Resilience and risk taking. Meaning and mission. Passion and perseverance. Growing Bolder is not just media, it's a movement. Through its TV and radio shows, magazine, website and popular social media channels, Growing Bolder's EMMY® Award-winning broadcast journalists are Rebranding Aging® by sharing the inspirational stories of men and women redefining the possibilities of life after 45. Learn more at GrowingBolder.com.
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• Joan Benoit Samuelson may be the most inspiring female distance runner ever. In 1984 she won gold in the first Women’s Marathon ever held at the Olympics. Now in her 60s, she’s still breaking barriers and changing the way the world views runners, especially female runners.
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• Larry McCool has stood up for the rights of others his entire life. He is still right in the middle of things, showing up at protests with his “No Drama Llama” Caesar. McCool explains how animals can not only light up your life, they can have an extraordinary effect on sad and tense situations.
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• How will you feel about life when we’re in our 70s, 80s or 90s? A documentary filmmaker wondered the same thing. Sky Bergman was lucky enough to have a grandmother not only still living, but still going to the gym, at the age of 99. Sky turned her camera on her grandmother and other older adults and discovered what it means to live A Life Well Lived.
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• Nik Wallenda is an acrobat, aerialist, daredevil, high wire artist and an author. The “King of the Hire Wire” talks to Growing Bolder about his boldest adventures.
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• Survivorman Les Stroud shares his secrets to living life to the fullest.
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• The Covid-19 pandemic has devastated the travel industry. The entire industry is in the midst of rethinking everything about its present and future, including the man many consider to be the face of American travel. Rick Steves looks toward the future of travel in an extended conversation with Growing Bolder.
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• One of the biggest complaints many of us share as we get older is how fast everything seems to be going by. Not everyone believes that faster is better. Carl Honoré is the leader of the global slow movement and he joins us for some important reminders on the importance of slowing down.
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