An important conversation this week with Sheila Callaham, founder of Age Equity Alliance. Sheila talks about the urgent need for employers to recognize age equity in the workplace for their own benefit, how the elimination of DEI policies in the US negatively impacts older workers and how many of the policies of the Trump administration will lead to hardship, poverty and homelessness for many who are currently over the age of 50. You need to hear this.

Our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging is Christine Matheson-Green and, at the age of 73, she has launched a project designed to capture life stories in memoir form and preserve them for posterity. She has been a journalist, educator and published author. But there’s even more to this firebrand of a lady than just that, as you will hear in our conversation.

The fires that swept through Los Angeles for weeks in January, propelled by fierce winds, cost thousands of people their homes. Damage totals will likely exceed 30 billion dollars but the greater damage is the loss of family gathering places, the loss of communities and the sense of fear regarding an uncertain future.

Wayne Lehrer lives in the hills of Santa Monica and he experienced the fires firsthand. Wayne has written a book called The Art of Conscious Aging and it contains a blueprint not only for how to live a great life beyond 60, but coincidentally, how to recover and move on from devastating loss and grief.