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Welcome to the Vital Presence Podcast
For people who want to live a more meaningful, joyfilled, creative life. Shape a new story about how to thrive and create at any age—but especially as we age.
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Francesca Aniballi: Fairy tales aren’t just for kids
What if fairy tales could help us, as adults, to open our imaginations, re-enchant our worlds, and support our personal transformation. In the hands of Francesca Aniballi, they can. Francesca Aniballi, PhD, uses fairy tales as a transformative tool for
Sally Fox: Following a Creative Call After Midlife
What if your years after 50 offered creative possibilities that you never touched when you were younger? Author Sally Jean Fox made it her quest to discover what could bring heart and meaning to the second half of her life.
Merle Saferstein: Writing and Living Your Legacy
Have you thought about writing your legacy, capturing thoughts and events that might be only for your eyes—but from which you might offer lessons to others? For 48 years, Merle Saferstein journaled, amassing a collection of 380 journals. From there
Mik Kuhlman: The Actor as Activist
Mik Kuhlman is an actor, physical theatre comedian, performance artist, theatre-maker, and teacher who has worked and taught globally. Building on her twenty-five years of experience with original ensemble and solo theatre, she recently created a stunning outdoor performance and
Gretchen Staebler: Walking your mother home
Gretchen Staebler is an award-winning author and family caregiver ally in the Pacific Northwest who wrote a moving memoir about returning to her childhood home to care for her mother. It’s a candid, complex, well-crafted story that will be useful
Priscilla Long: Creating at Any Age
Priscilla Long is a well-known Seattle-based writer of science, poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, and history, who, in anticipation of turning 80, decided to research the path of world-class later-in-life creatives. What she discovered became a trove of inspiration that she
Dana Lynne Andersen: The power of transformative arts
Dana Lynne Andersen is a multimedia artist, writer, playwright, and teacher who has taught and exhibited on three continents. She is the founder of the Awakening Arts Academy, with programs in Assisi, Italy, Nevada City, California, and online. In this conversation,
Suzanne Anderson: The transformational path of grief
When her beloved husband took his life, and with it her life as she knew it, Suzanne Anderson faced a choice: would she be broken down and defeated, or broken open and transformed? I talk to Suzanne about
Diana Place—Creating a new story in the 3rd Act of life
Executive and entrepreneur turned community builder and advocate for women in the 3rd act of life, Diana Place shares wisdom from her journey and the inspiration for the online 333 Collective she created. After dancing “on the edge of my
Debbie Weiss: Love, loss. and starting over after 50
When Debbie Weiss lost her husband of 30 years before she was 50, she learned life lessons that she has shared through her recent memoir Available As Is: A Midlife Widow’s Search for Love. Debbie’s writing has been published
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