Navigating Change and Embracing Now
Older & Wilder
GGW Media
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Living in the Moment: Joy and Claire's Conversation About Life, Aging, and Moving
In this episode of 'Older and Wilder with Joy and Claire,' the hosts discuss the challenges and humor of organizing and letting go of old possessions. A humorous tangent about following a weatherman named Kody leads to a delightful chat about clouds and teenage humor. The conversation then takes a reflective turn as the hosts discuss the importance of living in the moment and not letting long-term anxiety overshadow present happiness. Joy shares thoughts on aging, setting short-term goals, and avoiding the mindset that limits life experiences. Real-life anecdotes about their families' attitudes toward health and aging are shared, along with reflections on their past memories and aspirations. The episode concludes with light banter and farewells.
00:23 Moving Woes and Nostalgia
07:19 Weather Talk and Humorous Observations
34:02 Reflections on Aging and Life Goals
46:23 Concluding Thoughts and Farewells
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everybody to older and wilder with Joy and Claire. |
| 0:10.0 | We're up in Adam because Claire's moving. |
| 0:13.5 | So it's here. |
| 0:14.0 | Moving tomorrow. |
| 0:15.1 | Yes. |
| 0:15.4 | So I'm not a mob yet, but I am sitting on the floor of my empty office right now. |
| 0:20.0 | Everything is packed. |
| 0:21.3 | Including your mic. |
| 0:22.7 | Including my mic. |
| 0:24.0 | So sorry for the audio. |
| 0:26.2 | And probably it'll sound like this next week as well. |
| 0:28.9 | But then I imagine probably by the following week, I'll at least have my microphone back up |
| 0:33.6 | and running. |
| 0:34.7 | We were recording this on Sunday morning, the 26th that the moving track comes |
| 0:39.1 | tomorrow morning we have been in like full moving mode like things are happening we have |
| 0:46.4 | I would say we're 95% of the way there which is pretty good we still need to there's |
| 0:52.8 | always that 5% like hanging always that 5%. I remember that. Yeah. Yes. Like when it comes to moving, the 80-20 rule is so real where it's like you get, it takes you... It's so real. Stuff just like appears out of nowhere. The last 20% of your stuff. Yeah. And it really lulls you to |
| 1:10.9 | false sense of security because you're like, we're 80% of the way done. We are crushing it. |
| 1:14.1 | Yeah. And then you're like, why is it taking so long? Yeah. For this last, like, we probably were 80% of the way done two weeks ago. Right. But it's just the hanging on of the. It just never ends. And so the kids' rooms are 100% done. |
| 1:27.8 | The basement is 100% done. Like the room I'm in right now, like, I'm like, this is pretty done. But then I'm like, what is that poster? Right. There's always... Like, there's like a bunch of... There's three trash cans in this room right now for some reason. Yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:50.0 | So, you know, and then because we're moving to a town that doesn't have a lot, it's a very, |
| 1:51.8 | you know, it's a small town, it's a rural town. |
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