After assembly in a Senior Planet class on Instagram and bonding over shared passions for museums, images and strolling, Debbie (67) and Yuko (62) determined to take all the various tech abilities they’d discovered and put them to make use of by launching a podcast on YouTube.
Getting older with Grace and Objective is an interview-based podcast “the place seniors meet seniors, amplifying the enjoyment of difficult the misconceptions of getting old and enriching our second section of lives with their substantial expertise and knowledge.”
How did the concept of doing a podcast collectively come up?
Debbie: I used to be speaking to Yuko and she or he was telling me about how she was taking coding courses on the New York Public Library on fortieth Avenue.
Yuko: And this library supplied free entry to an expert stage studio, Studio40. I noticed folks going out and in of the studio and I mentioned, “what’s occurring there?” And so they mentioned, “take the orientation, take the entry take a look at and you may have entry.”
Debbie: We had been speaking about how there’s not loads of issues on the market for seniors who like to make use of YouTube. So, then we mentioned, perhaps we should always try this! Plus, we each wished to fulfill different folks, folks we wouldn’t meet in any other case.
What tech abilities have come in useful for you all through this course of?
Yuko: The technical abilities that I discovered at Senior Planet actually helped me. Earlier than taking the Instagram class, I took the Google Suite class at Senior Planet. So, when I’ve questionnaires for the friends, I share them with Google Doc. And the audio recordsdata that we get, we share utilizing Google Suite as effectively. Additionally, the Canva class I took at Senior Planet – that helped me make the video thumbnails.
Debbie: And I’m educating myself GarageBand, which is for music, however we’re utilizing it for the podcast audio. After which I’ve been sitting with Yuko and watching how she edits our movies on iMovie.
Yuko: Modifying alone may very well be tiring and remoted feeling. So, it was nice after we obtained caught collectively one Sunday and Debbie and I had been exchanging concepts whereas modifying. It’s collaborative work.
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Do you will have any targets for the podcast?
Yuko: We need to proceed. Simply not hand over.
Debbie: We need to develop the viewers slowly as a result of that’s one of the best ways to do it.
Yuko: And what’s occurring organically is we’ve change into very near our friends. So, our social community is increasing as effectively.
Debbie: We’re actually assembly several types of folks that you’d usually not run into.
Yuko: Everybody has one thing to inform, their very own story. And we’re having fun with listening to the story in addition to studying from them.
What getting old with angle imply to you?
Yuko: Getting older with angle is similar to our strategy of getting old with grace and goal. To have the angle of not giving up. That I’m not invisible. I’m nonetheless right here.
Debbie: To me, it’s like approaching on a regular basis like somewhat thriller field. Opening it up and saying, “let’s see what life has in retailer for me as we speak.”
You may entry the Getting older with Grace and Objective podcast on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
Pam Hugi is Senior Planet’s Group and Advocacy Supervisor. Primarily based in Brooklyn, she is a contributing author for this web site.