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#51: Consciousness Raising, a conversation with Ashton Applewhite.

November 12, 2019

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

36 mins This week, we had the distinct pleasure to speak with Ashton Applewhite, activist and author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism.  In this podcast, we engage in aconsciousness raising conversation about aging and the otherimplicit biases in our culture.  Applewhite asserts: “When we work against any form of oppression, we chip away at the fear and ignorance that underlie them all.” Please join us.  Listen to this inspirational activist on the front lines of changing how we look at aging.  It’s a conversation that’s...

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#50: What Are Your Strengths? with Carrie Skowronski

November 5, 2019

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

50 mins This week Carrie Skowronski talks to us about personal strengths, how to identify yours, and how to lead with them.  Carrie is an executive coach and the founder of Leadology.  She gives companies tools to build stronger leaders, and create positive, passionate workplaces.  Carrie is masterful at helping us understand our own strengths and shows us ways we can put them into action. She also says, “strengths never leave us, instead they ripen.”  And that’s good news for all of us.   https://www.getleadology.com  PLAY PODCAST

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#49: Leap into the Extraordinary with Lottie Moore, Master Firewalker

October 29, 2019

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

44 mins There are many ways to change our mindset and get beyond our limitations.  But this week is quite the twist. Lottie Moore talks to us to her from her home in Oxfordshire, England.  At midlife, a low point in her life, Lottie picked up and moved to West Africa as part of a volunteer program. It was a leap.  But it put her on a path of self-discovery and adventure.  Now, she helps other...

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#48: What Can Only You Do? Finding purpose with Indrani Goradia.

October 22, 2019

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

49 mins This week we sat down with a true powerhouse, Indrani Goradia.  Indrani is a philanthropist and advocate for women’s health and empowerment.  As a victim of severe childhood abuse, she created Indrani’s Light Foundation, an organization committed to caring for survivors of domestic violence.  Her mission is to stop generational abuse and empower women to change their lives.  With her warmth, humor and honesty, Indrani shares with us how shefelt lost and unsure of her purpose in midlife when she was asked a simple question:  “What can only...

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#47: Twisted Family Values with V.C. Chickering

October 15, 2019

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

62 mins This week we sat down with a real twister, V.C. Chickering.  She is the author of Twisted Family Values, a novel that spans fifty years and four generations, spinning a tale of privilege, dysfunction, family ties, and social taboo.  In V.C.’s books, and in her life, there are more than a few plot twists.  V.C. talks about the many roles she has played throughout her own life and shares how creativity and play have always been...

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#46: Tales from the Road with Betty Buckley

October 8, 2019

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

52 mins On this week’s Twisting the Plot podcast, we chat with the “Voice of Broadway.”  Betty Buckley, award-winning actress, with a decades-long career that has encompasses TV, film, stage, and concert work around the globe, talks to us about her many plot twists. Betty sat down with us during the final week of a year tour as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! We discuss the hard work, discipline and absolute delight she experiences when reaching deep and bringing to life new roles for the stage and screen.  As an actress, Betty is always...

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#45: Jenny Velarde: Artist as Guide

October 1, 2019

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

45 mins Meet Jenny Velarde.  In her own words, she is a “psychotherapist, and just as importantly, an artist.”  According to Jenny, art isn’t a luxury, but both the means to survive and also to thrive. With Artist as Guide, Jenny offers us a toolbox of wisdom, practical application, and the opportunity to be the creator of our own potential.   https://www.artistasguide.com  PLAY PODCAST

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Each week Dr. Cecilia Dintino and Psychotherapist Hannah Murray Starobin will speak with women who have twisted their plots and discovered that life after 50 can be filled with imagination, inspiration, laughter, and endless possibilities.

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