Mind Your Body TV Episode 35 with Carol Orsborn, Ph.D. If you‘re a boomer woman who’s also a caregiver for a parent or other loved one, you may feel challenged by repeat visits to that person. You want to be there, to “do something” meaningful, and you want that visit to be rich and pleasant [...]
Mind Your Body TV Episode 31 with Barbara Meltzer. In 2007, Los Angeles public relations professional and aging advocate Barbara Meltzer told NBC’s chief medical editor, Nancy Snyderman, about a fear millions of baby boomers share with her. My guest for today’s video, Meltzer said she’s worried because she isn’t married and doesn’t have children. Like [...]
Mind Your Body TV Episode 29 with Carol Orsborn, Ph.D. I’m getting better at listening to myself, a still-developing skill I owe in part to the discussion I had here with Carol Orsborn, Ph.D. She’s a businesswoman, theologian, motivational speaker, boomer generation expert and the author of 25 books. She’s also full of life and [...]
Mind Your Body TV Episode 28 with Diana Lendzion. As our skin “evolves,” so does the baby boomer way of wearing makeup. It’s not the same as it was “back then.” Bobbi Brown’s products are ideal for us baby boomers and they’re designed to keep things simple. Brown is also a baby boomer and she’s [...]
He’s back here on Mind Your Body: Ken Dychtwald, guru of the marketing group Age Wave, with new baby boomer facts and stats that add substantially to our increasing knowledge about this powerful demographic. Advertising legend J. Walter Thompson (JWT) says one of its own 2012 trend projections is a more positive view of aging. [...]
Meet an undisputed baby boomer spokesgod, Ken Dychtwald, PhD. This astute psychologist and gerontologist—and I’d add “futurist”—suggests marketers wake up to the fact that 80 percent of the growth in our U. S. population belongs to people over 50. With that number come limitless opportunities. He coined the term, Age Wave. It was the title of [...]
Aging. What’s that? We boomers have recently taken heat from critics who believe we refuse to accept that we’re aging. It was the subject of a recent blog here on Mind Your Body—we’ve even been called “delusional.” Enter Nortin M. Hadler, MD, at the Universityof North Carolina Chapel Hill, whose new book “Rethinking Aging” frankly [...]
Build a better boomer with Stephanie Stephens, M.A.
A warm "Welcome!" to Mind Your Body TV, where you'll "Build a Better Boomer" with series writer, executive producer and host Stephanie Stephens. A spokesperson for the active and vital 50+ female demographic, Stephanie delivers timely health and lifestyle content comprised of videos, audio podcasts and blogs here on Mind Your Body TV—and on her channels on YouTube and AOL/On.
A great, big wonderful world of growth and opportunity exists for women in our demographic during this exciting stage of life. Don’t just think of what you want to be and do—make it happen. You know you can and the time is now!