243. How to Own Your Age and Live Your Legacy with Diane & Nyna

🎙️ The 80-40 Factor: Aging Without Apology—Living Life on Your Terms

Hosts: Diane Gilman & Nyna Gilpin

This episode dives straight into what really matters as life moves forward: boldly defining your legacy, resisting society’s expectations, and using every year to become more YOU. Diane reflects on her recent MSN and USA Today honors, opens up about saying goodbye to the dating game, and candidly explains why productivity—not convention—is her drive at 80. Nyna adds her take on how life changes after breast cancer and why true happiness means rewriting your own rules, no matter the decade.

What You’ll Hear:

• Diane’s honest answer to “If you had just 10 years left, what would you do?”
• How age, personal focus, and legacy transform post-40 and post-80
• Nyna and Diane on ditching “housewife” expectations—choosing work, passion, and new missions
• Why breast cancer shaped new priorities for both, and how to create meaning after setbacks
• Lessons from outside the norm: flipping the bird to society’s standard advice for aging women
• The project of “being you”—why your later years can be your most productive and satisfying
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✨ Highlights & Takeaways

• There’s no “one way” to live female identity as you age—go proactive, not passive
• How adversity or diagnoses spark reevaluation, gratitude, and new direction
• Advice for aging with purpose: ignore clichés, set real goals, leave a legacy
• Nyna and Diane challenge listeners to ask: “Am I living the life I truly want—or just following someone else’s script?”
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