The Boomer's Ultimate Guide Podcast

Larry Bell is the owner of Destination Discovery—a tour and travel company specializing in small group travel. They organize and manage tours in the United States, Western Canada, France, England, Italy and Morocco.

He had an interesting and eventful career in the United States Air force–but he flunked retirement. Larry sold real estate for a while, substituted in the local school system and taught some college courses. Teaching was quite satisfying—real estate, not so much.

One thing he really enjoyed about serving in the Air force was the opportunity to travel. He remembers the advice someone once gave about deciding on a career, “Find something you are passionate about and figure out how to make a little money doing it.” Through a series of coincidences, Larry found out that he could actually travel and get paid to do it. He had never even considered it before.

Learn more about Larry Bell: www.destinationdiscovery.com

Boomer Travel with Larry Bell

Jae is a Certified Financial Planner™, and Founding Member of GH2 Benefits LLC, a provider of the full range of benefit services to individuals and businesses.

He is the author of a top-rated, top-selling book on Medicare, titled Maximize Your Medicare: Understanding Medicare, Protecting Your Health, and Minimizing Costs, available in print and e-book format. He is an expert contributor to a website powered by the nation’s second largest provider of Medicare plans, Humana, Inc, titled MyMedicareAnswers.com.

Learn more about Jae Oh: www.maximizeyourmedicare.com

Understanding Medicare with Jae Oh

LORI TSUGAWA WHALEY is the author of The Courage of a Samurai, professional keynote speaker, and life coach. Lori is a third generation Japanese-American baby boomer and a descendant of the samurai warrior; she is on a mission to empower others to reach their God-given leadership potential no matter their path, heritage, or circumstances. Lori and her husband John reside in a Japanese-style home in the Pacific Northwest.

Learn more about Lori Whaley: www.loriwhaley.com

Courage of a Samurai with Lori Whaley

Belinda Farrell, author of the book Find Your Friggin’ Joy, graduated with a BA in Spanish and English from the University of California at Berkeley and is trained in hypnotherapy, past life regression, NLP, Hawaiian chanting, and ancient Hawaiian healing (Huna). Belinda trained with Anthony Robbins (author of Unlimited Power) and has effectively used these skills in her own life. She has completed 18 firewalks. When Belinda was forty-eight, she collapsed with herniated discs and spinal nerve damage. Threatened with paralysis by her medical doctors if she didn’t have surgery, Belinda instead chose to apply the ancient Hawaiian healing practices she had been learning the previous three years, which are covered in this book. Her back completely healed, including childhood scoliosis. For fifteen years she has been sharing these healing practices with others, offering Reconnective Healing and Huna classes and taking clients to Hawaii to teach Huna and swim with wild spinner dolphins.

Learn more about Belinda Farell: www.hunahealing.com

Find Your Friggin’ Joy with Belinda Farrell

As a former stock-trading instructor, Kate Stalter brings a wealth of experience to her role as the founder of Better Money Decisions. The clients of Better Money Decisions are benefiting from the perspective Kate gained while teaching thousands of investors how to trade use fundamental and technical analysis. Kate traveled the country, teaching the Investor’s Business Daily seminars. She also hosted the “Small-Cap Roundup” radio show, heard on stations around the U.S. She continues to be a regular columnist for U.S. News & World Report, Morningstar, Forbes,com, TheStreet.com and other venues.

“Trading stocks is fun and exciting,” she says. “But eventually, I realized that the way most people approached trading had no relationship to their overall financial plan. It’s actually easier to trade than it is to stop and really consider why you are investing. Do you want to fund your retirement? Leave something to your children and grandchildren? When I became a financial planner, instead of a stock trader, I immediately saw a much greater opportunity to help people realize their goals.” Kate finds it most gratifying to help a client make decisions about a 401(k), a brokerage account, an annuity or an inheritance, and to frame those decisions within the client’s overall objective. “It’s like putting together the various pieces of a puzzle, so you can see the bigger picture. This is totally different from picking a stock trade,” she says.

But through her work in the media, Kate understands that the financial Web sites and TV channels continue to favor hot stock picking over sound financial planning. “I meet with a lot of people who are unfamiliar with anything beyond the Dow, or maybe the S&P and some of the bigger Nasdaq stocks. There’s a whole world of investments out there, and it’s crucial to be properly diversified. But the financial media tell you almost nothing beyond what the U.S. markets did today,” Kate says. “And almost always, those market reports create confusion and uncertainty, rather than peace of mind.”

Learn more about Kate Stalter: www.bettermoneydecisions.com

Better Money Decisions with Kate Stalter

Marc Miller’s career journey included 22 years at IBM, several thriving tech startups, a stint as a high school math teacher, a gig raising funds for the Jewish Community Center and a near fatal bicycle accident that changed his perspective forever.

But after thirty years of wandering the proverbial career desert, often repeating the same mistakes over and over, Marc learned his most crucial lesson:

Most people don’t really know what makes them happy at their core, what fulfills them.

They pursue money, status, a skill set, all of which provide some level of satisfaction, but not contentment. They wind up feeling frustrated and trapped. Others have figured out what they need, but don’t know how to chart a course to get there.

An active member of the Launch Pad Job Club, Marc found himself counseling friends and associates on their career journeys and finally realized he’d found his vocation. He now uses his extensive training experience to help others—especially Baby Boomers—find careers that they could grow into for the decades that lie ahead.

Learn more about Marc Miller: www.careerpivot.com

Early Retirement Packages with Marc Miller

Adrienne Hew is a licensed holistic nutritionist and she is passionate about creating healthy bodies.

Unfortunately, too many women today are plagued with failing health despite their best attempts to do everything right as the self-proclaimed health experts have laid out for them. This not only costs them their fertility, it is also the leading cause of obesity, asthma, allergies, ear infections and autism in children as well as many other health conditions that are on the rise.

She has been around the block and at one point was one of the unhealthiest people walking the planet even though she ate a diet considered healthy by both conventional dietitians and so-called holistic (or as she likes to call them, “half-istic”) practitioners. Today she is one of the healthiest people she knows, not so much because of lifestyle as much as because she is not suffering with diseases that her peers have developed since her recovery. And guess what, she does almost everything contrary to what the experts suggest.

Learn more about Adrienne Hew: www.nutritionheretic.com

Frenching Your Food with Adrienne Hew

Iris K Barratt is a prolific writer living in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. She is an inspirational catalyst who empowers genuine connection through teaching, speaking engagements and writing. Her writing passionately strengthens a deeper sense of connection within yourself, your family, community and humanity in healthy and memorable ways. Her work excels at providing practical public benefit with fun educationally based programs.

Ms. Barratt’s Oneness Process and her Collective Genius Fundraising Program are now being shared in study groups in several countries around the world.

Iris’ other Ebook titles include, Ranting of a Psychic Grandmother, Childrens Celebrations and Ceremonies Workbook and her latest work, Leave a Legacy of Wisdom: A Process to Inspire Sharing Your Stories, Values and Insights.

This groovy grandmother’s greatest passion, is inspiring the joy that comes from honoring people anonymously. Her intriguing website AnonymousExpressions.com offers over 30 Honoring Awards you can send anonymously to spread unconditional love, joy, laughter and mysterious fun. Enjoy this award-winning humanitarian and visionary author.

Learn more about Iris Barratt: www.anonymousexpressions.com

Legacy of Wisdom with Iris Barratt

Helen Chin Lui is a Certified Reflexologist, Certified Energy Medicine Practitioner, Usui Master Reiki Practitioner and Teacher. She is the owner of the Healing Place, Medfield, MA established in 2006. Helen specializes in helping people of all ages to find long-term relief from chronic digestive relief, chronic pain relief and balancing hormones naturally. She is a member of Massachusetts Association of Reflexology and Reflexology Association of America.

According to National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health more people in the United States are turning to natural, alternative or holistic health for their physical health, mental and spiritual health. Some interesting information about who uses holistic therapies:

• 33% of U.S. adults used a holistic treatment in 2012. More women than men

• Nearly three-fourths of US medical schools offer elective courses in natural and alternative medicine

• People use natural products more than any other type of natural therapy, such as organic food and supplements.

The stress of balancing family, work and home is increasing; more people are willing to try holistic treatments to improve their physical and emotional health. The most common practices are energy work, yoga, massage, chiropractic or manipulation, and meditation. Many hospitals now are incorporating energy healing such Reflexology and Reiki, a hand energy therapy to help patients to relax, as part of their healing practices.

Learn more about Helen Chin Liu: www.healingplacemedfield.com

Destress with Helen Chin Liu

For over 8 years Christine Baumgartner has worked with singles who are ready to finally have a loving partner in their life and are willing to tackle what’s keeping that love away so they’ll finally attract the committed loving relationship they desire and deserve.

As a successful coach for John Gray (Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus) and then combing her personal dating experiences Christine created The Transform Your Dating Life system to –

• Finally learn how to choose men and women who are match for you by clarifying what you want and need from a partner in a unique way.

• Fix what’s been keeping you from attracting the right type of men and women, so you’ll stop wasting your time, energy and money going out with the wrong people.

• Turn your frustrating dating experiences into fun.

Christine knows this system works because it’s how she met her deceased husband Tony; they were married in 2007.

Christine’s clients are people who say;

• I’ve been dating for a while and I’m still meeting the “wrong” person

• I’m newly single and don’t know where to begin

• I’ve had many short term relationships and I’m ready for a long term committed relationship.

Christine knows that her coaching provides the tools, encouragement, and support that will help you finally met your last love.

Learn more about Christine Baumgartner: www.theperfectcatch.com

Finding Love with Christine Baumgartner