Gone. — Sherry Hurst | The Loss, the Dream and the Road Still Being Driven. | YANIA50 | Ep 116

She lost her mum. Then her dog. Then the relationship. Most women would have stayed put and waited for things to settle — but Sherry hitched up an Airstream she had never towed before, drove out alone at 59 into a seventy-mile-per-hour wind with no experience, no plan and nobody in her corner. Fifteen months, eighteen states and one completely rebuilt life later,this is that story. 📋 Full Description:Some losses don't just take something from you. They clear everything away and leave you standing in front of a question you can no longer avoid.Sherry had just buried her mother, lost her dog and ended a relationship — all of it arriving at once, the way life sometimes does when it has decided you are ready whether you feel it or not.Two years earlier, she had sold her house on the back of a dream she had never fully let herself believe in: driving across America alone, full time, no fixed address and no plan. Most of the people who knew her didn't think she would actually do it. Some of them still don't call.In March 2025, she hitched up a trailer shehad never towed before in the night before she left, alone and in the dark. Nobody showed her how. Nobody came to see her off. She drove out the next morning into a seventy-mile-per-hour wind on a narrow island in North Carolina, hands shaking, tears running, and never looked back.Fifteen months. Eighteen states. Mountain passes she had no business driving and desert campsites with no signal. No neighbours and nothing around her but silence and whatever she had brought with her. A place where multiple businesses were born and a version of herself she says could never have been built any other way — only earned, mile by mile, on the road.This episode is the follow-up to a conversation recorded with Sherry nearly two years ago, when she was six months into grief, living in a beach bungalow fifty feet from the ocean, barely seeing another person. That version of Sherry was healing. This version is something else entirely.In this conversation, Sherry goes to places the first one never reached — what happens to a dream when it survives everything life throws at it, the specific kind of loneliness that only hits in a crowded room and never once in the desert, building multiple income streams in the front seat of a moving truck, the cost of choosing yourself after 50 and why she considers paying that price the best decision she ever made. There are some conversations that one has in life that will make you question every reason you have been giving yourself to wait. About how some losses clear the path. When some dreams refuse to die. Where there are some roads you choose and never look back on. This is that conversation, and you found it for a reason. Find Sherry:Instagram: www.instagram.com/the.silvermermaid YouTube: www.youtube.com/@silvermermaidadventures Silver Mermaid Rituals Ebook: https://silvermermaidadventures.kit.com/products/silver-mermaid-rituals-guide-ebo Facebook: www.facebook.com/SilverMermaidEssentials Amazon Shop: https://a.co/d/0cWobbkQ🔗 Stay Connected with You Are Not Invisible After 50⬢ Instagram:@youarenotinvisibleafter50 ⬡ Website:youarenotinvisibleafter50.com ◈ TikTok:@yania50official ▷ YouTube:@youarenotinvisibleafter50You Are Not Invisible After 50 is the podcast for every woman who knows there is more in her. More to build, more to say, more to do.New episodes every week. Subscribe wherever you listen or watch. I'm glad you found us. 💗 — Kiran,Founder & Host This is You Are Not Invisible After 50.