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81. Pro-Aging: Why the Best is Yet to Come with Ashton Applewhite.

81. Pro-Aging: Why the Best is Yet to Come with Ashton Applewhite.

FromWe Can Do Hard Things


81. Pro-Aging: Why the Best is Yet to Come with Ashton Applewhite.

FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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Length:
69 minutes
Released:
Mar 24, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

1. Why we’ve been sold a lie–and the truth that we actually get happier the older we get!
2. The two most important–and shocking–predictors of aging well.
3. Busting the most prevalent misconceptions and about getting older.
4. How believing the myths about aging literally harms our health and makes us more vulnerable to the fears we hold about aging.
5. Glennon paints a mental picture of her older self–and encourages the Pod Squad to do the same.

About Ashton: 
The author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, Ashton Applewhite is a leading spokesperson for the emerging movement to raise awareness of ageism and to dismantle it. A co-founder of the Old School Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse, she has been recognized by the New York Times, the New Yorker, National Public Radio, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism. Ashton has written for Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times, blogs at This Chair Rocks, and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist? She speaks widely at venues that have ranged from colleges and symposia to the TED mainstage and the United Nations. In 2022 she appeared on HelpAgeUSA’s inaugural 60 Over 60 List and on Fe:maleOneZero’s first international edition of 40 over 40 – The World’s Most Inspiring Women.

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Released:
Mar 24, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

I’m Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed – the book that was released at the very start of the pandemic and became a lifeline for millions. I watched in awe from my home while this simple phrase from Untamed – WE CAN DO HARD THINGS – the mantra that saved my life twenty years ago, became a worldwide rally cry. Because we experienced the hardship of the pandemic collectively, many of us finally acknowledged what was true before COVID and will be true after: That life is freaking HARD. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace. On We Can Do Hard Things, my sister Amanda and I will do the only thing I’ve found that has ever made life easier: We will drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard. Each week we will bring our hard to you and we will ask you to bring your hard to us and we will do what we were all meant to do down here: Help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, more free and less alone.