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Our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging is journalist, Peter Bowes, who is the Los Angeles-based correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Peter is also the host and creator of a podcast series called Live Long and Master Aging. For the past eight years, he has interviewed top scientists who are working in the field of aging. What he has learned about breakthroughs in healthy aging is both exciting and, oddly, nothing new. While there are some fascinating breakthroughs on the horizon around healthy aging, there are some basics about staying healthy that haven’t changed at all.
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One of our subscribers, Fred Woolman, is featured this week on POV. Fred lives in Rochester, Minnesota. He’s 82 years old and a full-time fitness instructor. He’s also a passionate American who is deeply angered and disturbed by the words and actions of his President. This is Fred’s Point Of View.
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There is plenty of discussion these days around AI and its new sibling, AGI – short for artificial general intelligence. Some are concerned about the so far unchecked power of AI while others are touting AI’s abilities to do far more than humans can do, do it far better and far faster. Here’s an example. AI could soon replace your family doctor and maybe your specialists as well. And this will have enormous impacts on all of us, especially older adults.
We touched on this in a recent Art 2 Aging newsletter and this week, our guest, UX designer Ezra Schwartz, goes into greater detail, outlining what the future could hold.
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Veteran marketing executive, Dave McCaughan, returns this week on POV with his thoughts on why we want to continue working beyond 65 and even beyond 70. He explains the reasons for it and offers up evidence contained in several global surveys to back up his views.
A 6 minute listen.
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All around the world today, there are more and more signs of people taking matters into their own hands and no longer waiting for governments to step in – matters like community health, outreach for the homeless, local help for those older adults who are – not aging at home but living at home, as our guest puts it.
Debbie Howard was a fulltime caregiver for her mother and that inspired her to create Aging Matters International and write two books on aging. One is for those who are caregivers and the other one is for employers to understand what 30% of their employees go through as caregivers at home. She is also pivotal in establishing support groups in her community that offer assistance for older adults in their own homes - something that could easily be the model for the near and medium term future for caregiving.
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This week on POV: How To Create An Anti-Bucket List.
Wait, what??
Janine Vanderburg, founder of Changing the Narrative and the Encore Roadmap, suggests that, in addition to what we would love to do in life, we should also create a list of what we don’t want to do again.
If we have a finite lifespan, why not fill it with what we want and leave out what we don’t!
This is a 5-minute listen.
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We’re going to continue the financial planning for retirement theme that we started last week in our interview with Darren Coleman from Portage Cross Border Wealth Management.
When we talk about retirement, we’re really speaking about a period of time in someone’s life that could span 30 or more years.
This week, our guest is Susan Latremoile who, along with her partner, Marianne Oehser, runs Next Chapter Lifestyle Advisors.
Susan was a financial advisor herself for nearly 40 years. Now, she helps other advisors to understand that just managing a client’s money in retirement is not nearly enough anymore. And if an advisor chooses to ignore this, he or she does so at their own peril.
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In our first episode of POV from The Art 2 Aging, marketer, advertiser and self-confessed storyteller, Dave McCaughan tackles longevity, specifically the idea of trying to live to 100. He argues that it’s time to think about trying to become a centenarian in a more balanced way.
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Retirement gets a lot of attention these days and with good reason. Baby boomers have been starting the third chapter of life for the past 15 years or so and the so-called Gen Xers are following suit right now.
Our guest this week is Darren Coleman, he’s been a financial advisor for more than 30 years, runnning Portage Cross Border Wealth Management and he hosts the Two Way Traffic podcast. Darren is going to uncover ideas about retirement that few people stop to consider. And those ideas have very little to do with financial planning.
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From life in a Japanese internment camp to a ten-year career in the NBA and now living as a poet and fiction writer at 87, Tom Meschery has had a remarkable life. We profiled Tom on The Art 2 Aging last June in an episode, titled “Overcoming The Odds”. But now, Tom has written his autobiography so we caught up with him once again at his home in Sacramento to find out more.
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An important conversation this week with Sheila Callaham, founder of Age Equity Alliance. Sheila talks about the urgent need for employers to recognize age equity in the workplace for their own benefit, how the elimination of DEI policies in the US negatively impacts older workers and how many of the policies of the Trump administration will lead to hardship, poverty and homelessness for many who are currently over the age of 50. You need to hear this.
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Our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging is Christine Matheson-Green and, at the age of 73, she has launched a project designed to capture life stories in memoir form and preserve them for posterity. She has been a journalist, educator and published author. But there’s even more to this firebrand of a lady than just that, as you will hear in our conversation.
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The fires that swept through Los Angeles for weeks in January, propelled by fierce winds, cost thousands of people their homes. Damage totals will likely exceed 30 billion dollars but the greater damage is the loss of family gathering places, the loss of communities and the sense of fear regarding an uncertain future.
Wayne Lehrer lives in the hills of Santa Monica and he experienced the fires firsthand. Wayne has written a book called The Art of Conscious Aging and it contains a blueprint not only for how to live a great life beyond 60, but coincidentally, how to recover and move on from devastating loss and grief.
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Why do some restaurants keep the lights so low that you need a flashlight to read the menu? And why do hotels insist on tiny labels on bottles of soap and shampoo, labels so small you need your glasses on to choose the right one?
These are just two examples of consumer ageism.
Our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging is John Bateson, a former private equity CEO and professor at both the London and Stanford Schools of Business where he acquired a doctorate in business management and Masters in Economics. John writes a Substack newsletter titled Consumer Ageism. And in our conversation, he lays out a number of theories about ageism and the older consumer.
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Retirement coaching was a profession we’d never heard of before speaking with our guest this week, Marianne Oehser.
But retirement coaching didn’t suddenly pop into existence just like the Beatles didn’t suddenly leap onto the music scene with their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
The profession is the natural offshoot of an aging demographic in which tens of millions of us in our 60s and older are marching toward something called retirement, like it or not.
What Marianne Oehser does is help her clients see a path through a forest of uncertainty and to walk that path with confidence. She and her business partner run a company called Next Chapter LIfestyle Advisors. Check out their site.
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A sport that was once played by just a few people rocketed out of the gate during the pandemic. Today, some say it’s the fastest growing sport in the world.
We’re talking about pickleball, the quirky game with an even quirkier name.
Our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging is Carl Landau, a pickleball afficionado and author of the book, Pickleball For Dummies.
So what makes this such a popular game? Well, let’s find out.
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Tony McGrath is 68 years old. He’s probably spent half a century working. He’s held senior positions in the banking industry, the insurance industry, he’s created and sold several start ups and he has no interest in stopping to put his feet up.
Why would he? He’s having too much fun!
Tony is our guest this week in what is a wide ranging conversation about age, growing older, and still finding the desire and energy to meet each day head on.
Is Tony a model for the rest of us? No. But he is an example of how your mindset can build a life worth living.
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For most of the 20th century there existed a chasm between natural medicine and mainstream medicine, dominated as it is by the big pharmaceutical companies of the world.
It’s like an ongoing mythical war between Heaven and Hell, good and evil, however you view it, and whichever side you take.
But two and a half decades into the 21st century that may be shifting. There is a growing willingness by general practitioners and specialists to take an unbiased look at how natural medicine can complement their own work, especially when there are more and more concrete examples of the effectiveness of natural medicine.
Our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging is Amanda King https://www.amandakingnd.com/about, a doctor of natural medicine who works in the field of integrative oncology. What she can achieve with a cancer patient by taking a metabolic approach through diet is impressive.
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Scott Fulton is a planner. He believes in the merits of planning, especially when it comes to planning for one’s later years around financial assets and health. Scott’s an expert on aging, too; he’s the past president of the National Aging In Place Council where he studied the lives of millions of older Americans.
That work has helped shape a strategy that Scott lectures on, gives talks about, and has now published.
His knowledge, love of data and his expertise on aging have been combined into a recent book titled Whealthspan: More Years, More Moments, More Money.
Scott is our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging.
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Where does ageism begin? In the home? In the workplace? In the media?
Well, the simple and not entirely flippant answer is that ageism begins in all those places.
But its actual genesis is within the minds of each of us.
Hermetic philosophy puts it succinctly: “As within, so without.” Everything that we experience – everything – began as an idea and an idea is a thought.
So, what we think repeatedly – or worse, what we’re taught to think – we experience or encounter in our physical, everyday lives.
Such as ageism.
Our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging, is Ashton Applewhite who has been called America’s activist against ageism by such noteworthy organizations as The New York Times, New Yorker, and the American Society on Aging. She has been fighting the ageist fight since 2005 through her book, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and her blog of the same name. She holds public lectures and hosts Ted Talks.
In short, she uses every available weapon in her war against the limiting beliefs around being older.
A Final Note: Around the 27th of December, I came down with a late Christmas gift in the form of a chest cold which resulted in me “sounding like Tron”, as my partner, Dave Grein told me. I thought I was more like James Earl Jones… Apologies in advance!
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