Beautiful Second Act

If you are in midlife or beyond then this is an essential podcast episode for you!

I sat down with Dr. Madison Fandel, who specializes in regenerative joint therapy, hormone balancing optimization and replacement, and so many other treatments. Although she sees patients of all ages, including athletes, she specializes in many treatments that help people of a certain age to live their best life, including having better sex!

Give a listen and I'm sure there will be at least one, (if not many) treatments she offers that will spark your interest.

To find Dr. Fandel, in Pacifica, California: drmadisonfandel.com

In Larkspur, California she's at: marinnaturalmedicine.com 

I appreciate you following along with this podcast. If you like this content and would like to join our Facebook Group, Beautiful Second Act, just click that link and join.

I also have a website: romancetravelandfood.com where you can find reviews on restaurants, hotels, as well as fun things to do with your loved one, and recipes.

The book I wrote, AFTER THE FIRE, can be found by clicking here.
OR... you can go to my website where I've blogged the whole process of writing that book at:
pattidienerwrites.com

I truly appreciate your stopping by and listening, as well as looking over the show notes. Your time is important to you and I am grateful you've spent some of it with me.

Warm wishes,
Patti

Do you have a vision of the future life you want to create? Living with the anchors of your past will not propel you forward towards the life you want unless you start feeling good about it now.

In this episode, I speak about your mood, and how the feelings you have  will effect how you think, and what you ultimately create for yourself. I share about how I turned around my life filled with anxiety and anti-depressants, into a life that attracts wonderful opportunities, insightful mentors, and a more peaceful existence  from the mind movies we can suffer from.

Follow along with our Facebook Group at Beautiful Second Act for a shared community of people 45 + who support each other in living their best life.

You can also go to my website romancetravelandfood.com if you enjoy romantic experiences, travel, and recommendations of restaurants, or recipes.

My book, AFTER THE FIRE was written about the 2015 Valley Fire, here where I live, in Lake County, California. Click this link to see it.  You can also read about my process in writing this novel, along with interviews I did and information on other fires that happened in the community by going to my blog pattidienerwrites.com and you can leave comments there as well.

I hope you like the content I'm putting out. If you are enjoying any of these podcast episodes, please RATE, REVIEW, and SUBSCRIBE to the podcast. You can also find me on Instagram at Beautiful_Second_Act so please follow me there and you can DM me if you have any questions.

Have a wonderful rest of your day.
Patti 

Rhonda Vargas loves change. She embraces it. Never one to live a stagnant life, Rhonda has owned businesses, sold them, worked for other companies, and started all over again running her own online business in the middle of a pandemic. If that isn't enough, she and her husband decided to sell their home in Northern California, where they were settled with many friends, and moved to a town in Arizona where they only knew a few people.

Being a cancer survivor, Rhonda wastes no time in life. She says, "You have to do it scared. Just do it, whatever it is you are wanting to do."

This interview was done over Zoom, and recorded for the podcast, and I sincerely hope you all understand the message in this conversation that, life is a journey. You have to keep moving forward. Sitting still and waiting won't get you to the good stuff.

Rhonda's business is LuLaRoe Rhonda Vargas, Rae of Beauty Boutique, and you can find her on Facebook here: lularoe Rhonda Vargas Facebook Group

You can also find her on Instagram at: love_raeofbeauty

Thank you for listening and if you like this content, please SUBSCRIBE, RATE, and REVIEW the podcast. It would me the world to me and those who want to share out this community support to midlife and beyond people.

I'm Patti Diener. You can join our Beautiful Second Act  Facebook Group, and continue the party there with all the fun and enlightened humans that are living their best life after the age of 45.

I also have a blog called RomanceTravelAndFood.com that showcases loads of fun things to see, do and eat from all over. Check it out.

My book, AFTER THE FIRE, was written about the 2015 Valley Fire in Lake County, California, and you can get your copy here!

And...if you are interested in my journey in writing and self publishing that novel, read my blog at pattidienerwrites.com where I have all the interviews I held logged there, as well as things that were going on in the community. My NEW BOOK's first chapter can also be found there so definitely check that out.

Thank you so much for spending time with me and these wonderful guest speakers. You are such a bright light in the world and I hope you will continue to follow along.

Warm wishes,
Patti 

In midlife and beyond, we've hopefully learned that trying to be perfect is unattainable, and a bit ridiculous. This stressful way of being only creates a life of disillusionment , and cannot give you the ease and peace that accepting yourself just as you are does.

In this episode, I talk about how after a lifetime of trying to control situations and striving to be as perfect as I could be, I am finally in a place of flow and joy, enjoying myself just as I am. We've reached midlife (or beyond), and know now that all those years we spent trying to be a certain size, trying to be a certain way to appease others, was just a waste to our peace of mind. If we can just love life and enjoy being who we truly are, others will see us in a brighter light as well.

I spoke of a music video from Colbie Caillat called TRY:
Here it the video LINK

Also my website romancetravelandfood.com:
http://romancetravelandfood.com/

I have a blog about writing my book, AFTER THE FIRE, where I have interviews and info on what was going on in our community in Lake County, during the four years it took me to write my romance novel about the 2015 Valley Fire:
http://www.pattidienerwrites.com/

And my book AFTER THE FIRE, is available here on this Amazon LINK


Thank you for tuning in and have a great day!
Patti 

When you grow up in a huge Greek family, there are no secrets, but there is a whole lot of fun.

Join me, as I interview Dena Paskaly, a midlife business woman, who lives every day as if it were her last. She's a traveler, owns a successful, and busy gated senior living community, and is the most fun person I have come across. She has two beautiful grown daughters, and  she and her partner, Ari, have traveled the globe.

Being Greek, Dena had a unique, if not fascinating upbringing, where having 32 first cousins made her life more like the movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, than one could imagine. Their lives were always up for scrutiny by the rest of the large family, but you never wanted to cross any of them, for fear the rest of the Greeks would be after you. Only THEY could criticize their own family.

I hope you enjoy this special interview where we had just a bit too much wine, laughed a whole lot, and talk about how the love of a good family can mold us into living our best lives.

If you are interested in looking into a life living in the gated community Dena runs, where having a great time is encouraged, go to:
http://lakevillageestates.com/

You can also follow this fun group of, Beautiful Second Act, on our Facebook Group at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulsecondact

I have a website all about adventure at:
http://romancetravelandfood.com/

And lastly, if you are interested in my book about the Valley Fire of 2015 here in Lake County California, please look me up on my blog and there is also a link for buying my book there:
http://www.pattidienerwrites.com/

I hope you have been enjoying this content. Please don't forget to SHARE,  SUBSCRIBE, and REVIEW this podcast so others can find us easier and help spread the good word about living our best life in the second half. 

All the best,
Patti

Hey it's Patti.

In this solo podcast, I go over all the reasons why I think change is good, and question why as a society we have had such resistance to something that is inevitable. If we can just get out of the way and accept what IS, then we can embrace the good things change can bring about.

It's ok to make a change in your life, even late in life. It's also, not only OK, but better for everyone around us if we are true to our own heart's calling and do that thing that we really want to be doing, instead of trying to please everyone.

Join me, as I discuss all the areas in our life where we might be lying to ourselves just to be accepted. Some people don't make that pivot because they are so concerned with what others will think, or how it will effect their reputations.

I say...DO THE THING! Do what you truly desire to do, because if you don't you cannot bring your highest self to the party. And only when we are being our authentic selves, can we be our best for all our loved ones.

You can join me and countless others at our Beautiful Second Act Facebook Group.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulsecondact

You can also go to the website to find out more of what's new at:
http://beautifulsecondact.com/

To learn more about me as a writer go to:
http://www.pattidienerwrites.com/

And if you love romance and travel experiences, go to my blog:
http://romancetravelandfood.com/

I wish you all well and hope that you will SUBSCRIBE and SHARE out this information with your friends if you like what is being brought to the table.

All the best,
Patti 

After 26 years of marriage, two kids, a home in the heart of San Francisco, and what looked like the "perfect life," Keri Vaca left her marriage. Two days later she was diagnosed with Stage 4 Metastatic Breast Cancer, which the doctors said would take her life.

This interview is about one woman's fight to save her life, in more ways than one. She said she was dying way before her diagnosis, in the life she was in. So, much to the chagrin of some of her doctors, Keri chose many unconventional methods for treatment, she stayed true to her choice of leaving her marriage, and began a quest to change everything about her life...including her name.

Now going by Willow Star, this vivacious, and courageous woman has beaten the odds and is currently cancer free! She wrote a memoir about being in midlife, dating younger men through the app Tinder, and looking for love in all the wrong places.

Through it all, Willow has learned to love herself deeper, and more fully than she ever thought possible. She has embraced life in the most beautiful ways and created a YouTube Channel to help others understand how even with a cancer diagnosis, you can heal yourself not just physically, but emotionally.

Willow's book, Tinder & Tarot, will be out soon so watch for that.

Find her at:  https://www.meetwillowstar.com/
Which will give you all the modalities of finding her.

Also she's on YouTube:   https://www.youtube.com/c/kerivaca

Go to her site and give her some love. She's one of the most upbeat humans I know.

If you like this content I'm sharing, please Rate, Review, and Subscribe to the podcast. It helps tremendously in getting the show out to more people. 

Thanks for tuning in, and I'll be talking to you soon.
Patti 

Welcome to the very first episode of Beautiful Second Act!

I am Patti Diener, and wanted to tell you I'm jumping in with both feet! I've never done this sh**  before and technology is something I navigate on a tightrope. But scared or not, I'm doing it to bring you my honesty, my passion, and in this episode, pull the curtain back on why I started this whole circus.

In our second half of life, we know ourselves far better than our 20-30 something selves, and we understand better how life is short. We must find a way to live our best life and be unafraid to dive in and do that which lights us up. Do the things we are a little afraid to do but always wished we would.

This opening episode will show you a little about my inability to do one thing for very long, my passion, and belief for being true to yourself, and how we all need to listen to the quiet, still voice inside our souls.

If you'd like to be a guest on the podcast, please email me at: [email protected] and in the subject line write, Be A Guest.

You can join me at my Facebook Group called Beautiful Second Act: https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulsecondact/

You can also find me on Instagram at the same name; Beautiful_Second_ Act.

I blog about my book at:
http://www.pattidienerwrites.com/

I also love to blog about all things romance & travel at:
http://romancetravelandfood.com/

You can buy my romance novel, based on the 2015 Valley Fire, here at this Amazon Link


Please if you like this content, don't forget to SUBSCRIBE and leave A REVIEW.  It truly helps others find me and will allow me to spread the good word about living our most Beautiful Second Act.

Cheers!
Patti