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b"Todays guest, joining us on the Join Up Dots Free podcast interview, is Michelle DeSpain, a remarkable lady who over the last few years has been on quite a journey.\\xa0\\nAs she mentions a few times on her blog The LateBloomerRevolution it would make a pretty good rom- com chick flick.\\nShe was in a rut. Her life was not really going anywhere, and one day bled into another. And one month lead into a year.\\nIt was the kind of existence that so many of us allow to happen.\\nWe have dreams as kids. We have passions as young adults. But hit the real world as adults,\\xa0 when we should be able to grasp the fact that dreams are good and its up to us to take action and we lose all sense of it.\\nWe slip into a weird kind of daydreaming state.\\nHer biggest dreams \\u2013 becoming a critically-acclaimed actress and a best-selling author \\u2013 had been abandoned for more \\u201crealistic\\u201d endeavours.\\xa0\\nAnd Mr. Right was a no-show too.\\nThen the big 40 hit, and she assessed her life and realised that she had to start creating the perfect ending to her movie.\\nShe started doing things her way.\\nShe created the Diary of a Late Bloomer and stretched herself, to launch a 365 day project within the blog called \\u201cThe Year of Living Curiously\\u201d.\\xa0\\xa0\\nEach day for a year, she lived one curious and soul-scinitillating mini-adventure and blogged about it.\\nShe had started to direct the ending of the film the way that she wanted it to look, and she hasn't looked back since\\nSo what was it about hitting 40 that made such amazing difference to her outlook?\\nAnd would she now wish that she had got going and shifted into gear alot earlier?\\nWell let\\u2019s bring onto the show to start joining up dots, as we discuss the words of Steve Jobs in todays Free podcast, with the one and only Michelle DeSpain"