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Estrangement is a trauma filled, emotional experience for parents and adult children.  And as we head toward Christmas, the emotions of estrangement are especially being felt by over 25% of us out there.  Kreed Revere is here to share her very vulnerable story of her own estrangement from her adult children and what she did to heal herself and start down the road of reconcilitation. In this episod...

Author Laura Brockel is with me today on The New Old You to talk about her experiences in dating and online dating after 50 and her practical advice and suggestions if you decide to jump into this World yourself. Her book, Still Kissing Toads,   is packed full of hilarious stories and lessons learned along the way. Some of her suggestions include: 1. To get started know that all the dating apps ar...

Goal Setting can be extremely overwhelming if you don't have the right techniques in place to help you create a good plan. It all starts with your foundational beliefs and if you don't know what those are, then you will struggle to reach any goal. Cheryl Hart is back on the podcast today to talk to us about some Goal Setting Techniques to make sure that we start goal setting in a success...

I have a little holiday BONUS episode for you today. Now that Thanksgiving is over and we head straight into this holiday month with all of the pressures it brings, my friend Karen Sebastian-Wirth is here with a message of HOPE. Just in time!! Karen is such a joy to talk and listen to. I hope that you will agree after listening today. Some of the nuggets of truth that she shared are: Hope isn’t ab...

It's been a hot minute since I presented a solo podcast, so here I am just in time for Thanksgiving. Which is apropos because I'm talking about Gratitude or being Thankful, the reason for the season which we are entering. I think it is very important not to just give credence to being thankful on the fourth Thursday of November, I think it is important to have gratitude EVERY DAY. Being...

I hear it all the time when I ask the question, "What is your biggest issue in midlife". More often than not I get answers like, "Finding my purpose", "Figuring out what is next", "Trying to discover my next passion", "Trying to make a shift in my career". All very common, but then what do we do about it. Nothing. Melissa Hoffmann is here to start...

On this week's podcast episode I am talking with Lori Linford who is talking with me about how to be strong and single over the age of 50. After two marriages that ended in divorce, her second at the age of 45, three months after her youngest daughter was born, Lori embraced what she calls cocooning. She turned inward to learn more about herself and her responsibility in those relationships e...

I'm back with another episode of the Inspiration Series. This time I get to sit with 90 year old Peggy Tojo and her daughter Paula Hensley. Peggy shares with us stories of her husband's time in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, how they met, raising 9 children together and the prejudice they and their children encountered post war. We then turn to the amazing life of servic...

Functional Fitness is not about being skinny. Having some level of fitness is so very important to everyone - it can help make all the years you have that much more enjoyable. As you age, it will help you be able to climb the stairs, get on the ground with your grandchildren, and travel to fun places after you retire. Mary reminds us:  You can be creative and work on functional fitness IN your hom...

Lindsay de Swart is a Shamanic Coach, Energy Medicine Practitioner, Life Coach and Hypnotherapist. She has been coaching women for 16 years, helping  them ignite or rekindle their 'inner spark' and courage. In today's episode, Lindsay gives us a quick background of the Shamanic medicine wheel and it's teachings and leads us through the 5 phases or steps of dealing with big chan...

It is Breast Cancer Awareness Month! If you a woman over 50 and have not scheduled a mammogram this year, do it. Save those Ta-Tas!! Today on the podcast I am talking with my step-mom, Vicki Lindsey, who is a 17 year stage 4 breast cancer survivor. She shares her story of discovery, diagnosis, plan, and treatment while giving her best advice on how to best deal with the news of a cancer diagnosis...

Mike Purvis has been working on some of my back and hamstring issues for years. You would think that these issues would have come from some of the sports that I'm involved in, but NO - both have to do with my posture when I'm sitting at my desk or while I'm driving. I read an article recently about how desk chairs are doing immeasurable damage to all us that sit in them all day, at...

If you've ever thought that you couldn't lose weight, even a lot of weight, because you are over 50, then you haven't met my sister, Cathy Lindsey. Cathy is 75 pounds into her weight loss goal of 100 pounds by Thanksgiving. She shares her story about her past with her weight, food, and how that all felt growing up through her teens, twenties and into her fifties. She shares her mome...

Burnout is real and nothing to be ashamed of. We all face burnout at one time or another. The problem is when you are facing the early signs and either don't realize them or ignore them until it's too late. Today I'm talking about my recent awareness of being in the early stages or burnout and what I plan to do to combat them and to get back on track. I am referring to research done...

Lynn is back and helping me with making some very important recommendations - about podcasts. The world of podcasting exploded during the pandemic, including ME starting TWO of them, and we are here to make three recommendations each of podcasts that we enjoy listening to. Podcasting has become such an easy and inexpensive way for people to get their voices heard. There is a massive audience out t...

My mindfulness practice of daily meditation saved me during the pandemic. No joke. Being mindful and connecting to my senses in the present moment kept me from stressing out over quarantine, the need for work, worry over my children. I've never been so "in touch" with myself. But like anything, if you don't use it, you lose it. And with the World starting back up, that mindful,...

In this week's installment of the Friday Night BeerBlog I'm talking about my friend that passed away this week. He was a typical male - he wanted to be the strong one for everyone and save loved ones from their own personal issues. And then he passed away.  I don't have much to say except that I implore all of the men I know to open up, ask for help. Give us all credit that we are s...

On a quick FNBB tonight I'm talking about how freaked out I was when I had to leave my old phone at Verizon to transfer all of the data to my new phone. It was an afternoon freak-fest as I checked for my phone every 10 seconds. We've become so reliant on them. There isn't really any other explanation. For me, I hate to admit it, but I need to know where it is all the time.  If you h...

Today I am sitting down with estate attorney Nicole Willet-Jones who is sharing such important information about getting our estate affairs in order to give us piece of mind in this area. The things we talk about today: 1. Things to think about going into estate planning - a. What is your goal? Who are you taking care of? b. How do you own things? Joint or Individual c. Getting organized d. Person...

On tonight's Friday Night BeerBlog we are discussing how I let loose of my purse strings and hired some experts to clean my windows. It was a big move because I had tried to cut financial corners and do it myself last year only to spend 5x the time and less than 10% of the result that they got. And the difference is amazing. Sometimes you just gotta let got of that "I can do that" e...

Can you believe today marks the absolute MIDDLE of 2021. It is at least month-wise. Did the first half of the year pass how you thought it would? How have you been moving toward your goals for the year? Seeing any progress? I thought I wasn't as far along as I should be until I took out the list I made on December 31, 2020 and was pleasantly surprised that I am accomplishing more than I thoug...

Hey all! Well, I'm in Eastern Kentucky all ready to do my first Adventure Race. I'm doing it in a team of 2 other women and we will be paddling, trekking, and mountain biking to find up to 20 check points at Greenbo State Park.  I was just going to go with the flow up until a week ago and I figured I'd better prepare at least a little. And then my ADMIN side took over and I started...

On this week's FNBB, we had a guest. Ian is in town to celebrate his 24th birthday and so of course I had to do a blog post about being 24 and about how kids these days feel like they have to have life all figured out by then.  No one I know had all of the answers at 24. Some may feel like they do, but they don't. Life has to unfold. And it happens every day.  It's okay. Be okay. En...

Jill Seibert lost her husband, Karl, to ALS, a cruel, cruel disease, in 2018. Karl was a larger than life figure and she talks about how they dealt with the diagnosis, how each of them, their sons included, forged ahead on their own paths to deal with what an ALS diagnosis meant. She shares stories about the experiences in the two years between his diagnosis and passing, and how they all dealt wit...

I am totally stealing from this week's Wednesday podcast and that is because I really want to drive this message home. Do Not Wait until it's too late before you pursue a dream, a passion, a desire. If you are comfortable, but not happy, get uncomfortable and happy. Don't wait. Time is all we have and we have less of it every day. Thanks for listening today and please SUBSCRIBE. Mke...