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Aug 20, 2026 59 min

Dede Lyons | Rebootment, Not Retirement

from The Cynthia Manion Show Hosted by Cynthia Manion

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, or watch on YouTube, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. Connect with Dede: Website: https://feelgoodexpress.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dedefeelsgood Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/feelgoodexpressdede LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dede-lyons-a4142722/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DedeLyons Feel Good Journal: Connecting With Your Inner Child (Amazon): https://a.co/d/0hCO4uAW A Dose of Dede (weekly mini-podcast): https://feelgoodexpress.com Dede Lyons spent 32 years in broadcast sales in New York, rising to Vice President of Group Sales. In 1997, mid-career and watching her team get collapsed in a downsizing, she looked up in a subway station and saw a Time magazine cover asking "Do you believe in angels?" That moment became Feel Good Express. At 62 she left the career and called it her rebootment. Today she teaches people to connect with their guardian angels and fall in love with themselves. She and Cynthia talk about the therapy question that changed her life at 30, the husband she met four years later, the Monday to-do list she writes for her angels, and why feeling good is an inside job. Chapters: 00:00 From waitressing at Brew's to television sales 01:32 The middle woman with tons of bosses 03:52 Running out of steam at 40 04:34 A Time magazine cover in the subway 07:55 Grace's question: trust 10:01 Pocket angels and the hovering guardian angel 11:13 Pearls: journaling and Ask and It Is Given 12:45 Mirror work and Ayla, her inner child 15:06 Keep your baby picture out 16:08 Whispers on sales calls 19:18 For the skeptics 20:45 Two columns: your list and your angel's list 22:30 The layer cake: self-love first 23:46 Therapy at 30: can I learn to love myself? 25:29 Four years later, Joe 26:57 Joy blockers, boundaries, and White Angelica 28:41 Rebootment: turning in the BlackBerry 31:46 Dede's Daily Do's: the worry-and-doubt list 32:46 Shred it, then gratitude in the mirror 37:34 A Dose of Dede 41:09 The Feel Good Express toolkit and the power of intention 43:36 Rapid fire: it's an inside job 47:03 New York pace, West Palm Beach pace 48:09 Worry angels 50:44 The Joy of Tweeting 51:39 Signs: cardinals, feathers, and license plates 54:34 Believe it before you see it 55:13 Where to find Dede and the photo tour 57:14 The Stonehenge story 58:21 Closing: you are amazing

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