Diane Gilman was born with a mission, and she has followed it for the past 80 years. And despite becoming best known as the “Jean Queen” of HSN and QVC for 30 years, and selling over $100 million dollars worth of her designs despite nobody believing it was possible to fit the middle-aged market back in the day, the fashion was as it turns out just the expression that fit in that particular season of her life.

And she has never been afraid to keep reinventing because in her own words, she’s never let herself down. From a diffIcult and abusive childhood where designing was her escape, through UCLA and her 20s tumultuous (where she found herself designing for Cher, Jimmy Hendrix and eventually every single department store window in Manhattan) she just kept moving. After nursing the love of her life through cancer and then in her 70s, battling and overcoming it HERSELF…Diane decided she needed a change. And that came in the form of a whole new chapter as the wildly popular social media pro-aging advocate and podcast host we know today @TheDianeGilman.

It’s been a bumpy ride, and at times very lonely, but Diane has left it all out on the field after every single chapter, and has lived more lifetimes than most. Perhaps that’s why she is the pro aging advocate we didn’t know we needed. She’s not sugarcoating anything, because she doesn’t need to. She deeply understands that life is an exquisite miracle, and she just wishes everyone, regardless of their age…saw it that way.

Jackie Pflug was a 30 year old newlywed American citizen traveling on Egyptair flight 648 on Thanksgiving of 1985 when the plane was hijacked. Subsequently shot in the head by hijackers who landed the plane in Malta and threw her body out onto the tarmac, Jackie was denied medical help for 5 hours, but somehow, miraculously survived. Sadly, she was one of very few who did survive that hijacking, but after a harrowing recovery and even more hurdles, she went on to a global keynote speaking career that gave her purpose after years of struggle through epilepsy, seizures, and having to learn to walk and speak again. Not many people have survived what she has.

On today’s podcast, Jackie is opening up about her return to the site of the attack 20 years later, the toll it took on her first marriage, and the weirdness of the fact that life just goes on, (both in the mundane ways and in the subsequent life challenges that we all have to endure) even after you think you’ve survived the worst. Because the good news and the bad news about surviving the unsurvivable…. is that until it is the end, it is simply not the end.

And luckily for us, Jackie Pflug not only survived but she is still willing and able…to tell the tale.

Is revenge a dish best served cold…or just with a side of probable cause to avoid legal action? Have you ever considered all of the legal ways that you can obtain justice without having to get your hands too messy? So has Ishpal Sidhu, the brilliant legal mind and comedian behind the hit social media series entitled "What The Ish."

After a relationship so toxic it sent her into a tailspin, this bright attorney felt so helpless that she took to social media to share brilliant and hilarious ways in which she imagined exacting legal revenge, for example on a cheater…without getting yourself arrested. On today’s podcast, we’re talking about her innate sense of justice, how unsatisfying the practice of the law has been, and the ways in which the little internet series she started to help others who were feeling as powerless as she was, woke her up to the mission she was probably made for.

From her Sikh heritage to comedy as medicine to what’s next for her…Ishpal has a lot more insight into the power of the urge for revenge than her hilarious reels reveal. And while she is here for the fight, and the healing and the search for justice, after all that she has learned she’s not so sure, that revenge is in fact ever the actual answer.

For more about Ishpal Sidhu: https://www.instagram.com/whattheish/