154. Starting Over at 60: How a Bruce Springsteen Concert Saved Anne Abel's Life

Old Chicks Know Sh*t Podcast · Jul 17, 2026 · 46m

At 60, Anne Abel booked eight Bruce Springsteen concerts across Australia and got on a plane alone — after decades of severe recurrent depression, three rounds of electroconvulsive therapy, and a childhood spent trying to earn a narcissistic mother's love.

She didn't go for fun. She'd never really had fun. She went because a rock concert was the only structure she could find to stay out of what she calls "the abyss." She had no idea that trip would become the start of a total reinvention — one that would take her from a psychiatric hospital in Maryland to storytelling stages in Chicago, to a…