Mindset Mastery with Julissa Edwards

Why Your 40s Might Be the Most Freeing Decade of Your Life with Marly Viviana

Season 3 Episode 31

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Julissa sits down in person for the first time with her friend and neighbor Marly Viviana (a Colombian immigrant, former police officer and nurse, now a Charleston wedding and elopement photographer) for a conversation about what happens when the identity you built your whole life around disappears. 

It's raw, funny, and full of the kind of overlap that only happens between two women who've both learned to jump without a plan.

They trace Marly's path through the military, law enforcement, nursing school with a six-week-old on stage, and now photography, unpacking why leaving a career doesn't mean losing yourself and how turning 40 gave Marly permission to stop performing and start trusting herself.

Talked about in this episode:

  • Leaving the police force and losing (then rebuilding) her sense of identity
  • Graduating nursing school with a six-week-old baby
  • The immigrant pressure of "you can't slack" across generations
  • Turning 40 as what Marly calls a "magical spark" of freedom
  • The dopamine crash after pouring everything into a big creative launch or event

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