In this episode, Lisa chats with writer, improviser and podcaster, Carla Cackowski. Lisa and Carla met in 2017 when Carla was her improv teacher at Second City Hollywood. Carla shares her journey as an actor, starting out in Kentucky and finally landing in Los Angeles, which has now evolved to improvisation and writing. Carla shares her experience of living as an artist in Los Angeles and her own personal evolution with her art and her career.

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Follow Lisa Rodriguez on Instagram at @lisaroiriguez
Follow Carla Cackowski on Instagram at @carlacackowski
Check out Carla's Vintage shop @jacaranda.eve.vintage

Music by Jeff Roi @jeff.roi

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In this week's episode, Lisa chats with actor and Self-Tape guru, Jeff Pride. Jeff started his acting journey in his 20's, but didn't find success until he properly trained and made a few tweaks to his image that allowed him to stand out to casting offices. After working behind the camera in casting offices, Jeff was primed to start his own business helping actors tape their auditions out his home. Jeff's journey offers inspiration and few lessons that we can all relate to with his grounded perspective and positive outlook. Jeff is funny and charismatic, which makes this episode such a delight.

Links:
Follow the show on Instagram at @makingitafter40
Follow Lisa Rodriguez on Instagram at @lisaroiriguez
Follow Jeff Pride on Instagram at @takepride_jeffpride
Tape with Jeff @selftapeshere

Music by Jeff Roi @jeff.roi

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In this first new episode back for the new season, Lisa chats with Mary Payne Moran, a chef by trade who was inspired to write a children's book about nutrition. Mary's story is full of ups and down and over coming challenges. Her culinary career did not end up as she first thought it would, but has been so rewarding in so many unexpected ways, including with the launch of her book. Lisa and Mary discuss rejection, perseverance and the notion that sometimes, success comes in it's own timeline, not in the timeline you had planned for.

Be sure to purchase Mary's book, The Vita Gang Mysteries: Who Stole Vita D? on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

Links:
Follow the show on Instagram at @makingitafter40
Follow Lisa Rodriguez on Instagram at @lisaroiriguez
Follow Mary Payne Moran: Instagram at @hailmaryfoodofgrace
Sign up for Mary's cooking class on her website: https://hailmaryfoodofgrace.com/

Music by Jeff Roi @jeff.roi

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Help fund the show by following the link when you click on the heart below to "Buy me a Coffee".

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