“You have everything you need”: In this special episode, Nancy rounds up advice from past guests in answer to the question, “What do you wish you could go back and tell your younger self?” Purpose-built for pandemic listening.

* Full list of past Midlife Mixtape episodes available here

* SiblingRevelryProject on Instagram

* Ep 50: Listener’s Advice to Younger People In 2019 I asked the Midlife Mixtape audience what they’d tell people younger than them…hear their good advice, like “don’t sled backwards,” right here!

This song always brings me joy, and it’s full of good advice too.

“Even if you’re old and grey…you’ve still got something to say”

Thanks as always to M. The Heir Apparent, who provides the music behind the Midlife Mixtape podcast – check him out here!

“A family of raconteurs”: Alia Volz on her new memoir “Home-Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco”, her parents’ pioneering cannabis business, industry evolution from dealing to healing, and maturing right along with our parents.

* Alia’s website

* Find Alia on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter

That first concert: When an actual sweet child was crushing on a guy singing about a Sweet Child

“Better command of my voice”: Singer/songwriter Teddy Thompson discusses and shares songs from his new album Heartbreaker Please, provides a suggested cocktail pairing, and recalls a life-changing concert with his grandmother.

* Teddy’s website

* Find Teddy on Facebook and Instagram

* Support the work of the NAACP and Southern Poverty Law Center

* The musician behind the Midlife Mixtape theme music, M. The Heir Apparent http://thisismxoxo.com/

Throwback video from Teddy that never fails to put a smile on my face. Peep the Rufus Wainwright cameo.

“But anyway, I’m still alive to tell it”: Listeners share their favorite ‘70s and ‘80s childhood memories, from banana-seat bike rides to boardwalk employment to the educational television jingle that unites us all.

Childcare, 1972-style – thanks for sharing it, Andrea!

* Throwback book recommendation from Brett – Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir

* Spike Lee’s Crooklyn

Don’t ever challenge a GenXer on their ability to recite the Preamble. You’ll lose.Thanks as always to M. The Heir Apparent, who provides the music behind the Midlife Mixtape podcast – check him out here!

“Not interested in telling stories from the top down”: SFChronicle reporter Otis Taylor Jr on the media’s ability to open readers’ eyes by sharing diverse stories, the importance of local journalism, and his Kenny Chesney tailgate adventure.

* Otis Taylor Jr in the San Francisco Chronicle

* Bay Area Black Voices: Why I Protest – photojournalism project with Yalonda M. James

* Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders aka The Kerner Report – PDF here

* Nieman Center research on Local Journalism

* The Other Side of 40 Podcast

Crossing fingers Otis gets to see Long Beard in concert, in person, soon!

Thanks as always to M. The Heir Apparent, who provides the music behind the Midlife Mixtape podcast – check him out here!

“How much do we care?” SF Urban Film Fest founder Fay Darmawi on her cross-disciplinary approach to housing justice, the power of storytelling to change the Affordable Housing Industrial Complex, and her hip new hips.

* Fay Darmawi’s website

* SF Urban Film Fest

* The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

* How Redlining’s Racist Effects Lasted for Decades – NY Times, 8/24/2017

* Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today. Washington Post, 3/28/2018

* Webinar on White Immunity by Dr. Nolan Carbera

Sign up here for a free workshop on how to write a thank-you letter to a dad in your life for Father’s Day 2020!

Best song at best concert, although honestly the version Fay and I were treated to at Irvine Auditorium in Philly in ’86 rocked WAY harder – here’s the setlist from that show!

Thanks as always to M. The Heir Apparent, who provides the music behind the Midlife Mixtape podcast – check him out here!

“Hardcore reinvention”: Poi Dog Pondering founder and bandleader Frank Orrall talks about learning to trust his instincts in the music business, his musical and culinary side gigs, and the challenges facing artists due to COVID-19.

Nancy’s spotlight wedding dance

I dare you to stay in your chair

Thanks as always to M. The Heir Apparent, who provides the music behind the Midlife Mixtape podcast – check him out here!

* PoiDogPondering.com

* Host a Frank Orrall acoustic guitar party with your friends – more info here!

“Stick with the things that really feed you”: NY Times bestselling author of The Gift of Failure Jessica Lahey on pandemic lessons in resilience and self-efficacy, her zig zag career path, and backstage cartwheels at Billy Joel concerts.

* Jessica Lahey’s website

* #AmWriting podcast

Behold the Venn diagram between yoga and hip hop – MC Yogi

Thanks as always to M. The Heir Apparent, who provides the music behind the Midlife Mixtape podcast – check him out here!

“Just pretend you’re Beyoncé right now”: Pop culture history writer Jennifer Keishin Armstrong talks about her new book Pop Star Goddesses and how channeling both the power and flaws of our favorite female artists can help us navigate uncertain times.

* Pop Star Goddesses

* Jennifer K. Armstrong’s website

* Flaming Idols – altar candles featuring inspiring figures of the LGBTQ community.

 CARLA BRUNI WHAT? I didn’t know what to expect and I am now going to go down the rabbit hole.

Thanks as always to M. The Heir Apparent, who provides the music behind the Midlife Mixtape podcast – check him out here!

“Notice that people have been left out”: Kelly Wickham Hurst of Being Black at School talks about tackling systemic racism, the midlife freedom that comes from saying “I don’t know,” and Wham! in that minute when they were still Wham!UK.

* Being Black at School website

* @mochamomma on Twitter

* East Oakland Collective

* PrepareToLaunchU.com

* MaskUpForAmerica.org

I’m not sure 14-year-old Kelly would agree, but for me this song represents Peak George Michael

Thanks as always to M. The Heir Apparent, who provides the music behind the podcast – check him out here!