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TOUGH LOVE

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5 FROM THE EDITOR

6 GROWING BOLDER WITH...

8 ROCK STARS OF AGING 10 TOUGH LOVE At 91, Harriett Lake is sharp, funny and fashionable. But she’s serious about leaving a lasting legacy.

By Marc Middleton

14 MOVE FORWARD. GIVE BACK How a hotelier is changing lives for the better. By Jackie Carlin

16 BEHIND THE SCENES Growing Bolder Magazine celebrates its first year in grand style.

18 5 QUESTIONS Randy Noles’ book unravels a musical mystery. By Katy Widrick

20 SURVIVING AND THRIVING A three-time cancer survivor looks to the future. By Bill Shafer

22 ROAD TO RECOVERY How a spinal surgeon learned to walk the walk. By Dr. Robert L. Masson

24 BOLDER NUTRITION When you eat is as important as how you eat. By Susan Mitchell, PhD, RD, FAND

26 BOLDER SPORTS The triathlete trucker who’s leading by example. By Jackie Carlin

28 BOLDER MOVIES These older actors are big at the box office. By Jay Boyar

30 THE TAKEAWAY Change is the shortest path to success. By Marc Middleton

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More Than a Magazine For Us, It’ s a Mission From the Editor

Editor-in-Chief Marc Middleton Managing Editor Bill Shafer Associate Editors Katy Widrick, Jackie Carlin Contributing Writers Jay Boyar, Wendy Chioji, Jill Middleton, Dr. Susan Mitchell Contributing Photographer Shelley Lake Digital Development and Production Jason Morrow, Pasquale Dominic Narciso IV, Josh Doolittle Senior Account Manager Beth Dover

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t’s hard to believe but we’re rapidly approaching the end of our first year of publishing Growing Bolder. In fact, we recently threw a little party to honor our amazing advertising partners and to celebrate the incredible men and women featured in every issue. Some pictures from that night are in the “Behind the Scenes” section in this issue.

Of course, we do it all for you, and our sincere hope is that you can feel the passion that we put into every page. This is not, like some publications, simply a collection of articles put together in an effort to sell advertising. This is a mission.

Growing Bolder is a playbook for life. We’re proud to partner with select businesses and organizations that share our belief that engaging in the community while pursuing your passions is the key to building a life of significance; a life in which you can’t wait to get up each and every morning. The kind of lives we profile in every issue of Growing Bolder.

In this issue, we feature one of the most fascinating women you could ever hope to meet 91-year-old philanthropist Harriett Lake. Harriett not only granted us rare access to her famous closet, she let down her guard, sharing news in a candid interview about her health, her future and her frustrations with the city she loves.

And don’t miss Bill Shafer’s Surviving and Thriving profile of Susan Helmrich, a truly inspirational cancer survivor, and Jackie Carlin’s feature on hotelier Harris Rosen, whose efforts define our Move Forward. Give Back. initiative.

Come to think of it, don’t miss a single page — and when you’re done reading, pass it on to someone else. Share the hope, inspiration and possibility that is Growing Bolder.

Art Director Laura Bluhm Senior Associate Publisher Lorna Osborn Associate Publisher Kathy Byrd Growing Bolder is a publication of Florida Home Media LLC, publishers of Orlando Life.

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ON THE COVER: Philanthropic fashionista Harriett Lake, who at 91 is still a force to be reckoned with in Central Florida. Photography by Shelley Lake.

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Jimmy Walker

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Actor, Comedian “I think if you’re happy with where you are, it can stop you from going upstream like a salmon. You always should want more.

We’re all going to face rejection. We’re all going to deal with people who don’t like us. But you just have to keep your head up and keep moving on until finally there’s an opening for you somewhere.”

Florence Henderson

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Actress, TV Host, Singer “I love the name Growing Bolder. No one can help getting older, but none of us have to get old.

I never think about my age. I go by how I feel. I feel so much younger now than I did some days in my 20s. I think as you get older, you become wiser. You learn how to pace yourself. The experience helps you.

You learn how to rest in action. I think energy begets energy.”

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Actor, Activist

“They keep trying to make movies with old people as the schtick. It doesn’t work because young people are the ones who shill out the shillings for admission. But as long as we can keep popping up occasionally and surprise the hell out of everybody watching, that’s all that counts. We need to show the world that we still have the energy and above all, that we have effective minds that are as sharp and as witty as they ever were.”

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Lessons From The Movie “The Notebook” In the movie, The Notebook, an elderly man (Noah), played by James Garner, reads a romantic story from his notebook to his fellow nursing home patient, Allie. Played by Gena Rowlands, Allie has severe dementia.

As Noah reads the story to Allie a little each day, she drifts in and out of her dementia, and at times, vividly remembers that the story Noah is reading to her is the story of how they met. As most of you know, the entire movie is a two-Kleenex box tear-jerker full of poignant moments, but one heart-wrenching scene is when Allie asks Noah what will happen to her when she loses her memory completely — and he gently reassures her that he will never leave her.

Hopefully, Allie selected her husband Noah as her agent, under her durable power of attorney document and her health care surrogate. However, when an adult becomes incapacitated and does not have a durable power of attorney or health care surrogate document, it may be necessary for the courts to appoint a legal guardian to act on behalf of the incapacitated person’s (called the ward) health and welfare, property or both. A spouse does not automatically become the guardian. A legal proceeding is held to protect the rights the ward could be losing. Everyone over age 18 is presumed to have capacity. Capacity is a legal term that is determined by the legal system.

In Florida, guardianships may be messy and intrusive, and can be expensive for the ward. The person appointed as the legal guardian is required to

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By Hallie Zobel, Esq., Partner, Bailey Zobel Pilcher

be represented by an attorney, must file annual plans and accountings with the court, and handles other issues that arise.

The appointed guardian must account for every dollar of the ward’s money spent.

Guardianships tend to entail a great deal of paperwork, and seem to offer little reward and much aggravation.

The movie reminds us of young love, but it also reminds us of our aging parents.

We Boomers ask ourselves constantly, “What happens if our parents become incapacitated?” Whether a stroke, Alzheimer’s, or some other event alters or impairs their mental faculties, what happens if your parents can no longer handle even the simplest personal or financial task? The truth of the matter is, you and your parents need to have answers to these questions long before that time ever arrives.

You need to guide your parents — while they are still of sound mind — (I cannot stress this enough!) to make sure they have in place, at a minimum, these vital legal documents: • Durable Power of Attorney This is a document that names an adult (called the agent) to act on your behalf if you become incapacitated. A Durable Power of Attorney is valid whether you are sick or well. Properly executed, this document gives the agent the legal authority to pay bills, manage bank accounts and investments, handle property transactions, protect your civil rights, and essentially step into your shoes legally. Caveat — you must appoint the most trustworthy person you know for this role. All too often, we hear tales of abuse and fraud by agents, even beloved family members, who were unable to handle the responsibility of being an agent.

• Advance Healthcare Directive This term includes different documents under Florida law. A Living Will allows you to communicate your wishes as to what types of end-of-life artificial support you will and will not wish to receive in the future.

A Healthcare Surrogate allows someone to make informed consent medical decisions for you if you are unable to make those decisions for yourself.

None of us, whether we are in our 30s and starting a family, or Boomers rolling gracefully through the second half of our lives, ever want to become incapacitated.

However, the chance is always there. When Noah and Allie were young and in love, I’m sure they didn’t think about how things would end.

Being prepared is the single best gift you can give your family.

Hallie Zobel, Esq., is a partner with Bailey Zobel Pilcher, a boutique law firm in Maitland offering probate, wills, trusts and guardianship services, as well as business succession, asset protection and estate planning. Known as “Your Caring Law Firm,” Hallie and her partners, Merrell Bailey and David Pilcher, offer clients throughout the Central Florida region compassionate legal counsel on very private family matters. Visit www.YourCaringLawFirm.com or call (407) 622-1900.

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Longevity Celebrities We’ve been told for so long, by so many, what’s not possible as we age that few of us know what really is possible. Fortunately, we can look at the examples already set by the Rock Stars of Aging.

Mae Laborde

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World’s Oldest Actress At the age of 93, after outliving two husbands and her only child, Mae could have decided it was all over. She didn’t.

Instead, she set her sights on fulfilling her lifelong dream of becoming an actress. She found an agent and soon got work in commercials and TV shows, including regular appearances on Fox’s Talkshow with Spike Feresten. She also starred in a Funny or Die video that became an Internet sensation. For a woman who stood only 4-foot10, she made an outsized impact. Her secret? “Never retire,” she warned, and she never did.

She worked until her death a year ago at 102.

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Virgil Coffman

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World’s Oldest New-Car Buyer

When Virgil bought his first car in the early 1920s, nobody paid much attention. But when he bought his last car, he made headlines around the country. At 101, he walked into a local Chevy dealer and plunked down $38,000 for a special edition, 426-horsepower Transformer-edition Camaro. Why? He still loves to drive.

Virgil even accepted an invitation to take the car for a lap around the track at Indy. He’s outlived his wife and three children, but not his love of life. Now, Virgil says he’s looking forward to his next car: “I’d love to own a Corvette,” he says. Just days after celebrating his 105th birthday with a party, where he even performed a birthday dance, Virgil passed away.

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PHILANTHROPY IS HARRIETT LAKE’S FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH

At 91, She’s Sharp, Funny and Fashionable. But She’s Serious About Leaving a Lasting Legacy

by Marc Middleton

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arriett Lake, 91, has just returned from the doctor and drops a bombshell.“The doctor told me I have to quit immediately,” she says.

“Quit what?” I ask.

“Quit running around by myself. Quit giving speeches. And quit going to balls and fundraising events. I can’t really go anywhere anymore because my balance is gone. I’ve had three hip replacements so far, and two of them are in trouble.”

She not only seems okay with the doctor’s orders, she seems relieved. “I think what would be ideal is to just be left alone,” she says. “I’m ready to just retire. I want to stay at the house and watch old movies.”

So much for doctor’s orders. Three days later, I run into Harriett at Costco, her favorite store. She’s alone, dressed head to toe in Burberry and pushing a cart containing only three bottles of champagne. She stands out like a Picasso in a warehouse filled with black velvet paintings of dogs playing poker.

A philanthropist, feminist, healthcare advocate, fashion icon and relentless cheerleader for the arts, Harriett’s generosity is legendary. She gave $500,000 to both Florida Hospital and Orlando Health to fight breast cancer.

“Everybody has a connection with cancer,” she says. “Every day it’s a threat.

You know what are the two most beautiful words in the English language?

It’s benign.”

Harriett provides annual financial support to more than 190 local arts and healthcare organizations. While she doesn’t interfere with their day-to-day operations, she does pay attention and will withhold funding if she doesn’t like what she sees.

“I get disgusted every once in awhile,” she says. For example, the Orlando Philharmonic’s decision not to renew music director’s Christopher Wilkins’ contract in 2014 has drawn her ire: “I gave the Phil $60,000 a year for the past six years. I will no longer be with the Phil. Not since they fired Christopher Wilkens.”

She donated $1 million to the new Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. “For a parking space,” she says with a smile in her eyes. “For one million bucks they promised me a parking space.”

She also gets naming rights to the ladies room. “Harriett’s Ladies Lounge,” she says. “And it is, of course, exquisite.”

There are more than 25 places in Central Florida that bear her name: Harriett’s Kitchen, Harriett’s Park, Harriett’s Closet, Harriett’s Clinic, Harriett’s Bar and many more. “They aren’t allowed to use my last name because my husband said to always keep a low profile, so it’s just Harriett.”

Harriett wasn’t born into the benefactor role that now defines her. In fact, she never saw it coming.

“I could have left it in the bank and watched it grow, but you can’t let money sit when people are starving or living out on the streets.”

The indomitable Harriett Lake (facing page) loves being surrounded by beautiful things and celebrating causes she believes in. Posing in her fabulous closet, she commemorates the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which was ratified just two years before she was born. For decades, she’s been a fixture at local charitable events (top and bottom right), including The Art of the Motorcycle, a 2006 exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art. Also shown is Hy Lake, her late husband, who made a fortune in land development.

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“When Hy (her husband, developer Hymen Lake, who died in 2010) was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, I asked him for some money to send to the family for Christmas,” she recalls. “He said, ‘We have no money. We’re totally broke.’

I thought, what the hell? What did he do with the money?

I didn’t know and I really didn’t care because I had never wanted for anything.“ When Hy’s disease progressed, Harriett, at age 84, delved into the family checkbook for the first time. “When I saw what was in the account, it came as a total shock,” she says. “I could have left it in the bank and watched it grow, like he did, but you can’t let money sit when people are starving or living out on the streets.”

So Harriett the dutiful wife became Harriett the beloved philanthropist. She has given away more than $10 million, more than $1.5 million every year, and it all stays in Central Florida.

“Hy made his money in this city so I keep the money here,” she says. “I give it back where he made it.”

Harriett served in the Marines during World War II where she learned to swear and to hate the color green: “I was proud to wear the uniform, but every day for two and a half years? Give me a break. I never wore green for decades after that.”

When the war ended, Harriett moved to Miami Beach where she met and married Hy, a young attorney who wanted to invest in land but couldn’t afford anything in South Florida.

“We were penniless when we put the kids in the car and

drove up to Orlando in 1956,” she recalls. “We stopped next to a large cow pasture at the intersection of South Orange Blossom Trail and Sand Lake Road and Hy said, ‘This is it.’

So we bought two square miles with no money down.’

Within six months, the Glenn L. Martin Co. (now Lockheed Martin) announced it was moving nearby and Hy sold it for a $1 million profit before he turned a single shovel of dirt.

“That land is now all of Universal,” she says. “It’s all of Turkey Lake. It’s all of everything.”

Hy reinvested his windfall, purchasing two more square miles in the same area. He developed that land, and began accumulating the fortune that Harriett is now giving away.

While Hy built his empire, Harriett spent 30 years playing duplicate bridge in bridge clubs. She also earned a masters degree in education from Rollins College and developed her famously insatiable appetite for clothes.

“I can’t resist beautiful clothes and I admit it,” she says.

“I’m an addict, a junkie. Even if I were penniless, I’d be out there working for fabric to make my own stuff.”

Harriett granted Growing Bolder rare access to her nowfamous closet. She designed her entire house around the closet after reading an article on actor George Hamilton and his two-level commercial dry-cleaner rack.

“The manufacturer said they could build me one if I had 10-foot ceilings,” she says. “So I built my house with 10-foot ceilings.”

While her closet is big, it’s not nearly big enough. She’s

“I can’t resist beautiful clothes and I admit it.

I’m an addict, a junkie.

Even if I were penniless, I’d be out there working for fabric to make my own stuff.”

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turned her three-car garage into another a closet and bought a 5,000square-foot warehouse for the rest.

How many outfits does she have?

Even she doesn’t know that.

“Someone from UCF counted how many hats I have,” she says. “It came to 1,600. But I think I have more.”

There are only two wardrobes in the world that Harriett envies: “Queen Elizabeth and Barbara Walters. When I played bridge every day for 30 years, I would look at what Barbara Walters wore on The View and duplicated it.”

Her favorite store is Neiman Marcus, but she shops mostly through catalogues. “I see it. I call them up and I get it, she says, pointing to a slinky dress hanging on a display rack. “I saw this one on a magazine with Charlize Theron. I called their boutique and they sent it over from France.”

Harriett describes her style as “onesize-fits all: “I don’t know really what style is, but I know when I see it. Women with incredible style usually have on a black dress. There’s something about the little black dress.

You can’t deny it. A basic black dress that you can buy at Costco for $18 will carry you anywhere.”

Does she have a favorite outfit hanging in her closet? “If there was a fire here, I would take the $18 black dress from Costco and get out.”

Harriett’s deep love for Orlando can, at times, be misread as frustration or even disgust. She’s bothered that it has fallen well short of the world-class city she believes it could become.

Harriett’s famous closet contains more dresses, hats and shoes than even she has counted. But she says in case of a fire, she would abscond with a $18 black dress from Costco. Among the luminaries who’ve been charmed by Orlando’s fashionable philanthropist are Bill and Hillary Clinton.

“This is a Walmart town,” she says. “It’s a hopeless town as far as I’m concerned.

It will never be sophisticated. With a few exceptions, people just aren’t charity minded.”

In her tenth decade, Harriett is opinionated, funny, energetic and empathetic.

She has a sharp and engaging wit to match her occasionally outrageous tongue, and her wry smile complements an ever-present glint in her eye.

Sadly, the days of a Harriett Lake sighting at a fundraising ball in one of her signature outfits may be coming to an end.

She says she’s ready to comply with her doctor’s orders to stop.

“But she didn’t say stop making out checks,” she adds. “I have to keep my charities going. I’m driven to do that.”

Still, will she ever have to cut back on her giving?” Harriett is emphatic: “Not a chance.“ n

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Move Forward. Give Back.

Rosen’ s Rules

How a Hotelier is Changing Lives for the Better.

by Jackie Carlin Rosen has “adopted” low-income Tangelo Park, offering free preschool for the neighborhood’s children and paying 100 percent of college expenses for those who choose to seek a degree after graduating from high school.

Says Rosen: “Where there was no hope, now there’s hope.”

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For more than 20 years, the president and chief operating officer of Rosen Hotels and Resorts has made active living a priority for both himself and his employees.

“I decided many years ago that I wanted my life to be complete,” he says. “I wanted to be able to enjoy life. And if one isn’t feeling well, if one is confined to bed, if one has aches and pains, it’s very difficult to do that. So I said, ‘Okay, you watch your diet, you exercise and you trust in God and hopefully the rest will come true.’”

Rosen stays in shape with daily swims and walks. But he wants to share his personal commitment to healthy living with others, particularly those who make his organization run smoothly and profitably.

So Rosen Hotels and Resorts provides supervised programs to quit smoking and lose weight, at company expense. The high-profile hotelier also built an entire medical center where his nearly 4,000 workers receive quality, low-cost care.

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in that facility. We have mammograms so the ladies can go right to our facility and get done what they need to get done.”

By his company’s estimates, the Rosen health-care system has saved the company more than $200 million over the past several decades.

“We didn’t do it to keep our costs down; we did it because it was the right thing to do,” adds Rosen. “I think often when you do the right thing, you’re rewarded for it.”

Education is Rosen’s other major passion. He’s “adopted” the low-income Tangelo Park neighborhood, where he provides free education to every child. Starting at the age of 2, children can attend one of the neighborhood’s 10 preschools, for free, and the entire family is mentored.

Since he started the program, high school graduation rates have jumped from 35 percent to 100 percent, and Rosen pays 100 percent of the expenses for those who go on to college.

“We pay for their preschool, mentoring, and we pay tuition, room, board, books, travel, everything for them to get to college,” says Rosen. “It’s changed the neighborhood.

Where there was no hope, now there’s hope.” ■

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Behind the Scenes

A Bolder Bash

Growing Bolder recently celebrated a full year of publishing its popular magazine with a multimedia bash at the studios of WKMGChannel 6. Nearly 200 attendees enjoyed delicious food by Arthur’s Catering and learned about the magazine’s expansion plans and the debut of a new version of the popular TV show, which will air on cable systems nationwide. 1.

Dr. Lucky Meisenheimer, Wendy Chioji, Rowdy Gaines; 2. Carolyn Caple Moor, Bill Shafer; 3. Bill, Marc Middleton, Randy Noles; 4.

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Randy Noles is an award-winning writer and the Group Publisher and Chief Operating Officer for Florida Home Media, LLC, where he oversees Orlando Life, Winter Park Magazine and Florida Homebuyer Orlando in addition to Growing Bolder. He is the author of two non-fiction books, including Fiddler’s Curse, which reveals the bizarre and previously unknown back story of “Orange Blossom Special,” one of the best-known fiddle tunes in history. Noles has been named one of the “100 Most Intriguing Floridians” and lives in Orlando with his wife, Sally, and two children, Cody and Luke.

A Fiddling Find

Randy Noles’ Book Unravels a Musical Mystery.

by Katy Widrick Your 9-5 job is in publishing, so one might think the last thing you’d want to do with your free time is extensive research and more writing, but you’ve published a well-received book (Fiddler’s Curse) and light up when you talk about it. What is it about this story that captured your interest?

I was publisher of Jacksonville Magazine at the time and was doing a series of stories on songs with a Jacksonville connection. “Orange Blossom Special” was supposedly written in Jacksonville by two fiddlers, Ervin Rouse and Chubby Wise. Chubby, as the story goes, told Rouse he could have the song, much to his regret when it be18

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came a standard. I asked Ervin’s widow about this and she became enraged, saying that Chubby had nothing to do with the song.

I also found out that Ervin was an incredible character — almost illiterate but a musical genius, and very likely schizophrenic. If his story was fiction, nobody would believe it. I actually took a year off to write the book.

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wonderful untold story, like the one about Ervin Rouse.

But while I was on vacation recently, I read a biography about Robert Ripley and histories of Hershey’s chocolate and Transcendentalism. If it’s old, I’m interested in it. If there’s a black and white picture of it, even better. nnn Writing, and more specifically, publishing, is in your blood — your father (Randy Noles Sr.) was passionate about helping people share their stories and helped launch community newspapers that became known for sharing very different and diverse viewpoints.

How much did your father influence or inspire your career?

I was raised around newspapers. My dad was primarily from the advertising and business side of the industry and wasn’t a writer, per se. But he inspired me because of his open-mindedness and his certainty that everyone was interesting in some way.

He was a great storyteller himself; a lot of my friends said he reminded them of a more urbane Andy Griffith, telling these hilarious tales about growing up in rural Alabama. My dad’s work ethic was also astonishing. Nothing was more important to him than doing a good job at whatever he was doing. nnn Technology has changed the way we all consume news, and it seems that the industry as a whole has faced some challenges in trying to keep up with the iPad-driven audience. In what ways has the shift hurt your business, and in what ways do you see it as an opportunity? What is the future of print publishing, in your view?

Mass-circulation magazines and newspapers have been impacted more than specialized magazines. For print publishers, I think it’s more important now than ever to find a niche, and not to attempt to be all things to all people.

I’m sorry to admit that I no longer read a daily newspaper, but I still get a thrill when my favorite magazines come in the mail. I don’t want to read them online. There’s no substitute for lounging on the couch and thumbing through a publication you really enjoy. It’s a comforting, tactile experience that looking at a screen can’t reproduce.

I hope there are a lot of other people like me in that regard. nnn Many people don’t know that you’re really the person who made the magazine version of Growing Bolder a reality. We’d long had the vision of sharing our stories in print, but you made it happen. What is it about the Growing Bolder mission that connected with you personally and professionally?

Well, part of it goes back to the previous answer about finding a niche. Growing Bolder had certainly done that with its TV and radio shows.

But I also knew that people in the 50-plus demographic are readers. They like real books and real magazines, regardless of how tech-savvy they are.

I was also a big believer in the Growing Bolder philosophy. I still sometimes meet people and find myself thinking, ‘Wow, I hope I’m livelier than that when I get old.’ Then I find out that they’re 10 years younger than I am now. I truly believe chronological age is one of the least relevant things about a person. n

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Surviving and Thriving

Making Waves

Three-Time Cancer Survivor Looks to the Future.

By Bill Shafer

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here are some things no one all or parts of a dozen organs and 25 should ever have to experihospitalizations. ence, and Susan Helmrich has She had no control over what hapdealt with far more than her share. pened in the past. That’s why she’s But instead of heartache, depresdetermined to take total control over sion and defeat, hers is a story of the present, reinventing herself as faith, determination and victory. A one of the top health and wellness story so implausible that it’s easy to coaches in the nation. miss the true takeaway: It’s not about She’s also a tireless advocate, fundwhat the human body is capable of raiser and event director for Swim enduring, but what the human spirit Across America, raising more than is capable of overcoming. $200,000 for cancer research and At 21, Susan was diagnosed with treatment. vaginal cancer as a result of her Susan believes swimming helped mother taking the pregnancy drug save her life. It’s her passion, makDES. After a grueling, 10-hour suring it the perfect outlet to spread her gery and a month in the hospital, she powerful message. emerged determined to live a life of “I have survived cancer three meaning. times,” she says. “But I truly thrive by Then, at 42, it was lung cancer, even dedicating my life to fight the disease, though she had never smoked. “Not and to inspire everyone to live each Susan Helmrich has reinvented herself as only that, but I was a lifelong swim- one of the top health and wellness coaches day to the fullest.” ■ mer,” she adds. “I thought my lungs in the nation. were the healthiest part of my body.”

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Road to Recovery

Extreme Recovery Here’s How I Learned to Walk the Walk.

By Robert L. Masson, M.D.

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s a minimally invasive microsurgeon specializquickly and more fully after surgery. ing in spine health, I’ve seen it all, and my opinUltimately, I ended up needing surgery. But the results ions, biases and beliefs have been based upon of my preparation regime were immediately apparent. I many years of experience. started a walking program the day after surgery, was back These beliefs were recently tested when I to work in one week. underwent my own spinal cord surgery for And now at two months post-op, I’m a herniated disc in my neck. more inspired and motivated than ever to I’ve always been an evangelist for dedieducate my patients about the value and cated patient preparation, planning and importance of physical health maintephysical recovery as it relates to a successnance, even with spinal injury. ful surgical outcome.

When facing a spinal injury, the “total Certainly, a well-executed surgery is critrest” treatment philosophy actually worsically important. But I’ve always believed ens your physical condition and makes rethat the limiting factor when it comes to covery even harder. recovery is patient compliance. A skilled Properly supervised and regulated carsurgeon can only provide the opportunity dio and postural exercise, in conjunction to regain an advanced level of activity. Ulwith anti-inflammatories, soft tissue treattimately, it’s up to the patient. ment, therapy and conservative measures, As a right-handed microsurgeon, the is critical to both preparation and recovery prospect of losing function in my right from spinal surgery.

Dr. Masson made sure to follow hand was more than a little concerning. So I’ve talked the talk for years. This year, I his own advice during recovery how did I plan for my own intervention? actually walked the walk. And it works. ■ from his own spinal surgery.

I prepared a timeline and committed to five days a week at the gym. My goal was to spend GB EXTRA six months strengthening and assessing my physical Visit GrowingBolderMagazine.com to watch a condition. video biography of Dr. Masson and to watch his I knew that if I maximized my physical preparation, I Road to Recovery Minutes, which will help you on your path to wellness. might be able to avoid surgery. But if my symptoms did progress, I would be better able to bounce back more

BREAKING NEWS: FDA Approves New Disc Repair Treatment The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new and important medial treatment option for patients in need of disc repair surgery. Dr. Robert Masson of the NeuroSpine Institute is one of the first surgeons in North America to offer this new artificial disc solution for traumatic and degenerative disc disease of the cervical spine.

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Disc Prosthesis, however, allows two-level disc replacement, says Dr. Masson.

The Mobi-C is the first cervical implant available in the U.S. to treat two adjacent levels of damaged disks, he adds.

"We pledge to offer education, support and service to our patients and to surgeons throughout the world in need of this next-generation generation disc repair treatment,” says Dr. Masson.

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Bolder Nutrition

Protein Power

When You Eat is as Important as How You Eat.

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by Susan Mitchell, PhD, RD, FAND

throughout the day. Include a protein-rich food with every ou are the kick-butt generation, boomers. You meal and/or snack. expect to be healthy and fit and to enjoy a good quality of life. But to do that, you must prevent ■ And measuring, too. Consume 20 to 30 grams of quality protein at each meal, which is roughly 3 to 4 ounces, or sarcopenia, the loss of muscle mass and strength. the size of your palm. The amino acid leucine is particularDid you know that you start losing muscle mass in your 30s? And that you lose 1 to 2 percent a year in your 50s? ly helpful in building muscle mass. Dairy products, such as Greek yogurt and low-fat As you age, your body promilk, which are high in whey, duces less muscle mass. In addition, muscle strength deare terrific sources of leucine.

So are lean meat, fish and soy creases and immune function (tofu and edamame). can decline. Even athletes lose Other quality sources of muscle mass over time. protein come from animals But you can do something (cheese, beef, seafood, chickabout it right now. If you’re en, turkey, pork and ham) and not eating enough protein, the amino acid levels in your plants (nuts, beans, lentils, kamut, quinoa, lima beans, blood are not high enough to soy nuts, pumpkin seeds, chia produce muscle. seeds, sunflower seeds, flax Amino acids are the buildseeds and soymilk). ing blocks of protein. And loss Also, try these quick ways of muscle mass happens because not enough protein is to add protein to your meals/ snacks: Add cheese, tofu, eggs eaten at the right times. or salmon to salads. In addiSo, what can you do to keep tion you can snack on Greek and maintain muscle mass?

Remember these two imporyogurt and stir in your favortant points: ite fresh fruit or nuts.

Add nuts or seeds to muffin, ■ It’s about timing. When pancake or bread batters and you eat protein-rich foods makes all the difference. So sprinkle nuts on cereal, yotweak your daily diet. Instead gurt, ice cream or fruit. And Dr. Susan Mitchell try adding beans to soups or of eating all of your protein at quesadillas. ■ dinner, spread protein foods

Registered dietitian Dr. Susan Mitchell is the go-to nutritionist for 50+. A featured nutrition expert for Growing Bolder, she serves on the Health Advisory Board for Family Circle magazine. Susan is co-author of Fat is Not Your Fate, I’d Kill for a Cookie and Eat to Stay Young. Read her weekly blog, How Big is Your BUT? where she shares no-excuse quick tips to eat smart and live smart at susanmitchell.org.

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Road to Fitness

The Triathlete Trucker Who’s Leading by Example.

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Baleka, who’s a triathlete, designed the program to hen you think of truck drivers, you likely picget drivers active while they’re on the road. The most ture someone who’s at least carrying around recent winner of the biking challenge rode 539 miles in a considerable paunch. After all, truckers sit one month. most of the time and usually consume a lot of fast food.

To date, more than 600 drivers have lost more than 6,000 But that’s an image Siphiwe Baleka is on a mission to pounds and 90 have quit smoking, Baleka says. change.

“I try to encourage all the other truck drivers and others A former long-haul truck driver himself, Baleka, who’s I meet,” he adds. “When you’re also a graduate of Yale Univerfit, when you’re in shape and sity, noticed his habits changwhen you’re healthy, you feel ing when he got behind the good and you enjoy things.” wheel and started spending up And they can just look to to 300 days a year on the road.

Baleka to see someone walking “I started eating a lot of junk the walk. In 2012, he completed food and started to get heavy,” the grueling Ironman South Afhe says. “I made a commitment rica, placing in the top 50 for to myself that I wasn’t going to his division. become a statistic. Most truck He writes about his experidrivers are overweight. I just ences in his book, TriBlackstarted working out every day Alete: The Experience of a Black on the side of my truck. I felt Triathlete from America at the good, so I kept it up.”

2012 Ironman South Africa.

He found ways to incorpoIn it, he explains why he’s on rate fitness into his daily life, a mission to show his children hitting local YMCAs around the what’s possible by becoming country for swims, finding runthe first-ever black athlete to ning routes during stops and win a USA Triathlon age group even bringing along a collapsible national championship. mountain bike.

“My father always said, ‘You His methods were so succan never have too many feathcessful that he even became a ers in your cap,” he says. “Whattwo-time masters swimming ever you want to do, try it, give it national champion after an 18your best, don’t quit.’ And that’s year absence from the sport. what I intend to do.” ■ His co-workers started to Siphiwe Baleka crosses the fi nish line at the 2012 Ironman take notice of the changes in South Africa.

Baleka’s physique and wanted to know his secret. Together GB EXTRA with his employer, Prime Inc., Baleka founded the Driver Growing Bolder was there for Siphiwe Baleka’s Health and Fitness program. national championship swims. Visit GrowingThe program offers the company’s fleet of drivers healthBolderMagazine.com to watch the story and see why his children are his biggest fans. ier ideas for meals on the go, fitness programs and tips and regular contests, such as a twice-a-year biking challenge.

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Bolder Movies

An ‘O’ Rating

These Older Actors Are Big at the Box Office.

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It’s hard to believe that Sutherland, who played the f I were to tell you that actors in their 70s and 80s original Hawkeye Pierce, the counter-culture icon of 1970’s are still making movies, you might smile politely and M*A*S*H, has now, at age 78, become an emblem of Estabsay, “Well, yes, maybe they do have roles in some oblishment evil. scure, low-budget films.” They do, for sure, but they’re Michael Caine, who’s 80, played the crucial role of Alalso in blockbusters — often playing major, meaty roles. fred, Batman’s loyal butler and father figure, in the caped Take last year, for example: All five top-grossing films in crusader’s recent trilogy, including its climax, last year’s America depended, to a considerable degree, on the efforts The Dark Knight Rises. of older actors.

The way that the film was strucThe Hobbit, the fifth highesttured, you tended to see its actiongrossing movie of 2012, starred packed events through Alfred’s know74-year-old Ian McKellen as Ganing eyes. The Dark Knight Rises was dalf, the great and powerful No. 2 for 2012, with a box-office take wizard who led a small army of of $448 million. And by the way: MorMiddle-earth adventurers on “an gan Freeman, 76, also starred in it as unexpected journey.”

Batman’s wily weapons expert.

It was McKellen’s movie as Topping 2012’s box-office chart much as it was anyone’s, and its was The Avengers, with a whopping domestic box-office take was $303 $623 million take. And leading the million. Without his energetic charge in that film was Samuel L. spirit and all-too-droll demeanor, Jackson, the “baby” of our older acThe Hobbit would have been a far tors, who turns 65 this year. less entertaining fantasy.

As Nick Fury, the eye-patch-sportIf you’re a James Bond fan, ing head of S.H.I.E.L.D., Jackson then you probably know that played the man who assembled the Judi Dench, who turns 79 this Avengers in the first place. With his year, has played M, 007’s fiery “fury-ous,” take-no-prisoners apboss, in the last several films of proach to the character, Jackson left the series. no doubt that, for him, age is just a That includes last year’s SkyDonald Sutherland, the counter-culture icon number.

■ fall, which focused on her characwho made his mark in M*A*S*H, is still getting ter and, with a gross of $304 milplum parts. lion, was No. 4 at the box office.

As Dench played the head of Jay Boyar is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and MI6, her sense of mission was strong and her sense of author whose work has appeared in the Washington humor was sharp. When Bond jokingly threatened to push Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, a certain button in his Aston Martin, she fired back with, MSNBC, E! Entertainment Television and other major “Oh, go on, then, eject me. See if I care!” media outlets. He has served as a juror for the American The Hunger Games hit it big last year, raking in $408 Film Institute and is a cofounder of the Florida Film million for a No. 3 finish in the box-office derby. High in the Critics Cicle. He teaches film analysis at Rollins College credits, with a snowy beard and an equally snowy mane, and the University of Central Florida and is arts editor was Donald Sutherland as the diabolical President Snow of Orlando Life. of Panem.

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CREATIVE COMMONS: FRANTOGIAN

By Jay Boyar

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The Takeaway

Take a Leap

Change Is the Shortest Path to Success.

by Marc Middleton

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’ll say this as kindly and gently as I can. If you think your life is boring, if you say nothing exciting ever happens — it’s your own fault. Get off the couch and get involved.

Stop daydreaming and start doing. Develop a backbone, not a wishbone.

Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you’re maintaining.

You’re not. You’re either getting better or getting worse.

We all are.

We may be getting better or worse very slowly, but we are moving in one direction or the other. And that direction will gain momentum.

The couch has momentum. Jogging has momentum. Laziness has momentum. Enthusiasm has momentum. The more you do something, good or bad, the easier it is to do and the harder it is to turn away from.

Put your pride away and become a beginner at something.

Take a painting or dance class. Buy a digital camera. Start a journal and write in it every day. Attend workshops and seminars. And don’t fear failure. Everyone gets knocked down. The unhappy and unsuccessful stay down.

Be curious. Be receptive to new people and new ideas.

New people will lead to new opportunities. Network with others who are excited about what life has to offer.

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If you’re retired, your job no longer defines you. If you’re an empty nester, your children no longer define you. If you’re widowed or divorced, your spouse no longer defines you. Now is the time to become the person you want to be.

Now is the time to be you.

Remember: When you’re trying to change, you need support and encouragement. You’ll have friends and even family members who don’t want you to change. They not only won’t encourage you, they’ll sabotage your efforts by being negative. Avoid those people.

If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions. Change is not only the shortest path to success and happiness, it’s the only path to creating the kind of daily life you want.

You know how fast the last 30 years went? The next 30 are going to go even faster. You don’t have a day to waste.

Start Growing Bolder. ■

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Download the new Healthy 100 Habits app from Florida Hospital, and choose from more than 100+ habits that will keep you living to a Healthy 100.

This app doesn’t just help you lose weight or eat better. Healthy goals could also include spending more time with family, setting aside time for spiritual renewal and making sure you get a full night’s rest.

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PROACTIVE PL ANNING [ a n d li f el o ng sec u ri t y ]

“The Mayflower is an incredible safety net.”

At The Mayflower, Nancy Klingler benefits from the wisdom of proactive planning. She enjoys her stunning, customized villa – along with a maintenance-free lifestyle that enables her to travel regularly and maintain her social circle. And having moved here with her late husband Bob, the advantages extend even further.

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“We’d always planned to make the move later on, but we fast-tracked our decision when Bob became ill,” Nancy says.

“He wanted to make sure I was taken care of – and I am.

You never know what will happen in the future, so you have to prepare. No matter what comes my way, The Mayflower is an incredible safety net that provides a sense of security – for me and my children.”

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