#156 Three Years of the Get Lively with Jan Show!
Yes, my lively friends, it is time to celebrate as the Get Lively with Jan Show is celebrating it’s 3rd ANNIVERSARY!!! Wow. Three years. 156 episodes. I now have this…
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From the archive
This archive provides an overview of all podcast episodes published until the closure of the Watertown studio in December 2025. You can listen to new episodes published after 2025, as well as all of the old episodes over on Spotify.
#155 Back to Basics
Oh November, look at you jumping right out at us! I don’t know about you, but given the current roller coaster of live, I decide to take a look at…
#154 Sometimes you just need a good story…
Ever feel like you just need to listen to a good story? Sometimes I just want to hear joy in someone’s voice and get a jolt of inspiration. Ever have…
#153 We Think That Life Starts After These 3 Things
I’ve been talking quite a bit lately about how we need to keep on LIVING even though it may feel l like we’ve hit the PAUSE button on life. Sure,…
#152 “…feeling short of stable.”
Life feels SO short of stable right now. I keep saying that I feel like I’m playing one of those scam games at a carnival… Just feeling short of stable.…
#151 Are you overdoing it?
So the grocery store is now lined with floor to ceiling bags of candy. And this tends to kick off the season of clients coming to me and saying: HOW…
#150 Why Fish Turn Water into Air
A few weeks back, I gave a virtual talk at the Council on Aging in Truro. (My mom was actually my co-host!) I was asked to give this talk to…
#149 Sometimes it is the Simplest of Moves that Sets You Free
“To be near something beautiful or precious but to be unable to experience it is the subtlest possible form of torture.” Robert Johnson Somehow I experienced this with a small…
#148 Find Your Spark
Find Your Spark The last several weeks have been a bit of a struggle. For many reasons, some very obvious that we are all going through, I was having a…
#147 Finding a Place for Sadness
The last few weeks I’ve been talking quite a bit about sadness, struggle, and trying to strike a balance with it all. This week will be no different – and…
#146 “It’s okay, I’m fine.” But in actuality, I’m not.
“It’s okay, I’m fine.” “Yeah, but it could be so much worse.” “It’s all good.” Raise of hands for whoever else has been saying this lately but actually feels like…
#145 The Delicate Balance of Living
The Delicate Balance of Living I had this thought earlier today and put it in my phone as a podcast topic. This delicate balance has been on my mind as…
#144 Enjoying a Massive Glass of Lemonade
Enjoying a Massive Glass of Lemonade Can you feel the smile coming through? I’m smiling because, after another week of the highs and lows, I’m having a moment of realizing…
#143 When Life Feels Like a Big, Scary Experiment
I don’t know about you, but do you feel like life has become one daily experiment after another? Do you find yourself coming up with scenario after scenario of what…
#142 Stepping Away from the Web of Worry
Who else feels like they are living under a tightly woven web of worry these days? Whether the obvious concerns about living during the age of Corona or perhaps debating…
#141 Why change can take so darn LONG!
Change takes so long because we debate it EVERY day. Dang. Is that true or WHAT?! How many times have you decided that you want to make a change in…
#140 Ever think about the FEAR of MISSING out this way?
In my monthly membership group, Get Lively® OnDemand, we are focusing on being more present this month, because well, that is usually a challenge, but add a PANDEMIC to the…
#139 What I learned about myself during a Pandemic
Remember earlier this year when we first received the “stay at home” order for two weeks? And then it got extended, and extended, and extended… I thought that now was…