The Get Lively® with Jan podcast

There are a few questions that I get asked a lot. And here’s one of them: Jan, do you eat whatever you want? People ask me that ALL the time. …

We often talk about eating when we are stressed out and how this is something to AVOID. Well, it is if we are eating stuff that is not really that…

Yes, I’m sharing how I gained 5lbs over the weekend. It was actually Super Bowl weekend…  I don’t normally talk about weight, but I knew the mental struggle that I…

I read a great article in the Huffington Post about hitting the Pandemic wall. Who out there feels like they’ve been banging their heads against it for awhile now? I hear…

WHY BOTHER? It’s so easy to feel like the little things we are doing right now don’t matter. It’s so easy to feel like the BIG thing we are doing…

I know, I know, this holiday season is NOT going as planned…  Life is pretty challenging these days, I get it, I’m feeling it too. So that’s why I decided…

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.…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…