Aging Greatfully With Holley Kelley

It’s been a question since the dawn of time. And truth be told, one you have probably pondered many times in your own life. What REALLY happens when we DIE?Depending on beliefs, faith, and views, our ideas about this, can certainly vary. But imagine being part of an experience that you never saw coming. One that led you down a path of discovery, which put uncovering the answers to this question to the forefront of your life.That’s exactly what happened with Mike Anthony, who was a bartender at a busy Broadway show when just before intermission he received the call that his father had suddenly died. This was a devastating loss to his entire family. However, when a stranger’s unpredictable phone call delivers a message that Mike’s dad had contacted her from “the other side,” it kicks off a chain of events that entirely changed Mike’s family’s perspective on life, death and the transcendent nature of love. In this episode of Aging GreatFULLy, we welcome professional actor, Mike Anthony, author of “Love, Dad: Ho

We can’t see them, we often don’t even think about them … but make no mistake about it – our telomeres TELL a lot about our health, wellness and longevity. Join us for this incredibly insightful and educational episode as we welcome guest, Dr. Darrel Misak, ND, RPh, a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, Licensed Pharmacist, who runs a private naturopathic practice in Pittsburg whose passion shines through vividly as we take a deep dive what he calls “his continued search for truth in health” which directed him to naturopathic medicine. Dr. Misak answers the questions we have, including why there’s so many allergies today, how stress impacts our DNA, how energy moves through the body, what affects aging, how he came to discover and create Vi-Telometry, plus so much more in this must-listen power-hour of enlightYOUment!After receiving his degree in Pharmacy, Dr. Misak gained years of university hospital clinical pharmacy experience at Duke University Medical Center with a primary focus in Oncology and General Medi

Have you craved a little more zest in your life? Do you feel like you’re missing out of life’s FUN factor? Well buckle up for this Aging GreatFULLy power-hour of enlightYOUment as we welcome special guest, Jean Ketcham, who will awaken your Aging But Dangerous kind of living! Years ago, Jean made the conscious decision to live a life of fun, spirit and style, and she’s never looked back! Jean Ketcham is the Founder of Aging But Dangerous.Aging But Dangerous is a movement for women focusing on healthy aging and living dangerously with fun, spirit and style! Aging But Dangerous inspires women ages 50+ to control their destinies, develop their limitless potential and to empower women to take control of the aging process. For those who seek adrenalin living and purpose-filled, passion-infused life like no other, Aging But Dangerous is for you!But it’s more than just fun and adventure; it’s also about self-care and deep conversations about important matters that are often not discussed. And it’s about empowering

Life is full of NEXTS … but some are truly a crossroad that will determine our entire trajectory and that single choice can rest in how our life will unfold. In this powerfully liberating Aging GreatFULLy episode, we welcome guest Dr. David Phelps, DDS, author of WHAT’S YOUR NEXT? The Blueprint for Creating Your Freedom Lifestyle. Dr. Phelps experienced his own pinnacle moment of truth, deliberating his own “What’s Your Next? intersection, in his real-life emotional experience of standing over the gurney of his 12-year-old daughter as she was about to be wheeled into the operating room for a liver transplant. He found himself overcome with a sense of helplessness. And worse, knowing she would need his loving support and care in recuperation with the demands of living with acute lymphocytic leukemia. But his real-life reality was that he was trapped by a business that kept him wedded to a treadmill that allowed him no time to support her. And it was in that moment that he made the decision of His Next – steppi

Join this must listen power-hour of enlightYOUment certain to build self-esteem, and help you discover your super-hero within (NO CAPE needed), overcome obstacles, get unstuckified, bid farewell to self-limiting beliefs, and create more magic in your life than you’ve ever imagined to create the life you desire! Are you one of the millions of people who feel STUCK? This past year has definitely been a trying one for many! Whether due to fear, low self-esteem, or feelings of inadequacy, or literally a life tsunami, millions of people feel like they’re trapped in the quicksand of life. Have you ever found yourself enthralled by superheroes and how they rise to any occasion and HERO up to save the day? Literally, there is no task to big, no problem to large to overcome – when you’re a superhero! But what if you could be the HERO OF YOUR LIFE: Ditch the Excuses, Take Your Hero’s Journey, And Find Your Life’s Purpose? Actually, that’s a book! And the one written by today’s Aging GreatFULLy guest, J. Scott MacMillan

Join us for a journey like no other to destination delight and self-discovery! Aging GreatFULLy welcomes special guest, Tracy LaLonde, author of The Joychiever Journey: Evade Burnout, Surpass Your Goals and Out-Happy Everyone. In this episode, we unpack a life-enhancing and powerful topic as Tracy invites listeners to change their lives simply by making Joy a regular mandate rather than a reward after finishing everything on your to-do list. Tracy calls on everyone to Reclaim their Joy and has created Six Methods to Rewire Your Brain Towards Positivity and has outlined an incredible Path to Joy!For those who feel they’ve lost their bliss, would like to boost their happiness or feel their suffering from burnout and want to reclaim their Joy, this episode will help point your compass in the right direction!Tracy LaLonde is an overachiever and business development coach, and professional speaker. After 20 years in the legal industry—a field with extreme rates of burnout—she witnessed her successful peers deal w

In this powerful episode of Aging GreatFULLy we celebrate the beauty and grace of aging GreatFULLy and gracefully with less stress and powerful practices and approaches with one of the most noted global beauty and wellness experts in the world, Gregory Landsman, TV Host and Best-Selling author! Gregory definitely embraces many of the same ideologies of the Aging GreatFULLy show, including “we’re not old, we’re BOLD!” Gregory explains how the physical body goes through many transitional phases in our lifetime and each phase has its own beauty, presenting us with an opportunity to understand and accept ourselves a little better. He believes that aging is a process of growing into ourselves so that we can live our best lives. In this must-listen episode, Gregory explains the huge difference between premature skin aging and aging—and furthermore how to counteract premature skin aging and the process of destressing the skin from the inside out and the outside in—so we can look and feel our best at every age. Grego

Aging GreatFULLy continues its tribute to Love in February as we shift our focus to a Love Made Simple! Can you imagine? How amazing a thought! In this must-listen episode, we welcome guest Juan Lee, author of Love Made Simple: A Guide to Inner Peace, Contentment, and Success, who joins us to share his wisdom and powerful principles of love. For over 30 years, Juan has studied organized religion to find the elements that unite humanity and share the message with those who need it. His book is an essential manual for aligning your abilities to gain clarity of mind and soul. In this power-hour of enlightYOUment, Juan shares his journey, and how he turned to teachings about love over the years to find strength, understanding and hope. Juan imparts wisdom on how to enjoy better relationships by cultivating 12 characteristics, why we absolutely need each other, the importance of self-love, what he has learned along life’s way, why early beginnings matter so much, why he used his book as a platform of unity and tet

In this Special Valentine’s episode of Aging GreatFULLy we simplify love like never before as we welcome world renowned guest and author of dozens of best-selling books, including the most well-known and trusted relationship book of all time, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, Dr. John Gray, to the power-hour of enlightYOUment!USA Today listed his book as one of the top 10 most influential books of the last quarter century. In hardcover, it was the #1 best-selling book of the 1990s. Dr. Gray’s books are translated into approximately 45 languages in more than 100 countries and continues to be a bestseller. We’ll learn all kinds of things about love and relationships as Dr. Gray shares his decades of wisdom from a Mars, Venus & now, even a pandemic perspective. Tune in to discover the common relationship mistakes, why less is more, what's the danger age for divorce, what makes successful couples thrive, pandemic dating, turning up the heat this Valentines for your special one and only and so much more

In this episode of Aging GreatFULLy, we’re turning up the LOVE! After all, February is known as the month of love … among other things! But for some, love feels more like an encrypted code! But what if you had the secret combination to crack the code for everlasting love? Perhaps it’s not love that is complicated, but instead our ability to understand how to convey it, communicate better, and to sustain it. To the rescue is world renown transformational relationship mentor, Dr. Gary D. Salyer, author of the best-selling book, Safe to Love Again: How to Release the Pain of Past Relationships and Create the Love You Deserve. In this must-listen episode, Gary reveals how he rewrites the rules of love in the brain for a sustaining and thriving love that survives the test and trials of time. On the wings of personal passion, Gary set out on a mission to crack the code of love! And he’s all too willing to share the winning combination of a successful love infrastructure with us! Gear up and get ready for the next l

Who doesn’t want more bliss in their lives? What if you had a Big Bliss Blueprint to reclaim what matters most and harvest all the bliss you ever thought imaginable? That’s the focus of this Aging GreatFULLy episode as we bring you barrels of inspiration towards uncovering and taking ownership of your bliss! Join us for this transformative hour as we welcome Mrs. Bliss herself, author Shell Phelps, a SHRM-Certified Human Resources director and co-founder of Phelps Strategies where she is a strategic life coach, who wrote the award-winning book, Big Bliss Blueprint: 100 Little Thoughts to Build Positive Life Changes. Shell will share how to deal with daily hurdles with her easy-to-follow advice & timeless wisdom, while she imparts small changes that solve big problems we all encounter along life’s journey. And if you feel bliss came easy for her because she wrote the book on it, think again! A self-proclaimed transformed pessimist, Shell is the perfect thought leader to lead this dialogue – having literall

Have there been times in your life you feel food is the enemy in your battle to get fit and lose those extra pounds? What if you could make a Peace trEATy with food? We love food! It’s nourishing, vital and of course, enjoyed in so many ways! So, let’s make peace with and sense of this important part of our lives once and for all!Join us for an empowering episode as guest, Todd Nyholm, author of “Ah, Food, Why Do You Trouble My So Much?” shares why food isn’t the enemy in your battle to lose weight and why you don’t need another diet… but instead, you need your food to work for you, rather than against you. As a somatic therapist and holistic educator, Nyholm helps people discover how to reprogram their perception about food, nutrition and most importantly, themselves. He reminds us that diets aren’t one size fits all and often are not connected to one’s willpower. Nyholm says diets fail because people have not changed the underlying mental, emotional and physical programming that drives their behavior. Disc

Hacking Chemo isn’t just a far-off dream that we’ll be talking about in this Aging GreatFULLy episode, it’s what today’s guest actually did! And, she wrote the book on it too, Hacking Chemo: Using Ketogenic Diet, Therapeutic Fasting, and a Kick-ass Attitude to Power Through Cancer. Join us for an incredible power-hour of enlightYOUment as we welcome author, Registered Dietitian, and Health Coach, Martha Tettenborn RD, to the show, who brings over 30 years’ experience working in many areas of nutrition and shares cancer treatments, like chemo, don’t have to derail your life. Modern era renegade, she says that you can be your own bio-hacker by decoding how cancer works in your body…and your life. In Hacking Chemo, Martha offers refreshing new ways of treating the disease with minimal side effects and maximum effectiveness. Imagine Martha’s surprise when she accidently discovered and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. It was then that she began exploring the research of the disease and discovered the science of

Have you dreamed of Kicking Pain in the pASSt? In this episode of Aging GreatFULLy, we combat PAIN like never before because if we’re going to get in the full light of living our best life now, we don’t want pain to impede our best of plans. And while pain definitely can be a quality-of-life spoiler, not all pain is bad. Join this amazing conversation with special guest David E. Frost, a NFPT Certified Master Fitness Trainer, rowing Coach and award-winning adjunct professor, as we take a deep dive into this topic that impacts most of us and certainly more so as we grow older. Dave helps us kick pain not only in the pASSt -- but in some cases, perhaps bid it farewell. Together, we'll discover the top five chronic PAIN’s experienced by older adults, including what we can do to prevent, remediate, or mitigate some of the effects, the key differences between acute and chronic pain, the two dimensions of pain, how pain subjectively and objectively changes as we age, and surprisingly, even some potential benefits

It's finally here, happy New Year 2021! There’s so much to celebrate and this year the focus is on YOU! But instead of making a long list of New Year’s resolutions, this year, we’re doing something different on the Aging GreatFULLy show. Don’t miss this power-hour of enlightYOUment, as we welcome returning guest, Brendon Watt, Speaker and Best-Selling author of Relationships: Are You Sure You Want One, for a conversation on how anyone can reinvent themselves, how to end self-sabotage for good and even how to come back from rock bottom! So, this year, we’re not going to make grandiose and lofty goals only to put ourselves under undue pressure of a pass / failure come March. Nor will we sign up to subject ourselves to the stress each day of having not been “good enough” and get caught up in that underachievement cycle that leads to self-sabotage day after day and often goes on for years—or even a lifetime. But instead, this year, we’re choosing New Year's ResoYOUtions. ResoYOUtions puts us in the driver’s seat

What better time to talk about finances than right after the Christmas presents are opened and spending has been done? Join us for this power-hour of enlightYOUment where we invite you to do something rather unconventional … that is, Don’t Retire, Graduate! That’s right, and that’s the book and podcast by this week’s guest as well! Welcoming special guest, Eric D. Brotman, CFP and CEO of BFG Financial Advisors with over 25 years of experience as a trusted advisor, we’ll answer the questions you have about future unknowns, planning and what if’s of all kinds. Including the legacies that money can’t buy and places you’re at risk that you’ll least expect you are.Brotman shares how we can prepare for the costs of aging, what the three secrets of the happiest retirees are and how to create good financial habits and so much more! Believing that the concept of retirement is outdated, Brotman is on a mission to redefine retirement offering creative strategies to help people “graduate” to the next phase of life! He ha

In this holiday episode of Aging GreatFULLy, you’re invited to grab a cup of hot cocoa or your favorite beverage, snuggle in with your favorite blanket or get warm by the fire place for an old-fashioned Christmas story time special. Show host, gerontologist Holley Kelley, has written special and heartwarming Christmas stories just for listeners! Kelley shares the importance of hope, faith, love, resilience, gratitude, happiness, and joy. And how miracles can appear out of nowhere, in surprising places, at unsuspecting times -- if we choose to see them as such. In the end, we are reminded that regardless of what happens in life, some core things remain ever constant. Kelley reminds us that Christmas time offers a great opportunity to open our heart a little more. To extend a little more love. And create room for a little more light. To let go of things that weigh down our soul. Perhaps even make amends. And to believe in the possibility of miracles. Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, her tender and heart

In this week’s Aging GreatFULLy power-hour of enlightYOUment, we take you on a surprising adventure of insight and illumination of the spiritual kind! Join us, as we bring you a sought-after guest who is known for being courageous and fearless in faith regarding his destiny towards breaking through every level taking him to a Permanent State of Liberation and Eternal Peace. If you have ever longed for knowing more peace, bliss, love, wonder and oneness, then Dr. Gabriel Cousens invites you to follow the trail he has to adventurously blazed! Known worldwide as the renowned “Physician of the Soul” he invites others on a journey to embark to a place that might surprise and even perplex… that is – Into the Nothing! And that is also the title of his latest book, Into the Nothing: A Spiritual Autobiography, in which he reveals the mystical, wild ride he personally took as he awakened to living from the soul that is beyond the body and the mind. Today, this 77-year old holistic physician, rabbi, yogi, spiritual myst

From a very young age we are very impressionable and we carry those experiences forward as we grow older. Depending on our circumstances, and the way we interpret them, that can help or hinder the way encounter life as adults. Add a dose of expectations to the mix and we just might have a recipe for disappointment. Enter Rewire expert, Bob Doyle to the rescue! Join this fascinating conversation as we welcome special guest Bob Doyle, who was a featured thought leader in the world-wide phenomenon film, The Secret, and the recently released film, How Thoughts Become Things, as we talk about how rewiring actually works, and even more exciting how the things you want most in life begin to show up and manifest. And we also talk about how our lens on life can get foggy and distorted over time and what we can do to clear things up. Bob shares the important role of mindfulness and gratitude as well as the powerful impact of negativity. More recently, Bob’s attention has shifted from the metaphysical aspects of Law of

In this special “Feast of Gratitudes” Giving Thanks episode we invite everyone to join us at our Aging GreatFULLy Thanksgiving Table and we welcome you across the miles and through the airwaves, for an alternative holiday gathering! And whether you celebrate Thanksgiving or not, this is a Giving Thanks show that everyone will appreciate and enjoy! I tell you weekly that “age is just a number” and to “never act your age” and this week, we’re putting it to the test. In our youth, our creative imaginings were limitless with tea parties and creative play, we brought fantasy to life with our mind’s boundless entertaining.So, as you listen along today, channel your childlike imagination, as we welcome you to our virtual Thanksgiving table to pretend dine together to enjoy our most festive and delicious holiday food and fare, we’ll be imaginatively enjoying as we toast our way through a delicious Thanksgiving Feast of Gratitudes. We invite you to journal along, as we share an abundance of gratitudes, many shared fro