I<\/span> believe I am defying many stereotypes. I feel as if I have gotten younger and more active in my 60s than ever before.<\/p>\n Besides being in the leadership of our manufacturing and design company, which my husband and I co-founded 27 years ago, I started my own personal development company, called Soul Voice Journeys, last year as a calling. It was a calling to live a life rich in meaning, rich in relationships, and rich in contribution.<\/p>\n I think I have defied stereotypes by changing from an anxious, stressed entrepreneur who battled emotional eating for decades, into an athletic woman who lives life at peak performance. Because of the intensity of my calling, my body is the fuel for active living. The nutrition I live by is for my soul’s journey.<\/p>\n I have defied stereotypes because after having battled emotional eating, I threw away the scale at 60 and have not weighed myself since. I live my life not in numbers, but in feelings. That changed everything.<\/p>\n It changed my relationship with myself, my spirit, my husband, our children, and the friends who have become my extended family. Friends who get the enormity of this journey and how much it has shaped and humbled me. I defy stereotypes because I live each day, each week, and each holiday with such appreciation for so many things I took for granted when I was younger. I literally live Atomic Habits <\/em>by James Clear.<\/p>\n From survival to intentional living, this has become the most profound decade of my life. I believe living a life of both gratitude and contribution has been the significance of what Jane Fonda calls \u201cThe Third Act\u201d, the last period of our time on earth.<\/p>\n I facilitate my staff in living out their dreams and in realizing the fullness of their contributions. It’s a joy to watch them step into the power of who they were truly called to be. I am both mentored and mentoring \u2013 that is the silver wisdom of this journey.<\/p>\n As an older entrepreneur, one of the challenges I faced was transitioning from a stressed workaholic to living a life of far greater intentionality and boundaries. I still work to intense deadlines.<\/p>\n Sometimes I have to work weekends in order to meet the needs of projects and keep the momentum going. But I’m far more deliberate about preserving my sanity and conserving my energy by planning great weekends away, great holidays, and sabbatical breaks. That makes working intensely deeply rewarding.<\/p>\n My silver hair allows me to see everything as lessons. But it wasn’t until I had the courage to tell my story in the rawest and most vulnerable of ways that I truly understood how much entrepreneurship had shaped the lessons that matter in my sixties.<\/p>\n I think if you are older and you dress well and you create a warm and professional first impression, your age can be your superpower. I believe it’s never too late to change your identity. It’s never too late to change the shape of your body or the shape of your soul. It’s never too late to learn a new hobby, to start getting active, to start getting creative, or to start a new company, even in your 60s. Because when life has shaped you, you often become a little bit wiser, a little bit softer, a little bit kinder. We need those leaders in the world today.<\/p>\n So many people feel demoralized by aging and health issues, or they no longer feel useful, and yet these can be the best years of life if you age with grace and strength. I do not believe in anti-aging; I believe in active aging. I go to the gym, swim, and do 4-6 Pilates classes a week. On weekends, I hike or do stand-up paddleboarding. Being active is who I am now.<\/p>\n From a couch potato at 52, I became an athlete for intentional living in my 60s. I do not train for my shape or my weight; I train for strength and mental discipline. I train for peak performance. I train to be the person living as my future self.<\/p>\n In being honest, raw, and vulnerable, we allow others to feel less alone, to feel, above all, that they belong. By speaking about the potential of aging as a superpower, we are building a movement in which we all belong, no matter our age, because of the wisdom we have learned along the way. The wisdom of our silver years can be our defining legacy.<\/p>\n Reinventing life in her 60s with strength and purpose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-2026","category-winter-2026-features"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16856"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17130,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16856\/revisions\/17130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}From Stress to Strength<\/h3>\n
The Power of Intentional Living<\/h3>\n
Turning Silver into Strength<\/h3>\n
Belonging and Legacy<\/h3>\n
Alison Weihe<\/a> is an award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, transformational leadership coach, author, and philanthropist committed to bridging economic, social, and cultural divides. She began her career in South Africa, where she co-founded a manufacturing and design company that grew from a small shed into a multi-award-winning enterprise with 150 employees. Today, she leads Soul Voice Journeys,<\/a> a personal development company focused on purpose, resilience, and intentional living. She is also the author of Belonging,<\/em><\/a> where she shares her journey of leadership, growth, and reinvention.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"