Aging Heroes

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Podcast Hosts of The Latitude Adjustment. Our Award-Winning Book: “A Guide for Aging Heroes” is available now. Aging heroes have the mettle to rail against the confines of conventional attitudes. We embrace opportunities to create meaning in our lives and to improve the lives of others. Prisoners to the social constructs of modern culture are completely unaware that the key to freedom is always within reach. That key is the nerve to step out of assigned roles and live authentically. In a world so often governed by fear and negativity, aging heroes gaze on the future with confidence, enthusiasm, and wonder.

Everyone already has enough mugs, sweaters, and scented candles. 🧤🎁What most people don’t have is a honest guide for the...
12/09/2025

Everyone already has enough mugs, sweaters, and scented candles. 🧤🎁

What most people don’t have is a honest guide for the next chapter of life.

A Guide for Aging Heroes is a great companion for anyone asking, “What now?”

Great gift for:

🏷️ Individuals in a new season of life.
🏷️ Individuals needing to prioritize their own wellbeing.
🏷️ Anyone craving meaning, courage, and a fresh sense of purpose.

Wrap it up with a handwritten note and you’ve just turned a book into a turning point. 💫

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12/07/2025

🌍✨ The Latitude Adjustment: An Aging Heroes Podcast is honored to be inducted into the Speak Up Talk Radio Positive Change Podcast Hall of Fame.

This is an honor recognizing shows that don’t just talk about change, but help create it. It’s about impact.

Episode by episode, season by season, our listeners have met us in:

• Caribbean docks and Central American kitchens

• Hospital corridors and waiting rooms

• The quiet ache of caregiving and burnout

• Empty nests, changing identities, and late-life reinventions

They’ve let us sit with them in those in-between moments where life doesn’t look like the brochure… and they stayed anyway.

Hall of Fame means this:

🫶🏽 Someone listened and finally felt seen.

🫶🏽 Someone realized they weren’t as alone as they thought.

🫶🏽 Someone decided their well-being, voice, and story still matter, right now, at this age, in this season of life.

So, to every listener who has:

🌿 Tuned in on a hard day

🌿 Shared an episode with a friend

🌿 Left a review or a message

🌿 Or quietly whispered, “This is exactly what I needed today”

You are the reason this honor exists.

We’re deeply grateful to Speak Up Talk Radio for recognizing The Latitude Adjustment and the hearts and stories behind it.

We don’t broadcast perfection. We broadcast being human, honest, beautiful, courageous, hopeful, and always evolving.

From the bottom of our salty, sun-kissed, Aging Heroes hearts:

Thank you for walking this journey with us.

We’re just getting started.

The Power of Conversation Some days, the smallest thing can lift your mood, a simple, real conversation with a stranger....
12/06/2025

The Power of Conversation

Some days, the smallest thing can lift your mood, a simple, real conversation with a stranger.

A quick chat in a coffee line. A kind comment in the grocery aisle. Someone noticing your shirt and asking where you got it.

No pressure, no expectations… just two humans being a little more human with each other.

These brief, safe exchanges can:

🌿 Lighten the heaviness in your day.

🌿 Remind you you’re not the only one going through things.

🌿 Give your nervous system a break from feeling guarded.

Talking to strangers (in safe, appropriate settings) isn’t about forcing connection. It’s about letting yourself be open enough to notice the people around you.

Gentle invitation for today:

🌿 Make eye contact.

🌿 Say hello.

🌿 Offer one genuine compliment.

Let a small conversation be a quiet act of care, for you and for them.

If you found us today - HELLO 🫶🏽

If you enjoyed our content, checkout our podcast for more on intentional living, personal development, and experiences over things.

Holistic well-being is less about fixing yourself and more about tending to the life you’re building, slowly, intentiona...
12/05/2025

Holistic well-being is less about fixing yourself and more about tending to the life you’re building, slowly, intentionally, and with respect for the season you’re in.

Real wellness isn’t a checklist.

It’s how you move through the day. How you breathe when the world speeds up. How you choose what matters and release what doesn’t. How you create space for rest, meaning, connection, and enough quiet to hear your own life speak back.

Aging Heroes know that health isn’t a race toward youth, it’s a relationship with your body, your time, and your purpose.

When you choose presence over accumulation, depth over distraction, and experiences over things, you begin to feel the shift:

🌿 Less urgency
🌿 More clarity
🌿 A steadier way of being

Well-being at any age is simply this:
living intentionally, continuing to grow, and honoring the life you are shaping, one conscious choice at a time.

Interested in dialing up your personal growth and development through positive psychology?

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www.agingheroes.com

Set your intentions. Then…make it happen. Action is what counts. 🙌🏽🙌🏻🙌🏾
12/01/2025

Set your intentions. Then…make it happen. Action is what counts.
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Have you listened to THIS episode yet?If not….you’re missing out. It’s a cool one. 🙌🏽🙌🏾🙌🏻
12/01/2025

Have you listened to THIS episode yet?
If not….you’re missing out. It’s a cool one. 🙌🏽🙌🏾🙌🏻

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Rusty Harrison is an award-winning college psychology instructor, board member for several organizations, and former counseling therapist. Fascinated by health psychology, he has spent years researching every aspect of physical, cognitive, and emotional fitness. Rusty has written countless articles and given numerous talks on psychology and education. Through his community work, he has helped organize a wide range of social and educational events. Rusty is an avid outdoor adventurer, he loves hiking, kayaking, and backpacking.

Erica Schwarting is a business owner, former model, marathon runner, employee in the medical field, humanist, daughter, wife and mom. She began running as a personal hobby and means of rehabilitating a foot injury. Over the years, the hobby became a passion and has taken her to innumerable race events (half & full marathons, trail races, Ragnar relays) to include the Mt. Kilimanjaro Marathon. Erica now enjoys sharing her fervor for the sport by working with others to achieve their running goals and helping to make their race dreams become a reality.

Rusty and Erica live in the beautiful foothills of North Carolina where they reside with their children Lainey, Harry, and Tallas.