Younger is Not Better with Caroline Paul (Episode 173)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Cultural messages glorify youth as the best time of our lives. But that’s not what this week’s guest, Caroline Paul found while researching her wonderful book Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking―How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age. Instead, she found active, adventurous women praising their postmenopausal lives and the enjoyment they found in the now. For this project, Caroline spoke with women around the country about their aging journeys and the activities that have changed their lives – including BASE jumping, wing-walking, flying, swimming, orienteering, walking, scuba diving, boogie boarding and BMX riding – and examined the different ways that activity and the outdoors can help you age better and make you happier as well as improve your spirit, mind, body, and heart. We talked about all that and more this week.

Caroline Paul is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure and Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, which has been translated into fifteen languages. She is also the author of the memoir Fighting Fire, the middle-grade book You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World, and the novel East Wind, Rain. Her TED Talk, “To Raise Brave Girls, Encourage Adventure,” has been viewed over 2 million times. A longtime member of the Writers Grotto, she lives in San Francisco. You can learn all about her and Tough Broad at www.carolinepaul.com

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help
0:21.2	you feel and perform you best, no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.2	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:29.9	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:34.5	So here is something I think about a lot. The cultural and societal messages we often get glorify youth as the best time of our lives. And while sure, there were some really fun years in there, many of the happiest, most content women I know are postmenopausal, specifically in
0:58.3	their 60s. And I'm not alone in that discovery. This week's guest, Caroline Paul, found the exact
1:05.2	same thing while researching her wonderful new book, Tough Broad, from bogeyboarding to wing walking, how outdoor adventure
1:13.1	improves our lives as we age. As she went around the country conducting her interviews,
1:19.2	she found active, adventurous women praising their postmenopausal lives and the enjoyment they found
1:25.9	in the now. And she talked to a wide array of women all the way up to their 90s about their aging
1:32.9	journeys.
1:33.8	They all had challenges, of course.
1:36.1	Everyone does in life.
1:37.3	You don't get through this life unscathed.
1:39.8	But there was also so much joy.
1:43.5	And Caroline believes that this joy is a product of how our mindsets change with age,
1:48.7	as well as how outdoor activity, which all of these women enjoy, really does help us age better
1:55.2	and makes us happier.
1:57.1	I really loved everything about this conversation.
2:00.2	I love the book, and I hope you do too.
2:03.5	Caroline is a great writer, and she's also the author of another book I'd recommend, The New York Times bestseller, The Gutsy Girl, Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure.
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