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Welcome to the Vital Presence Podcast
For people who want to live a more meaningful, joyfilled, creative life. Shape a new story about how to thrive and create at any age—but especially as we age.
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Gretchen Staebler: Walking your mother home
Gretchen Staebler is an award-winning author and family caregiver ally in the Pacific Northwest who wrote a moving memoir about returning to

Priscilla Long: Creating at Any Age
Priscilla Long is a well-known Seattle-based writer of science, poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, and history, who, in anticipation of turning 80, decided

Dana Lynne Andersen: The power of transformative arts
Dana Lynne Andersen is a multimedia artist, writer, playwright, and teacher who has taught and exhibited on three continents. She is the founder

Suzanne Anderson: The transformational path of grief
When her beloved husband took his life, and with it her life as she knew it, Suzanne Anderson faced a choice: would

Diana Place—Creating a new story in the 3rd Act of life
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE INTERVIEW Diana’s journey from AOL exec to social entrepreneur. How we can get hooked to institutions that aren’t good

Debbie Weiss: Love, loss. and starting over after 50
When Debbie Weiss lost her husband of 30 years before she was 50, she learned life lessons that she has shared through

Lois Holzman-the art of becoming through play and performance
Dr. Lois Holzman is a performance activist who helps people and communities worldwide to discover new hope and possibilities for who they
Isidra Mencos: Sex, salsa and a great story
Isidra Mencos is a writer, writing coach, and author of the stunning new memoir Promenade of Desire: A Barcelona Memoir. We talk

Alex Doman, Sound and brain health entrepreneur
Alex Doman is an entrepreneur, bestselling author, psychoacoustic music producer, and TEDx speaker with more than twenty-five years’ experience in neurotechnology. His

Margo Weinstein: author, adventurer, Mom
Margo Weinstein is a traveler, intrepid adventurer, class-action lawyer, and single mom. Educated at Yale College and Northwestern University School of Law,
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