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Welcome to Late Boomers, the podcast that is your guide to creating a third act with style, power and impact! Join your hosts, Cathy Worthington and Merry Elkins, as they bring you conversations with successful artists, entrepreneurs and entertainers who have set themselves up for an amazing third act. Everyone has a story, and Cathy and Merry take you along for the ride on each interview, recounting the journey each guest has taken to get where they are, and inspiring you to create a path to success as you look toward your own third act!
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Cathy Worthington:Welcome to late boomers, our podcast guide to creating your third act with style, power, and impact. Hi. I'm Kathy Worthington.
Merry Elkins:And I'm Merry Elkins. Join us as we bring you conversations with successful entrepreneurs, entertainers, and people with vision who are making a difference in the world.
Cathy Worthington:Everyone has a story, and we'll take you along for the ride on each interview, recounting the journey our guests have taken to get where they are, inspiring you to create your own path to success. Let's get started. Hi. Welcome back to late boomers. I'm Kathy Worthington.
Merry Elkins:And I'm Mary Elkins. Thanks for joining us today. We've got a really important conversation lined up for you, and it's one that touches on resilience and healing and the lasting effect of childhood experiences.
Cathy Worthington:Yes. Our guest today is Wendy Correa, author of My Pretty Baby. Her story dives into something called ACE, adverse childhood experiences, and how those experiences could shape the rest of our lives, both the struggles and the triumphs.
Merry Elkins:Yeah. That's really true. And ACE, a c e, is a term that comes out of decades of research showing that early trauma, things like neglect or abuse, or household dysfunction, which I think a lot of people experience, can ripple through a person's health and relationships later in life. But, you know, what's so inspiring about Wendy and her her experiences is not just that she faced all these challenges, but that she found ways to rise above them and to heal and share her journeys with others.
Cathy Worthington:And Wendy doesn't shy away from telling her truth. In her book, she takes us through some very personal chapters, and she pairs them with hope. It's about honesty, but also about transformation.
Merry Elkins:Yes. And we can all benefit from that. And we'll be talking with her about what it was like to walk through those darker times. And also, there's a copy of her book for those of you on YouTube. And it's Mhmm.
Merry Elkins:That's a picture of you, Wendy. Right? It is. And so we also wanna talk about how you discovered sobriety, and what helped you make that turning point, and how celebrity encounters along the way shaped your perspective on life.
Cathy Worthington:I think listeners will connect not just with the story of surviving adversity, but also with the idea that reinvention is possible at any stage.
Merry Elkins:Absolutely. And it's it's almost always called for anyway. So whether you faced your own ACEs, or you're just curious about how people overcome tough beginnings, this conversation will resonate.
Cathy Worthington:So let's bring her on, settle in with a coffee or a wine, and we're so pleased to welcome Wendy Correa to late boomers.
Merry Elkins:Absolutely. Wendy Thank you.
Wendy B. Correa:Thank you so much. It's wonderful to be here with both of you.
Merry Elkins:And it's great to have you.
Cathy Worthington:Yeah. Where are you coming in from today? Where do you
Wendy B. Correa:live? Denver, Colorado.
Merry Elkins:Oh, wonderful. One of my favorite states. I love Colorado.
Cathy Worthington:And, Wendy, for our listeners who may not be familiar with the term ACE, can you explain? Do you call it ACE or do you call it ACE? ACE. ACE. ACE.
Cathy Worthington:So can you explain what it means more in detail and why it's such a powerful framework for understanding childhood trauma?
Wendy B. Correa:Yes. And let me just begin by telling you and the listeners what my pretty baby is about. I always like to say that my pretty baby is an autopsy of my family. Oh. I peeled apart the layers of intergenerational and childhood trauma, family dysfunction, family secrets and addiction, and I eventually found healing through Buddhism, meditation, yoga, sobriety, music, psychotherapy, and Native American spirituality.
Wendy B. Correa:Along the way, I had incredible account encounters with icons like Joni Mitchell and Ringo Starr and Hunter s Thompson. And my pretty baby is about resilience, recovery, and creating your own chosen family when the one you had is broken. So we can jump right into what the ACE study and why it is important. The adverse childhood experiences study found that two thirds of adults had at least one out of ten ACEs on a quiz that you can take online. It's just a one to 10 quiz that you can easily find online.
Wendy B. Correa:And so two thirds of adults have at least one, and one in six adults has four or more. And so the trauma that you carry from childhood and adolescence can increase your risk for addiction and mental illness and many physiological illnesses such as heart disease and irritable bowel. The reason that I wanted to write this book is because this is my call to action, that we need to have these conversations that you are giving me the opportunity right here and now to talk about because trauma is a public health issue.
Merry Elkins:You know, it really really is. And talk a little bit more about the actual process you went through with all of the healing that you did do.
Wendy B. Correa:Absolutely. And I just so I just wanna touch back that in one of the books that I've read because while I was writing my book, I read numerous books by Gabor Mate and Bessel van der Kolk and Peter Levine and Nadine Burke. And in Nadine Burke's book, The Deepest Well, she found that if a child had a score of six or more ACEs, their life expectancy can decrease by twenty years. And I have an ACE score of seven out of 10. But the good news is that research is proving that the damage can be reversed with the exact modalities that I intuitively have practiced for the last forty five years.
Wendy B. Correa:So when I left home at 17 and left Illinois for California, there was an intuition that guided me. I was immediately drawn to Buddhism and meditation and nature, hiking, and eventually I found my way in Los Angeles. I worked in the music industry, and music was one of my biggest outlets as a kid growing up because it was free. It was on the radio. I listened to WLS in Chicago.
Wendy B. Correa:Yeah. And music was my respite. Music really saved me. So eventually, I found my way into the music industry because I thought music was one of the highest forms of human expression, and I wanted to be a part of that because I knew it was so powerful. And at the same time in Los Angeles, I also was involved with a community that practiced Native American spirituality.
Wendy B. Correa:And for many years, I practiced that spirituality. And I also got sober and started attending AA meetings in Los Angeles that were mostly for people in the music industry and and musicians. I also was getting my master's degree in clinical psychology at Antioch University. And as a student of Antioch, you needed to also go through psychotherapy yourself, which was, hello, very important for me. And that opened a lot of windows for me of reclaiming myself and reclaiming my story and understanding how trauma worked.
Wendy B. Correa:And then I also in writing, there's a lot of research to show. Pennebaker James Pennebaker is one of the leading researchers of using writing as catharsis, using writing for healing. So I did a lot of journaling and writing. And that was also at one point when I was studying acting, I started practicing yoga. And then I started to learn how the somatic practices were also very important to go along with the psychotherapy.
Wendy B. Correa:So doing yoga, dance, movement, walking, hiking, singing, and meditating are all somatic practices or Oh, good to know. Yeah. Grounded Yeah. I haven't heard that term so much. Yes.
Cathy Worthington:Yeah. That's great. You've had some fascinating encounters with celebrities along the way. We know. But how did these experiences impact you, and did they shape the way you saw yourself during difficult times?
Wendy B. Correa:Yes. And the reason that I wrote about them is because these celebrities and were so kind to me, and they reflected back to me my own self worth. Can you
Cathy Worthington:tell us a little bit about one of the encounters or two of the encounters?
Wendy B. Correa:Absolutely. So the first was I was I was living and working in Los Angeles, and I had a friend, Boyd Elder, who has now passed. He's an artist, and he he designs many album covers. And one day, he came to a restaurant where I was working, and he he'd taken me to a lot of his friends' homes. So I knew he knew a lot of people, and I always enjoyed going with him to meet famous people.
Wendy B. Correa:But one day, he came to pick me up, and he said, I I wanna introduce you to a friend of mine. Well, mind you, I was working at a restaurant in Malibu called the Jetty where we served barbecue, and there was, you know, sawdust on the floor. And I wore a white bowling shirt and jeans and high tops. And, you know, my shirt is my white shirt is covered in barbecue sauce. And, you know, I'm like, okay, Boyd.
Wendy B. Correa:You know, whatever. So we started driving up Pacific Coast Highway. But when we pulled into the Malibu colony, then I was like, wait a minute, Boyd. Where are we going? Who am I meeting?
Wendy B. Correa:And, oh my gosh, do I have any makeup on? I mean, I've been sweating and working all day, and I have barbecue sauce on me. And he as we're walking to the door, he says, she doesn't care what you look like. And I'm like, Boyd, who is she? Who is she?
Wendy B. Correa:And he rings the bell, and here, Joni Mitchell opens the door.
Merry Elkins:Wow. An experience.
Wendy B. Correa:And I I was fortunate enough to have many times that I spent with Jodi Mitchell. And she always treated me like a sister. She we talked about, you know, silly things about hairstyles and, you know, if we were ever gonna be able to quit smoking. And on all of those occasions, she was just so kind and thoughtful and generous towards me. And I sat there thinking, why is Joni Mitchell being so kind and and loving towards me?
Wendy B. Correa:I'm no one. I'm no I'm not famous. I you know, I'm I'm nobody.
Cathy Worthington:So did you have a little bit impostor syndrome where you Oh, absolute. Of course. Unworthy of
Wendy B. Correa:Well, I always felt because of my family situation, I felt unlovable was what the the issue was for me. And so Joni was one of the people like, well, wait a minute. If Joni Mitchell is kind and loving to me, why isn't my own family? And, you know, f bomb them. Because if Dodie Mitchell likes me, who cares?
Wendy B. Correa:You know? She Right. She really reflected back to me some self worth. And so that experience and, you know, all of the other times that I spent with her, I it fed me. It fed me my my self worth and my self esteem that maybe I actually was lovable.
Cathy Worthington:And what about Ringo? I met him a couple
Merry Elkins:times. About to ask that.
Cathy Worthington:I've met him a couple of times. He's delightful. I just wonder what that
Merry Elkins:named her her her dog Ringo.
Cathy Worthington:Oh, yeah. Because and I gave him it was a rescue dog, so I gave him Ringo Starr's birthday too.
Wendy B. Correa:Oh, that's adorable.
Cathy Worthington:That's amazing. He's a he's a wonderful guy.
Wendy B. Correa:He is a wonderful guy, and I wish I had been able to spend as much time with Ringo too as I I spent with Joni. But Ringo, I met because we're sort of jumping ahead, but that's fine too. I got I got arrested for a DUI. I was in the music industry, and I was given court ordered AA meetings. And so the very first meeting that I walked into in West LA, I was shaking in my boots.
Wendy B. Correa:I had no idea what to expect. And here walks up to me, this gentleman who I know very well who he is, but he reaches out to shake my hand and greet me. And he said, hello. My name is Richard. And, of course, I was like, well, your name might be Richard, but it's
Cathy Worthington:also It is.
Wendy B. Correa:His lovely wife, Barbara Bach, was behind him,
Cathy Worthington:and she
Wendy B. Correa:also shook my hand. And I sat there in my first AA meeting thinking, oh my god. If Ringo Starr can get sober with everything that surrounds him, then I can too. And if he's this dedicate dedicated and committed to show up to AA meetings to to greet newbies, then I can do that too. Oh.
Wendy B. Correa:So, you know, that was Yeah.
Cathy Worthington:He wrote a song about it.
Wendy B. Correa:That was my first AA meeting. And, of course, I'm not outing anyone sobriety because it's very well known that that Ringo and Barbara are, you know, decades long Very long. Sober. But the point of telling that story to my readers is that you never know what the kindness of one person, how it might affect you. Not everybody that you meet is gonna be, you know, the the celebrity.
Wendy B. Correa:And I'm not you know, I happen to live in Los Angeles, and I worked in the music industry. And so I I really only went at the time. I'm thirty eight years sober, so this is a long time ago.
Cathy Worthington:Wow.
Wendy B. Correa:But I I went only to AA meetings that were specifically for people in the music industry. So it was, you know.
Cathy Worthington:Yeah. It's good to network
Wendy B. Correa:that way. Right. And so, you know, not everyone I want everybody to go to AA meetings that, you know, that if they need to, but don't assume that a celebrity is gonna come up and greet
Merry Elkins:you. Right. Well, what about Hunter Thompson? Because he's a wild guy or was.
Wendy B. Correa:Yes. So I was sober, and I left Los Angeles for Aspen, Colorado to be a DJ on KSPN FM. And my program manager told me he's like, do you know who Hunter S. Thompson is? And I was like, I think he's you know, I've read some of his articles in Rolling Stone magazine, and isn't he in the Dunesbury cartoons?
Wendy B. Correa:And he's like, yeah. But okay. Well, you're probably gonna get calls from him in the middle of the night because as the newbie DJ, my shift was 2AM to 6AM. So sure enough Oh, yeah. Four in the morning, I get a call, and, you know, the phone rings, and I'm like, it's Wendy Moore rocking you on KSPN FM.
Wendy B. Correa:Good morning. And he and Hunter says, oh, yeah. Good morning. Can you play me some Warren Zevon? Lawyers, guns, and money.
Wendy B. Correa:And I obviously knew who it was. So I said, hey. Good morning, Hunter. Sure. I can play you Warren Zivon.
Wendy B. Correa:So I don't know how much time passed, but, you know, pretty much every night he would call me and ask me to play Warren Sivan or some other song. And, you know, living in Aspen at the time, I had to work, like, 10 jobs. So I was also waitressing again. And here comes Hunter and sits in in at my table and in my station. And so I went up to, of course, get his order from lunch, but then I introduced myself to say, hey, Hunter.
Wendy B. Correa:Not only am I your waitress today, but I'm also your DJ. And he's like, oh, yeah. I really like you. And by the end of his lunch, he said, you know, I need a I need a an assistant. You you want the job?
Wendy B. Correa:And I was like, yeah. I want the job. Of course, I want the job. As a fledgling writer at the time, I was like, I wanna be, you know, around Hunter s Thompson. And so I worked for Hunter for a while and have some wild stories about Hunter, but it was mostly what was so again, the reason that I tell the story, I was completely sober.
Wendy B. Correa:I didn't smoke. I didn't drink. I didn't like guns. I didn't know anything about politics or sports, and those were all things that Hunter did. So I was, you know, working with him, you know, filing papers and whatever, answering the phone, and sifting through boxes in his basement.
Wendy B. Correa:But he he knew that I didn't drink. He knew I didn't smoke while he was sitting there doing everything, you know, in in front of me. And the only thing he ever offered me was, hey, you wanna go out and blow something up? Because he's notorious for blowing things up and and Oh. I guess have you you guys know who Hunter S.
Wendy B. Correa:Thompson is? Yeah. Yeah.
Cathy Worthington:I didn't. I didn't, but I know Doonesbury, not George Gary Trudeau.
Wendy B. Correa:Well, so you do know fear and loathing in Las Vegas. Right. Right.
Merry Elkins:Yeah. Ish. Okay.
Wendy B. Correa:So you you could Ish. You could watch the documentary about Hunter. He Okay. Was a bigger than life character. And even with all of that, with the guns and the drugs, again, the reason that I wrote about Hunter is because he was so kind and generous with me.
Wendy B. Correa:And he reflected back to me my self worth. He made me feel like a whole person. And I loved him for that. And when I left to move to Chicago because on the radio, I also met my future husband. He and Oh, I good.
Wendy B. Correa:Left Aspen, and we moved to Chicago. But when I left, I always was like, I'll see you again, Hunter. And I'm very sad that I'll never see Hunter again because, as you know, he he committed suicide.
Merry Elkins:Yeah. So okay. Changing this that subject to what was the turning point for you for that led you to your sobriety? Was there a single moment or a series of realizations?
Wendy B. Correa:Well, when I left home at 17 and moved to California and put myself through college and then transferred to Humboldt State, I was searching. I was searching for healing. I was searching for wholesomeness. I was searching for my tribe. I was searching for where I belonged.
Wendy B. Correa:I was searching for spirituality and to find meaning in life, and that's when I found the Buddhism and hiking. And I started to heal myself, but then, like I said, I moved to Los Angeles and worked in the music industry. And what, you know, I would feel good about myself, and then I would, you know, be using alcohol and cocaine and drugs and to numb the pain. And it was getting arrested. I was partying on Sunset Strip at Sushi on Sunset with a band and, you know, drove home towards Venice Beach where I lived, and I got pulled over.
Wendy B. Correa:And I just hoped that the police thought with my fishnet black stockings and my short litter little, you know, leather miniskirt and my rabbit fur jacket that the police thought I looked, you know, like like Tina Turner cool rock and roll and not as a hooker. So but I was thrown in jail. And like I said, I had I couldn't drive except to work, to the grocery store, and to AA meetings for a year. And I had court ordered AA meetings. And so the huge turning point was was that.
Wendy B. Correa:The arrest. The arrest and then walking into an AA meeting and seeing the likes of Ringo Starr that I'm not alone. And there were many celebrities in the AA meetings that I sat in. Yeah. That time a lot of people were needing to get sober, and so I I was not alone.
Wendy B. Correa:And so that was was great. A huge turning point for me. And then I was sober for five years when I decided I really needed to let go of the nicotine as well. And so finally, five years later, I was able to get clean from nicotine.
Cathy Worthington:That's great. And writing a book like this takes a lot of courage. So how did the act of writing help you heal?
Wendy B. Correa:Well, what's interesting at when I first went to Los Angeles, I was studying acting. And in my acting class, it was the Stanislavski method of acting. And we did an exercise called sense memory. Yes. Where we sit in a chair, and this is back in the day of primal screaming.
Wendy B. Correa:So to warm up, there was a mattress on the floor, and we would flail and do these like very guttural vocalizations and then sit in front of the the class. And I was to relay a childhood memory in front of my class and using all of the senses. So you're using sight, sound, touch, hearing. And I started describing my father died when I was seven, and I was describing a scene when I was about four with my father. And I was following him around the backyard, and he was tending to his strawberry patch.
Wendy B. Correa:And he chose the biggest, juiciest strawberry out of the patch and wiped off the dirt and popped it into my mouth. And so I was describing the succulent, you know, juices and the taste of the strawberry, and then there was this beautiful lattice braided archway that was just heavy with honeysuckle. And so I'm describing the sense of smell, which it turns out the sense of smell is the strongest sense that we have and is directly connected to a lot of childhood memories because that is when we're first really growing and developing these senses. And I thought this was a beautiful happy memory, and that's why I chose it. I'm gonna choose this happy memory of my dad.
Wendy B. Correa:But as I'm going through this exercise, my teacher who was a famous acting teacher in LA, I used to love just to say his name, Pierino Mascarino. He would say to me, Wendy, speak to him. Speak to your father. And I couldn't. There were these emotions just roiling in my body that didn't that were not familiar to me, that were not connected to this happy little memory that I was trying to come up with.
Wendy B. Correa:And, eventually, I sputtered out, I'm mad at you. And I was shocked because I had no idea that I was mad at my father who died when I was seven. And I learned this how powerful using the senses are in evoking memories. And so for an actor, that those using sense memory helps you to develop a more authentic and three-dimensional character. But when I started writing my pretty baby in 2015 and I started taking a lot of writing classes, and I created what I call my own MFA program because I took lots of classes and I read dozens and dozens of memoir and craft books, and I drew upon that sense memory exercise from decades ago to recreate the scenes that I wanted to write.
Wendy B. Correa:And I of course I I put around me my photos and journals and letters and emails, but also Internet research. And I used my senses to recreate what I wanted to write about. So in the opening scene, it's 1964, and I'm in a voting booth. I'm four years old. I'm in a voting booth with my mother.
Wendy B. Correa:She's voting for JFK, and I can smell her Estee Lauder Youth Du Perfume.
Merry Elkins:Oh, wow.
Wendy B. Correa:And that evokes those memories so vividly. And so to really get to the point of your question, Kathy, I because though since memory is so powerful, there were certainly times in writing my book that resulted in heaving sobs of, you know, sadness and grief and sort of reliving it in real time.
Cathy Worthington:Yeah. Then it actually gets it all out of your body. Right?
Wendy B. Correa:But also I was in therapy. And so with the therapist's help, I had numerous practices for not just getting it out, but really processing it. So one of the techniques that is considered one of the best for trauma for PTSD or complex PTSD, which is what I have, is called EMDR.
Merry Elkins:Oh, with the eyes.
Wendy B. Correa:Eye movement desensitization. Yeah.
Merry Elkins:It's tough tough. So that actually, you're answering the question I've had on my mind as to the tools and practices that you've learned to keep moving forward, and it sounds like you're still using sense memory. Tell us a little more about the EMD when old wounds resurface.
Wendy B. Correa:Yes. So as I was writing my book, I was working with this therapist and using EMDR to relay to her these memories. So EMDR helps you to basically process it's called bilateral stimulation of the brain. It just helps to take the zing and the retraumatization out of remembering those events. So, of course, you still remember the events, but it takes that emotional zing out of it, and it helps the brain to process to process those memories.
Wendy B. Correa:And the other tool that she used was something called IMTT, image transformation therapy, which is using breath work and visualization also to gently release those memories. So luckily for me, while I was writing the book, I was also you know, I have been I have been in therapy for on and off for many years. But during the process of writing my book, it was really important to have that support and to be able to go through the process as I was writing and to process it really fully. I've also done inner child work. I've done a lot of work to heal myself and to process the trauma.
Wendy B. Correa:Mhmm. Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah.
Merry Elkins:Well, you've shown such strength in turning pain into something that can inspire others. What do you hope readers take away from My Pretty Baby? And I'm I'm I know they'll take a lot away a lot away from this podcast.
Wendy B. Correa:I hope that my readers will take away that although trauma is universal, so is healing. And telling the truth about what happened isn't about blame or retribution. It's about breaking cycles and healing. And especially if you have children, I feel like one of the greatest gifts that you can give your children is to be a cycle breaker yourself and to know that healing is not only possible, but it's contagious in the best sense of the word. Because when you are healed, then you can bring others up, and you can be a beacon of light to other people.
Wendy B. Correa:So I really hope that my pretty baby is that beacon of light maybe for someone else who's struggling about,
Merry Elkins:you
Wendy B. Correa:know, wondering how to begin, where to begin their own healing process.
Cathy Worthington:Well, there's certainly a lot of suggestions in your story by itself. You've tried every modality and people can look to that and follow your Right. Your plan. That's pretty good start. And, Wendy, looking ahead, what's next for you?
Cathy Worthington:More writing or speaking or some new projects?
Wendy B. Correa:Well, right now, I am just so excited. My pretty baby actually launches, you know, a month from now, and my book launch will be in Denver at my my beloved bookstore Tattered Cover. And then the next day, I fly to Los Angeles, and I'll be at Diesel a bookstore.
Cathy Worthington:Oh, we live in Los Angeles.
Merry Elkins:No. Yes. We'll come. We'll come. Well, there it is.
Merry Elkins:Let us know.
Cathy Worthington:But we gotta know that I'm
Wendy B. Correa:gonna let you know right now. It's November 9. It's a Sunday at 3PM, and it's going to be moderated by the remarkable Renee Montaigne from NPR. Oh. Mhmm.
Wendy B. Correa:Yes. And I will
Cathy Worthington:At be Diesel. That's in Santa Monica. Right?
Wendy B. Correa:Yes. Santa Monica. At the Brentwood Country Mart. Right.
Cathy Worthington:Yeah.
Wendy B. Correa:That is November 9 at 3PM. And Renee Montane and then my one of my SheWritesPress is my publisher. One of my SheWritesPress sisters, Jacqueline Jackson, is also going to be there with me with her book. And then I will also be in the San Francisco Bay Area in Corte Madera at Book of Passage on December 6. And that will be a panel with my publisher Brooke Warner moderating.
Wendy B. Correa:And then I'll be in Aspen, Colorado at Explore Books. And I'll be at the Barnes and Noble in Colorado Boulevard in Denver on December 15.
Cathy Worthington:You've got quite a
Wendy B. Correa:tour.
Merry Elkins:You really do. And and the best time of year to be in Aspen, will say.
Wendy B. Correa:Oh, yes. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Cathy Worthington:It's gonna be amazing. Yeah. And I'm just gonna go out on a limb here, Mary, and suggest that if anyone comes up to us at the Diesel books, they could see us on YouTube right now. If you're listening on audio, check us out. Right.
Cathy Worthington:You can recognize us. Anybody comes up and says they heard this podcast, they're gonna get a prize.
Wendy B. Correa:Oh, wow.
Merry Elkins:But once you idea.
Wendy B. Correa:Once you send me the links, once you send me the clips, we're gonna put my publicist will be putting this out there, and I'll be putting it out there. And we're I would just like to know that someone heard it, showed up at a book signing. That's an amazing thing in itself.
Merry Elkins:Absolutely. And we better find out what kind of pies to get.
Cathy Worthington:Oh, no. Prize.
Merry Elkins:Oh, well, prize. Why not a pie?
Cathy Worthington:A prize. Not pies. I thought she she thought you were We're not giving away pies except maybe in the face.
Merry Elkins:I when when I thought she said pie, I thought, oh, what kind of prize?
Cathy Worthington:So cute. They're gonna get a prize. We will discuss that and figure it out, Mary.
Merry Elkins:We'll figure it out.
Cathy Worthington:We don't know what the prize is yet.
Merry Elkins:Might be a cookie. Well, by all
Cathy Worthington:means a good prize.
Wendy B. Correa:Bring some swag. Bring some swag.
Cathy Worthington:Yeah.
Wendy B. Correa:Can bring some swag. And you'll you'll find other people there that you would like to have on your show. So by all means, come and bring the swag.
Cathy Worthington:Okay.
Merry Elkins:That is great. Cool. Well, thank you, Wendy. You've been amazing for us and for everybody listening. I hope they'll buy your book, and I know they will.
Merry Elkins:I certainly will.
Wendy B. Correa:It is available for preorder, My Pretty Baby, and you can buy it wherever you buy your books. It's available now for preorder. So Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Simon and Schuster, it's all there. And then you'll get it on actually November 4 when the book comes out. But I also want you to know that I recorded my own audiobook.
Wendy B. Correa:Oh, So that good. Will That'll be also be available on November 4 along with the book, the ebook, the print book.
Cathy Worthington:That'll be beautiful because you have a beautiful speaking voice.
Merry Elkins:You really do.
Cathy Worthington:So that'll be lovely to listen to. Yeah.
Wendy B. Correa:Yeah. Thank you so much. Well, pretty baby.
Merry Elkins:Thank you. Well,
Wendy B. Correa:thank you for this opportunity. It was lovely to be with you, Mary and Kathy.
Cathy Worthington:And for also for our listeners, you can learn more about Wendy at our website, wendybcorrea.com. That's wendybc0rrea.com. And of course, pick up a copy of her book, My Pretty Baby.
Merry Elkins:And we encourage all of our listeners to reach out to Wendy, read her book, and continue the conversation about healing from ACEs and finding the resilience and courage that she has so deftly found in her life.
Cathy Worthington:And as always, thank you for listening to late boomers. Please don't forget to subscribe to our podcast. And if you're on YouTube, hit that subscribe button for sure so you never miss an episode.
Wendy B. Correa:And they can also reach me in on Instagram at Wendy b Correa and on Facebook as as just Wendy Correa.
Merry Elkins:Okay.
Wendy B. Correa:Perfect.
Merry Elkins:Thank you so much.
Wendy B. Correa:Thank you.
Cathy Worthington:Thank you for joining us on late boomers, the podcast that is your guide to creating a third act with style, power, and impact. Please visit our website and get in touch with us at lateboomers.us. If you would like to listen to or download other episodes of late boomers, go to ewnpodcastnetwork.com.
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