Stay ConnectedMen and women in midlife are drawn to Mary Rogers’ honest take on the experiences of the empty nest, aging parents, spending an inheritance, dating and sex, travel, downsizing things, trashing bad habits and figuring out who you want to be now that you really are all almost grow up.
The podcast is always smart, usually funny, and occasionally painfully real in speaking to the cusp of GenX and Baby Boomers.
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This episode of Experience 50 will be extremely helpful to those of you who find at 50 that you want to start giving back to your community, the world, and the institutions that you hold near and dear to your heart. Our guest is my friend Steve Wade and the topic is volunteering and philanthropy.
Steve Wade currently serves as Director of Donor Relations at the Grand Traverse Regional Foundation. His career has included service in leadership positions at the United Way of Northwestern Michigan, Grace Episcopal Church, Charleston Area Medical Center Health System and the West Virginia Health Care Association. He is 50, married with three children and generously contributes his time, talent and treasure to numerous organizations ranging from Little League to the Poverty Initiative
It occurred to me while we spoke, that he would be the perfect guest to talk you through the steps and strategies to having the most positive volunteer experience possible. Full show notes at experience50.com/podcasts
The Honorable Judge Thomas Gilbert would like to put his 15 minutes of fame as “the pot smoking judge” behind him. Once the punchline of late night comedians jokes, at 58, he now is clean, sober and changing people’s lives, one addict at a time.
The former district court judge was spotted smoking a joint at a November 2002 Rolling Stones concert, and was reported to court officials. He defied calls for his resignation, withstood the very public humiliation of a national and local media machine that loved dragging out the story of his hypocrisy in jailing people for doing exactly the same thing he did when the robe came off.
The Tom Gilbert that you will meet in this conversation, is a very different man. The incident brought his addiction to alcohol and marijuana front and center in his picture perfect life. An extended stay at a residential rehabilitation center not only cleaned him up but set his life on a new and far more fulfilling course. At 58, Tom Gilbert is spreading the word that recovery is possible. His story gives hope to anyone with a loved one suffering from addiction.
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Ruth Curran drew on her experience successfully overcoming a traumatic brain injury suffered in an automobile accident at 44 to become an expert on maximizing brain health and function through lifestyle modification and "turning up the noise on life." Curran is passionate about the connection between the brain and daily functioning and believes everyone—regardless of age or stage of life—has the ability to use neuroplasticity to live a richer, deeper, more fully engaged life. She has created a series of photo-based thinking puzzles, games, and apps that help players work on cognitive abilities such as attention, memory, and executive functioning. Curran has a master's degree in cognitive psychology as well as more than 28 years of experience as a strategist, business development executive, and organizational behaviorist. She shares her insights and proven techniques for amplifying everyday experiences in Being Brain Healthy and at www.craniumcrunches.com/blog
Play some free brain games: Cranium Crunches
Ruth’s Book: Being Brain Healthy
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Learn how to adapt your experience at work into becoming a consultant. Our guest, Joe Sanock, successfully converted his skills at running his business to teaching others within his industry how to do the same thing. He was able to quit his full-time job and now is self-employed, making more money than he ever did as an employee.
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Mary Rogers and her guest Michael O'Neal, the Solopreneur Hour Podcast and Sololab, share how the 50+ crowd can cash in on the enviable wisdom and knowledge acquired over their careers and convert it into an online business, saying "goodbye" to the paycheck, "hello" to financial control, time freedom and fun.
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Lost your keys again? Screaming at nice people? Is it menopause? Maybe. Mary Rogers talks with midlife expert Diann Wingert, LCSW about how menopause may be the culprit behind rage, tears, confusion and yes, lost keys.
Thanks to Michael O'Neal of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast for introducing this episode of The Experience 50 Podcast.
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E006 Happily Ever After
An intimate conversation with a couple married for 33 years. Mary Rogers visits the home of Jim & Ann, chatting with them about their intimate experiences with jealousy, aging and dying parents, boomerang kids, arguments, mortality, having separate hobbies and shared interests, and their road to a “forever marriage”.
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Meet Rob Newman at midlife. The commercial producer has worked with Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin and Rihanna, just to name a few artists whose music videos he has produced. His first jobs included working as an extra on the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and spending summers in high school working for Howard Hughes cataloguing his newspaper clippings. In this episode, Mary and Rob talk about the ever-changing entertainment industry, Rob’s travels, his bucket list and regrets.
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Recommended books:
2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America, by Albert Brooks
A Curious Mind, by Brian Grazer
Sick in the Head: Conversations about Life and Comedy, by Judd Apatow
Liz and Jeff were happily married, in their mid-50s, enjoying the beginning of their empty nest chapter. Solid careers, excellent health and many plans made for happy days in their beautiful Scottsdale home. In this episode, Liz shares the heartbreaking story of losing her husband Jeff in a cycling accident just four months earlier. Liz wanted to share her experience with Mary and the listeners of Experience 50 because there is much to learn.
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On August 2nd, a freak thunderstorm hit the northwest corner of lower Michigan bringing torrential rain, 4.5 inch hail and straight line winds up to 100 mph and green skies. Incredibly, no lives were lost in the storm that left communities without power and small towns completely cut off by fallen and uprooted trees in the roadways. Our guest today, Carol Vernam, 57, found herself trapped in her car under the weight of a huge tree, alone with her thoughts. In that moment, she didn’t know if a tornado was coming, would anybody find her under the massive tree, or if was she going to survive this storm.
Ask yourself, if you had only a few moments before you might very well die, what would you be thinking?
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