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Podcast: Too Young To Be Old with Diane Gilman, The Queen of Jeans
Episode: 276. Aging Is Not a Retirement Plan. Stop Acting Like It Is
Description: In this episode, Diane Gilman reframes aging as a blank canvas and argues that your attitude can shape how you age, even at the brain level. Drawing on the idea of “super-agers,” she says positive outlook, purpose, and self-discipline can support better aging, and she uses Dick Van Dyke’s 100th birthday as a vivid example of energy, optimism, and joy.Diane shares her own experience of facing breast cancer at 72 and explains how it pushed her to stay mentally positive, avoid anger, reduce stress, and become an active participant in her own life. She talks about how sh...