Meet the Guests!
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…
Robert Baker
Robert has been a passionate supporter of diversity, equity and inclusion throughout his 40 plus year consulting career. He now runs his own company, focussing on delivering keynotes, workshops and coaching for business executives to help them develop their inclusive leadership skills and so build …
Robert W. Norris
Robert W. Norris is a 75-year-old Northern California native. He was a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War and served time in a military prison for refusing his order to fight. In his twenties, he roamed across the United States, went to Europe twice, and made one journey around the world. In…
Robin Kencel
67 year-old Robin Kencel is a founding real estate broker in Greenwich, Connecticut for Compass and ranked in the top 1.5% of all agents in the United States. As the reigning Ms. Connecticut Senior America and a United States Pro-Am Ballroom Champion, Robin draws on her leadership skills, creativit…
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 seasonedFormer 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…
Sirenna Beyer
How Hooping changed my life...I'm often asked how did I start Hula Hooping. It all started with high blood pressure & my doctor telling me I needed to change my "lifestyle". I had enjoyed a lengthy career selling real estate but the long hours and stress had started to impact my health. Althoug…
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…
Steve Robinson
STEVE ROBINSONSteve started his professional career in 1967 at WBUR and produced six, two-hour classical music programs per week. He also created a Saturday morning live call-in program about high fidelity called Shop Talk, which became the model for Car Talk.After WBUR, Steve held positio…
Susan Douglas
Susan Douglas grew up in New Jersey, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Elmira college and then earned her MA and Ph.D. in American Civilization at Brown University. After a brief stint as an historian at the Smithsonian, she began teaching media studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. In 1996 s…
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, …