Welcome to Age Thoughtfully Season Two! A little podcast snack to tell you about some of my favorite helpers! Parenting, cooking, health and weight loss, healing my vision and writing! Excited to introduce you to some of the gifted folks who help make my world go round!

Welcome to Season 2 of Age Thoughtfully! Wow! It has been a year since Marissa had Stacy Jackson on the premiere episode! It's summer and let's talk about joy and rest! Here to help us is yoga teacher Terry Littlefield! As a yoga and movement teacher based out of Los Angeles, Terry fancies purposeful movement, not fancy poses.  With Terry, you will develop a sustainable, life-long relationship with yoga and movement, play and rest. Get strong. Gain mobility and stability. Increase flexibility. Get to know joy on the regular. She is a passionate educator with a big sense of humor and an even bigger heart.  She loves to learn. She loves to share what she learns. She believes laughter is the best medicine, and an essential part of any movement practice. Terry's classes blend science and spirit, breath work and belly laughs, movement and meditation.  You are welcome in her class because you are YOU. Find Terry here!

Marissa is jumping for joy to have artist Susan Maddux on the pod this week! "Life is not to just be endured." - Susan Maddux They go deep people: Curiosity, art, flow, mindset, art's place in culture and more! Susan Maddux is a Los Angeles based artist whose work combines painting and sculpture into unique forms evocative of the colors and warmth of her native Hawaii and influenced by the arts of Asia and the Pacific. She was born on the island of Oahu in Hawaii to a hapa Japanese-American family where she absorbed the influence of Japanese folk art traditions and Buddhist temples as well as the arts of Polynesia. With a Bachelors of Fine Arts in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, she has had numerous group and solo shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Honolulu. After years in New York painting in her studio in Brooklyn and designing textiles for major fashion houses, she relocated to Los Angeles in 2013. Susan brings her early experiences in the lush valleys of Hawaii and thirty years of education and experience as an artist and designer to these painted sculptural works. Each piece is made of individual acrylic paintings on canvas folded to conceal, reveal and transform the materials. Find Susan on Instagram here.

What a delight as Marissa welcomes Wanjira Njenga to the pod! Wanjira tells what PERIMENOPAUSE is, and how we can navigate it as women to feel our best! Marissa and Wanjira discuss hormones, nutrition, how to exercise to prevent injury during a women's cycle, cravings and what blood work to get from your doctor to solve pescky side effects of a changing cycle! Wanjira also tells us how to enter Menopause with grace and a positive outlook! Wanjira has completed a wealth of trainings and upgrades in the fields of yoga, yoga therapy, movement and fitness.  This also includes massage therapy, reflexology and more recently become a Holistic Core Restore Coach (Pelvic and Core Health), and a 3rd Age Women’s health coach. She is  also trained as a Functional Range Conditioning movement specialist. Winjara is passionate about helping women reclaim their best physical, mental and emotional selves and enjoy good, functional health for life. She has combined all her training in movement/yoga with her 3rd Age and peri–post menopause health training to offer services that keep women 45 years and over, strong, fit, and injury-free as they journey through all stages of their lives. Currently she is offering yoga, meditation, fitness, pelvic floor health and women’s health classes online. She also offers daily yoga & movement ideas, tips, and educational content on her Instagram and Facebook feeds. Click here for Wanjira's website

Marissa welcomes recruiter extraordinaire, Mindy Worel to the pod! She makes job searching fun. Her You Tube videos and LinkedIn posts will cheer up any job searcher!

"Let's take the mystery out of what the search process actually is and work together to set you apart from other applicants.

Empower your resume and profile to speak to the team you want to become a part of." - Mindy Worel

Mindy owner of the Inside Job Agency, has spent 20 years taking the mystery out of job searching and helping people find a career path that fits. She gives people the tools to find their job home.

With deep understanding of the career landscape specific to Media, Marketing, Design, Product and, Advertising, Mindy knows what employers want and how you can position yourself to get the job you want within this space. It can be tricky without insider info and that is where she comes in--your inside source for finding your match.

What Mindy teaches:

 Link to: MINDY'S BEAT THE BOTS FREEBIE! 

Younger Makeup Artist Eldo Ray Estes in on the pod!

Such fun timing! Season 7 of Younger premieres today! We are so lucky to have four-time Emmy Winning makeup artist Eldo Ray Estes has created beautiful faces on television and film for over a decade. His work has been seen in Cosmopolitan, Elle, Seventeen and Vanity Fair; he’s given expert advice to magazines from Good Housekeeping to More. Eldo’s clients include Sharon Stone, Debi Mazar, Anna Kendrick, Sutton Foster, Lorraine Toussaint, Elizabeth Olsen and Annette Bening.

Eldo has great story about how he got where he is today! He's also just a great human. Tune in to hear great stories about his friend, client and mentor Sharon Stone, how Eldo's cameo in Ghostbuster's is now a cult classic appearance and so much more!

Eldo can be found on Instagram @eldorayestes .

He has a very fresh take on Marissa's last question: 3 tips for aging thoughtfully - aging with intention and vibrancy - no matter our budget!