Dr Kerry Burnight

That Gaby Roslin Podcast: Reasons To Be Joyful

Spiritland Productions / Gaby Roslin

Society & Culture, Leisure, Arts

4.7 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Gaby welcomes Gerontologist, Kerry Burnight, to the podcast.

Dr Kerry shares her passion about healthy aging, stories of patients who want to make being older better, and advice from her new book 'Joyspan: The Art And Science Of Thriving In Life's Second Half'

They discuss the importance of 'the simple things' (music, nature, companionship), weight lifting - and - why people should talk more about dying with their relatives, partners and friends.

This is joyful, upbeat chat about the beauty of aging and celebrating life!

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0:00.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:07.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:09.0	It's that, Kevin Rosslin podcast, Gabby Rosslin podcast.
0:14.0	Dr. Kerry Burnite, it's so lovely that you're here, but physically here, because you and I have spoken before, down the line from the States.
0:24.4	Welcome to the UK.
0:25.9	Thank you. I have been here a day and absolutely loved it.
0:30.2	But you just said to me what you did in a day. I mean, you've done everything. There's sort of nothing left to do. You've done it all, you and your husband, and you've had a good time. We did 20,000 steps and would hopefully do the same today. Good. Well, thank you so much for coming in. And thank you for your book, Joy Span. I think this book is really wonderful. You and I, obviously, this is reasons to be joyful, the podcast. I've got a book out reasons. I spread the joy. And and I obviously this is reasons to be joyful the podcast. I've got to book
0:54.4	out reasons. I spread the joy. And then I completely, when I saw this book, I had to have you
1:00.7	in because joy span, a short guide to enjoying your long life. And people that I admire and who've been
1:08.3	on this podcast as well, Mel Robbins, a must have guide to living longer and better. It's so interesting that a lot of people, the reaction, we've just spoken to somebody before we started recording, he said, oh, well, you know, the last 20, I don't know if I want to live long because the last 20 years, oh, it's going to be awful. But that's, I mean, you know what you, you know
1:28.4	your stuff. You're America's, I can't say the word. Gerontologist. It's not common.
1:35.3	It's gerontologist. It's gerontologist. You've made it fancierentologist. I've made it gerontologist.
1:40.1	It sounds like a musical theater number. Gerontologist. So you know your stuff.
1:46.5	It's sad that a lot of people think, oh, the last 20 years are going to be like that.
1:50.4	Because they don't have to be, do they carry?
1:52.1	No.
1:52.8	And there's a reason that we feel that way.
1:55.3	And the reason is that we have been trained to think that getting older is all decline.
2:04.1	And it's this awful thing that we need to avoid and deny and defy.
2:09.3	It's a really lucrative business.
2:11.3	It's a multi-billion dollar business to say, oh, just never get old.
2:17.0	You mean with everything? Yes. With how you look. Yes. And as if that you,
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