Episode 4 - Changes

Featuring Meg Zuccaro

David Bowie wrote Changes in 1971 as an act of self-examination. It doesn’t tell us to scrap who we were. It doesn’t mock the past or glorify the future. It simply names what’s already happening: you are changing. We are always changing. So pay attention. The song asks you to ask yourself “Who are you now?”

In this episode, Cheryl and Meg explore the power of saying yes before you feel ready. Of trusting the unknown. Of finding deeper meaning through life’s transition, not by planning your way there, but by leaping and discovering what you’re made of on the way down. Growth isn’t always planned. It often begins with a single, unexpected ask.

Sometimes the biggest life changes begin with a simple, unexpected ask. When a friend invited Meg to officiate their wedding, it sparked a path she never saw coming, one that led her to become a life cycle celebrant and ordained minister. In this episode, we explore the power of saying yes before you feel ready, trusting the unknown, and finding deeper meaning through life’s transitions. Through moments of joy, loss, and everything in between, Meg’s story is a reminder that growth isn’t always planned, it often begins with a leap. And in that leap, we just might discover who we were meant to become.

ABOUT MEG ZUCCARO

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Meg Zuccaro is a Certified Life Cycle Celebrant, Ordained Metaphysical Minister, and yoga teacher based in Canada. Through her practice, Anam Cara Ceremonies — Gaelic for Soul Friend — Meg creates deeply personal rituals and ceremonies for life’s most meaningful moments. She brings an intuitive presence, a background in teaching and energetic healing, and a belief that within each of us is an ancient longing to be known for more than our exterior lives.

Website: https://www.megzuccaro.ca

THE SONG — CHANGES

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David Bowie — 1971 From the album Hunky Dory. One of Bowie’s most enduring songs and one of the most honest examinations of identity ever recorded. That gasp before the chorus remains one of the most iconic moments in rock history: someone bracing themselves before stepping into the unknown. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0LrwgdLsFaWh9VXIjBRe8t

KEY THEMES

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Identity. Saying yes. Life transitions. Ceremony. Calling. Unexpected paths. Grief. Joy. Meaning. Reinvention. Spiritual practice. The courage of the leap.

Growth isn’t always planned. It often begins with a single, unexpected ask — and in that leap, we discover who we were meant to become.”

About your host - meet Cheryl Becir:

She is 69. Curious as hell and not done yet.

After decades leading Not-for-profit organizations - challenging systems, and driving meaningful change, Cheryl “retired”… and lasted about five minutes. Now? She’s asking even better questions. With sharp insight, lived experience, and a refusal to play small, Cheryl creates space for conversations that are honest, layered, and deeply human.

This isn’t a retirement project. This is the next chapter, on her own terms.

Website:https://theboomersrevolt.ca
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theboomersrevolt
Email: theboomersrevolt@gmail.com

Episode 3 - Both Sides Now

Featuring Sandy Morton

What if clarity only comes after you’ve lived it?

Joni Mitchell wrote Both Sides Now as a young woman of 23. But the song’s true weight — the understanding that what you thought you knew was only ever part of the picture takes a lifetime to fully feel. It’s about perspective. About looking at your own life from both sides and realizing that the certainty you carried for decades was real, and also partial.

In this episode, Cheryl and Sandy sit with the question at the heart of both sides: maybe the goal was never to have figured it out earlier. Maybe the dignity is in admitting you were too busy being in it to stand outside of it and that that’s exactly what wisdom looks like.

Sandy Morton shares a deeply layered journey from a high-powered career and being the primary breadwinner, to navigating cancer, divorce, forced retirement, and rediscovery. This is not about reinvention as a trend, but about perspective, resilience, and the wisdom that comes from living fully, even through the hard parts. Maybe the goal isn’t to have known sooner, but to honour that you were in it, learning as you lived it.

Sandy Morton - smorton0804@gmail.com

THE SONG — BOTH SIDES NOW

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Joni Mitchell — 1969 Written by Joni Mitchell and first recorded in 1967. The version most people know, orchestral, unhurried, richer with the weight of years came in 2000. One of the most covered songs in popular music history.

Listen on Spotify (original version): https://open.spotify.com/track/72PVJxRctoeZLavbXPJvbK

Listen on Spotify (2000 orchestral version): https://open.spotify.com/track/22BL0VztYIzVrjtTB8YKAe

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KEY THEMES

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Perspective. Resilience. Cancer survivorship. Divorce. Forced retirement. Wisdom. Identity. Women and work. The cost of certainty. Learning by living.

“Maybe the goal isn’t to have known sooner. Maybe it’s to honour that you were in it — learning as you lived it.”

About your host - meet Cheryl Becir:

She is 69. Curious as hell and not done yet.

After decades leading Not-for-profit organizations - challenging systems, and driving meaningful change, Cheryl “retired”… and lasted about five minutes. Now? She’s asking even better questions. With sharp insight, lived experience, and a refusal to play small, Cheryl creates space for conversations that are honest, layered, and deeply human.

This isn’t a retirement project. This is the next chapter, on her own terms.

Website:https://theboomersrevolt.ca
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theboomersrevolt
Email: theboomersrevolt@gmail.com

Episode 2 - Landslide

Featuring Diana Dunbar Place

Who said the third act is supposed to be quiet? Inspired by the song Landslide, by Stevie Nicks, this episode explores life’s third act. Stevie Nicks wrote Landslide in 1975 during a period of profound personal uncertainty — standing at a crossroads, not sure which way to go. The song

isn’t about giving up. It’s about standing still long enough to admit when something no longer fits. It’s about the courage to change.

Stevie Nicks wrote Landslide in 1975 during a period of profound personal uncertainty — standing at a crossroads, not sure which way to go. The song isn’t about giving up. It’s about standing still long enough to admit when something no longer fits. It’s about the courage to change.

Diana Dunbar Place knows that courage well. With a 40-year career spanning international advertising, a senior vice president role at America Online (AOL-Time Warner) in the early days of the internet, and three entrepreneurial ventures. Diana Dunbar Place has spent a lifetime navigating, and challenging a male-dominated world, refusing to shrink or step aside.

In this episode, Cheryl and Diana unpack what it means to redefine success on your own terms, confront ageism and sexism head-on, and fully own your voice in every room you walk into. This is a powerful conversation about resilience, ambition, and stepping into your next chapter with intention and strength.

In 2018, three lightning-strike life events hit at once: a cancer diagnosis, the loss of a business, and becoming an empty nester. Instead of retreating, Diana launched Third Act Quest — a movement dedicated to reframing the experience of aging and empowering women over 50 to write their most meaningful chapter yet. Diana Dunbar Place is the founder and CEO of Third Act Quest and the 333 Collective — an international online community of women over 50 offering support, inspiration, and connection. Her 40-year career spans a decade in Boston with an international advertising agency, a Senior Vice President role at AOL-Time Warner during the early internet era, and three entrepreneurial ventures bridging corporations and nonprofits around causes including AIDS, homelessness, domestic violence, and breast cancer. She is based in New Hampshire.

Website: https://www.thirdactquest.com
The 333 Collective: https://www.thirdactquest.com/333-collective
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/thirdactquest
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Diana.Dunbar.Place
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianadunbarplace
Email: diana@thirdactquest.com

THE SONG — LANDSLIDE

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Fleetwood Mac — 1975 Written by Stevie Nicks during a period of intense personal reflection, recorded for Fleetwood Mac’s self-titled 1975 album. One of the most enduring songs in rock history — now with over one billion streams on Spotify, making it the fifth Fleetwood Mac song to reach that milestone.

KEY THEMES

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Third act living. Ageism. Sexism in the workplace. Resilience. Reinvention. Cancer survivorship. Entrepreneurship. Women over 50. Community.

Redefining success.

“We’re not here to age gracefully. We’re here to age powerfully.”

About your host - meet Cheryl Becir:

She is 69. Curious as hell and not done yet.

After decades leading Not-for-profit organizations - challenging systems, and driving meaningful change, Cheryl “retired”… and lasted about five minutes. Now? She’s asking even better questions. With sharp insight, lived experience, and a refusal to play small, Cheryl creates space for conversations that are honest, layered, and deeply human.

This isn’t a retirement project. This is the next chapter, on her own terms.

Website:https://theboomersrevolt.ca
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theboomersrevolt
Email: theboomersrevolt@gmail.com