Melissa Grelo is wearing a shirt that says “Hustlers,” and not only because she loves Jennifer Lopez and the glamorous heist film the singer stars in.
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singer → wear → Lopez
“Hustler” is also how Grelo sees herself, as a multi-hyphenate broadcaster, podcaster and entrepreneur standing on the brink of a new beginning.
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Grelo → see → beginning
Last month, Grelo left “The Social,” the popular daytime talk show that she helped to create and co-hosted for 13 years.
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she → leave → years
Fans were taken by surprise when Bell Media announced that the show would return in early September as a “premium video podcast” with co-hosts Andrea Bain, Jess Allen and Cynthia Loyst, but without its live audience — or Grelo.
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show → take → audience
As Grelo adjusts to her new professional reality, the Star spoke with her about midlife pivots, ageism in broadcasting and putting her energy into her podcast, “Aging Powerfully with Melissa Grelo,” whose fourth season began on Sept. 24.
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season → adjust → Sept.
You recently said, “I want to wake up to a life I’m excited for.”
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I → say → life
What are you excited about when you get out of bed in the morning?
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you → get → morning
Creating something from a deep place of purpose makes me really excited.
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me → create → purpose
I’ve always hustled.
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I → hustle → ?
That is never going to change.
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That → go → ?
Right now, I’m really excited to be in a phase of creating for meaningful change, especially for women who are 40 plus.
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who → ’m → women
Sometimes we’re in seasons of building.
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we → ’re → building
Sometimes we’re in seasons of rest.
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we → ’re → rest
I’m excited to be in this phase of wanting to create something that’s my own.
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that → ’m → something
I feel empowered.
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I → feel → ?
I feel like I’m in the driver’s seat of my own life, and that’s a really fun place to be.
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that → feel → life
Your fans have been very curious about this period in your life, following your departure from “The Social.”
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fans → follow → Social
On the fourth season of your podcast, you’ll tell them what happened.
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what → tell → them
What will you say?
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you → say → What
I’m going to address the fact that a lot of this was sort of abrupt, and it felt like a surprise.
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it → go → surprise
I realize that this kind of came out of nowhere, with no announcements and no preparation.
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kind → realize → announcements
I’m very sad about that because I wasn’t able to even say my own goodbyes.
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I → ’m → goodbyes
At the end of the day, there’s something bigger than me that I can’t control.
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I → ’ → that
There are bigger business decisions that are made about what you see on TV, who’s hosting this and who’s hosting that.
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who → be → that
Those are decisions that come from a much higher place than my position.
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that → come → position
Everybody wants to know exactly what happened, which I can’t get into.
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I → want → which
Unfortunately, that’s private.
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that → ’ → ?
What I can say is that I want to acknowledge the viewers, who have been so supportive, who have been living alongside me as I share my life.
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I → say → life
People have been inundating me with their messages, and it’s heartwarming.
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it → inundate → messages
I’ve missed the audience, and my connection with them.
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I → miss → them
It’s interesting to hear you talk about “business decisions,” because that’s the phrase that was used when Lisa LaFlamme was cut by Bell Media.
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LaFlamme → ’ → Media
There was a public uproar about how the broadcast industry treats woman as they age.
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they → be → woman
How long do you have?
I’ve talked about this since I was a wee young feminist, and now I’m a 49-year-old woman.
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I → have → this
Media is simply an extension of our culture, and our culture is changing very slowly with how we regard ‘aging’ women.
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we → change → women
I pointed out many times on “The Social” that there is a phenomenon of aging out of the system in television.
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I → point → television
Since the beginning of time, we have seen that.
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we → see → that
Does that apply to my situation?
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that → apply → situation
I don’t think so, but I’m not the one to ask.
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I → think → ?
As I said when I won a Canadian Screen Award a couple of years ago, “existence is resistance.”
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existence → say → years
I just came back from France.
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I → come → France
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