Latest Ageist Podcast Episodes
Overcoming the Intergenerational Trauma Around Drowning
Zestful Aging - June 15, 2024 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsFor anyone who has ever feared water or wished they’d learn to swim, this episode is for you. I met our Susana Mueller at a podcasting conference I recently attended. She introduced herself and said she thought she knew me. A chemist originally from Cuba, now a resident of Florida, I don’t think...
A Death Doula Becomes a Celebrity
Zestful Aging - June 01, 2024 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsEnjoy this rebroadcast of my interview with Alua Arthur, death doula and now New York Times Best Selling Author of Briefly Perfectly Human. This book on the importance of thinking about our death has resonated with many of us, including top influencers from media outlets including The New York T...
What is Ageless Aging?
Zestful Aging - May 18, 2024 11:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsMaddy Dychtwald is recognized by Forbes as one of the Top 50 female futurists globally, for nearly 40 years. She has been deeply involved in exploring all aspects of the age wave and how it’s fundamentally transforming our lives and the world at large. She is an internationally acclaimed author,...
Women Over 50 Walking the Camino de Santiago
Zestful Aging - May 04, 2024 11:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsAnyone out there believe in synchronicity? Many of you know that I am walking part of the Camino de Santiago in May. I’ve been thinking, planning and talking about it alot. One night I was scrolling and I fell upon a group called Women of a Certain Age–WOACA. I was intrigued. Then I was surprise...
Earth Day Special: Discovering Birding in Retirement
Zestful Aging - April 20, 2024 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsI was thinking about who would be a great guest for Earth Day. I wanted to talk with someone who is committed to nature, has a zestful attitude towards life and has shown resilience in her life despite dealing with painful losses. If she was an adventurous traveler that would be even better. The...
Sustainable Art; Rethinking Toxic Art Supplies
Zestful Aging - April 06, 2024 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsHolly Greenberg is a professor of Art at Syracuse University specializing in printmaking. She’s long been aware of how toxic some art materials are, but has recently realized how damaging the mining and production practices are that are used to create these art supplies. Since that realization...
How My Rescue Dog Taught Me to Fully Love at 65
Zestful Aging - March 23, 2024 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsRona Maynard found happiness at 65—a story she tells in her new memoir Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World. Rona capped a stellar career in magazines with a decade at the helm of Chatelaine, Canada’s leading magazine for women. When she disclosed a struggle with depressi...
I Tried to Deny My Dad’s Dementia
Zestful Aging - March 09, 2024 12:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsThis episode looks at the difficulty of realizing that a loved one is experiencing cognitive decline. I met Darlene Mahoney at a recent podcasting conference and was struck by her honesty and willingness to talk about her discovery that her father had Dementia. She tells the story of witnessing...
Now is the Best Age to Travel and Make Friends
Zestful Aging - February 24, 2024 12:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsAnyone else need an adventure? Here in Upstate NY it’s been grey as usual, and I need something to look forward to. Today we’re going to talk about the benefits of traveling with Jeannie Ralston, the co-founder and CEO of NextTribe, which started life as a digital magazine for women over 45 an...
The Guru of Healthy Aging
Zestful Aging - February 10, 2024 12:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsOver the past 40 years, Dr. Ken Dychtwald has emerged as a foremost visionary and original thinker regarding the lifestyle, marketing, health care, economic and workforce implications of the age wave. Ken is a psychologist, gerontologist, and best-selling author of 19 books on aging-related issu...
From Wheelchair to Weightlifting Champion
Zestful Aging - January 27, 2024 12:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsKim Rahir is a 60 year old mother of three who was diagnosed with MS 10 years ago and was in a wheelchair. She ignored her doctor's advice and slowly began lifting weights. This year she became European Champion in Masters Weightlifting in her age and weight category. Kim’s journey inspired he...
Camp Reinvention is Rocket Fuel For Women Over 50
Zestful Aging - January 13, 2024 12:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsI think we all are searching for a more meaningful and joy filled life, but don’t quite know where to start. Many of my clients experiencing empty nest and all of the accompanying over 50 challenges tell me they feel totally lost and paralyzed. They are asking the proverbial “What now?” Wouldn’t...
“The Golden Girls Have Nothing on the Trailblazing Bringle Sisters”
Zestful Aging - January 01, 2024 16:16 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsTwins Cynthia and Edwina Bringle are 84 year old artists and legends at the renowned Penland School of Craft in North Carolina. The new documentary, "Bringle: A Tale of Two Makers", was written and directed by artist E. Vincent Martinez a Cuban-born, Atlanta-based mixed-media artist, filmmaker ...
The Midlife Mentors Share Their Wisdom on Midlife Health and Well Being
Zestful Aging - December 30, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsClaire and James Davis are the British dynamic duo of midlife health and well being. They are experts in, among other subjects, menopause and hormones. They are also multi award winning coaches, co-authors of a bestselling book, regular speakers and press commentators and podcasters, in the 1.5%...
The Middle Aged Hip Hop Viral Sensation
Zestful Aging - December 26, 2023 15:56 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsShe was uninspired, out of shape, and longing for the younger version of herself. She thought a hip hop dance class might solve some of her problems. Valentine’s Day greeted her with the flu, thousands of notifications on her Facebook account, and hundreds of messages from strangers. Her immed...
Dog Mountain–Heaven for Your Dog
Zestful Aging - December 16, 2023 12:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsDog Mountain is set on 150 acres on a private mountaintop spot in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. The grounds are always open to people and their dogs. Artist Stephen Huneck and his wife, Gwen, bought the property in 1995 and turned the barn into studio space. After Stephen’s unique visionary experience...
Diane Jones–From the Corporate World to Carnegie Hall
Zestful Aging - December 02, 2023 12:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsWe’ve all heard midlife reinvention stories, and I’ve got a special one for you. I’ve wanted to interview this guest for years, and I finally got to meet her recently at a public radio shindig. Her life story illustrates the bittersweetness of life–also known as “life is Brutiful”, a phrase coin...
Mary’s Nest: Making Food Delicious, Nutritious and Affordable Resonates with Viewers
Zestful Aging - November 23, 2023 12:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsMary Bryant Shrader is the host of “Mary’s Nest”, a Youtube channel with over a million subscribers. She teaches the simple pleasures of cooking highly nutritious and affordable foods from her Texas kitchen. A native New Yorker, Mary learned cooking from her mom and began cooking “in a sliver of...
Considering Using the New Weight Loss Drugs?
Zestful Aging - November 18, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsThere’s been a lot of buzz about the new weight loss drug like Ozempic. Celebrities are singing their praises. But are they appropriate for midlife women who are frustrated by their menopause midsection weight gain? Do they work? Are they safe? I had a very eye opening conversation with Peg D...
Using Nature and Art to Process Grief
Zestful Aging - November 04, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsAfter a particularly painful break up and the death of his father, artist Day Schildkret began using materials in nature to make designs–what he calls "morning altars" by gathering stray twigs, flowers, pinecones and leaves, and turning them into beautiful works of art. He calls his technique “I...
Award Winning Author Champions Writers Over 50
Zestful Aging - October 21, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsJulia Daily calls herself a late bloomer, but that’s really not the case. Instead, she bloomed throughout her life with various careers, from teaching to public relations and marketing to non-profit work. She even shadowed Martha Stewart. But, as her age topped six decades, she ran a marathon, w...
Addressing Quality Health Care in Indigenous Communities
Zestful Aging - October 07, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsDr. Peter Rohloff is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer for Maya Health Alliance, a primary care organization working with indigenous Maya communities in rural Guatemala. He never intended to move to Guatemala, but when he went to visit on vacation and learn Spanish he found his calling. ...
Walking Vacations; A Better Way to Travel
Zestful Aging - September 23, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsHave you ever considered hiking in Europe but think of hiking as too strenuous? Well, it doesn't have to be. Cassandra Overby is the author of "Explore Europe on Foot" and several other walking-based travel guides that promote hiking as a better way to travel. She describes it as a more intimate...
A Life in Progress -- Finding Joy, Even in Unbearable Loss
Zestful Aging - September 09, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsKrista O’Reilly-Davi-Digui is a writer and holistic mind-body coach and the voice behind “A Life in Progress” community. She helps people navigate profound loss (her son who died by suicide in 2019) and at the same time cultivate joy. Her particular focus is women in mid-life. Find out more at A...
Emme -- Supermodel Dismantles Unrealistic Beauty Ideals
Zestful Aging - August 26, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsKnown for over two decades as an iconic American supermodel and a two time “beautiful person” by “People” magazine, Emme is a trusted voice in the beauty, wellness, fashion, and news industries. Although Emme is known as the first “plus size” model, that term has fallen into disfavor. The realit...
Kim Scott -- Author of Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want By Saying What You Mean
Zestful Aging - August 12, 2023 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsKim Scott is the author of "Just Work" and "Radical Candor" and co-founder of a company that helps people put the ideas in her books into practice. Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and before that le...
Jane Delury -- Author of HEDGE, a Gorgeous Book About Midlife Longing
Zestful Aging - August 05, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratings"A midlife landscape historian in an unhappy marriage, a handsome fellow scientist, a lost garden in the Hudson Valley....." Award winning author’s book HEDGE is about a middle aged woman with conflicting yearnings. Where does her energy belong? Her daughter is having mental health problems, h...
Janice Costa -- A Total Career Pivot, She Created Canine Camp Getaway
Zestful Aging - July 29, 2023 11:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsJanice Costa is a lifelong dog lover who spent more than 30 years in the publishing field before trading corporate life for camp life with Canine Camp Getaway, a one-of-a-kind vacation for dogs and the people who love them. A Therapy Dog and Canine Good Citizen evaluator and certified Pet First ...
Carrie Jarosinski -- How Can We Make Our Lives Invigorating As We Age?
Zestful Aging - July 22, 2023 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsGood health is a lot more than diet and exercise. Although we all would like a quick and easy program to attain good mental and physical health, achieving wellness is a lifelong journey. Dr. Carrie Jarosinski is a nurse, educator and wellness practitioner who focuses on sustainable wellness prac...
MT Connelly -- Authored the Elder Justice Act, Champion of Restorative Justice
Zestful Aging - July 15, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsWhat is elder justice and why is it so important? And how does harm reduction play into keeping our elders safe from abuse? M. T. Connolly, is a MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient and founder of the Department of Justice’s Elder Justice Initiative. MT conceived of and was the original archite...
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