"What's Next? Conversations with Boomers"
By Barb Desmarais
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What’s Next? Conversations with Boomers is a candid, cross-generational dialogue exploring life after the milestones—career shifts, retirement, relationships, family, reinvention, and everything in between. Hosted by Barb Desmarais, a retired family & parenting coach and public speaker, each episode dives into honest stories and lived wisdom from Boomers navigating their “what’s next?” moments, offering insights that resonate across generations. Thoughtful, curious, and sometimes funny, the show bridges perspectives and sparks conversations about how we age, adapt, and continue to dream.
| Episode | Date |
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Life Reflections at 73
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May 21, 2026 |
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Journaling: A Resurgence
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Breathe Better, Feel Better: How Conscious Breathing Calms Anxiety & Resets Your Nervous System
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Motion Is Lotion: Feel Stronger, Move Better, and Age with Confidence
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Dating After 70: Independence, Dating Apps & Raising the Bar
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Your True North, Strong & Free: Discovering Your Core Values After 60
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Somatic Yin Yoga & the Vagus Nerve: Healing Trauma and Anxiety with Annie Au
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Self-Love Is a Practice: Kindness, Boundaries, and Healing
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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The Good, the Bad, and the AI: Boomers and the New Digital Frontier
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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A Year in Conversations: Friendships, Relationships, and Lessons Learned--2025 Recap!
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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When It’s Not the “Most Wonderful Time of the Year”: Navigating Holiday Depression & SAD
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Don’t Ghost Yourself: Boundaries 101
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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The Space Between Us: Understanding Avoidant Attachment (Part 2)
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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It's not you... it's my attachment style.
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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“We’ll Always Have Paris (and Lyon… and Annecy)”
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Holding On and Letting Go: Sustaining Friendships in Your Golden Years
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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The Senior Encore with Mike Dwyer of Emplana Career
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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It’s Never Too Late to Follow the Music: John Michael Ferrari
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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The Fine Line Between Self-Care and Selfishness with Denise Torgerson
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Follow the Goose Butt & the Universe's Little Nudges (with Comedy Influencer Colleen Landry)
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Love or Lies? Spotting Online Dating Scammers
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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What's next....after betrayal? The Journey of Healing with Jackie Adams
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Buy yourself flowers! Finding Joy in 2025
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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From Betrayal to Breakthrough: Trust, Trauma, and the Long Road Back with Jackie Adams
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Stronger with Age: Strength Training for Boomers with Caylee Alzner
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Longevity with Purpose: Dr. Gillian Lockitch’s Top Tips for Healthy Aging
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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The Art of Letting Go... A Supreme Act of Love (Pt. 3)
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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The Art of Letting Go… or Letting In? With Denise Torgerson (Pt. 2)
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Pride Special: Coming Out, Coming Through – A Conversation with Candace Macpherson
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Social Media & Boomers: The Good, The Bad and the Misinformation
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May 28, 2025 |
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A Tale of Two Barbs: The Changing Roles of Women – From Tradition to Transformation
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May 22, 2025 |
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The Art of Letting Go: Downsizing Edition
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May 14, 2025 |
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Second Chances & A Remarkable Reconnection with Barb & Tim Wade
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Solo, Not Sorry: Kelley Riley on the Liberating Art of Traveling Alone
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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The Trouble With Online Dating: Rejections & the Online Culture of Incivility
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Retiring & Re-Designing Your Space: The Art of Light, Color, and Balance with Leo Santana
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Friendships in the Golden Era (Part 2): Online Friends, Siblings & Awkward Goodbyes (with Tim Wade)
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Love Rekindled: A Valentine's Day Episode
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Friendships in the Golden Era (Season Finale)
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Memoirs of a Boomer: A Master Class in Storytelling with Cea Person
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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[Not] Married...With [No] Children
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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What's Next?! It's Our 100th Episode!
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Relationships Must-Haves & The 5x5s
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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What's Draining You? Tolerations & What's Zapping Your Success Cup
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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The Power of Gratitude: Insights from the SuperAgers with David Cravit & Larry Wolf
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Mr. Wade, We Have a Problem (Re-Release)
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Redefining Manhood: The Changing Roles of Men with Tim Wade
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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To Gift Or Not To Gift? That Is The Question.
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Q&A With A Couple of Boomers (Pt.2)
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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What's Next?! Q&A with a Boomer
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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All That Glitters Is Not Bucket Lists
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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On Platonicism and Beyond!
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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The Modern Elder
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Yoga for Boomers: Namaste Active. Namaste in Shape.
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Green Flags vs. Limerence
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May 22, 2024 |
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Resilience: The Muscle of Survival
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May 08, 2024 |
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Navigating Relationships: A Boomer's Guide to Secure Attachment
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May 01, 2024 |
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Nutrition and Super Aging
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Attachment Styles with Tim Wade
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Communication And Our Adult Kids
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Parental Estrangement (Part 2) with Tim Wade
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Healing Parental Estrangement with Crystal Allon
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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The Many Faces of Retirement (Part 2): Kevin Never Moved Out
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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The Many Faces of Retirement
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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The Golden Bachelor
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Downsizing (Part 2)
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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What's Next? Possibilities.
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Dating In Your 60s (Part 4)
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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The Sweetest Taboo: More on Intimacy w/ Tim Wade
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Boomers & Intimacy
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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What's Next? Downsizing.
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Success at Boomer's Door
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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A Happiness Review
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Super Aging Part 3: Creating Connections
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Super Aging Part 2: Attachment
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Come And Knock On Our Door...
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Grandmahood Update with Lorna
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Fatherhood with Tim Wade
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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A Very Special Episode: Here's to you, Deb!
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May 17, 2023 |
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What's Next? Super Aging
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May 10, 2023 |
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Positively Toxic
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May 03, 2023 |
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Wine with Dinner? Wine not?!
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Dating in your 60s (Part 3)
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Dating in your 60s (Part 2)
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Dating in your 60s
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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For the Love of DOG
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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From "We" to "Me"
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Vino, Vino, Vino! Wine 101 with Eden Buss
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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New Year's Intention is the New 'Black'
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Red, Green, and the Blues for the Holidays
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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The Big 50!
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Sleepless in Retirement
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Buddy Coaching: The Best Sunday Ritual
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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A Negroni. Sbagliato...with Prosecco in it.
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Food Club aka Book Club
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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What's Next...After Death?
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Soup Day with Deb Pedersen
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Guess Who's Back?!
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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There's Something About Lorna
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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A Canadian Boomer in Paris
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Follow Your Gut!
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Rated RRR - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Mr. Wade, We Have a Problem
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Nature v. Nurture: The Chicken or the Egg?
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Step-Kids + Step-Grandkids = A Whole Lotta Love
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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An Inconvenient Episode
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Too Legit To Quit (Part 2)
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Live From New York...Too Legit To Quit!
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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The Way We Were (Re-release)
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Season 3: The Finale
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Friendship Deposits And Its Return On Investments
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Oooh, Bop! FA-FA-FASHION!
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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The One About LOBs and Other Hair Styles
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Make Me GLOW!
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Single and [somewhat] Ready to Mingle
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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What's Next in Finances? Conversation with a Financial Advisor
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Pack Your Patience, Let's Go Travelling!
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Mommy's baby had a baby!
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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75 Is The New 55: The Upside of Aging
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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TECH: A Useful Servant, But A Dangerous Master
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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"I am a woman. Phenomenally." (A Reprise)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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"I am a woman. Phenomenally."
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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"Masculine Toxicity"
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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The Evolution of Food
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Tales of Adoptions' Past
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Grey hair, don't care!
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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I Am My Mother's Daughter
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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En Français!
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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The Beatles, Baby Duck, and Porphyry Pearl--A Groovy Adolescence
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Boomers and Boomerangs
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Grandma and Grand-Derek
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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"Good friends, good books...the ideal life."
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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"...I'll be there for you!"
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Keeping Up With The Zibins
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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INDY
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Anticipating Our First Grandchild
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Our Son Became Our Daughter
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Exercise!
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Learning to Thrive After the Death of Your Spouse
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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The Way We Were
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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What's Next? Conversations with Boomers.
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May 26, 2021 |