Dominic Campbell is the co-founder of “Creative Aging International” using celebration as a strategy for transformational change around the world. Pandemic initiatives include “Ageing Voices” connecting across community, healthcare and civic agencies to reduce isolation and facilitate “un-lockdown”, and a nationwide localized arts program for Irish Hospice Foundation to process grief and loss through making meaning. He is an inaugural fellow of Global Brain Health Institute and Atlantic Fellowship, a Next Avenue Key Influencer on Aging, and board member of Africa’s Arts in Medicine Fellowship. Find out more at https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/dominic-campbell. Check out https://copenotes.com/zestful for an innovative app that supports mental health. Find out more about the Zestful Aging Podcast at ZestfulAging.com.

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Dominic Campbell -- “Fall in Love With Your Older Self”

Kristin Neff is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, which began when she was a graduate student and wanted to help herself through a dark period of her own life. Her new book “Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power and Thrive” explains the different kinds of self-compassion and how understanding these can be life changing for women. Find out more at Self-Compassion.org. Check out https://copenotes.com/zestful for an innovative app that supports mental health. Find out more about the Zestful Aging Podcast at ZestfulAging.com.

Kristin Neff -- “Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power and Thrive”

If you’re over 50 and single, you may believe that your chances for love are gone. But according to Francine Russo’s new book “LOVE AFTER 50: How to find it, Enjoy it, and Keep it”, you’re now primed for the best relationship of your life. Francine Russo is a veteran journalist, and a long time contributor to “TIME”. Find out more at FrancineRusso.com. Check out https://copenotes.com/zestful for an innovative app that supports mental health. Find out more about the Zestful Aging Podcast at ZestfulAging.com

Francine Russo -- “LOVE AFTER 50: How to Find It, Enjoy It and Keep It”

Lori Sokol is the Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of Women's eNews, an award-winning non profit news organization that reports on the most crucial issues impacting women and girls around the world. She is also the author of the award-winning book, She Is Me: How Women Will Save The World. FInd out more at https://womensenews.org/ Check out https://copenotes.com/zestful for an innovative app that supports mental health. Find out more about the Zestful Aging Podcast at ZestfulAging.com.

Lori Sokol -- She is Me: How Women Will Save the World

Wendy Conklin is a former educational consultant turned boutique chair designer. She took a big leap and started a new business in middle age creating unique and charming upholstered chairs. Her mission is to help clients create surroundings that genuinely reflect their uniqueness, zest, and personality through bespoke chairs and fabric selections. She teaches others to add color and charm to their lives in a number of ways. Have a look at her beautiful website: Chairwhimsy.com. Check out https://copenotes.com/zestful for an innovative app that supports mental health. Find out more about the Zestful Aging Podcast at ZestfulAging.com.

Wendy Conklin -- An Encore Career Specializing in Creativity and Fun

With the perspective of age, many of us find ourselves looking back at our lives and asking questions such as “was my life a good life? Did I make good choices? What are my regrets?” In his new book “A Round of Golf With My Father”, William Damon illustrates the life review by describing his journey to uncover the hidden story of his father, whom he never met and knew almost nothing about until a sudden recent discovery. Find out more at: https://coa.stanford.edu/people/william-damon or https://www.amazon.com/William-Damon/e/B001ITXNVA/ Check out https://copenotes.com/zestful for an innovative app that supports mental health. Find out more about the Zestful Aging Podcast at ZestfulAging.com.

William Damon -- The Importance of a “Life Review”

In her nursing career, Yvonne Heath witnessed our grief-phobic society first hand and how our reluctance to talk about, plan and prepare for grief, death and dying causes excessive suffering personally, professionally in life, and at the end of life. She believes that when we learn to talk about and plan for grief and life's challenges something amazing happens. We live more fully and we suffer less at the end of our life. Our loved ones and workplaces suffer less and are able to move through their grief. Find out more: LoveYourLifetoDeath.com. Check out https://copenotes.com/zestful for an innovative app that supports mental health. Find out more about the Zestful Aging Podcast at ZestfulAging.com.

Yvonne Heath -- We Live in a Grief Phobic Society--#Just Show Up

Special Episode for Suicide Prevention Week: Debby Waldman is a writer and ex-pat American who has lived in Edmonton, Alberta, since 1992. We were knitting buddies in New Haven, Connecticut in the mid-1980s when she was a newspaper reporter there, but we lost touch until recently, when a mutual friend sent me her New York Times essay, “How Covid-19 and Power Tools Helped Heal My Relationship With My Son”: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/well/family/depression-suicide-covid-woodworking-canoe-cutting-boards.html The essay is in part about how the pandemic gave her a chance to pursue a long-time dream, to learn woodworking, but it’s also about another step in her journey to understand and come to grips with her family’s legacy of mental illness. She has recently completed a draft of a memoir about the effects of the secrets and silence that surrounded the suicide of her father, a Reform rabbi, when she was 13. Learn more at https://www.debbywaldman.com/. Check out https://copenotes.com/zestful for an innovative app that supports mental health. Find out more about the Zestful Aging Podcast at ZestfulAging.com.

Debby Waldman Encore -- “How Covid-19 and Power Tools Helped Heal My Relationship With My Son”

Special Encore Episode for Suicide Prevention Week: Frank King was a writer for The Tonight Show for 20 years. But these days he’s helping prevent suicide. Depression and suicide run in Frank’s family. He was just a young boy when his grandmother committed suicide, an image that’s seared into his mind. He’s thought about killing himself more times than he can count. He’s fought a lifetime battle with Major Depressive Disorder and Chronic Suicidality, turning that long dark journey of the soul into five TEDx Talks and sharing his lifesaving insights on mental health awareness with associations, corporations, and colleges. Find out more about his work at TheMentalHealthComedian.com. And Check out Mentalhealthfirstaid.org and NAMI.org to learn more about suicide prevention. Check out https://copenotes.com/zestful for an innovative app that supports mental health. Find out more about the Zestful Aging Podcast at ZestfulAging.com

Frank King Encore -- From Comedy Writer to Suicide Prevention Speaker and Trainer

What makes life worth living as we age? How can we age with purpose, vibrance and deep satisfaction? Nicole Christina, a psychotherapist for 30 years, interviews inspiring and influential guests from a wide variety of disciplines about how they are evolving as they age, and creating their best lives ever.

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