Foster Care, A Full Life and an Empty Nest Second Chance at Love with Lisa Guzman E136

Lisa Guzman didn't come to the empty nest the usual way. She came through foster care, homelessness at 17, building a life from scratch, 25 years as a wife and mother, and then losing her husband and her last kid leaving home within a year of each other.

When the roles are gone, who are you? Lisa had to find out. This is that conversation.

Rick and Clancy talk with Lisa about what it actually feels like to redefine yourself after decades of being everyone else's. They get into trust, dating in your 50s, reconnecting with a first love after 37 years, and how approaching a relationship like a business isn't unromantic... it's just smart.

Lisa came up with nothing and built something real. The empty nest, for her, isn't a loss. It's the first time she gets to be herself.

Lisa is a champion of The Place, a Colorado organization providing shelter and transitional support for young people aging out of the foster care system: https://theplacecos.org/

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Also mentioned in this episode: Dr. Robin Buckley on running your relationship like a business: https://www.theloudquiet.com/relationship-insights-boardroom-concepts-for-the-empty-nest-with-dr-robin-buckley-e112/

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Foster care, a full life, and a second chance at love

2:07 Growing up in foster care and aging out at 17

4:42 When the roles of wife and mother disappear at once

8:33 Deciding never to date again... then 1987 called

15:15 What dating in your 50s actually looks like

18:49 Age is a state of mind

21:47 Approaching a new relationship like a business

29:37 Supporting young people aging out of foster care

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