Middle Age Mess

At 39, Allan Misner was well over 250 lbs. That was the last time, though. Over the next 8 months, Allan lost 66 lbs and capped off his weight loss journey by completing a Tough Mudder with his 21yo daughter. This tough motherfu**er went on to create a thriving 40+ fitness community and continues to share his fitness secrets with middle age messes all over the world.

Jennifer Cain Birkmose is unbelievable (albeit accessible at www.vivavalet.com). She went from navigating minefields in Bosnia to saving poor countries with the World Health Organization to (ugh!!!!) Big Pharma, and then put that all away to be an improv performer in Switzerland while she's revolutionizing the Senior Housing industry. It's quite an adventure and a simply fascinating story...

David Petrovay spent more than two decades teaching and counseling blind students across the United States, although he'll tell you that these kids taught him a lot more than they learned. When he felt himself sliding into a Middle Age Mess, he transitioned into career counseling, published three books and now uses his lifetime of experiences working with some of the most inspirational childre...

Ever stumbled into your middle age and realized you've been doing everything wrong? So did Jerry Scarlato, except he decided to do something about it. He got a divorce, started a business and committed himself to helping people in his community improve themselves by building their confidence through health and fitness with his own creation, The Good Wolf Project.

Let's talk about hitting rock bottom and then climbing back up again to the top. This week, Middle Age Mess interviews the author of Man Up, Sober Up, Ryan Penley, who discusses his descent into addiction for drugs, alcohol and anything else he could find and then his slow rise from those depths to a place where he now helps addicts across the country find their strength, too. A truly inspirat...

Janine Bolon is a Financial First Responder, Analytical Biochemist, Media Production Company Founder and I think she may be our Galactic Overlord as well. She overcame a poverty-stricken childhood in Missourah to work on projects like, ah y'know, little stuff like decoding the Human Genome and curing AIDS. She's a remarkable woman with a portfolio of stories that simply don't come out...

Christian Yordanov is a health and longevity author and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P). His mission and passion is to teach people lhow to restore their health, optimize it, and transform your life so that together we can build a better world for our children. He lives in Portugal by way of South Africa and Bulgaria but, don't worry, you'll be able to understand his E...

Andrea Putting is an international speaker, author and Trusted Advisor. Through her keynote speeches, book, programs and podcast, she guides businesses to become an authentic influence by collaborating to grow prosperity that changes the world. While the cause is serving humanity and the environment, the effect is developing leaders and visionary teams that strengthen business, grow a community wi...

Marnie Dachis Marmet teaches busy women and teens how to implement sustainable healthy habits into their lifestyle to create a happier and healthier life. Marnie helps people get to the underlying root cause of what is keeping them from having the energy, vitality, health and anti-aging qualities that they want.  Check out the latest episode of Middle Age Mess where Marnie shows us how it just mig...

Dame Clarissa Burt is a tornado!!!  She has done everything and, better, talks about everything.  After 20+ years as a runway model in Europe, she came back to the US, produced Miss Universe, started her own production company and, just for fun, I think she ran NASA for a few years in the '90s.  And yes, she's a Dame, so don't screw with her, or me, now that I know her.  Clarissa is a...

Straight outta Germany, Kim Rahir, is a powerlifter, a journalist, a weightlifting coach and a female badass.  Just a few years ago, though, she was just like you - lazy, out of shape and trying to figure out how to make it through the day.  After dragging herself into the gym one day, her life changed.  Now, she is rousting seniors out of their lazy ways and showing people that, no matter how old...

If you're interested in hearing stories about complete and total badass-ery, tune into Dan Indante's podcast with Atlas Aultman.    Atlas worked with the Special Forces, Special Operations communities while in uniform and the Secret Service and presidential support communities while spending time in the White House during the Obama Administration.  His life plays out like a James Bond movi...

Hands down, the best podcast I've ever had.  Jannette Anderson is among the coolest people I know, and not just because she's from frigid Canada.  We talked about her jobs in phone sex, the time she sold all her family's possessions at the age of 5 and a bunch of other outrageous life stories.   We didn't talk much about her business but that was only because nothing could top her...

In a world of "LOSE WEIGHT NOW, ASK ME HOW" BS, Tripp Parks and his company Ascend Performance Training has developed a cutting-edge health/wellness program that utilizes genetic testing, sophisticated body analysis and a whole heap of common sense to create 360 degree lifestyle regimens that will get and keep you healthier than ever. Listen to Tripp's practical, yet space age, discuss...

I can't describe Harvey Wizard or the podcast I just had with him so I'm not going to try. All I can tell you is that he is the self-proclaimed Most Interesting Man in the World and, for those of you only interested in the USA to the exclusion of the rest of the planet, also the self-proclaimed Most Brutally Honest Man in America.  And he's running for president in 2024. And he had two...

Taking a company from $50K to $500K in a year is good for the middle agers, the senior citizens and anybody else who stumbles into your office.  Doing that and publishing books, going on Oprah, having a Ted talk, and practically founding the life coaching industry would probably make you an interesting person to talk to.  Tune into Middle Age Mess and hear from Laura Berman Fortgang, a pioneer in...

OK, we've given you life coaches and motivational speakers and resume building but now we're gonna focus on what really matters - "how does an old codger like me get laid?" And to figure that out, we had a discussion with Dating Guru, Confidence Therapist and Image Expert Kimmy Seltzer who's teaching people all over the world how to get out of their living rooms and get busy wi...

Michael Maddox refused to go down the same road the rest of us do when we encounter middle age - no shoulder hair, flat butt or CPAP machine.  Instead, he woke up on his 40th birthday, peered down a potentially ugly 10 years and said, screw this, 50 ain't beating me, I'm Smashing 50.  And that's what he's done.  Tune into Middle Age Mess to hear how

Checking out of the corporate rat race and into your own gig is always terrifying - especially when the big 5-0 is on the horizon.  Melanie Mitchell Wexler not only figured out the secret sauce to be successful in this transition but she now coaches other would-be entrepreneurs in making the leap themselves.  Tune into Middle Age Mess and listen to how she did it, and how you can do it, too.

I don't care how much of a mess you think your life is, spend 47 minutes listening to the words and wisdom of 6'8", Hostage Negotiator, Undercover Drug Detective, Basketball Coach, Cancer Warrior Terry Tucker and you're going to learn how to get through it.  An 11-year survivor of a rare cancer that has cost him both his legs, Terry brings an unbelievable spirit and positive philos...

You want a mess?  Try getting diagnosed with cancer 6 weeks after receiving a clean bill of health, spending 15 months in chemo, going bald and having your eyes change color - now that's a mess. But after enduring all of the above, fitness consultant/author/race announcer Fitz Koehler dedicated herself to a recovery that saw her run a 5k just one month after her last chemo session, write three...

Dan Indante is both middle aged and a mess which, yes, are redundant but also grist for the mill of this podcast, appropriately titled Middle Age Mess. Cruising through his 50's with a bad back and the realization that he's figured nothing out despite five decades of trying, he decided to start interviewing a few people who might teach him a few things about appropriate aging or, more like...