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Spring Break Travel Must Haves That Make Every Trip Easier
Spring break travel should be exciting, relaxing, and full of adventure. But anyone who travels regularly knows that packing the right items can make or break a trip. When you are trying to fit everything into one suitcase, simplify your routine, and still enjoy every...
Your Family History Is Impacting Your Success – Here’s How
Dr. Sylvia Lafair is a psychologist, leadership expert, and founder of Creative Energy Options (CEO), known for her groundbreaking “Pattern Pioneer” framework that helps individuals and leaders uncover and transform inherited family patterns that impact their work and...
The 3,102 Mile Tandem Bicycle That Saved a Marriage
Teri Brown is an award-winning author, podcast host, wife, mother, and grandmother whose book Ten Little Rules for a Double-Budded Adventure chronicles her 3,102-mile tandem bicycle ride across the United States with her husband. In this episode, Teri sits down...
Imagine Losing the Love of Your Life After Nearly 40 Years
Imagine losing the love of your life after nearly four decades together and then deciding not just to survive it, but to embrace the unknown, rediscover joy, and even laugh again. That is exactly what happened to Patty Theill. After losing her husband Dave to...
Dating Again After 50: A Widow’s Honest Story
Patti Theil is an author and speaker who wrote the deeply personal and candid memoir Losing My Widow Virginity, chronicling her experience of losing her husband of nearly 40 years to pancreatic cancer and navigating grief, reinvention, and dating later in life. ...
Why Self Love Is Not Selfish Especially After 50
Valentine’s Day is often wrapped in images of flowers, dinner reservations, and romantic gestures. But there is another side of the day that deserves just as much attention, and that is the relationship you have with yourself. For many women, especially in midlife, it...
Dating Over 50 and Online The Red Flags Every Woman Should Know
If you are over 50 and back on the dating scene, especially online, you already know it feels different. The landscape has changed. The pace feels faster. The rules seem unwritten. And for many women, it can feel like learning an entirely new language after decades in...
Online Dating Over 50: Red Flags Every Woman Should Know
Nancy Gulbrandsen is an author and entrepreneur who helps women navigate modern dating with confidence, humor, and clarity. She is the author of Swipe Left: The Savvy Woman’s Guide to Decoding Men’s Dating Profiles, where she breaks down common red flags and...
When Grief Hurts Your Bones – Dr. Lynn Banis on Healing, Identity, and Rebuilding Life After Loss
Grief doesn’t just affect the heart—it impacts the entire body. According to Dr. Lynn Banis, “Grief hurts your bones. You can feel it physically.” In this powerful episode of Living Ageless and Bold, host Christina Daves speaks with Dr. Banis about widowhood,...
She served her country. At 75 years old, her benefits were taken away.
An Interview That Stops You Cold There are interviews that inspire you, interviews that energize you, and then there are interviews that stop you cold — the kind that sit with you long after the recording ends. My conversation with Naomi Reynolds falls squarely into...
The Truth About Grief No One Talks About
Dr. Lynn Banis is a grief coach, speaker, and the founder of Widows Rising Together. With a PhD in human behavior and decades of experience in corporate consulting and coaching, Lynn helps widows and others navigating major life loss rediscover purpose, rebuild their...
The Baby Tech That’s Changing Everything for New Parents
If you’re a new parent—or about to be one—listen up. I’m taking notes right alongside you. I recently shared a segment on TV about the latest baby tech, and even I couldn’t believe how far things have come since I had my kids more than 25 years ago. Back then, we were...
The Hidden Cost of Service. How the VA Is Failing Women Veterans
Naomi Reynolds is a U.S. Army veteran, author, and advocate dedicated to empowering women veterans through resilience, healing, and purpose-driven leadership. A Vietnam-era service member, Naomi has spent years fighting for justice for women who were forced out of the...
Almost 60 and Just Getting Started – How Lori Altermann Proves Reinvention Has No Age Limit
For far too long, women have been told that midlife is about shrinking—scaling back dreams, lowering expectations, and quietly stepping aside. Somewhere along the way, society decided that ambition has an expiration date, creativity belongs to the young, and...
She Found TikTok Fame at Almost 60 – And She’s Just Getting Started
Lori Altermann is a pop culture commentator, comedian, and host of the podcast Fan or Fanatic, who has built a massive following on TikTok by sharing sharp, funny, and unapologetically honest takes on reality TV, Hollywood, beauty, and life after 50. In this...
Why So Many Women Wake Up at 3AM and What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You
If you’re a woman in midlife and you’re waking up at 3AM, wide awake, mind racing, staring at the ceiling—you are not alone. In fact, this is one of the most common complaints I hear from women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond. Many of us assume it’s just “getting...
Why Women Over 50 Wake Up at 3 AM — And How to Fix It
Morgan Adams is a holistic sleep coach who helps midlife women get consistent, restorative sleep without relying on pills or quick fixes. A former pharmaceutical sales rep, Morgan is a two-time breast cancer thriver, women’s health advocate, and certified health and...
Quitter’s Day Is Real — But It Doesn’t Have to Define Your Year
If you’ve ever made New Year’s resolutions with the best of intentions only to feel your motivation fade by mid-January, you are not alone. In fact, there’s a name for it: Quitter’s Day. Typically landing on the second Friday of January, Quitter’s Day is when nearly...