Anne Del Core: TV Exec Turns Professional Artist

**SPEAKER_2** (0:04)
Pickleball Media presents the I Used to Be Somebody Show, produced live at the Landau Tiki Bar in Sacramento. Here's our host, Carl Landau.

**Carl Landau** (0:18)
Welcome to Landau Tiki Bar in the I Used to Be Somebody Show. What does art and TV have to do with each other? I'll explain in a minute. First, I want to thank this month's sponsors. Thank you, Gary Sirach, author of How to Retire and Not Die, who just came out with an amazing video series. It's 14 mini videos that covers all the non-financial parts of retirement, purpose, identity, relationship, and totally helps you prepare and enjoy your next chapter in life. And thank you to our loyal sponsor, Capital Advantage Wealth Management.
Following today's interview, we've got two fun segments. First, we talk to the unretirement wisdom with the pros, guys. We talk about the importance of prioritizing social connections. Many people think of retirement strictly about the money, but it's really the social connections that bring us happiness.
That is followed by Pickleball Chronicles with Traver. Traver and I talked about a part of Pickleball that is one of my favorites. It's Pickleball Poaching. Anyway, you don't want to miss that, and I can't wait to get to this month's guest.
But first, I want to thank Ken Iretani for introducing me to our guest, Anne Del Core. Anne's got a really interesting story. She had a fun career during the heyday of television. At first, she wanted to be on the air and ended up with a really successful career on the business side of TV. She raised three kids and ran a busy family life since her husband was a big time exec in the radio world, which led them to moving all around the country.
In just four years ago, by total fate, because of several connections in her life, she ended up being exposed to creating art with glass. Today, she is a very accomplished glass mosaic artist with a thriving business. Her enthusiasm for trying something new and reinventing a career later in life is totally infectious. I got to interview her live in the Landau Tiki Bar, which always makes it extra special. Please sit back and enjoy my interview with the very talented Anne Del Core.

**Anne Del Core** (2:49)
The timeline we have, and I'm like, ooh, maybe I'm halfway done, maybe not. There's a lot, a lot of life, a lot of wonderful opportunities out there. And I think that mindset of what's next and who am I going to be next, I think that keeps you open, right? Like, who do I want to be next?

**Carl Landau** (3:13)
Right, and it keeps you young.

**Anne Del Core** (3:15)
Totally keeps me young, yeah.

**Carl Landau** (3:20)
Hi Anne, welcome to the I Used to Be Somebody show.

**Anne Del Core** (3:24)
Thanks Carl, I'm so happy to be here.

**Carl Landau** (3:26)
Yeah, so what do you think of the Tiki Bar?

**Anne Del Core** (3:28)
The Tiki Bar has got a pretty fabulous vibe and I hope to be on an invite list to one of the parties that's hosted here someday.

**Carl Landau** (3:38)
It was a very selective group, but I think you'll probably make it. So Anne, I want to introduce you to the audience. Anne Del Core had a successful career for many years as a TV executive.
Her last position was General Sales Manager for WTKR-TV in Norfolk, Virginia, which was owned by the New York Times.
In Unretirement, she's a very talented artist. Her specialty is glass mosaic art pieces. I've seen her curtain collection. It's really amazing. Her company is called Story Glass Mosaics. So we're going to talk about that and more. But first on the I Used to Be Somebody show, we'd like to play a little icebreaker game. So are you willing to play the game?

**Anne Del Core** (4:23)
Absolutely.

**Carl Landau** (4:24)
Let's do it.
The name of our company is Pickleball Media. Anne, what is your Pickleball experience?

**Anne Del Core** (4:31)
I've played Pickleball once, Carl. I played last November during a Thanksgiving vacation in Palm Springs.
Our family decided to be away for the first time for Thanksgiving. So we went down to a hotel in Palm Springs and they had a marvelous group of Pickleball courts. And we all played. It was first time for most of us and we had a fabulous time. Oh, good. Yeah.

**Carl Landau** (4:58)
Good. I can tell you're really excited. You've played once and haven't played since. Did someone know how to play and they knew the score and everything?

**Anne Del Core** (5:06)
No.

**Carl Landau** (5:07)
So what were you doing?