Past Guests
Past thought leaders Interviewed on the Podcast
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Peggy Orenstein
Award-winning journalist, and internationally recognized speaker on gender issues, especially those related to teens, sex and relationships. She is the author of eight books, including her latest, Unraveling. In it she explores some of the many issues related to aging: empty nest syndrome, her relationship with her aged father, and coming to terms with her identity as an older woman. It’s a real delight.
Carl Honore
Carl Honore is a Canadian journalist who is a best selling author and two time TED speaker.
Alice Tym
At 79, Alice is a gold medal-winning pickleball player who says pickleball is a way to keep active and avoid loneliness. Funny, bawdy and a straight shooter, Alice says that at this age you can either talk about your bowels or hit a ball. I had the great privilege of joining her for dinner at the National Senior Games this past spring.
Melissa Berton
Melissa Berton is the Academy Award winning producer for Best Documentary Short for “Period. End of Sentence.” and CEO of The Pad Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to the principle that “a period should end a sentence, not a girl’s education.”
Dr. Joshua Coleman
You may be aware that more and more families are experiencing estrangement. Typically the cut off is between an adult and an adult child. What is behind this need to “break up” with a parent or adult child? And why is this option becoming more common?
Celeste Headlee
Celeste Headlee is an award-winning journalist who is a host at National Public Radio. She has appeared on PBS World, PRI, CNN, BBC and other international networks.
Michael Roizen, MD
What if you could live another ten, twenty, or thirty years beyond your current life expectancy? What if science could make it possible to engineer your body to slow down aging and continue to live your best life beyond 100?
Herpetologist
Donna Kalil
Meet Donna Kalil. She calls herself and her volunteers "Everglades Avengers". She's an environmentalist/herpetologist whose mission in life is to rid her beloved Everglades of the Burmese Python, an invasive and destructive creature.
Sian-Pierre Regis
“Duty Free” is a documentary about a son who witnesses his mom get pushed out of her job due only to her age. As a filmmaker, he uses the opportunity to document not only her struggle, but the bucket list adventure he takes her on to reclaim her life.
Nancy DeNike
Nancy DeNike is part of the LEAP Program (Ladies Empowerment & Action Program), a nonprofit empowering women to put prison in their past. Nancy went through the Program herself and now she helps other ex-felons find their footing after their release. For 13 years LEAP has been one of the only nonprofits in the country to focus exclusively on supporting formerly incarcerated women heal by providing education, housing, and employment.
Kristin Neff
Kristin Neff is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, which began when she was a graduate student and wanted to help herself through a dark period of her own life.
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