Put Yourself in the Driver’s Seat of Your Life with Amy Goober

Air Date - 10 June 2025

Get ready for an inspiring conversation as Amy Goober joins us to share empowering stories, transformative insights, and real-life wisdom. From navigating life’s twists to designing a life you love, this interview will leave you motivated, uplifted, and ready to take action!

About the Guest: Amy Goober is an accomplished Action Coach, workshop leader, and inspiring speaker who helps women get into the driver’s seat of their own lives. She guides midlife women to create connections and community.

At 60, she launched Drive Your Life, empowering women with the tools they need to get into action for something that matters deeply to them. This signature program is offered virtually every Fall.

Now, at 65, Amy supports her brand Better Together Events & Community, which creates connections and learning opportunities for mid-life women and support for women-owned businesses. Through her Wandering Women Travel brand, she curates and leads women’s trips and experiences.

She’s also the author of As My Mother Always Says: 25 Lessons for Finding the Silver Lining. This memoir/self-help book shares the amazing story of her 93-year-old mother and her life lessons. Learn more at https://amygoober.com/.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:41):
Welcome to Inspired Conversations. I'm your host, Linda Joy, publisher
of the beloved Aspire magazine and creatrix of the upcoming
Inspired Life Woman's Weekend of Love, Light and Laughter. Come
into Quincy, Massachusetts, Apri eleventh and twelve, twenty twenty six.
If if you're ready to come together with a community

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of sol aligned women on the path of self discovery,
then get all the details at Inspired lifeevent dot com.
Are you ready to get in the driver's seat of
your life, my friend, then you're going to want to
hear this conversation with me Today is Amy Goober. She's
an accomplished action coach, workshop leader, and inspiring speaker who

(01:28):
helps women get into the driver's seat of their own lives.
She guides and helps midlife women create connection and community.
At sixty she launched Drive Your Life, empowering women with
the tools they need to get into action for something
that matters deeply to them. This signature program is offered

(01:50):
virtually every fall, So keep your eyes open, my friends
now today. At sixty five, she supports her brand Better
Together events in community, which creates connections and learning opportunities
for midlife women and support for women owned businesses. Also
through her Wandering Woman Travel which I just love that name, Amy,

(02:13):
she curates and leads women's trips and experiences if actually
just got back from one. And she's also the author
of As My Mother Always Says twenty five Lessons for
Finding the Silver Lining, which I was honored to put
in the Aspire mag Top ten Inspiring Books list. This
memoir self help book, she has the amazing story of

(02:34):
her ninety three year old mother and her life lessons. Amy,
I'm so excited to have you here today.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Thank you for inviting me well.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
I love everything You're up to and then when we
first met virtually we had that deep conversation. And I
love the whole idea of this drive your life message,
right because you and I both know from our own
life experience sometimes take a back seat in our own
life and let our fear and dope, you know, navigate

(03:06):
the course forward. So I'm really curious what made you,
at sixty years old start drive your life.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Well, that's a great question. So I've done a variety
of different things. I look at myself as kind of
a serial entrepreneur. I started my first business when I
was twenty six, and now I'm sixty five, so I'm
almost forty years older. But the Drive your Life, I
was turning sixty, and I was I was a health

(03:36):
coach at the time and working for a big nationwide company,
and I had a big, big at a lot of
clients and coaches. I was training and traveling a lot.
I mean, it was definitely sort of a full time gig.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
I would say.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
But as I was turning sixty, my youngest of three
adult children was going off to college, and even though
I had that health coaching gig, I said, I really
need something to kind of get absorbed in something that
I'm really passionate about and my own thing, not you know,
working under the umbrella of another company. So I became

(04:12):
an action coach then. And also I felt like, I'm sixty.
What am I waiting for? You know, I'm not forty,
I'm sixty. So I looked around and tried to think about,
you know, who do I want to serve, Who do
I want to help? What do I want to do?
And I wanted to work with women. And I'm always
looking for the need, as I know you are also,
and the need that I saw at the time five

(04:34):
years ago was that a lot of women were talking
about things they wanted to do but.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Not doing them.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
And I realized that I think overall that as women,
we are by nature other oriented.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
It's very easy for all of us to care about.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
Everybody else in our world and everybody else on the
planet practically before we ask ourselves what we want and
put efforts toward ourselves.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
So I came up with.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
The idea of a drive Your Life program, an eight
week program with a step by step process to get
into action, which is what I felt women needed, and
it happened to be during COVID, So we did it virtually,
and I discovered that that's all they needed. They needed
a plan, a program, a coach. And then the small

(05:23):
group coaching model was magical because they all started helping
each other, right because again, right, we always want to
help each other. So they learned a process that they
could use over and over again. And that's sort of
what motivated me. But I still do it today, as
you mentioned, I do it every fall, and I just
want to get women going but also give them the

(05:48):
tools they need. You know, I didn't want it to
be a program where we talked for eight weeks and
then they don't have anything at the end of it.
This way, they're already they're doing the program while we
are doing the program, so they see progress.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
And that's what we need, because we can all get
stuck in the nurtier, can't we.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yes? Yes, And I.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Love what you said too because it's so true. And
I have a large community in my Inspire Living University group,
and we were just talking yesterday about the topic of
grace on the Mindset elevation call, and as we all
adding to the conversation, a lot of what came up
is what you said. You said, we have a tendency

(06:28):
as woman to care for everyone else. Well, what came
up in yesterday's call is we also have a tendency
to give others love, compassion, and grace, but not ourselves.
Isn't it funny how we're wired to drain ourselves by
giving outward, but we're going to remember to fill our
own cups so we can make the changes in our

(06:51):
own lives.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yes, yes, do.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
You see that too in your community? It's like healing
that wound that says I can only give myself the love, grace,
compassion time once everyone else is taken care of.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
I mean, I see that, but I also don't even
know if there's the self awareness of that all the time.
I think that again, we just do, and what we
do most comfortably is for others. And I think when
women try to make choices for themselves, can they can
feel guilty whether that's warranted or not. And I think
they have to like flex the muscle. I mean, I

(07:30):
work with one on one clients also, and one of
the exercises I give them is to make two columns
on a piece of paper and one says I like
and the other says I don't like, And I tell them,
you know, for a week to just jot things.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Down, small, medium, large, whatever it is.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
I like pink, I don't like brown, I like pizza,
I don't like pasta. You know, it can be little things,
and many times they say it's challenging because they sort
of have forgotten how to ask themselves what they really want,
and uncomfortable and it feels selfish, all these negative things.
And then eventually they get the hang of it, and
then the next week they come back and they're like,

(08:09):
I have.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
More on my list, you know. So it's also.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Taking away that guilt of feeling selfish, which it isn't
selfish to take care of yourself, is it.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
I don't think it isn't. But you know, now that
you said that, that's a theme that comes up so
often in conversations right with women, and we both serve
the same audience. Well nine is midlife woman on the
path of self discovery, right, they're open to It's almost
like they woke up in the middle of their life
and said, how the hell did I get here? If

(08:41):
they were living on autopilot, like you said, doing doing, doing,
And my phrase is they forgot how to be in
their own life. Yeah, and so one of the things
I think I'm drawn to that drive veal life framework
is just the name of it. It feels empowering to me.

(09:02):
So I can only imagine as they're going through your framework,
in that journey with you, in learning those strategies, they're
walking away with tools that will serve them for the
rest of their lives.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Well, that's right.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
It's learning a process, which is why I do it
that way, so that they can get into action on
the thing they want to do now, and then six
months from now they can use the same process, the
step by step process to get into action then.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
And you talk a lot about action in your work.
Is it that because you notice that so many women
were frozen and not taken action on their dreams and desires.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Yes, I think that what happens.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
It's a combination of complacency, you know, we just get comfortable,
and I think the focus on others.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
That we already discussed.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
But I also think that this is just my own
philosophy that as women get older, sometimes we lose some
of our confidence and so we're a little rusty. We're
rusty on making new friends, we're rusty on trying new experiences, right.
So I think because of that that with the complacency people,

(10:19):
we're talking about things and we're not doing them, and
then it feels a little scary and it's out of
our comfort zone and we don't always have the people in.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Our lives to give us the nudge.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
So I like to encourage women to get comfortable being uncomfortable,
and they can start small. I'm not saying go start
a business. You know, that might not be for everyone,
but it could be you know, you go to a
yoga class and you've never spoken to another woman in
that room, So it could be getting up the nerve

(10:49):
to say to somebody high, my name is Mary. You know,
do you want to grab a cup of coffee after this?
For some women's that's hard, you know, that's not second nature.
And it could be something needy like trying you know,
signing a for a course or going on a trip,
you know, something like that. Or it could be large,
which to me is you know, big picture career relationship,

(11:11):
where do you live those kinds of things. So I
just think we're kind of out of practice many women.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Oh, I agree, And I also think too is a
lot of us that caught up in agism, you know,
maybe from the way they're raised. Like I have clients
that are vibrant in contributing to the world in their
beautiful way, that are in their seventies and just startying businesses.
But a lot of us depend on how we were raised.

(11:37):
And I know you weren't raised this way because I've
seen you and your mum in action is that, oh,
you know, when you get to a certain point in
your life, those dreams got to be put on the backshelf.
And I'm like, what are you talking about. I'm sixty
three this year and I'm just beginning, Dollan, So do
you notice that too that they tell themselves the store

(12:00):
worry of well, I can't take action on this, what
would people think at my age exactly?

Speaker 4 (12:06):
And I also think it's the fear of failure. So
even if they don't get to the point where they're
worried about what other people will think, they're worried about
themselves succeeding, and really.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Success is doing so I also.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Feel strongly that it's really important to just try things.
You know that the things we regret in life are
the things we don't do right. You rarely hear people
saying that they regret things they've done that didn't work out. Well,
they don't regret it. They either learn from the experience
or they move on. But what people regret are the

(12:42):
sort of sighing like, oh, I really always wanted to
go to Fiji and I never really got that.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
You know, those kinds of things.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
So I think it's it's also just fear of the
unknown and fear of maybe not succeeding.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
And I always think, what's the.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Worst that can happen is, you know, you try something
that doesn't work out. You talk to Mary at yoga
and she says, I have enough friends, I'm not interested.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
What's the worst?

Speaker 4 (13:08):
What's the worst thing that could possibly happen? Right in
that scenario, you know where you I was just speaking
to a woman the other day about one of our trips,
and she said, oh, I'm overthinking it. I know I
want to go, I just don't know what to do.
And I just said, listen, you have to be comfortable
with me and our company and all these things. But
once you are, what's the alternative? The alternative is to

(13:29):
stay home, and we're all home a lot, so you know,
I think sometimes we have to just sort of take nudge,
you know, a light nudge, like I never talk anybody
into anything, but I do try to give them, like,
what's the flip side.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
I think that's so important, Amy, And we're going to
take a quick part we come back. I want to
talk about something else that you're known for, and that's
you're better together events in the community. You've built great.
So we'll be back in a moment, my friend. You
can learn more about Amy at amygoober dot com.

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Speaker 2 (16:14):
Welcome back, you listen to inspired conversations with me is
action coach Amy Goober, and we've been talking about getting
in the driver's seat of your life, breaking out of
your comfort zone. And I just before the break, I
asked Amy that I want to talk about something that
she has created. Amy lives in the same state I do, Massachusetts,

(16:38):
and she is known for her Better Together events, So
talk to me about that, Amy, what led you to
created I think I got the feel of everything you
do from a conversation, but guide us through it.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:56):
So during COVID, I had run a virtual program where
I brought in experts every week and the women were
on zoom right, but we were doing the things like
we were doing all these things to learn about different
areas from different experts because I wanted to support those
women entrepreneurs and I wanted to get the women at
home active in something. And I did that for a

(17:18):
while and it was great. And then at the beginning
of twenty twenty three, I said to myself, what am
I doing? I could do this in person now. So
the spring of twenty twenty three was the first and
we just had our fifth Better Together event last month,
and so the premise For me, it's really threefold. One
is to connect women. So women have a place they

(17:40):
can go for a full day event, even if they
don't know anyone. They sit all right next to each other,
so they always chat with somebody new and they arrive
alone maybe, but they don't leave alone.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
So it's the connection. Then it's the learning.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
So I bring in speakers from all different facets of life,
things that we would be interested in, sort of.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Serious and less serious. Like I try to really balance it.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
So it might be you know, our health or or
you know metapause or you know health, a health coach
kind of thing. And then it might be an interior designer, right,
so it might be a financial person, and then it
might be skincare, so those kinds of things. And we
try to have a really varied agenda, and we do
a big lunch and we have women entrepreneurs are our sponsors,

(18:26):
and so then I really want to support the entrepreneurial women.
So it's sort of threefold. It's connection, learning and then
supporting the women entrepreneurs. And what I hear it's hard
to know, as you know, when you're in the middle
of something, what it really feels like to other people.
But what I the feedback I get is that the
energy is fabulous in the room and that these women

(18:49):
are so happy they came. And again it's what we
said at the very beginning. I say to them, thank
you for or good for you for taking a day
for yourself. Right, these women signed up, they pay the
ticket price, and they arrive and it's all for them.
And I think that success is a layering process, and

(19:10):
that's one of the layers, right. Regardless of what they
thought of the day, they plan today for themselves. And
not all women do that, unfortunately.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Oh my god, it's so true. It's like just the
moment they purchased the ticket, they were saying yes to themselves. Correct. Yep,
that to me is sounds like both our missions is
to remind women that they are worthy of following their passions,
creating space for themselves and not being last on their

(19:42):
own to do list.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yes, that's a big milestone for so many women. And
I know for someone listening they might be going they
just saw all they do is buy a ticket. No,
they did just buy a ticket. They said yes to
some part of themselves, the union for what that event
or offer brings them. And that's what I recognize in
a woman. That there's some woman. I'm sure you've met

(20:06):
a mamy that attending you're Ravana one of mine was
a big jump out of their comfort zone, right, And
I mean, I'm always on it, as I know you are.
When a woman says yes to herself encircles up with
me in whatever capacity, I think it's sacred, right.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
And again I think that it's okay if it feels uncomfortable,
like I'm always saying, get comfortable being uncomfortable, it's okay.
If it feels uncomfortable, that's okay. As long as you're
not petrified and you know, immobilized, It's okay to be anxious,
Like there's nothing wrong with that. My mother said the
other day, if if we didn't have anxiety, we'd all
be dead because we wouldn't have the nervousness to look

(20:46):
both ways across the street. You know that we've created
this thing that anxiety is this big horrible thing, and
for many people it is a big horrible thing. But
that little bit of butterflies or that little bit of
like I don't know, is okay because it can really
push us to go a little bit beyond our comfort zone.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah, And as I like to teach, is there's a
whole beautiful world outside that box that we sometimes put
ourselves in that we're afraid to leave. And I tell
the woman, I go listen. While you're in that box,
which is the comfort zone, get a little steps to
I just want you to peek over the edge of
what's possible. Peek over the edge of this wall you

(21:26):
built for yourself that tells you you can't have dreams
or take an art class or take your first yoga class. Right.
I want you to look at the possibility that's waiting
out there, and you'll know when you're ready to come
out of the box. Yeah. I love it, and I
think we've all done that. I know I have amy.
I put myself in such a tight box because I
think probably fear and anxiety. I've been an entrepreneur for

(21:48):
thirty three years, but I can remember going I can't
do that, I can't try that. And then one day
I just said, I think being a mother too. Because
my daughter is forty one. I started witnessing what I
was saying and realize, oh goodness, gracious, she's going to
pick up my scripts and I wanted to end that cycle.

(22:11):
So I think she, being a mom, she was my
kind of push to come out of my comfort zone
to show her that it's okay to be afraid. Like
you said, I think I'm blessed that now I have
the most courageous thirteen year old granddaughter. Yeah, and I

(22:32):
want her to try new things. Right, So, how often
do you do your Better Together events? I know you
have one coming up in November here in Massachusetts.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
Right, So we have been doing them twice a year.
So this one in this last April twenty twenty five
was our fifth one, and we have one November fifteenth
of this year, twenty twenty five, and then we're actually
going to be moving to an annual, making it an
annual event, because what we found was that for all
the effort that we put into it, we might as

(23:03):
well make it into a once a year event and
then we can make it bigger and better, and then
we will do something else in the spring, we will
cut We have a whole lot of ideas in our
I'm an idea factory, so we will be moving that.
So yeah, so they will be annually in November, and
the next one is November fifteenth. So, of course we
would love any of your listeners to join us if

(23:24):
they're able to.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Is the link? Can they find it at amygoober dot
com or do some links Better Together? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (23:33):
No, If they go onto my website, they'll see Better Together.
And there's actually a wait list form because we have
it's not open for registrations yet, but if you just
jump on the wait list, then you'll be there learning
when is the early bird price and you know when
can I get in? But all that is on my website,
amigouber dot com. Everything should be on there.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, it's a beautiful site. And so one of the
other things I wanted to talk about was I think
we're going to wait for that because I don't want
to have to cut you off. We're going to take
a break right now so I can dive into the
juicy part of the conversation without interrupting you. So we'll
be back in a moment. My friends, Please visit Amy

(24:14):
at amygoober dot com. While you're there, you'll learn about
the Better Together events. You can also grab a copy
of her new book, as my mother always says, twenty
five Lessons for finding the silver Lining, Amygoober dot com.

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Speaker 2 (26:30):
Thank you for circling up with us today. You'll listening
to inspired conversations. So Amy, one of the other things
that you own and have created is called Wandering Women Travel,
and you and I had a personal conversation about that.
So what led you to create that brand and offering?

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Also, thank you for asking.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
So I'm the sort of person when somebody says, you know,
can you do this?

Speaker 3 (26:58):
I do it?

Speaker 4 (26:58):
You know, I just say okay. So during when we
talked about when I was doing Drive Your Life, somebody
during that process of the first like two years of it,
or the first year or two of it, said you know,
could you create a retreat? So I said okay, and
I created the first sort of retreat that was in Scottsdale, Arizona,

(27:19):
and then I did one the next year. So this
was fall of twenty one and fall of twenty two.
And then someone said, well, could you just do women's trips?
And I said okay, because the retreats were a little
more coaching focused. It was more about you know, moving
your life forward, and they were wonderful and had great results.
But other women suggested, you know, could I do women's travel?

(27:39):
So then I said, you know, okay, and I started
wandering women. So really the premise of it is that
it's an extension of trying to connect women at an event.
Now we travel together, so the connections are accelerated because
we're together, you know, four or five days. And again
the feedback and the reasons and the testimonials were so

(28:02):
good that I felt like, Okay, now I've hit upon something,
and I just kept going. So now I think we've
done eight trips total as of nine trips now total.
And then we have an Agugglet weekend coming up a
Quebec trip, We went to Cancun earlier this year, and
we have a Charleston trip in December. So we'll be

(28:24):
offering probably four to five trips a year now whereas
it was one or two or three. So we are expanding,
but not in some crazy way. I mean, there won't
ever be you know, thirty person tour buses. I mean,
that's I'm so not interested in that myself. So trying
to create experiences for women that I know I would enjoy.

(28:44):
But the premise of it is I think too that
it's like solo travel, but you're not alone. So it's
for women who want to travel that maybe don't have
someone to travel with, or do have someone to travel with,
but want to travel beyond that, or want to experience
new places or travel with women, and they just they
either don't have the people or they don't want.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
To plan it.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
So my women come along and they say, we don't
have to worry about anything because Amy's here.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Amy will tell us. Amy knows what to do. So
whether it's myself or we have other trip.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Leaders, it's a it's a stress free trip with a
very dedicated woman in charge and lots of women to
make connections with.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
I love that you keep it on a smaller basis
and true relationships and community can be built. Mm hmm,
exactly things I read I don't know, maybe six months
ago that single women travelers is a big industry right now.
Women is saying, you know what, I'm tired of putting
my life on hold, and what you offer covers both

(29:52):
women who want to travel solo but will love the
safety of going in a group, right.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
And I think even even if it's not safety, but
I know what you're saying, the comfort and the and
the but so I think you're saying that too.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
But it's also the idea.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
That I just spoke to woman the other day, and
you know, she was just saying, something comes up and
I say, oh, I can't do that, or I can't
do this, or I can't do that, And you know,
she said, but I watched you and I see what
you're doing. And she knew a few people that had
been on my trip, so that gave her a different
level of comfort, you know. And you know, I just said, listen,

(30:33):
you do you is one of my favorite sayings.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
But I want to.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Give women the opportunity to challenge themselves and try something new.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
As we said before, maybe feeling a little uncomfortable, but
not being scared. There's a big difference.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Right between feeling a little at unease and being scared.
So we're not trying to scare anybody. But overall the
women love the experiences. They've made great eight friendships. I
was just watching the testimonial video reel earlier today and I,
you know, just smiled to myself that, you know, women

(31:09):
want to travel, they want to do these things, and
they feel comfortable, but they feel like they found what
they're looking for. I guess I would say I love that.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
And I love the name of it too. Thank you,
Wondering Woman Travel. So you have the book? Yeah, and
though I've never met your mom, I watched your own
I think it was Channel five.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Right, well it was channel twenty five, but your close.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Twenty five and I just love her spirit. I've seen
photos at your event. So your book is called, as
my mother always says, twenty five lessons for finding the
Silver Line. And again, my friends, her mother is ninety
three years old and such a vibrant, bright light. So Amy,
what led you to write that book? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Yeah, so I found that I was quoting my mother
a lot, you know, more than usual over.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
The past, like let's say five ish years.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
And both with clients, but even in my own regular
conversations with friends, I'd say, well, as my mother says,
or my mother always says, or my mother would say,
or here's a quote from my mother. And I realized
that the sort of lessons and sayings were very valuable,
that I was utilizing them, that I was illustrating them
as good examples, and that I wanted to share that.

(32:34):
And then I said, well, now I'm keeping a secret.
I've got this great sort of mantra, I've got this
great way of looking at life, and now I'm keeping
it to myself. So I approached my mother and I said,
you know, do you want to write this book with me?

Speaker 3 (32:47):
And of course she said okay. So we set out to.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
Try to narrow down the lessons and then she has
her spin and I give my spin, and then in
the finality of it, she said, I think we need
the story to really glue it all together. And so
she has a fascinating, fascinating story. So it's really part
memoir and part self help. And so the story is

(33:14):
what keeps you going and then the life lessons are
what did she learn during those different periods of her life?
And I thought about this to myself today in anticipation
of our conversation Linda, and I thought this woman was
born in the Great Depression. When you really wrap your
head around that, it's so farign you know, it seems

(33:36):
like so long ago. Guess what, because it was almost
one hundred years ago. I know.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
When you just said that, I was like, well, it.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Was right, But what a resource. And she's so funny.

Speaker 4 (33:46):
We just did and we've done a few in person
events recently, and she's now telling the audience what they
should be doing on top of telling her story and
her history.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
She's really a.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
Gem in a lot of ways, and so I wanted
to share it is the answer. And now I have
the book, and now I need to really market it
to get it out there, because it's no good if
it's not in people's hands.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
It's so true, my friend, it's so true. And as
you know, I'm a book publisher, so I've published twenty
one books, all women's stories, and I know the labor
of love, especially for the style you wrote, which is
the pop memoir. So kudos to you and your mom,
because I know the heart and soul that goes into

(34:37):
writing a book like this, and seeing her smile. I
think it was at your event, right, because I saw
the photos on social media. It was at your recent
event with the book signing and all that, Yes, the
two of you together, but she was glowing like, oh, yes,
I'm the queen for the day.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
And it's funny because I think of her in general,
like growing up or even now as sort of like
wanting to be the center of attention. But I think
that this has really created a like a thriving in
her because she's always been a server.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
She's she was a social worker.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
She counseled many many people and you know, supported many people.
But I think, like somebody at the event the recent
event said, you know, what was the process like? And
she said, she really has learned a lot by observing
herself during this process. You know. But you know what,
when we look back on our experiences in our life,

(35:38):
it's it's not unusual to have a different look, a
different take on it, right.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah, but what a great insight on from her, Yes,
to be able to be aware of that insight, right,
and so and so what are your plans next with
the book? Are you're going to have book signings? And Eve?

Speaker 4 (36:00):
Yeah, I mean we during the Better Together event that
we had last month, we did a big book signing
and a book launch.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
And we both spoke. We did a book talk. She's
a great, great speaker.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
She's really really just a fascinating speaker. And I find
that the women are like on the edge of their
seat listening to her more so than myself or anybody else. Actually,
but I'm sort of joking, but yeah, she's a draw.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
So I mean, I'll see.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
It's been it's been a big process, as you know,
just to get the book published, and it was just
published the end of March, so not long ago, and
then we had our big event and I just came
back from a trip. But I would love to see
this book get into more people's hands because we've had
such great response to it, great reviews. You know, it's
been it's been so positive that I need to now

(36:48):
focus on that. We did have the news story you mentioned.
I am working with a book pr group. We've done
many podcasts and things, and that's really the goal is
to have to have somebody say, yeah, I'm going to
I'm going to get that book.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
I want to read that book.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
You know that that's really it's sort of a slow
but fast process.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Right. You just have to get a marathon. It's not
a spread a marathon.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
Yeah, right, right, And.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Two things popped up in my mind is this book
would be great to talk to the head librarians, because
I just spoke to the librarian in Lakeville and I
just wanted to get some info, and she said, we're
always looking for great workshops to host him. And they
do all the marketing. Right, So libraries, believe it or not.

(37:37):
I don't like calling them nursing homes elder care homes
because your mother would walk in there like this, spitfire
and energize them and give love and hope. Right, there
are two audiences that I know what could really be
touched by her and the book, as well as yourself.
So I just wanted to throw that out there because

(37:58):
sometimes people forget that libraries can attract some beautiful crowds
to their workshops.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Right, that's true.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
And so what are let me see what else I
have here? So you wrote that with your mom, We
know you have your November event coming. You got wandering
women travel coming up, So let's talk about your Drive
your Life. Let's circle it back to there. If there's
one message you would want women to know who might

(38:28):
be struggling with taking action, whether it's a dream or
trying something new like an art class, what would you
say to someone that is feeling stuck.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
Yeah, I think a few things I would say is
it's just taking the first step, the tiniest step, and
the first step should never take more than thirty minutes.
So when you decide you're going to do something, your
very first step should be very short.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
And then you check that off.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
Because success is a layering experience, so you know, then
you get that under your belt, and then something else
and something else. I also think what I said before,
I always say to people, get comfortable being uncomfortable, because
the alternative is you stay right where you are. So
it's not that it's not that I'm not uncomfortable, and
I don't get nervous, of course I do, but I

(39:18):
push myself because I say, what's the alternative?

Speaker 3 (39:22):
So, and I also think it's getting the support. You know.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
That's why I do the Drive your Life program. It's
why women like you are are serving people. You know,
find support from someone.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
Who could help you move forward, and be careful who
you talk to. Yes, we all have people in our lives.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
We know.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
I know exactly, you know who what people are going
to say when I call them and say I've got
this idea, here's what I'm doing. I know exactly who's
going to say, of course you can do it, you
can do anything. And who's going to say, really, you're kidding,
how are you going to do that? I don't know
how you're going to do that? That seems really hard. Oh,
I could never do that. You don't want to talk
to those people when you're in them middle of trying
to start something. You want to talk to the people

(40:03):
that are your positive people. You're supportive people. So even
with your kids, I'm sure people have children of their
own that they know. They're the ones that say, mom,
you can do it. Go and the other ones that say, oh, Mom,
I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
If you should do that. So I say, choose wisely
who you're going to speak to.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Oh, I believe that with my whole heart. You have
to have. I call them dream lifters instead of dream suckers, right,
And when they share from that place of sucking away
your dreams. It's because they are living in such fear
and are almost nodded up because they never had the

(40:46):
courage to follow their dreams. And so I don't I
look at them with no judgment, because we've all have
these people in our lives. I just go, you know what,
that's not going to be me. I'm not going to
get to the end of my life and say I
wish I had right And it's like you said at
the beginning of the hall, it's I want to surround

(41:07):
myself with dream lifters. And that's what it sounds like
you're doing. Between the better Together events, your drive, your life,
and your beautiful travel brand is showing a woman which possible.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
Right, And just to circle back for a second, their
dream doesn't have to be my dream, and they don't
have to go start a business. They can do, like
we said, talk to Mary and go to coffee.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
Whatever it is.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
That is what they're thinking about. But they're just not
doing try a new recipe. I mean, for some people
it's something small, right, So I think I think that's
part of it is you don't have to We live
in a very comparative society, right, now because of social media,
mainly we see what every other person on the planet
is and isn't doing, And I just think it. Your

(41:56):
thing doesn't have to be my thing. Your thing is
your thing. But try to realize that it doesn't take
much to make progress. It really doesn't. It's just a
matter of taking that first step.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Did you notice, too, Amy, I noticed, like Hindsight's twenty twenty,
of course, that every time I was really fearful, but
I took action anyway, the next step was always revealed,
like we don't have to know our exact plan A
TOZ mapped out. We just got to take that first
action step. And I noticed the next natural step has

(42:35):
always been revealed to me. And once I learned to
embrace that trust that I just got to take this step.
I don't have to worry about the next twenty five
steps to get to where I want to go. Have
you noticed that too?

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (42:49):
And I think I totally I totally agree with that.
And it takes it takes a little doing to not
be worried about the end result.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
It does.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
It doesn't mean it's okay because right, I mean, if
I I don't know, I can't think of it of
an easy example. But it almost doesn't matter what you
do as long as you start, because I really think
the things we regret in life mainly are the things
we don't do.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
So it gets started, it doesn't work out. So it
didn't work out. You know what's the worst case scenario? Right?

Speaker 4 (43:22):
I mean, isn't that typically a good way to just
push yourself forward? And it is taking the first baby
step and then saying to yourself, what if I don't
do it, I'll be right back where I am now.
And if you're so happy where you are now, then
you then stay where you are now. But if things

(43:44):
are in your mind, everybody has something that they keep
saying they're going to do that they don't do. Everybody,
so I'm saying, just start doing it. Don't like I
want to clean out.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
My closet, right, don't clean out your closet.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
I mean that that that might take you three days.
Just spend half an hour working on your shoes or whatever.
You know, there's always a way to trim it down
and make it a little more step by step.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
But don't shy away.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
From what you keep saying you're gonna do. Just do it,
or do part of it and if at the end
it's not really what you wanted, then don't finish it.
But I hate to see people just not even starting,
is what I would say.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Powerful message, my friend, We're going to take a final
break and we'll be back in a moment with Amy Goober.
Be sure to visit her website at Amygoober dot com
to learn about her book My Mother Always Says, as
well as the better Together events in her Wandering Woman Travel.
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Speaker 2 (46:59):
Welcome back, thanks for listening and joining us today. So Amy,
everything is just spoke about is about taking action. I
always use the phrase inspired action because to me, it's
like this inner pull towards my dream, even though I
don't oh, whatever that dream may be, it could be
just taken act class. Like I have never tried yoga. Okay,

(47:22):
I'm saying that on the radio. I have never tried it,
and I'll watch all the videos and go, I don't
think my body can do that. And I know that
this year I am going to conquer that story and
just lean in and take one of those yoga nidra ones,
the ones that you just lay down and just start.

(47:42):
Because I caught that I am not taking a yoga
class because of a false story, and that peeves me off.
So I'm like, no, I'm going to take action. So
my action steps. Speaking about action, Amy, I to look
up some within like a ten minute radius of my
home because I didn't want my schedule or time to
be an excuse. So I just took action Monday of

(48:07):
looking up those places. That's what you mean, right. I
didn't have to commit to it. I just had to
start nurturing that next step. And ladies, it's something that
maybe you're not doing or that you'll keep thinking of
and it keeps coming into your awareness, but you're not
moving forward. I invite you to take Amy's advice just

(48:29):
one small step, and I look what you said, Amy,
I think in the last segment the first step should
just be thirty minutes. Is there like a reason, because
then it's less overwhelming.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
Yeah, I mean I just believe that that's the way
to get started.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
And you tell yourself, Okay.

Speaker 4 (48:52):
I really don't want to clean out my closet or
my basement or whatever it is. I really don't want
to do that. I need to do it, but I
don't want to do it. So and then you never
do it because it seems too big of a task.
So then my philosophy is you say, Okay, I'll do
it for thirty minutes because you can do anything for
thirty minutes, write anything right, really can. So you do
it for thirty minutes, and when the timer goes.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
Off, you stop.

Speaker 4 (49:15):
You don't say, Wow, this wasn't so bad. I'll keep
going because you have to keep your promise to yourself.
So you do it for thirty minutes. And then the
next time that you just still don't feel like doing it,
you'll do it.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
For thirty minutes because you know it's only thirty minutes.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
So that's why it's so that you can make a
start and then you can sort of keep your promise
to yourself.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
I love this, and listen, ladies, you deserve this. You
deserve to create space in your life for yourself, for
the visions in your heart, for the for the ideas
that come to fruition. Because think of it, amy yourself,
myself and many of the women we know. When I
started Aspire, which I can't believe, we'll be twenty years

(49:58):
old next year. Right now, my event will turn twenty.
I didn't say I think I'll start a magazine that
will celebrate twenty years. I said, what's my first step? Oh,
I better learn how to print a magazine and I
just kept taking steps that aligned with what I desired

(50:19):
for my life. Never did I imagine that five other
media brands would come out of that, all because I
took action, even though I was afraid way back then.
Wasn't afraid, I'll be honest, I was petrified. I'm like,
who the hell am I to be doing this? But
my heart was leading the way, and I just trusted
and something else she said, It's okay if we fall down.

(50:42):
Some of my best wisdom in life lessons came because
of my failures in life, business relationships. I look back
now and I wouldn't change any of them. Have you
had that experience too?

Speaker 3 (50:53):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (50:54):
And I mean that's part of what we talk about
in the book is there are no bad experiences in life,
just the ones you don't learn from. So when things
go wrong and feel bad and don't go well and
you're unhappy and upset at that moment, you won't see it,
but further down the road, you will be able to
look back and say, yeah, that's when I picked myself
up and really used my resilience, or that's when I

(51:17):
was so frustrated with everything that I decided to do this.
You know, those experiences are not wasted, you know, if
you can look at it that way.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Well, at the time, I might not have looked at
it that way.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
But I guess at the time you want you can't correct.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Yeah, but now I look back and go, oh, I
see why that happened. And I don't have any regrets,
you know, even though some were painful as I was
going through it in life, business, relationship, all of it.
But now I go it got me to where I
am today. And I don't mean as a business I

(51:56):
want to just as a person who I couldn't be
who I am today if I didn't have all those experiences, good, bad, messy,
all of.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
Them right, right?

Speaker 2 (52:09):
And how will Is there a link on your site
for them to learn about your drive your life program
in the way? Is there a weight list or anything
that they.

Speaker 4 (52:16):
Can Yeah, I'm gonna actually that's a great question. It's
it's going to be this September, so there may not
be a list on there yet, although there may be,
so I yes, go to my website and that's where
you can do anything. You can get on our wait
list and do all of that, but I mean not
our wait list. You can get on our email list,

(52:37):
but there will be a wait list. And I offer
a noontime and an evening time, like a seven o'clock time,
and it's an eight week, one hour a week course
and by the end of it, you're already doing the
thing you've been saying you were going to do for.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
A long time. And it's always oh sorry, it's momentum. Yeah,
And it's it's.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
Not always something concrete like I was talking about clean
your closet. It very often can be in a personal relationship.
I mean, there's many other things. It's not always something concrete.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Yeah, And every single woman is going to come to
the table with her own vision to take action on right. Yes. Well,
I want to invite everyone to visit Amy at amygoober
dot com, stay connected with her, watch for her from
my Massachusetts Southern New England friends, watch for her better

(53:31):
together events and other offerings. And Amy is such a
bright light in the world. How you, Mamma said hello
and thank you. Thank you for joining me, my friend.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
Thank you for inviting me. It's been wonderful.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Until next time, my friends, choose low, choose joy, Choose happiness. Blessings.

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