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Menopause and Sex - on the menu today! We couldn't resist putting out this enlightening podcast fan fave again! This popular episode is from Season 1 - 2022: How Menopause Can Impact Sexual Health with Dr. Stephanie S. Faubion. On the podcast-we’re talking about painful sex and the lack of desire in menopause. Don’t let the big M keep you from finding your happy place in the bedroom and getting your groove back. Dr. Faubiom serves up plenty of great information that will empower you. She’s G-O-O-D! Check it out! And Here's to Healthy Aging and Joyful Luvvies!

Dr. Stephanie S. Faubion - BIO

Stephanie S. Faubion, MD, MBA, FACP, NCMP, IF

Medical Director, The North American Menopause Society

Penny and Bill George Director, Mayo Clinic Center for Women’s Health

Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine

Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida

faubion.stephanie@mayo.edu | 904-953-7224

Dr. Faubion completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin and medical school and residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She received her Master of Business Administration at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota in 2019.

She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida and the Penny and Bill George Director of the Center for Women’s Health. In 2019 she was named Medical Director of The North American Menopause Society.

Her clinical research interests include menopause and sexual health in women. She is Principal Investigator for the Data Registry on Experiences of Aging, Menopause and Sexuality (DREAMS). She has served on the board of trustees for the North American Menopause Society and the board of directors for the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health. She also serves as editor of the journal, Menopause, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

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We're again bringing you a fan fave from past seasons, as we continue our summer break. Check this out! How does one go deep in finding purpose? Sometimes it takes a tragedy to help one get back on track. And that’s where a life coach can come in handy. It's time to talk about finding your purpose, in this season.

On this week's Ageless Glamour Girls Podcast: “Finding Your Purpose After 50.” Our guest is Dr. Pamela Jackson Smith, a Certified Life Coach and Owner of Jacksmith Coaching and Consulting, LLC. - aka - Dr. Pam’s Place for Coaching. You don’t want to miss this!

BIO: DR. PAMELA JACKSON-SMITH

Dr. Pamela Dawn Jackson-Smith, also known as Dr. Pam is a dedicated life transition coach, guiding and empowering women through the challenges of life-changing events. Born and raised in Daytona Beach, FL, Dr. Pam's educational journey includes a B.A. in Economics from Spelman College, an M.Ed. in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Central Florida, and an Ed.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from Northern Illinois University.

Dr. Pam's journey is a testament to her resilience and strength. Despite facing significant health challenges, including rheumatic fever in her childhood and a brain injury and open-heart surgeries later in life, she has continually overcome obstacles. Her professional experience spans over 45 years, during which she has blended her advanced degrees with first-hand knowledge of overcoming adversity.

Since 1998, Dr. Pam has called Palm Coast home. After retiring from the Flagler County School District in 2020, she embraced her calling as a transitions coach for women, specializing in transitions such as widowhood, retirement, and discovering new purposes. Her coaching approach is rooted in empathy, resilience, and proven strategies, offering both virtual coaching and keynote speaking services.

Dr. Pam's commitment to service extends to her involvement in community initiatives through Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc, and local organizations such as the Palm Coast Flagler Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Professional Wonken of Flagler County. She has also boen an active member of Me. Calvary Baptist Church of Palm Coast since 1999, where she served as youth ministry director, significantly growing the youth membership.

Dr. Pam is passionate about mentoring and enjoys leisure activities like reading, music, beachside moments, and cravel. Her faith and dedication to expanding the Kingdom of Jesus Christ are central to her journey, and she is excited to continue this path with her community.

Dr. Pamela Jackson-Smith exemplifies resilience and empowerment. making her a beacon of hope and a trusted guide for those navigating life's transitions.

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It’s always a good time to celebrate women! That said, today’s show is a fan favorite from our archives: our first episode, the launch of the Ageless Glamour GirlsnPodcast in 2022. It features 6 bold, beautiful, and brilliant women from various walks of life, whose ages range from the 50s to the 80s. ‘Wait until you hear what they said about this ageless-aging journey!

Ciriaca Yolanda is a Certified Health Coach and grandmother in her seventies. She's on a mission to redefine aging for women. https://www.facebook.com/yolanda.sabio2

Rory Lee is an internationally known makeup artist and licensed esthetician, and CEO of MakeupByRoryLee, and founder of RoryLee®️ - a natural line of vegan makeup. https://www.makeupbyrorylee.com

Silvana Riley - AKA - Embellish or Perish, trained as a psychologist and is now a retired senior public servant who spent 36 years working in the human services field, focusing on statutory child protection, domestic violence, homelessness, and the provision of disability services. https://www.instagram.com/embellish_or_perish/?hl=en

Sandi Badash, an internationally known author, artist, and jewelry designer, is constantly involved in the creative process in one art form or another. https://www.instagram.com/sandibadash/?hl=en

Janet Johnson Hall, a wife and mother of 5 grandchildren retired from the field of Special Education. She's now an Entrepreneur, in the health and wellness field. https://www.instagram.com/janet_johnson_hall/?hl=en

Patrice Lee is a wife, mother, and grandmother, who advocates for women over age 50 who want to embrace this amazing season in their lives. https://www.instagram.com/thepatricelee/?hl=en

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Did you know that domestic health insurance typically does not cover you when travelling abroad? If you're still in the planning zone for a summer vacation and beyond, or if you're already set to go, stop what you're doing and listen up. Is travel health insurance on your agenda? Lean in, and find out why you may want to consider getting some insurance, before you go, especially if you're heading abroad.

As we continue our summer haitis, we're re-purposing some fan faves. This AGG podcast episode originally dropped last May, but the information is still relevant and so needed. Our guest was Dr. Katy Votava, an expert in healthcare reimbursement and outcomes, including those related to Medicare, Medicaid and long-term care. Dr. Katy is also an author.

BIO:
Dr. Katy Votava is the President and Founder of GOODCARE.com®, a unique consulting firm designed to help people have the best healthcare coverage now and in retirement. Dr. Votava is a Nurse Practitioner with a Ph.D. in healthcare economics from the University of Rochester and a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Katy, as she prefers to be called, is also the author of the Amazon best-selling book, "Making the Most of Medicare: A Guide for Baby Boomers." The 10th edition will be released soon.

Dr. Katy focuses her research on health policy and public health on healthcare economics, homecare, and telehealth. She has written for and is quoted by the Financial Advisor, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, Consuelo Mack’s WealthTrack, Money, Financial Advisor, Fox News, Journal of Financial Planning, Investment & Wealth Institute, InvestmentNews, NerdWallet, Retirement Daily, The Street.com, Retirement Daily, and has been a guest on the Ageless Glamour Girls Podcast. Dr. Katy is a sought-after speaker on retirement healthcare finance, Medicare, and Long-Term Care.

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Think death – reimagined. Preparing for your death or that of a loved one can help us lead a more meaningful, authentic life. That – from today’s podcast guest. Alua Arthur is a Death Doula who guides a person who is transitioning to death and their loved ones, through the emotional process. End-of-life planning.

Alua’s book, a New York Times Best Seller, is “BRIEFLY PERFECTLY HUMAN: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End.” Alua has been described as a guiding light. She often forms close relationships with her clients, who reveal to her their innermost thoughts – regrets, what-ifs, secret joys, hidden affairs, and more. She also helps to organize business and legal affairs.

As a toddler, Alua’s family fled a murderous coup d’état in Ghana in the 1980s. She still remembers it vividly. This and more helped birth her book and path in life. This book is for those close to death and their loved ones, and everyone else who desires to embrace life and live a more authentic life.

******************* BIO: Alua Arthur - In BRIEFLY PERFECTLY HUMAN: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End. America’s most visible death doula, Alua Arthur, shows us how imagining our ideal ending can help us get clear about how we need to live and who we need to become to achieve that ideal ending. It’s a captivating narrative, bursting with Alua’s escapades of wander and wonder, which lead her on the death doula path. As the most visible death doula working in America today, ALUA ARTHUR is a seeker, a“recovering” attorney and the founder of Going with Grace, a death doula training and end-of-life planning organization. She has spent thousands of hours with folks as they contemplate their mortality when regrets, secret joys, hidden affairs, and dim realities are finally revealed aloud. Her TED Talk titled, “Why thinking about death helps you live a better life” went online in July 2023, and has already received over 1.5 million views. A frequent guest on TV and radio, Alua has been featured on CBS’s The Doctors and in Disney’s “Limitless” docu-series with Chris Hemsworth, as well as in national print media outlets, such as Vogue, InStyle, the Los Angeles Times, The Cut, The New Yorker, and the New York Times. She travels the country and world as a keynote speaker, addressing audiences at conferences, end-of-life organizations, Fortune 500 companies, universities, seminaries, senior citizens’ communities, and more. Along the way, she shares the surprising and often moving relationships she forms with dying clients. By interlacing her personal life experience around some of the remarkable deaths she’s observed, Alua can get at the heart of the most raw and tender moments of our humanity.

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Kyeni Matee (Rechel Bryant Nganga) was traumatized by years of sexual abuse which started in her childhood, at the hands of a relative Later she married her rapist. He was her first husband.

Statistics find that 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys is a victim of child sexual abuse. Experts say those numbers are much higher, but the prevalence is hard to determine because it’s not often reported. The most vulnerable are between the ages of 7 and 13.

In this week's Ageless Book Author's Podcast Series, you'll meet a woman who's one of those statistics. Kyeni (pronounced Chain-ee), is a violinist and youth orchestra teacher from Florida. She’s also a new author. Kyeni documents her abuse which started when she was 7 or 8
and lasted for several traumatizing years, in her new book – “THE EYES BEHIND THE VIOLIN: FINDING MY TRUE IDENTITY.” Her moving story is one of survival and resilience. Her saving grace? Music, Therapy, and Faith.

BIO: Kyeni Matee (Rechel Bryant Nganga) has a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She has been teaching with Osceola County Schools in Florida, for 25 years. She currently works as an Itinerant String teacher at one elementary school, and two middle schools in the Osceola County area. Outside of school, she works as the Orchestral Director of the Osceola Arts Youth Orchestra. She also runs a private music studio. She is an active professional musician and enjoys performing on her violin, playing the piano, and singing at church and other churches and venues around the Central Florida area.

Rechel is now married to Chuma Nganga Matee, who is from Kenya in East Africa. Rechel visited Kenya for the first time back in 2010. On that first trip, she began a project called: “The Parkway Kawelu Project.” This project allowed her to work with her students here in the U.S. and join Kawelu Primary School in Kenya. The schools worked together to raise money and help Kawelu, an underserved school in Kenya, to refurbish their school and make it more suitable for students. That program continues today but has gone through a metamorphosis. Rechel travels to Kenya every few years and takes members of the community, or students from her Youth Orchestra over to Kenya to service projects like planting trees and doing performances for several schools. Through the project, Rechel led a fundraiser to raise money to purchase English and Kiswahili books for school libraries at Yikisemei Primary School and Kawelu Primary School. When they were married, Chuma, as with custom, gave Rechel a Kenyan name. That name is Kyeni, (Chain-ee) which means “Light.” Outside of work, Rechel goes by her pseudonym: Kyeni Matee, in her new book, which you can order from most book-sellers, including Amazon.

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Is it time for you to step outside your comfort zone, and perhaps finally share your story? And in the form of a book? That's what new ageless author, Melanie Dragan did!

Today, we launch a new segment called, "The Ageless Authors Book Series," which features women who became published authors at age 50+. It begins with Melanie Dragan and her new book, Amazon best-seller "The Dragon Wagon Diaries," which documents her cross-country journey in an RV that she and her husband purchased on Craigslist.
Melanie shares how she started on this fascinating and adventurous journey, and then wrote a book about it. Yes, she did! It's a beautiful book! Is it now your turn?

As a new author, I now know how exciting it feels to publish a first book, in this season of change. And it's a beautiful thing! Trust and believe! You know you're ready! Drop us a line at info@agelessglamourgirls.com if you want to be featured on an upcoming episode of the show - with or without a book. Also, we're now taking applications for Volume 2 of our Amazon best selling anthology: "Ageless Glamour Girls: Reflections on Aging."

And thanks for the love and support, and for subscribing to the podcast and the AGG YouTube Channel, where you'll find the video versions of our podcasts. Here's to Healthy Aging and Joyful Living, Luvvies!

Melanie Dragan:
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"Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone." - Paul Tillich

Yes, there is a distinct difference. But unfortunately, loneliness is what's gripping this country right now. And as we know, loneliness can lead to all types of health issues, especially as we age, Ladies. Finding your community, and your people, and engaging with them takes on uber importance.

There are a multitude of ways to connect - in-person, via the phone, social media, community groups and activities, and more - including connecting via mail. And please don't forget to reach out to women who live alone with no family, and seldom leave the confines of their homes.

Earlier this year, we launched the first of three virtual events in which we introduced a few co-authors of our new Amazon Best Selling anthology - "Ageless Glamour Girls: Reflections on Aging." The chapters of this group focus on connections and making new friends - yes, even later in life. Meet these AMAZING authors, who will most definitely inspire you. #findyourvillage And thanks for subscribing to the AGG Podcast!

Melinda Rinzivillo: Public Speaker, Retreat Leader, Teacher, Independent Image Consultant, and Visionary.

Karen Herlands: Creator and seeker of worldly wisdom. Karen has a daily Buddhism practice she’s followed most of her life.
Instagram: @herlandshealth https://www.instagram.com/herlandshealth_/

Cheryl Collier: Storyteller, writer, producer, and media specialist.
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