Spotlight: Wylde People: A Discussion on Aging with Mojo!
And there's a total beauty and power to being proud of who you are being true to yourself, no matter how eccentric you may be. And especially if you live more years on this planet because you deserve a medal for how life is. Right now. Today we're going to start a discussion about new aging, which is other concept of self actualization. It's the opposite of shrinking away in a corner and forgetting who you are
Crispin Baynes
@CrispinBaynes · 1:24
And we've also got another baby on the way, a little girl due to be born in April. So I think that's what you call the COVID baby. Anyway, we're very happy about that. All is well here. We actually spent the summer in Greece, where Margaret is from. I had a lovely summer, quiet time with the family and of making baby Baynes, obviously
When you first came up with the concept of wild people and you put it out there in your community. First of all, how old were you and what was other response you got? And what kind of support did you receive? And how is that support living into your project right now
Crispin Baynes
@CrispinBaynes · 5:00
And that makes it easy to build community because we're very focused and we're in a very narrow Lane on the type of people we want to attract, it's not for everybody. While people are generally fairly successful, career wise and emotionally, they are worldly people. They've got agency, they've got humbleness, they are intentional, and they're really pushing forward in their lives. And in many ways, they're only just getting started
And I know you're in New York and you want to expand, but to sort of kick a** in New York is like the first front line goal for sure. I'm thinking when we sort of propagate out ideas, there's different places to do that. I know that you are a writer, you're a blogger, and I know that you have a newsletter and something really adorable is what you do
Crispin Baynes
@CrispinBaynes · 4:26
And if you take that away, then it becomes difficult when we spent time with all of our founding members, one on one. And we were trying to tease out what the programming could look like for the wild one thing they all said they wanted, and they said it in various different ways. But one common theme or a red thread that ran through it was that they were looking for meaningful connection in the community
And I wanted to ask you about your distinction between focusing on longevity and focusing on this idea of new aging, because I'm sure it's come up in your conversations with people around their value system, of what is a meaningful life and to extend a life probably as its own sort of ball of wax, because you probably want to live longer if your life is beautiful and if your life is not beautiful, living can be a very arduous, tiresome process for some people who are in their 70s, 80s, 90s, and they have to make some decisions about how much they want to fight for their life
Crispin Baynes
@CrispinBaynes · 4:02
So the best version of a senior living community that I've heard of is let's get a house and live in it with my friends, which sounds funny, but it's actually a model, and it's a model that we're pursuing and longevity and health span and being happy and healthy and contributing right away until the day we die is something that we really propose and we're fighting for. And I think that's how we define longevity. Bye
Your philosophy is right in line with the whole blue Zone studies when they look at different parts of the world where people are living longer and they're happier. And the combination of health and good eating is right there with leveraging the goodness of people around you. And having that connection and social capital is such a phrase. It's such an interesting phrase and it bumps me a little bit because it sounds so sort of contrived
Crispin Baynes
@CrispinBaynes · 3:52
And the leader there says that most of his people at the end, the question that they're really asking themselves is, Did I love well and was I well loved? And I think using that as a lens to look at how you're making choices in your life, being conscious of the fact that there will be an end and how you want to feel at the end is really death as a destination. And that's something we talk about at the wild
You know, you can't help but be philosophical in these conversations as you just were, and the groundwork that you're doing and speaking with people who run Hospice and looking at the options of people's lives by interviewing them and creating a culture of sharing is really the sort of the pathos I think of wild people, which is to live well and to be consciously aware that there are choices we make
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Crispin Baynes
@CrispinBaynes · 4:58
So we're curating high touch in person experiences, obviously, when covert and travel restrictions lift for our Vanguard of core founder members. The next one is going in Greece in the summer next summer in the Islands, twelve of our members together for eight days across two Islands for a load of talks and fun and dinners and surprises. And that's the thing that we love doing
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 4:10
Your mom sounds fantastic. Intrepid. What a fantastic word. We are in the middle of a spotlight, or actually at the end of a spotlight with Renee Brickenhoff here on Swell. When she was 56, she said, I want to race cars. And eight years later, she's gone to over 18 countries, and she has kicked a**. And she's one in her class. And she is one of the most prominent rally racing women in the world