Aging GreatFULLy with Holley Kelley – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Join us for this soul enriching power-hour and set your Aging GreatFULLy compass towards your True North to live your best life NOW by design on your terms! You’re invited to get excited about every milestone of your amazing life journey…Aging GreatFULLy style as we revisit this popular Flashback Friday favorite!

It’s easy find ourselves headed off course in life, but when we look to our own GPS and inner knowing, it’s amazing what wisdom and guidance gifts we each possess. Host Holley Kelley invites listeners to consider the advice the older version of “you” might give to “younger you”-- and it is surprising to discover what older you has to say! Each listener is encouraged to put pen to paper or fingers to the keyboard and write a letter – that is, “A Letter to my Younger Self” – and see what amazing wisdom and even sage advice shows up. Not only does she share her letter but she also reinforces that we each hold inside us now the wisdom of our elder self that we can utilize to get the most out of life. It is an extraordinary exercise but also reveals our own insight to help us navigate forward and trust ourselves and what we’ve come to know.

Sharing an “AGING GREATFULLY” acronym, we discover some incredible attributes that contribute towards an Aging GreatFULLy lifestyle, rich with meaning and experiences. We talk about how life can find us at both ends of the pendulum at the same time, happy and sad! And how we can deal with this reality that we often find ourselves in as best as possible. We also explore Aging GreatFULLy life expeditions! Adventures! Setting your compass to awaken you! Wow, it’s an episode to kick up your motivation, stir your enthusiasm, nurture yourself, deal with challenges and even redesign life while deepening your state of gratitude, plus so much more! It’s definitely an hour that is a call to action as we reflect on our amazing insight while allowing our dreams to lead us to realize our many nexts in sight!

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In this Aging GreatFULLy power-hour we invite you to embrace all things summer with one of our favorite health coaches, founder of Health Coach Academy, podcast host and returning guest, Omar Cumberbatch! We will be talking all things summertime fun, adventure and health as we enjoy this season that seems to come and go all too quickly.

Coach Omar offers some great advice for our health and wellness whether we’re traveling by plane or cross-country road trips and we may even have you wanting to pack your bags to go camping as we talk about all the delicious ways to cook up camp food! But summer has its own set of challenges with sun, heat and even bugs, so we also take a deep dive into these topics too to maintain our health and happiness along the way.

We talk everything – from the one thing that can take your salad from healthy to unhealthy –to different sweeteners, declaring war on unwanted bugs, getting enough water and even preparing ahead for your travel adventures. One thing is certain, you’ll be inspired to pack your bags and get you summertime fun on!

Host Holley Kelley begins the hour reminding that we began this year with our 2023 and Me episode setting our sails towards our dreams and being mindful towards our 2023 and Me goals. Mid-year is a great time to check in to ensure we’re still on track with those goals we set. She also shared in this Flashback episode that she’s practicing what she preaches and taking a first ever summer show break and reminded listeners to consider ways that they too can create windows and even weave micro-experiences of summer joy and adventure into their lives too—making it a happy, healthy FUNderful summer to enjoy and remember!

Omar Cumberbatch is a health coach, podcast host and reformed sugar addict whose coaching approaches break down complex health and wellness ideas so you can apply them to your daily life and get the results you seek! He has a business boosting podcast course for health coaches and even offers a 5-day sugar challenge so you can break up with sugar! Visit his website to connect with him, read his blog, check out his podcast, shop and other resources or to work with him one on one with his amazing coaching practices at https://www.omarcumberbatch.com/.

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Join us as we welcome special guest, John Samuel, who proves that not all superheroes wear capes…but they may carry a cane.

Author and Ablr CEO, John Samuel, brings a resonating message that echoes from the tallest mountain tops; that being, a more accessible world is possible—when we see the amazing opportunities in our differences. After a diagnosis of a degenerative eye disease, John Samuel’s life—and his chance at success—started to vanish. In a world systemically unequipped for accessibility, disability inclusion is often left out of conversations about diversity. For people with disabilities, it can feel impossible to adapt and thrive when you’re already set up for failure.

But John Samuel was on a mission of discovery and enlightenment that is certain to empower everyone. His 30,000 mile journey against inevitable blindness and search for acceptance took him on travels around the world, to hiking mountains and finding love and raising a family, all highlighted in his amazing book, Don’t Ask the Blind Guy for Directions: A 30,000-Mile Journey for Love, Confidence and a Sense of Belonging.

This heartfelt memoir is an important call towards acceptance and a powerful resource for change for both professionals with disabilities and individuals working to create an inclusive culture at any organization. It empowers one to accept themselves and others, breaks down barriers, and rebuilds a world where everyone belongs.

John Samuel is the CEO and cofounder of Ablr, a disability inclusion and accessibility business working to remove barriers that hinder people with disabilities from all aspects of life. In college, he was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic and degenerative disease that caused him to lose his eyesight. After struggling to belong and succeed in the sighted world, John now empowers both individuals and organizations to overcome accessibility challenges and build more inclusive environments. Learn more at www.johngsamuel.com where you can connect with him and purchase his book, Don’t Ask the Blind Guy for Directions, as well as watch his incredible TEDx talk. This is a must-listen power-hour every listener will enjoy!

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Aging GreatFULLy brings listeners a heartwarming show on an important topic for everyone, especially those who have endured loss of any kind. Join us for “Leave Your Light On: Navigating the Lighthouse of Life After Loss,” as we welcome special guests Shelley Buck, Kathy Curtis and honor the illuminating life of Ryder Buck in this transformative hour that will endear all. This year in particular, has been one where we as a world have endured losses of all kinds and in this episode, our guests share firsthand how to come back out of the dark tunnels of despair from the most devasting losses one can imagine.
We also talk about the mysterious emotion grief— and how it can cripple us, empower us, and at times, be a major motivator in what changes us. Kathy and Shelley talk about using the light from our passed loved ones to shape that recovery and how to use it as a tool to live with more energy and purpose.
We bring this show to our global family of listeners as we enter the holidays knowing it is a time of challenge for many, as we are certain the lessons of parenting and tribulations, combined with the power of Ryder’s larger-than-life spirit will hold promise and bring profound messages to others for living in the light and ultimately being the lighthouse keeper once again for others. And we will celebrate light, love and learn how to find our way back living after experiencing loss as we explore in depth the book, Leave Your Light On: The Musical Mantra Left Behind by an Illuminating Spirit, by Shelley Buck & Ryder Buck with Kathy Curtis.
Our guest, Shelley Buck moved to California after college to follow her dream of working for Disney. It was there she met and fell in love with her husband, Chris, who worked in Animation. After they married and had their first child, Ryder, she stayed home to be a full-time mom to him and the two brothers who followed. Shelley is a storyteller and artist which she expresses through her original jewelry at www.Shelrae.com.
Shelley shares her journey of having a child diagnosed with cancer, what it was like to experience that and then to suffer the most unimaginable loss. But her story is one that brings a lifeline to others and some essential messages for those who have ever been in the darkness. And that is, how exploring the light that our loved ones leave behind can be the bridge between that light and our own healing.
Ryder Buck lived a short but charmed life west coast, where he fell in and out of love, and formed an indie band, Ryder Buck & the Breakers, that made waves all across the LA area. After a 9-month battle with cancer, Ryder emerged disease-free and fearlessly followed his dreams of changing people’s lives through his music. When tragedy met him on a dark highway, the light he had so fiercely protected throughout his life became limitless. His words and songs continue to carry that light forward. Ryder received the Flame of Hope Award (posthumously) from a local cancer facility where he and his band played for cancer survivors. Ryder’s dad, Chris Buck, is the producer of the film, Frozen and Frozen 2. Ryder became the inspiration for a new character in Frozen 2 and for one of the films songs. You can learn more about Ryder Buck’s infinite legacy and music by visiting www.RyderBuckMusic.com.
Kathy Curtis moved into Shelley’s neighborhood when they were both 12 years old and an instant, lifelong friendship took root. She has worked as a healing artist and writer since 1991. Her programs support the transformation of grief, illness, and emotional barriers through creative expression. She is the author of Invisible Ink, a memoir about her own journey through grief. The unique writing process that brought her so much healing has since become a successful program, online and at various venues in the Midwest. Kathy’s intimate connection to the Buck family, combined with her writing and healing background, made her the perfect person to partner with Shelley on the creation of this book. To connect with Kathy or learn more about her work, visit: www.KathyCurtisInk.com.
To learn more about or purchase Leave Your Light On: The Musical Mantra Left Behind by an Illuminating Spirit, it is available on amazon, book retailers or visit: www.leaveyourlightonbook.com.
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In this episode of Aging GreatFULLy we embark on a path alongside our guest, author Judi Miller, and her not-so-ordinary journey of generational and individual healing. For those who have been curious about near-death experiences, past lives, and who have always felt different for reasons you have never understood, this is a must-listen show.
Judi Miller was a highly success CPA and corporate finance executive, who unknown to her co-workers, lived with a frightening secret. Throughout her life, Judi always felt different. But she also lived in terror of the night and the possibility of sexual assault continually plagued her, yet she never understood why. Happily married with children, her fears made life a modern-day nightmare, but the mystery as to why haunted her as she knew of nothing in her own personal background that would warrant this constant state of fear she continually faced.
Finally, she set out on a quest to unravel the mystery that had such a hold over her life and this ultimately led to an amazing and unexpected life changing journey she never saw coming. Her growth was no longer aimed at making herself better; instead, she began to focus on finding her intrinsic wholeness. This shift brought her numerous lessons around the nature of the creator, forgiveness, and the trajectory each soul follows throughout the course of many lives.
Tune in to this power-hour of enlightYOUment as we understand why she came to write the book, Perfect: A Path to Love, Forgiveness and Transformation, and how her transformational journey brought the right people together in the right order, to heal wrongs committed decades ago; before her birth and which left shadows on her soul.
In the end, it becomes evident we all have the capacity to open our hearts to connect with our true selves and allow the love that heals and direct us towards the light and path we are meant to take to awaken, prosper and serve. We discover ultimately that faith is paramount in our journey of life as we aspire towards living with more passion, fulfillment, clarity, joy and seeing life in all of its splendidly imperfect perfection.
To connect with Judi Miller or purchase her book, Perfect, visit her at www.JudiMiller.net where you can claim five bonuses with a book purchase. Thank you, amazing listeners, for sharing, downloading and listening to the Aging GreatFULLy show! We appreciate our fabulous listeners around the world who support our show! If you enjoy this episode, please leave us a show review on your favorite platform! We spotlight shoutout a special listener every episode that leaves a review and it could be YOU! You rock, you role model and we appreciate you making our show awarded by Feedblitz (among one) as a top show on aging in the world to listen and subscribe to two years in a row! To connect with us or find ways to stream the show, visit our official host page at www.CTRNetwork.com/holleykelley.

There are certain diseases commonly referred to as “age-related diseases” but that doesn’t necessarily mean just because you’re growing older, they’re predestined for you. In this episode of Aging GreatFULLy, we welcome Dr. Joe Nieusma, Founder and CEO of Superior Toxicology, for an important conversation about the top ten diseases commonly affecting older adults, the typical prescriptions prescribed, as well as some alternative remedies and natural approaches to help circumvent the affects or even avoid the risks altogether. Dr. Joe encourages us to adopt healthy lifestyle approaches early and reminds us that the little things we do can make a big difference in our health.
One thing is certain, we learn that it’s never too late to begin positive and healthy habits in the right direction. And the more we know, the better decisions we can make regarding our own health and wellness. We don’t have a crystal ball to forecast the future. But we can certainly implement a positive mindset, good habits, well care, and make strides each day to position our mind, body and spirit to be in the healthiest state possible! It’s an important conversation and in the end, we realize the more we know about these things, the more we can do to circumvent many of them.
This is an empowering hour, encouraging listeners to take charge of their health, one step at a time, one day at a time. Dr. Joe also has a program called H.O.P.E., (Health Optimization Prescription Evaluation) where he works with clients to assess their prescriptions to ensure they should be on what they are on, that there are no overlaps, interactions, and that they really need what they are taking. To learn more or to sign up for his H.O.P.E. program, visit him at www.superiortoxicology.com.
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In this captivating episode of Aging GreatFULLy everyone will be inspired to accept Mother Nature’s standing invitation to join her in the Great Outdoors as we welcome author of Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail, Barney Scout Mann. His stories will enthrall all, whether you are already addicted to the outdoors, newly ushered into the ranks of walkers, simply enjoy neighborhood strolls, or only dream of breathtaking vistas, you will be inspired to take a hike! One resonating message Barney Scout Mann has for everyone, hiking is no longer just for hikers!
In this wild meets the Breakfast Club adventure, Barney shares one unfolding adventure after the other as he and his wife Sandy, (“Frodo”) and four others hike more than 2500 miles from Mexico to Canada. Through challenges, sacred moments and gripping tales, one thing is certain in the end, anything can happen out there … and it often does.
Barney Scout Mann shares candidly how “out there” things become different, why hikers get trail names, dangers of the trail, some of the greatest challenges, something he still aspires to see “out there,” and so much more. Barney Scout Mann also shares tips on how to begin if you’re new to hiking.
Barney Scout Mann is one of the rare individuals who have hiked America’s Triple Crown of Trails: The Appalachian, Pacific Crest, and Continental Divide of Trails. His connection to the PCT run deep, as each spring for the past fifteen years he and his wife Sandy have hosted hikers starting out on the PCT (more than 7,000 to date) at their San Diego home.
Mann has served as board chair of the Pacific Crest Trail Association and is currently president of the Partnership for the National Trails System. Mann’s writing on the trails has been featured in a variety of publications, including Backpacker, the Portland Oregonian, and the New York Times online, and has been recognized with a Lowell Thomas Journalism Award. He is the co-author with Mark Larabee of The Pacific Crest Trail: Exploring America’s Wilderness Trail (foreword by Cheryl Strayed) and is the author of The Continental Divide Trail.
A must-listen power-hour of enlightenYOUment in this part action thriller, part arm chair adventure, and part handbook to one of the most fascinating trails on earth, the Pacific Crest Trail. To connect with Barney Scout Mann or learn more about his work, fascinating adventures or purchase his new release book that is a fascinating read from beginning to end, Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail, visit him at www.barneyscoutmann.com.
Whether you enjoy watching nature from your back porch or picnics at the park or immersing yourself deep in the wild, there’s something to be said for connecting ourselves with the greater natural world and its positive effects on our mind, body and spirit.
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Join this Aging GreatFULLy power-hour of enlightYOUment as we welcome guest, Dr. Thelma Reese, co-author of How Seniors Are Saving the World, for an empowering dialogue on how older adults are also some of today’s boldest experts, activists and leaders! In her book, co-authored with BJ Kittredge, they share inspiring true stories of seniors working with vigor and purpose. And they argue that instead of thinking of the 60’s and beyond as the twilight years, that instead, this is the time to shine in the spotlight and take your stage!
Tune into this inspiring episode as Reese shares why retirement should be UNretirement, why exiling seniors to nursing homes is not only dangerous, it’s our loss, how volunteerism is being transformed by older adults and how purpose and meaning are recharging love and intimacy for seniors. We even unpack in great detail the damaging ramifications of ageism—both how it’s not only counterproductive as a society—but how it insidiously makes its way into our own lives in ways we may not even be aware.
Dr. Thelma Reese is also the author of The New Senior Woman and the New Senior Man and creator of the blog, www.ElderChicks.com. She’s a retired professor of English and Education, the former spokesperson for Hooked on Phonics, and has long been active in national and Philadelphia-based educational and cultural initiatives. Her book, co-authored with BJ Kittredge, How Seniors Are Saving the World: Retirement Activism to the Rescue, is available on Amazon or her website where you can connect with her and learn more about her passion driven work.
Listeners will enjoy every moment of this soul-enriching hour as we remind everyone that age is just a number, we may be growing older but that doesn’t mean we’re old, and seniors are definitely not fragile; but we are certainly fabulous, incredibly resourceful, and absolutely not fading into irrelevance anytime soon!
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We’re all growing older, so why not be experts at this thing we’re so fortunate to be able to do! But society more often urges us to fight aging rather than embrace it. We are discouraged from slowing down, implored to keep our wrinkles at bay, and pressured to be “productive” in our retirement.
But as today’s special guest, psychologist Dr. Charles Garfield, asserts in his new book, Our Wisdom Years: Growing Older with Joy, Fulfillment, Resilience and No Regrets, the later years are not defined by success and self-mastery like they are for young adults. Rather, those entering their sixties find that, instead of anxiously asking, “Do I have what it takes to complete?” they find themselves wondering, “Do I have what it takes to lead a fulfilling life.”
As founder of the Shanti Project, an internationally honored volunteer organization dedicated to the care of the dying, Dr. Garfield is very well acquainted with this shift from “success thinking” to “legacy thinking”. In later years, the drive to keep accomplishing is usually less pressing than the desire to nurture loving relationships and to contribute to something that will live on. Dr. Garfield reminds us that we ourselves can be the difference between zero and one, reminding us each of the important role we can each play in the lives of others.
To address this shift in values, Dr. Garfield offers an invaluable roadmap to help those entering later years assess what they truly value, discover latent interests and passions that have been abandoned for more practical pursuits, and invest in the relationships they value most. Drawing on his own experience with aging, along with the accounts of several others, that he has counseled through the years, Dr. Garfield shares a new perspective to later life, and along with it, new visions and discoveries. From asking listeners to embrace a period of radical self-discovery, to discovering and defining their own joy, to forgiving those who have wronged them, including self-forgiveness, and so much more, this is a must-listen power-hour of enlightYOUment that listeners will find thought-provoking and continue to ponder well after the hour has ended.
Dr. Charles Garfield has innumerable honors, accolades and distinguished accomplishments including earning a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. He writes for and serves on the editorial board of Greater Good, a national e-magazine from the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Science and the Greater Good. To connect with him or buy his book, Our Wisdom Years, visit www.CharlesGarfield.com or to learn more about his Shanti Project, visit www.Shanti.org.
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We have no way of knowing how many days of grand living we’ll be gifted. We’ve certainly become inured to the reality that life discloses our experiences moment by moment in real-time and it is up to us to determine how we choose to finesse all the “whatisness” life brings our way.
In this authentically captivating episode of Aging GreatFULLy, we welcome the founding editor of Creative Nonfiction magazine, and architect of the genre, Lee Gutkind, author and editor of more than thirty books. He’s appeared on many national radio and television shows, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Good Morning America, and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Even before Lee Gutkind was spotlighted in Vanity Fair Magazine in 1997 as “the Godfather behind creative nonfiction” he was its most active advocate and practitioner. In 1991, he founded Creative Nonfiction, the first and the largest literary journal to publish narrative/creative nonfiction exclusively. All the while, Gutkind continued to practice what he preached, immersing himself in diverse worlds for months and years and producing dramatic and intimate creative nonfiction books about subjects as rich and varied as the motorcycle subculture, child and adolescent mental illness, baseball umpires, veterinary medicine and organ transplantation.
However, his latest writing endeavor wasn’t looking outward into the lives of others, but instead inward, towards his very own. Undertaking perhaps his most difficult and challenging work to date, Gutkind took to the task of writing his own memoir, My Last Eight Thousand Days: An American Male in His Seventies. In his revealing, candid and vivid portrait of aging, Gutkind examines aging like we’ve never seen before. And while the words on the pages are his experiences, thoughts and stories, having read them, I feel they may relate in some way to to every listener, as Gutkind has managed to unearth the truth on aging like only he can.
A must-listen, wisdom-infused episode that is full of fun, because isn’t that what life is about? But we also shift our attention to some topics that are important and serious that need our attention too. And Gutkind shares candidly the challenges he faced in growing older, including making connections, making meaning of it all, and what he did to find his way to the many better todays and wonderful tomorrows to come. This is definitely a power-hour of enlightYOUment that delivers on so many levels you won’t want to miss!
Gutkind’s memoir is a fantastic read for everyone that I highly recommend—to get your copy of My Last Eight Thousand Days: An American Male in His Seventies, or to learn more about or connect with Lee Gutkind visit www.LeeGutkind.com.
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