OM DENNE EPISODE
"Our own personal longevity is only 25% genetic. So the other 75% are in our control." — Michael Clinton
KEY LINKS
Learn more about “Longevity Nation: The People, Ideas, and Trends Changing the Second Half of Our Lives” HERE
Michael Clinton's Roar Forward, including the Reimagineers stories and free monthly newsletter is HERE
Connect with Michael Clinton on LinkedIn HERE
Read Age Better Cheat Sheet on Substack HERE
Barbara’s Website is HERE
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Michael Clinton ran Hearst Magazines. Then he left, wrote ROAR, built a company, and ran a marathon on every continent — most of it after 60.
For his new book – Longevity Nation -- he interviewed more than 70 experts. Not just doctors. Technologists, urban planners, dermatologists, wealth strategists. What came back was a single, connected picture of what it actually takes to live a long life well — and it is far more in your hands than you have been led to believe.
Here's what you'll take away:
Life layering. Why the old sequence — school, work, retire — is obsolete, and how to build a second set of identities in your 50s, 60s, and beyond. The 57-year-old with the kids gone and the job gone is at a beginning, not an end.
Proof it's never late. A woman took her first welding class at 70 and launched a business at 81. A veterinarian started school at 56.
Baby steps, not overhauls. Michael's exact instruction for starting anything new — and why nobody solves this in a weekend.
The money conversation nobody has. The one question to ask your bank that tells you whether your money outlives you. Plus a statistic about women and their finances that will make you sit up.
Loneliness and frailty. Why your world quietly shrinks, how that becomes a physical problem, and the single habit every expert on this show agrees on.
What's actually here now. Wearables, early-detection testing, GLP-1s beyond weight loss, and precision medicine built around your biology, not the average.
And one thing to do this week. Just one. You'll know it when you hear it.
You can't control getting older . . . but you can control how you do it.
