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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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Inspirato is a luxury destination club launched in January 2011, combining the advantages of independent luxury home rental with the personalized services and amenities of private luxury vacation clubs or resort hotels.

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This show’s guest founded a popular website and blog several years ago entitled “Aging in Place Technology Watch.” After a stellar career as a market research analyst in the technology industry, she has recently been establishing a respected reputation in the business of aging by focusing her attention on myriad new technologies that are changing the way Boomers will age, whether more frequently at home or even in traditional assisted living or skilled care institutions.

Laurie M. Orlov is a certified Florida long-term care ombudsman and the author of “When Your Parents Need Elder Care: Lessons from the Front Lines.”

As the owner of Aging in Place Technology Watch, Laurie analyzes research and trends in the aging-in-place technology market, which includes technologies that help the elderly to remain in their home of choice.

She has 34 years of experience in the technology and market research industry, including nine years as an analyst, and she has been research director at Forrester Research.

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Pill dispensers. Water bottles. Garbage cans. Clothes hangers. Why should products that we use every day be cheap, poorly designed, low functioning and just plain ugly? Shouldn’t the things we use daily aspire to the highest standards of utility, design, and aesthetic?

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You may have watched AMC’s Emmy Award-winning series Mad Men and wondered: “Who were those people … really?”

This time my guests are two creative talents who worked for the legendary Doyle Dain and Bernbach, the advertising agency credited for launching the Creative Revolution of the 1960’s and 1970’s … the agency that influenced the creative direction of the Mad Men series.

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In this episode of Generation Reinvention, we examine critical and action-oriented insights into today’s Boomer Consumer. Our conversation also explores actions that organizations need to take to become fully age ready as Boomers are turning 60 at the rate of 10,000 per day.

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The future of travel is intrinsically connected to the Boomer generation. This is not to suggest that Boomers are the only segment of value to the travel industry, but Boomers will significantly shape travel products of the future. This is because of their relative wealth, their long-standing propensities to travel, increasing time in retirement, and a fundamental later-life yearning to learn about the wider world.

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Toastmasters International is an organization that focuses on developing public speaking and leadership skills through practice and feedback in local clubs since 1924. I have been a member for almost 20 years. I remember one early morning when Ed first appeared at a Cherry Creek Toastmaster’s meeting in Denver.

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GARY ZUKAV is the author of “The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics,” winner of The American Book Award for Science; “The Seat of the Soul,” the celebrated #1 New York Times bestseller; “Soul Stories,” also a New York Times bestseller; and many others. His books have sold millions of copies and are published in twenty-four languages. Gary has appeared on the Oprah show 35 times, more than any other guest. He is a graduate of Harvard University and a former U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret) officer with Vietnam service. He lives in Oregon with his spiritual partner, Linda Francis.

LINDA FRANCIS has been practicing the creation of authentic power since she read “The Seat of the Soul” in 1989. In 1993 she met Gary Zukav and they created a spiritual partnership which is in its eighteenth year. During this time, she co-authored with Gary two New York Times bestsellers, “The Heart of the Soul: Emotional Awareness” and “The Mind of the Soul: Responsible Choice.” Linda has been in the healing profession for three decades, first as a registered nurse and then as a chiropractor. At the present time, she is involved fully in co-creating curricula and events with Gary, while guiding the Seat of the Soul Institute.

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