Captivate Podcast Archives

Description: In this episode, Wendy Battles shares her personal journey of getting out of her comfort zone and finding her true purpose. From her experiences as a voice actor, becoming a coach, and now a podcast host, she reflects on self-discovery and the process of figuring out what she likes and dislikes. Wendy also sharesContinue reading “Reinventing Yourself: A Journey to Finding Purpose with Wendy Battles”

Description: Today I speak with Elly Katz, founder of a unique program that connects older adults, “sages,” with younger generations, “seekers.” The program aims to provide a platform for intergenerational learning and share hard-earned life lessons. During the discussion, Elly shares the impact the program has had on both sages and seekers, including increased happiness andContinue reading “Empowering a Better World: A Conversation with Sages and Seekers”

Today I suggest an alternative to New Year’s resolutions: a word of the year. Join me as I outline my process for choosing a word for the year and how it has helped me set and achieve goals. Discover how setting a word for the year can help you avoid the pitfalls of New Year’s resolutionsContinue reading “Creating a Word for the Year: Finding Your North Star”

This episode was live on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and I started it by reading a portion of the “I have a Dream” speech. Which led to my first question. “Is hope and positivity the same thing, and how important are they to our mental health as we age?” Dr. Joe Casciani spent 40Continue reading “Finding Resilience and Positivity as we age”

From football player to Certified Financial Planner to podcaster, Joe Allaria is passionate about educating his clients and his listeners. He spoke to us about the 3 levels of financial retirement. Level one: Survival – Can I pay my bills when I retire? Typically, people that have this fear have not worked with a financialContinue reading “Financial fulfillment in retirement”

Dr. Sara Hart, who at the age of 74 cycled 540 miles in the AIDS ride from San Francisco to LA is a woman on a mission. She is helping older women find the spark in their lives to light their way in the world. Sara had an idea that she wanted to do somethingContinue reading “PrimeSpark: An Older Women’s Revolution”

This episode begins the conversation on Hey, Boomer to start to find the opportunities for the generations to build bridges of understanding. There are so many reasons the generations are separated, which has caused misperceptions, blaming and shaming, going both ways. We are at time when solutions to things like climate change, mental health, theContinue reading “Boomers-Millennials-GenZ: Bridging Generational Gaps”

Have you had the experience where a healthcare professional seems to speak in a condescending manner to you or to your older parent? Have you been called “sweetie” or “dear” one time too often? How about when the healthcare worker asks a question like “What would we like for dinner?” Jeanette Leardi is a socialContinue reading “Advocating for care as an older adult”

Mark Twain said, “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” Purpose is your natural way of being and your purpose may change over your lifetime. It is not static. When we leave our careers many of us lose our sense ofContinue reading “Roadmap to Purpose”

Dennis Gillan lost 2 brothers to suicide in the span of 11 years. It took him a long time before he could talk about this loss. Now he has started a non-profit organization called HalfASorrow.org to educate people about suicide prevention. In this episode Dennis shared how he began to address the problem initially byContinue reading “He turned a tragedy into a mission”

She was a young girl when her family emigrated from Czechoslovakia after WWII. Some of the family was not able to leave, some of the family moved to Bavaria in Germany. Pipka Ulvilden was raised in North Dakota, and Michigan and now lives in Sister Bay, Wisconsin, an idealic artist community by Lake Michigan. AsContinue reading “Cake and a Story”

This is a story of inspiration, of what we can do when we want to and surround ourselves with people who believe in us. It started out as a story of Margaret Caterisano, the costume designer at Furman University, who started to write plays during the pandemic. She submitted one of her plays to theContinue reading “She wrote a play – and produced it off-Broadway”

The year was 1970. The prior year my family had visited Washington and I saw all these young people working on the floor of the Senate. They were Senate pages, and that looked like something I really wanted to do. For some reason, I did not notice that they were all boys.   In 1970, whenContinue reading “First Girl Page”

Omkari Williams went from a career as an actor to political campaigns and fundraising to activism. She walks us through this transition and what was the turning point that guided her into activism. Her work with her clients and in her training is to help people find sustainable ways to contribute to society and makeContinue reading “Activism for Introverts & Highly Sensitive People”

Rhonda Cook was a gutsy reporter who “fell into” her work as an inmate advocate. She developed the trust of inmates in the prisons where she was was assigned and they would call her and let her know about what was going on in the prisons. In 1998 she started to hear about sexual abuseContinue reading “Investigative Reporter – uncovering sexual assault”