Beautiful Second Act

If you are in midlife or beyond then this is an essential podcast episode for you! I sat down with Dr. Madison Fandel, who specializes in regenerative joint therapy, hormone balancing optimization and replacement, and so many other treatments. Although she sees patients of all ages, including athletes, she specializes in many treatments that help people of a certain age  to live their best life, i...

Do you have a vision of the future life you want to create? Living with the anchors of your past will not propel you forward towards the life you want unless you start feeling good about it now. In this episode, I speak about your mood, and how the feelings you have  will effect how you think, and what you ultimately create for yourself. I share about how I turned around my life filled with anxiet...

Rhonda Vargas loves change. She embraces it. Never one to live a stagnant life, Rhonda has owned businesses, sold them, worked for other companies, and started all over again running her own online business in the middle of a pandemic. If that isn't enough, she and her husband decided to sell their home in Northern California, where they were settled with many friends, and moved to a town in...

In midlife and beyond, we've hopefully learned that trying to be perfect is unattainable, and a bit ridiculous. This stressful way of being only creates a life of disillusionment , and cannot give you the ease and peace that accepting yourself just as you are does. In this episode, I talk about how after a lifetime of trying to control situations and striving to be as perfect as I could be, I...

When you grow up in a huge Greek family, there are no secrets, but there is a whole lot of fun. Join me, as I interview Dena Paskaly, a midlife business woman, who lives every day as if it were her last. She's a traveler, owns a successful, and busy gated senior living community, and is the most fun person I have come across. She has two beautiful grown daughters, and  she and her partner, Ar...

Hey it's Patti. In this solo podcast, I go over all the reasons why I think change is good, and question why as a society we have had such resistance to something that is inevitable. If we can just get out of the way and accept what IS, then we can embrace the good things change can bring about. It's ok to make a change in your life, even late in life. It's also, not only OK, but be...

Welcome to the very first episode of Beautiful Second Act! I am Patti Diener, and wanted to tell you I'm jumping in with both feet! I've never done this sh**  before and technology is something I navigate on a tightrope. But scared or not, I'm doing it to bring you my honesty, my passion, and in this episode, pull the curtain back on why I started this whole circus. In our second ha...

After 26 years of marriage, two kids, a home in the heart of San Francisco, and what looked like the "perfect life," Keri Vaca left her marriage. Two days later she was diagnosed with Stage 4 Metastatic Breast Cancer, which the doctors said would take her life. This interview is about one woman's fight to save her life, in more ways than one. She said she was dying way before her di...