How exciting to launch the first episode of the new Grand Plans podcast, "GeriTales" with two awesome senior living professionals, Sarah Dymond and Kari Bell from River Garden Hebrew Home for the Aged in Jacksonville, FL. This podcast is going ...

Today's conversation is with Jacksonville-based Seniors on a Mission Executive Director Joanne Hickox. In addition to leading and founding a nonprofit organization that brings purpose and community to local seniors through hands-on volunteer op...

In this final recording of the five-session Grand Plans: The Workshop, participants discuss the last four steps of a workable Grand Plan, including having a legacy mindset, playing the "What If?" and "Ask Yourself Honestly" games and being real...

We are back in the Literary Lounge for the fourth meeting of Grand Plans: The Workshop. Today, we unpack some of the nuances around steps 13-16 including trusting the people who love us, embracing technology and creating supportive community fo...

In this Season 3 episode of the Grand Plans podcast, a recording of the third Grand Plans: The Workshop gathering, we unpack steps 9-12 of a workable Grand Plan, putting things in drive with topics like "relinquishing the keys" and embracing ou...

Grand Plans: The Workshop launched January 23 and continued January 30 with a lively discussion around the conference table at The Literary Lounge bookstore. We dissected and discussed and dug into steps 5-8 of a workable Grand Plan and I hope ...

Grand Plans: The Workshop launched January 23 with a lively discussion around the conference table at The Literary Lounge bookstore. We dissected and discussed and dug into the first four steps of a workable Grand Plan and I hope you enjoy hear...

Heather Bayfield, founder and president of Jacksonville Beach, FL-based Life Management Advisors and Care Management Advisors, helps clients manage tasks of daily living that can feel complicated and time-consuming as they age. Heather is a wea...

International, award-winning health researcher and Wellness Discovery newsletter author Heather Hausenblas PhD talks to us about some exciting senior-related topics including how to protect against Alzheimer’s, outwalking the Grim Reaper and th...

Amy Gunther, M Ed, an ACE-certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor has been working with active adults on their health and fitness for decades and has developed a seven-point plan we can all use for maintaining good physical func...

Amy Gunther, M Ed, an ACE-certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor has been working with active adults on their health and fitness for decades and has developed a seven-point plan we can all use for maintaining good physical func...

Kerry Speckman, a writer, podcaster and pink-everything extraordinaire in Jacksonville FL, knows a thing or two about parental loss and how complicated and emotionally challenging that can be -- no matter your age. Her mother died when she was ...

Realtor Kimberly Waterhouse has always been a hard-charging, go-getter who has excelled in sales, marketing and real estate. But personal loss and change lent new perspective on the importance of community, faith, identity and communication in ...

But wait! There's more! Sewanee yoots Marley Barton and Frances Moseley reveal answers to the most pressing question of all: will you put us in a home? Grand Plans' Episode 2 of Season 2 is off to a super fresh start thanks to this engaging con...

We start off Season 2 of the Grand Plans podcast with a fresh perspective of Grand Planning, courtesy of some really cool young people -- Marley Barton, Frances Moseley and Cat Lamm -- Sewanee yoots who happened to be around my dining room tabl...

Laura McLauchlin, DNP, AGACNP Jacksonville-based practice Begin Health is a telehealth internal medicine provider and certified health coach. Both personally and professionally invested in best health practices, she helps patients achieve the r...

There are three core elements of best practice Grand Plans: the financial planning, the medical care and the legal piece, which we discuss in Episode 7 of the Grand Plans podcast. Kent Sausaman, an attorney with Jacksonville FL-based Frazier &a...

A self-described ringmaster of the circus, Barbara Commander helps families navigate the complex and often emotional task of purging and preparing stuff-full forever homes for sale or downsizing through her Jacksonville-based business, Commande...

How is a normal, average, everyday person supposed to plan and pay for all these Golden Years adventures? Carolyn McClanahan, a financial planner and founder of Jacksonville-based Life Planning Partners, shares her medical and financial experti...

In this episode, Liz Morgan PR CEO Liz Morgan talks about some of the lessons she learned caring for three elderly loved ones simultaneously. Juggling her own business, life with her husband and the caregiving needs of her father, mother and au...

In this episode, Suzanne Honeycutt "The Queen of Fun," shares her charming, uplifting reflections on the importance of community, faith and connections during the Golden Years. A stand-in grandmother and go-to parent to many in her neighborhood...

In this engaging episode, public relations maven Bonnie Upright shares the legendary story of how her mother's self-penned obituary went viral following its publication several years ago. Bonnie talks about a well written obituary and some of t...

Today, we are pleased to welcome Northeast Florida Hospice Nurse Jillian Dunbar to the Grand Plans podcast. Jillian has been a working in Jacksonville as a hospice nurse for more than seven years and considers it a calling and a blessing. She l...