Taking control of your health is the answer to overcoming fear of COVID 19 according to our guest, Dr. Joe Nieusma.  This episode is about waking up to the  personal decisions we must make to stay safe and healthy in the new normal of COVID. If you are vulnerable to respiratory infections, like I am, there are choices to make to stay healthy.  Dr. Joe has strong opinions but is not unreasonable, and ultimately wants to help us get a grip on overcoming our collective fears about COVID.   Lots of fact checking for the episode with links listed below.  Reach Dr Joe   Bat Lady Wuhan lab Antiviral Journal Oxidative Stress C60 Complete NIH 1968 Woodstock Pandemic   

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Dr. Joe Nieusma

What do you do as an alternative to nursing homes when there is no COVID 19 vaccine?  What are your options if you want to get someone you love out of one?  In this episode, Merrily Orsini, host of Help Choose Home Podcast, a leading Aging in Place expert, helps make sense of this complicated tale of the Medicare subsided nursing home industry and discusses expanding available options for our elderly seniors and their families.  http://www.helpchoosehome.com/ 

Merrily Orsini - Choose Home Not A Nursing Home

As a blogger, author and podcast host, Stephanie Raffeloch believes that experiencing life on a backdrop of loss and navigating vulnerability is the path of positive aging. Her message is timely and hopeful in these uncertain times.

Stephanie Raffeloch - Hope Moves Us Forward

How can you trick your mind with a set of rules to liberate yourself from binge eating during the COVID shutdown?  What are ways to curb anxieties about the unknown future and keep your mind healthy and wise?  Dr. Glen Livingston, is an expert on creating strategies to stop binging and outsmart the part of our brain that drives us to the cookie jar over and over and undermines our sense of well being and purpose.  He shares how he overcame an exhausting addiction to chocolate, the roots of his own path to recovery, and his step by step approach to develop the discipline that leads to freedom. Link to Glen's website for many free downloads to help you chart your own course or share with a friend For an online intensive program with Glenn - click here To learn more about ElderandWiser podcast click here!  

Glenn Livingston

Embracing the energy within is the advice of health expert, Udo Erasmus, the founder of Udo's Choice supplements and today's guest.  According to Udo that not only means a sexier you (no matter what age) but it might also keep you alive.  The COVID 19 pandemic has tipped the scales on everybody but no more so than today's senior population, who have  been targeted by some as being sacrificial lambs so the rest of the world can get back to work. Udo lays out a framework for an inner journey to embrace the ache of the heart and in the process find new energy and meaning in sickness and in health. Make no mistake about this - we will get through this, and Udo's advice is a gigantic message of HOPE. Free downloads from Udo Total Sexy Life Free Download Your Body Needs an Oil Change - Free Download 

Udo Erasmus

 Stand Up Comic Susan Sussman, 70, shows that age does not limit one's talent or aspirations.  When the economy hit the skids during the downturn in the 2008 market crash, Susan's phone in her gangbuster real estate appraisal company stopped ringing  She took an inventory of her dreams and decided to write.  The rest is history.  She now lives in Orlando, Florida as a popular host and performer at comedy clubs throughout the Orlando region, the biggest entertainment corridor in the country. -To learn more about Susan in a recent interview go here -A short taste of Susan's stand up act here -Link to Susan's Facebook Page here Listeners - if you like what you hear please rate and leave a review and share episodes with friends!  Are you interested in sharing your story about becoming elder and wiser?  Contact  elderandwiser.org

Susan Sussman

Prostate Cancer is a sobering reality for Joseph Germershausen and his wife Host Betsy Heeney.  In this episode, the 60 something newlyweds share the  medicine of good research, humor, music, conversation and champagne to unpack the diagnosis and treatment path.  Check out the books by David Deida we mention in the episode https://deida.info/ .  We found that reading his books have open up for us a unique link between sexuality and spirituality. Please leave a review on Apple Podcast!  Send comments to betsy@elderandwiser.org

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It doesn't take much for John Roche to be happy in his second year of retirement. Besides the obvious of good shelter, good food, and good health he needs two things only:  something to make him think and someone or something that he cares about.  John is the second of my series of checking in with college friends to see how retirement is going for them.  Check out the OLLI Institute classes in a city near you here http://www.osherfoundation.org/index.php?olli Leave a review here at Apple podcast. Join me at elderandwiser.org to stay in touch. Call and leave a message and let us know how you like the podcast at 410-929-1238

Life Long Learning with John Roche

How do you mentally  prepare for retirement beyond having your finances in order?  Colleen Kennedy, a 40 plus teaching professional has been retired for 18 months and shares her experience with us.  Colleen tells us that planning for your mindset before retirement is just as important as planning for your financial security and gives solid steps for action. Leave a review and share the podcast!  Become a subscriber at elderandwiser.org.

Breezing into Retirement with Colleen Kennedy

Special guest David Winslow, a physician from Louisville, Kentucky  is 72 years old and just like me is not interested in quitting the work life.  He found his passions early in life; his 49 year marriage to his wife Rita  and helping people feel better as a pulmonary internist. What sets David apart from his peers is his entrepreneurial instincts that helped him build a network of sleep disorder clinics throughout the state of Kentucky and a leader in the field of sleep apnea research. In today's episode Betsy and David talk about the best parts of working and new ways of looking at retirement.   

David Winslow - Redefining Retirement

 The action of work does not stop at retirement. Some of us can't or want to, so how to repackage ourselves is the topic of today's episode. Erika Parker Price is a teacher, coach and podcaster who guides woman in transition to find purpose and meaning through work.  She believes it starts with Ikigai a Japanese word that means "reason for being". Check out Erika through her website Ready Pause Go and her podcast. Please leave a review of Elder and Wiser, and visit elderandwiser.org

Erika Parker Price - Transition Coach

Today's episode is an impromptu on the road conversation between Host Betsy Heeney and Joseph Germershausen as they alter plans in a traffic jam and celebrate their first Wedding Anniversary.  Truly a rambling conversation from new found freedoms of aging, newlyweds at 60plus, the ins and outs of teaching art in high school and contemplations on retirement.   Visit elderandwiser.org, and join the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/ELDERANDWISERPODCAST/ Call and leave a message about your story of impromptu decisions with your companion @ 410-929-1238 Music lyrics and melody: Bob Dylan Performed and recorded: Joseph Germershausen 

The Anniversary Episode

Debra Diamond, a psychic and a medium, is also a death doula who spends time sitting next to people who have reached hospice care in the last days of their life and wrote a book about her experiences.   She hopes that her book will offer comfort and support for people who are facing or reflecting upon the loss of loved ones.  While developing a reputation as an insightful Wall Street money manager and college professor, she attended a 2008 life changing intuition workshop that introduced her to the invisible realm and her telepathic abilities to communicate with people "on the other side". She soon left her business career behind and moved to Taos, New Mexico to paint and develop her psychic path forward. Our conversation covers fascinating topics about death, fear of death, telepathy, energetic realms of intuition and clairvoyance. Visit Amazon to pre-order the book , which will be available for distribution on October 25, 2019.  Super cool offer by Debra is once you receive your book, if you review and post to Amazon, and send the screen shot of the review directly to Debra, you can join her for a free online book club! Contact her directly through her website for readings, workshops and speaking engagements. On a personal note, Please subscribe to ElderandWiser to automatically get biweekly episode downloads. Please leave a review and share episodes with friends!!!

Debra Diamond: The Death Doula

Preparing for the aging process is part physical, mental and spiritual, but moving through the fear of planning for it is the key to healthy aging and the entryway to finding a purposeful life.

Stephanie Pessin PT, MPT - The Aging Coach

Judy Vreeland, retired deaf educator, LGBTQ activist, buddhist, mother and grandmother has been in a community of one form or another since the 1970's.  Our conversation explores the purpose of community and the desire that all humans have to be seen, heard and connected to others as a path to a healthy fulfilled life.

Judy Vreeland - Be in Community

Elder and Wiser is about having conversations that inspire the awakening of aging adults to embrace elderhood and purpose in these challenging times.

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