“Turmeric or curcumin, the active ingredient inside turmeric is amazingly useful as an anti-inflammatory compound. Boswellia is a resin from a tree, it's commonly known as frankincense, also very effective anti-inflammatory, which may even have some cartilage resurfacing capability at a microscopic level. Bromelain, which is an antifibrotic enzyme, breaking up scar tissue. Magnesium decreasing muscle tension in joints. I mean, these are the kinds of things that can be employed as a protocol that can get somebody who has a severe pain situation, not just mild, completely out of pain without any of those intensive Western medical interventions. I've seen these hundreds and hundreds of times.”

- Dr. Josh Levitt

“In Europe, in many of the Western European countries, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the use of herbal medicine remains first-line therapy. I mean, it's very common for what we would think of as Western medical doctors, MD type of doctors, to recommend herbal or nutritional approaches first. And that was true 25 years ago. It's certainly still true now. And the way I like to think about this, and I don't know, maybe this is a kind of an uniqueness to America, and it applies not just in medicine, but in other sectors as well, we have a fascination with the new.”

- Dr. Josh Levitt

"What we should be doing is sitting quietly in the heartache, in that feeling, because it's so close to where your wholeness lives, because your wholeness lives.  Now, this is true for every human being on the planet. No matter what language they speak, which gender they are, what race they are, this is part of the way a human being is built. When you get disconnected from being present in the space your body occupies, then a pain goes with that. It's like hunger for food, thirst for water, need to breathe for air. This is need to feel whole for wholeness, for unconditional love."

- Udo Erasmus

“I really think my purpose and my goals are almost to give women permission to be their new self. I'm not going to say, "Oh, 77 is the new 60." It's not. But 77 is the new 77, and nobody knows that better than me because I waited forever in a career until I was 60 years old to become a star designer.”

- Diane Gilman

“Go where you are appreciated. In other words, for me, even doing a hundred million dollars a year in fashion sales, if I went to a big corporation and said, "I can make you a fortune in fashion. Let me design a line or be the consultant or be the head consultation designer," they would look me up and down and their thought would be, "What? She's too old. Fashion is all about the young." So I would say, first of all, don't go for a corporation past 55 years old, unless you're Jeff Bezos or something. They're never going to appreciate you. They're going to just see you and think to themselves, "I could hire someone half her age who is half is expensive and get double the work out of her." They don't ever think about all your accrued knowledge.”

- Diane Gilman

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:54 Diane’s light bulb moment.

00:03:24 Diane’s early life.

00:05:49 Diane moves to NYC!

00:09:03 How Diane began her HSN/QVC journey.

00:12:31 How Diane started DG2 Jeans

00:16:25 Diane’s drive.

00:13:10 How to think about your third act.

00:23:14 Diane’s lessons learned from cancer and family relationships.

00:36:53 Diane’s approach to goals and passions.

00:42:02 Diane’s fear of failure.

00:46:36 Diane’s advice for women considering their second or third act.

00:52:45 Show Wrap!

“I think a lot of people when they start creating curriculum, they feel like I have to do this in its final form the first time, and that's not true. You can just jot it all out on a Word Document or on a Google Doc if you want, and you could create a video of you just talking about it. I have developed full courses talking into my phone and transcribing what I've said, just riffing off of a topic every day and then taking the transcript and then editing it, cutting out the stuff that doesn't need to be there, keeping the stuff that absolutely should be and using that as a way for me to get the information out of my head and onto paper, because some people are better at writing, some people are better at teaching and talking. Some people are better in certain settings. They say, do whatever works best for you to get the information out of your head onto paper and then use that in and put it into that outline, fill the outline, and then you have to start recording. It's just no two ways around it. You're either going to do video and audio or just audio. You can hire people to do animations. You can do animations yourself if you really want to learn that stuff. There are tons of options out there.”

- Lucas Marino D.Eng., PMP

“I have a five key points to a course development that I encourage everyone to follow.

The first one is to identify the ideal learner. Who are you going to educate?

The second is identify the problem that you're going to solve for that person.

The third is your solution. Is it a real solution to that problem? What you teach them, is it really going to solve their problem? How do you know that? How do you know it's a solution to their problem? And how do they know that it's a solution to their problem? That leads into your marketing down the road.

The fourth piece of this is, well, what outcome would they experience if this problem didn't exist in their life? If you help them solve this problem, what does that outcome look like? What does that person experience? How does their life get better? And you want to document that.

And then the fifth part is, well, what steps would they have to take to implement that solution and reach those outcomes?”

- Lucas Marino D.Eng., PMP

“My biggest advice to caregivers is don't drop and leave. I'm not kidding. I see a lot of family members or just hired caregivers that are like, "Okay, here she is. Here he is." And then they walk out of the appointment. And it's like, "Wait a minute." Even when they're dropping off patients that are of sound mind and can remember things, I still think it's a good idea... You're caregiving for a reason. The patient can't drive, the patient can't remember, the patient can't physically get in and out of the house without you. There's some reason that you're there and they're not there by themselves. So, stay there and sit with the physical therapist and sit with the doctor and hear what they're saying so you are the second set of ears to help them navigate whatever they're going through.”

- Dr. Beth Williamson, DPT

“I think that if your doctor has a specific therapist that they recommend, I would listen to them. I've built my practice on getting to know a lot of my physicians and I have three or four close physicians that send directly to me. So if you know that about the therapist, that's a good sign. If the doctor writes a specialty or you know you have had it in the past such as dry needling, active release technique, or if they have lymphedema specialty, you obviously want to look for those certifications.”

“I think it's also important to know the dynamic of how the clinic runs and what kind of care you want to receive. So if you're an athlete and you need a fast-paced clinic and you're okay with having multiple people in the same room at the same time and you're in that environment and that works for you, that's good. If you're somebody who's a little bit more private and you want to make sure they have a private treatment room and that they're seeing people maybe one-on-one, or they have a little bit of overlapping schedule and that's okay with you. So, I do think it's a good idea to look at the clinic and you can always just pop in and ask them.”

- Dr. Beth Williamson, DPT

“The times that I see the most problems is when the planning hasn't gotten done or hasn't been thought through in the proper manner. So, if there are illiquid assets, and frankly, they haven't used an estate planning attorney, maybe they had someone else do these documents or they didn't get done at all, they never wanted to think about it, that's when there tends to be a power struggle, when there's a lot of shuffling, estates don't get administered in the timeframe that would be expected. I've seen estates drag on for 20 years.”

- Bill Ellsworth, J.D.

“When designating a healthcare power of attorney, I think it's important to try to think about your closest relations and then who you trust to be able to make these decisions. I like to tell clients that this is one of the roles that you definitely want to talk to, the person you're designating, before the need arises. Make sure that, number one, that they're comfortable with making these decisions on your behalf. Number two, make sure that they understand what you'd want those decisions to be, what it looks like as far as treatments. Is there any treatment that you've seen that you know you don't want? I've had clients tell me very specific treatments that they've had other loved ones go through that they know it's not worth it, they would never want that for themselves.”

- Bill Ellsworth, J.D.