Middle Age Can Be Your Best Age

Middle Age Can Be Your Best Age

#Middle age, #roy richards, #elderly, #aging, #renewal, #career, #lifestyle, #relationships The notion that once we reach middle age our best years are behind us is utter hogwash! The secret is to filter the idealism of youth through the lenses of adult experience, a winning combination. Wake up! It is time to remove layers of self-doubt and to recapture positive emotions. Join host Roy Richards and guests as they confront common midlife career, lifestyle and relationship challenges and point the way to a brighter tomorrow.

Episodes

November 17, 2020 47 mins
In the U. S. today, 50% of the population is suffering from one or more stress-related diseases--does that include you or someone you love? Integral medicine physician, Steven Hall, MD, advises that any off-kilter aspect of your life, not just physical illness or discomfort, could be the cause. Tune in to discover how "integral medicine" can challenge the root cause of any ailment, including stress, by blending the best of conventi...
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Our country--indeed the whole world--has been in various stages of COVID-19 lockdown since March 2020 and health experts warn that we're not out of the woods yet. Tune in for advice from a lady who has experienced quarantine before, suffered frustrations and came out stronger and more positive.



 Following 2010 kidney and pancreas transplants, life coach and author Nikki Nardizzi was quarantined for 30 days. She also has been legally...
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October 5, 2020 41 mins
Social distancing along with your children while furloughed, unemployed or working from home is making parenting much harder. It's even more difficult if you as a parent must assume an active role in your child's home schooling. Guest, veteran educator, author and bullying prevention expert, Laurie Marshall offers creative solutions that can help your whole family get along and together safely blow off stress during the current COV...
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\Do you wake up each morning to the usual spate of local and national bad news making you fearful, angry and unenthused about the day ahead? Inspirational wellness coach Cathleen Elle introduces a simple exercise to perform each morning before getting out of bed that can set you up for a new day filled with joy, confidence and solid plans for accomplishment. Tune in to learn how this easy 2-to-3-minute morning ritual can completely...
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Isolation caused by COVID-19 social distancing has been hard for most of us, but especially on our teens! Guest, integral medicine practitioner Steven Hall, M.D. affirms that socializing with peers is very important to teenagers; in fact, a normal and crucial stage of teenage development. Learn how COVID-19 social distancing may be creating some especially powerful negative emotions in your teenage son or daughter. Understand why r...
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The college men's "Final Four" basketball tournament was cancelled this spring, but are you ready for your very own final four? Tune in as efficiency coach and author Sue Crum explains why the last four months of the year represent your last but best 2020 chance to firm up and launch career and lifestyle goals. Set yourself up for a joyful and productive 2021. Discover a "4-Step Success Process" to put yourself on the right path to...
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As a small child, Sean Conley set his goal to become a kicker in the National Football League. Against seemingly impossible odds, he became starting kicker for the University of Pittsburgh and suited up for 3 NFL teams only to have his lifelong dream come crashing down from injuries.



Now a highly successful author, business co-owner and yoga instructor, Sean Conley recounts the pressures and insecurities he dealt with on and off th...
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Because of COVID-19, jobs have been lost, hours cut, millions are working from home and normal routines for socializing, religion, recreation, travel and vacations have been upended. Award-winning keynote speaker, author and clarity coach Cindy Cipriani presents her copyrighted "5 C Solution" for navigating through COVID-19 or any other point in time when things start spinning out of control. Learn how to recall the 5 C Solution in...
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Because of COVID-19, a number of folks have become less active and put on extra pounds while others have increased jogging, recreational walking, bike riding or other form of exercising. How about you: have you become more or less active? Are you in better or worse shape now than you were in February, 2020? To inspire you to exercise, Dr. Bary Fleet describes his transition from lifelong couch potato to first-time triathlete at age...
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Restrictions are easing at many locations, but the risk of contracting COVID-19 remains. The good news: acclaimed author, surgeon and pain expert David Hanscom, MD visits to share concrete steps you can take not to avoid disease. Learn why continuing to worry and stress out over COVID-19 actually increases your chances of becoming ill. Also discover how to stop chronic pain, most often without surgery. Learn the danger and ineffect...
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August 10, 2020 41 mins
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, millions have transitioned to working remotely from home and for many this move will be permanent. The bad news: remote employees who struggle to balance work and childcare are 4.4 times more likely to exhibit signs of burnout. Best-selling author and physician Greg Hammer, MD presents GAIN, his 4-step path for resilience to burnout. Explore the benefits of each step: Gratitude, Acceptance, Intention a...
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In addition to taking lives and sickening millions, the COVID-19 Pandemic is forcing life-altering changes on folks of all ages, including middle age. Losing a job or a small business is hard on anyone, but especially on those of us over 40, highly qualified and successful in a trade or profession, suddenly required to start over. As she entered middle age, guest Sandra Matheson was forced to abandon her prior career as veterinaria...
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Despite widespread death and misery caused by COVID-19, the pandemic also is responsible for several surprising positive benefits. Tune in as author and worldwide meditation expert Susan Shumsky, DD shares pandemic benefits most of us never would have imagined, including a worldwide burst in creative energy and expression. Learn why it's good that during the pandemic we have become more introverted. Receive instructions and explore...
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A lot of us have gained unwanted pounds during the COVID-10 Pandemic--how about you? Has your physician advised you to lose weight? If so, don't expect to sweat off or starve off excess pounds through the latest fad diet or costly membership in a fitness gym. "You are only setting yourself up for failure," warns fitness guru, Kristen Carter. Tune in for her advise on attaining a positive attitude change, one that actually works and...
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COVID-19 and America's recent social unrest are highly stressful, but they need not sentence you to a lifetime of extended emotional distress. Clinical psychologist, prolific author and "self-coaching" guru Dr. Joe Luciani explains why anxiety and depression are not signs of mental illness but simply habits that can be unlearned. Tune in for tips on how to stop the run-away train of toxic, insecurity-driven "what-if" thinking. Unco...
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During the Coronavirus pandemic, nobody's job or small business income appears totally safe. To safeguard your finances, guest Angela Heath, the "Gig Income Guru," advises how to do the hustle and to develop independent streams of income in America's emerging gig economy. Tune in to learn why making money on your own can be far easier than you think. Uncover why anyone over age 45 definitely has value to offer the marketplace. Lear...
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Parenting is never easy but socially distancing at home along with your kids makes it that much harder. Creative educator and artist Laurie Marshall offers five tools for stressed-out parents at home with their kids to reduce stress, remain in control, and strengthen family bonds while confined at home with the kids. Regardless of age, uncover why you should treat your children as graduate students, exposing them to real-world prob...
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At middle age, are you burned out, disheartened, wishing you could be 30 again? Do you honestly believe that all your best years are behind you? Motivational speaker, coach and author Joe Swinger explains how and why your second half of life can and should be the best half.  A few years back, Joe Swinger was a broken man--broke, homeless, having lost both his business and his family. Learn how he awakened the magic within, clearing...
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What will your children's school day look like this autumn? Date of reopening and logistics of classroom instruction is up to school district administrators and medical professionals, but as loving parents and citizens, all of us face the challenge of bringing our students up to speed, ready to perform at their grade level this fall, and to influence school officials to optimize learning throughout the new school year. Education ...
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Is your daughter or son about to enter college or well on the way to a degree? When their colleges open this fall, your students need to begin mapping out a strategy for how to market and monetize college-earned skills after graduation. Author and former college professor Glen Dunzweiler explains why most colleges are setting their students up to fail; they don't teach business but upon graduation, our sons and daughters will live ...
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