
DeEtte Sauer, 82-Year-Old Swimmer Who Lost 100 Pounds, Inspiring the Next Generation
DeEtte Sauer didn’t start swimming until she was in her 50’s. Since then, she’s lost more than 100 pounds and set multiple world records.
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DeEtte Sauer didn’t start swimming until she was in her 50’s. Since then, she’s lost more than 100 pounds and set multiple world records.

Samantha Brown has been around the block more than a time or two. She’s an Emmy Award-winning world travel host featured in more than 400 episodes of TV shows on the Travel Channel and PBS. She has visited more than 250 cities, 60 countries and spent more than 26,000 hours traveling.

Chad Pragracke works with volunteers from ages 9 to 90 to accomplish his dream of a cleaner world.

After a Parkinson’s diagnosis, Helen and Andy Leighton used Pickleball as a way to cope together.

Susan Winter never set out to be a relationship expert, yet life has a way of nudging us in certain directions. Beginning her career as an opera singer, shifting to business communications, becoming a spokesperson for Fortune 500 companies, then television host on the Financial News Network, Winter has had a front row seat to the intricacies of human behavior.

The Japanese call it an experience, a process of embodiment through the senses and an immersion in the innate healing properties of the forest. Hoping to tap into the magic, Amy Sweezey joined Forest Therapist William Watson to “forest bathe.”

Acclaimed photojournalist David Burnett was drawn to the National Senior Games in Ft. Lauderdale for the same reason Growing Bolder was — to record and share the inspiring stories and images of athletes from age 50 to 103 who are defying the stereotypes of age.

After a health scare put Christiane Palpant in the hospital, she decided to leave her corporate job, renovate a sprinter van into living space, and travel the country!

42 years after an inspirational run to the high school state finals in girls basketball, the challengers reunited at the 2022 National Senior Games to compete together again.

There she was, stuck in her house again. The TV was on but there was nothing to watch. The pandemic…

Find out how the act of artistic creation exorcised the demons that had been haunting Audrey Phillips for a decade.
