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Brent Green interviews David Browne, a contributing editor at “Rolling Stone” magazine and the author of four books. In this episode on WGRN Radio, Browne discusses his most recent book, “Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the lost story of 1970.”

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In 1987, at age 26, Chip Conley started Joie de Vivre (JDV), a hospitality company based in San Francisco. He began by transforming a squalid 1950′s Tenderloin District motel into Phoenix Hotel, a celebrated rock ‘n’ roll destination catering to celebrities such as David Bowie, the Rolling Stones and Nirvana.

JDV then expanded into a collection of nearly 40 award-winning hotels, restaurants and spas, with more than 3,000 employees — with each property conveying a unique persona often influenced thematically by a popular magazine.

After 24 years as JDV’s CEO, Chip is now a Strategic Advisor to the company he founded, and a successful author and international speaker for organizations from TED to PIXAR to GOOGLE. He has been honored with the highest accolade in the American hospitality industry, the coveted ISHC Pioneer award, and the San Francisco Business Times named him the Most Innovative CEO – and JDV the “2nd Best Place to Work” – in the Bay Area.

He is author of several business books. His most recent New York Times best-seller is entitled “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success.” He is also an ambassador for an important new movement in business called Conscious Capitalism, joining other leaders such as John Mackey, founder of Whole Foods.

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Several years ago I read a controversial book entitled “The Greater Generation: in Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy.” The book presents an articulate argument in support of the Baby Boomer generation, and it is an incisive offense aimed at the generation’s many critics. This book presents a provocative journey into a generation’s soul with tightly-crafted pattern recognition, consensus validation, memory restoration, and achievement exaltation. It is defiantly uplifting while cautionary, weaving historical insights with perceptive, sometimes stinging commentary.

And that’s the focus of this episode of Generation Reinvention. The book’s author is my guest today, and I promise you an engaging conversation, whether you embrace what Boomers have accomplished or you are disgusted with the generation.

Leonard Steinhorn is a full-time professor of Public Communication at American University. His expertise includes American politics, culture and media, strategic communication, the presidency, and recent American history. He is author of “The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy,” and co-author of “By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race.” He has published in books, journals, the Washington Post, Salon, Politico, and International Herald Tribune, among others. Steinhorn was twice named AU Faculty Member of the Year. He serves as political analyst for FOX-5 News in Washington, DC. Before joining the AU faculty, he spent 15 years as a political consultant and speechwriter.

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Jed Diamond, PhD, LCSW, is founder and director of MenAlive, a health program that helps men live long and well. Here’s what Jed wrote as his mission statement: “My passion in life is to support men, and the women who love them, in eliminating the stresses that undermine their health and wreck their relationships.”

Jed’s newest book, “MenAlive: Stop Killer Stress with Simple Energy Healing Tools,” brings together the wisdom accumulated in 40 years helping more than 20,000 men, women, and children. This book teaches men and women four simple, yet effective, practices that can be used to prevent stress-related problems all of us face in this chaotic world.

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Here’s a useful thought for your aging brain. Radical improvements in your mental functioning—how you learn, think, perceive, and remember—are possible. This is true whether you are 30 or 70.

Jeff Zimman, this week’s guest, is the co-founder and Chairman of Posit Science, the leading provider of brain fitness software. More than 60 articles in peer-reviewed science and medical journals have shown that the company’s patented technologies significantly increase processing speed, improve memory and attention, and enhance quality of life. Brain training can improve your overall mood and handling of daily activities such as driving.

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Steve Demos is the natural foods pioneer and visionary behind NextFoods and its GoodBelly brand.

A progressive entrepreneur with more than 30 years experience in creating and marketing environmentally and socially-conscious foods, he is also the founder and former president of White Wave Inc., the largest producer and marketer of soy-based products in the U.S (Silk Milk Brand). He founded White Wave in 1977, where he led all aspects of strategic planning, operations, product conception and development, and branding until the company was sold to Dean Foods in 2005 for $296 million.

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Generation Reinvention is dedicated to identifying and clarifying business opportunities surrounding Boomers, business and aging. Two sectors are showing high probabilities for continuing growth and expansion in the coming years. These include Aging in Place solutions for independent, home-based aging, and media targeting Boomers, including magazines, websites and traditional media programming.

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Next Avenue is a new national pubic media website that launched May 15, 2012 by PBS stations across America. It is focused on America’s growing 50+ population.

Next Avenue provides information and perspectives with articles and blogs written by staff journalists and expert contributors; curated content from government and nonprofit agencies and commercial media sources; video from PBS stations and independent producers; and community discussions in which users connect and share stories.

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Executive Producer and Director Keith Famie is a nine-time Emmy Award winning filmmaker and founder of Visionalist Entertainment Productions, which he established in 1997.

Keith is a renaissance man, with a rich history of entrepreneurial adventures. He began his career as a chef, lived in France, owned restaurants, and won food and wine awards. He became a celebrity chef on The Food Network and produced thirty-two segments of “Keith Famie’s Adventures.” He also ended up on “Survivor: The Australian Outback.” As testament to his tenacious personality, he was the last survivor voted off the show.

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I recently conducted two workshops in Colorado Springs for the Chamber of Commerce and a unique day-long conference called the Business of Aging Summit. Colorado Springs community leaders are embracing the aging of the Boomer generation as an opportunity, and many living there are intent upon making this community one of the nation’s best for retirement and aging.

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