Expressing Yourself in Midlife | Finding Happiness Through Poetry, Performance, & Telling the Truth

Jacqueline “Jack” Perez is happiest when she is fully expressed—on the stage, on the page, and in real life without a filter. From her early days as a theater kid and dreaming of Broadway to her current life as a poet, writer, and pro‑aging founder of Kuel Life, Jack shares how owning her love of attention and “commitment to the bit” has become a pathway to joy rather than something to hide at 60. For her, happiness is getting to be “Jacqueline at full strength,” choosing relationships that can hold her full expression and gracefully releasing those that cannot.​​In this episode of Women’s Health, Wealth, and Happiness | Interviews to Inspire, Jack opens up about the emotional aftershocks of her son leaving for college, her sister moving away, and losing long‑time friendships, and how an unexpected season of mild depression led her to write her first book, Metamorphosis in Stanzas, in just 30 days.​ She describes how poetry—recorded raw in her closet at 3 a.m.—gave structure, purpose, and a precise way to express big feelings in just a few lines, and she shares a powerful poem about facing life with “three crayons” instead of the perfect toolkit.​ Jack closes with an invitation to midlife women to audit their lives, Jane Fonda–style, and look back at when they felt most alive and authentic, trusting that their true form of expression (and happiness) is already there, waiting to be admitted and reclaimed.​#selfexpression #midlifehappiness #kuellife #womenover50 #healthwealthhappiness____________________ YouTube: @interviewstoinpirehttps://www.youtube.com/@interviewstoinspireSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4c7PZX19CDFAOkEhfGUoAAhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/interviewstoinspireApple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/womens-health-wealth-and-happiness-interviews-to-inspire/id1808177271Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/interviewstoinspire/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interviewstoinspireLinkedin: LET’S CONNECThttps://www.linkedin.com/in/christinavidovich/https://www.linkedin.com/company/interviewstoinspire____________________ #entrepreneurs #whwhi2i #healthwealthhappiness #interviewstoinspire #ChristinaVidovich#womenempoweringwomen #inspirationalwomen #trailblazingwomen #womenpodcast #womeninterviews #inspiring #women#inspirationalinterviews #visibility ____________________ Women's Health, Wealth, and Happiness | Interviews to Inspire ZIMAF entertainment international ©2025