“Your decisions should be based on your curiosity, not your fear.”  

Are you curious why older people are the happiest demographic in the country? I know I am, which is why Sky Bergman, photographer, professor, and documentary filmmaker, is my guest in this not-to-be-missed episode. Sky’s first documentary, “Lives Well Lived,” is based on interviews with forty older women and men with a combined 3,000 years of life experience. The film celebrates the incredible wit, wisdom, and lives of these older adults whose stories are about perseverance, the human spirit, and staying positive. 

Currently, Sky has two films in production: “Mochitsuki” about an intergenerational family that prepares Mochi to celebrate the Japanese New Year, and  “Prime Time Band,” about a group of older men and women who pick up instruments that they haven’t played for years, even decades, and who make music together.

What are you waiting for? Listen to this conversation on “Older Women And Friends.” 

And when you're done, please take a minute to participate in the questionnaire below. Email your responses to j.leder@comcast.net.

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THANK YOU

https://www.skybergmanproductions

https://www.lives-well-lived.com/

https://cogenerate.org/people/sky-bergman/

https://www.lives-well-lived.com/

https://www.lives-well-lived.com/upcoming-airdates

https://www.lives-well-lived.com/stream-the-film

https://www.skybergmanproductions.com/mochitsuki

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I am an award-winning author of books about teen suicide, siblings, and men and women during WWII. My feature articles have appeared in publications from Psychology Today to the Chicago Sun-Times. I enjoy the journey of writing, the process. But as I celebrated my seventy-seventh birthday, I wanted a change of focus and turned my creative energies into launching "Older Women & Friends," a podcast. The challenge has been exhilarating and will certainly help me make it through the dead of winter in the Midwest.