{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Is Anything Real?","title":"Age Is Not a Cage: Positive Aging, Reinvention, and Purpose After 65 | Ep. 85 w/ Ande Lyons","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1557,"description":"Age is not a cage.\nIn this episode of Is Anything Real?, Adam W. Barney sits down with Ande Lyons, host of Don’t Be Caged By Your Ageand founder of The New England Podcasters Group, for a conversation about positive aging, ageism, reinvention, visibility, purpose, and what it really means to keep becoming after 65.\nAnde’s work challenges one of the quietest and most expensive myths in our culture: After a certain age, your life is supposed to get smaller. You’re supposed to be realistic. Slow down. Step aside. Stop starting new things. Accept that the most expansive chapters are behind you.\nBut what if that story isn’t reality?  What if it’s just a cage we inherited?\nThrough Don’t Be Caged By Your Age, Ande spotlights people who are thriving after 65: people who are repurposing lived experience, reimagining retirement, challenging ageist assumptions, and building lives filled with meaning, creativity, connection, wellness, entrepreneurship, and purpose.\nThis conversation is not about pretending aging is fake. It’s about telling the truth more completely.\nYes, bodies change. Energy changes. Priorities change. Responsibilities change. But purpose does not expire. Visibility does not expire. Creativity does not expire. Contribution does not expire. And your next chapter does not have to be smaller than your last one.\nAdam and Ande explore why ageism wastes talent, why “someday” is such a dangerous story, how people can reclaim possibility in later life, and why younger generations need a better relationship with aging too.\nThis episode is for anyone who has ever wondered: Am I too old to start? Is it too late to reinvent? Do I still have something meaningful to build?\nWhat if the cage isn’t my age...but the story I’ve been told about it?\nThe big takeaway: Age is not a cage. Start anyway.\nGuest: Ande Lyons  \nHost of Don’t Be Caged By Your Age: https://www.dontbecagedbyyourage.com/\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/\nEmail: ande@dontbecagedbyyourage.com...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ygROTLd9i0_eLtZIaqFi8L4-QpOmBc_9g4DQT9Zg2Ho/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lNGJh/NzkxYTJiZTljMTZm/M2YzZWZmZTA4YjFk/ZmJhNS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}