Nashville. So, bravo. Okay. Done. Done. Thank you. I mean, I'm almost more excited about yours. Please tell the people what you did. |
| 1:53.0 | Okay. Two words, Leah. Goblet squat. I love a goblet squat. |
| 2:00.2 | So I told you I was starting a strength training class on Friday. So I did. No big surprises, except for, you know, there's something about the phrase |
| 2:04.3 | goblet squat. I just find it super entertaining. It's also kind of hard to do or just kind of weird looking to |
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