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Hey Hey! On today's mini-episode I'm talking about life's biggest regret and turning it around to start living your life out loud TODAY!  It's time to stop letting fear hold you in the familiar and easy and start taking advantage of the time you have now because one day it will be gone and you'll wish you had it back. So, stop waiting - it's your time! Thanks for list...

Hey Friends - It's a rare Friday Night BeerBlog on a Saturday night. There's a lot happening in the McShane house right now with work, no air conditioning, and health problems of some family members, so when I sat down to write this week's blog I attached myself to this idea - that I am smack dab in the middle of what life has to offer.  We went to a baby shower for the first child...

Today on The New Old You I'm talking with 60 year old bicyclist and overall amazing athlete, Tracy Tolson. Tracy joins us today to share her athletic history and how she got into competitive cycling at age 40. She shares stories on some of her greatest wins and how she has overcome some of her greatest injuries. Together we share some racing moments and how we feel in the cycling group as wom...

Seeing your kids move into young love and all that comes with it is hard, especially because we remember what that meant. Hey now, these are my kids - I was referring to holding hands, snuggling, and smooching every now and then, right?! And in Cate and Chris's case, the annoying "BARNACLE!" movement. Parenting  humans entering the adulting phase isn't easy, just like parenting...

I've got a little mini-episode for you this week.  Every time I interview someone I ask them to give some sort of insight for this audience. Then someone turned that question around on me. It took a hot minute, but then I answered with something I feel I've always done. And that is Live Unapologetically. I'll talk about what that means to me and how you start to living unapologetica...

Mike is out of town, but that isn't stopping us from doing the Friday Night BeerBlog. I had had had to include Mike this week because the blog concerns him. We're talking about the terrible confusion over MASK-WEARING. If you are fully vaxxed, where do you have to wear it? Where do you not have to wear it? We've made it this far and I'm afraid to get yelled at for not wearing m...

Seeing your parents age and having to make difficult decisions with them and for them is something we all eventually will have to face. In this podcast I am talking with Michaelle Warner whose 89 year old father moved in with her and her family last year right after the pandemic started. Michaelle walks us through the signs, how the decision was made, the financial steps that needed to happen, the...

Hey - Lesley here - Tonight the Friday Night BeerBlog is about Overcommitted in many levels. To other people, to ourselves and then we overcommit our children. Are we move back into post-covid life, we need to re-evaluate what is ESSENTIAL. What activities do we HAVE to do and what can we decide to leave behind. Maybe there are some we still want to do, but we just need to slow their roll. Thanks...

The Hallmark Calendar is telling us that Sunday is Mother's Day. It's time to take our guilt and cram all the love and attention we haven't given her over the past 364 into this one day.  I kid, but as we grow up we don't celebrate our moms enough. We are too busy seeing her as Wonder Woman with a Lightsaber. There is no way this super hero would need anything form us to be the...

On the podcast this week, Lesley is talking about WHERE to start when you know you need some career clarity. Finding CLARITY is a process and a moving target. It's something you need to be working toward at all times and it is not an end goal.  So many people get tripped up at this step. They know they want to make a change, but have no idea what it is or where to look for it. This podcast wi...

On this week's FNBB - Mike and I are on the road  packing up our youngest and moving her stuff back to KY. She is graduating from college. We are reminiscing about her strong will and knowledge of self as we hope  that she will be able to translate that into some success as she enters the young adult years.  It's the time of graduation and we offer congratulations to all of those parents...

In this episode of The New Old You, my friend Marla Bobrow and I are doing one of those old fashioned The More You Know type PSAs as we head into the late spring and summer months.  We are talking about Skin Cancer, including: - What it is - Where and why you get it - Some science of UV rays - How it's found and personal procedures to remove it - What are your risks - Tips on preventing it As...

On Number 13 FNBB Mike and I are reading the blog and talking about REST and how it is imperative to your actual survival. If you are deprived it is akin to a form of torture. We argue that getting enough rest is hard, but needs to be 42% or 10 hours of your day. Thanks for listening - we always appreciate your support. You can sign up to receive weekly updates at my website https://llmcshane.com...

In our return to the Inspiration Series, another former teammate and 11 time Ironman, Denise Everett, is talking with me about life before, during, and after a head on collision with a truck while riding a scooter that left her a quadriplegic. Her will to live, her approach to life and recovery, and sheer awe that she lived to hold her new grandchild will amaze you and encourage you to live life t...

It's the 12th Friday Night BeerBlog and tonight I'm talking about the NEW work-life balance scenario that exists in our NEW normal. There are some benefits, but don't think that you employer isn't benefitting as well. Is it balanced? Let's discuss it. Thank you for listening - we hope you have enjoyed it and if so, share it with other people who are being held prisoner by...

I finally decided to name the elephant in the room. It is IMPOSTER SYNDROME and 70% of us suffer from it, although you wouldn't know because people are often embarrassed to admit it.  When I first heard about it, it was like someone finally giving a name to the thing I was feeling. I was relieved to know I wasn't crazy and this thing did exist. Once I was able to give it a name, I set ou...

On this week's reading of the Friday Night BeerBlog, I talk about the constant yearly annoyance of taxes, especially for the self-employed. I'm lucky because Mike does our taxes, but that doesn't let me off the hook. I make sure to have snacks and beer at the ready. Our downloads of the FNBBs are down, so I'm contemplating not doing the Friday night blog podcast read, but I nee...

This week's podcast is for every sex and age! Nutrition therapist and exercise physiologist Nancy McElwain is talking about the benefits of whole food nutrition and how it helps heal the body by dealing with issues of individual systems as part of the whole. She also gives us advice on  charging the body up to help deal with the aging process. Among the topics are: 1. Holistic nutrition looks...

It snowed on April 1st. I freaked out, but realized that the weather was just having a little setback. I'm no stranger to setbacks. They happen to me all the time. And it would be easy to give up - the big snooze monster would love that, but you just have to get up and go again. Setbacks assume some motion forward - two steps forward, one step back, but the good thing is that you are still on...

Trying to decide which book to buy or read can be overwhelming. There are so many Personal Development books out there, so little time to read. Lynn Birkett and Lesley try to make this decision a little easier by making three recommendations each to help you inform your decision. They'll discuss and recommend the following: Lynn: 1. Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn:  https://www.amaz...

In this week's Friday Night BeerBlog, we are celebrating the 26th anniversary of our first date and reminese about how when you start dating someone new, you date their friends as well. I have been friends with a lot of same people over the last 26 years as well, which make it all of our anniverary. I've grown up in my adult life with many of the people I met on that first date and in th...

Cheryl Hart offers us a master class in discovering our psychological core in order to conquer our negative self-talk and negative self-concept. The episode is chalk full of good insights and advice, but some takeaways include: 1. Your psychological core is your values, beliefs, and attitudes - often people don't spend enough time with these in determining who they really are - their real sel...

This week on the Friday Night BeerBlog, Lesley delivers her Megan Thee Stallion manifesto on how we, as women, need to work on accepting compliments and more importantly, work on complimenting ourselves. Own your power and remember who you are - you are still that girl you always were.  We hope you have enjoyed the podcast version of the blog. You can always read the blog version at my website  ht...

In this week's podcast, Lesley gives out six tips or habits to establish to help survive the remaining Corona Days ahead until we get back to a more normal existence and how we can take these habits into our new life in order to benefit us. We talk about: 1. Creating a Morning Routine 2. Getting in a workout 3. Showering and Wearing "real clothes" 4. Being Creative 5. Taking a goal...

In this week's Friday Night BeerBlog - Mike and Lesley ruminate on the year anniversary of the Coronavirus and how we are all used to change, but in a gradual way and how the Coronavirus brought complete and total change in virtually one day. It has all been a lot to deal with in one year. Some things considered normal will return to normal, some with return but only in time, and some will ne...