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Retired to Become a Full Time Actress, Catherine Fichera

Actress, Catherine Fichera

Catherine decided to retire from teaching at the high school level for her
passion.

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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers shared their stories to inspire

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you

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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams

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yeah

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yeah

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there’s Joe Carter today I’m capital
sheriff there’s nothing here during

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through action

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welcome to the show Catherine you if you
would please give them some background

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to our listeners well I was a high
school educator for 27 years 25 of them

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little over 25 of them here in New
Jersey i started my teaching career

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actually in the city of Philadelphia and
before that I was a full-time college

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student of course in westchester at West
Chester University and I did a lot of

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acting and performing when I was in high
school and college and then I got away

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from it for quite a while and devoted
myself to my teaching which I really

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enjoyed I was an English teacher that
was the subject for which I had the most

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passion having been involved in theatre
so i did get a chance to teach plays and

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literature and I ran a public speaking
debate program at the high school for a

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little over 25 years and it was a great
career and then the district in which i

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thought was growing larger and I mean 27
years is a long time to be doing

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anything so I I felt really the need to
kind of change i did not want to become

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an administrator a lot of teachers go
into administration where they go into

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guidance counseling they teach for maybe
10 15 20 years and they move up the

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ladder

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I had no interest in doing either one of
those things and i had actually started

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to assistant play direct i’m at the high
school for about eight years and that’s

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what got me thinking about acting again
because I would be directing these kids

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with the co-director and I would see
them up one stage I think to myself I

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would just love I mean I enjoy directing
but i would love to get back up there

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again like I want to be where they are
and I kept saying that to myself in my

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head I’m like all man i would just I
would just love to get back up on the

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stage again so i knew when i retired
that’s what I wanted to do

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wow yeah that that’s fantastic that you
are able to want to not just have the

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one but the ability to get back up on
stage of what it before we get into that

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part what exactly inspires you

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um a lot of things i think that one of
the things that I was very fortunate to

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