THE GROWING BOLDER AWARDS LESLEY STAHL ON GRANDPARENTING
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DIANA NYAD'S EPIC JOURNEY A NEW START FOR TONI TENNILLE
HAVING A BRASS BLAST At 81, Herb Alpert is Still an Artist Who's Always Willing to Take a Risk.
CONTENTS SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2016
Herb Alpert reflects on his 42year partnership in love and music with his wife, Lani Hall.
FEATURE
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DEPARTMENTS 5 | FROM THE EDITOR
6 | GROWING BOLDER WITH ... 7 | THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH Betty Lindberg, 91, races into the record books. By Marc Middleton
12 18 | GROWING BOLDER FINANCIAL INSTITUTE The real risk of outliving your money. By Jeannette Bajalia
Herb Albert says to live in the present and always take risks. BY BILL SHAFER
30 | THE TAKEAWAY Truly, madly, deeply loving grandchildren. By Lesley Stahl THE GROWING BOLDER AWARDS LESLEY STAHL ON GRANDPARENTING
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8 | MOVE FORWARD. GIVE BACK. ® Three-time cancer survivor swims for a cause. By Marc Middleton 9 | ROAD TO RECOVERY If you want to keep moving, you have to keep moving. By Robert Masson, M.D. 10 | 5 QUESTIONS Diana Nyad’s advice for living a life without regrets. By Jackie Carlin 4 GROWING BOLDER
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20 | BOLDER HEALTH How opioid dependence worsened the heroin epidemic. By Jackie Carlin 24 | NEVER TOO LATE ® Why Toni Tennille had to leave the Captain to find happiness. By Bill Shafer 26 | REBRANDING AGING ™ Sela Ward is confident and courageous at 60. By Jackie Carlin 28 | SURVIVING & THRIVING ® Reggie Williams and the power of persistence. By Marc Middleton
DIANA NYAD'S EPIC JOURNEY A NEW START FOR TONI TENNILLE
HAVING A BRASS BLAST At 81, Herb Alpert is Still an Artist Who's Always Willing to Take a Risk.
ON THE COVER: Herb Alpert has not only recorded countless hit records, he's also helped launch the careers of iconic artists at A&M Records, which he co-founded. Today, Alpert continues to pursue his passions for music, painting and sculpture. Cover and Table of Contents photos by Dewey Nicks. SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2016
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POWER AND POSSIBILITY
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5 QUESTIONS Diana Nyad, at 64, was already firmly established as one of the greatest long-distance swimmers ever — but she had one major goal still to achieve.
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NEVER, EVER GIVE UP
Diana Nyad
was one the world’s greatest long-distance swimmers in the 1970s, but she had an even bigger dream: to become the first person to swim from Cuba to the U.S. without a shark cage. It took her five tries and 35 years, but she achieved that dream in 2013 at the age of 64. Out of the water, she’s been a national sports broadcaster and journalist, a powerful motivational speaker and a bestselling author. Her new memoir is called Find a Way: The Inspiring Story of One Woman’s Pursuit of a Lifelong Dream.
Diana, congratulations again on your achievement! Take us back to your first attempt in 1978. Where did this idea come from, and what happened then?
When I was a kid, in my 20s, I held a number of open-water world records. But Cuba was always bigger than sport for me. Cuba, in my mind, was having to touch every fiber of your potential, dig down to every drop of your courage. It was like the emblem of living life large. At 28, I was brash and cocky. I walked down to the shore and said, “Hey sharks, get out of my way.” And 42 hours later, I was humbled. That’s a vast, dangerous wilderness out there. People had been trying to do it since 1950, and I found out the hard way why nobody had ever made it. So I thought I had to leave that dream behind. What changed? What made you go for it again, much later in life?
When I was 30, like with most world-class athletes, I thought it was time to retire and move on to some other aspect of my life. I worked as a sports broadcaster for all those years. But as I approached 60, my mom died and I kept thinking back to my meeting several years earlier with Christopher Reeve. He had a lot to say about regrets, and not leaving anything behind while you can still do it. I just thought, “You know what, I’m going to go back and I’m going to feel alive, awake and alert. I’m going to chase that big, maybe impossible, dream of mine — Cuba.” GROWINGBOLDERMAGAZINE.COM
You spent several years training before making your second attempt in 2011. Unfortunately, you weren’t able to finish. Two more unsuccessful attempts followed, each time covered by the national media. Did you start to think it was time to give up and find another milestone to chase?
I didn’t, but everybody around me did. I wasn’t approaching this in an immature “I’m going to show you” or “I told you so” way. My teammates, who had been through hell and high water with me, thought if anyone could have made it, it would have been me — but it just couldn’t be done. Mother Nature is raging on steroids across that area with the currents, the sharks, the jellyfish and the eddies. The weather is unpredictable; winds come off Africa from 7,000 miles away, and blow the dust from the Sahara Desert across the north shore of Cuba. It’s just a crazy wilderness out there. I’ll tell you the truth; I never lost faith in it. CNN joked after a while that I was going to be 90, and still trying to do this. On your fifth attempt, you reached Key West on September 2, 2013, after swimming 110 miles in 53 hours. When you stumbled up on the beach, you delivered a heartfelt and totally spontaneous speech to the hundreds gathered on the shore. Can you tell us about that?
In all those long, lonely, grueling hours of training, I admit one of the things I did to take my mind off the grind of it all was to imagine the great oration I would make when I finally made it to that other shore. But it didn’t work out like that. I was dazed emotionally and whipped physically. When I got up there, words just came spilling out. The first were, “Never, ever give up.” And then I said, “You’re never too old to chase your dreams.” I think that’s true of every age. We’re all living on this one-way street. Someday you’ll get to the end — and your goal is to not look back and say, “I should have, I could have, I wish I had.” The way to do that? Don’t believe that age is a limitation. I truly think I’m a better athlete in my 60s than I was in my 20s. What can the rest of us take away from your experiences?
The moral of the tale is, it doesn’t matter what you’re fighting. It might be cancer. Maybe you lost your job, or you’re dealing with a difficult teenager. Or maybe you always said you’d write that great American novel, but you never did and stuffed the dream into the back of a drawer. If you just don’t give up, you will arrive on your own distant shore.
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Herb Alpert is the only musician ever to have No. 1 records as both a vocalist and an instrumentalist. He's also helped other legendary artists launch their careers.
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Herb Albert Says to Live in the Present and Always Take Risks.
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