FathersAfter50

Many of you around the world know me as the host of Fathers After 50. If you've been listening for awhile you know most guests have done something amazing or unusual after the age of 50 or they are experts in their field to help us with health, wealth or happiness.

I never planned on being interviewed but due to scheduling changes for next year, and this being the final episode of this year, it made sense to do it.

I hope you find something of value, or at least a bit of entertainment today.

Michele Meloy Burchfield is hard-working, competitive, and seems to be able to do it all. She rose to the executive level at Boston Beer while a nanny helped with her children. Then priorities changed. She decided to stay at home with her grade-school boys.

Not having enough to do at home, it wasn't long before Michele started a consulting company. A few years later she was as busy as ever with her consulting firm. And in her 50's, Michele started Blume Honey Water!

Barbara Rodgers loved life as an executive in the securities industry. Then life happened. 1st was the layoff. Followed by a diagnosis of Multiple-Sclerosis . Over the next 5 years MS became debilitating., to the point it was difficult to walk.

Barb didn't want to keep take drugs and traditional medical advice wasn't helping. Out of desperation she embarked on nutritional program that changed her life. Her MS symptoms completely went away.

She's now a Board Certified Nutritional Consultant helping others become healthy!

Dr. David Currie has inspired people to improve their marriage and family for over 40 years. He's the founder and president of Doing Family Right, an organization to help people with their most important relationships.

A lot of people do family wrong, so Dr. Dave created a website and resources to do family right! Today Dr. Dave discusses some of the Best practices in marriage and family that yield strong relationships that last a lifetime.

Dr. Brad Bongiovanni, a Naturopathic physician seeks to find the underlying condition to any ailment a patient is experiencing. He is also an expert in Nutritional Psychiatry. What that means is what we eat, not only affects our body, it affects our mind.

Dr. Bongiovanni also explains how our mind, that is our mindfulness, our love and our connection, affect our body. Being with others, connecting with others is actually good for our health!

Dr. Benjamin Gavish is a professor, biophysist, researcher, and inventor. He invented RESPeRATE the first and only FDA-cleared device proven to lower High Blood Pressure naturally and without side effects.

Well, actually, there was one side-effect. Relaxation. Some users even fell asleep. So they developed a 2nd device called 2Breathe. Yes, breathing in a special way with special rhythmic tones puts some people to sleep in less than a minute!

Scott Abel has been transforming bodies for over 30 years. He started years earlier with his own body, as a bodybuilder. After he joined the ranks of the top bodybuilders on Muscle Beach, he dedicated himself to coaching others on how to change their physique.

His early clients tended to be bodybuilders but after realizing he enjoys helping the "regular" guy or gal, he now coaches men and women to sculpt their bodies in a way that's safe and sustainable … but extremely effective.

Qigong Master Mingtong Gu brought a 5,000 year old form of Chinese healing to the West. He studied under Qigong Grandmaster Dr. Pang Ming, at the largest medicine-less hospital in China.

Master Mingtong has helped thousands of people discover the benefits of practicing Qigong.

People practice Qigong throughout the world, and especially in China for exercise, self-healing, meditation, and Qigong is even used in martial arts.

For over 20 years, Dr Stacy Andersen has conducted clinical research on why individuals live to be 100 years and older. The study is of the largest number of centenarians in the world.

Conducted through the Boston School of Medicine, studying centenarians gives hope that we can all learn to delay disease and disability until the end of our life.

The idea is to age well. To be healthy and have a sharp mind at 100 we need to take care of ourselves today!

Dr. Saray Stancic was busy working in a hospital when she suddenly lost feeling in her legs. It was then, in her late 20's that she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

Even with medication, her health deteriorated for years to the point she was often using a cane or crutches.

One day she came across an article that explained how diet may improve MS. Today, medication free, healthy and happy, she's a mom who runs marathons!