Dr. Erica Miller was born on November 10, 1933 in Tshernovitz, Romania. For seven years, Erica and her family lived a “normal” life. When she was seven, Erica and her family were among thousands of Jews herded into cattle cars and imprisoned in a Nazi holding camp in Mogilev, Ukraine. After four years of indescribable oppression and deprivation, Erica, her parents, and her sister were liberated by the Russians. Today, in addition to public speaking, Dr. Miller oversees her family’s real estate b...
May 01, 2020•40 min
Heidi Robinson: In her own words I am passionate about creating exceptional products and experiences for customers. Over the years I've been fortunate to innovate and drive growth and change at leading brands: curating inspiring spaces in Sourcebooks/Digital and bringing experiential retail to life within Galleries at RH, forging design partnerships with Jonathan Adler, Martha Stewart, Sir Terence Conran, Bodum at JCPenney, rolling out Plus and Maternity categories at Old Navy. Liwanag Ojala: As...
Apr 24, 2020•41 min
Judy Foreman, the author of “A Nation in Pain” (2014), “The Global Pain Crisis” (2017), and “Exercise is Medicine” (2020), all published by Oxford University Press, was a staff writer at the Boston Globe for 23 years and a health columnist for many of those years. Her column was syndicated in national and international outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, Baltimore Sun and others. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College in 1966, spent three years in the Peace...
Apr 17, 2020•38 min
Kay Hutchison is the author of My Life In Thirty Seven Therapies: From Yoga To Hypnosis and Why Voodoo is Never the Answer (UK Belle Media print version & US audio release, spring 2020) She is a content creator with extensive experience in radio, television and publishing. After gaining her BMus and MA in music at Glasgow University, she joined Decca Records in London and then BBC Radio as a Producer. Kay moved across to television with Channel 4 and went on to lead the launch teams for Disn...
Apr 10, 2020•41 min
As an Encore Fellow, Greg developed strategic partnerships on behalf of the Salvation Army of Stamford and Norwalk, CT to increase local funding and potential donor pool. His personal experience as a fellow informs his work as the New York Encore Fellowship Program Director, where he will continue to build and strengthen the current Encore Fellowships program. He will also help to build broader corporate and NGO partnerships and advance effective collaboration across the network of Encore Fellow...
Apr 03, 2020•41 min
Peter Anderson is a lecturer at the Collins School of Hospitality Management. His background of consulting to the hospitality and spa industry for the last 20 years positions him to support the lodging disciplines taught at the Collins College. Mr. Anderson also sits on the board of advisors for the Medical Spa Management program taught at the University of California - Irvine. He teaches spa operations and spa development/finance in this extension program. Mr. Anderson’s teaching and consulting...
Mar 27, 2020•39 min
Dr. Cathy Goldstein is faculty in the Sleep Disorders Center where she evaluates and treats patients with various conditions such as obstructive sleep apnea, insomnia, restless legs syndrome, and circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders. Her research interests include the interface of sleep disruption with health conditions such as infertility and gastrointestinal disease. She also does work in the development of methods to assess sleep and circadian rhythms in the ambulatory, day-to-day setting....
Mar 13, 2020•43 min
Eric Rice, Quanta CEO and Chairman, is a leading American entrepreneur. A former professional baseball player, he started his business career in Chicago in wealth management and high-net-worth financial advising before spending more than a decade building businesses at the nexus of AI machine learning and advertising technology. Along the way, he worked with founders across multiple sectors to create profitable, enduring enterprises, demonstrating a keen eye for the nuances of markets and corres...
Mar 05, 2020•42 min
Dr. Erika Schwartz takes the best of conventional and integrative medicine and applies them to preventing disease. For more than 20 years, Dr. Erika has been at the forefront of advanced patient care. She was one of the first doctors in the US to treat patients with bio-identical hormones, conduct biomarker testing, and to administer preventative IVs. She continues to deliver cutting edge care to all of her patients in a warm, friendly office. For Dr. Erika, work is pure joy, her legacy is to im...
Feb 28, 2020•42 min
Sonja M. Haggert is an independent investor who credits her ability to retire early (at 51) with learning about investing from her father-in-law. She is passionate that everyone, especially women, acquire a basic knowledge of the topic. Sonja graduated from Villanova University with a BS in Business Administration. She had a varied career starting in retailing and culminating in becoming Vice-President and General Manager of The Keystone Filter Division of Met-Pro Corporation, a local manufactur...
Feb 21, 2020•40 min
Dr. Sara Zeff Geber is a recent recipient of the “ 2018 Influencers in Aging ” designation by PBS’ Next Avenue. She is an author, certified retirement coach, and professional speaker on retirement and aging . S he has developed a niche specialty as an expert in “Solo Aging,” guiding people who have no children or who are aging alone to have a safe and fulfilling life in their retirement years. Dr. Geber is the author of the 2018 book, Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers: A Retirement an...
Feb 14, 2020•40 min
Emily Luchetti is a James Beard Award-winning pastry chef, and Chief Pastry Officer of San Francisco’s Big Night Restaurant Group. She has helped define what great pastry in America means, partly as a cookbook author, and through her three decades in the business of desserts, both as a chef and as a teacher and mentor to chefs and restauranteurs. Erin McHugh is an award-winning author of more than two dozen books of popular nonfiction, history, inspiration, humor, and children’s books. She is a ...
Feb 07, 2020•42 min
John L. Webb, Jr. is the founder of Medication Call Reminder and a seasoned professional with a unique combination of work in both the private and public sectors. John’s experiences in Employee Assistance sales and marketing, medical social work in home health care, hospital discharge planning and care management led to a second career as an entrepreneur. As a long distance caregiver, it was a heartfelt response to concerns for John's mother to remember to take her medication as prescribed that...
Feb 01, 2020•41 min
Dr Cynthia Stuen is the Main Representative to the United Nations on behalf of the IFA. She is currently the Chair of the NGO Committee on Ageing (New York), having served as vice chair from 2015-2019. She was co-chair of the International Day of Older Persons 2015 event at the UN, and also covers the issues of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women. Dr Stuen is a Past Chair of the American Society on Aging (ASA), the largest organization of professionals in the field of ageing in the US. She ...
Jan 24, 2020•41 min
Sidney Kess, of Counsel to Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP and a Senior Consultant at Citrin Cooperman & Co., is a nationally renowned tax expert and author/coauthor of hundreds of tax books on financial and estate planning. He has written hundreds of AICPA tax workshops, audio and video programs, and is the recipient of the AICPA Distinguished Lecturer Award. Mr. Kess is often quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and other national publications. He was included in Accounting To...
Jan 17, 2020•42 min
As Director of Lifestyle, Mark is focused on enhancing our customer’s lifestyle experience at all Cresswind and Kolter Homes communities. Mark supports our leadership team in providing Amenity-rich Environments, one of Kolter Homes four brand pillars. He plans and delivers Award-winning lifestyle programming at all Cresswind communities. In 2017, Mark earned Silver Honors as “55+ Lifestyle Director of the Year” by the National Association of Home Builders.
Jan 15, 2020•40 min
David M. Cunic is a licensed physical therapist, business consultant, certified leadership coach, and cannabis industry expert. He has been involved in the cannabis testing lab sector for over six years and teaches medical professionals as well as the public U.C.S.: Use Cannabis Safely. David has been involved in the cannabis industry for over six years and he quickly made his mark; he is one of the original pioneers in the toughest testing lab market in the US. David has consulted with many sta...
Jan 03, 2020•39 min
Born in Canada, Rich Little got his start just like almost every other comic of his time - night clubs. he was a very popular comic in these clubs, but if there was one thing Rich was best known for, it was impersonations. He studied the voices of many stars his whole life, stars like James Stewart , Johnny Carson , Don Rickles , Dean Martin , Truman Capote and George Burns . In the late 1960s, Rich was dubbed "the best impressionist in the world." During the 1970s, however, a rivalry began betw...
Dec 29, 2019•39 min
Dr. Alexander Fleming is Founder and Executive Chairman of Kinexum. He is also President and Chief Executive Officer of Tolerion, a biotechnology company developing disease-modifying treatments for type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases. Dr. Fleming received his M.D. and internal medicine training from Emory. He completed fellowship training in endocrinology at Vanderbilt and metabolism at National Institutes of Health, where he was a senior fellow. Dr. Fleming coined the term "Metabesity...
Dec 20, 2019•43 min
For 15 years, Colorado based photographer Heidi Wagner has used her camera to look closely at extraordinary people of all ages. Since 2013, Heidi Wagner has made The Passions Project the central focus of her creative work. Through The Passions Project, Heidi finds a platform to share the beauty and vitality she sees in people who are living their life to the fullest and following their passion: “When you see someone doing what they love to do, you no longer see their age. You see their passion.”...
Dec 13, 2019•39 min
Amy Jeffs currently serves as Vice President of Status Solutions , and has held various positions within the mission-based organization for the past 13 years. Her primary duties include assisting Status Solutions' Founder and President with developing and implementing the company's overall go-to-market strategy. Her past experience includes 20+ years of technology business and marketing at start-ups up to Fortune 500 companies. Status Solutions, is a situational awareness technology company that...
Dec 06, 2019•45 min
Angelica Disanza is Miss Northern Lakes’ Outstanding Teen 2018. Her platform is “Generation Connection” fostering friendships between generations and has written a children’s story entitled, “A Different Kind of Crown.” based on a personal experience where she encourages children at a younger age to see the value of making friendships with seniors. She regularly visits nursing homes and senior centers to interact with the residents (who have silver hair crowns) and bring a smile to their faces. ...
Nov 29, 2019•39 min
Dr. Michael Blackman joined Allscripts from McKesson and now provides medical leadership across the Allscripts CareInMotion suite. Passionate about looking for methods to improve care, he has worked with multiple hospitals and health systems to improve how EHRs are used to both advance patient outcomes and improve clinician workflow. Additionally, he was a leader in the early work to enable widespread use of electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS). A former assistant professor of ...
Nov 22, 2019•39 min
Chris Brickler is CEO and Co-Founder of MyndVR, a national health and wellness company pioneering a new network of Virtual Reality experiences to improve the cognitive health and happiness of our aging population. In addition to an expansive library of VR content and original programming designed for recreational and therapeutic effects, MyndVR is also working with leading US universities and researchers to study the potential health benefits of VR for our dynamic and aging population.
Nov 15, 2019•39 min
Dr. Rachel Wu is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist investigating attending to and learning relevant information across the lifespan. Her EEG and behavioral research from infancy to aging adulthood investigates how learner factors, (e.g., prior knowledge, learning approach) and environmental factors (e.g., scaffolding) facilitate the selection of relevant information to promote new learning in some contexts, while being detrimental to new learning in other contexts. Cross-pollinating child...
Nov 08, 2019•39 min
Scott Moody is the co-founder and CEO of K4Connect, a mission-centered technology company creating solutions that serve and empower older adults and individuals living with disabilities. Moody previously was the co-founder and CEO of AuthenTec, the only public company ever acquired by Apple and its technologies led to the introduction of the Touch ID. Although Scott had retired, it was on a trip to Rwanda that he was inspired to start another company, but only when he met someone that had MS tha...
Oct 25, 2019•39 min
Kate McKay is a multi-million-dollar business owner, international best-selling author, TV personality, transformational speaker, strategic business consultant, and health and wellness expert. Kate is the author of Living Sexy Fit … At Any Age , featured in Family Circle . Kate has been a contributor to Entrepreneur , New York Smash , and Golf Magazine . She is also a monthly contributor to the Eagle Tribune in New England on health, wellness, and living a life of prosperity....
Oct 18, 2019•39 min
Jordan Goodman is “America’s Money Answers Man” and a nationally-recognized expert on personal finance. He is a regular guest on numerous radio and television call-in shows across the country, answering questions on personal financial topics. He appears frequently on The View, Fox News Network, Fox Business Network, CNN, CNBC and CBS evening news. For 18 years, Jordan was on the editorial staff of Money magazine, where he served as Wall Street correspondent. While at Money, he reported and wrote...
Oct 14, 2019•39 min
Sue Johansen , vice president of partner services with A Place for Mom . A Place for Mom was founded 15 years ago to help families navigate the maze of senior housing options. Since then, A Place for Mom has grown to become the largest senior living referral service in the U.S. and Canada. Although our company name focuses on "mom," we help dad too! As well as uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters - anyone who is faced with finding the best senior living options for their loved ones....
Oct 04, 2019•39 min
Aubrey De Grey is known for his view that medical technology may enable human beings alive today not to die from age-related causes. He is also an amateur mathematician who has contributed to the study of the Hadwiger–Nelson problem . His research focuses on whether regenerative medicine can prevent the aging process. He works on the development of what he calls " Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence " (SENS), a collection of proposed techniques to rejuvenate the human body and stop a...
Sep 27, 2019•39 min
