EPISODE 5 | With Ashton Applewhite

Welcome to The Entrecouragement Podcast. The home of purpose-driven business, entrepreneurship and creativity. Each week we bring you inspirational interviews, fresh ideas, and actionable insights - to help you build your purpose-driven business, and create a life of meaning. With your host, Matty Hawthorne

Our guest this week would like us to think differently about growing older. This week on The Entrecouragement Podcast is Matty's interview from July 2018, when he got to speak to writer, activist and author Ashton Applewhite; a New York based advocate around issue of ageism.

Ashton's TED Talk has well over a million and a half views, and her book tackling ageism ‘This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism’ asks why we make the assumption that older people are alike and that ageing impoverishes us.

By far the hardest hit group during the Coronavirus pandemic - both from the risk posed by the virus and from the effects of isolation - are those who are older in our communities, this interview from 2018 is timely as we tackle a global virus that puts our older population at greatest risk.

We talk about old people and sexiness, why issues like Brexit seem to divide old and young, why anti ageing products are so prevalent, and how we can best tackle ageism.

You can purchase Ashton’s book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Chair-Rocks-Ashton-Applewhite/dp/1911545264/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ashton+applewhite&qid=1589451399&sr=8-1

What her TED Talk here: https://www.ted.com/talks/ashton_applewhite_let_s_end_ageism

and find the resources and blog posts mentioned in our conversation here:

thischairrocks.com/resources

thischairrocks.com/blog

thischairrocks.com/agejusticerally

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