Special Edition: Life Lessons at 40 & Beyond
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Erica turns 40 today — and we're celebrating with a special conversation about aging, wisdom, and the lessons each decade of life can teach us. From expert insights to your own shared advice, this episode explores what it really means to age well, find happiness, and keep perspective along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, August 23rd. It also happens to be my 40th birthday. So it gave us an idea to |
| 0:06.3 | step back from news topics to talk about the bigger picture, what each decade of life can teach us. |
| 0:11.9 | Our guest is Dr. Carl Pillimer, a Cornell University gerontologist and founding director |
| 0:16.5 | of the Cornell Institute for Translational Research on Aging. He's also the author of the book |
| 0:21.3 | 30 Lessons for Living. He's interviewed more than a thousand older Americans to learn the advice |
| 0:26.3 | they most want to pass down. We'll hear what they say about careers, relationships, |
| 0:31.4 | parenthood, and finding happiness. And later, we'll hear a little bit from you. We put out |
| 0:36.2 | a request last week and many of you shared your own lessons and even worries from whatever stage of life you're in right now. |
| 0:42.0 | So let's talk about wisdom, perspective, and what it really means to age well. |
| 0:49.4 | Welcome, welcome to the Newsworthy special edition Saturday when we sit down with a different expert or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in the news. Don't forget to tune in |
| 0:57.8 | every Monday through Friday for our regular episodes when we provide all the day's news in just |
| 1:02.3 | 10 minutes. It's fast, fair, fun, and on the go. I'm Erica Mandy. It's time for today's special |
| 1:07.9 | edition Saturday. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 1:14.2 | Dr. Carl Pillimer, thank you so much for joining us here on The Newsworthy. |
| 1:17.8 | Well, thanks. It's a pleasure, and thanks for the invitation. |
| 1:20.9 | So the idea for this episode came about because I turned 40 years old the day this interview was airing, and I want to talk |
| 1:29.5 | about aging and life lessons. So what's one big takeaway from your research, from your book, |
| 1:36.1 | about living that you would want to tell me today as I start this new decade? There are so many, |
| 1:42.1 | and it's a hard choice because we interviewed around a thousand |
| 1:46.0 | people and distilled hundreds of lessons into 30 basic ones. But let me say one that I think is |
| 1:53.4 | really important as you're turning 40. And this may sound like a cliche, but you have to |
| 1:59.6 | imagine yourself hearing it over and over from |
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