Stephanie and Kara discuss the benefits of chiropractic and how a girl from Ohio migrated to California and discovered her true calling.

Michelle's story includes sexual abuse, a dysfunctional family, fairy tale love, and more. This woman is an achiever! She attacks life with the vim and vigor that exudes from her immediately when you meet her.

Michelle has lived a life full of ups and downs.

Jennie Matt is the Executive Producer of Women Sports Film Festival and an accomplished athlete in her own right. Equally successful as an entrepreneur, Jennie talks with Stephanie about her life growing up in a family of 14 kids, starting her own business, and her current involvement in the Women Sports Film Festival.

Stephanie talks about keeping it simple, taking time for ourselves, and making the most of simple things.

“I am not a teacher, I am an awakener" Brandi Mack is a holistic health educator, therapeutic massage therapist, birth consultant, master gardener and permaculture designer. She is motivated to work in community, particularly with women and girls.

Brandi is the CEO and National Director of The Butterfly Movement. Listen to the interview with Brandi, Ayana and Stephanie as she shares her personal evolution into a life that is very much devoted to awakening opportunity for the people in her community.

Nancy Phelps is a self-described eclectic who is also a hiker, climber, mountaineer, psychologist, and more.

As teenagers, Nancy and Stephanie became friends when they both attended an Outward Bound School in the Pacific Northwest, the first-ever “girls’ course” offered. The girls hiked, climbed and explored the mountains while, at the same time, learning how to dig deep for confidence and trust as they faced wilderness obstacles throughout the 26 day course.

Nancy and Stephanie loved being in the mountains and hiked the Pacific Crest Trail together a short time later.

Listen to the interview that starts with Nancy as a little girl and moves throughout her life through today.

From Mt. Washington on both coasts to the Grand Teton in the middle of the country, Nancy loves those mountains! She and Stephanie had a lot of laughs when discussing some of the old memories...

Resources:

Nancy’s Website: www.mindbloggling76.com

Email [email protected]

Northwest Outward Bound https://www.nwobs.org

National Outward Bound https://outwardbound.org

Outward Bound is an international, non-profit, independent outdoor-education organization with approximately 40 schools around the world and 200,000 participants per year. 

Tricia Cepeda changed careers and started her own business. Anyone who has done this (or considered doing this) knows the leap of faith that is required to take that first step.

Tricia, a single mother of 4, recently decided to change careers and dedicate her work to her passion - health, wellness and breaking down barriers that hold us back from experiencing true freedom in our lives.

Tricia retired from a 25 year career as a State Certified in-home child care provider so that she could pursue her passion for helping others to become their best selves through behavioral changes and transformation.

She recently started her own business called NewDay2Dance, and will be sharing the ups and the downs, the goods and bads, the journey that brought her to this part of her life.

Active After 35 Thrive to 105 Co-hosts Ayana Labossiere and StephanieKay Atwood share the interview and gain valuable insight into the strength of character needed to make this kind of mid-life change.

Resources:

NewDay2Dance website: www.newday2dance.com

Facebook: NewDay2Dance

Instagram: NewDay2Dance

Twitter: @NewDay2Dance

Email: [email protected]

Ayana Labossiere is one of the podcast’s co-hosts and has lived in Oakland almost all of her life. Her story is about thriving.

Even through the very difficult role of care-giving to her mother, who suffers from a chronic disease, and working through the grief of a best friend who was murdered, Ayana perseveres and thrives.

She is a Health & Wellness Coach, providing self-care strategies to overwhelmed and underserved people. She speaks to groups, does trainings, and provides individual coaching, helping her clients create more fulfilling and balanced lives. She believes very strongly in helping others with over 7 years of teaching and case management experience helping struggling students be successful. She is a community organizer, a wife, mother, and has been a caregiver to her mother for over 10 years.

Ayana's training and education include a Health Coaching Certification from Health Coaching Institute, a B.A. in Comparative Ethnic Studies from Columbia University, and an M.S. in Special Education from San Francisco State University.

Ayana started Thrive & Be Whole, after she got engaged and became a mom. She realized how important regular self-care was for her own survival. She also realized how many people in our society are being encouraged to burn out. Helping others has always been her passion! "Being a mom, a caregiver for my mom, and a public school teacher really burned me out. Over the past few years, I've become an expert in the art of OVERdoing! I started getting sick a lot, and finally wound up in the hospital for a day, and out of work for 2 weeks! It forced me to find ways to take care of myself. I believe that our society encourages us to overdo, and so I now teach people how to find balance and peace, so we can all continue to positively impact our world." She also believes very strongly that our mental health is heavily impacted by our society. The many layers of our identity i.e. our work/life balance, our income level, our race, gender, sexuality, immigration status, etc. all affect who we are. In order to effectively deal with our deepest struggles, we have to go to a deeper place. In her spare time, she enjoys hanging out with her family and friends and taking her baby on long walks. She loves going out to concerts and anywhere that you can dance and eat!

Resources:

Health and Wellness Website Thrive and Be Whole

Climbing Mt. Everest actually includes a pre and post Everest life for all successful climbers including Sharon Wood.

Sharon and Stephanie get to discuss this on interview 2 of the podcast Active After 35 Thrive to 105 which connects these 2 climbers way back in the 1970's and then traces Sharon's life from her childhood through where she is today having recently turned 60.

“My goal is to stay in the adventure of life, where every day asks something new of me to unwrap and fulfill.”

Resources: Sharon Wood www.sharonwood.net/

On the Active After 35 Thrive to 105 Podcast host Stephanie Kay Atwood and Mountaineer Sharon Wood  go over the three periods of climbing Mt. Everest.

1. The exploratory period when the question was "Is it possible to get to the to top"?
2. The best method period when the question was "What is a better, more efficient and challenging way to climb the mountain"?  
3. The commercial period when the question was "How much will it cost to get me to the top of Everest"?

They will discuss Sharon's own experience from 30 years ago and will also cover climbing ethics and today's commercialism on Everest.

A brief bio of Sharon Wood:

Sharon is an ACMG certified Alpine Guide with over four decades of experience in mountain guiding and instruction. Her approach is rooted in work with worldwide organizations, Outward Bound and the YMCA.

Sharon is best known for becoming the first woman from North America to climb Mount Everest.  She and her small team did so by a new route and without Sherpa support. However considers her greatest personal accomplishment as having raised two high-spirited boys, and her role as co-founder and chairperson of an alternative fully-accredited private school in Canmore, grades K through six. Sharon divides her time between mountain guiding and climbing instruction, writing, inspirational speaking, and climbing and hiking in mountain ranges throughout the world.  

She remains ever passionate about helping others realize their mental and physical potential in the mountain environment.  Having just broken into her sixth decade, she is particularly interested in supporting her current clients between the ages of fifty and eighty-five years of age, achieve a graceful transition from a drive to thrive state of being. 

She is co-author with Pat Morrow, of i-book, ‘Everest – High Expectations’ and is working on another book.

“My goal is to stay in the adventure of life, where every day asks something new of me to unwrap and fulfill.”

Resources:

Sharon Wood www.sharonwood.net/