The Over 50 Health & Wellness Podcast

Latest Episodes:

Strong and Lean with Mark Lauren Nov 16, 2022

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What can those of us over 50 learn from the military’s elite special forces? These men and women are the fittest of the fit, the toughest of the tough. The grueling training and testing they must go through weeds out all but the absolute best. In fact, depending on the program, the attrition rate from applicants to graduates is anywhere from 70 to 95 plus percent.

Now for most of us over 50 the combat special forces training go-till-you-puke mentality (and then go some more) would not serve us well. And most of us would not respond well to a hardcore drill sergeant screaming in our face to keep moving.

But there are lessons to be learned from these amazing people about mental toughness and the importance of staying strong and lean to be capable to handle whatever life throws at us.

Join us today as Mark describes his life in the military, what it taught him, and how he’s taken that knowledge and created workout programs for ordinary people like you and to build our best bodies with no equipment, anywhere, any time.

You can connect with Mark in the following ways:

Website - https://marklauren.com

New Book - Strong and Lean: 9-Minute Daily Workouts to Build Your Best Body: No Equipment, Anywhere, Anytime
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/125078719X/

Instagram - @mark_lauren_training

Facebook - @bodyweight

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/marklauren2

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Take the free, three-minute Fully Alive Quiz to discover how well your current habits support your strength, metabolism, energy and independence. Answer 20 quick questions across the four pillars of healthy aging—Nourish, Strength, Move and Recover—and receive your personalized result with clear next steps.

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Wake Up, Shake Up, & Thrive with Ellen Kosher & Dominique Den Dhaou Nov 09, 2022

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There are plenty of great analogies for healthy aging. But today we’re going to use the analogy of healthy aging as a Swiss watch. The Swiss have the reputation of creating the finest precision timepieces on the planet. And we’re going to envision the elements of healthy aging as gears within the watch – each one precision made and meshing perfectly with the others, so that they move in perfect harmony. And obviously, if one of the gears is malfunctioning, it will affect the overall performance of the watch.

Join us today as Dominique and Ellen describe the 5 “gears” that make up healthy aging and tell us how to be cool after 50!

You can connect with Ellen and Dominique in the following ways:

Website - https://www.wakeupshakeupthrive.com

Wake Up Shake Up Thrive LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/wusut/

Ellen’s LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellenkocherwhealthness/

Dominique’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominiquebendhaou/

Instagram - @wakeupshakeupthrive

Facebook - @wakeupshakeupthrive

Book - Wake Up, Shake Up, Thrive: How To Lift Up Your Life In Your 50s and Beyond

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How ready is your body for the next 30 years?

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Over 50 and frustrated with your progress? Book a free Silver Edge Clarity Call and get a clear plan forward.

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Rethinking Our Food Supply with Tyler Dawley Nov 02, 2022

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We live in strange times. Most of us now live in urban environments, and we’ve become completely disconnected from our food. Even the types of things we call food has changed drastically in recent history. It’s highly doubtful that someone 200 years ago would recognize some of the ultra-processed, colorfully packaged substances we eat as food.

For most of human existence we’ve eaten plants and animals and had an intimate connection with our food. Today we shop in clean well-lit grocery stores where our food is neatly processed, packaged, and labeled. And most of us have never seen the foods we eat in its original state, let alone raised, tended, harvested, and processed it – we’ve wholesale outsourced our foods supply to big business, factory farms, and industrial scale agriculture. And this is taking a toll on our health and wellbeing.

My guest today is Tyler Dawley. Tyler is part of a new vanguard of farmer who are rethinking old paradigms. His generation of small farmers are questioning and reimagining the family farm traditions and implementing regenerative farming practices not just because it’s better for the earth and livestock, but because it allows them to compete with the industrial food machine on their own terms.

Tyler’s family have owned the Big Bluff Ranch for six decades – that’s four generations. Join us today as Tyler shares what it’s like to be a rancher raising grass fed beef and pasture poultry.

Tyler mentioned the following resources during this show:

Website - https://bigbluffranch.com

Book – Eating on the Wild Side by Jo Robinson

Jo Robinson’s Website - https://eatwild.com

Book – Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

Facebook - @bigbluffranch1

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-dawley/

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Client Spotlight - Meet Emily Oct 28, 2022

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My guest today is Emily. I first met Emily when she participated in a 21 Day Get Lean Challenge that we recently ran – and while she didn’t win the challenge, she was the winner of a free 30 day coaching giveaway that we did on the kickoff call for that challenge.

Join us today as Emily shares her own health and wellness journey, what it’s like working with Coach Monica here at the Silver Edge, and the remarkable results she’s obtained in a very short amount of time.

We discussed the free Fix My Diet assessment in this episode and it can be found at:

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How ready is your body for the next 30 years?

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Over 50 and frustrated with your progress? Book a free Silver Edge Clarity Call and get a clear plan forward.

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Discover Yourself Through Movement with Paula Chambers Oct 25, 2022

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There are many ways of defining fitness. My Webster’s New World College Dictionary defines fitness as, “the condition of being fit; suitability, appropriateness, healthiness, etc.” Which might just be the worst definition in the history of definitions – I’m no scholar, but I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to use the word you’re defining in the actual definition.

So, back to the dictionary for a definition of fit. The dictionary defines the adjective fit as “in good physical condition, healthy.” OK, so a little better there – but it seems vague and still not particularly helpful.

But I suppose a better question would be – what does fitness mean to you? It seems to me that we all tend to view fitness through our own lens. Ask an endurance runner what fitness is and she’ll likely answer that it’s someone who can go long distances. Ask a sprinter and the answer is likely to be someone who is very fast. Ask a power lifter and the answer will almost certainly include strength and the ability to lift very heavy things.

Today’s guest has her own take on the definition of what it means to be fit, and I think you’ll be hard pressed to argue with her definition!

My guest today is Dr. Paula Chambers. Paula is a dance healer and somatic educator whose mission is helping people build wellness, mindfulness, and self-esteem by moving to music, sensing their bodies, and feeling their feeling. Join us today as Paula helps us reconnect to our feelings through movement.

You can connect with Paula in the following ways:

Facebook - @SFValleyNia

Instagram - @drpaulachambers

www.nianow.com

www.paulachambers.me

Signup link for "Intro to Nia Technique with Paula Chambers” – this event takes place on January 8, 2023

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How ready is your body for the next 30 years?

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Over 50 and frustrated with your progress? Book a free Silver Edge Clarity Call and get a clear plan forward.

👉 https://go.silveredgefitness.com/clarirty-call

Coach's Corner - Meet Coach Monica Oct 21, 2022

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For today’s edition of the coach’s corner, we have a special guest. If you are in our private Facebook group, then you already know who Coach Monica is. Monica was my first employee here at the Silver Edge, and as you’ll soon hear I originally hired her in the role of a Community Success Manager – and she’s absolutely knocked that out of the park! Today Monica still supports me in that role, but she’s also coaching clients. Join us today as Monica shares her personal fitness journey and talks about what it’s like to work with me and a fast growing and often chaotic company!

OK, without further ado let’s meet Coach Monica!

You can connect with Coach Monica by email at monica@silveredgefitness.com.

You can always find Coach Monica in our the Over 50 Lean Body Blueprint Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/silveredgefitness

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How ready is your body for the next 30 years?

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Over 50 and frustrated with your progress? Book a free Silver Edge Clarity Call and get a clear plan forward.

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Build a Stronger Mind and Memory with Francine Waskavitz Oct 19, 2022

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How many of you can relate to this? You walk from your living room to you home office. But now you’re standing in the middle of the room looking around. What the heck was it that you came in here for? You rack your brain… still nothing. So you decide to retrace your steps. Back to the living room. Hmmm, no apparent clues here. And while you can’t remember what it was that sent you to your office in the first place, you do remember that it seemed important.

What’s going on here? Are these warning signs of early stages of dementia? Or does our memory just start to diminish as we age?

Today’s guest says that while memory loss as we age is common it is NOT normal!

My guest today is Francine Waskavitz. Francine is a speech-language pathologist, and integrative health and nutrition coach, and memory health coach who specializes in helping people build better, stronger, more resilient minds and memory. Join us today as Francine shares with us her top tips on improving our memory health.

You can connect with Francine in the following ways:

Website - https://www.francinewaskavitz.com

Instagram - @francinewaskavitz

Facebook - @francinewaskavitz

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How ready is your body for the next 30 years?

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Over 50 and frustrated with your progress? Book a free Silver Edge Clarity Call and get a clear plan forward.

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Escape From Emotional Eating with Jessica Procini Oct 10, 2022

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Indulge me for a moment, and let’s imagine this together. Let’s picture a woman who is a boss babe, she has her act together. She’s a type A over achiever and she gets things done. She’s kicked ass in her career, climbed the corporate ladder and is by all measures highly successful in her work life.

Her kids were outstanding children, made straight As in school, went to highly regarded universities, and of course excelled there and now are starting their own successful careers.

She’s on the board of a national nonprofit and her name regularly comes up when discussing who’s who in her community.

From outward appearances this woman is successful and in full control of her life. But this woman has a secret. She is in full control of all aspects of her life – except one. She’s an emotional eater. And paradoxically the more successes she experienced in her life, the more she turned to food for comfort.

How can this be? How could this woman be so intelligent, so successful, so together in all areas of her life except when it comes to something as simple and fundamental as eating?

My guest today is Jessica Procini. Jessica is the founder of Escape from Emotional Eating and is on a mission to help high achievers heal the roots of their emotional eating so they can use food as a nourishing asset rather than a self-destructive way to cope, soothe and attempt to escape their busy, stressful lives. Jessica’s work has received multiple awards from the Institute of Psychology of Eating and she’s been featured in noteworthy media outlets such as ABC, CBS, and MindBodyGreen.

Join us today as Jessica shares her own story as well as well as how to stop using food to cope and start using food to thrive.

You can connect with Jessica in the following ways:

Main website - https://escapefromemotionaleating.com

Free 4 Roots of Emotional Eating Clarity Quiz - www.innerwork.me

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/JessicaProcini

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How ready is your body for the next 30 years?

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Over 50 and frustrated with your progress? Book a free Silver Edge Clarity Call and get a clear plan forward.

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Staying Socially Connected as We Age with Molly Wylie Oct 05, 2022

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How has your social network changed over the last few years? Many of us as we age begin experience life changes that often affects our social circle. For example, many of you listening right now may have gone to an office for work every day pre Covid. And whether you loved or hated that job, you interacted with the same group of people every day – but perhaps now you work from home, and only occasionally interact with some of those same people over Zoom, WebEx and Skype. Or maybe we’ve recently changed careers, or maybe we’ve recently retired. Many of us are now empty nesters. We’re becoming grandparents.

And many of us have slowed down as we’ve aged. We’ve let poor health, aches and pains, loss of energy and vitality prevent us from doing the things we loved to do when we were younger – and healthier – with our friends and family members.

So my question to you is – how do we stay connected in an increasingly disconnected world?

My guest today is Molly Wylie. Molly is a PhD candidate in gerontology and is the head of programming for Hank – a new digital platform for people over the age of 55 to help connect them with other people and activities in their communities.

Join us this week as Molly shares why it’s critical for us to remain socially connected and active as we age.

Website: https://www.gethank.com/feed

Over 50 Health & Wellness Group on Hank: https://www.gethank.com/groups/over-50-health-wellness

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Want more over 50 health & wellness goodness? Check out our private Facebook group:

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How ready is your body for the next 30 years?

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Over 50 and frustrated with your progress? Book a free Silver Edge Clarity Call and get a clear plan forward.

👉 https://go.silveredgefitness.com/clarirty-call

Psychedelics For Everyone with Matt Zemon Sep 28, 2022

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There are two types of us listening to this podcast right now. Those of us who have experimented with psychedelic or hallucinogenic drugs, and those of that haven’t. And when I say psychedelic drugs I’m talking about things like LSD, psilocybin (often referred to as magic mushrooms), peyote, DMT, mescaline, ayahuasca, and other consciousness altering substances. These substances had their heyday back in the late 60s and were championed by people like Timothy Leary and Terence McKenna.

But then in the 70s the entire class of psychedelic substances were banned and made illegal here in the US. They became Schedule 1 drugs – which is the harshest classification of controlled substances and carry the potential for serios prison time for possessing these substances, and much more severe if you were caught selling them.

And mass hysteria followed. We heard nightmarish tales of people having bad trips and falling to their deaths from tall buildings because they thought they could fly under the influence of these dangerous drugs.

But there is another side to this story. Back in the 1960s there was some very promising research on the amazing healing properties of these substances – that they had the potential to be powerful medicines for treating things like PTSD, depression, addiction, and depression. But all that ground to a halt when these substances were declared illegal and dangerous.

Today a new generation of researchers are re-examining the claims that these drugs are dangerous, and are exploring the amazing healing and life altering effects these medicines can have.

My guest today is Matt Zemon. Matt is the CEO on co-founder of HAPPYY, a mental wellness company that specializes in psychedelic-assisted therapy and the author of new book Psychedelics for Everyone: A Beginners Guide to These Powerful Medicines for Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Expanding Consciousness. Join us this week as Matt helps us separate fact from hysteria and how we can safely and effectively use these powerful medicines.

Whether you are already a fan of these medicines, or are simply psychedelic-curious, this is a fun and informative discussion you won’t want to miss!

You can connect with Matt in the following ways:

Main Website - https://www.mattzemon.com

Happyy Website - https://www.happyy.me

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattzemon/

Instagram - @matt.zemon

Book “Psychedelics for Everyone” – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BF36K4RL

Matt mentions the following resources in this episode:

Dance Safe - https://dancesafe.org

Netflix “How to Change Your Mind” Series - https://www.netflix.com/title/80229847

Retreat Guru - https://retreat.guru

Guide to Micro Dosing - https://www.mattzemon.com/over50