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Evolving: Finding Health & Happiness As We Age with Judy Bailey

For New Zealanders, Judy Bailey ONZM is a household name, similar to Australia's Kerri-Anne Kennerly or America's Diane Sawyer.

Originally trained as a journalist, Judy went on to become an immensely popular newsreader, presenting primetime news for many years.

Fondly nicknamed 'Mother of the nation', and often dubbed a national treasure Judy’s now in her 70s and she's written the book, Evolving, Finding Health & Happiness As We Age.

Evolving is peppered with some of Judy's personal stories as well as the latest findings of growing older.

It serves as a brilliant handbook for anyone entering midlife and beyond covering everything to do with health and wellbeing in two parts.

From nutrition to dementia, death, grief and resilience Judy tackles the good and the bad including the subjects nobody wants to talk about.

Podcast Interview

In this episode, we talk about:

Evolving, Serena Williams and ‘the R word’ (4:38)
Navigating mental and physical change as you grow older (5:25)
The Harvard Study of Adult Development – the longest longitudinal study in the world (7:05)
The most profoundly effective thing you can do for yourself to age well (7:59)
The holistic aspect of health and wellbeing (8:42)
The Maori way of looking at health (9:22)\
The global issue of dementia (10:19)
Death, grief, paperwork and resilience (13:37)
Our fundamental need for relationships (15:38)
Marriage and melanoma (15:20)
On being ‘Mother of the nation’ (22:00)
The problem of loneliness (25:32)
Grandfriends (27:47)
Beauty, style and feeling invisible (29:30)
Sarcopenia (31:19)
The grey (hair) movement (32:14)
Shametenance – Professor Claire Chambers (34:48)
Gerotranscendence and death cleaning (35:40)
Inspirational books (39:00)

Episode Resources:

Evolving: Finding Health & Happiness As We Age – New Zealand, Australia, Rest Of The World
Dementia: New Zealand, Australia
Alzheimer’s: New Zealand, Australia
Age Concern NZ, Age Concern Australia
The Grief Centre
Hospice
The Brainwave Trust
Skin Check
Skin Vision Melanoma Tracking App
Grandfriends surrogate grandparents
Intact by Professor Clare Chambers
Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts To A Happier Life by George Vaillant
Biography of Putin
The Women by Kristin Hannah. Buy: New Zealand, Australia, Worldwide
Catherine Chigley The Axeman’s Carnival Buy: New Zealand, Australia, Worldwide

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Welcome to the Women On Fire^® Podcast. We’re on a mission to help you have your best menopause and rest of your life.

I’m your host, Jenna Moore. I’m an accredited integrative health and menopause coach and I’ve studied nutritional awareness, women’s hormones through a functional medicine lens and explored various modalities including breath work, mindset and positive psychology.

Join me and my guests as we discuss how to navigate the natural life transition of menopause and growing older. From waistlines, waning libidos and what to wear now we’re over 40 we discuss it all.

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