Growing Older with Gusto

Growing Older with Gusto


Latest Episodes

Judi Schindler
December 11, 2019

Judi Schindler a lifelong Chicagoan is a multi-talented woman in her 70’s who has headed a 10 person PR firm for 40 years, become an actor, and an author where she describes one of her biggest life accomplishments - being married for 50+ years!

Phil la Duke
October 25, 2019

Phil La Duke who lives in Detroit, Michigan currently works as a workplace safety advisor for major companies. HIs life has taken a circuitous route to where he is now, and he shares how stumbling blocks spurred him on to better himself and live a joyf...

Barbara and Sheldon Stein
October 09, 2019

Gail interviewing Sheldon Stein - Barbara and Sheldon Stein are an active older couple who currently reside at the Clare, an independent living community in downtown Chicago. - A former lawyer and educator who remain chipper despite some health r...

Larry Clemons
August 19, 2019

Larry Clemons is a reflexologist, spiritualist and the first African American to rent office space in the iconic office building, The Garland Building in the Chicago Loop. He is a person who is a healer and has a positive spirit that has propelled him...

John & Barbara Cochran
July 24, 2019

John & Barbara Cochran, well-known journalists, who reside in Washington D.C. share their insights into how they have navigated through life and what sustains them today! - John was well known as a Senior Correspondent for ABC News and was their top C...

Ken Brown
June 23, 2019

His Glass is Definitely Always Half Full! Photo of Ken Brown (right) in Tanzania near Mt. Kilimanjaro. - Meet Ken Brown, an almost 70-year-old practicing lawyer who is successful in surviving one of the most deathly cancer diagnoses.

Diana Levin
March 17, 2019

Meet Diana Levin.  A woman who has followed her passions throughout her life, and has been fueled by an admittedly high-level of energy inherited from her father!   She is a woman who started traveling the world as a child with her mom,

Dolores Gilden
March 17, 2019

Dolores Gilden, is a beautiful woman inside and out, who embraces life and has a heart as large as Lake Michigan!  She talks about navigating every stage of life, tells us what it takes to grow older with gusto,

Susan RoAnne
March 17, 2019

Susan RoAnne, who lives in San Francisco is a whirling woman who exemplifies  how to grow older with gusto!  She is a powerhouse of a woman who laughingly recalls her lawsuit of RoAnne vs. Weinberger in San Fran,

Katherine Marquisos
March 01, 2019

Katherine is a woman in her 90’s who came to this country after WWII from southern Greece. She is fluent in three languages and has the moxie and energy of someone decades younger. What Katherine is doing and has done in her life to get to this age and...