Joining us on this episode is award-winning journalist and author Steven Petrow. You may know Steven's work from The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, All Things Considered and many other media outlets. His TED Talk called, "Three Ways to Practice Civility" has been seen close to two million times.

Steven's latest book is for everyone facing aging and the people—their adult children, in particular,—who love them. It's called, Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old: A Highly Judgmental, Unapologetically Honest Accounting of All the Things Our Elders Are Doing Wrong .

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Steven Petrow: ...we can age in our own way