Women Over 70: Aging Reimagined

Susana was born in Romania, worked in Canada and now resides in the United States. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Design Engineering and over 30 years of experience defining and using advanced technologies. During this time, she experienced two traumatic brain injuries on the same day, resulting in brain trauma and bone misalignment. The path to recovery was arduous and frustrating. “We are born with an innate ability of self-repair.” - Susana Stoica Ph.D. Since her own trauma, Susana now focuses her healing practice on helping people with neural impairments. Author of 9 books, including five increasingly complex cookbooks on using healthy cooking to recover from brain trauma, she works with people worldwide helping them heal by correcting their energy fields. Connect with Susana: Website: HealingBrainInjury.com Email: HealingBrainInjury@gmail.com Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=susana+stoica&i=stripbooks&crid=376QMS5X78WT1&sprefix=Susana+Stoic%2Caps%2C158&ref=nb_sb_ss_fb_1_12

At 85, Karin has been widowed twice, always has a man in her life, and lives out her dreams with passionate reality. She is gutsy and game! Her 2nd husband had passed away from complications due to Parkinson’s disease. After retiring from a career in marriage and family counseling at 78, specifically as a bereavement counselor, she decided to move on her own to France and live out a promise they made while on their honeymoon in Aix-en-Provence. Planning to stay 1 year, she found that was not enough and stretched it to two. From that experience came her first book, “Blue Satin Nightgown - My French Makeover at 78.” “I know how mental age is. Attitude is everything.” - Karin Crilly Karin lays out for us all the steps it took for her to move to France and what she did while she was there to make the 2 years into a wonderful adventure. At 80, she knew it was time to return home. Connect with Karin: Email: kcrillymft@sbcglobal.net   Book: Blue Satin Nightgown: My French Makeover at 78   Connect with Gail & Catherine: Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Wo70AgingReimagined Twitter: @womenover70 Instagram: WomenOver70 Website:https://womenover70.com Email: info@womenover70.com Show: Women Over 70 – Aging Reimagined Listen on: Apple Podcast, Google Play Music, Stitcher, or Spotify Please rate our show and subscribe wherever you listen. This is how we grow.  

  "The beauty of aging is you have more time to help people." - Harriett Cholden   As a young adult, Harriett visited Chicago from her home in Waterloo, Iowa and never looked back. She got a job teaching 5 th grade at an independent school based on the progressive philosophy of John Dewey, and stayed for 40 years. Upon retirement 16 years ago, Harriett has continued the teachings of Dewey in her extensive volunteer work with new citizens eager to vote, people who are blind, youth who are college-bound, and adults who are non-reading. Harriett offers an expansive perspective on what friendship can encompass and tips on ways to make new friends as we age. Listen in for why Harriett took up tap dancing at age 79.   Contact Harriett: Contact Information: harriettch@me.com

"If I hear some screeching of the wheels, I'll just put a little oil on them and carry on." - Bobbi Wilsyn Jazz/Blues performer, educator, actress and Professor Emerita at Columbia College Chicago, Bobbi Wilsyn, 72, has lived a life of purpose. Now in her 3rd act, she is redesigning her career and looking forward to new adventures and opportunities to serve, in ways that motivate and move minds with new ideas of awareness through her music and workshops. Bobbi is wise in ways of the heart and asks others to step out and take risks. She says, “We are all ‘leaners, learners and leaders at different times.” A favorite quote from her mother is “Nothing gets old but clothes and cars. If you wait around long enough, they’ll come back in style.” This 3rd act has become an encore and Bobbi is just getting started. Connect with Bobbi Wilsyn: Email: bwilsyn@att.net   You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Bobbi+Wilsyn

Dr. Holstein, a vocal advocate for women aging, speaks both to individuals and the larger politic. She urges women to own their age—if you are old, acknowledge it.  Live by your norms, not those for people far younger: Intergenerational conversations are important. Dr. Holstein raises awareness of how differentials concerning race, class, religion, and sexual identity affect the problems we encounter and the choices available for how we age and live. Individual solutions are insufficient; political-systemic answers are needed to remedy ills around aging, especially aging women. If we don’t accept and respect our age, how will we identify those problems associated with being old and work toward resolving them? The personal is political--ageism and social disparities inhibit women from making meaningful choices of how to live well while aging. - Martha Holstein, Ph.D. Contact Information: Mbholstein360@gmail.com Holstein, M. (2015). Women in Late Life: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Age. Rowman & Littlefield. Connect with Gail and Catherine: Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Wo70AgingReimagined Instagram: WomenOver70 Website:https://womenover70.com Email: info@womenover70.com Show: Women Over 70 – Aging Reimagined Listen on: Apple Play, Stitcher, Please rate our show and subscribe wherever you listen. This is how we grow.

An Uncommon Life From childhood, Sallie longed to communicate with creatures different from her - human and otherwise. Her difficult upbringing and early adulthood influenced the paths she chose in her life.  A white woman growing up in the south, guided by a black nurse/companion/teacher, she used these formative experiences to become an eloquent writer, educator, editor, advocate – and finally, falconer. “I learned patience from caring for injured hawks, and how to turn off my internal chatter so I could listen and truly hear them.” - Sallie Reynolds Sallie has taught herself two skills vital to these aims: to shut off the internal chatter that interferes with real listening, and, with painful patience, to recognize and reject the attitudes she absorbed growing up. She began writing at age 3, dictating the story of Adam and Eve, sans rib, to her aunt. Today, she is the author of 3 books, plus a long multi-volume novel about the Jim Crow South, newly completed. Connect with Sallie: Email: salliereynolds@gmail.com Website: https://.takethemoment.org Read her books: Rapture & Virginia Primitive, both available on Amazon Also, Ordinary Expectations, 3 Volumes, manuscript https://www.amazon.com/Sallie-Reynolds/e/B00I171RGA?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000   Link to article on falconry: https://www.ginnyrorby.org/blog

Living in 9 places in 11 years taught Diana how to adapt as a young woman. She had to figure things out. First an art therapist and then a school adjustment counselor, Diana realized she would need multiple degrees to further her career and provide her with the necessary skills to ultimately become a marriage and family therapist. Quote: “Assess & adapt in each stage - adapting is key to thriving.” “The family is a system, with lots of puzzle pieces to try to figure out in order to help people better their relationships and lives,” she says. She began a long-term private practice and while at The Family Center in Massachusetts became head of the couples program. After her first marriage ended, later in life she married Howard Kassler and found a deep love and companionship that lasted until he passed away in 2019. This is her story. Connect with Diana: Email: dianaappell@gmail.com Psychology Today article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/diana-kassler-appell-boston-ma/91204   Connect with Gail & Catherine: Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Wo70AgingReimagined Instagram: WomenOver70 Website:https://womenover70.com Email: info@womenover70.com Show: Women Over 70 – Aging Reimagined Listen on: Apple Play, Stitcher, Please rate our show and subscribe wherever you listen. This is how we grow.

Nancy Reid started her career as a greeter at a television executives conference in Miami, FL. The executive who hired her was so impressed by her innate ability to sell that he asked if he could professionally mentor her. That launched her into 30 years as a sales professional for a variety of organizations including video production houses, a diversity and inclusion consulting firm, children’s book publishing, healthcare businesses and so much more. Healthcare led her to become President of Women in Bio in 2018, a national association for women in the life sciences and biotech fields where she created a flourishing mentorship program for the organization. “My business succeeds as a direct result of all the relationships I nurture.” - Nancy Reid 6 years ago, Nancy’s fiance died by suicide which tested every ounce of strength she had. Joining a survivors’ group and relying on her girl (and men) friends got her through. What role do women’s friendships play in her life?  It’s genuine love that flourishes because women listen and are not judgmental. Connect with Nancy: Email: nancyloureid@gmail.com Connect with Gail and Catherine: Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Wo70AgingReimagined Instagram: WomenOver70 Website:https://womenover70.com Email: info@womenover70.com Show: Women Over 70 – Aging Reimagined Listen on: Apple Play, Stitcher, Please rate our show and subscribe wherever you listen. This is how we grow.

Lydia shares stunning revelations about the importance of friendship for humans and other species, drawing on her recent book, -Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond. Science tells us that friendship is as important to our health as diet and exercise. Quality friendships positively affect our cardiovascular and immune systems, our cognitive and mental health, and even the rate at which our cells age. Quality friendships are long-lasting, positive and cooperative. Over the age of 65, friendships are our most important relationships and can fill the void of losing a life partner. Friends can be made at any stage in life; however, we will be most satisfied if we make time for friendships throughout our lives.  Consider this: friendship is part of our evolutionary story--‘survival of the friendliest!’ "Friendship is relevant to every person on the globe at every time in their lives." - Lydia Denworth Contact Information: Email: lydia@lydiadenworth.com Website: https://lydiadenworth.com Denworth, L. (2020). Friendship: The evolution, biology, and extraordinary power of life’s fundamental bond. W.W. Norton & Co.

These days, Emily Axelrod, age 77, uses the camera to record significant aspects of life, from photos of birds in natural habitat to survivors of the holocaust.  She looks  in new ways, whether guiding transformational change in large organizations, coaching women on revealing their talents, exploring nature travel, living with teen-age grandsons, providing support for immigrant families, or chronicling stories of holocaust survivors. A supporter of women’s rights, Emily advises women on ways to speak up and be appreciated. Emily thinks about aging in terms of “keeping up the body-machine” and dancing for as long as she can. "Transformational efforts in the workplace offer women ways to be seen and appreciated." - Emily Axelrod Contact Information: emily@axelrodgroup.com www.theaxelrodgroup.com Co-author with Dick Axelrod (2014) Let’s Stop Meeting Like This: Tools to Save Time and Get More Done. Connect with Gail and Catherine Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Wo70AgingReimagined Instagram: WomenOver70 Website:https://womenover70.com Email: info@womenover70.com Show: Women Over 70 – Aging Reimagined Listen on: Apple Play, Stitcher, Please rate our show and subscribe wherever you listen. This is how we grow.