Self-belief, midlife success & caring with writer Kate Mosse
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Trish and Lorraine talk to best-selling author and founder of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Kate Mosse about becoming an overnight success at 45 and her remarkable family life - from marrying her childhood sweetheart to what caring for elderly parents taught her about living well.
Plus: a surprise way to boost your career, midlife mindset resets and micro acts of kindness will make your day more harmonious.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, Trish. What have you been doing? |
| 0:02.1 | Well, I don't think you're going to guess. Do you want to try and guess? |
| 0:05.3 | It's not another cock on a cushion situation for me, is it? Again. |
| 0:10.0 | It's not a drag, something out of your home economics past to me to look at and try and like that. |
| 0:16.4 | We just have to clarify if anybody who didn't listen to that episode, |
| 0:22.6 | we're talking about some shopping embroidery I did when I was about 14 years old. |
| 0:26.8 | But anyway, that's not the time. No, I tell you what I've been doing. |
| 0:30.3 | You're not going to like it. I've been sprouting, oh, what is, is it the nose hair? |
| 0:36.1 | It's not the chin hairs. It's not the chin hairs. |
| 0:40.1 | No, it's not the chin hairs, but unfortunately they've been sprouting. |
| 0:44.4 | No, alfalfa. Can't say it properly. Alfalfa sprouts. |
| 0:48.7 | A friend of mine gave me a jar of these little seeds and she said, |
| 0:52.7 | wash them every day, drain them off and you will have magic beans. |
| 0:56.6 | Magic beans for the fresh. You're so gullible. |
| 1:00.2 | Love it. No, I love it and you get this jar full of these very nutritious, |
| 1:04.8 | super foody sprouts and you spray them on your salads. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, you then take them out and you sort of unmatched them. |
| 1:11.4 | They get spits stuck together and you put them on your salads and they're really good for you. |
| 1:15.5 | Can you not just tell how much clever I've got? |
| 1:17.4 | Is it like what you used to grow? |
| 1:19.5 | Cretan and egg when you were at ten at school. |
| 1:21.9 | Yes, it is. |
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