Podcast Episodes

Sally Fox: My Most Creative Work Is My Life—Yours Can Be Too

Season 5

Sally Jean Fox’s 2023 book, Meeting the Muse After Midlife: A Journey to Meaning, Creativity, and Joy, tells her story of finding joy in being creati…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Cheri Boublis: Innovative Hospitality for Older Adults-- Living a Vibrant Lifestyle

Season 5

Cheri Boublis is Senior Director for Hospitality Services at Plymouth Place in LaGrange Park, Illinois, a model for active community living. Cheri co…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Beverly Pimsleur's: A Love Affair with Language and Life

Season 5

Joy has always been a part of Beverly Pimsleur's life. Her extended family in Louisville KY loved to be together, to dance, sing and have fun.

She rec…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Helen Benjamin: Education Changes the Life Trajectory of Every Person

Season 5

As an educational leader and mentor, Dr. Helen Benjamin tells stories about

growing up in the segregated South, living and working in two worlds—Black…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Annamarie Pluhar: Shared Housing: No One Should be Isolated

Season 5

Do you want to share housing but find the transition scary? We often live in shared housing when we are single: college, roommates in camp, at confer…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Mary Mitchell: Giving a Voice to the Voiceless

Season 5

Mary Mitchell, age 74, sheds light on aging and ageism in her occasional column for the Chicago Sun Times, Starting Over. Mary ‘started over’ five ye…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Ann Anderson Evans: A Wife’s Unanswered Questions About Transgender and Suicide

Season 5

Ann Anderson Evans, age 82, lives in Vermont. She is a writer, linguist, and former professor. Her first memoir, Daring to Date Again (2014), which t…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Susan Gangsei: Tapestries Reveal the Passages of Women Aging

Season 5

Susan Gangsei, a classically trained tapestry artist from Minneapolis, MN, uses her talent to create images of women aging. Her recent series, The Sa…

2 years, 5 months ago

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Jacynth Bassett: Ageism is Never in Style - 31 year old Activist

Season 5

Visionary and disrupter, Jacynth Bassett, is an award-winning, highly sought after consultant and expert in the anti-ageism/ age-inclusive & positive…

2 years, 5 months ago

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Michele Kurlander: Obsessions for Art & Music Icons Fuel Her Life

Season 5

LIfe is a constant adventure for Michele Kurlander, 79. She lives in Chicago, yet her heart is in France. A fluent francophile, Michelle spends much …

2 years, 5 months ago

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