Living Better Longer With Caroline Paul

Live Happy Now

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Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We know that a positive mindset is good for your health, but did you realize it can change how you age? In this episode, host Paula Felps talks with lifelong adventurer and New York Times bestselling author Caroline Paul about her new book, Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking — How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age. In Caroline’s book, you’ll meet inspiring women in their 70s, 80s and beyond who combine a positive mindset with outdoor adventure to defy common beliefs about aging. Caroline also shares the science and psychology of how outdoor adventure affects both your brain and your body — and can help you become more active, joyous, and adventurous later in life. In this episode, you’ll learn: How a negative view of aging changes your brain. Why outdoor adventure isn’t usually encouraged for older women—and why it should be. The five pillars for fulfilling aging and the role going outside plays in them.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for episode 462 of Live Happy Now.
0:07.6	We all have one thing in common, and that is that we are not getting any younger.
0:12.4	But today's guest gives us a whole new way to approach the years ahead of us.
0:17.2	I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I'm talking with New York Times best-selling author, Caroline Paul.
0:23.4	Her new book, Tough Broad, From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking, How Outdoor Adventure Improves
0:28.8	Our Lives As We Age, turns some common myths about aging completely upside down.
0:34.9	Combining stories of women who are embracing outdoor adventure in their later years with
0:39.0	cultural and scientific research, Caroline gives us a roadmap for improving and enjoying the journey.
0:45.1	Let's have a listen. Caroline, thank you so much for joining us on Live Happy Now.
0:49.9	I'm really happy to join you, Paula. It's going to be great.
0:53.5	You have written an amazing book. First of all, the title just grabs you, tough broad.
0:58.6	So that had my attention immediately. But this book is so engaging and it's so inspiring.
1:04.4	And in many ways, to call for us to up our game as we get older.
1:08.8	So I wanted to find out how this book came about and really who you were writing this for. Honestly, I was kind of writing it for myself. I was 55 and looking around on my surfboard and seeing no women my age surfing. And I'm not a really good surfer. So I knew there was a lot of women who could be out there, but they just weren't out there.
1:27.7	And the same when I was on my electric skateboard. I saw no women my age, certainly no women older.
1:32.7	And when I was flying my experimental planes, it's the same. But I saw men my age and men older.
1:37.8	So I started to think, well, you know, I'm seeing 60 blink on the horizon. What does my future look
1:43.3	like? And I decided to go and ask
1:46.0	women who, because I wanted to keep outdoor adventure in my life, but maybe I wasn't supposed to.
1:51.3	I kind of thought I was, but I wanted to go ask women who were there already. So this is about
1:57.3	those women. It's actually about fulfilling aging, and those women explain it to me.
2:03.2	And was it hard to find the people? Because you cover a lot of different types of activity,
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