Can we be truly happy? NYT best selling author Gay Hendricks of The Big Leap and The Genius Zone: The Breakthrough Process to End Negative Thinking and Live in True Creativity; says absolutely yes!

Loving Later Life Listeners: join me to hear what is holding us back (you'll be surprised) and what we can do about it so that we can live a life we love.

If you are serious about enjoying your life, don’t miss this episode. And it’s definitely worth a re-listen if you heard it the first time!

This episode originally aired in July of 2022, and is encore worthy! Kathryn is the creator of the enormously successful podcast Nothing Much Happens and the author of the book of the same name. Nothing Much Happens is consistently ranked in the top 1% of all podcasts in the world and has received over 65 million downloads.

Kathryn seamlessly blends storytelling with brain training methods that build better sleep habits over time. And imagine …wait till you hear about this… doing all of this not being able to picture a person’s face or see things in her mind.

Not be missed take-ways:

1. Stop waiting to feel ready. There’s no time to wait to feel ready.

2. If there’s something you’re passionate about, something you’re excited about stop wasting time and go do it.

3. When in doubt, do what you were going to do first, especially if you’re a second guesser or an over thinker.

4. People aged 60 + have the most difficulty sleeping.

5. There’s an old zen saying: you open the front door and you open the back door you let thoughts move through but you don’t sit them down and invite them to tea.

6. Sleep affects everything. It’s so foundational to our health. If we’re not sleeping everything is endangered.

7. If you’re a little older and you feel like you have a dream that you haven’t pursued yet, it’s not too late! But get started. Start making it happen!

It has been so hard choosing the episodes I want to replay for you.

This unique and wonderful conversation is with Dr. Martha Jo Atkins, which originally aired in September of 2022. Martha Jo is an end of life licensed professional counselor. She has a TEDx talk with well over a million views, an author, and has over thirty years of experience helping children and adults negotiate end of life and grief.

In addition to providing her beautiful insights and wisdom, Martha Jo shares with some meaningful and moving experiences she has had in helping the dying and their loved ones travel through the end of life process.

Martha Jo is a wealth of knowledge and compassion providing us with an invaluable comforting understanding of the process of dying.

Take a listen.