Kickass Boomers

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I Used to Be Somebody inspires 50+ year-olds who don't want to retire but want to build their (un)retirement good life. Each month we interview cool, inspiring people about their retirement challenges and why and how they figured it out—turning this phase of life into an incredible, rewarding reality.

It's for people who don't want to retire--they just want to do something new, more fun, and more meaningful. Our guests have created amazing Second Acts! Oh, and there's a little talk about Pickleball.

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Mitch Dunn: Ad Agency Wiz Becomes Pickleball Entrepreneur

Rebecca Davis: Co-Creator of "Join or Die"

Connect with Host Terry Lohrbeer

If you are a Boomer and feel you would make a great guest please email Terry with your bio and any other info you would like to share at: [email protected]

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Connect with Jean Kuhn

Running your business is no different than running your family. You need a daily plan or everything goes to hell. I became a mom and an entrepreneur at the exact same time, April 29, 1985, at 8:52 p.m. The moment they put that…

The moment they put that first baby in my arms I knew I was not going back to a J-O-B I hated, so I just started a business.

When I gave my notice to the company I worked for, they offered to put a computer in my house (in 1985 no one had home computers), make me an independent contract, increase my pay, put a computer in our home, and let me work from home. I was one of the original “telecommuters.”

I have started several businesses through the years, but my biggest business lessons came when I, purposefully, bought a bankrupt business in 2002 (a chocolate franchise).

I turned that business around in 12 months adding $100,000 to the bottom line. Four years later I bought a second bankrupt business (another chocolate franchise), and turned it around in less than 12 months adding slightly over $100,000 to the bottom line. I started helping my fellow franchisees increase their revenue, and then small business owners.

I now work with service and retail businesses to help them turn around their business and increase their cash flow fast.

https://ixn2zmly.pages.infusionsoft.net/

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If you are a Boomer and feel you would make a great guest please email Terry with your bio and any other info you would like to share at: [email protected]

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Meet Dr Michelle Peticolas:

Dr. Michelle Peticolas is an international best-selling author of Step Into Your Brilliance, as well as several other books.

She is the award-winning filmmaker of Secrets of Life and Death, a professional speaker and life transformation coach. 

Dr. Michelle helps high-achieving, mid-life women who have been thrown off track by a major loss to release their complex grief and transmute it into fuel for their achieving their soul’s purpose. Using her unique framework SERVE, she guides her clients through their grief healing, mind reset, and reconnection to their authentic brilliance.

FREE Resource: The Complex Grief Assessment: 10 Signs of Complex Grief and How to Recognize Them

Take this simple quiz and in under ten minutes, you’ll discover if you are experiencing complex grief, plus receive guidance on how to heal your complex grief so you can start thriving.

Link: https://secretsoflifeanddeath.com/l/complex-grief-checklist/

Connect with Dr Michelle Peticolas:

• Facebook https://facebook.com/mpeticolas
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellepeticolas/
• Instagram https://instagram.com/michellepeticolas
• YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@releaseyourlossandthrive

Contact Info:

• Phone: 510-989-5237
• Email [email protected], [email protected]
• Address: 217 Ramona Ave., El Cerrito, CA 94530

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If you are a Boomer and feel you would make a great guest please email Terry with your bio and any other info you would like to share at: [email protected]

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Meet 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 Sky Bergman

website: https://www.skybergmanproductions.com/

Book: https://a.co/d/aBvvbaG

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skybergman/

Connect with Host Terry Lohrbeer

If you are a Boomer and feel you would make a great guest please email Terry with your bio and any other info you would like to share at: [email protected]

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Website: kickassboomers.com

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As the leader of a Special Ops team, I learned the hard way that the Vietnam War was built on lies and deceit. We had as much to fear from the hardened American units, as we did from the enemy. 

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I was one of the more fortunate ones who returned alive, but every soldier has been wounded. I was awarded 3 medals for bravery, and meritorious service awards, but PTSD, regret and guilt followed me home. 

 When I returned from Vietnam, I recounted these the bizarre stories: the humor and absurdity of basic training and combat. My friends and family members, were both intrigued and in awe of the insanity of it all. And it was then, that I put my thoughts on paper, and my passion for writing had begun…... 

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Connect with Jerry Glazer

website: https://jerryglazer.medium.com

website: www.Vietnamjerry.com

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X @Jerry_glazer

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If you are a Boomer and feel you would make a great guest please email Terry with your bio and any other info you would like to share at: [email protected]

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrylohrbeer/

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Twitter: @kickassboomers

Website: kickassboomers.com

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Connect with Graham Elliss

Graham Elliss is a trailblazer in health and fitness,

inspiring others to embrace an active, healthy lifestyle at

any age. With decades of experience, he brings deep

knowledge, passion, and dedication to the fitness

community.

Born second among ten siblings, Graham spent his

early years in the remote Outback town of Broken Hill. At

12, he relocated to Adelaide, South Australia, and after a

brief stint in high school, he embarked on a varied

career. However, sports, health and fitness have always

been a constant, evolving into a lifelong passion.

Among his early accomplishments was founding South

Australia’s first health resort. Then after 30+ years of

leadership success, Graham now focuses on

empowering others to achieve their wellness goals.

About Graham

If your audience is looking for a

professional, inspiring and

experienced speaker or MC,

look no further.

Public Speaker

Founder Renewed After 50

Nominated for Victorian

Senior of the Year 2024 -

Healthy & Active Living.

Published Author

Certified Personal Trainer

Specialist in Functional

Aging Group Exercise

His workshop and keynote

presentations will leave your

audience feeling motivated and

inspired to take action.

[email protected]

www.renewedafter50.com.au

His passion for healthy living inspired the creation of

“Renewed After 50,

” a vibrant community designed to

support older adults in leading active, fulfilling lives.

Graham specialises in helping individuals who may

feel overwhelmed or intimidated by traditional gyms,

offering personalized programs and group activities

that foster sustainable progress and renewed

confidence.

As a champion in his age group, Graham exemplifies

the power of healthy aging. His journey serves as a

beacon of inspiration for anyone looking to stay fit,

vibrant, and engaged throughout life’s stages.

[email protected]

https://renewedafter50.com.au/

Connect with Host Terry Lohrbeer

If you are a Boomer and feel you would make a great guest please email Terry with your bio and any other info you would like to share at: [email protected]

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrylohrbeer/

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Twitter: @kickassboomers

Website: kickassboomers.com

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Sandra Wasko-Flood is an artist, poet, teacher and founder of the national non-profit organization: Living Labyrinths for Peace. Elizabeth Bishop is responsible for the publishing of this, her first book of art and poetry.

Wasko-Flood received a BA from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) in English, and a Standard Secondary Teaching Credential from California State College, Los Angeles. After teaching Junior High School for three years, she became disappointed with the school system, and became a full time artist. She chose artistic luminaries with whom to study wherever she lived: at UCLA, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Smithsonian Institution Washington DC, and UNM Taos.

Specializing in printmaking and art/technology labyrinths, as director of the printmaking center at the Lee Arts Center in Arlington, VA, she invited Keith Howard to teach his new safe etching methods there. She then taught Safe Etching as well as Monotype printmaking, one of the first to update this form of one copy prints, at her home studio in Alexandria, VA.

An ardent feminist since college days, she was a founding member of the Washington Women’s Arts Center, the Washington Printmakers Gallery, the International Labyrinth Society and the founder of the Women’s Art Spirit group (discusses art and spirituality), and Living Labyrinths for Peace.

She discovered labyrinths from a seminal experience in the Great Kiva Civic/Ceremonial Center in Chaco Nature National Historical Park, NM, in which she saw figures of all races and cultures ascending an underground spiral, to do a Dance of Peace on the Kiva floor, and ascend a spiral to the skies. Afterwards, she went straight to a book store and found newly published book on labyrinths. She knew a labyrinth belonged in that kiva. Returning to her Washington DC studio, she was inspired to create “Dance of the Labyrinth:” computer programmed light box image faces of people and animals (Life), mummies (Death) and icons (Spirits) that lit up to your steps.

Due to an invitation from the Washington Performing Arts Society, (WPAS), based at the Kennedy Center, she conducted her “Labyrinths for Creativity and Peace” workshops in local schools. Inspired to change the school system, she related the labyrinth to all subjects or intelligences. In her soon to be published book—“The Labyrinth Instructors Handbook,” she will receive contributions from teachers in every field.

This teaching experience led her to co-directing the Labyrinth Society’s first project: “Labyrinths for Peace: 2000,” a labyrinth demonstration for inner peace on the East Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. Shortly afterwards, she founded Living Labyrinths for Peace (LL4P). This national organization, has the mission to inspire healing and transformation within and among people through labyrinth creation and education. Its goal is to establish a permanent LL4P center based on her vision in Chaco’s Great Kiva to unite peoples of all cultures, races and beliefs.

You are invited to view her art and LL4P websites:

www.waskoart.com

www.livinglabyrinthsforpeace.org

Contact Sandra

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Connect with Diane Calderon

Diane Calderon is a certified Medium, Reiki Master, Spiritual Advisor/Teacher and Author. She earned a Masters of Arts degree in Sociology at Arizona State University in 1985. After a long career in various positions in government Diane retired in 2009.  

In 2014 Diane experienced a remarkable After Death Communication from her son Matthew.   At the moment of his tragic death, an incredible phenomenon which sparked her path to spiritual transformation.  Matthew continues to communicate with her, proof that love never dies.  

Diane delved into the world of mediumship and spirit communications in order to understand the After Life and learn how to communicate with the incarnate.  Her experiences are described in her published memoir Living & Loving Life All Day Every Day: A Mother’s Story of Loss, Love & Connecting with the Afterlife.

Diane has studied intuition development and mediumship with Susanne Wilson, Suzanne Giesemann, Mavis Patilla, Andy Byng and Colin Bates.  She has been featured in Psychic News Magazine, and video interviews & podcasts: Carefree & Conscious, Messages of Hope, We Don’t Die Radio, Grief 2 Growth, The Angel Room and AREI Global Gathering.  Diane is also one of the student mediums featured in the Amazon documentary Life to Afterlife: I Want to Talk to the Dead.

Diane currently works for Susanne Wilson the Carefree Medium as the Client Services Manager and assists in teaching classes and workshops relating to psychic/intuitive development and afterlife studies.

Diane has been interviewed on a variety of podcasts and YouTube channels.  Visit her website, https://www.dianecalderon.com/  for links to the following:

• Afterlife Research & Education Institute - Global Gathering with Wendy Zammit:  Signs from Spirit with Joe Higgins & Diane Calderon (July 2023)
• Carefree & Conscious with Susanne Wilson the Carefree Medium:  Signs from Spirit Forever Changed My Life (Augus

Connect with Melissa Davey

Melissa Davey, now in her 70's, retired from a lengthy corporate career in 2016 to pursue her second act and dream of becoming a filmmaker.

Melissa began her early career in Legal Services. As a Paralegal, Melissa represented more than one thousand individuals before the Social Security Administration and was a national substantive law trainer for the Legal Services Corporation.

In 1994 Melissa was recruited to the for-profit company, Genex, headquartered in Wayne, PA, to build their national Social Security advocacy program. As the Vice President of Social Security and Managed Disability for 22 years, Melissa sat on the company’s executive team and worked throughout the United States to create and deliver services to the disability insurance marketplace.

At age 65, after a day on the set with M Night Shyamalan, she decided to take a risk and left her career to jump into the unknown.

Pursuing her dream of becoming a filmmaker became a reality in late 2018 when Melissa completed her first feature film, Beyond Sixty. During 2019 Melissa’s film was accepted by and screened at 8 film festivals throughout the United States and Canada, winning awards and confirming that it is never too late to learn something new.

Picked up by a Distributor and released in 2021, the film is currently available on most streaming platforms, including AppleTV, PrimeVideo, Vimeo, Vudu and YouTubeTV.

Melissa’s second film, Climbing into Life details the inspiring life story of Dierdre Wolownick, the oldest woman to ascend El Captain. The film is currently making the film festival rounds.

Connect with Host Terry Lohrbeer

If you are a Boomer and feel you would make a great guest please email Terry with your bio and any other info you would like to share at: [email protected]

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2658545911065461/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrylohrbeer/

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Website: kickassboomers.com

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