The Second Chapter Podcast

You can now find the podcast on its own website ! 

On The Second Chapter, serial careerist and founder of Slackline Productions, Kristin Duffy, chats with women who started the second (or third… or fifth!) chapter in their careers and lives, after 35.
We’ve just launched season 2, so have a listen on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you like to listen. Of course we’d love to hear what you think- and if you love the show, please leave us a 5-star rating and review on podchaser or Apple podcasts.

Lyn Yeowart has been a writer for most of her career, but decided to go back for a creative writing master’s degree some 30 years after graduating with an education degree. But Lyn’s biggest change may have been something that was less to do with writing and career, and more to do with self and...
Jane Griffin is a former BBC and ITN television and radio news reporter with over 25 years of combined experience in journalism, corporate communication, B2B PR, and crisis communication. Thanks, in part, to a nudge from a former manager, Jane launched her own PR business, Positive Story – not just putting a positive spin on...
Kim Carpenter is a keynote speaker, executive coach, author, creator of World Changing Women and founder and CEO of People at the Center. Much of Kim’s job is taking a stand for good business and making the workplace more humane but before she could help others align their own lives and values, she had to...
Widowed in a brutal fashion at 35, Jen Zwinck took some unusual steps to start her second chapter – steps that included moving with her two-year-old to a small Caribbean island. Now Jen has found her “why” through Widow 180 podcast and the Widow Squad- working with other widows to come together, learn new ways...
Like so many previous The Second Chapter guests, Liz Bieler followed the path she was told to follow, and for a long time, gave up a creative life she craved. Since letting her creativity flow — and boy did it flow! — she’s become a jazz singer, a voiceover actor, and now an author with...
This week Kristin is speaking with Kate Oakley. Kate is the founder of Your Future Fit. After 25 years in HR, she’s fired up to help women with their physical and mental health in peri- and post-menopause. She realized she wasn’t too old to start at 50, and she’s on a mission to make this...
When Covid Lockdown squashed her fledgling business, a recruitment agency aimed at helping over fifties get back into the workplace, Stephanie Oram started writing. The result, Wax, Whips and My Hairy Bits- An Erotic Comedy of Errors, written under pen name SJ Carmine, has been as high as number two on Amazon’s best bestseller list,...
Katharine Esty has had her fair share of chapters and is now living as an 80 something, which is also the title of her book, Eightysomethings- A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness. Eightysomethings includes interviews and advice on life in your eighties, how to have difficult conversations with parents...
Martina Clark has lived a fascinating life, taking her to 90+ countries, seeing her in the room with world leaders, activists, and educators, and now as a writer, with her book, My Unexpected Life, an International Memoir of Two Pandemics, HIV and Covid 19. Martina had several major changes after 35, an age doctors never...
Johanna Elizabeth left a career as a midwife to become a photographer, now specialising in boudoir photography for women. But it’s so much more than pictures in lingerie. Kristin speaks with Jo about her lifetime of empowering women and helping them to feel seen and how her own diagnosis of autism at 47 is now...