Latest Active aging Podcast Episodes
#486 Marathons with a Pacemaker - Featuring Idonna Clarke
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - April 26, 2024 02:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAs a proud member of the St. George Marathon Legacy Club, 52-year-old Idonna Clarke, mother of six children and grandmother of 5, is shooting for her 24th marathon later this year. Idonna’s first exposure to a marathon was at the age of 12 in Los Angeles, where she distributed water cups to runn...
#485 Why Use an Orthopedic Urgent Care? - Featuring Dr. Warren Butterfield
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - April 19, 2024 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsDr. Warren Butterfield has been in practice as an orthopedic trauma surgeon since 2007. He came to St. George in 2014 to assist in the transition of then Dixie Regional Medical Center to a level 2 trauma center and is currently the Director of Orthopedic Trauma at Intermountain Southwest Ortho U...
#484 The Joy of Running - Featuring Sandra Checketts
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - April 12, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSandra Checketts, widowed mother of 5 and grandmother of 10, has always enjoyed running, including as a cross country and track competitor at Utah State University. She is full or part owner in several health and wellness businesses and enjoys activities like snowmobiling, swimming, and hiking. ...
#483 Improving VO2 Max and Bone Health - Featuring Dr. Vonda Wright
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - April 05, 2024 03:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsDr. Vonda Wright is an internationally-recognized practicing double-boarded orthopaedic sports surgeon, author, speaker, researcher, and innovator whose work stands in the intersection of longevity, women's health, mobility, and musculoskeletal aging. Widely recognized for her thought leadershi...
#482 Stay Healthy for Those We Love - Featuring Shelley Gish
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - March 29, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsShelley Sybil Gish has spent most of her life learning about the benefits of holistic healing, with fifty-plus years of experience in behavioral genetics, thirty-one years in alternative health modalities, and ten years in herbology. As the single mother of eight children and the proctor mother ...
#481 Cycling and Triathlon - Featuring Jason & Heather Ranoa
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - March 22, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsJason and Heather Ranoa are the Cycling and Triathlon directors for the Huntsman World Senior Games. We are fortunate enough to have had them for the past 3 years. Jason and Heather coach a non-profit Junior Developmental Cycling team based out of St. George. This team helps develop the future f...
#481 Cycling and Triathlon - Featuring Jason Ranoa
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - March 22, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsJason and Heather Ranoa are the Cycling and Triathlon directors for the Huntsman World Senior Games. We are fortunate enough to have had them for the past 3 years. Jason and Heather coach a non-profit Junior Developmental Cycling team based out of St. George. This team helps develop the future f...
#480 Don't Let the Old Man In - Featuring Nick Cipollino
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - March 15, 2024 03:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsNick Cipollino came from humble beginnings and knows the value of hard work. Nick took up sporting clay shooting in 1988 following a knee injury. He was introduced to the Huntsman World Senior Games in 2012, and at the age of 80, he secured gold in all seven shooting events at his first Games. N...
#479 Just Keep Swimming - Featuring Betty Brussel
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - March 08, 2024 03:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsNinety-nine-year-old Dutch-Canadian Betty Brussel is happiest when she is swimming. Setting world records, which she did as recently as a week ago, is just icing on the cake. Betty enjoyed swimming as a child when she wasn’t busy helping raise her 10 younger siblings in the Netherlands. Later in...
#478 Let's Talk About Dementia - Featuring Karen Straw
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - March 01, 2024 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsKaren Straw was born in Massachusetts and considers herself geographically challenged, having lived in Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific and now calls Utah her home. Karen graduated with her Master’s degree from University of Utah in Speech ...
#477 A Route Away from Parkinson's - Featuring Steve Ault
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - February 22, 2024 21:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAt the age of 60, Steve Ault faced a Parkinson's diagnosis and the option of Levodopa for symptom management. Rejecting only temporary relief, he spiraled into depression until a chance meeting with Bahram in August 2017 offered hope for a healthy life at 120. Encouraged by his family, Steve und...
#476 Find a Friend and Fight Gravity - Featuring Barbara Wintroub
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - February 16, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsPickleball pioneer Barbara Wintroub brought the sport to Santa Monica, CA fifteen years ago and Palm Desert, CA the next year. As one of the best senior players the sport has to offer, Barbara is nationally ranked in pickleball and a tournament tennis player for 63 years. Beyond coaching and tea...
#475 Companionship as a Cure - Featuring Dr. Gloria Horsley & Dr. Frank Powers
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - February 09, 2024 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsDr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Frank Powers are nationally recognized relationship therapists in their early 80s who met through a dating app called SilverSingles and later wrote a book together called “Open to Love: The Secrets of Senior Dating.” In “Open to Love,” the two therapists share their pe...
#474 The Thrill of Table Tennis - Featuring Charlie Slater
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - February 02, 2024 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsEighty-year-old table tennis player Charlie Slater loves the fact that age isn’t a major factor in who will win a match. As a senior player, he has been beaten by an 8-year-old when he was 72 and an 84-year-old when he was 62. Charlie currently resides in Decatur, Georgia, where he plays weekly,...
#473 Hiking Rim-to-Rim - Featuring Alfredo Aliaga
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - January 26, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsOriginally from Spain, Alfredo Aliaga lives in Berlin, Germany and has always enjoyed hiking. He has held a variety of jobs, including as a sheep herder, serving in the military, working for a telephone company, and as a pharmaceutical representative. He has hiked in Spain, the Alps, Nepal, and ...
#472 Built to Move - Featuring Dr. Kelly Starrett
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - January 19, 2024 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsDr. Kelly Starrett is a coach; physical therapist; speaker; and three-time New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling co-author of "Becoming a Supple Leopard," "Ready to Run," and "Built to Move." He is also the co-founder of The Ready State, the world's most comprehensive collection of ...
#471 A Little Fortune and a Lot of Hard Work - Featuring Damien Leake
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - January 12, 2024 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsToday’s guest is Damien Leake, a master of the performing arts as an actor, singer, dancer, and more! Damien was born in the Bronx, New York and is a graduate of New York’s High School of Performing Arts. He also is a world-class Masters track and field athlete who is a multi-national champion i...
#470 Find Your Motivation - Featuring Dr. Barbara Nelson
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - January 05, 2024 01:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsDr. Barbara Nelson is a retired OB/Gyn and public health physician, and she also is a former exercise physiology professor at Brigham Young University-Idaho with a Master's in public health. Her extensive athletic achievements include completing 31 full Ironman triathlons, 54 half Iron distance ...
#469 - On to the Tactical Games
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - December 29, 2023 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsFifty-seven-year-old Jon St. Arnaud started playing soccer in his youth and still loves it, though he retired from the game in his thirties to prioritize family. Facing health concerns in his mid-forties, he was motivated for change, and he embraced Spartan racing after a personal trainer's sugg...
#469 On to the Tactical Games - Featuring Jon St. Arnaud
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - December 29, 2023 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsFifty-seven-year-old Jon St. Arnaud started playing soccer in his youth and still loves it, though he retired from the game in his thirties to prioritize family. Facing health concerns in his mid-forties, he was motivated for change, and he embraced Spartan racing after a personal trainer's sugg...
#468 Volleyball is a Lifetime Activity - Featuring Sue Mailhot
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - December 22, 2023 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsToday’s guest is our resident volleyball expert, Sue Mailhot. Sue played high school volleyball up until 2010 when her knees told her she should stop. However, when she played college recreational co-ed volleyball, she got the opportunity to referee and a new love was born! She liked refereeing ...
#468 - Volleyball is a Lifetime Activity
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - December 22, 2023 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsToday’s guest is our resident volleyball expert, Sue Mailhot. Sue played high school volleyball up until 2010 when her knees told her she should stop. However, when she played college recreational co-ed volleyball, she got the opportunity to referee and a new love was born! She liked refereeing ...
#467 - You May Be on the Verge of a Breakthrough
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - December 15, 2023 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsOur guest today has been a swimmer since she was 6 years old. Jeanne Smith was born in Southern California and spent an hour a day, 5 days a week, nearly every week at the pool until she graduated from high school. Swimming has always been a respite from stress for her, yet it was too inconvenie...
#467 You May Be on the Verge of a Breakthrough - Featuring Jeanne Smith
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - December 15, 2023 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsOur guest today has been a swimmer since she was 6 years old. Jeanne Smith was born in Southern California and spent an hour a day, 5 days a week, nearly every week at the pool until she graduated from high school. Swimming has always been a respite from stress for her, yet it was too inconvenie...
#466 - On Any Given Day, It's Anybody's Race
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - December 08, 2023 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWillie Spruill, a 64-year-old Army veteran from St. Pauls, North Carolina, has overcome physical and mental challenges to become a celebrated athlete. After serving in the Gulf War and facing post-war struggles, including contemplation of suicide, Willie found solace on the track. Attending a tr...
#466 On Any Given Day, It's Anybody's Race - Featuring Willie Spruill
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - December 08, 2023 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWillie Spruill, a 64-year-old Army veteran from St. Pauls, North Carolina, has overcome physical and mental challenges to become a celebrated athlete. After serving in the Gulf War and facing post-war struggles, including contemplation of suicide, Willie found solace on the track. Attending a tr...
#465 Where the Pain Is, the Problem Isn't - Featuring Misti Miller
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - December 01, 2023 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsMisti Miller grew up near Lake Tahoe, where she loved the exhilaration of bridge jumping, cliff jumping, and rock climbing (with ropes and free soloing). One of her favorite experiences was participating in a Guinness Book of World Records event bridge jump off the Foresthill Bridge in Auburn, C...
#465 - Where the Pain Is, the Problem Isn't
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - December 01, 2023 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsMisti Miller grew up near Lake Tahoe, where she loved the exhilaration of bridge jumping, cliff jumping, and rock climbing (with ropes and free soloing). One of her favorite experiences was participating in a Guinness Book of World Records event bridge jump off the Foresthill Bridge in Auburn, C...
#464 - Our Grateful Staff
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - November 23, 2023 18:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThanksgiving is a day to remember all of our blessings. Our staff followed our annual tradition to each express our thanks.
#463 - When You're Broken Down and Tired, Rise Up!
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - November 17, 2023 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsRaelene Elam is a mother of 6 kids. After graduating high school in California, she accepted a full ride scholarship to University of Arizona for volleyball where she was a 3 year starter. Following college, she coached at the University of Arizona summer camps for 6 years and has coached high s...