Summer in Moab
Older & Wilder
GGW Media
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Older and Wilder, Joy and Claire discuss a range of topics, from personal experiences and humorous anecdotes to reflections on aging and maturity. Claire talks about staying in a colleague's mom's house in Moab for a month and adjusting to the new environment, while Joy shares a story about rescuing baby birds in her backyard. They explore the realizations that come with getting older, such as the shift away from seeking external validation and the acceptance of life's non-linear paths. The conversation also delves into how having children impacts one's perspective on life and the importance of modeling healthy habits. The episode wraps up with reflections on how their life choices and relationships have evolved over the years, sprinkled with charming and entertaining stories from their lives.
01:00 Welcome to Older and Wilder
01:10 Life in Moab: Adventures and Daily Life
03:38 Work and Family Balance
13:01 Bird Nest Drama
27:28 Feeling Older: Reflections and Realizations
34:21 Realizing the Shift in Life Goals
35:16 The Exhaustion of Striving and Comparison
36:43 Embracing New Goals and Priorities
38:29 Reflecting on Career Choices and Education
41:39 Navigating the Job Market and Career Paths
44:41 The Impact of Aging on Self-Perception
54:40 Parenting and Setting Standards for Children
01:01:32 Nostalgia and the Reality of Aging
01:11:58 Concluding Thoughts and Podcast Updates
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | batch of tuna like that was him. You're like you don't have an endless supply of |
| 0:03.3 | tuna you don't just like have where's your bowl of tuna? |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome back everybody to older and wilder with Joy and Claire. Claire I love that pink |
| 0:16.6 | that pink mug. Oh thank you it's pink on one side and sort of blackish blue on the other side. |
| 0:22.1 | We're staying in a house that's not ours. |
| 0:23.7 | So we're in Moab for the next month and change. |
| 0:29.0 | And we're staying in the, and it's not an Airbnb, but it's like, it's a house that's |
| 0:33.6 | owned by a call, one of my colleagues' moms. |
| 0:37.0 | And she, like, doesn't rent it out on Airbnb |
| 0:40.1 | but she um she lives in san diego i think or somewhere in southern california houses in moab used to be |
| 0:45.2 | really really cheap like a hundred grand and i'm sure she bought this 20 years ago because her my colleague |
| 0:51.4 | is her son and he's lived here for a really long time. So she bought this house. |
| 0:54.9 | She just kind of like uses it when she comes into town or when other family comes into town |
| 0:58.6 | or when they often rent it out to like family friends. |
| 1:02.4 | So, um. |
| 1:03.3 | What a find. |
| 1:04.4 | Yeah, totally. |
| 1:05.3 | So we're here for the next like, well, we've been here already for not quite a week |
| 1:09.7 | and we're here for like another month so |
| 1:11.7 | it's been funny just like being in so since it's not an Airbnb it is actually like more kind |
| 1:17.8 | of furnished like someone's home like these it's not like you know you go in an Airbnb and you're |
| 1:21.4 | like everything in here is so crappy because they know also people in Airbnb's like abuse the stuff |
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