Changing & Change Making - Dr Abby Bloom & The Longevity Imperative

Today's guest is Dr Abby Bloom, and talk about a woman with a remarkable attitude towards and record of delivering meaningful change. Abby is a powerhouse. Her life is incredible. She was born and grew up in New York City before gaining a scholarship to the prestigious Yale College in Connecticut where she was one of 200 who made up the first intake of women into that institution.

Abby has gone on to lead a myriad of careers - US Foreign Service, epidemiologist, health system designer and creator, entrepreneur, investor, Board director.

In this conversation we talk about the focus of Abby's latest venture - Prime Life Partners - an effort to build a coherent and powerful ecosystem of actors to support and provide dignity for Australians as they age. As you'll hear, our ageing population presents some fundamental challenges not only for governments but asks deeper questions about our own individual relationship to what aging means to us, to how we treat older people and the potential value in accessing the wisdom of what millions of Australians can offer on a daily basis across business and society. This problem reminds me a lot of the climate crisis - there is a real problem now, and we know it will only worsen over time, yet despite lots of rational drivers to inject new thinking and ways of acting that bring about reform, that seems too hard an ask.

I've had the great joy of knowing Abby for many years now, and this conversation lit me up, I came away knowing her even more, amazed again at stories I hadn't heard about. I'm really grateful for Abby's time here, and my relationship to her more broadly - she is vital and inspiring and generous. I really hope you enjoy listening to this one.

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