December 17, 2025 • 6 mins
We got a question in for our American Mamas...
Dear Mamas, what do you do if you’re in your late 50s, and you feel like you have something still to offer, but, you don’t have a passion?
If you'd like to ask our American Mamas a question, go to our website, AmericanGroundRadio.com/mamas and click on the Ask the Mamas button.
Dear Mamas, what do you do if you’re in your late 50s, and you feel like you have something still to offer, but, you don’t have a passion?
If you'd like to ask our American Mamas a question, go to our website, AmericanGroundRadio.com/mamas and click on the Ask the Mamas button.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We got a question from American mama's.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Dear mama's, what do you do if you're in your
late fifties and you feel like you have something to
offer but you don't have a passion.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Well, let's ask our American mama's mama, Mama.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
She said, and joining us now our American mama's Terry
Ediville and Kimberly Burlison.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay, so you got stuff to offer, you just don't
know what that is. What do you do?
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Yeah, it's very interesting thing to be at this age
because you realize always thought that being in your fifties
was old until I got here and I realized, oh
my gosh, I am still so young. But this question
came to me from a friend and her husband's a
colonel in the army. She was fgr family ready, you know,
(00:52):
she's the go between between command and families. Okay, if
something happens. This was during a hard time, you know,
this is when they were losing a lot of soldiers,
and she said that it became her passion to be
that person for families that were fort Hood. She became
that person.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Oh and fort Hood lost lot, lot, a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
And so she said that it became a passion for her.
She felt like it was a mission. And she said,
now that it's over and I'm at this age, I
don't know what to do. I feel like I have
so much in me, but I don't know what my
passion is. And so I started thinking and I said,
maybe passion just find you, or maybe you just enjoy
your every day and just she said, fa, my passion
(01:35):
now is my family. But I don't know what I
want to do in life. And I thought the only
time I ever had that full passion passion was with
our nonprofit with military families. I could walk into any door,
I would talk to anyone, I would ask for money,
I would talk to general. I did everything I could
to make that happen because I had so much passion
(01:56):
about it. And the only thing I feel passionate about
now is my children, my family. But I'm like her,
I don't have a passion for anything more. I love this.
I feel like this is a blessing. You know, this
is probably your passion.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah? This is one of them.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, quite clearly, this is you know. I wake up
every morning and my thought is, Okay, what are we
talking about today? And how do we get the message
out and yeah, but it's definitely a calling. But I'll
tell you what I did not want to do American
Ground Radio. When American Ground Radio started, I did not
want to do it. Lewis had been talking with radio stations.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
They'd asked us to do a.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Show, and I was like, I don't know if I
want to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
But we started doing it.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well was the reservation.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I had done a radio show before that went back,
and so I kind of felt like, you know, there's
worried about it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I don't want to be back in that spot.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Where I was, oh yeah, and we were on you know,
we were creating conservative ground, trying to teach about developing
leadership and inspiring voters, and that's where I thought we
were heading. And then you know, this opportunity comes along
and the door opens and you go, okay, I'll walk
through that door.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Terry, what do you think about this?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Where do you go? I? You know, I've had I
will say seasonal purposes. There's like a purpose will come
into my and to focus, you know, like the children's
hospital and like the baseball team or you know, whatever.
Something comes along and then I'm like, I'm all in
but throughout my life as a mom, my purpose in life,
(03:29):
and I always knew this would be. It was to
be a good mom and a good grandmother. So Kevin
and I I was, I remember this like a couple
of months ago. I was watering the flowers in the
backyard and I started crying and Kevin said, he walked,
goes what is wrong? And I said, I said, you
know the kids are all adulting. You know, two of
(03:52):
the three are married. I've got this grandson I absolutely adore,
and my son and daughter in law most likely will
be moving this twelve hours away. Probably yeah, well, resident
say he'll finish med school. And I said, all I've
ever really known is how to be a good mom
(04:13):
and now a good grandmother. And the little one that
makes me a grandmother is about to be gone. They're
about to take him away. And what am I going
to do? What am I going to do? And he said, Terry,
you always find something, something always comes along your path,
and you always jump in, just like you know you've done.
And he listed some things that I did that I'd
(04:33):
forgotten about, and he said, You're just one of those
like it'll strike you. You do your thing, you leave
your mark and then you go to the next thing.
And I thought that that brought me comfort.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
One thing it made me think of is what Dad
told us, you know, right before Dad died, when I said,
was it always your dream to play football Terry Bradshaw
to play in the NFL? And he said, no, that
was Terry's dream. Dreams are contagious, and you must follow
whatever you even as someone else dream. It's contagious. Follow it,
do it with them.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And that's where I think you'll end up finding your
passion again, is just go see where there's a need.
Go look and see where something.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That you could do. Is there a hole you can fill?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And you start doing that and maybe it's not your
passion today, but it can become your passion over time.
Your kids weren't always your passion because you didn't always.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Have them right. They couldn't have been your passion.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Because you didn't have them true, And now you know,
you've gone through this and they've grown up and they
have benefited from your passion. If you don't know what
your passion is, my encouragement go figure out where you
can serve. And as long as you find someplace you
can serve you will find your passion well.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
And I will say this and not to counter that,
but my personality is not that. My personality is not
to look in the community and who needs to grow
a garden? Who needs the help? It is something that
has to come and a God does this all the time.
For me, it has to be something that comes across
my face, my mind and my heart and I go, wait,
(06:06):
what was that? What are they doing? How does this
help them? Wait, let me know more about this. I'll dive,
you know, dive in there and look at it. So
that's my personality is that it'll strike me. And I
think that happens a lot with people. It just happens
to be their right place, right time.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But you're not stuck at home.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
No, you're out doing You're involved, yes, And that's I
think where you run across those opportunities for sure.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
If you like to ask for American Mama was a question,
go to our website America I Ready dot com.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Slash mom is a click on the ask of the
Mama's button turned out of a Kimberly Brothers and thank
you so much, thank you
We got a question from American mama's.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Dear mama's, what do you do if you're in your
late fifties and you feel like you have something to
offer but you don't have a passion.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Well, let's ask our American mama's mama, Mama.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
She said, and joining us now our American mama's Terry
Ediville and Kimberly Burlison.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay, so you got stuff to offer, you just don't
know what that is. What do you do?
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Yeah, it's very interesting thing to be at this age
because you realize always thought that being in your fifties
was old until I got here and I realized, oh
my gosh, I am still so young. But this question
came to me from a friend and her husband's a
colonel in the army. She was fgr family ready, you know,
(00:52):
she's the go between between command and families. Okay, if
something happens. This was during a hard time, you know,
this is when they were losing a lot of soldiers,
and she said that it became her passion to be
that person for families that were fort Hood. She became
that person.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Oh and fort Hood lost lot, lot, a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
And so she said that it became a passion for her.
She felt like it was a mission. And she said,
now that it's over and I'm at this age, I
don't know what to do. I feel like I have
so much in me, but I don't know what my
passion is. And so I started thinking and I said,
maybe passion just find you, or maybe you just enjoy
your every day and just she said, fa, my passion
(01:35):
now is my family. But I don't know what I
want to do in life. And I thought the only
time I ever had that full passion passion was with
our nonprofit with military families. I could walk into any door,
I would talk to anyone, I would ask for money,
I would talk to general. I did everything I could
to make that happen because I had so much passion
(01:56):
about it. And the only thing I feel passionate about
now is my children, my family. But I'm like her,
I don't have a passion for anything more. I love this.
I feel like this is a blessing. You know, this
is probably your passion.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah? This is one of them.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, quite clearly, this is you know. I wake up
every morning and my thought is, Okay, what are we
talking about today? And how do we get the message
out and yeah, but it's definitely a calling. But I'll
tell you what I did not want to do American
Ground Radio. When American Ground Radio started, I did not
want to do it. Lewis had been talking with radio stations.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
They'd asked us to do a.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Show, and I was like, I don't know if I
want to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
But we started doing it.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well was the reservation.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I had done a radio show before that went back,
and so I kind of felt like, you know, there's
worried about it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I don't want to be back in that spot.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Where I was, oh yeah, and we were on you know,
we were creating conservative ground, trying to teach about developing
leadership and inspiring voters, and that's where I thought we
were heading. And then you know, this opportunity comes along
and the door opens and you go, okay, I'll walk
through that door.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Terry, what do you think about this?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Where do you go? I? You know, I've had I
will say seasonal purposes. There's like a purpose will come
into my and to focus, you know, like the children's
hospital and like the baseball team or you know, whatever.
Something comes along and then I'm like, I'm all in
but throughout my life as a mom, my purpose in life,
(03:29):
and I always knew this would be. It was to
be a good mom and a good grandmother. So Kevin
and I I was, I remember this like a couple
of months ago. I was watering the flowers in the
backyard and I started crying and Kevin said, he walked,
goes what is wrong? And I said, I said, you
know the kids are all adulting. You know, two of
(03:52):
the three are married. I've got this grandson I absolutely adore,
and my son and daughter in law most likely will
be moving this twelve hours away. Probably yeah, well, resident
say he'll finish med school. And I said, all I've
ever really known is how to be a good mom
(04:13):
and now a good grandmother. And the little one that
makes me a grandmother is about to be gone. They're
about to take him away. And what am I going
to do? What am I going to do? And he said, Terry,
you always find something, something always comes along your path,
and you always jump in, just like you know you've done.
And he listed some things that I did that I'd
(04:33):
forgotten about, and he said, You're just one of those
like it'll strike you. You do your thing, you leave
your mark and then you go to the next thing.
And I thought that that brought me comfort.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
One thing it made me think of is what Dad
told us, you know, right before Dad died, when I said,
was it always your dream to play football Terry Bradshaw
to play in the NFL? And he said, no, that
was Terry's dream. Dreams are contagious, and you must follow
whatever you even as someone else dream. It's contagious. Follow it,
do it with them.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And that's where I think you'll end up finding your
passion again, is just go see where there's a need.
Go look and see where something.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That you could do. Is there a hole you can fill?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And you start doing that and maybe it's not your
passion today, but it can become your passion over time.
Your kids weren't always your passion because you didn't always.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Have them right. They couldn't have been your passion.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Because you didn't have them true, And now you know,
you've gone through this and they've grown up and they
have benefited from your passion. If you don't know what
your passion is, my encouragement go figure out where you
can serve. And as long as you find someplace you
can serve you will find your passion well.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
And I will say this and not to counter that,
but my personality is not that. My personality is not
to look in the community and who needs to grow
a garden? Who needs the help? It is something that
has to come and a God does this all the time.
For me, it has to be something that comes across
my face, my mind and my heart and I go, wait,
(06:06):
what was that? What are they doing? How does this
help them? Wait, let me know more about this. I'll dive,
you know, dive in there and look at it. So
that's my personality is that it'll strike me. And I
think that happens a lot with people. It just happens
to be their right place, right time.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But you're not stuck at home.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
No, you're out doing You're involved, yes, And that's I
think where you run across those opportunities for sure.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
If you like to ask for American Mama was a question,
go to our website America I Ready dot com.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Slash mom is a click on the ask of the
Mama's button turned out of a Kimberly Brothers and thank
you so much, thank you
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