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Women are living longer than ever. But are we living well?

In this encore episode of the Ageless Glamour Girls Podcast, longevity expert and author Maddy Dychtwald explores how women can expand not just their lifespan but their healthspan and brainspan.

Co-founder of Age Wave and author of the national bestseller Ageless Aging: A Woman’s Guide to Increasing Healthspan, Brainspan, and Lifespan, Maddy shares powerful insights from decades of research on longevity, aging, and wellness.

We discuss what it really means to live longer and better, how women can make the most of their extra years, and why the “longevity revolution” belongs to us.

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Maddy Dychtwald is a nationally recognized longevity expert, author, and co-founder of Age Wave, a global leader in researching the impact of aging on our society, workplace, and marketplace. Named by Forbes as one of the Top 50 Female Futurists in the World, she has spent nearly four decades exploring how longer lives are reshaping every aspect of our world.

Maddy is the author of four books, including the national bestseller Ageless Aging: A Woman’s Guide to Increasing Healthspan, Brainspan, and Lifespan. Through her work with Age Wave, she has collaborated with more than half of the Fortune 500 and led landmark studies on longevity, women’s wellness, and financial empowerment.

Her insights have appeared in major outlets such as Forbes, Fortune, TIME, CNBC, and NPR. Maddy is also co-founder of Women Against Alzheimer’s and a lead partner in Portfolia’s Active Aging and Longevity Fund.

Married for more than forty years, Maddy continues to practice what she preaches—exploring ways to extend her own healthspan, brainspan, and lifespan while enjoying life with her family and grand-dog.

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It's a familiar scene - a barrage of medical bills seemingly taking over your life. They're the #1 cause of debt and bankruptcy in America, but they don’t have to crush you. Let’s be real - medical bills can feel completely overwhelming. They pile up fast, they’re confusing, and before you know it, you’re wondering how something meant to help you heal could leave you financially strapped. In this insightful conversation, Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington joins the Ageless Glamour Girls™ Podcast to help us understand how to take back control. Dr. Virgie is an internal medicine physician, former health insurance executive, and medical financial justice expert who’s on a mission to protect people from being buried by medical debt. She also shares why nearly 80% of medical bills contain errors, and what you can do to catch them before they cost you.

And let’s face it — as we get older, keeping an eye on our finances and health expenses becomes even more important. But all is not lost. Be prepared to learn how to spot billing errors, negotiate medical bills, and avoid debt traps that hit women 50+ the hardest. This episode reminds us that knowledge is power, and every woman deserves to feel secure, informed, and in control of her care.

In this episode: *The truth about why medical debt happens and how to fight back *How to read those confusing billing codes *What to do before you pay any medical bill *How unpaid medical debt affects your credit (and what’s changing!) *The resources and organizations that can help you advocate for yourself If you’ve ever opened a medical bill and felt a knot in your stomach, this episode is for you. Dr. Virgie helps us all breathe a little easier.

*******Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington is an internal medicine physician, former health insurance executive, and nationally recognized medical financial justice advocate. She’s the principal of Crush Medical Debt and MedicalBillRelief.com, organizations devoted to helping the 100 million + Americans struggling with the nation’s #1 cause of debt and bankruptcy — medical bills. After more than 20 years in primary-care and psychiatric practice, Dr. Virgie now uses her insider expertise to teach patients how to protect themselves and their loved ones from financial devastation. She’s the author of “What Your Doctor Wants You to Know to Crush Medical Debt” and leads the American Society of Certified Medical Billing Advocates (ASCMBA), training advocates to help people fight back against surprise and predatory medical bills.

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This powerful (encore) episode explores how understanding death can help us live more authentically. My guest, Alua Arthur is a certified end-of-life guide who shares gentle, eye-opening insights on letting go of fear, embracing presence, and finding peace in everyday living. It’s not about death - it’s about truly living.

Alua’s book, a New York Times Best Seller, is “BRIEFLY PERFECTLY HUMAN: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End.” Alua has been described as a guiding light. She often forms close relationships with her clients, who reveal to her their innermost thoughts – regrets, what-ifs, secret joys, hidden affairs, and more. She also helps to organize business and legal affairs.

As a toddler, Alua’s family fled a murderous coup d’état in Ghana in the 1980s. She still remembers it vividly. This and more helped birth her book and path in life. This book is for those close to death and their loved ones, and everyone else who desires to embrace life and live a more authentic life.
BIO: Alua Arthur - In “Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End,” America’s most visible death doula, Alua Arthur, shows us how imagining our ideal ending can help us get clear about how we need to live and who we need to become to achieve that ideal ending.

As a “recovering” attorney and founder of Going with Grace - a death doula training and end-of-life planning organization, she helps people navigate the practical and emotional aspects of death — so they can live with greater purpose and clarity. Her TED Talk, “Why thinking about death helps you live a better life,” has garnered over 1.5 million views, and she’s been featured in Vogue, InStyle, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Disney’s Limitless with Chris Hemsworth. A sought-after speaker and educator, Alua travels the world sharing how embracing our mortality can awaken us to the beauty of being briefly, perfectly human.

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