Glowing Older

By Nancy Griffin

The Glowing Older podcast covers innovation in aging well. Wellness expert Nancy Griffin interview the experts shaping new housing models, strategies for aging in place, intergenerational living, lead... more

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October 16, 2024Episode 20:2 Abby Levy on Innovation around Health Span and Wealth Span
Abby Levy is Managing Partner and Founder at Primetime Partners, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage businesses that improve quality of life for older adults. Abby gets real about the challenges of heading up a venture-backed business and the exciting technologies that will reduce the cost of healthcare and raise the bar in preventive medicine, wellness, and financial longevity.
About Abby
Abby Miller Levy has spent her career helping businesses and consumer brands grow as an operator, entrepreneur, and advisor, most notably in the wellness sector. Prior to Primetime Partners, she was Senior Vice President of Strategy & Growth at SoulCycle, where she oversaw business development and revenue growth outside the consumer studio business, with an emphasis on building new digital products.
Abby teamed with Arianna Huffington to launch Thrive Global, a behavior change technology company focused on employee productivity and wellness. Abby served as President of Thrive Global and remains on the Thrive Board. Abby began her career at McKinsey & Company then led product development at OXO International. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School.
Key Takeaways
Aging is a global megatrend. By 2030 in the US,
there will be more Americans over the age of 65 than under 18, which has major repercussions on every industry including health care, financial services, housing, workplace, and travel.
Technologies and services that reduce the cost of
healthcare are essential. Medicare is a “runaway train” growing at 8% a year, with spend approaching a trillion dollars a year. It is predicted that 50% of Americans will run out of money as they age.
Preventative care is driven by “quantified selves” in terms of the healthcare data and diagnostics we collect on ourselves. With an Oura ring or Apple watch, it is easy to track key health indicators like blood biomarkers and gut health.

Persistent internalized ageism prevents us from wanting to think about getting older. Not wanting to plan for getting older and engage in content around aging has been a very big inhibitor for businesses, especially if the business model is direct to consumer.
It is not culturally normal to have conversations around aging. We have been trained to think that aging is bad and don’t talk about the wisdom, experience, gravitas, and expertise that comes with age.

AI will help people make better decisions—data will be easier to access and more manageable and actionable. AI-driven personalized nudges will help people make better decisions and healthier choices.
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October 09, 2024Episode 20:1 Maddy Dychtwald on her national bestseller and lifelong passion to improve the lives of older adults
Maddie Dychtwald, co-founder of Age Wave, is a pioneer in the longevity revolution and author of four books, including her newest Ageless Aging, A Woman's Guide to Increasing Health Span, Brainspan, and Lifespan. Maggie shares her key ingredients to living better longer and her “holistic recipe” for aging well based on interviews with 100 different physicians, researchers and academicians and insights from the Age Wave think tank.
About Maddy
Recognized by Forbes as one of the top fifty female
futurists globally, for nearly 40 years, Maddy Dychtwald has been deeply involved in exploring all aspects of the age wave and how it’s fundamentally transforming our lives and the world at-large. This has led her to become a national bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, and thought leader on longevity and aging, health, wellness, and the new retirement.
Maddy co-founded Age Wave, the world’s leader in understanding and addressing the far-reaching impacts of longevity and our aging population. The Age Wave team has worked with more than half of the Fortune 500 in industries ranging from healthcare and medical technology to financial services and consumer products.
Key Takeaways
Most research and clinical health trials are done on men. In 2016, the FDA requested pharmaceutical companies include women in clinical trials.

Women live, on average, six years longer than men, but often not in good health. On average, women spend the last 12 to 14 years in a cascade of poor health.

Genetics are not destiny—90% of our health and well-being is within our control, having to do with our lifestyle and environment.

Women are twice as likely as men to get Alzheimer's disease. Exercise positively impacts your brain health—it can increase the size of your hippocampus, which is where we store memories,

Not having your financial house in order increases cortisol levels. High levels of cortisol levels negatively impact your heart and increase the chances of getting a stroke.

Your attitude towards aging has an impact on how long you live and how well you live. If you think more positively about your own aging, you generally have significantly more gray matter in your brain compared to those who don't. Long term studies show positive perceptions of aging add 7 ½ years to your life.
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September 18, 2024Episode 19:10 Darin Buxbaum on the benefits of neighborhood-based health initiatives
Darin Buxbaum, MBA, is the co-founder and CEO of Wider Circle, a technology-enabled health services company that empowers members of the same community to live happier, healthier lives. He shares the outcomes of Wider Circle's peer support groups and provides insights for aging individuals and their families.
About Darin
Darin Buxbaum's extensive healthcare experience includes proven success both as an entrepreneur and as a leader in the enterprise space. He's co-founded digital health, insurance tech, healthcare services and medical
device companies and led large initiatives at a Fortune 500 company.
Currently, he's the co-founder and CEO of Wider Circle, a technology-enabled health services company. Previously he was co-founder and VP of Product at Oration, an insurance tech company enabling self insured employers and their employees to dramatically reduce their prescription drug spend. In the medtech
space, he founded HourGlass Technologies, a healthcare technology start-up, and served as president and CEO for five-plus years. There, he drove the development of new medical-device technology from concept to clinical trial, earning recognition as a top 40 Innovators Under 40 in the medtech industry from Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry. Darin’s enterprise experience includes leading the largest digital health initiative at Medtronic where he was awarded the Star of Excellence, the company’s highest honor.
Darin graduated Summa Cum Laude from Duke University and earned an MBA from Stanford University, graduating as an Arjay Miller Scholar. Darin remains active with Stanford as a contributor and mentor to the BioDesign course and textbook.
Key Takeaways
Personal connections are key to health and happiness. An African proverb says: if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Wider Circle’s peer support groups for vulnerable
populations are subsidized by health plans and physician networks because the individuals who would benefit most from neighborhood-based health initiatives are often the least able to afford them.

The outcomes from Wider Circle’s peer support groups include reducing loneliness by over 65% against the match control population and increasing the number of healthy days by 43%. Health plans see a cost reduction of $100 per month and reduced hospitalizations by 15%.
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September 10, 2024Episode 19:9 Adriane Berg on the self-empowerment and health benefits of travel as we age
CEO of the media platform, The Ageless Traveler, Adriane Berg illustrates the vast opportunities that evolve in the nexus of travel and longevity.
About Adriane
Through her groundbreaking media platform, The Ageless Traveler, Adriane empowers 60+ travelers to embark on transformative journeys filled with connection, discovery, and purpose. Adriane, age 75, has visited 121 countries and has been named a New York Times Age-Boom Fellow.
Adriane is also the host/creator of the Mature Market award-winning podcast Generation Bold: The Fountain of Truth About Aging and the United Nations podcast On the Ground. Her recent publications include The Caregiver's Travel Guide and Luxury Travel for Less; both are offered free to all.
Adriane’s advocacy includes being a representative to the United Nations from the International Federation on Ageing, a Board Member of the UN's Global NGO Executive Committee, and a Member of the NGO Committee on Ageing, at the forefront of advocating for a treaty on the human rights of older people, a crucial endeavor in today's aging population.
Key Takeaways
As you age, travel supports your health, gives you initiative, and opens the door to new friendships, all of which are critical to wholistic wellness and longevity.

Travel encourages you to stay current with technology, which can curb isolation through new modes of communication, such as WhatsApp and FaceTime.

Almost all fear of solo travel comes from someone else. People will project their own fears onto you if you embark on a solo journey. Don’t internalize other people’s fears.

Solo travel” is never truly “solo. The travel community is vast, and the minute you’re out there – you’re going to make a friend.
Additional Links
World Tourism Network
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September 02, 2024Episode 19:8 Ivy Woolf Turk on resiliency and how true liberation comes from within
Certified Professional Coach Ivy Woolf Turks talks about tools for fostering personal growth and emotional literacy, and social responsibility, and her vision for living in a healthier and more just world.
About Ivy
Ivy Woolf Turk, CPC, is a resilience coach and speaker with a powerful story of overcoming adversity. A former co-founder of a multi-million-dollar real estate company, she faced life’s toughest challenges, including cancer,
divorce, single parenthood and a five-year prison sentence. Through these experiences, she discovered that true liberation comes from within and even the most well lived lives can contain moments when obstacles must become great curricula for growth.
Now, Ivy helps others unlock their potential and navigate life's challenges with strength, grace and over a decade of coaching experience. A recognized advocate and founder of Resiliency Coaching, Project Liberation and A Liberated Life, Ivy’s work has impacted thousands who feel stuck or “imprisoned” in one way or another.
Key Takeaways
Project Liberation is a personal development platform fostering personal growth and emotional literacy and social responsibility. The program has helped 600 women in the last eight years “become heroines of their own story,” with a zero-recidivism rate.

A Liberated Life provides a safe space to learn life skills like meditation, breath work, and journaling to help the women understand what they value and what is most important.

Women often take care of everyone else at their own expense. They forget how to ask for help.
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30min
August 27, 2024Episode 19:7 Fee Stubblefield on his best-selling book A Culture of Promise
Fee Stubblefield shares insights from his new book A Culture of Promise and his journey growing The Springs Living from a promise to his grandmother to 20 communities offering independent living, assisted living, and memory care in three states.
About Fee
Fee Stubblefield, founder and CEO of The Springs Living, owns, develops, and manages communities and services for older adults. Based in McMinnville, Oregon, it owns and operates twenty communities in the Pacific Northwest, offering independent living, assisted living, and memory care services.
Stubblefield serves on the Board of Directors of the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care (NIC) as a member of the executive committee and inaugural vice chair of strategy. He served as the chair of the Oregon Health Care Association (OHCA) and has served as the chair of the Providence Milwaukie Foundation.
Inspired by a promise to his grandmother, Stubblefield founded The Springs Living in 1996 to deliver quality experiences and services to older adults to support them in living life to its fullest.
Key Takeaways
A good leader asks for help and protects the culture of the organization.

The Springs Living hires for values. You can't train values.

When you take care of your organization’s culture, you take care of your customers. If you focus on quality—customers will find you.

Senior living is a people-oriented business. Real estate is a component, but taking care of people is the core operation.
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August 20, 2024Episode 19:6 Sky Bergman on resilience, positivity, and purpose for a life well lived
Award-winning photographer, educator, and filmmaker,
Sky Bergman, talks about her new book and the central pillars of aging well she uncovered during the filming of her documentary, Lives Well Lived.
About Sky Bergman
Sky Bergman, Professor Emeritus of Photography and Video at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, is in her third act after a 30-year teaching career. Her artwork is in prestigious museum collections, and her commercial work has appeared in renowned magazines like the
Smithsonian. Sky’s passion is creating films and projects that inspire intergenerational connections, emphasizing the power of shared stories.
Following her successful PBS documentary "Lives Well Lived," her book "Lives Well Lived — GENERATIONS" distills wisdom from the film, celebrating life's essence across generations. Connect with her at: skybergmanproductions.com.
Key Takeaways
We all need a sense of purpose, no matter what age. Everyone needs a reason to get up every day and “a reason for being.”

Often you can’t control the things that are happening around you, but you can control your attitude and how you react.

Resilience is a pillar of Lives Well Lived. We can learn how to get through hardship.

Find ways to build intergenerational connections. Having conversations and shared experiences can broaden your understanding in a segregated world.
Additional Links
Lives Well Lived - GENERATIONS
Sky Bergman Productions
Discussion Guide from Lives Well Lived
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August 13, 2024Episode 19:5 John Mini, M.S.C.M., L.Ac, Dipl.Ac. on indigenous medicine as an answer to self-care
Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine John Mini talks about his passion for medical anthropology and the use of indigenous medicine to heal people and help people heal themselves. John shares how to empower yourself when Western medicine fails and gives us eight crucial steps for aging well.
About John
John Mini, M.S.C.M., L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. has studied the beliefs and sciences of indigenous cultures from a very young age. This led him to explore these cultures firsthand, including intense practice with Aztec and Filipino traditional healing techniques. John graduated with honors American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, receiving one of the first fully accredited Master of Science of Traditional Chinese Medicine degrees in the United States.
In 1988, John private acupuncture and herbal practice and teaching medical qi in Tiburon California and began teaching medical qi gong. To reach more people, he expanded his reach to writing, teaching and non-profit work. He is author of numerous published articles about Traditional Chinese Medicine and indigenous medicine and religion, delivering lectures across a spectrum of academic and social institutions—from small rural classrooms to the United Nations.
In 2021, John founded of the The Min Jie School of traditional Chinese medicine, studymedicaltraditions.org, an online platform to keep indigenous medical traditions alive.
Key Takeaways
Medicine was practiced by early human beings. The wisdom of ancient cultures, known as paleomedicine, is worth keeping alive.

Western medicine is highly developed indigenous medicine amalgamated with science and technology. Western medicine’s institutional
approach has lost touch with the patients.

Chinese medicine is complementary to Western medicine. It fills gaps where Western medicine fails.

The simplest and safest solution is the best solution. Look for the bigger picture in terms of not only the effectiveness of a medical treatment, but the risks and side effects.

People can get the best healing in the world but must maintain the healing they receive.

Min Jie Chinese Medicine School has two branches: The first for Chinese medicine practitioners and the second for self-healing. The
school is the first in the world to combine medical qi gong and stone needle therapy, an ancient form of acupuncture using rare obsidian that stimulates
the meridian points without breaking the skin.
John Mini’s Eight steps for aging well:
Find a Purpose: Having a strong reason to be alive
is crucial. This purpose should be deeply personal and independent of others, even your spouse.

Stay Physically Active: As you age, it's vital to stay
fit. Treat it as seriously as an athlete would.

Limit Media Consumption: Reduce distractions from television, phones, and the internet.

Create and Act on a Bucket List: Make a list of
everything you want to do in life and prioritize completing those activities.

5. Eat Well: Avoid processed foods, buy organic,
reduce sugar, and be moderate with alcohol.

6. Minimize Western Medicine: Use pharmacological medications sparingly, opting for alternative medicines when safe and
effective.

Develop a Spiritual Practice: Engage in a practice
that is deeply meaningful and resonates with you.

Remove Negativity: Eliminate sources of negativity
from your life as much as possible.
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33min
August 06, 2024Episode 19:4 Anna Hall on how purpose adds years to life and life to years
Anna talks about founding The Purpose Equation®, an
evidence-informed framework that guides people at all ages and stages of life to activate their unique, innate purpose in life and at work. Learn how having a purpose improves health, motivation, engagement, and collaboration.
About Anna
Anna Hall is founder and Chief Purpose Office at The Purpose Equation®. She has 25 years of experience in employee and team engagement, training, program development and launches, and technology management in senior living. As a certified life coach and speaker, Anna offers activation services, programs and training through The Purpose Equation that spark growth mindset, joy, and meaning-making in every moment of every day at work and across the lifespan.
Key Takeaways
Purpose is innate is an innate tool within every human that is waiting to be ignited and shared with the world. Research show people with purpose live longer, healthier lives—reducing the risk of developing dementia and strokes, maintaining mobility, and leading to higher job satisfaction.

The environment for frontline employees in senior living is too transactional. Transactional jobs don’t work for people “called” to make a difference. Research shows employees who feel meaningful connection to each other and to their workplace stay longer, perform better and have higher job satisfaction.

Most people live with a lot of living with a lot of “shoulds,” moving through life with limiting beliefs of not being enough, which results in burnout. Purpose helps shed the “shoulds” and move into a space of owning our innate gifts and perspectives.
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July 29, 2024Episode 19:3 Carrie Aalberts on dementia, support for caregivers, and finding joy amid the disease.
Carrie Aalberts, aka “Dementia Darling,” shares valuable insights on the science of dementia, how care partners can utilize resources and support, and how individuals and their loved ones can celebrate “silver linings” amid this challenging disease.
About Carrie Aalbets
Carrie Aalberts, the Dementia Darling, holds a Master is Science focused in Gerontology and over a decade of experience in dementia care. As Dementia Darling, Carrie has built a nurturing online community of over 50,000 followers, providing education, support, and a safe space for caregivers.
Carrie’s goal is to enhance quality of life, encourage joy, and challenge the tragedy narrative around dementia and aging. She offers a plethora of services as a full-time educator and advocate.
Connect with Carrie on social media @dementiadarling and listen to her new podcast Gather Darlings with co-host Nicole Will.
Key Takeaways
Dementia is an umbrella term, encompassing 120 different types of cognitive decline. Symptoms are severe enough to impede someone’s daily life. Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia.

There is a misconception that dementia takes away peoples’ ability to experience joy. Joy may look different than pre-diagnosis, but it is absolutely possible for both the individual and their care partners.

Finding a community of support is essential for both individuals with dementia and their care partners.

For care partners, make a list of the help you need. When a friend or family member offers to help, have a list of tasks ready to offer to take something off your plate.
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