L4: Living Loud Living Long Candice Hughes / Living Loud Living Long

Earlier in my life and, likely yours too, we put aside our desires, interests, and passions to care for and support others: employers, spouses, and children. Once we reach 50 plus, we are tired of this constant outside focus. We’re ready to devote energy to ourselves, to restore our passion. I know I was an award-winning poet before family life took over.
Because I wanted to reignite my own creativity, I was excited to meet and learn about art from Jennifer Croney Chernak.
In this episode, Jennifer tells us her story about when she knew she was an artist.
She shares her life journey of how she developed and grew her skills as an artist from childhood through liberal arts college at Mount Holyoke to working as an English then art teacher. While working, she continued to push boundaries in her own art.
Even more than her journey, she shares specific art techniques using various media and surfaces for her painting. Discover her innovative and non-traditional approaches.
What I love is how she combines urban and natural space in her art, focusing on the interface between nature and human constructs like buildings.
Based in Philadelphia, she has a perfect location for exploring and pushing boundaries between human beings and the natural world.
Jennifer gives us valuable advice for how to color outside the lines- transform your life as a 50 up woman by following your creative passion on your own and within communities.
Are you ready to create the passion filled life you always wanted but had to ignore? Learn how in our Living Loud Living Long (L4) community and podcast. We support you in becoming. Join us today at https://livingloudlivinglong.com.
About: Jennifer Croney Chernak lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her preferred mediums include acrylic, charcoal, caron d'ache, plaster, and mixed media. Her art explores the complexity of landscape through personal observation influenced by emotion, psychological impulse, and imagination. Chernak studied art at Mount Holyoke College, has attended several artist residencies, and currently teaches visual arts at the William Penn Charter School. She will soon join Orquevaux Artist Residency in France. "When I am outside, it is impossible for me to detach from thoughts of erosion, pollution, land overuse, and toxic human impact. These thoughts occur simultaneously with feelings of awe over the beauty of the sky, bodies of water, and land," said Chernak. Visit: Instagram: @Jenn_C_Chernak_art

Christiane shares her learnings and advice with our Living Loud Living Long (L4) community about her mid-life career transformation journey from executive to creative.
She made a significant career switch from successful senior executive at billion dollar financial software firms to a business school professor at Georgia State University and a fine artist.
A near death health crisis made Christiane realize her health was precious and required nurturing. She survived, using her experience as a driving force for mid-life change.
Using her business expertise, she created lists of pros and cons and used spreadsheets to map out specific actions on her path to fulfillment and healthy living.
Her first step was reconnecting to childhood art training by her mother, a professional artist.
Setting her goals for financial, physical, and mental well-being (the foundation of the Living Loud Living Long (L4) approach to life), helped illuminate her path.
Christiane shares stories of her clinicians, family and friends who supported her. Like the doctor who encouraged her to connect to nature by walking barefoot on the office lawn.
During her illness, her physician prescribed bed rest. Yet, Christiane turned this into an opportunity to deepen her art. Like Frida Kahlo, she learned to paint in bed.
When it came to turning her passion into a career, Christiane tells L4 how she changed her mindset toward social media, embracing it with skill to connect with people and seize opportunities leading to fulfilling and paying work in academia and art.
About: Christiane Palpant is passionate about Professional Sales, Marketing, and Client Service. She has devoted her three-decade career to business leadership from start-up companies to Fortune 200 global enterprises. She was recently Senior Vice President and Head of Client Services at FIS, a Fortune 200 company and the world's largest global provider dedicated to banking and payments technologies. Since 2019, Christiane has been teaching Principles of Professional Sales at Georgia State University with a full-time position with the university. She is an artist with Agora Gallery. Her passion is making a positive impact on people’s lives.

Claire works in the highly sought space of Hollywood movies and television shows in the less commonly known creative field of still photography. She talks with Dr. Hughes, Founder of Living Loud Living Long, about creativity both as a financially supportive career and as a soul satisfying activity.

Debbie Dickinson and her daughter are innovating to solve your menopause frustrations. They join us in our women’s health over age 50 podcast series after summer break. You get fresh ideas grounded in good medicine and like-minded friends in our Living Loud Living Long Community for 50up women.
Have you wondered if your career journey is giving you fulfillment or taking you where you want to go? Debbie wondered that too and it started her on a fabulous path from a JD at Harvard Law and Wharton Business School to innovation motivated by helping herself, her friends and family. Listen to share her journey.
“Why do we as a society teach young women about puberty but don’t teach women about menopause?” That is the key question Debbie and Dr. Hughes discuss but find no answer to today. We reaffirm our missions to address this gap.
Debbie gives our listeners tips and advice about being a later in life entrepreneur who is also a woman of color.
Learn how menopause can change your day-to-day life.
Hear Debbie’s approach to solving menopause challenges such as hot flushes, including her startup Thermaband, for today’s 50up women and for our daughters and young women who will one day be in our place in life.
Want to hear more about Debbie and her innovation journey? Listen to our L4: Living Loud Living Long Premium podcast series.
About: Debbie Dickinson, Esq. is an experienced Harvard Law benefits attorney, Wharton Business School alumna and Lecturer, as well as a serial entrepreneur.  Debbie was a Benefits executive at Johnson & Johnson, then practiced Benefits law in Atlanta, before starting several small businesses. Her expertise includes wearable technology, direct sales, and ecommerce.  Debbie is very active in her church and community and serves on several nonprofit boards, especially with organizations which serve the needs of women and children. 
As a perimenopausal woman battling hot flashes, Debbie envisioned a discreet smart tech wearable to provide thermal relief, utilizing digital health data, and founded Thermaband with her daughter, working diligently with Yale scientists, physicians, engineers, and a highly involved community of women.  She is passionate about women's health, wellness, and rebranding menopause as a natural and empowering phase of life, by shattering negative stereotypes. She is also an advocate, speaker, author, change agent and happily married mom of four. Learn more about her:
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Looking to reinvent your life? Kristy and Annette tell L4 how they quit their jobs, sold their homes and hit the trails to live their dream life over 50.
You can do more than you think you can. They tell our L4 community their approach to building up fitness and endurance until they were able to hike 8 to 12 hours a day. Doubts? Sometimes but they get up everyday and push their limits, finding strength inside themselves.
Feeling frantic and overwhelmed? Nature on the trail provides healing and meditative stillness for Kristy and Annette. Listen to their advice on bringing calm into your life.
The kindness of the trail community embraces Kristy and Annette, and they share stories of trail angels and saddlebags of food shared similar to your L4 community where you find similar kindness and support!
Listen to trail stories from the Appalachian, Pacific Crest trail and more from Kristy and Annette who’ve logged over 8,5 00 miles of American trails.
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About: Kristy Burns: I am 58 years old. Grew up in Colorado but attended college at the University of South Florida on a basketball Scholarship. I have a Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling with an LPC license. I had a private practice in Colorado Springs providing therapeutic services to children and families. My specialty area was in early childhood trauma. I retired in 2015 and sold everything to full-time RV travel. The goal is to explore the globe, experience new things, meet new people and expand the confines of my life.
Annette Demel: Spend as much time as possible doing what you love. It’s a pretty basic retirement plan, but so far, it’s been a blast. In 2015, after retiring from my career in public education working as a teacher and school librarian, I left my traditional life behind and started a life of travel and adventure. Whether I’m rolling around the U.S. in an RV, exploring our national public lands by bike, or backpacking our national scenic trails and living in a tent for six month at a time, spending time in nature brings me joy.
Annette and I have visited 48 National Parks and many National Monuments, National Scenic Rivers, and National Seashores. We have thru hiked the Colorado Trail, Oregon Coast Trail,  Superior Trail, Lone Star Trail. We also completed the triple crown of long distance hiking: the Appalachian Trail,  Continental Divide Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail. The triple crown had us walking through 22 states and wearing out about 16 pairs of shoes each. Learn more: https://www.facebook.com/RVsters/

Ever dream of a second career, perhaps a café or restaurant?
Love tea and wonder how it fits into healthy living?
Learn how a passion for tea led to Joan open a local café, eventually leaving her global corporate job.
While there are challenges in running a food and beverage shop, Joan Jia gives us tips on solving them and tells us what she loves about her café.
Tea has multiple health benefits that vary based on the type of tea. Joan tells us about green tea and beyond.
Looking for a favorite new recipe? Joan shares favorite tea combinations.
Want to take your tea into evenings with friends? Joan shares her tea innovations for social gatherings like tea infused wine.
Get real life advice on turning your food or beverage passion into a second career.
About: Joan Jia is a dynamic, high achieving entrepreneur and product executive with strong technology and market background in the FinTech and PropTech industry. A natural leader and strategic thinker with a clear vision and an ability to take initiative, make strategic decisions and execute. She was formerly an Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Joan founded Hastings Tea & Coffee and Reentry an interactive marketplace and service provider, specializing in small multifamily homes.