81. Pro-Aging: Why the Best is Yet to Come with Ashton Applewhite.

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

1. Why we’ve been sold a lie–and the truth that we actually get happier the older we get! 2. The two most important–and shocking–predictors of aging well. 3. Busting the most prevalent misconceptions and about getting older. 4. How believing the myths about aging literally harms our health and makes us more vulnerable to the fears we hold about aging. 5. Glennon paints a mental picture of her older self–and encourages the Pod Squad to do the same. About Ashton: The author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, Ashton Applewhite is a leading spokesperson for the emerging movement to raise awareness of ageism and to dismantle it. A co-founder of the Old School Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse, she has been recognized by the New York Times, the New Yorker, National Public Radio, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism. Ashton has written for Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times, blogs at This Chair Rocks, and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist? She speaks widely at venues that have ranged from colleges and symposia to the TED mainstage and the United Nations. In 2022 she appeared on HelpAgeUSA’s inaugural 60 Over 60 List and on Fe:maleOneZero’s first international edition of 40 over 40 – The World’s Most Inspiring Women. Twitter: @thischairrocks Instagram: @thischairrocks To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. Once again, we are delighted and baffled that you
0:17.7	keep returning to listen to us talk. It's just a huge surprise and great joy of our life.
0:25.8	And another huge joy of our life is aging. We at We Can Do Hard Things are pro-aging. We are
0:38.0	excited about aging. We are for it. As we discussed on the last podcast, the alternative
0:44.2	to aging is death. And also, there's just so much power and beauty to be found in aging itself.
0:52.1	Aging equals best case scenario. Okay? So today, we are going to celebrate aging because we would
1:07.2	like to continue doing it. Okay? And so, what I want to start with is this very cool thing,
1:16.6	which is that a lot of people ask us about the paintings behind us. As we sit on this couch,
1:24.7	speaking to you on this podcast, if you want to see the paintings, you can go to our Instagram
1:28.6	and check them out. They're absolutely beautiful. And so, what I want to tell you about these paintings
1:34.7	is that the woman who painted them, her name is Mary Ann Flynn Fouse, and she painted them when she
1:44.2	was 80 years old. She is now 86 years old. She is unflippin' believable. She says of her work,
1:56.0	she's with her quote when she was 80. I'm a fan of doing something new. Mentally, I'm still very
2:02.3	modern. So, the art that inspires us each day in our office and you as those of you who watch
2:10.5	the podcast on our Instagram feed is made by an 80-year-old badass. So great. And so, the theme of this
2:19.2	podcast is one thing that I read in our guest today's book. What 88-year-old folk artist,
2:29.0	Marcia Mooth said, you are never too old and it is never too late. I feel that. Yes. It's good.
2:37.7	So, to discuss all of this beautiful, this beautiful situation we have, which is getting older,
2:44.6	which is for the lucky ones, we have today, Ashton Applewhite, who is the author of this chair rocks
2:53.2	a manifesto against ageism. Ashton Applewhite is a leading spokesperson for the emerging movement
3:00.2	to raise awareness of ageism and to dismantle it. A co-founder of the old school anti-ageism
3:06.7	clearinghouse. She has been recognized by the New York Times, the New Yorker,
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