Moving Forward and Having Fun at Any Age

Ali and Nancy talk about exploring options at any age including creating a talk show, starting stand-up comedy after 50 years of age, and always moving forward.About the Guest:Nancy Guitar is the Creator and Host of “Small Talk with Nancy Guitar” where she has interviewed artists and politicians and activists and people from all walks of life.Nancy is an open book and shares openly where she has come from creating a very safe space for her guests. Nancy was born in 1948 in Campbellton N.B., the 3 youngest of 12 children. She became the family loner, not by choice, but because she spent a lot of her youth quite ill. As a result of being ill, she didn’t start school until she was 7 years old.Her family moved to Montreal in 1956, the day after she was released from the hospital.They went from a house with no central heating and outdoor plumbing to living in an apartment.She felt that the move was good and bad both, while it opened up a wonderful new world, it was also when the worst of her sexual abuse began.She moved to New Market Ontario with her then-husband in 1975, where my son Andrew was born. They moved to Burlington Ontario In 1981 where her daughter Jamie was born.Her relationship lasted 25 years, Nancy shares that sadly it was a mentally abusive situation.In 1996 she moved to Chilliwack where her sister lived and that was when her life got so much better. She met and married Bill; they were together for 15 years until he passed in 2012.Nancy got into stand-up comedy at the age of 52, with her niece and they were the “Wise Ass Comedy Runtz.” She joined Toastmasters a couple of years later.After her husband passed, Nancy started to volunteer for the Shaw TV community access program with the intention of having a show where she interviewed people. The show was “Getting to know you”. That ended when the CRTC changed the rules and Show no longer had to have community access. She went on to work with ChillTV for a while, and that is when she changed the name of her show to“Small Talk with Nancy Guitar”. Nancy said, My show is now considered a podcast.When she was 62, Nancy was invited to join an improv team that was so much fun!You can find Nancy’s show ”Small Talk with Nancy Guitar” on YouTube, Linkedin (Under Nancy Guitar) as well as Twitter, Instagram and Tumbler, and Facebook. Small Talk with Nancy Guitar | FacebookNancy Guitar | FacebookNancy Guitar | LinkedInSmall Talk with NANCY GUITAR - YouTube  Thanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!Subscribe to the podcastIf you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.Leave us an Apple Podcasts reviewRatings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podc