Meet the Guests!
Pauline Adeleke
“Fitness has always been a part of my life,” according to Pauline Adeleke and she would go so far as to say that it has credited her with being not only physically fit but mentally sharp as well at the youthful age of 71. “I’ve always had an active lifestyle,” according to Ms. Adeleke yet, afte…
Randye Kaye
short: Our guest today brings her work as a professional theater and improv actor to create spaces and teach skills for human connection and emotional intelligence. She’s also a radio broadcaster (formerly with STAR 99.9 and now with WSHU, a local NPR affiliate), corporate trainer, podcast host, …
Raymond A. Jetson
In February 2023, Raymond A. Jetson launched Aging While Black, a movement designed to amplify the value and experiences of Black elders by exploring the intersection of aging and race. The movement is being advanced through community building around three essential pillars: Recalibrating the Villa…
Regina Koepp
Dr. Regina Koepp is a Stanford-trained, board-certified clinical psychologist and nationally recognized geropsychologist. She’s the founder and CEO of the Center for Mental Health & Aging—the go-to place for mental health education focused on older adults. Her insights have been featured in the New…
Richard Eisenberg
Richard Eisenberg "unretired" from his job as Managing Editor and Money/Work Editor at the PBS site for people 50+, Next Avenue, in 2022. He now writes The View From Unretirement column for MarketWatch, freelances for Next Avenue, Fortune.com, Fodors.com, AARP and elsewhere. He teaches an NYU Maste…
Sadiya Abjani
Sadiya Abjani is SAGE's Director of Training and Instructional Design as well as a queer Muslim activist. She studied Islamic Studies and English at the University of Texas at Austin, where she spent time learning curriculum development and gaining expertise in training development and delivery. Pr…
Sandra Allison
Since growing up in the sixties, Sandra has been passionate about motivating positive societal change. She majored in Journalism in college intending on becoming a news writer, but the 1973-1975 recession sidetracked those goals. She landed in nonprofit management and continued to work for social j…
Sara B Hart
Dr. Sara Hart is a lifelong advocate for social change and an inspirational, motivating speaker. She is passionate about Prime Spark, an idea that became a movement to change the way our culture sees and treats senior women. As a speaker, she provides controversial, cutting-edge ideas in an inter…
Sara Freeman Smith
Sara Freeman Smith is a seasoned Former HR/Recruiting leader, author, speaker, and Disability Advocate who has defied the odds with her resilience and inspiration with her personal story. It was midway through her professional life 20 years ago; she suddenly began losing her vision. A major road…
Stefano Selorio
In 2020, Stefano Selorio launched Carevocacy, a learning platform that helps lifelong learners be tech-savvy. Carevocacy offers three interventions: private tech tutoring, group classes, and their latest product, Apo, a text-based digital health literacy coach powered by AI. Carevocacy has serv…
Susie Lang
I’m Australian by birth and have lived in NYC since 2004. I’m a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Professional Portrait Photographer. Turning 60 in 2017, I noticed a great sense of invisibility amongst older women —both in society and within myself. This experience inspired my ongoing work, @…
Tami Barber
Born in the Midwest in the 50's. I escaped to discover the world at age 17. Traveling to Texas for college was the spring board for my life. I tried out for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders in 1977 and had no idea what was to come. I'm a confirmed, confessed and proud Gypsy. I haven't let fe…
Victoria Tomlinson
Victoria Tomlinson FRSA is 68, founded her second business Next-Up five years ago and has developed an online platform to help employees coming up to unretirement, as well as running workshops for pre-retirement partners in professional firms. Victoria’s TEDx talk on a Generation of Wasted Talent h…
Wendi Knox
Wendi Knox is an author, artist and uplifter. In her past life, she was the only female Senior Vice-President/ Creative Director at one of the largest advertising agencies in Los Angeles, creating and supervising multimedia ad campaigns for brands like Honda and Acura. At 50, she lost her “Do…
Wendy Leggett
Wendy Leggett is a Professional Certified Coach and owner of Conflux Retirement Coaching, specializing in non-financial retirement life planning. With 25 years of corporate sales leadership experience, she guides clients through a fulfilling retirement transition, focusing on well-being, identity, …