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Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well

This isn"t just another podcast about retirement or getting older. On Boomer Banter, host Wendy Green invites you into real conversations about what it means to age with purpose, vitality, and resilience. With warmth, vulnerability, and curiosity, Wendy talks with experts, everyday people, and thought leaders who share practical insights and personal stories about navigating relationships, health, finances, caregiving, reinvention, and more. Whether you"re facing big transitions or simply want to

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43:39

PrimeSpark: An Older Women's Revolution

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/12/19

Dr. Sara Hart, who at the age of 74 cycled 540 miles in the AIDS ride from San Francisco to LA is a woman on a mission. She is helping older women find the spark in their lives to light their way in the world.Sara had an idea that she wanted to do something to address how society sees older women and find ways to turn that around. After a couple of interesting interactions, she realized that PrimeSpark would be her vehicle for change.In this episode we talked about transitions and how they take time

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32:06

Boomers-Millennials-GenZ: Bridging Generational Gaps

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/12/12

This episode begins the conversation on Hey, Boomer to start to find the opportunities for the generations to build bridges of understanding. There are so many reasons the generations are separated, which has caused misperceptions, blaming and shaming, going both ways. We are at time when solutions to things like climate change, mental health, the high cost of education, longer lifespans would benefit from co-generational collaboration. The older generation has experience with social change and

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41:50

Advocating for care as an older adult

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/12/05

Have you had the experience where a healthcare professional seems to speak in a condescending manner to you or to your older parent? Have you been called "sweetie" or "dear" one time too often? How about when the healthcare worker asks a question like "What would we like for dinner?"Jeanette Leardi is a social gerontologist who realized how ageism was affecting older adults in healthcare situations when she was the caregiver for her parents. She is a writer, speaker, educator and advocate for

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47:27

Roadmap to Purpose

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/11/21

Mark Twain said, "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."Purpose is your natural way of being and your purpose may change over your lifetime. It is not static. When we leave our careers many of us lose our sense of identity and then we lose our reason to get up in the morning.Anna Hall worked in senior living communities, and she saw how the residents that had a sense of purpose were more resilient, they were happier, had better mental health

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44:05

He turned a tragedy into a mission

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/11/14

Dennis Gillan lost 2 brothers to suicide in the span of 11 years. It took him a long time before he could talk about this loss. Now he has started a non-profit organization called HalfASorrow.org to educate people about suicide prevention.In this episode Dennis shared how he began to address the problem initially by volunteering on a suicide hotline. It took awhile before he could talk about what happened to his own brothers.The rate of completed suicides is higher than the national average in the

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44:54

Cake and a Story

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/11/07

She was a young girl when her family emigrated from Czechoslovakia after WWII. Some of the family was not able to leave, some of the family moved to Bavaria in Germany.Pipka Ulvilden was raised in North Dakota, and Michigan and now lives in Sister Bay, Wisconsin, an idealic artist community by Lake Michigan. As a single mother she made the decision to be a full-time artist and opened a boutique shop where she sold her artwork. Her shop became known for the olde-world Santas she designed and for the

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47:50

She wrote a play - and produced it off-Broadway

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/11/01

This is a story of inspiration, of what we can do when we want to and surround ourselves with people who believe in us.It started out as a story of Margaret Caterisano, the costume designer at Furman University, who started to write plays during the pandemic. She submitted one of her plays to the SheNYC 2022 Summer Arts Festival and her play was selected as one of 9 out of over 300 submissions to be produced. The episode recounts the journey, some of the challenges and lessons learned. It tells us

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28:52

First Girl Page

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/10/25

The year was 1970. The prior year my family had visited Washington and I saw all these young people working on the floor of the Senate. They were Senate pages, and that looked like something I really wanted to do. For some reason, I did not notice that they were all boys.In 1970, when I was 16, I wrote to my Senator about being his page. I was told that girls were not allowed to be pages. That started my journey to get the opportunity. Listen as I retell the story and how it evolved with the help

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45:10

Activism for Introverts & Highly Sensitive People

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/10/18

Omkari Williams went from a career as an actor to political campaigns and fundraising to activism. She walks us through this transition and what was the turning point that guided her into activism. Her work with her clients and in her training is to help people find sustainable ways to contribute to society and make a difference. We all matter and we all have a role to play. She encourages people to do what they do in small increments and to do it consistently ... to take responsibility to make the

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44:33

Investigative Reporter - uncovering sexual assault

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/10/11

Rhonda Cook was a gutsy reporter who "fell into" her work as an inmate advocate. She developed the trust of inmates in the prisons where she was was assigned and they would call her and let her know about what was going on in the prisons. In 1998 she started to hear about sexual abuse in a woman's prison. The story covered 18 months of work, and resulted in multiple firings and changes in the prison. Many felony charges were filed, but no one served any time. Rhonda talked about how she viewed each

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46:10

Live Life in Crescendo

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/10/04

Live Life in Crescendo was the personal mantra of Stephen R. Covey, author of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. He worked with his daughter, Cynthia Covey Haller, to share his ideas about the Crescendo Mentality. Unfortunately, Stephen, R. Covey passed away before the books was completed, but Cynthia continued the work and released the book last month. In this episode, she shares that her Dad did not believe in retirement. He felt that after your career you should still be making

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46:31

Celebrate Aging

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/09/27

Celebrate aging. We rarely take the time to celebrate aging, because we have been sold the idea that aging is something to be avoided and not celebrated. There is a profit motive behind shaming us and telling us how to look, how to feel, how to think, so that we will buy anti-aging products. These messages reinforce our own internal biases about aging. Janine Vanderburg leads Changing the Narrative where she works on changing the stories we tell ourselves, changing the stories about older workers in

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43:16

Grandparenting with Gramps Jeffrey

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/09/20

Gramps Jeffrey was in isolation with his wife, children and 6 children during Covid and he had an opportunity to observe the kids up close. From that experience he wrote a book called, "I Don't Want to Turn 3." It tells the story of a tough lesson learned and the resolution shared with the whole family.In our discussion we talked about how parenting today has changed from how we were parented and how we parented our own children. Gramps shared some cute family examples in the telling of his

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45:42

Aging Families and Moves

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/09/13

Margit Novack is such a generous guest and she openly and honestly shared her wisdom and experience around the experience of moving as an older adult. Topics covered include: Impact of individual perception of aging Intentionality of self-care Navigating downsizing your home. The hardest move is from the family home. Honestly looking at reasons why moving an older parent into senior living is good for you and good for your parent. Much of Margit's message was about letting the older person feel

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42:43

Ubuntu Circles

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/08/30

Melanie C. Gordon spoke about the Reverend Desmond Tutu describing Ubuntu as "my humanity is bound up in your humanity." That is the foundation of what we talked about in this episode. Melanie leads groups in Ubuntu Circles where we learn to connect through our personal stories. When we are open to hearing someone else's story for understanding, we are transformed. It creates a sense of belonging, a shared humanity. She talked about her time in Rwanda after the genocide, and the filming of the

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46:12

The Toxicity of the Wellness Culture

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/08/23

That is a radical statement! Being well is something we all want. We follow the latest diet trends. We take the recommended supplements. We become "fat phobic," telling ourselves we are not "good enough" if we are overweight. Debra Benfield, founder and owner of Body in Mind Nutrition, told me that there is an ageist diet/wellness culture that leads to a lack of body respect in the Pro-Aging movement. Deb wants to blaze a path into elderhood without the scales! Topics covered: Internal biases around

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45:47

Jumping into the Great Unknown

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/08/16

The "Great Unknown" in this episode is the question, "what am I going to do now, after my career just ended?" Minette Norman had a 30 year career in the IT industry, for the past 20 years with the same company and the last 5 as a VP. Leadership changed, and as often happens when leadership changes, she was now an outsider of the new leadership group. The environment became very uncomfortable until she finally decided it was time to leave. Now what? Friends had ideas. She had the belief that she was

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44:25

Sexy Stories for Women Over Sixty

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/08/09

The Hey, Boomer guest today is Stella Fosse, writer, advocate for older women's empowerment and workshop leader. Our topic today was Sexy Stories for and about Women Over Sixty. Stella reinvented herself from a technical writer, to a writer of erotica for and about older women. Her first book, Aphrodite's Pen: The Power of Writing Erotica after Midlife, includes lots of how to's and prompts to get your started. Her latest book, "Brilliant Charming Bastard" was released this year. We talked about

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46:52

Let's talk about death over dinner

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/08/02

There are a few subjects that most of us avoid talking about with friends and family, really with just about everyone. Money, politics and death.The statistics show that 75% of Americans want to die at home, but only 25% actually do. The statistics show that more bankruptcies occur due to medical expenses, particularly end of life expenses.Not having the conversation about how you want to die can be a costly omission as well as a missed opportunity for bonding and closeness between family and

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54:55

Fellow travelers at Glacier National Park

Boomer Banter, Real Talk about Aging Well ·

2022/07/29

Glacier National Park! It is breathtaking. There is crystal blue waters, and peaks made even more fantastic because of the erosion caused by the glaciers and the runoff. There are mountain goats and big horn sheep. And there are 25 glaciers left. There were arond 140 when the park was established in 1910. On my trip with Road Scholar to Glacier National Park, I wanted to interview some of the guests, to learn their stories, to hear about how these people, ages 60's - 80's are staying engaged and

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