Jann E. Freed, PhD

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Jim Autry.   James A. Autry (b. March 8, 1933), a former Fortune 500 executive, is an author of fifteen books, a poet and consultant whose work has had a significant influence on leadership thinking. His book, Love and Profit, The ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Randi Mazzella.   Randi Mazzella is a freelance journalist and writer specializing in parenting, mental health and wellness, midlife, empty nesting and pop-culture. She has been published on many websites including The Washington Post, Next Avenue, SheKnows and The Girlfriend. Randi is ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Sally Fox.   Sally is a writer, coach and performer who helps people find the stories that give meaning to their lives and a direction for the future. A professional writer, she writes regularly for 3rd Act Magazine and the website ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with John Weiss.   John P. Weiss is a full-time artist and writer. He is the author of “An Artful Life- Inspirational Stories and Essays for the Artist in Everyone,” and “The Cartoon Art of John P. Weiss.”  John is a retired ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Tracie Ward.   Tracie walked away from a successful 20-year career as a business consultant and strategist in search of answers to help her become the best human she could be and to help her sons and family members live their ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with David Stewart.   David Harry Stewart is the founder and face of the AGEIST. He is a passionate champion and leading authority on the modern 50+ lifestyle, and the mindset and aspirations that drive this influential demographic. An influential thought leader ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Ben Hardy.   Dr. Benjamin Hardy has a PhD in Organizational Psychology. He’s the bestselling author of Willpower Doesn’t Work. His website gets hundreds of thousands of views monthly. From 2015-2018, he was the #1 writer in the world on Medium.com. ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Miriam Arond.   Miriam Arond is president of Miriam Arond Consulting, LLC, a New York-based consulting agency that specializes in business and personal branding, business strategy, cross-channel content development, and career and management coaching. She is also Director of Communications at a major non-profit in the New ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Raymond Rood.   Raymond Rood is founder and senior consultant of The Genysys Group, a firm offering organization development/transformational change support to for-profit, not- for-profit organizations and public agencies worldwide seeking to initiate, sustain and / or safeguard long term change. ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Michelle Silver.   Michelle Silver is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto with joint appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health and Society (ICHS). Dr. Silver’s primary areas of research include: 1) Work, Aging, ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Dave Richo, Ph.D.   David Richo, Ph.D., is psychotherapist, writer, and workshop leader. He teaches at a variety of places including Esalen and Spirit Rock Buddhist Center. He shares his time between Santa Barbara and San Francisco, California. Dave combines psychological ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Paul Long.   Paul Long launched ProBoomer to help people over 50 who don’t want to retire or can’t afford to. ProBoomer provides information, awareness and tools for Baby Boomers who are looking to start up a business or overcome ageism ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Diane Flynn.   Diane Flynn is Cofounder and CEO  of ReBoot Accel, designing work cultures that support and advance women. ReBoot Accel has assisted over 2500 women interested in resuming careers after time out of the workforce. Diane also consults with Fortune ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Ellen Goodman. NOTE: Please understand there are a few spots where the audio is not the best quality. For this, I apologize. But I was so honored to be able to interview Ellen Goodman so I want to share it with you. ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Laura Geller.   Rabbi Laura Geller, Rabbi Emerita of Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, twice named one of Newsweek’s 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America, was named by PBS Next Avenue as one of the fifty 2017 Influencers in Aging. Prior to becoming one of ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Louise Aronson.   Louise Aronson, MD MFA, is a leading geriatrician, writer, educator, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the author of the New York Times bestseller Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life. Elderhood has been praised ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Patrick Ungashick.   Patrick has provided exit advice and solutions to business owners and leaders for nearly thirty years. He has written two books: Dance in the End Zone: The Business Owner’s Exit Planning Playbook, and the award-winning A Tale of Two ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Connie Zweig.   Dr. Connie Zweig, known as the Shadow Expert, is co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality, as well as a novel, A Moth to the Flame, the Life of ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Bill George.   Bill George is a senior fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has taught leadership since 2004. He is the author of: Discover Your True North and The Discover Your True North Fieldbook, Authentic Leadership, True North, Finding Your ... Read More

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Ashton Applewhite.   An internationally recognized expert on ageism, Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, published this March by Celadon Books. She speaks widely at venues that have included the TED mainstage and the United Nations, and is a ... Read More