This week on the podcast I'm joined by lifestyle and success coach, Alice Agnello. Alice works with women who are facing the empty nest and trying to figure out what they want to do with the rest of our lives.  Alice and I talk about how women tend to stuff down our feelings and what we truly want and put our everyone else first. Alice says the fear factor stops so many women from taking risks and trying new things. Unpacking limiting beliefs is a critical step to figuring out midlife and beyond.

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Kids are Grown--NOW WHAT? With Alice Agnello

This week on the podcast I'm joined by lifestyle and success coach, Alice Agnello. Alice works with women who are facing the empty nest and trying to figure out what they want to do with the rest of our lives.   Alice and I talk about how women tend to stuff down our feelings and what we truly want and put our kids, homes and husbands first.  Alice talks about the fear factor and how that stops so many women from taking risks and trying new things. We discuss a growth mindset and how the beliefs that you've had for 40-50 years, can limit you if you don't question them.   Understanding that your thoughts and unpacking limiting beliefs is a critical step to figuring out midlife and beyond.   Alice encourages women to focus on their strengths and getting better at it because it's probably an area that they enjoy. It's not a race, but figuring out something that lights you up for planning the next chapter.   Life is a journey is continuous growth and every obstacle that you have to overcome, is simply a lesson to be learned from. Resilience and grit is something that women can teach their children by creating a new path or figuring out a new purpose.  You can connect with Alice on her website at:  Alice Agnello Or find her podcast "Kids Are Grown, Now What?" on all the major podcast players.  https://aliceagnello.com/kids-are-grown-now-what-podcast/

In this week's episode, Molly interviews Nancy Davis Kho.  Nancy is a podcast host, speaker and author of the book "The Thank You Project". The conversation this week is about Nancy's decision to write thank you notes for a year and how that turned into a book. The book shares how you too can benefit from setting up your own Thank You project.  Nancy shares how the practice of writing these letters helped her become more optimistic and how to see more positive things in her life daily.

The Thank You Project: Cultivating Happiness on Letter at at Time with Nancy Davis Kho

In this week's episode, Molly interviews Nancy Davis Kho.  Nancy is a podcast host, speaker and author of the book "The Thank You Project".    The conversation this week is all about Nancy's decision to write thank you notes for a year and how that turned into a book.  Nancy is full of wit and wisdom, and the book shares how you too can benefit from setting up your own Thank You project.  She set out to help people make the process easier for others with laying out how she chose the people to send the letters to, what she wrote and how she wrote the letters.   She shares how the practice of writing these letters helped her become more optimistic and how to see more positive things in her life daily.  Check out Nancy's podcast:  Midlife Mixtape Find the book here: The Thank You Project

In this short episode, Molly brings you up to speed on what has happened in the last few weeks and where the podcast will be going in the next few months.

What Happened?

In this short episode, Molly brings you up to speed on what has happened in the last few weeks and where the podcast will be going in the next few months. 

This week's episode is an inspirational conversation with Deb Cummins Stellato, life coach and podcast host. Deb has been a longtime facilitator and speaker working with non-profit organizations to help leaders develop their leadership mindsets. During a major "pivot" in her life, she became a life coach during the past year.  "Thinking Courageously" is how she helps successful women show up and make pivots in their own life. Courage is being able to see something better is on the other side of failing.

Thinking Courageously- A Conversation with Deb Cummins Stellato

This week's episode is an inspirational conversation with Deb Cummins Stellato, life coach and podcast host. Deb has been a longtime success coach, facilitator and speaker working with non-profit organizations to help leaders develop their leadership mindsets. In what she coins as a major "pivot" in her life, she studied to become a life coach during the past year.   When she was envisioning how she might provide coaching services to people, she decided that "Thinking Courageously" was how she wanted to help successful women show up and make pivots in their own life.   Courage, says Deb, is being able to see something that is bigger and better is on the other side of failing and being vulnerable.  Her podcast shares stories of courage from women that have pivoted and are now redefining success in different ways.  Deb focuses on "energy leadership" and shares how she helps women achieve a new and even higher level of success.  Deb helps women play bigger and be bolder.  Deb believes that women have the opportunity to find new levels of energy and wonders what if you could do something and not fail, or even if you do fail, you show up perfectly imperfect.  You can hear more from Deb on the Think Courageously podcast on any of your favorite podcast players.  Or connect with her here: Email thethinkgoodcompany@gmail.com  Website www.thethinkgoodcompany.com      

What? PB &J?  Is this episode all about the beloved peanut butter and jelly sandwich? No, not really.  This week's episode is all about handling the URGES that come when you've built a habit that doesn't serve you. To undo that urge we need to remember PB& J.  P: Pause and Ponder B: Breathe on purpose J: Just for 10 minutes Listen in as I share my strategy for allowing an urge to be there and not resist it and not give into it. It's as easy as PB&J.

PB & J: Help for Handling a Negative Habit URGE

What? PB &J?  Is this episode all about the beloved peanut butter and jelly sandwich? No, not really.  This week's episode is all about handling the URGES that come when you've built a habit that doesn't serve you. When you have created a pattern of dealing with negative emotions, or consistently repeated an activity...like eating in front of the tv at night, your body responds to the cues around you with URGES or cravings that are the result of your habits. And now those urges feel like they have to be answered. Like an itch that NEEDS to be scratched, you've set yourself up to eat chips when you feel stressed, or when you sit down to watch your favorite Netflix series because the URGE is always there.  To undo that urge we need to remember PB& J.  P: Pause and Ponder B: Breathe on purpose J: Just for 10 minutes Listen in as I share my strategy for allowing an urge to be there and not resist it and not give into it. It's as easy as PB&J. Here are some resources on breathing: 6 Breathing Exercises That Can Help You Relax in 10 Minutes or Less Best Books on Breathing and Breathwork

In this week's episode we revisit one of our earliest and most popular episode's on Blue Zones. Come with us as we discuss the research and information discovered by Dan Buettner in five geographic areas in the world where people live the longest and where the are high numbers of older people who age without typical diseases like heart disease, cancer or diabetes. Email us at info@fiveforlife.co to ask questions, suggest topics or send guests you would like to have interviewed about living HAPPIER Longer.

Reboot- Reversing Longevity, A Discussion of Blue Zones

In this week's episode we revisit one of our earliest and most popular episode's on Blue Zones.  Here is what we said back when this was first published in 2018: Have you heard about "Blue Zones®?" Come with us as we discuss the research and information discovered by Dan Buettner in five geographic areas in the world where people live the longest and where the are high numbers of older people who age without typical diseases like heart disease, cancer or diabetes. First written in an article for National Geographic titled "The Secrets of Long Life", Buettner detailed five unique areas and found common traits among them, that he later dubbed the "Power 9®". These nine commonalities lead to longer, healthier happier lives.  Please contact the podcast info@fiveforlife.co to ask questions, suggest topics or if there is a guest you would like to have interviewed about living HAPPIER Longer. 

Are we preprogrammed with more than our physical attributes from our parents?  Are we programmed to behave in certain ways too?  This week on the podcast,  I'm speaking with Johanna Lynn, founder of the Family Imprint Institute.  Johanna helps people understand how their background, their parents' backgrounds and even their grandparents may be influencing their behavior now. Johanna says, "The good news about epigenetics is that you can release how you hold the past within."

Epigenetics- Understanding Your Parents and Your Past with Johanna Lynn

Are we preprogrammed with more than our physical attributes from our parents?  Are we programmed to behave in certain ways too?  This week on the podcast,  I'm speaking with Johanna Lynn, founder of the Family Imprint Institute.  Johanna helps people understand how their background, their parents' backgrounds and even their grandparents may be influencing their behavior now.  Johanna says, "The good news about epigenetics is that you can release how you hold the past within. One of the most amazing aspects of the brain is that it is changeable. Neuroplasticity gives us the proof we need to know that the brain can overcome early or inherited negative epigenetic changes. In this brief introduction, Johanna explains how we may be bringing things forward into our own lives from our past relationships that are unresolved.  We talk about healing therapy and how epigenetics focuses on the facts of past relationships not the stories.  We also discuss how the background noise and stress that you may be unknowingly carrying around with you may be impacting your biochemistry.  Johanna provides clients with a geneogram, and then experiential exercises that help them find understanding and freedom from their past.  She works with clients 1:1, in workshops, and with in-person events when possible.  We discuss how past experiences of stress and anxiety may be even more prevalent right now during the pandemic.  For more on Johanna Lynn go to: www.johannalynn.ca Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johannalynn.ca/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_family_imprint_institute/

This week on the podcast I'm talking about walking, with health coach Carolyn Cohen.  We discuss the benefits of walking as a way of improving your health and increasing longevity in the best possible way. Carolyn is a health coach who believes that walking is the very best way to improve health for everyone.  She hosts a weekly podcast called "Wellness While Walking" where she shares wellness information and emphasizes a Blue Zones approach to movement.

Wellness While Walking- A Discussion with Carolyn Cohen

The Live HAPPIER longer podcast is all about building the habits of a HAPPIER, longer life. Our daily plan focuses on five actions that are proven to increase longevity, and improve optimism about aging. Hosts Molly Watts and Angela McDade, along with their guests will help you MOVE*LEARN*SHARE*GIVE* and *LET GO. Your HAPPIER longer life starts right now--Here's the plan!

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