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166. The Art of Doing Nothing—On Purpose | Rest is Something You Do

2026-10-0810:16

What if one of the smartest things you could DO right now… is less? After five episodes of Well-Intentioned Aging—and just before fall begins its annual sprint toward the holidays—I’m calling a strategic pause. … Not scrolling. Not checking email from the couch. Not collapsing at the end of an overstuffed day. I’m talking about deliberate, guilt-free rest. Recent research gives us some surprisingly simple ways to create genuine restoration, especially for women in midlife and beyond. In inten...

165. Waiting to Feel It? | Build Proof. Keep Moving.

2026-10-0117:26

What if waiting to feel ready is exactly what keeps us stuck?—sounds about right … right? The science of aging explained in this series has taken us through beliefs, expectations, and feelings. Now comes the part that can alter what happens next: turning what we know into what we DO. Newer research on sense of control reveals a powerful connection. Believing you can influence what happens next is linked with the everyday behaviors that support better aging, including physical activity. And re...

164. How Old Do You Feel? | Disrupt the Answer!

2026-09-2414:16

How old are you? Easy question. But here’s a more interesting one: How old do you feel today? Researchers call the difference between those two numbers your subjective age—and a growing body of research suggests that the age you feel is connected to how you function, how you handle stress, and even long-term health outcomes. In Part Four of our Well-Intentioned Aging series, today we move from Dr. Becca Levy’s age beliefs and Ashton Applewhite’s challenge to ageism into something intensely pe...

163. Refuse the Aging Script | Put it Down. Begin.

2026-09-1715:56

In the last episode, Yale researcher Dr. Becca Levy showed us that what we believe about aging shapes how we age. But that raises an uncomfortable question: Where did those beliefs come from? Enter Ashton Applewhite — author, activist, and one of the most fearless voices in the fight against ageism. For more than 15 years, she's done one thing exceptionally well: pulled the assumptions about aging out of the cultural wallpaper and held them up to the light. In this episode, we follow those be...

162. The Aging Myth Busted | Expect More. Period.

2026-09-1011:37

Last episode I promised you we'd start meeting the people behind this research on aging and belief. Today I'm keeping that promise. Her name is Dr. Becca Levy — she's spent more than three decades at Yale studying something she calls “age beliefs,” and her findings are some of the most talked-about in the entire field of aging research. Today we dig into her work: what she's found, how she found it, and why a brand-new 2026 study she co-authored is making researchers rethink what “growing old...

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