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.

Why do some restaurants keep the lights so low that you need a flashlight to read the menu? And why do hotels insist on tiny labels on bottles of soap and shampoo, labels so small you need your glasses on to choose the right one?

These are just two examples of consumer ageism.

Our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging is John Bateson, a former private equity CEO and professor at both the London and Stanford Schools of Business where he acquired a doctorate in business management and Masters in Economics. John writes a Substack newsletter titled Consumer Ageism. And in our conversation, he lays out a number of theories about ageism and the older consumer.

Retirement coaching was a profession we’d never heard of before speaking with our guest this week, Marianne Oehser.

But retirement coaching didn’t suddenly pop into existence just like the Beatles didn’t suddenly leap onto the music scene with their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.

The profession is the natural offshoot of an aging demographic in which tens of millions of us in our 60s and older are marching toward something called retirement, like it or not.

What Marianne Oehser does is help her clients see a path through a forest of uncertainty and to walk that path with confidence. She and her business partner run a company called Next Chapter LIfestyle Advisors. Check out their site.

A sport that was once played by just a few people rocketed out of the gate during the pandemic. Today, some say it’s the fastest growing sport in the world.

We’re talking about pickleball, the quirky game with an even quirkier name.

Our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging is Carl Landau, a pickleball afficionado and author of the book, Pickleball For Dummies.

So what makes this such a popular game? Well, let’s find out.

Tony McGrath is 68 years old. He’s probably spent half a century working. He’s held senior positions in the banking industry, the insurance industry, he’s created and sold several start ups and he has no interest in stopping to put his feet up.

Why would he? He’s having too much fun!

Tony is our guest this week in what is a wide ranging conversation about age, growing older, and still finding the desire and energy to meet each day head on.

Is Tony a model for the rest of us? No. But he is an example of how your mindset can build a life worth living.

For most of the 20th century there existed a chasm between natural medicine and mainstream medicine, dominated as it is by the big pharmaceutical companies of the world.

It’s like an ongoing mythical war between Heaven and Hell, good and evil, however you view it, and whichever side you take.

But two and a half decades into the 21st century that may be shifting. There is a growing willingness by general practitioners and specialists to take an unbiased look at how natural medicine can complement their own work, especially when there are more and more concrete examples of the effectiveness of natural medicine.

Our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging is Amanda King https://www.amandakingnd.com/about, a doctor of natural medicine who works in the field of integrative oncology. What she can achieve with a cancer patient by taking a metabolic approach through diet is impressive.