L4: Living Loud Living Long

Earlier in my life and, likely yours too, we put aside our desires, interests, and passions to care for and support others: employers, spouses, and children. Once we reach 50 plus, we are tired of this constant outside focus. We’re ready to devote energy to ourselves, to restore our passion. I know I was an award-winning poet before family life took over. Because I wanted to reignite my own creati...

Christiane shares her learnings and advice with our Living Loud Living Long (L4) community about her mid-life career transformation journey from executive to creative. She made a significant career switch from successful senior executive at billion dollar financial software firms to a business school professor at Georgia State University and a fine artist. A near death health crisis made Christian...

Claire works in the highly sought space of Hollywood movies and television shows in the less commonly known creative field of still photography. She talks with Dr. Hughes, Founder of Living Loud Living Long, about creativity both as a financially supportive career and as a soul satisfying activity. If you are reaching mid-life, wanting to transform yourself, feeling alone, then you belong in our a...

Debbie Dickinson and her daughter are innovating to solve your menopause frustrations. They join us in our women’s health over age 50 podcast series after summer break. You get fresh ideas grounded in good medicine and like-minded friends in our Living Loud Living Long Community for 50up women. Have you wondered if your career journey is giving you fulfillment or taking you where you want to go? D...

Looking to reinvent your life? Kristy and Annette tell L4 how they quit their jobs, sold their homes and hit the trails to live their dream life over 50. You can do more than you think you can. They tell our L4 community their approach to building up fitness and endurance until they were able to hike 8 to 12 hours a day. Doubts? Sometimes but they get up everyday and push their limits, finding str...

Ever dream of a second career, perhaps a café or restaurant? Love tea and wonder how it fits into healthy living? Learn how a passion for tea led to Joan open a local café, eventually leaving her global corporate job. While there are challenges in running a food and beverage shop, Joan Jia gives us tips on solving them and tells us what she loves about her café. Tea has multiple health benefits th...

Seeing poor care giving of older women in nursing homes who had to wear diapers limiting their mobility and causing worse health problems when she was a child inspired Cheri Grantham on a life-long mission to solve the common mid- to older women’s health problem of incontinence. Her goal is giving an option for active women and/or those caring for family members. Younger women can develop incontin...

As a young girl, Sunniva was fascinated by exploring places few people have seen. Her passion for learning about nature and the farthest reaches of our world despite the challenges continues to grow and motivate her make a positive impact as a teacher, explorer, and voice for change. Sunniva tells L4 about the physical and mental challenges faced when exploring in the Polar regions, especially the...

Are you fulfilled with your job? Are you looking to make an impact? Are you concerned about your health as a 50up woman? If you are ready to hit go on your next life stage, considering leaving corporate America for a start-up or feeling frustrated or challenged by changes in your health and don’t know where to get straight answers then this episode is for you. First, let’s get this out of the way…...

Can you begin improving your fitness at any age? Tina tells her story…hint, you don’t need to move into a gym or have any fitness experience. Why get fit? Fitness is all about lifting bags of potting soil if you’re a gardener or opening a jar of jam or chasing children around the park. Fitness can include lifting heavy weights (Tina does), but it doesn’t have to be all about bench pressing. It's a...

How can we increase diversity in high paying STEM jobs? Dr. Susanne Cappendijk found the answer by founding EDsnaps, a non-profit which provides mentors for students from Bronx, NY public schools. What is notable about her story? Dr. Cappendijk was 50 years old when she founded EDsnaps showing it is never too late to do what you’re passionate about. How would I describe Dr. Cappendijk? Authentic....

Digging Into Clay, Colors & Life with Sally Aldrich: Female Artists 50up Changing the World Sally’s origin story begins with a childhood immersed in art with a painter mother and literary editor father Her artistic skills deepen traveling post-college in Paris and Greece Sally juggles family and art A divorce leads to a job teaching art at a high school in Westchester New York Where she finds...