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Life sometimes takes us down an unpredictable path. Find your financial footing once your primary earning years have passed.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File lifes_too_short/ts89.mp3
- Featured Speaker Elizabeth White, Author
- Book Title 55, UNDEREMPLOYED, AND FAKING NORMAL
- Guest Website 55, UNDEREMPLOYED, AND FAKING NORMAL
- Guest Twitter Account @55fakingnormal
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Guest Bio
Elizabeth White is a seasoned nonprofit executive, author and aging solutions advocate for older adults facing uncertain work and financial insecurity. Ms. White earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Masters in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University, and a BS in Political Science from Oberlin College. She has written for Next Avenue, Forbes, Huffington Post, The American Society on Aging newsletter, Encore.org, and Sixty and Me. She has also been featured in The Christian Science Monitor and AARP Disrupt Aging newsletter. She resides in Washington, DC, with her daughter and grandson.
- Length (mins) 14:02
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Yoga is a fantastic way to improve mobility while taking it easy on your joints.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File lifes_too_short/ts88.mp3
- Featured Speaker Dennis & Kathy Lang
- Guest Website Yoga with Dennis & Kathy
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/dennisandkathylang www.facebook.com/yogawithdennisandkathy/
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Guest Bio
Dennis and Kathy Lang spent 24 years in the corporate world working for various Fortune 500 companies in positions of sales, marketing and management. They left their corporate careers in 2005 to pursue their passion. Both are certified E-RYT500/YACEP teachers of yoga, meditation and mindfulness, corporate consultants and authors of “Everything Matters - How a Corporate Over-Achieving Couple Found Real Truth and How You Can Too - and it’s not what you think.” The couple provides guided meditations and meditative instrumental music for the Insight Timer global meditation app. Annually, Dennis and Kathy lead more than 40 workshops and teacher trainings in the US plus corporate events and retreats overseas. Lovers of adventure and other cultures, they have traveled to 35 countries and their lifelong mantra is “finding fun and making memories.”
- Length (mins) 21:30
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Men face specific challenges as they grow older.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File lifes_too_short/ts97.mp3
- Featured Speaker Louis Bezich, author
- Organization Crack The Code: 10 Proven Secrets that Motivate Healthy Behavior and Inspire Fulfillment in Men Over 50
- Book Title Crack The Code: 10 Proven Secrets that Motivate Healthy Behavior and Inspire Fulfillment in Men Over 50
- Guest Website 50 Plus Men
- Guest Twitter Account @50plusmen
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Guest Bio
Louis Bezich is the Senior Vice President of Strategic Alliances with Cooper University Heath Care. As a passionate men’s health advocate, he uses his devotion to health and fitness to motivate men over 50 to establish their own healthy lifestyles.
With more than 40 years of executive experience, Bezich also serves as an adjunct professor in the Graduate Department of Public Policy Administration at Rutgers University. Bezich has published numerous articles in the field of public administration and health and is a contributing author to Corporate Lawbreaking and Interactive Compliance. He holds a master’s degree in public policy from Rutgers University and is a graduate of Harvard University’s Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government. - Length (mins) 15:22
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
What's the deal with perimenopause?
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File lifes_too_short/ts87.mp3
- Featured Speaker Mary Jane Minkin, MD
- Guest Website Madame Ovary
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Guest Bio
Mary Jane Minkin, MD, is clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the Yale University School of Medicine, and has been in private practice in New Haven (CT) for more than 35 years. Dr. Minkin is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, and she practices at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She earned her medical degree from Yale Medical School and her undergraduate degree from Brown University. She did both her internship and residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, the former in internal medicine, the latter in obstetrics and gynecology. She is a fellow of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FACOG), and has been a North American Menopause Society Certified Menopause Practitioner (NCMP) since 2002. Dr. Minkin has been Director of the Sexuality, Intimacy and Menopause clinic in the Division of Gynecological Oncology, in the Smilow cancer center at Yale New Haven Hospital since 2008. She has also been Director of the Yale Obstetrical and Gynecological Society (YOGS) since its inception in 2006.
She serves on numerous committees, notably for more than 25 years as Faculty Representative of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology on the Yale-New Haven Hospital Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, on the Yale Infection Control Committee, and on the Yale Antibiotic Drug Utilization Committee. She also serves on the residency selection committee.
Dr. Minkin has won numerous teaching awards, including the Irving Friedman Award, given by the Yale School of Medicine’s department of obstetrics and gynecology for excellence in clinical abilities and patient care, and the Francis Gilman Blake award, awarded by the graduating class to the clinical attending who taught them best. She has twice received the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics ‘Excellence in Teaching’ Award, annually awarded to one faculty member from each member teaching institution, has three times been awarded the Resident’s Teaching Award for best community attending physician, and has been a member of the Society of Distinguished Teachers in the Yale University School of Medicine since 2002. Additionally, Dr. Minkin was named a “Top Doc” by Connecticut Magazine in each of the last 3 years, and in 2009, she was honored by The Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame for her significant contributions to the care and well-being of Connecticut citizens.
She is a leader in women’s health education both inside and outside the medical community. She is lead author or co-author of articles in numerous peer-reviewed medical journals, and has written 7 books, including The Yale Guide to Women’s Reproductive Health, A Woman’s Guide to Menopause and Perimenopause, and A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Health (each co-authored with Carol Wright); and a Clinician’s Guide (with Karen Giblin), Manual of Management Counseling for the Perimenopausal and Menopausal Patient. She wrote a prominent chapter, “Hormones, Fertility, and Menopause” in Dorling Kindersley’s recent (2009) reference volume, Women’s Health for Life. She is the Women’s Health advisor for Prevention magazine, and has previously written a monthly column, “Talk to the Doctor” for this periodical. Dr. Minkin is also the Expert for WebMD`s Menopause Community. She also served on the editorial board for Good Housekeeping’s Illustrated Book of Pregnancy & Baby Care. Finally, she has been Medical Advisor (and lecturer) for the country’s leading menopause education and support group PRIME PLUS/Red Hot Mama s for 20 years.
Dr. Minkin is nationally known in the field of gynecology, and is often interviewed and quoted in the print and broadcast media, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, many popular women’s magazines, and BuzzFeed. She is the women’s health commentator and a frequent guest on Faith Middleton’s Peabody Award winning show on National Public Radio (NPR); did a cross-country lecture series with Dr. Ruth Westheimer on postmenopausal sex; and has spoken at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on hormone replacement therapy. She has spoken extensively on a diverse set of important women’s health issues, more recently with greater focus on peri-and post-menopausal management, including intimacy and sexuality for breast and gynecological cancer survivors. Concomitantly, she has also written and spoken on how the OB/GYN can protect oneself from malpractice suits, a topic of increasing awareness and importance in our Culture of Safety.
Dr. Minkin has been medical advisor to the New Haven and Yale Rape Crisis Service since 1979, and has received the Arnold Markle Award from this service to a community member for outstanding service to rape victims. She has regularly spoken and written on evaluation and treatment of victims of sexual assault, and wrote the chapter `Rape` in a classic text in her field, Principles and Practice of Clinical Gynecology, by Kase and Weingold.
Dr. Minkin is married to Steve Pincus, a mathematician, and has two children in their 20s, Allegra and Max. She enjoys opera, historical fiction, and the New York Mets (even through peril and pain).
- Length (mins) 25:17
- Waiver Received Yes
- Internal Notes no social media
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Celebrate the joys of diverse cultures through Americanized food.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File lifes_too_short/ts96.mp3
- Featured Speaker Chef Edward Lee
- Book Title Buttermilk Graffiti
- Guest Website Chef Edward Lee
- Guest Twitter Account @chefedwardlee
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Guest Bio
Edward Lee is the author of Smoke & Pickles; the chef/owner of 610 Magnolia, MilkWood, and Whiskey Dry in Louisville, Kentucky; and culinary director of Succotash in Penn Quarter, Washington, D.C., and National Harbor, Maryland. Esquire named his pop-up restaurant, Mr. Lee’s at Succotash, one of 2018’s Best New Restaurants in America.
He appears frequently in print and on television, earning an Emmy nomination for his role in the Emmy Award–winning PBS series The Mind of a Chef. Most recently, he wrote and hosted the feature documentary Fermented.
He lives in Louisville and Washington, D.C. - Length (mins) 13:23
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
It can be tough when your children move away. You're not alone.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File lifes_too_short/ts83.mp3
- Featured Speaker Samantha Lewis, Life Coach & Corporate Wellness Facilitator
- Guest Website Samantha Lewis
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/SamanthaLewisFacilitator/
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Guest Bio
Samantha Lewis is a life coach, corporate wellness practitioner and certified facilitator of several special programs by Access Consciousness®, including Being You Adventures.
Throughout her corporate career in sales and marketing, she retained an avid interest in mental, physical and spiritual wellness and is trained in Shiatsu and Indian Head Massage, acupressure and aromatherapy.
Samantha now draws upon her wide range of skills and her personal moments of both joy and sadness to facilitate empowering workshops for groups and individuals. - Length (mins) 10:18
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Find out how to endure difficult and toxic people in time for the holidays.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File lifes_too_short/ts79.mp3
- Featured Speaker Doris Schachenhofer
- Guest Website Being You Adventures
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/people/Doris-Schachenhofer/100008956052773
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Guest Bio
After completing her social work studies in Vienna, Doris Schachenhofer worked with children, homeless people, delinquent teenagers and prisoners transitioning back into the real world.
As an Access Consciousness® facilitator, she now travels the world supporting people to be more of themselves.
Her Being You classes are delivered in both live and online settings.
- Length (mins) 13:35
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Aside from personal safety, a significant concern when leaving an abuser is financial well-being.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File lifes_too_short/ts95.mp3
- Featured Speaker Rosemary Lombardy, Author
- Organization Breaking Bonds: How to Divorce an Abuser and Heal - A Survival Guide
- Book Title Breaking Bonds: How to Divorce an Abuser and Heal - A Survival Guide
- Guest Website Rosemary Lombardy
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/xbreakingbonds
- Guest Twitter Account @xbreakingbonds
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Guest Bio
Rosemary Lombardy is a financial advisor with over 35 years of experience. Although her professional expertise is in financial matters, her perspective on marital abuse, divorce, and recovery is deeply heartfelt and holistic. She draws on decades of personal experience, as well as the experiences of others who have gone through similar situations, to help inform abused women so that they will become empowered to leave their abusers and begin to heal.
Her former background in law, as well as being both a Catholic who has studied the Kabbalah and a Reiki master, have enabled her to provide practical guidance and spiritual techniques that women can use when they most need them. Her intention with Breaking Bondsis to offer a comprehensive plan to foster self-awareness, self-responsibility, empowerment, and critical thinking so that women can break the cycle of abuse in their families and truly heal to transform their lives. - Length (mins) 17:15
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Find out why warming up and cooling down are so important.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File lifes_too_short/ts94.mp3
- Featured Speaker Brian Parr, PhD
- Guest Website American College of Sports Medicine
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Guest Bio
Brian Parr, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Exercise and Sports Science at the University of South Carolina Aiken where he teaches courses in exercise physiology, nutrition, and health behaviors.
He also conducts research related to physical activity and weight loss. - Length (mins) 16:57
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Make the most of your dates to find your mate.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File lifes_too_short/ts93.mp3
- Featured Speaker John Gottman, PhD
- Guest Website The Gottman Institute
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Guest Bio
World-renowned for his work on marital stability and divorce prediction, John Gottman has conducted more than 40 years of breakthrough research with thousands of couples. His work on marriage and parenting has earned him numerous major awards and he is the author or coauthor of over 200 published academic articles and more than 40 books, including the bestselling The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. Dr.Gottman’s media appearances include Good Morning America, Today, CBS This Morning, and The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well articles in The New York Times,Redbook, Glamour, Woman’s Day, People, Self, Reader’s Digest, and Psychology Today. Cofounder of the GottmanInstitute with his wife, Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman, John is also Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Washington, where he founded The Love Lab and conducted much of his research on couples.
- Length (mins) 11:54
- Waiver Received Yes
- Internal Notes no social media
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
