Smart Sassy Seniors

Jen and Alice are about to celebrate their first wedding anniversary and like all relationships, there is the being, being who you individually are and what you learn from each other. In this episode, Jen and Alice share the lessons and gifts from their relationship.

Are you truly committed to achieving your goals? Commitment at different levels leads to achieving results at different levels. Join Jen and Alice in this episode as they discuss the significance of commitment and how it influences them to attain their goals.

With the rising levels of anxiety, depression, and mental health issues due to the difficulty of switching off from work. In this episode, Jen and Alice discuss the importance of leaving work at work, particularly in the context of the hybrid workspace where many people work from home.

Happiness. Everyone says they want it, but they don't make conscious efforts to work at creating it. In this episode, Jen & Alice share their key factors to making a happy life and the importance of continuing to work at it.

Our Deepest Fear is a poem written by Marianne Williamson. In this episode, Alice and Jen talk about the significance of this poem in their lives.

Alice shares about a documentary on Michelle Obama she was recently watching, and in one scene, Michelle is talking to a group of girls and explains 'what you practice, you become'. In this episode, Jen and Alice talk about why this resonated with Alice and how it relates to her work in mindfulness.

Dr Alice MacKinnon is a Stillness Ninja and Mindfulness expert. In this episode, Jen and Alice talk about Alice's journey in mindfulness, what mindfulness practices are and how you can incorporate them into your life.

You deserve 1 per cent to play. People have forgotten how to play. In this episode, Jen and Alice break down the importance of play in our physical and mental health.

Everyone has BS around their BS (big stretch). In today's episode, Alice and Jen talk about how they move through their BS about their BS!

What is your poo telling you? In this episode, Jen and Alice talk about the importance of being regular, what your poo can tell you about your health and what proactive measures you need to be taking.

What are your core basics for vitality? In this episode, Jen and Alice discuss their core basics to enable them to live a life from prevention.

Shine your brightest self. In this episode, Alice and Jen talk about Jen’s journey in owning her shiny unicorn, sparkling, rainbow loving self, and how being authentic and who you truly are is what makes you shine brightly. Never allow anyone to take that away from you.

Both Jen and Alice are surfers of many years experience. Their thousands of hours in the water have yielded many learnings, not only about their surfing skills but how to live richer and more meaningful lives on land. In this episode they share some of these learnings.

There’s a Native American Indian story about two wolves that live within us - one is fear, and one is love. The one that thrives within us is the one we feed. In this week’s episode, Jen and Alice chat about love and fear and how to nourish love at all levels of our lives. They also address how to live lightly with fear.

Are you constantly saying ‘I know that’, but knowing and doing are two completely different things? In this episode, Alice and Jen explore what stops us from success in our lives.

Comfortable with being uncomfortable. We don’t always like it, but we know the importance of it, as that is where all the juicy stuff lies. In this episode, Alice and Jen explore what it means to be uncomfortable, and how it stretches us as we grow.

Biohacking and longevity is really based on the principles of naturopathy, and that is living from a place of prevention. Being strong, fit and healthy as we age. In today’s podcast episode, Jen and Alice share their favourite things to do in their lives to enable them to live from a place of prevention, biohacking their lives!

Jen and Alice are both long-time, mainly plant-based eaters and love the health, environmental and ethical benefits of this approach to food. In this episode they chat about the need to ensure enough protein is consciously included in vegetarian and plant-based diets too, they can continue to power physically through life.

Never underestimate the power of smell and its capacity to shift our emotional state and to heal. Combine it with mindful breathing and we have a potential superpower on our hands! In this episode, Jen and Alice explore the power of aromatherapyand its potential to synergise powerfully with mindfulness practices like deep, slow breathing.

Being your own boss and running your own business is creative, sometimes fun and exciting, a commitment and it calls for a mindset of self-belief. In this episode Jen and Alice chat about how they each run their businesses and how their mindsets have evolved over the years.

In late 2021, Jen and Alice went to a women’s surf film festival and noticed there were no films about older women. So they set out to make that film. In this episode they talk about how Taking Off: Tales of Older Women Who Surf was born and why it’s about more than surfing.

Crossing the threshold of 50 can be a time to commit to great health and fitness (physical, mental and emotional). In this episode, Jen and Alice chat about some of the many ways we can move our bodies for great health.

Who are the women who have inspired, mentored, coached or uplifted you at different times in your life? In this episode Jen and Alice talk about women from their lives who have made all the difference.

Are you always on the go? Do you give yourself time to stop? In this episode, Jen and Alice talk about the importance of just stopping. 

Who knew that there are so many sides to sugar?! In this episode Jen and Alice begin exploring some of the ins-and-outs of sugar.