What happens when you stop apologizing for your age and start reclaiming the parts of yourself you were once afraid to express?
In this episode of FEAR UNZIPPED®, Sandi Serling sits down with bestselling author, intuitive, artist, educator, and musician Colette Baron-Reid to explore ageism, beauty, creativity, and the freedom that can come with getting older. Colette shares how being told she was “too old” by the music industry affected her relationship with her creativity and why, after 22 years, she finally returned to making original music.
Together, she and Sandi discuss the stories women internalize about age, appearance, success, and taking up space. They explore inherited fear, the pressure to seek approval, body image, competition between women, and what it means to reclaim the parts of yourself you once believed were unsafe to show. Ultimately, they challenge the idea that aging means becoming less and instead explore what becomes possible when you finally allow yourself to be fully who you are.
Our Guest
Colette Baron-Reid is a bestselling author, internationally acclaimed Oracle expert, spiritual intuitive, artist, educator, business strategist, and thought leader in personal transformation.
She is the founder of The Oracle School Experience®, OraclePalooza®, and the DreamQuest Platinum Mastermind. Creator of 19 bestselling Oracle card decks with more than two million copies sold worldwide, and author of numerous bestselling books, Colette has spent more than three decades helping people develop a direct and personal dialogue with the Universe so they can create lives of greater purpose, meaning, and possibility.
A former EMI recording artist, Colette has returned to her first language, her first love, and her first oracle: music. After a 22-year hiatus, she released her third album, My Dark Church, a collection of original songs co-written and co-produced with the Brothers Koren that explores transformation, belonging, grace, and the sacred journey home to oneself.
Clean and sober since 1986, Colette blends practical spirituality, intuition, creativity, and a healthy fascination with quantum physics, consciousness, and the mysteries of the human experience. Her friends call her a "nerdy mystical pirate," and she's never heard a better description.
Whether teaching, writing, painting, mentoring entrepreneurs, or making music, Colette is devoted to helping people move beyond perceived limitations and into a dynamic, creative relationship with the conscious Universe.
Her motto: Everything is possible when you open your connection to the Universe.
In this episode, you’ll learn
- How ageism shaped Colette’s experience in the music industry and her relationship with creativity
- How inherited beliefs about safety can cause us to hide essential parts of ourselves
- Why seeking approval can keep us attached to old stories about worth, beauty, and success
- How aging can bring greater freedom, self-trust, and willingness to take up space
- Why reclaiming creativity and authenticity requires facing the fears we have carried for years
Resources from this Episode
Colette Baron-Reid
Sandi Serling
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Timestamps
- 01:33 Sandi and Colette open up about age and ageism
- 02:44 Colette's experience entering the music industry at 40
- 07:28 How fear and ideas about safety can be passed between generations
- 09:42 Rewriting the stories fear has taught us
- 15:00 Internalized expectations, competition, and women supporting women
- 18:22 Why real transformation requires doing the inner work
- 29:43 Returning to music and finding a language for what words cannot express
- 35:09 Reclaiming the parts of yourself you've rejected
- 38:32 Wrinkles, beauty standards, and the anti-aging conversation
- 48:08 Owning your age with pride
- 49:47 Hearing “you're not too old” decades after being told the opposite
- 54:11 Living free from old stories
- 55:15 Why gray hair and wrinkles can represent the privilege of getting to live
