If you are just learning about our weekly Age of Opportunity chat, be sure to check out these blogs for some helpful tips, tricks and even a how-to video. The Age of Opportunity is an informal think tank for people to discuss issues that affect the 50+ market -- from media, entertainment, sports, health and more.

The Age of Opportunity Chat happens live on Thursday nights from 9-10pm, on Twitter.com. It is organized by members of the Growing Bolder staff, but it is an independent project. Industry experts will attend as guest hosts to facilitate the discussion and answer your questions!

Here are some of the hundreds of tweets posted during the April 2, 2009, Age of Opportunity Chat. If you'd like to see all of the responses, go to search.twitter.com and type in #ageop. Feel free to leave comments and questions below in this forum!

Participants:

@StarStrukLynna @marcmiddleton @kwidrick @Amykr @drkisane @OriginalLinDA @JoeTheProducer @pplist @cindyoyo @debworks @Jaybezo @daccarte @FredFitnessGuy

@kmacwill @CathyBrowne @gmarkham @Marielhemingway @Choonks @GottaLaff @KarlZimmerill @jcarlin @TomDore @alecjr @TriBoomer @finolaprescott

Haven't joined us at AgeOp yet? Why not? It's a great way to meet people from all over the world who are interested in lively discussions, hot topics and more. It's the 2009 version of the pen pal!

As always, this week's Age of Opportunity discussion became fast and furious, just moments after the chat officially started!

The participants chatted about everything from fitness to tea to their favorite grocery stores! But the discussion focused on these main topics:

• Fitness and Healthcare: What are you doing to stay in shape? Where does it fall on your personal priority scale?
• Michelle Obama's trip to London: What did you think of her meeting with the Queen? What about her fashion? What will her legacy be?
• Relationships and Sex: Cloris Leachman has penned a tell-all book that gets very explicit when it comes to previous relationships. Would you dish on your past to make money? How old is too old to talk about taboos?
• Travel: If money was no object, where would you go and why? Would you consider humanitarian travel during your retirement years?

We started by talking about fitness, and that led the room to talk about current goals and future plans!


Of course, we all need a little motiviation, right?

Especially since we all have vices. Here a funny one, from one of the brave people who admitted theirs!
Other vices included: Coffee, chocolate, TV, computer, Internet, Twitter, diet soda.
When it comes to healthcare, everyone agreed that it's time to make taking care of ourselves a priority. But how best to do it?


After a long talk about the role of the government in health care, fitness, prevention vs. care and more, the room moved from talking about President Obama to his wife Michelle, and her travel to London.


Words used to describe Michelle Obama? Beautiful, poised, graceful, kind. Those words were not used to describe the next celebrity topic: Cloris Leachman. In her 80s, the actress is now sharing intimate details about past relationships ... something the AgeOp room had conflicted feelings about.

And we ended the night by sharing our travel dreams. Where would we go if money was no object? Answers included: Florence, Tuscan countryside, Galapagos, New Zealand, Florence, Cinque Terre, Hong Kong, Thailand, Greece, Russia, Alaska, South Africa, UK.

Missed the chat? Have something new to contribute? Feel free to leave replies and comments in this discussion, or join us every Thursday night for The Age of Opportunity chat on Twitter. Just enter this phrase "#ageop" and then follow the chat. We like Tweetchat.com -- you can log in with your Twitter name and password, then enter the ageop room and you'll be able to control the speed of the discussion and more. You can also follow by going to search.twitter.com and typing in #ageop.