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Podcast: Joy Found Here
Episode: "Too Old for Desire?" How Lexy Shaw Delorme Built a 9-Book Empire Out of Rejection
Description: What happens when a former lawyer and pop musician gets told she's "too old" to write about desire—and builds a literary empire instead? In episode 249 of Joy Found Here, author Lexy Shaw Delorme shares how she turned publisher rejection into fuel for independence. After being told it's "unbecoming for a woman in her forties to still have sexual feelings," Lexy chose self-publishing and proved that refusing to wait for permission creates something extraordinary.In This Episode, You Will Learn:(04:12) From Music to Law to Literature: Lexy's Multi-Hyphenate Journey(05:38) Characters as Truth-Tellers: Wh...