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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 10 of our Back to Life: Finding Fulfillment Podcast. I'm very excited to spend some time telling you about my upcoming book, Taking the Sh*t Out of the Show. I spent the better half of 2021 writing this book and it launches on October 21st. Taking the Sh*t Out of the Show was birthed from real life stories and situations about people, from all ages and all walks of life, who found themselves in a difficult transition and not knowing how best to move through it.

39% of Americans have reported they are more anxious today than this time last year and my guest today has a really good strategy for how we can address this. I'm so excited to introduce you to my guest, Shannon Paterson.

Shannon is a three-time Ironman world champion triathlete certified professional trainer and multi-sport coach. She is also a mentor, author, a motivational speaker, and has 25 years of experience in health and the fitness center.

What I love most about our conversation and what drew me to her story is that Shannon has survived two near-death experiences! She shares that story with us and I think you're really going to enjoy hearing her perspective on it.

So let's listen in and if you like this, be sure to go ahead, post a comment, share it like it, put it out through your site and social media so others can benefit from our conversation.

Did you know that 46% of men over 40 years old are overweight? That's almost half!

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 8 of Finding Fulfillment After 50. Today's guest is Dr. Anthony Balduzzi, founder of the Fit Father and Fit Mother Project. His whole mission is to help men and women over 40 prepare for life "over the hill" by becoming healthier and stronger as they age. Dr. Anthony's personal story will move you when you hear him talk about the loss of his own father at 42 years of age.

You will hear Dr. Anthony educate us on the importance of understanding your deep, "WHY?" and the difference between motivation and inspiration.

He also leaves us with two highly motivating and practical tips. You're going to want to hear these from him so that you can start right now to move towards losing weight and becoming healthier.

Life's too precious for us not to pay attention and to focus on our health. So I hope you enjoy the episode with Dr. Anthony Balduzzi and turn his takeaways into life-changing habits that will lead to a more fulfilled life.

Welcome to another episode of our Back to Life Podcast: Finding Fulfillment After 50. If you're like me, you've probably said to yourself more than once, " I wish I could just find my purpose". Well, if you're interested in your purpose, you should make the time to listen to this podcast!

I was introduced to Laurie Saitz by a friend of mine and when we first connected for just a brief call, I thought, "Oh my gosh, I've got to get her on the podcast!"

In this episode:

• We dig right away into the big question of purpose that sometimes feels overwhelming and daunting.
• Answering the questions of work-life balance, is it achievable?
• How to turn "I'm fine" into "I'm fantastic"
• Her trilogy for success, three things that are vital for us as we move through transitions in our life and live more into our purpose and more into things that bring us joy.

I think you are really going to enjoy this episode as we put legs to the idea of life's purpose. Listen in and let me know what your thoughts are by leaving a comment or a review.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 6 of our Back to Life: Finding Fulfillment After 50 Podcast. I'm very excited for you to meet our guest today, Coach Geno Auriemma! Coach Geno Auriemma has been the head basketball coach for the women's program at the University of Connecticut for over 30 years.

His achievements include:

• The highest winning percentage among NCAA basketball coaches at 88.5%.
• 11 NCAA Division I National Championships, the most in women's college basketball history
• 8 national Naismith College Coach of the Year awards
• 2 gold medals at the Olympics

In this episode, Coach Auriemma shares insights on:

• What he tells his players before championship games
• How he teachings people to expect success
• Why it's more important to focus on the process than the outcome
• And, why at 67 he is still coaching!

I know you are really going to enjoy the conversation with Coach Auriemma because of his wonderful experience, insight, heart & candor. Our discussion weaves through basketball, life and creating fulfillment. You are going to want to listen in and enjoy Coach Geno Auriemma.

Thanks for tuning into the Back to Life: Finding Fulfillment After 50 Podcast. Today, I am honored to talk with Grammy Nominee, John Ondrasik, who is known by his stage name Five for Fighting, is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, record producer, and philanthropist.

In this episode, John and I discuss what the past 16 months have been like for him. He shares his internal struggles during Covid, and how turning his attention to his family business has grown and stretched him in ways he has never experienced before.

John shares his personal ways of staying centered and how he finds fulfillment as a creative at 57. Listeners will also get to hear what he's been up to in Hollywood during the pandemic and what's on the horizon for him.

It was fun and insightful getting to hear from the legendary musician. You don't want to miss it.

Welcome to the Back to Life: Finding Fulfillment after 50 Podcast. Today, I'm onsite in Pottsville, Pennsylvania at the D.G. Yuengling & Son Brewery where I'm talking with current owner, Dick Yuengling, about building a beer empire and how he still finds fulfillment in the day-to-day operation of the business after over 36 years of ownership, and at the age of 78! Dick talks about the difficult year of COVID and how he and his people faced the uncertainty.

Dick, the fifth-generation owner of D.G. Yuengling & Son, turned his family's struggling brewery into one of America's largest beer makers. When he bought out his father in 1985, the company was producing 137,000 barrels per year; now it pumps out nearly 3 million barrels annually; leading to Dick being featured on the Forbes 400 richest list. He still works 8-10 hours a day in his Wrangler jeans…always making sure to get his nap in the middle of day!

You'll hear him talk about how success has helped define his fulfillment and how he finds great happiness in mentoring his four daughters to become the 6th generation to lead Yuengling past its 200th birthday.

It was such a privilege to interview this legend of a man, you don't want to miss this episode.

In this episode, Dr. Wieland discusses what she calls her "Core 4" of performance she's developed through her sports training and shares her personal experience of how the strong mindset she developed through her athletic career propelled her forward after she was sexually assaulted. You'll hear Dr. Andrea talk about how we can practice using feeling, and visualization to support being us in getting to the other side of whatever chaos and challenge is being experienced...really insightful and powerful information. You don't want to miss her story and her takeaways from her 50+ years of a performance-driven, and resilient life.

Danny Bader reflects on past Back To Life episodes and allows his audience's demographic (over 50) to influence he and his team to refine the show's focus to do just this….creating and maintaining fulfillment for all the days of our lives.

As grim as it may sound, passing and death are things that one needs to prepare for in life. This doesn't only talk about wills, managing inheritance, and such. To prepare for such a thing is to be comfortable with life in every aspect, including the possibility of dying. With that opened sense, one begins to truly live life and not just live life through until the last breath.

In this episode, Jacqui Clark explains the most overlooked fundamental need of financially and legally preparing for death and how this affects not only the person going but also the many close relations surrounding the individual.

As a certified Senior Advisor assisting families through assisted living and memory care communities, Jacqui talks to us about the practices of aging well and what one can do in life to live it more valuably and well, aside from just enduring and existing in the years.

Join Jacqui in this rich and filling episode and hear more insights that help us find our way to a more graceful and wise journey through getting old, either in the face of life or of death.