My guest today, Barbara Waxman MS, MPA, PCC, is a nationally recognized Middlescence expert, coach, author, and speaker. In 2005, as the only Master’s level gerontologist and internationally certified coach in the US, she founded The Odyssey Group, providing executive leadership and life coaching to adults in midlife and better. Barbara’s mission is to shift our cultural norms around aging by establishing Middlescence as a new life stage. 

Barbara has developed a concept she calls the 5 essential elements that are areas that we need to have balance in to be healthy and well - especially in times like this.  

We talk about the benefits of repotting ourselves to spread our roots and get some new nutrients and about undoing practices that we don’t actually need in order to clear our minds and help improve our memory.

And she asks an especially pertinent question for right now:  How can we feed forward versus feeding back?