Saturday, August 23, 2025
Special Edition: Life Lessons at 40 & Beyond
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Erica turns 40 today — and we’re celebrating with a special conversation with Dr. Karl Pillemer about aging, wisdom, and the lessons each decade of life can teach us. From expert insights to your own shared advice, this episode explores what it really means to age well, find happiness, and keep perspective along the way.
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Guest: Dr. Karl Pillemer
Dr. Karl Pillemer is the Hazel E. Reed Human Development Professor in the College of Human Ecology, Professor of Gerontology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, and founding Director of the Cornell Institute for Translational Research on Aging. Pillemer also directs the Cornell Legacy Project and is author of the book 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans. His major interests center on human development over the life course, with a special emphasis on family and social relationships in middle age and beyond. A major program of research is on intergenerational relations in later life, with a focus on the quality of adult child - older parent relationships. A current project focuses on the causes and consequences of family estrangement, which resulted in the book Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them. Pillemer recently created the Aging and Climate Change Clearinghouse, which serves as a hub for information on this topic. His extension and outreach work involves translational research, exploring ways to speed the transfer of findings from basic research into scientifically tested interventions.
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