Our Most Honest Thanksgiving Conversation Yet
Over 50 & Flourishing with Dominique Sachse
Dear Media
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In this Thanksgiving special, I sit down with my husband, Vic, for a warm and heartfelt conversation about gratitude, family, faith, and the traditions that shaped us both. Together, we reflect on childhood memories, our cultural heritage, the changing seasons of life, and the deeper meaning behind the holiday. Whether you’re spending the day with loved ones or taking a moment for yourself, this episode offers comfort, perspective, and a reminder of what truly matters.
In this episode, we cover:
- The traditions and childhood memories that shaped us
- How gratitude evolves with age and life experience
- Stories of our family, faith, and cultural roots
- Navigating changing family dynamics and seasons of life
- The importance of serving others during the holidays
- What Vic and I are most thankful for this year
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Resources:
- Link to the previous episode with Vic: https://youtu.be/3lVWlYSl4P4?si=JHBpBKrdpphKqJ5q
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:15.1 | Hey, everybody. Happy Thanksgiving. It's our Thanksgiving episode, and I thought, well, I should be with my love. |
| 0:23.3 | Honestly, I'd like to be with my two loves, but my other love is cramming for work and school and all that good stuff. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm sure he would love to be here, too. |
| 0:33.5 | Yes. |
| 0:34.5 | There's that. I have something for you in honor of Thanksgiving. I have this free. You took that from the front yard. Yes. I's that. I have something for you in honor of Thanksgiving. |
| 0:38.4 | I have this free. Took that from the front yard. Yes. How do you? Maybe I did. Because I bought it. It could look. I could have gotten one that looked just like it. Well, wait. It's perfect for the set, actually. That's what I was thinking. I love that. I had a turkey, but it ran away. Well, I love the baby something. |
| 0:54.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm glad it's actually still alive and not moldy as it sits by the front flower pot. Yes. Yeah. Hello, my darling. Hey, baby. It's good to have you on the podcast. You know, people ask about you all the time. They love having you on the podcast. They ask why. |
| 1:12.1 | No, they don't ask why. But a lot of my ladies also follow you on your social media. |
| 1:16.9 | Which I'm grateful for. Thank you for that. Yeah, you've noticed. You've noticed some of them. |
| 1:20.7 | And they love your weekly victories that you're now doing on Monday. And you're weekly devotional. |
| 1:27.1 | It was daily victories. But that's, hey, that's a lot of victory. |
| 1:31.4 | Yeah, and you know, I loved doing it, but as this particular season, pardon the pun, |
| 1:38.3 | there's so much going on, so many responsibilities in it, and it becomes hard to get one out |
| 1:43.4 | every day. |
| 1:43.9 | And I didn't want anyone to ever feel like get one out every day and I didn't want |
| 1:45.0 | anyone to ever feel like I was dialing in I didn't want to feel yes like I was just dialing it in |
| 1:49.8 | I take them very seriously and so I felt like it would be better to cut it back to once a week |
| 1:57.1 | and actually think about it pray about it see what God kind of prompts me to say, |
| 2:02.7 | to talk about and say, and instead of trying to like squeeze something out every day, you know? |
| 2:08.4 | No, I think you do such a beautiful job with them. I love watching them because I know the |
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