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Patty Ivey on Getting Breast Cancer at Age 70 and How It’s Changing What She Will Give Back to the World
[B]OLD AGE With Debbie Weil - April 19, 2024 06:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday Debbie talks to Patty Ivey about life changes and opportunities opening up for her after being diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer last year. Inspiring doesn’t really cover it as a way to describe Patty. Neither does [b]old, as in [B]OLD AGE. Patty and Debbie go back at least 15 y...
S4E20: New Zealand - 'Canyon swings, revelations and birthday fun'
Gap Year Diaries - April 18, 2024 00:00 - 48 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this very special episode, Rachel and Emily look back at the day of Rachel's 19th birthday, celebrated in Queenstown NZ. Among other things we hear, in great detail, about Rachel undertaking the town's infamous Canyon Swing, the mad dash for balloons, and a chaotic night out which results i...
S4E19: New Zealand - 'Unhinged bus drivers, Milford Sound and sub-optimal weather'
Gap Year Diaries - April 04, 2024 00:00 - 37 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Rachel and Emily remember the unfortunate day they spent exploring New Zealand's glorious Milford Sound, featuring a highly theatrical bus driver, close encounters with local wildlife, and the most inefficient checking of a weather forecast known to mankind.
Lyn Slater on How To Be Old and Why She Is No Longer a Fashion Influencer
[B]OLD AGE With Debbie Weil - March 29, 2024 06:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsDebbie speaks with Lyn Slater, a writer and activist and former social media influencer. She spent her mid-60s becoming an icon of fashion, racking up nearly 800,000 Instagram followers, representing huge brands like Ilia Beauty, Kate Spade, Moncler, and Visa (among many others), speaking on fas...
S4E18: New Zealand - 'Queenstown, optical illusions, and cocktail fails'
Gap Year Diaries - March 21, 2024 01:00 - 44 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Rachel and Emily re-read the blog entry from their time spent at renowned NZ attraction Puzzling World. Among other things, we hear of the pair experiencing anti-gravity whilst horrendously hungover and getting hopelessly lost in a maze, as well as their first ever glimpse of Qu...
Steven Petrow on His Sister Julie, the Importance of Choice, and Medical Aid in Dying
[B]OLD AGE With Debbie Weil - March 08, 2024 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsIn the Intro to this episode, you'll hear Steven Petrow talking about his sister Julie Petrow’s death last June 2023. After years of battling ovarian cancer, Julie, Steven’s five-years-younger little sister, chose to die in her New Jersey home by drinking a lethal cocktail. She was surrounded by...
S4E17: New Zealand - 'Lakeside views, bombarding strangers and attempts at romance'
Gap Year Diaries - March 07, 2024 01:00 - 47 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Emily and Rachel read back over the blog entry documenting their lengthy journey through stunning scenery to NZ's lakeside town of Wanaka. Among other things, we hear of greenscreen style landscapes, chaotic hostel check ins, monopolising the time of passing strangers to take ...
S4E17: New Zealand - 'Lakeside views, human pyramids and attempts at romance'
Gap Year Diaries - March 07, 2024 01:00 - 47 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Emily and Rachel read back over the blog entry documenting their lengthy journey through stunning scenery to NZ's lakeside town of Wanaka. Among other things, we hear of greenscreen style landscapes, chaotic hostel check ins, monopolising the time of passing strangers to take ...
S4E16: New Zealand - 'Glaciers, stalagmites and sexy tour-guides'
Gap Year Diaries - February 22, 2024 01:00 - 52 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Rachel and Emily recount and relive the blissful day they spent hiking around on New Zealand's famed Fox Glacier, led along the way by a particularly chiselled tour-guide. Among other things we hear of the stupendous beauty of the natural surroundings, elite level bribery of tw...
Kirsten Powers on Changing the Channel From CNN Political Analyst to Easeful Living and Writing
[B]OLD AGE With Debbie Weil - February 16, 2024 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday, Debbie talks with Kirsten Powers, a New York Times bestselling author, a liberal columnist and, most recently, an on-air political analyst with CNN. In 2023, after almost two decades, she left what she calls the “media circus” to pursue a different life as a writer and a life coach. Kirst...
S4E15: New Zealand - 'Possums, bearded bushmen and reflective lakes'
Gap Year Diaries - February 08, 2024 01:00 - 54 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Emily and Rachel recount their experiences of a day spent learning about New Zealand's possum pest-control methods, and travelling onwards to the country's stunning Franz Josef glacier. Among other things, we hear of the eminently memorable 'Possum Pete', owner of the educationa...
Bestselling Author Dale Russakoff on Being a Southern Woman at Harvard, Ambition at 71, and How Family Matters Most
[B]OLD AGE With Debbie Weil - January 26, 2024 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday, Debbie talks to Dale Russakoff, a veteran reporter for The Washington Post, a bestselling author, and a classmate from her Harvard/Radcliffe class of 1974. They talk about her surprising experience at Harvard as a woman from the South, her distinguished career as a journalist, and the i...
S4E14: New Zealand - 'Partying, painting and costume design triumph'
Gap Year Diaries - January 25, 2024 01:00 - 53 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Rachel and Emily recount the day of the Kiwi Bus' infamous 'Poo Party' on the beautiful Lake Mahinapua, where they finally get to showcase their incredible craft prowess and take the swinging 60s fancy-dress costumes for a spin. Amongst other things, we hear of ageing and grum...
Bestselling Author Mary Pipher on Forgiveness, Happiness, and Old Age
[B]OLD AGE With Debbie Weil - December 22, 2023 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings* This is the last episode in 2023. Back on Jan. 26, 2024! * Debbie talks to Mary Pipher, a psychologist and bestselling author of 11 books including the ground-breaking Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. She was the first psychologist to recognize and articulate why life...
S4E13: 'Bus mates, rugby and fancy dress production'
Gap Year Diaries - December 21, 2023 01:00 - 42 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Rachel and Emily look back fondly over a frantic 24 hours spent procuring and constructing some wildly ambitious fancy dress costumes ahead of the Kiwi bus institution - the Lake Mahinapua 'poo party'. Among other things we hear about a highly tense rugby match between Ireland...
S4E13: New Zealand - 'Bus mates, rugby and fancy dress production'
Gap Year Diaries - December 21, 2023 01:00 - 42 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Rachel and Emily look back fondly over a frantic 24 hours spent procuring and constructing some wildly ambitious fancy dress costumes ahead of the Kiwi bus institution - the Lake Mahinapua 'poo party'. Among other things we hear about a highly tense rugby match between Ireland...
Winifred White Neisser on Ambition, Embracing 70, and What Comes Next
[B]OLD AGE With Debbie Weil - December 08, 2023 07:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday, Debbie speaks to Winifred White Neisser, a classmate from the Harvard/Radcliffe Class of 1974. Winifred looks back on her career as a television executive in the all-male, all-white Hollywood entertainment industry and talks about what comes next. Both Debbie and Winifred are looking for...
S4E12: New Zealand - 'Hiking, hire cars and aquatic slow jams'
Gap Year Diaries - December 07, 2023 01:00 - 49 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Emily and Rachel journey back and relive the blissful day they spent exploring NZ's Abel Tasman National Park. Among other things, we hear of the water taxi driver and the obsession with mid 2000s RnB he was so proud to share with others, a family of ducks with no personal bound...
Best Of: Debbie and Sam Go Back to France
[B]OLD AGE With Debbie Weil - November 24, 2023 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsUpdated with a new introduction, this is a replay of an atmospheric episode from 2019 when Debbie and Sam studied French in Provence in an immersion program. They planned to go back in 2020 but of course the pandemic intervened. Now, they’ve just completed another week of immersion in Avignon wi...
S4E11: New Zealand - 'Ferry crossings, landmarks and super noodles'
Gap Year Diaries - November 16, 2023 01:00 - 45 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, we are treated to a full recount of Rachel and Emily's adventure on the high seas, as they set sail to cross from the heady pursuits of New Zealand's north island to the chilly climes of its south. The pair relive the few days they spent in the city of Nelson post crossing, st...
Rona Maynard on How Adopting a Rescue Mutt When She Was 65 Made Her a Better Person
[B]OLD AGE With Debbie Weil - November 10, 2023 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday, Debbie talks with Rona Maynard, an author, writer, and former VIP, as she puts it. When she left Canada's leading magazine for women as editor-in-chief, she began looking for her next big project. Around this time, her husband suggested getting a dog. She resisted for several years, then ...
S4E10: New Zealand - 'Arguments, home comforts and embassy hell'
Gap Year Diaries - November 02, 2023 01:00 - 48 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Rachel and Emily look back fondly at yet another chapter of embassy nightmares as they continue to relive their time spent in NZ's capital city, Wellington. Among other things we hear of a spicy altercation, passport theft related frustration and more escapades that absolutely...
Debbie & Sam on the Acceleration of Aging: Smudged Glasses, Creaky Bodies and Before It’s Too Late
[B]OLD AGE With Debbie Weil - October 27, 2023 06:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWelcome back to Season 6! You might’ve noticed that we changed the name of the show to more accurately reflect the focus, which is to explore the transition from midlife to old age. [B]OLDER seemed a bit too general, so it's now [B]OLD AGE. Given our ageist society, it requires [b]oldness to say...
Season 6 - Trailer
[B]OLD AGE With Debbie Weil - October 20, 2023 06:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWhen Debbie started this podcast almost five years ago, she was as she puts it "a mere 67." Old age seemed very far away. Now it doesn’t. So this season we’re focusing on the lived experience of old age. What’s it really like? What are the truths, both positive and negative, about moving from m...
S4E9: New Zealand - 'City exploring, giant squid and goon'
Gap Year Diaries - October 12, 2023 00:00 - 45 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Rachel and Emily read back over the bizarre blog entry from their first day in New Zealand's lively and windy capital city, Wellington. Among other things, we hear of an accident involving dried fruit in a local supermarket, the city's hallowed Giant Squid exhibition, and the ...
S4E8 - New Zealand: ‘Waterfalls, skydiving and head-banging trauma’
Gap Year Diaries - September 28, 2023 00:00 - 58 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Emily and Rachel reopen some old wounds and relive the trauma of the day they spent attempting to skydive over New Zealand's beautiful Lake Taupo, reading back over the blog they wrote on the day. We hear of the deeply stressful assent to 15,000ft in a miniscule plane, Emily's n...
S4E7: New Zealand - 'Cow milking, black water caving and rugby hooligans'
Gap Year Diaries - September 13, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Emily and Rachel reread and relive their time in the NZ village of Waitomo, famous for its glow-worm bedazzled underwater caves. Amongst the usual mindless content, we hear of the formative time Rachel spent at a rural farm show, the awkward and cumbersome process of making new ...
Debbie & Sam Wrap Up Season 5: Anniversaries, Unexpected Death, God, Grandchildren, and More.
[B]OLD AGE With Debbie Weil - July 21, 2023 06:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday, Debbie brings her husband Sam Harrington back on the show to wrap up another [B]OLDER season. You'll hear their 11-year-old granddaughter Ruthie talking about her recent trip with them to the Swiss Alps. Definitely a high point of the season and of the past year. A lot has happened dur...
Jonathan Merritt on Personal Transformation and the Complicated Intersection of Faith and Culture
[B]OLD AGE With Debbie Weil - July 07, 2023 06:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday, Debbie speaks to Jonathan Merritt, one of America’s most renowned writers on faith and culture. Debbie met Jonathan in the hot tub in Baja Mexico, but don’t get the wrong idea. They were both in Baja to attend a weeklong workshop organized by Modern Elder Academy. And as you’ll hear in ...
Karen Wickre on Aging in Place As a Singleton After a Stellar Tech Career
[B]OLD AGE With Debbie Weil - June 23, 2023 06:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsDebbie brings her friend Karen Wickre back on the show to talk about "aging in place" and other things, including being a singleton in her 70s. They met over 20 years ago when Debbie interviewed Karen, who was editor of Google’s blog, for Debbie's book, The Corporate Blogging Book. Not surprisi...
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