Booming Encore's Top 10 Posts of 2024
As we look forward to the upcoming year, it’s also a great time to reflect back at where we have been.
2024 was an exciting year at Booming Encore. Our focus of providing information and inspiration to help us all live long, healthy and purposeful lives guided everything we did and we were once again blessed with some amazing contributors generously sharing their expertise and experiences with us all on ways we can do this.
This year we also launched a brand new Booming Encore website so now our extensive content is extremely better organized and displayed.
We also introduced some new initiatives this year. We piloted our first live webinar series on maintaining our brain health along with two new article series - “Ask a Retirement Coach” and “Living Your Best Encore”.
And we would not be doing this if it wasn’t for you! We would like to thank all of you for being part of our Booming Encore community. We truly value you taking the time to read, share and comment on what we publishing. You are the reason for why we do what we do.
So as we look forward to the upcoming year with anticipation, we also wanted to take a quick look back at the top 10 posts that helped make last year so interesting.
#1 – Longevity Lifestyle by Design
The free download of the book, Longevity Lifestyle by Design, is still going strong and was our number one visited page over the entire year. This book truly does reflect everything that we are trying to promote at Booming Encore and outlines a guided process of how to create and live the later year lifestyle that you want.
#2 – Keith Richards: A Great Example of the Work and Longevity Connection
Our second most visited article was about Keith Richards. Mike Drak provided some insight into how someone like Keith Richards could survive decades of hard drug use, drinking and smoking, and eating the wrong foods and still be alive and thriving. Maybe that's where work and purpose come in.
#3 - Fighting The Invisible Woman Syndrome – I Refuse To Be Irrelevant
If you are an older woman and have ever experienced a feeling of being invisible you were probably not imagining it. There is actually something called the invisible woman syndrome. And even though some shifts have started to happen, this still must be happening today as this was again one of our top searched articles on our website.
#4 - A Man on the Inside - Well Worth the Watch
This opinion article on the Netflix series “A Man on the Inside” drew a great deal of attention. Even though it was only published in late November of this year, it quickly shot up on our list of top articles searched and read. This is a great sign that there is definitely an interest in more movies and series that positively present older people in both a realistic and non negative stereotypical manner.
#5 - Eating for Pleasure or Longevity: What's Most Important to You?
There is a significant disconnect between what millions of older people eat and what experts believe is a healthy diet conducive to increased longevity. Why is this? This was the question that Dr. Stephen Golant took a deep dive into to try and understand and seems to have sparked others to wonder the same thing as this article was our fifth highest searched and read article.
#6 - How Standing On One Leg May Indicate How Well You Are Aging
It seems that many people are interested in better understanding and assessing how well they are aging. As a simple test of how standing on one leg seemed to interest many people this past year.
#7 - Ask a Retirement Coach: How Do I Know if I am Emotionally Ready to Retire?
One of our new features this year hit our top 10 list - “Ask a Retirement Coach”. Specifically, many people are often prepared to answer the financial aspects of retirement however the question or being emotionally ready is another that many seem to be pondering and our resident Retirement Coach Toni Petrillo answered this question along with many others.
#8 - Living Your Best Encore: Maria Coffey
Another one of our new features - “Living Your Best Encore” also reached our top 10 list this year. Wendy Reichental is curating the stories of people living their best encores and author, traveler and adventurer Maria Coffey shared her life lessons with us and why she appreciates everyday.
#9 - Watch Out Scammers - AI is Coming For You!
Artificial Intelligence (AI) seemed to be talked about everywhere this past year – and most often not positively. But we shared some good news that seemed to grab people’s attention. We highlighted a story of where AI is being used to help protect us from scammers. Scammers - meet Daisy.
#10 - Why We Need to Get Comfortable Talking About Death
Rounding out our top 10 is a topic that many people will often try and avoid. Talking about death. But it seems that this may be softening as people start to recognize that death is inevitable and getting comfortable talking about death can not only help us but also those we love.
So, as we prepare to welcome the new year and all that it has to offer, we look back with appreciation and gratitude for all that we have accomplished together.
Happy New Year everyone!
