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My guest on the podcast this week is the completely divine Gem Jackson. Gem is a 41 year old content creator, influencer, podcaster and author, who is single and childless by circumstance. For a long time, Gem felt that she was behind in life as many of her friends got married and had kids, but over the last few years she’s made some big changes in her life, not least because of her best friend’s tragic diagnosis a few years ago. She left her corporate job to pursue a different life, and is now embracing being a solo, and all the possibility that this lifestyle affords her. In our conversation, Gem and I talk about what happens when your life turns out differently than you imagined. She tells me about her ebook, 'Is This It?', we talk her friend’s illness and subsequent passing and what that’s though her about life; we also chat about forging a path that goes against the tide, and how difficult but rewarding it can be; and we talk about how she has transformed her mindset over the last few years and the difference it’s made in her life. 

05:06 How She Got Here

06:33 Finding Peace Single

07:58 Is This It? Ebook

09:34 Mindset Tools That Work

13:16 Grief and Kids Question

20:16 Quitting Corporate 

22:34 Building Online Business

25:58 Choose Your Hard

31:10 Loving Yourself

37:50 Bali Breakthroughs

44:31 Stop Comparing Yourself

47:44 Selling Up And Moving

51:26 Alone Not Lonely

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Listen to Gem's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/figuring-it-out-at-40-life-beyond-the-timeline/id1840131133

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