SORRY I’M LATE: The painful truth about feeling behind in life, love, and work

LATE BLOOMERS

Rich & Rox Pink

Self-improvement, Education

5.0 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Ever felt like you’re running behind in life—while everyone else is ticking boxes, buying homes, and smashing careers? In this brutally honest episode, Rox and Rich unpack what it really means to be a “late bloomer.” From chaotic finances to relationship disasters and career false starts, they explore the deep shame that can come with feeling like you're years behind your peers—and how ADHD, trauma, and a lack of support often fuel that spiral.

Rox opens up about hitting rock bottom in all three areas—money, love, and work—by her mid-thirties. She shares the terrifying debt, the hyperfocus heartbreaks, and the endless job hopping that left her feeling broken and hopeless. But through small steps, vulnerability, and a hell of a lot of therapy, she began to rebuild—and Rich, the bank manager she accidentally fell in love with, helped her see that being “late” doesn’t mean you’re lost.

Whether you’re in your twenties, thirties, or fifties, this episode is a love letter to anyone who feels behind. It’s not too late to start again. It’s not too late to change your story. And it’s definitely not too late to create a life that finally fits. This one’s for the screwups, the slow starters, and the quietly resilient. You’re right on time.

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0:00.0	Sorry, I'm late. A phrase that I know really well and a load of our listeners are going to know really well.
0:07.0	But what if I told you we're not talking about being late to meetings or to dinner, but something else?
0:13.8	So this week we're going to talk about why you might feel like you are a bit behind or late in life in big areas like finances, work.
0:22.0	Oh, what was the other one?
0:23.2	Relationships.
0:23.8	Oh, yeah, relationships.
0:24.7	How could I forget?
0:25.9	Loads of people with ADHD or trauma or neurodivergence end up feeling like they are late to their own lives.
0:32.9	And you can end up feeling behind and ashamed and you feel rubbish.
0:36.9	This is late blooms where we are actually
0:39.7	getting our lives together a little bit late. But eventually. Do do do. Oh man. So we're not
0:47.2	talking about you just being late for like everything that you say you're going to be there for.
0:52.2	We're not talking about that because that's a thing also. thing. No, but however, what happens in the micro happens in the macro. So maybe someone
1:01.6	that chronically struggles with time is going to struggle with being on time in their actual life.
1:07.5	True. I think that I think that you as a person, you as an entity, is a pretty perfect case study for this exercise.
1:16.2	So work, finances, relationships. Obviously, I know you really intimately and you sort of tick all those three boxes for being pretty late.
1:25.5	Yeah. Basically flopping hard in relationships, flopping hard at work, flopping hard with finance.
1:32.1	I have messed up every single one of life's most important areas for my entire life up until about
1:42.0	late 30s.
1:43.6	I'm so sorry, I've gone complete immature mode when you said flopping hard in relationships. I just imagined what it would be like for me saying those words. That is a different topic, isn't it? Coming next week. Yeah. Can you imagine? If you're flopping hard on relationships, tune in. No, I don't think we're going to do that. You know what I'm talking about. I can't say it. No, I didn't. I thought you meant flopping as in not. Tune in. No, I don't think we're going to do that. Are you talking about?
2:00.8	You know what I'm talking about.
2:01.1	I can't say it.
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