Episodes
Nov. 29, 2023
Confident Decision to Stay Home, Live Well, Age Wise
One of the biggest challenges most older women face when their health is declining is to choose between staying in the home they lived in for a long time or move to a senior care facility. This decision often is made late for...
Oct. 25, 2023
The Wisdom in ME - A Journey to Transform a Woman's Life!
As we look back on our lives, at this stage in our 2nd half, most women have some regrets and disappointments. What if we discovered a way to turn our scars into stars, our losses into gains? In this episode Maria talks with ...
Sept. 27, 2023
Preserving Your Sleep During Times of Transition
Why do we feel tired when we wake up after 7 or 8 hours of sleep. As women age, we often have a hard time falling asleep or we wake up more often during the night because of changes in hormones like melatonin. Sleep deficits ...
Aug. 30, 2023
How to Make Our Money Work to Create the Life We Want
Have you spent your whole life working hard, spending smartly and saving for retirement? Or was there too much else that took all of your paycheck and now you feel anxious about retiring? In this episode, we delve into a topi...
July 26, 2023
Finding Adventure and Purpose in Retirement
We are often hesitant to move into our next chapter and retire from our 40+ years career because we are not sure what we will do with our time. We now have an extra 8 or 9 hours each day to do something else than work at a jo...
June 28, 2023
The Elegant Muscle Solution
Growing older as a woman often we don’t feel happy about our appearance and the effects of a changing body on our life. Often, we do not like what we see in the mirror. And do you have great energy for all you plan to do? How...
May 31, 2023
Small Garden, Big Harvest!
Are you concerned about the rising food prices and the impact of changes in our economy on what we eat and its availability in the stores, then this episode could help you find a fun hobby and way to have more control by lear...
April 26, 2023
What's Your Vitality Plan?
Our generation of baby boomers has been involved in many significant changes in all areas of life. From childhood to growing older and becoming a senior the world keeps evolving. We all adapted to the changing world with grac...
March 29, 2023
More than Peace, Power & Presence through Meditation
Have you included meditation in your daily routine? Many people find that meditation is a great tool to calm the mind and start the day on a positive view. It is often practiced to get into the present moment and be more focu...
Feb. 22, 2023
Secrets to Franchise Business Ownership
Did you know that today, one-third (32%) of all franchises are owned by women. For the new wave of female babyboomers that is retiring in the coming year a big concern that creates anxiety is the financial future of their nex...
Jan. 25, 2023
Have more connection and joy for retirees
When we think about retirement we all dream of a happy and vibrant life. However, This new life that we looked forward to could be less exciting as we expected, and cause negative thoughts and feelings of loneliness to take o...
Dec. 28, 2022
Limitless vitality for the mature woman
Why do women often think that aging is gracefully is not possible? In this week’s episode, I talk with Leslie Bumpas who is a Functional Nutritionist when she shares how growing older is not a punishment. In this engaging and...
Nov. 30, 2022
Living Fully by Preparing for Death
The death of a spouse is well known to be a devastating event that can turn the world upside down and cause conflicting feelings for the person alive. In this episode, Maria talks with Jennifer O’Brien, who has found her purp...
Oct. 26, 2022
Yes, there is life after sugar!
Growing older comes with a multitude of changes. Often, we lived our life consuming what was easy, fast, and the last diet mania. And only when menopause makes us adapt to a new body, we did realize that what we ate was not a...
Sept. 28, 2022
Life After Caregiving
September is world Alzheimer’s month and a great reason to talk about cognitive health issues that many people face. Statistics show that 1 in 3 seniors dies with Alzheimer’s or dementia. Today ‘s guest is Betsy Wurzel who ac...
Aug. 31, 2022
Gray Divorce: Splitting Up in Later-Life
For many women the dream of being married to the love of their life and having a beautiful family with children was a dream come true. However, often they had to accommodate and adjust their personal goals and wants for the s...
July 27, 2022
Savvy Strategies to Plan Sound Retirement Income
This episode is eye-opening and brimming with golden nuggets about how to prepare for retirement so that you can feel secure and safe for any unplanned emergency. Instead, you will know several ways to ensure you do not run o...
June 29, 2022
It's Never Too Late - 5 Steps to Moving Past Trauma
Often we go through life events without realizing how much our mind and body has changed because of the negative impact this experience had on us. Examples include the death of someone you love, a car crash, job loss or a nat...
May 25, 2022
How to have the courage to live your life true to yourself.
When you think about retirement are you only looking at your financial possibilities? Or do you also plan for a happy lifestyle? Retirement is not who you are or where you are at life. It’s a rather big transition from a care...
April 27, 2022
Growing Older, Living Younger
Don’t we all want to live longer, healthier, and feel younger? Most of us think of growing older as feeling less energetic, having more health issues, and having wrinkles. We blame our genes for creating all these negative ch...
March 30, 2022
The 3 Keys to Live Life for Living.
Are you afraid of growing older? Do you think that reaching the big milestone of sixty years is the end of your life? Have you any doubt about what’s Next? In this podcast, I will be talking with the high-spirited and beautif...
Jan. 8, 2021
Trends That Are Reinventing Retirement Housing
One of the decisions you get to make when planning your Golden Years is where do you want to live? There are many choices whether to remain in the current home or relocate into a residence of a loved one, independent, assiste...
Dec. 18, 2020
How to Kick-Start your Future as Single Empty Nesters
Many parents have mixed feelings when their children move out to go to college or live on their own. Being a single mother is hard enough, but becoming an empty nester can be more difficult or even traumatic. What happens if ...
Dec. 11, 2020
Making Women’s Retirement Income Last a Lifetime
One of the biggest worries many women have about retirement is running out of money. Since we do not know how long retirement will last I want to go deeper on this topic today with my special guest Cindy Hounsell (President, ...