Dr. Jeff Fisher has been a chiropractor for 30 years.

He knows a thing or two about the spine and how best to care for it and the whole person.

After enduring 3 neck surgeries and the pain that did not get relieved from the operations, he’s invented a device to alleviate neck and lower back pain.

The promise of the device — as proven by lots of satisfied customers — is, “Long-term relief from neck and lower back pain is as easy as lying down.”

Fashion icon. TV personality. Book author. Cancer survivor. Septuagenarian. My guest, Diane Gilman, also known as the “Queen of Jeans,” is all of those things and now, for her third act, she is bringing women together to support one another to make their third act, their best one yet.

Diane knew, from the time she was 5, that she wanted to be in fashion. She wanted to sew and go to school for it but her mother was having none of it.

Get married and be a good wife was the message of the day.

Somehow Diane was able to break away from the limitations of her mother’s thinking.

So, she took her last few bucks and moved to NYC, home of the fashion industry.

A dream she had, experience she did not, so at night she worked as “the worst waitress at Max’s Kansas City” and by day in the bullet bra and girdle department in Bloomingdale’s.

Fate stepped in, she was given a break because she boldly said she was ready despite the lack of evidence.

Dr. Susan Brown is a medical anthropologist, a New York State Certified Nutritionist, who pioneered the natural approach to bone health for over 30 years.

She was the first to prove that using only natural methods, nearly every woman can build strong bones for life. Incorporating her research and the latest science, her six-point natural program has helped tens of thousands of women take control of their bone health and enjoy long, active, happy lives.

What kind of exercise should we — and shouldn’t we — be doing after we enter our 5th decade?

Alicia Jones, founder of Alicia Jones Healthy Living has the answers and 15 years of experience transforming the health and lives of women over 50 through fitness and weight loss strategies. All backed up with lots of credentials in many different fitness modalities and kinesiology.

One reason I’m hosting Alicia is her realistic — and safe — approach to fitness for busy women really of any age but her specialty is the midlife woman.

Dr. Doug Lucas, owner of Optimal Human Health, is a whole body, true health care practitioner.

Former osteopathic surgeon, he realized he was only fixing the tail end of a problem in many cases and wanted to help the whole person. He was and is interested in prevention and strengthening a person from gut and immune system to muscles and bones.

Our conversation went wide and deep in a few instances, like diabetes.

Pharmaceuticals for things like dementia, diabetes, and osteoporosis are not very effective but a whole person approach that includes coaching and education about lifestyle, etc is effective and can send that sick person back in the direction of health. Something meds will never do.

Don’t know about you but the word stroke conjures images of older people, the elderly. My guest, speech pathologist and coach, Tsgoyna Tanzman, set me straight on that.

And we have a greater chance of long term disability! Not because we have stronger strokes but because we wait too long to get help.

Typical woman, “I’m too busy, don’t want to bother anyone, don’t need to go to the hospital”…And time costs us in function or even life.

This shortie is a prayer for anyone who happens upon it. That when you think of the new year ahead you come from a place of self-love, not the self-judgement that resolutions offer.

No matter what you might want to see be different, leave the mean girl thoughts out of planning it.

A “new you for the new year” has a certain ring to it but you don’t need to new yourself. You have talents and strength and skills that will get you anywhere you want to go.

What you might need is expert advice and support. You might need new tools, information, and a system.

And it’s the system that’s most important when it comes to growing or reaching goals. I mentioned James Clear, author of Atomic Habits as a great tool if you want the most successful strategies probably on the planet working with you.

Are you the “wait and see, hope it doesn’t blow up” kind of person?

Or does this sound more like you, “It’s time to make a big change, I’m blowing it all up and here for the ride?”

Monica Ricci did the latter. In the space of four months, Monica left her marriage, sold their two homes, a business, and the illusion of a secure future. She had two choices: fall apart or forge ahead.

Even though it was her choice there was still a huge loss to get through.

In addition, she had to start over in every aspect of her life.

We talked about how long it took her to decide she had to take action and how she learned — finally — to lean on others to get her through.

What’s it like to talk to dead people?

How about knowing with certainty that you can receive messages for people looking for direction or help with an area of their lives?

And she had many careers before deciding to get trained to use her natural gifts to help others.

Dr. J Ann Dunn was my guest a couple of weeks ago. As often happens, once we ended the interview, questions I hadn’t asked popped into my mind.

Questions on cancer, mental health, (Which is why she started her company My Happy Genes) addiction and more.

I asked J if she’d come back again to answer them and asked people on my list to join us live or ask their questions ahead of time by email.