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Purposeful Aging: How to Stay Active, Social, and Fulfilled with Kim Shea · The Purpose and Progress Podcast Show

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Kim Shea:: You have somebody who cares about what you're doing,
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and cares about your knowledge and expertise. You have a
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reason, oftentimes, to get up and get dressed, and be
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somewhere. And it's a benefit. All those things are real
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benefits to keep you connected to life and to other people, and
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with your mental stimulation. And so when you stop working,
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you need to find ways to replace all that in order to be really
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healthy. Some people don't. Some people have tons of money and
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they go and travel and see the world, and that's great. That
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probably meets those boxes for those people. But for a lot of
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us, working is a fact of life. And a lot of us, for financial
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reasons, have to work too. So I talk a lot about that in the
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book too, because I think it's something important to think
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about and not to be ashamed if you need to keep working past
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the age of 65. It's pretty common.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Hello, I'm Dr. Jim Price, and welcome to The
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Purpose and Progress Podcast. This is the place where we
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explore how purpose can guide our actions, and how growth can
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become a part of our everyday lives. On the show, I talk with
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amazing guests, from educators and creators to everyday people
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with extraordinary stories about the challenges they face, the
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lessons they've learned, and how to keep moving forward. My goal
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is to share conversations that inspire you to live
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intentionally, embrace growth, and take meaningful steps to
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your own purpose. Let's get started.
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Hello once again. This is your host, Dr. Jim Price, on The
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Purpose and Progress podcast show where we share inspiration
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and motivational stories of fabulous folks from all
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industries, sharing motivational messages of how their journey
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started, and how they proceed to get to where they are in terms
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of their success and everything. So today is no different. We
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have a fabulous guest. She is the author of an insider's
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guide and workbook that helps older adults discover what
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matters most as they navigate the challenges of aging. With
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nearly 24 years of experience working with older adults, and a
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background as a retirement coach, she is passionate about
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helping people find purpose, stay engaged, and continue
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feeling wanted and needed. She shares purpose practical
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insights on aging successfully, purpose-driven living, and
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preparing for later life with intention. And today, we have
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Kim Shea with us. Welcome, Kim. How are you doing?
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Kim Shea:: Thank you very much. Thank you for inviting me on.
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Dr. Jim Price:: So we were talking a little bit before how
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it's different in terms of the weather. The weather is
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different in California versus here. We just had the tornadoes
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a couple days ago, and we were talking about that differences
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and changes, and how things happen and stuff. So that kind
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of leads into our discussion with you in terms of people see
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the success and all that stuff, but they don't always know the
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journey to get there. So this is kind of like an overview of
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what, how you came to your purpose and journey and
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everything in terms of the things you do. So I think
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getting into it, when do you kind of feel that your journey
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began, and what do you feel influenced that?
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Kim Shea:: I think I became a caregiver for somebody. I was
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probably about the age of 42 or something like that. I was a
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stay-at-home mom, and there was a neighbor who needed
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caregiving, so I became involved in that. Learned all about
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everything as I went along with the progress of his disease, and
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learned about advocacy, learned about what made life more
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valuable to him. It was a really wonderful experience. And then
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he passed away after about six and a half years of doing the
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caregiving. So then, I really started to evaluate my life.
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It's not that I didn't enjoy being a homemaker. But my kids
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were going off to school ,and they weren't there full time. I
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realized I really did enjoy helping people, but I didn't
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really know what that looked like. So I was taking some
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classes. I knew I did like working with older adults. I was
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taking some classes and getting some certifications. And then at
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some point, a friend of mine said that she was going to be
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taking a job as a director of nursing in a skilled nursing
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home, and she said that there was a need for an activities
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director. And I thought, well, I can do that. So I did it. I
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loved it. And again, it reinforced some of the things
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I'd learned as a caregiver. But then there were newer things to
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learn about just how people need to feel needed, and that they
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can contribute independently no matter what age they're in.
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Almost any stage of illness and aging, they still want to feel
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like they matter. So it was really helpful to me. And then I
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had an opportunity to work with older adults in a mental health
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practice. Not a mental health practitioner, but I ran the
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practice, and then got to work with older adults and helping
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them find places to live, and helping them navigate
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retirement. And so it's all been a lot of moving parts, a lot of
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pieces that have contributed to what I know now, and I'm really
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thankful for all the opportunities that I have had.
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And now, it's nice to be able to share them.
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Dr. Jim Price:: And I think that's something that's so
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useful. Especially, people sometimes don't really get into
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the aspects of really understanding about aging and
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what that entails. I always take myself as a perfect example. At
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the age of 40, when I turned 40, I had a clean board of health
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that had no issues, no concerns. And as soon as I hit 40, all of
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a sudden, oh, your blood pressure is a little high. And
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all of a sudden, I'm on a medication. All of a sudden,
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they said, hey, can you see good? I said, I've seen 2020.
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Went to the doctor, and behind my back, scheduled appointment.
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I didn't even know the specialist was over there. I
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went to the appointment because the doctor said so. Then it
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turned out to be a screening for my eyes. Now, I'm wearing
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glasses. People sometimes forget about the importance of
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understanding how to regulate themselves when they're going
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through the process of aging and all the things that entail in
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terms of, some people go from being independent and being more
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dependent upon others and stuff like that that can be very
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detrimental to the mind, and self esteem, and things like
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that. Those are all aspects that are connected in that way.
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Kim Shea:: Yeah. It's hard sometimes to look at a lot of
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pill bottles and realize, geez, those are all mine now, and
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they're not going away. And then it can be hard to have to ask
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people for help. That's really hard. It's really hard. And
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sometimes, people get annoyed with them for asking for help.
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But it's really hard for the person who has to keep asking
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for help too. It's not fun.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Absolutely. Continuing with that, what do
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you feel were some of the obstacles that you faced, a
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challenge that you faced to get to where you are today? What
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some obstacles or challenges that you face?
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Kim Shea:: Okay. I've faced a lot of obstacles. Sometimes, you
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don't have the exact educational requirements that you feel that
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you need for doing a job, and that can be daunting and
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intimidating. I remember when I graduate school after I was done
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caregiving, and there were professionals in the room with
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me. I was not a professional. I'd been a caregiver, and they
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found what I knew valuable, but it wasn't the same as somebody
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who was an MD, and also had like 17 other letters behind his
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name. I swear, he was getting every certification there was to
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get on somebody who ran a respiratory therapy clinic for
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years, and years, and years. People had other knowledge that
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I did not have, and I would watch them get up and give
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presentations where they could just rattle it off. It was very
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impressive. I thought someday I would like to be able to do
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that, but I wasn't there yet. But that's the thing. You have
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these things, and then you figure out what you're going to
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do. So I took a class through Toastmasters, and I joined
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Toastmasters for two years so that I could learn to be a
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better public speaker, and that helped me to develop my
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confidence. And then finishing the degree, doing all the work
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that I have. Sometimes, things just come with time where you
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learn things, but there's always challenges with money and trying
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to figure out how to keep something afloat if you're
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running your own business. Or not getting picked for a job
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that you thought, for sure, I'm the best person for the job, and
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somebody else disagrees. I've had all those setbacks too, and
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it's definitely a challenge. And then for you, for women, a lot
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of times, you have a challenge of a family that can get in the
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way of things too from a career perspective. It's not that it's
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not important, it's just make it harder to move ahead.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Even in the gist of how people navigate their
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lives and stuff like that, sometimes, when we have certain
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obstacles and certain hurdles that may come about in our lives
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and stuff, and we see others around us doing different things
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and stuff like that. Then sometimes, people become more
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sentimental to what they're doing, and compares into other
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people and stuff like that. And then it tends to have them lose
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focus on what they should be focusing on is themselves, and
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their progress, and what they're doing personally. And sometimes,
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I think that this loss and the shuffle of everything, when
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you're trying to navigate and you're overcoming these
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obstacles yourself, and at the same time, when you meet
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challenges and you're able to overcome challenges, that boost
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self-esteem lets you know that you have the ability to overcome
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circumstances, to overcome obstacles, and things that
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happen in life and stuff like that. And I think that connects
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with that purpose-driven idea of trying to better one's life, and
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understand oneself on a more personal level, understanding
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self and stuff like that. So I mean, all that you correlates in
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there as well with self esteem boosting, wanting to be better,
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and be a better version of yourself. I always like what you
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said, become the best version of yourself along this path of the
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life that we go through and stuff like that. Those are such
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important points right there.
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Kim Shea:: Oh, yeah, I agree. You raise a good point too. It's
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just you're kind of wasting your time comparing yourself. I think
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it's hard not to do. I think it's human nature to look around
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and go, wow, she got 10 more years of experience than I have,
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or he had better breaks than I've had. And just you do need
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to try and stay in your lane and focus on what you can do to
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better yourself. Because it doesn't really help you unless
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you're looking around, getting inspired by it, like, oh, he got
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that degree. That'd be helpful if I got that degree too.
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That's definitely something I do. Even with the youth that I
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mentor and work within the schools, I always try to imply
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to them that they can set goals, meet their goals, and think
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about their future. A lot of times, the kids in schools just
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thinking in the present moment. They're not thinking about the
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future at the time. That's kind of just thinking about in the
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present moment versus, hey, where do you think you'll be at
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in like two, three years? What would you think you want to do?
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It's close to graduation, what are your plans toward when you
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get to graduation and stuff like that? Do you have a goal or some
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kind of plan? Have you thought about even that far ahead?
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Things like that.
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Kim Shea:: Right. Yeah. That's really valuable. That's a good
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use of your thought powers there to try and figure out because
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you have to navigate. You're really the only one who's going
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to do that for you.
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Dr. Jim Price:: You're already well accomplished, but if you
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were to say in terms of achievements and stuff, what's
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probably achievements have been more most important and probably
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dear to you on your journey and things like that?
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Kim Shea:: As every parent's going to say, kids. I'm proud of
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my children that they can be good citizens and take care of
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themselves. Definitely proud of that. But personally, I'm proud
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of a book that I just had published. I'm proud of some
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community work that I've done that probably matters to me most
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of all. At my local senior center, I work with older adults
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to help them make friendships, and I've been doing that for
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almost three years. And that has been very enjoyable to feel like
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I'm helping to bring people together. There's a lot of
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loneliness in the world, and especially among older adults.
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And then I've been able to bring together people in the senior
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living spaces, senior services to come together once a month
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and talk to each other, and learn from each other, and learn
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from experts and things like that. Just to help build that
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community where we can talk to each other and really gain
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insight into what other people are doing, what other people are
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going through, maybe problems we hadn't heard about, articles in
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the news, things like that. It's been really helpful to do that,
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and so I'm really proud of those things.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Yes. It's always good when you come. People don't
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always understand how it's a process. You have to create a
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story or whatever it might be, but it's another thing to have
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it published. Those are two different hurdles. You come up
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with ideas, you create this fabulous book and material
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that's going to help be helpful for people. And then it's like,
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I got to get it published. Sometimes for a lot of folks,
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that's a challenge within itself. So being able to do
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those things and move forward, especially in a message that's
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going to be helping others understand something that can be
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useful and important to their lives, as they progress, get
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older and things like that, they can have that ability to be able
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to have some kind of form of resources and stuff like that
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that's attached to those things too. I
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Kim Shea:: Yeah, exactly.
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Dr. Jim Price:: I also wanted to know, we talk about the book a
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little bit. Maybe can give the audience a little bit about the
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book?
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Kim Shea:: Well, it covers a lot of things. It's stories of
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things that I've seen or experienced taking care of older
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people. Just working with older people, and helping them to plan
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ahead for their lives by presenting different topics with
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multiple perspectives. So the one I use the most often would
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be like, if you ask people what do you want to do for senior
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housing and where do you want to live, a lot of people become
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very flat-footed. I'm going to live in my house, and I'm not
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leaving here. They're going to have to carry me out in a
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cardboard box. Like, well, okay. But let's say you get this
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diagnosis and this house doesn't work for you anymore. Let's say
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you get this diagnosis and you need care, and nobody can come
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in and care for you here because it's too expensive. So I try and
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just give people multiple perspectives. But there's a lot
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of other talk besides senior housing, like talking about
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whether or not you should work or volunteer. And so some people
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feel like, my, gosh, we're talking about working. I'm
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retired. Why would I want to work? And fact of the matter is,
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people live a lot longer than they used to. And they live more
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healthily than they used to. So a lot of times, you can work if
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you want to, and you can pick a part time job. Or you can pick
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something that you never did before that you just think is
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something you've always wanted to do where you can volunteer.
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Older adults make up a huge portion of the volunteer work in
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the United States, and talking to people about it. Because when
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you work, you get really wonderful things from work. You
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get money, but you also get a social environment. Most cases,
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even if you work from home, a lot of times, you go out and
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meet other people. But so where you communicate with other
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people on a regular basis so you have a social connection, you
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have somebody who cares about what you're doing, cares about
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your knowledge and expertise. You have a reason, oftentimes,
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to get up, get dressed and be somewhere. And it's a benefit.
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All those things are real benefits to keep you connected
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to life and to other people, and with your mental stimulation.
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And so when you stop working, you need to find ways to replace
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all that in order to be really healthy. Some people don't. Some
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people have tons of money and they go travel and see the
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world, and that's great. That probably meets those boxes for
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those people. But for a lot of us, working is a fact of life.
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And a lot of us, for financial reasons, have to work too. So I
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talk a lot about that in the book too, because I think it's
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something important to think about and not to be ashamed if
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you need to keep working past the age of 65. It's pretty
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common.
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Dr. Jim Price:: I know even with myself, I'm like at the age now
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where I actually have to have those conversations about
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retirement, what that would look like, and all those things.
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Like, okay, health-wise. If things were to change, how would
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that impact my current living situations? Even with work, all
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those aspects that you just mentioned by work are so
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important because those are the things that happen. You get the
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social thing. It gives you something to do, gives you
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Kim Shea:: They said it's really early, so you have time to think
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purpose and drive for the day when you're able to work. And
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especially when you have work that you love doing and stuff,
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that makes a tremendous difference when you actually
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learn. There's a lot of people who don't really enjoy what
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they're doing work-wise. They go to work, but they don't enjoy
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about it.
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the work that they're doing. But when you have that passion,
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you're able to be in a situation where you actually enjoy what
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you're doing. It makes such a tremendous difference in terms
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of getting through. I was just talking to somebody else about
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the AARP stuff, how they sent me that stuff in the mail, and how
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I was ripping it up and all that stuff.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Those are things like maybe 10 years ago that I
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wasn't even thinking about, wasn't even on my radar to think
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about a lot of that stuff. But now, it's the reality of it.
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These are things that I have to think about. I'm now at the
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point where I have to start giving really focus and real
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energy toward knowing what the plan will be in terms of
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retirement, what that would look like and everything like that.
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All those things are so important. A lot of people as
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they get older, they go through those life transitions, and
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they'd always understand how it's impacting and influencing
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them. And I think your book will definitely help motivate. Not
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just motivate, but give people valuable resources on how to
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work through all that, and navigate all that in their lives
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as they continue to go forward with getting full of retirement.
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Whatever it might be, planning for retirement, as they say. Or
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even just medical conditions, whatever it might be.
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Kim Shea:: Thank you. That is the goal. I hope people will
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think about it because you can wing it. Sometimes, it's nice to
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have some things that you've thought about where you might
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want to live if home doesn't work out, and who's going to be
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your power of attorney. If your kids live in another state,
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would you rather be closer to them? Or do you want to be
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somewhere by yourself? And just things to think about, and start
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taking steps for it. And if some people do need to retire from
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work, they've been exhausted. They've worked very physical
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jobs. They've maybe worked jobs that were very emotionally
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traumatizing, and they're drained. And so some people need
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to figure out. Well, I'm not going to have that extra source
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of income to help me out, so what can I afford? Because I
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think a lot of times, people are very surprised by how much it
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costs to move into a senior living community or to hire a
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caregiver. Those things are very expensive. So how can you make
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your house ready so that you can retire there? And how can you
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get help when you need it? What can you do? So just a lot of
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things to think about.
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Dr. Jim Price:: Absolutely. And like I said with myself when I
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was younger, I never thought about being the age I am now.
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Whenever you're young, you don't think about that. You're young,
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and you're just living in the moment, and you're just having
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fun. You're not even thinking remotely about, oh, one day I'm
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gonna be this age, and then you get to that age, and then I'm
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doing the same thing. All my mentors and stuff who used to
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give me advice and guidance on maybe making good choices in my
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good choice in my life, now, I'm doing the same thing. Now, I'm
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giving the advice. I'm giving the lectures and stuff. Some of
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my little cousin, oh, here he comes. He's gonna say about
19:45
something again. But I went through the same exact thing. It
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just brings such an awareness when you're able to see how life
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goes full circle. I used to get the advice. And now, I give the
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Kim Shea:: And it's neat to realize you've gained wisdom
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advice as the older adult and seeing how things go full circle
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like that.
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over time, and you have to share it. They might not be
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appreciative, but maybe on some level, it's sinking in up there.
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Dr. Jim Price:: You were to say in terms of advice for the
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audience, in terms of advice of motivation, or even if they're
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maybe stressful about aging, or whatever the case may be, what
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advice would you give to the audience to help motivate and
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encourage them in those ways?
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Kim Shea:: In terms of aging, it's something you either get to
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do or you don't get to do. So just take some time to think
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about it. Talk to your family, your loved ones, your close
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friends, whomever, and make sure you get people in place who are
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there to help you, can listen to you, and support your decisions
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so that at least you feel like you have a little bit of a
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handle on it. I know a lot of times, I think people are trying
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to get in control of it. You can, and you cannot. One I think
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most people rally against the most is dementia. So they'll
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done the research and they know if I learn a foreign language,
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if I take dance lessons, if I learn a musical instrument, and
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if I hang out with other people, I exercise and eat right, I'm
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not going to get dementia. They'll say like, well, I'm
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going to reduce my chances. But I think in their heart, they're
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thinking, I'm not going to get it because I've done all this. I
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think that's great to do the research and try and figure out
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what you can do to give yourself confidence about aging. But
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again, think about, but what happens if I do? And again,
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you'll just have the confidence. I know a lot of people never
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want to have a will drawn up, they don't want to bother with
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that. There's a lot of things once you get them in place, you
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can just relax. Like I did it, that's done, and then you don't
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have to think about it again unless something major changes
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in your life. It's nice to get things in order. I would say for
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stress, to definitely try them and set things aside, get it
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done. But then you can set them aside. And I think in terms of
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motivation, you just can't give up. It's so easy. Think about
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all the things, challenges I've had over my life where I just
22:01
feel like, okay, I'm going to give up. And then the next day
22:04
I'm like, but I'm going to try just this one more thing, and
22:07
never really giving up. Just sometimes, it feels so
22:10
defeating. Life is hard. So definitely, there's days when
22:13
I've just been like, I can't even do this anymore. I don't
22:16
know why I'm here. But then the next day thinking, okay, today
22:20
is a new day. I'm going to try again. I think it's really
22:23
important to keep trying. Make sure you're not running your
22:26
head into a wall that's never going to open for you so try and
22:30
stay open to other possibilities, but not giving
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up. I don't think you should give up on yourself or what you
22:35
need for yourself. I don't think you should give up on that.
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Dr. Jim Price:: That's so powerful right there. Not giving
22:41
up on self when there's so many people out in the world. I
22:44
always talk about how there's so much unhinged trauma and stuff
22:46
like that, and undeemed childhood trauma. All kind of
22:49
traumas that people go through in their lives that have been
22:51
unhealed or not addressed in some way, shape, or form, or
22:54
fashion and stuff. And I mean that definitely is regulated
22:58
toward trying to understand those aspects of self when
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you're going through aging, or just dealing with trying to get
23:05
through over obstacles, and get through challenges and stuff
23:08
that can become very stressful. And stress can lead to actual
23:12
physical symptoms if they're not held in check, and you're not
23:15
able to resolve some things. Sometimes, stress can actually
23:18
lead to having physical symptoms. So a lot of that is
23:22
interconnected in that way when people are just trying to get
23:26
through because life is definitely not all bold
23:29
cherries. You never know that there's always something
23:32
happening here, there and everywhere. And then challenges
23:35
of what life throws at you. Life is a great thing, but you got to
23:40
appreciate the good and the bad of life, and stuff like that
23:43
because life is just a journey that keeps on giving you lesson.
23:49
That was so great that you mentioned those things.
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Kim Shea:: Yeah. Thank you. And I like what you talked about
23:55
with the stress and the now can lead to health problems. And
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there's plenty of studies to support that because it causes
24:02
inflammation in the body. But I think one thing if people kept
24:05
in mind is that we're lucky. You talked about unresolved or
24:09
unaddressed childhood trauma. When we were little, if you had
24:12
a trauma, then you dealt with it and marched on. It was not
24:15
because I don't remember having someone say to me, you need to
24:16
Dr. Jim Price:: Absolutely. I said the main point that if you
24:19
go get some therapy, and we'll get you to see a psychologist on
24:22
a regular basis. It just wasn't a thing. But nowadays, it's so
24:24
need help, the first step is willing to be accepting that,
24:26
accepted, and you can get it online. You don't even have to
24:29
leave the comfort of your own house. You can sit there in your
24:33
pajamas and talk to a therapist online. And it's just much more
24:36
yes, I do have a problem. That's the first step. And then making
24:36
acceptable now to get therapy. It doesn't mean you're crazy. It
24:40
means you need help thinking something through, and not
24:43
necessarily taking the advice of your cousin. But having a
24:46
therapist to help you work it through and make sure you're
24:48
steps upon, I admit that I have a problem. Then, what is going
24:49
dealing with your stress in a good, healthy way. So that's an
24:53
option that people always have available to them.
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to be my first step to actually regulate toward getting help for
25:13
whatever the issue is?
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Kim Shea:: I love that. Solid advice.
25:21
Dr. Jim Price:: How is our audience able to connect with
25:25
your books and you?
25:28
Kim Shea:: Yeah. They can go to my website, which is
25:32
seniorlg.com, and they can email me at kimshea@seniorlg.com. And
25:41
then my book is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble Book Baby
25:46
Bookshop. And again, it's called, and it is a workbook
25:51
and a guidebook.
25:52
Dr. Jim Price:: Absolutely fabulous! Our audience, please
25:55
go out and purchase a book. We're all always about
25:58
motivating and inspiring people to be the best versions of
26:01
themselves through self love, self worth, understanding your
26:05
value in terms of that. So aging are part of that. Understanding
26:08
your value as you age and stuff like that, and dealing with
26:10
those things. So it's been great to have you as a guest, Kim.
26:14
It's just a blessing to have you. We definitely touch upon a
26:17
lot of nuggets of knowledge, and understanding, and stuff like
26:21
that, so thank you. And once again, we're always trying to
26:25
motivate others to be the best versions of themselves. Thank
26:28
you to all the audience as well. And until next time, I always
26:32
say, stay prayed up and stay blessed. Once again, this is The
26:35
Purpose of Progress podcast show. I'm your host, Dr. Price,
26:38
and we'll see you next time.
26:40
Kim Shea:: Thank you, Dr. Price. Thank you, everybody.
26:45
Dr. Jim Price:: Thank you for joining me on this episode of
26:47
The Purpose in Progress Podcast. I hope today's conversation gave
26:51
you insight, inspiration, or a fresh perspective to help you
26:55
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