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How can I be happier in Midlife? How can I make the most of this next phase - be more resilient – more creative - thrive – even, evolve? Join consultant-coach Julia Seal to explore these Midlife questions and more in a happiness-coaching journey where you can transform this next phase of your life, no matter what – no matter what your circumstances are right now... overwhelmed by the changes wrought by Menopause, looking for more meaningful work, caught in stagnant relationships or feeling a ...
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Regarded as one of the strongest corporate leaders of our time, Alan Mulally's legacy is marked by his transformative impact at Boeing and Ford. Under his leadership, Boeing thrived, and Ford not only returned to profitability but also emerged stronger from the Great Recession. This success was no accident; it was the result of Mulally's lifelong c…
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We’re a spicy group, says Grace Creative LA founder Susan Lee Colby, “teenagers with money.” She says it with love—because she’s one of us and, as the founder of Grace Creative LA, she sees our potential. Susan points out Americans age 50 and up contribute so much to the U.S. economy that if we were counted as our own country, we’d constitute the w…
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We’re talking with filmmaker Melissa Davey whose documentaries focus on the adventures of women over 60 including Beyond Sixty and her newest film, Climbing into Life. But like the women she features in her films, Melissa is unexpected. Find out more in our The Dareful Project conversation. Transcript: Debra Hotaling (00:05): Hello and welcome to T…
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Is it ever too late to get healthy? It’s always possible, says Susan Guidi, who went from soft bod to bodybuilder in her 60s. We talk about limiting beliefs that get in the way of reaching our health goals, why lifting weights is so important and what happens when we ask the question, “If I can do this, what else is possible?” How to find Susan: In…
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We all face moments where we feel stuck. Becky Vollmer sees you. Vollmer is a speaker, journalist, yoga teacher and author of You Are Not Stuck: How Soul-Guided Choices Transform Fear into Freedom. We talk about how we get stuck—in our job, relationships, health-related choices—and what we can do right now to move forward. She reminds us that inten…
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Carl Honoré is a journalist, author and TED speaker. He’s also the voice of the global Slow Movement. He has written a series of books on the topic of slowness, slow parenting, slow living and ageing, and he travels the world as a speaker, sharing how to thrive in a fast world. His TED Talks have millions of views. Carl also has a new book coming o…
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Jess Grippo is a force of nature: author, a TEDx speaker and founder of Dance Again, a New York City dance studio that offers a welcoming space for rusty dancers and newbies alike. One of her most popular offerings is Rusty Ballet where, she says, “creaky joints and cranky people are welcome.” We talk about how she came up with the idea of Rusty Ba…
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Kim Alexis is one of the most recognized faces in the modeling industry. She’s been on the cover of over 500 magazines, appeared in six Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues and has walked the runway for top designers around the world. She’s written 11 books, both fiction and nonfiction, but is mainly known for her clean-living eBooks. Now in her 60s,…
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Poet Mary Oliver writes, “tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” It’s a question Diana Dunbar Place is obsessed with. She’s the founder of Third Act Quest which helps guide folks as they’re figuring out this second arc of life—how we live, work, play and serve. We talk about leaps of faith, rising strong from ligh…
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Like many of us, Chris Preuss spent much of his adult life working up the corporate ladder—the nights, the weekends, the career moves—and he rose up the ranks to become a senior exec with a number of companies you would recognize. And then, he made a decision that dramatically changed his life: he left it all behind to lead a Christian ministry. We…
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“Don’t ever not be curious.” That’s Kris Evans’ advice for tapping into our creative superpowers. Evans is an awarding winning makeup artist with experience in feature films, television, commercials, music videos, fashion editorial and advertising. She started her career in New York City working with Barbara Walters, Saturday Night Live, feature fi…
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Remember that scene in Pretty Woman where Julia Roberts tries to buy a new dress and no one will take her money? That’s how it feels to be a 50+ consumer. Then there’s Caddis. CEO and Founder Tim Parr says it’s a mission disguised as an eyewear company: “Get Older. Own It. See Stuff.” And we totally believe it. Who else would have the cajónes to qu…
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Ageist Founder David Stewart thought he was moving temporarily to Park City, Utah from Los Angeles. Four years later, he’s still there. And he has done a lot of reflecting about what we gain and lose when we move somewhere new. Whether you’re thinking about downsizing, starting new in an Italian village or chucking it all and RV’ing around the coun…
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Change surrounds us, says Michael Clinton, author of ROAR into the second half of life (before its too late). And he should know. As one of the longest-serving top executives in the magazine publishing world leading Hearst Magazines, he's witnessed the seismic shifts in that industry. We talk about how he moved from exec to entrepreneur, how to ans…
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Friendship as extreme sport? If you're Kim Coutts, yes. After life threw her some curveballs, Coutts decided she needed to get brave about new relationships. And she's leaned into the challenge the way some of us would train for a triathalon or climb Mt. Whitney. In other words, all in and pushing to the limit. Hear her practical advice and what ha…
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Meet Dr. Jennifer Wong, Director of the Wallis Annenberg GenSpace. GenSpace is a place--it's here in Los Angeles and offers lifelong learning to seniors in the community. But it's also a big idea. And a learning lab: how people of different ages can forge true friendships. How to keep us cur4ious and active (hint: bellydancing classes!) They're als…
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Welcome to season 2 of The Dareful Project: a podcast series where we learn how to reimagine our lives. In season 1, we covered a lot of ground: how to date at 67, say goodbye to an old career and invent a new one and maybe my favorite, how to roll with life. Season 2 leans even further into the joy and messiness that comes with living deeply. It's…
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Series 3 – Episode 4: BONUS – Join Julia for her recent lecture as part of the Masters in Happiness Studies on Taking Wholebeing Happiness to the next level - for you & Planet Earth. Explore Interbeing; its definition, where it comes from, who’s behind it and why it’s important to you and to the Happiness Revolution. We’ll touch on the systemic vie…
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Series 3 – Episode 3: INTERBEING – Join Julia to dig a little deeper into what Interbeing actually means and how embracing it will expand the way you see your Midlife Happiness - how we can embrace life and death in our wholebeing and how we can leverage our extraordinarily interconnected for happiness within ourselves, with others and in the wider…
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Series 3 – Episode 2: BONUS - Looking for a post-pandemic adventure? Join Julia Seal on her new 20-month journey to a Masters degree in Happiness Studies! It's a journey she’s embarking on from this week until May 2024 - a journey to deepen her work here in Happiness-Matters; spiralling deeper into what Happiness is around the world, for you as cli…
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Series 3 – Episode 1: INTERBEING – Welcome to the start of Series 3 where we’ll be crafting our Wholebeing & expanding our Interbeing through the 3 Relationships that are at the core of Midlife Happiness. Embrace it all with me in this new Series – all the scientific knowledge, all the wisdom of our ancient traditions, all the learnings from our mu…
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Series 3 - Trailer: How can I be happier in Midlife? How can I make the most of this next phase - be more resilient – more creative - thrive – even, evolve? Join consultant-coach Julia Seal to explore these Midlife questions & more in a happiness-coaching journey where you can transform this next phase of your life, no matter what – no matter what …
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Series 2 – Episode 32: Bonus – Welcome to March, it’s Happiness Month! Join coach Julia Seal for a very special month diving deep into all you need to know about Midlife Wholebeing Happiness… what it’s about, what are the ingredients & how to go about creating it in your life. So much happening this month, from the World Happiness Report to the UN …
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Series 2 – Episode 31: INSIGHT – Explore the magic of transitions in your Midlife & how it’s possible to really love the unknown, to embrace uncertainty. Julia Seal shares ways to make sense of the Liminal Space of being in-between, what it means to traverse Ancient Greece’s River of Misery & the Buddhist Bardo states of consciousness with the Anci…
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Series 2 – Episode 30: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation 🧘 Liminal Space of Transition, Change & Uncertainty (10 mins) - Join Julia Seal for this meditation to settle into & embrace the Liminal Spaces of your life for your Wholebeing Happiness – whether you’re transitioning from one year to the next, from one job to another, one relationship to the u…
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Series 2 – Episode 20: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation 🧘 Loving-Kindness Metta to expand the 4 qualities of Love (15 mins) – Join Julia Seal for this traditional Metta meditation to evoke Compassion & Friendliness towards ourselves & others. This Metta practice intentionally cultivates the four qualities of Love: Friendliness, Appreciation & Joy, C…
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Series 2 – Episode 28: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation 🧘 Compassion & LovingKindness for you now (10 mins) - Join Julia Seal for this short guided meditation to rest, settle & allow your natural compassion, love & joy to rise up & expand. Practice this to deepen your CONNECTION to YOURSELF – to bring love & compassion to YOU, to heal the relationsh…
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Series 2 – Episode 27: BONUS – Enjoy this holiday special 4-part conversation on Toxic Conflict in your Midlife Relationships & What To Do. Deep dive into the 4 worst toxic behaviours that show up in our relationships, whether it’s at home with our loved ones or at work in our teams, with coach Julia Seal & Lemon Rebellion founder, Jamie Jenkins. W…
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Series 2 – Episode 26: PATTERNS – Find out today why your Midlife currently looks the way it does – good & not so good – why you’re getting the results you want in your life, why you’re feeling the way you do, why you take action or procrastinate, why your relationships are the way they are, why you’re feeling happy right now or frustrated, sad, de…
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Series 2 – Episode 25: BONUS – This live Q&A session is full of strategies & tips for managing tense relationships with your family over the holidays... from how to move through Discomfort & how to choose Boundaries as well as what it means to MeSearch & Gamify your holidays! Join coach Julia Seal & Lemon Rebellion founder Jamie Jenkins talking abo…
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Series 2 – Episode 24: BODY AS BRAIN – The Dalai Lama has said: “The human mind, at its default setting, is compassionate". Discover how your compassion, your ability to feel empathy & your altruistic motivations are actually wired into you through the action of a specially-evolved bundle of nerves, the Vagus. Responsible for your body’s automatic …
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It starts out innocently. You post a dating profile and someone smart and funny responds. There’s back and forth and they suggest moving to email. It feels like the start of a connection. Then, an urgent note: a family member needs medical care, an ex has made off with the savings, a child is stranded in another country. Even then, you’re thinking,…
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Good news: there are advances—soon and on the horizon—for Alzheimer’s. Learn more as we talk with Dr. Roberta Diaz Brinton, one of the world’s leading experts on women and our risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Brinton is director of the UA Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona Health Sciences. Her scientific discoveries…
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Series 2 – Episode 23: BONUS – Enjoy this recording from the recent Lemon Rebellion Summit where Julia Seal talks about Wholebeing Happiness & particularly, Emotional Wholebeing Happiness. In this session, explore how to work with your Negative Emotional Wholebeing for your own evolution. Julia shares 4 facts that make stepping into this work a lit…
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We’re talking about reimagining our careers with John Tarnoff, an executive and career transition coach and author of Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50. Before he was a career transition coach, John was a film producer, studio exec and tech entrepreneur. He reinvented his own career at 50, earning a master’s degree in coun…
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Series 2 – Episode 22: Bonus – LIVE 🔥 Join Julia Seal to discover an easy, everyday way to create Wholebeing Happiness. By using the calendar’s Special Days, from Hallmark Holidays to United Nations commemorative days, you can hone the powerful craft of coaching yourself. Find out why you might even want to try this – how it creates appreciation & …
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We’re talking sex, menopause and wellness with Rachel Braun Scherl, an entrepreneur and business builder who works with companies in the space from menstruation through menopause. She explains why we see ED advertising but not women’s sexual health ads, why menopause is having a moment and how women-led start ups are leading the way in the femtech …
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Series 2 – Episode 21: Meditation – Need an alternative to Meditation practice when it all seems too difficult & your mind is completely mad with thoughts? Discover 6 techniques to turn Writing into a meditation practice so that you can develop a relationship with your Mind - a Midlife crazy-wisdom skill! Coach Julia Seal explores how to work with …
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Cultural explorer and CULTIQUE CEO/Founder Linda Ong teaches us how to sift through the noise to tease out what we really need to pay attention to. We cover a lot of ground: her ethos “be like water,” how to travel like a local, why vampires and the power behind the fairy godmother club. How does this fit into cultural insights? Listen in! And chec…
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Series 2 – Episode 20: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation 🧘 Wholebeing Integration for when you’re raw & shredded (20 mins) - Join Julia Seal for her guided meditation to bring your Wholebeing to life. Use it to settle your entire being when you’re feeling particularly tired & over-stretched – raw & shredded. Create peace, a sense of connectedness to …
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Alex Rotas is a UK-based photographer who challenges us to look new at our bodies and what we assume we're capable of. Pole vaulting in your 80s? Long jump champ at 90? Rotas is obsessed with chronicling these elite athletes who train meticulously to compete at the top of their sport. Says Rotas, you can't be what you don't see.…
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Series 2 – Episode 19: BONUS – Join Julia Seal at the Lemon Rebellion Summit next week on Monday 19 September at 10:30am (New York) / 3.30pm (London) / 2.30pm (UTC). In today’s pre-session, Julia talks all about Wholebeing Happiness & how change/adversity are your best opportunity to stop, take stock of your life journey so far & decide how you wan…
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Let's get smart on The Talk--the one we all need to have with our adult kids--and maybe our parents--about how we want things to roll if/when we can't make decisions. Getting us smart on how to hack the discussion is Aletha Vassilakis, an attorney who specializes in contract law. Vassilakis has also spent a lot of time serving as a mediator for cou…
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Series 2 – Episode 18: BRAIN – In today’s next Brain Design episode we meet the Executive in your Head who’s a key player in your Midlife Wholebeing Happiness! Join coach Julia Seal to discover how to tap into your built-in ability to choose yourself, your goals, your happiness first. Julia looks into the PreFrontal Cortex of the Human Brain to fin…
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Series 2 – Episode 10: Bonus – LIVE 🔥 on The Happiness Ladder Join Julia Seal for insights into her Happiness Ladder coaching tool – where it comes from & why it’s such a useful Happiness Habit to practice in expanding your Midlife Wholebeing. She explores how it helps you connect to your Happiness at a very core level, but how it can also hinder y…
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We're talking ageism with Ashton Applewhite, author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and co-founder of the Old School Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse. Applewhite says, "the sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us." Watch Applewhite's TED ta…
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Series 2 – Episode 16: PATTERNS – Discover where much of your personal power is tied up by the time you get to Midlife. With coach Julia Seal, tap into the delight of playing with Lego bricks as the way to start claiming back this power... how you can build it, brick by brick, until you’ve created your Wholebeing Happiness & then, how you become un…
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I'm addicted to overthinking. Which is why we're talking about how to roll with it--a skill we need now more than ever. Teaching us how to roll with it is Frank Santorelli, assistant clinical professor for Northern Arizona University's School of Nursing. Santorelli's job is to transform nursing students into medical professionals able to make life …
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Series 2 – Episode 15: BODY AS BRAIN – This week, Julia Seal explores the Mind:Body Connection, what it’s all about & what understanding it means for coaching & living into our long lasting Happiness. It’s an episode full of surprising delights about our Midlife bodies – from how visualisation can build us muscles even if we’re still in lockdown, a…
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