About the Show
By 2030, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 20% of the population will be of retirement age. Join us on Women Lead Radio as Dianne Callahan, your host of The Lighthearted Life, has a conversation with Ashton Applewhite, Activist and Author of This Chair Rocks, where they look at the benefits —to ourselves, our health, and society as a whole—of a more accurate understanding of aging and age bias and some steps all of us can take to undo our internalized ageism and work towards a more age-equitable and age-integrated world.
About Your Guest
An internationally recognized expert on ageism, Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and a co-founder of the Old School Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse. She speaks widely at venues that have included the United Nations, and the TED mainstage, and is at the forefront of the emerging movement to raise awareness of ageism and make age a criterion for diversity. In 2022 the United Nations named Ashton one of the Healthy Aging 50: fifty leaders transforming the world to be a better place to grow older.
About Your Host
Dianne Callahan is your host for The Lighthearted Life, a show that explores how people choose to live in joy and purpose during the sunny times and even during the stormiest times. Join us for inspirational conversations with authors and thought leaders on creating a meaningful life by doing good work that matters, investing in relationships, building resilience, stepping out in courage, and having fun in love and work and life! Dianne Callahan is a 3-time cancer survivor, author, high performance coach, philanthropist, and founder of Lighthearted Life.
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