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I’m a passionate advocate for positive aging and joyful living. To help myself and others live joyfully, I became a Life Coach and Certified Professional Retirement Coach. As the best-selling author of Choose Joy: Three Keys to Investing Your Time in Retirement, I interviewed over 100 people across the country, gaining their inspiration and insights on how to live with joyful purpose.

 

I'm the host of the Empty Nesters' Joyful Purpose Club, a free Facebook community, and the founder of the Choose Joy Method to Rediscover Your Purpose, a signature course for women empty nest through retirement. 

 

The original source of my passion for aging well was my crabby grandma. She moved in with us when I was 13 years old and her unhappy presence made a lifelong impression on me. Every day, she’d perch herself in the kitchen, wearing a dress, high-heels, and a scowl. She’d often say, “I don’t know why God keeps me alive. I’d rather be dead.” As a teenager, this sad and alarming statement made me wonder if I was genetically destined to be unhappy, or could I choose?

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For the next four decades, I studied positive aging and paid attention to people who chose joy. I asked those who were living joyfully if they had always been that way. Were they upbeat as a kid or did they decide to be positive? I felt genuine relief to learn we’re not destined to crabbiness. Aging well is a choice. We can choose joy.