How I Relaunched My Career After Spending 11 Years at Home

I’m living proof that all the pent-up intellectual energy can be saved and used at a later date

11 years. That’s how long I “stayed home” with my kids. For anyone else who, like me, thought they’d completely missed the boat on a career after years and years out of the workplace, I’m living proof that all the pent-up intellectual energy can be saved and used later if need be! It’s not too late. EVER!!!!

I only started regularly writing again in 2017 after my divorce. I only started my podcast in 2018. (Now, four years later, I’ve released over 1,000 episodes, have had millions of downloads and it has won the most prestigious industry award plus dozens of others — and is earning money!!)

It has taken me almost 20 years to sell my memoir, but now it’s finally coming out in July — after I’d cried over so many rejections that I thought it just wasn’t going to happen for me. I had this almost inexplicable compulsion to get my story on the shelves.

So yes. It can happen to you. I did it one podcast at a time. Letting things unfold “organically” as my husband taught me.

So when I spin around in excitement about going to a book signing for my children’s book, Princess Charming, that is why.