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Wisepreneurs Podcast

Cognitive Vitality & Longevity Episodes

Keep your mind sharp and engaged. This category highlights Wisepreneurs Podcast episodes that help women 60+ sustain mental agility through stimulating work and learning. Explore strategies to boost cognitive health, backed by Martin Hyde’s research on preserving mental acuity into later life. Guests like Kim Watty, with her focus on “Your life is your expertise,” inspire you to embrace challenges that spark creativity and lifelong growth.
Ella Zhang Inner Operating Systems: Building Leadership Capability Through Micro Habits
April 9, 2026

Ella Zhang Inner Operating Systems: Building Leadership Capability Th…

Ella Zhang helps experienced professionals monetise hard-won expertise through inner operating systems that rebuild leadership capability from the inside out. From her Sydney consulting practice, she draws on neuroscience and...

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Miklós Pohl OAM Professional Longevity: Music, Medicine, and Sustained Practice Beyond 70
Feb. 12, 2026

Miklós Pohl OAM Professional Longevity: Music, Medicine, and Sustaine…

Dr Miklós Pohl OAM at 78 shows how expertise sustains professional longevity across medicine, chamber music, and publishing His Wisepreneurs conversation explores how sustained creative engagement supports professional longev...

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Mayumi Kataoka Forest Therapy: Cognitive Recovery for Independent Professionals
Oct. 31, 2025

Mayumi Kataoka Forest Therapy: Cognitive Recovery for Independent Pro…

Forest therapy as cognitive restoration for over-connected professionals who keep optimising when they need to stop. Mayumi Kataoka is a certified forest therapy guide in Sydney who takes professionals on three-hour walks cov...

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Michael Best Career Reinvention at 80: Complex Research and AI Tools After Five Decades in Medicine
Oct. 3, 2025

Michael Best Career Reinvention at 80: Complex Research and AI Tools …

Career reinvention at 80, mastering AI tools, Obsidian, and Zotero to write a scientific book he never planned. Dr Michael Best practised medicine for 50 years before a routine phone call during COVID introduced him to the en...

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Amy Alkon Menopause and Cognitive Performance: Protecting Your Professional Edge Through Science
Aug. 1, 2025

Amy Alkon Menopause and Cognitive Performance: Protecting Your Profes…

Menopause and cognitive performance for professional women: when brain fog, fatigue, and memory loss threaten your career edge, the problem is medical science, not you. Amy Alkon is an award-winning investigative science writ...

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Tomáš Baránek Deep Reading as Professional Edge: Why Books Still Build Expertise in the AI Era
May 23, 2025

Tomáš Baránek Deep Reading as Professional Edge: Why Books Still Buil…

Deep reading as cognitive investment for independent professionals building expertise when AI floods the world with shallow content. Tomáš Baránek runs Melvil Publishing in Czechia, selecting nonfiction titles with long-term ...

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Michal Novotný Preventive Wellness: Physical Foundations for Sustained Independent Practice
Dec. 13, 2024

Michal Novotný Preventive Wellness: Physical Foundations for Sustaine…

Preventive wellness strategies for independent professionals whose practice needs to last another 10 or 20 years beyond traditional retirement. Michal Novotný is a physiotherapist and fitness coach who has worked with elite a...

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Krisna Hanks Metabolic Sparks: Why Movement Breaks Beat Exercise for Sedentary Professionals
Nov. 8, 2024

Krisna Hanks Metabolic Sparks: Why Movement Breaks Beat Exercise for …

Movement breaks throughout the day matter more than a morning workout if you sit for hours as an independent professional over 50. Krisna Hanks is a metabolic health expert and Director of Employee Wellness Programs at Ovadia...

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Dr Holly Whelan Sustainable Health Habits for Independent Professional Practice
July 19, 2024

Dr Holly Whelan Sustainable Health Habits for Independent Professiona…

Dr Holly Whelan helps experienced professionals build sustainable health habits using behaviour change science drawn from neuroscience research, global brand management at Unilever, and her co-founded ventures Habit Partners ...

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Natasha Ginnivan Aging Stereotypes: Professional Reinvention and Career After 50
July 5, 2024

Natasha Ginnivan Aging Stereotypes: Professional Reinvention and Care…

Natasha Ginnivan researches how aging stereotypes undermine experienced professionals before they even open their mouths, and what the evidence shows about countering them. Based in the Blue Mountains and Sydney, she studies ...

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Hazel Edwards OAM Building a Sustainable Independent Practice Through Writing
May 9, 2024

Hazel Edwards OAM Building a Sustainable Independent Practice Through…

Hazel Edwards OAM wrote 200 books over 50 years sustaining independent professional practice as an Australian authorpreneur. Best known for There's a Hippopotamus on My Roof Eating Cake — now 45 years old and adapted into a f...

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Charlotta Segerlund-Darnell Psychological Strength for Independent Professionals
Feb. 29, 2024

Charlotta Segerlund-Darnell Psychological Strength for Independent Pr…

Charlotta Segerlund-Darnell helps experienced professionals treat psychological wellbeing as something to maintain, not something to fix after it breaks. Based in Stockholm and working with clients worldwide, she is a CBT the...

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Professor Martin Hyde Aging and Employment: Ageism, the 100-Year Life, and Professional Longevity
Dec. 5, 2023

Professor Martin Hyde Aging and Employment: Ageism, the 100-Year Life…

Aging, employment, and retirement research from a gerontology professor on what the 100-year life actually means for experienced professionals. Professor Martin Hyde from the University of Leicester studies how aging reshapes...

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Krisna Hanks Professional Reinvention from Dance: Expertise in Health After 60
June 18, 2023

Krisna Hanks Professional Reinvention from Dance: Expertise in Health…

Krisna Hanks helps women over 60 build metabolic health, strength, and nutrition practices grounded in 33 years as a professional dancer. A certified health coach and LCHF/keto nutrition advisor with an MSc in Kinesiology and MBA, she explains why metabolic health is the foundation of self-care for…

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