The Art 2 Aging

A company called Rest Less has released the results of a survey it did on self employed individuals in the U.K.

Rest Less has a simple mission: help those in their 50s and older to find jobs. What their survey discovered is that a record number of individuals over 60 have become self-employed. This represents nearly a quarter of all of those in the U.K. who work for themselves.

It would be a real stretch to say that all those self-employed over 60 are dying to work for themselves. More likely, they are forced to because they can’t find a job with a company. And that’s likely because age discrimination, more commonly known as ageism, is keeping them on the sidelines.

This week, a conversation with Janine Vanderburg, a veteran consultant who has taken on the task of battling ageism in the workplace, trying to tear down the prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination at work that does such damage to those over 50 and also to the companies that reject their applications.

Most of us blunder into retirement without any realization about how much our lives are going to change. We’re entering unchartered waters.

Or, as our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging, Wayne Lehrer, would say, we are entering our third act without the knowledge of how to make it extraordinary.

That’s why Wayne looks at life as a play in three acts.

Act 1 is our personal development up to age 20.

Act 2 is when we begin striving for success, accumulation, wealth building and family.

Act 3 likely begins around age 60 and it could be the most challenging one of all.

Wayne has worn a few hats in his life: IMAX  film maker, theme park designer, sculptor,  and writer.

And as he wound his way through his own three-act play, he came to realize that it wasn’t until he reached Act 3 that he began to understand what the play was really about. Listen this week on The Art 2 Aging.

This week on The Art 2 Aging, we resume our conversation with Jim White. If you’re Canadian, then you will know what President’s Choice is. As well as PC.

Well, that’s Jim White.

 And if you’ve ever eaten a muffin from Starbuck’s, then you have consumed a Jim White recipe.

You have probably enjoyed food and beverage products from Costco, Walmart, Wegman’s, Safeway and many other food retailers throughout the U.S. that have Jim’s moniker all over them.

Jim has enjoyed enormous success in the food and wine industries and he’s done so with very little fanfare.

Today, the final part of our interview with Jim as he relates how he moved from food to wine because, as Jim would put it, he’d never done it before and it sounded like fun.

There aren’t many entrepreneurs who can boast that they are responsible for not one but two case studies at the prestigious Harvard School of Business.

Or that they created the best selling cookie in Canada.

But Jim White can.

Jim is a 78 year old guy who lives with his wife in Napa Valley. He was born in the U.S. but became a Canadian citizen and lived in Canada for many years.

During his time north of the border, Jim had careers as a journalist, photographer and food critic, all of which led him down several amazing paths, making him a very successful man in the process.

Today, at 78, Jim is not slowing down one bit.

Jim White is our featured guest this week on The Art 2 Aging.

Cell senescence. Oxidation. Inflammation.

These three terms represent what often happens to our cells as we grow older.

Cell senescence refers to cells that lose their fuel and slip back into idle. They aren’t dead cells but they’re basically useless cells that can become cancerous.

Oxidation is a process in the cells that impacts the cell’s electrical charge in a detrimental  way and inflammation in healthy cells can lead to chronic diseases and ailments if left untreated.

The effect on our bodies is called aging.

Since we can’t see what’s going on in our cells, a surefire way to avoid any of these three issues is through the use of targeted supplements.

Our guest today is Dr. Barbara Barrett, a doctor of natural medicine who is an expert on supplement use. Her recommendations for supplement use will be an eye opener for those who listen to this episode of The Art 2 Aging.

There is so much happening at the forefront of health and wellness right now that it’s difficult to know where to begin.

What science has discovered about the human body is that it is not chemically based but electrically based. This means your body is electrical and responds to electrical energy. In fact, the body can be healed electrically.

So, this week on The Art 2 Aging, we’re going to do just that: start to uncover a few universal secrets within the human body.

Our guest is Dr. Steve Small. Doc Steve, as he refers to himself, is someone you’re going to  want to listen to.

Steve is a doctor of functional medicine who practices what he calls Quantum Integrative Medicine. He practices in L.A. and his patient list is quite literally a Who’s Who of Hollywood.

What he has to tell you about frequency, vibration, and energy and how your body responds is going to blow you away. More than that, Doc Steve explains why the human body is electrical and how it can always be kept in a healthy state through the use of tiny electrical currents flowing from a hand-held device that is revolutionizing wellness.

Steve’s message is NOT just theory. Rather it is information you can really make use of. And it is in all likelihood the future of medicine.

How do we measure victory?

Armed forces do it by defeating the enemy on the battlefield and in the air.

Sports teams do it by outscoring their opponents.

Athletes do it by setting world record times.

Politicians do it by winning elections.

You get the picture. But what about personal victories?

Okay, so what do we mean by personal victories? Well, why not ask Gary Buzzard?

For years, Gary wanted one thing more than any other: to call himself a writer.

Unfortunately, Gary listened to his ego voice and allowed it to defeat him, pin him down and make him swallow his dream.

But he wouldn’t let go of his goal. And the universe listened, creating a series of episodes and situations in his life that finally got him to the point where Gary shouted, “Enough!”

In his late 70s, Gary reached his goal and he now calls himself a writer. So does everyone else, for that matter. And, they add, a damn good one, too.

Here’s the story of how a man achieved his dream – despite his age.

There may be one question that all of us, old and young, grapple with. We may not articulate it clearly but it goes something like this: does Life have a meaning?

The inherent folly in that question is based on an assumption that Life has the same meaning for all of us. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. How could your life mean the same to you as my life means to me?

Now here’s another question: what holds us back from finding meaning in our lives?

This week on The Art 2 Aging, we tackle both those questions in an interview with Peter Merry, Managing Director and Chief Innovation Officer at Ubiquity University in the Netherlands.

Peter discusses how we can discover that individual life meaning that gives each of us purpose, especially as we age into the senior years. And believe it or not, he does so by referencing quantum science.

Everyone talks about the “stages of life”: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and then, the Big One – old age.

The problem with thinking in stages is that it has the effect of segregating life into different compartments. That’s exactly how marketers and advertisers think. They segregate the population into market segments.

Makes sense for them but here’s the problem: when marketers who are in their own stage of life as adults think about those who are in that stage called “old age”, they fall down in their messaging attempts.

Because someone who’s 38 or 45 can’t think – or feel ­– like someone who is 65 or 75. So, they fall back on stereotypes and inevitably get it wrong every time.

That’s where Dave McCaughan comes in. Dave has been in the marketing and advertising business for decades and he has made the aging cohort a study for the past 30 years.

In this week’s episode of The Art 2 Aging, Dave describes how marketers have gone wrong and continue to go wrong with their marketing efforts to the older population.

Tiny electrical currents, known as microcurrents, which can generate rapid healing within the body, allowed an NFL Hall of Famer to play in the Super Bowl only six weeks after breaking his leg and tearing his Achilles tendon. Terrell Owens was that player.

Microcurrent healing was in wide use in the late 19th century. And while it worked,  it was never carefully studied or documented.

With the birth of the pharmaceutical age in the 1920s, what we now call frequency medicine faded from sight.

But in the mid 1990s, those tiny electrical currents shot back into prominence through the work of a chiropractic doctor named Carolyn McMakin. And she was responsible for Terrell Owens being able to play an impossible and spectacular game in the 2005 Super Bowl.

Today, Dr. McMakin is the undisputed global expert in Frequency Specific Microcurrent technology or FSM for short. Her treatment protocols are now standard with many NFL teams, as well as NHL and NBA teams. Why? Because it WORKS.

She is our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging.