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Last Updated on April 3, 2025
At Growing Bolder’s Launchpad to What’s Next! LIVE in The Villages Florida, award-winning broadcast meteorologist and author Amy Sweezey shares how she found her own “What’s Next” after leaving her 25-year TV weather career. Use her “Forecast for Growing Bolder” to find your passion and purpose.
Dr. Vonda Wright shared her keys to live longer, healthier lives with simple lifestyle modification at “Launchpad to What’s Next Live!”
Thomas McClary, founder of The Commodores , is now in his 70s and still dazzling audiences with live performances of hits like “Easy” and “High on Sunshine.”
Positive aging advocate Barbara Hannah Grufferman says everything she does for herself today is designed to help her reach her top goal in life — successful aging. She explains how remaining mobile and independent is her mission and reveals the steps she’s taking now to achieve that goal.
Dr. Bill Thomas is a Harvard-trained geriatrician, renowned for de-institutionalizing nursing homes worldwide. Watch his Launchpad to What’s Next presentation, in its entirety.
Watch three-time Olympic gold medalist Rowdy Gaines’ Launchpad to What’s Next presentation, in its entirety.
Watch award-winning financial journalist Jean Chatzky’s Launchpad to What’s Next presentation, in its entirety.
Dr. Roger Landry shares three keys for compressing morbidity to limit the amount of time you are sick or impaired at the end of your life.
Today, positive aging advocate Barbara Hannah Grufferman is a marathoner and passionate about exercise, particularly strength training. Even though she wishes she’d been more serious about her health prior to the age of 50, she says she’s living proof that anyone can start from scratch at any time on his or her personal journey to healthy aging. She reveals how focusing on her fitness after the age of 50 has made her fearless when it comes to aging.
Do you know how healthy habits are formed? By taking a simple, single action and then repeating it on a regular basis. Best-selling author and positive aging expert Barbara Hannah Grufferman uses the example of strength training to explain how you can start building up healthy habits that will make you stronger in the years ahead.
Whether you’re 18 or 80, you should love and embrace your age. Best-selling author and positive aging expert Barbara Hannah Grufferman explains what it means to embrace your age.
There’s never been a better time in human history to age, but for generations, we’ve been pushing our elders, who are treasure troves of wisdom and insights, aside. Thankfully that is changing. Active longevity expert Dr. Roger Landry explains why he thinks society is finally starting to appreciate the human capital of older people and he predicts how their role in society is changing.
All the choices you make in your life add up to determine your future. Dr. Roger Landry, one of the world’s pre-eminent authorities on active longevity and compressed morbidity, explains why it’s easier than you think to set yourself up for future health successes.
