Branching Out of the Empty Nest

Resources, tools, and insight to help empty-nesters live their best lives. Discusses issues relevant to the new and seasoned empty-nester such as health, wealth, relationships, making new friends, taking care of aging parents, downsizing, and having fun.

Contributors

Host

Zoana Price

Zoana Price is an award-winning tv and film director. The Colorado native is an empty-nester living her best life. Professionally, she has worked with major tv networks, production companies, and events including WAGA (Fox 5) WGNX, Turner Sports, Tyler Perry Studios, Reuben Cannon Entertainment, Comcast, the Olympic Games, and two Superbowls. She has received awards for directing television shows and short films.

In addition to teaching video production and dance classes to children and adults and is the co-founder of a non-profit organization, which teaches children to produce, write, direct, and produce short films and other media projects.

She is the owner of ClassZ Studios, a media services company, which produces Branching Out of the Empty Nest.

In her rare spare time, she enjoys dancing, volunteering, and traveling.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoanaprice

Guests

Guest

Carin Luna-Ostaseski

Carin Luna-Ostaseski is the founder of Hot or Just Me?, a comprehensive online shop and go-to resource for managing perimenopause and menopause. The site offers a wide range of trusted products, expert advice, a gift shop and bookstore, and a supportive community, ensuring women have everything needed to navigate this transformative stage and feel empowered. Carin's journey with perimenopause symptoms like hot flashes, brain fog, anxiety, insomnia, and night sweats inspired her mission to find a solution.

She is the first American woman and Hispanic person to create a Scotch whisky (SIA Scotch Whisky). She launched her award-winning blend through a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign. She also founded the Entrepreneurial Spirit Fund by SIA Scotch, which has provided over $350,000 in grants to underserved entrepreneurs. She continues championing the next generation of entrepreneurs and remains committed to helping people thrive.

https://hotorjustme.com

Guest

Paulette Smith

Paulette J. Smith has worked in the financial services industry since 1987, starting

in New Orleans, and in the Metro Atlanta area since 2005. She specializes in

helping Pre-Retirees and Retirees prepare to conserve costs while living well as we

age.

A graduate of Buffalo State University College and The Massachusetts Institute of

Technology (MIT), she has given seminars for many civic organizations including The Decatur/McAfee

Chapter of AARP, Rising Phenomenal Women, and The Decatur/DeKalb Chapter of The Coalition of 100

Black Women, Inc. for which she was featured in Dekalb County news source The Champion Newspaper

in 2012.

Guest

Steph Flood

Steph Flood is a licensed marriage and family therapist and the founder of A Flood of Love, a private practice that specializes in intimacy issues.

For the last 15 years, she has worked with couples on all kinds of things related to sex and intimacy, including mismatched desire levels, lack of communication around their sexual issues and infidelity.

Her passion for helping others came from her upbringing. She was raised in very conservative household and got some really mixed messages about sex, relationships, and love growing up.

http://www.afloodoflove.com