You're Not Too Old, It's Not Too Late(with Jamie Golden)

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🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Nora recently got a question that asked, “Is 31 too old to pivot into a new career?” The short answer: NO! You’re not too old and it’s not too late to decide to live your life exactly how you want to. Nora’s joined by Jamie Golden, host of The Pop Cast, to hear your stories about making fresh starts and pivots – because no matter where you are, there’s always an option, and there’s always more life to live. Watch us on YouTube here! Get this episode ad-free here! Listen to Geoffrey’s album on Spotify and Apple! Shop my favorite bras and underwear at ⁠SKIMS.com⁠. After you place your order, be sure to let them know I sent you! Select "podcast" in the survey and be sure to select my show in the dropdown menu that follows. Check out ⁠Indeed.com⁠ for all your hiring needs! Protect your data and privacy with Nord VPN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Nora McInerney and this is thanks for asking a call and show about what matters to you.
0:20.0	I am recording this from my studio space. If you are watching
0:25.3	this episode on YouTube, which is something you can do. It's not going to come out the same day as
0:29.9	the regular podcast. I mean, it's work to edit these videos. Grace does it. She does such a good job.
0:36.2	If you are watching this on YouTube, you can see. I am in a place I love. I hope I look like I love my life. I do. I am 40-ish. 42 is just simply not an age. I believe that after 30 we should be counting by fives. So I'll be 40 till I'm 45. After 45, I'll be 50. That's just how I'm
0:57.4	going to do it. But this is not a version of my life that I could really conceive of when I was 25
1:03.2	years old. When I was 25 years old, I was so miserable. I was so miserable. I lived in New York City with roommates that I absolutely loved.
1:15.2	I'd always wanted to live in New York. I did live in New York. I worked at a PR agency with other
1:21.0	girls that I just loved. I had broken up with a long-term boyfriend. I did that at the Union Square Subway, the sandwich
1:30.7	shop, not the train station. I was dating, which is a term I would use very loosely for how I
1:38.7	interacted with other people romantically. I was partying. I lacked the vocabulary to convey to those around me
1:47.8	that I was also in a constant state of fighter flight. The sound of my Blackberry, which was a digital
1:53.2	leash that I was so proud to finally get from my work, it would haunt me in my sleep. Often,
2:00.4	it would go off in my sleep because my work was simply so
2:03.5	important. I mean, we were launching shampoos people. I was supposed to be working all the time,
2:09.1	and I was working all the time, or at least it felt like that. Sometimes in my dreams, the little
2:13.6	Microsoft Outlook email notification would pop up in the lower right hand corner of my dream.
2:22.2	I did not like my job.
2:25.0	I hated my job.
2:26.0	I wasn't good at my job.
2:26.9	I was supposed to love this job because it was in New York City and it was PR.
2:31.1	And this was at the same time as working at Teen Vogue on the Hills or
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