1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: Shelly Craft is joining us. Now, Good morning, Shelley. 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: Well, good morning to you both. Thanks so much for 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 2: having me. 4 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: We want to talk about the Aging Project. 5 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 2: Now, oh, when it is a project, it's an ongoing, 6 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 2: forever project. 7 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: Now I'm glad it's not called the aging ordeal. Basically 8 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: that's what we're dealing with. 9 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 2: Isn't it. Well, look, we're trying not to. You know, 10 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,479 Speaker 2: there's a lot of research out there. We hear a 11 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 2: lot of information about how we can stop aging. But 12 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 2: what the Aging Project is really trying to do is 13 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 2: I guess we're a little anti anti aging because it's 14 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 2: not about looking younger and getting younger or acting younger. 15 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,239 Speaker 2: It's about embracing the age we are and finding the 16 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 2: things that are going to work for us in the 17 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 2: next part of our life that possibly, you know, weren't 18 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 2: working beforehand, or have stopped working since we reached you know, 19 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 2: mid bodies. So this is everything from you know, healthy mindset, 20 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 2: healthy body, and making sure that our life span and 21 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 2: our health span run parallel right to the very end. 22 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 2: So you know, I don't know about you. I'm going 23 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 2: for one hundred and twenty and from the research that 24 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 2: we've come across. I believe that it is completely possible. 25 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: I can't afford, Supershower said at another time. 26 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 3: Twenty percent for you. 27 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 2: Super. 28 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: Tell us about some of the guests you've got on Look. 29 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,320 Speaker 2: We're into season two now. So season one was full 30 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 2: of an incredible bunch of people. You know, scientists, doctors, 31 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 2: experts in aging, well, everything from meditation right through to 32 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 2: I guess, getting a life plan for yourself. Doctor Frank Lippman, 33 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 2: who I guess is the father of holistic medicine, was 34 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 2: one of our guests in season one, and season two 35 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 2: is full of the same. We've got experts from around 36 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 2: the globe that are doing the research for us. I'm 37 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 2: very much a novice in this space. Obviously, I'm just 38 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 2: getting older, so I'm one of the ones who wants 39 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 2: to hear and learn and absorb all the infomme that 40 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 2: I can. So we talk everything from as I said, 41 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 2: healthy lifestyle. Of course, keeping your body mobile. And that 42 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 2: doesn't mean, you know, taking up marathon running by any means. 43 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 2: That just means staying as flexible and as mobile as 44 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 2: you possibly can, and that could be simple things like 45 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 2: brushing your teeth, standing on one foot just to make 46 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 2: sure that your balance stays as good as it can 47 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 2: be as you get older. It's stretching in the morning, 48 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 2: it's starting with a walk, it's having positive mindsets. And 49 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 2: as I said, we've got a range of fabulous gifts 50 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 2: that talk us through all of those. And I'm like 51 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 2: a little sponge, just sucking it all in. And I 52 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 2: do get quite carried away with some of our guests. 53 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,119 Speaker 2: I'm like, right, I'm on this train and my kids 54 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 2: are like, oh no, mom, what are we doing this week? 55 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 2: And like that there it's broccoli for the next week. 56 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 2: We'll savors from cancer. But we're doing it. So you know, 57 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 2: it's about trial and error and finding what works for 58 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 2: you with the guidance of some experts the way, and 59 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 2: I'm sure you'll find something that you resonate with and 60 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 2: others that you go, yeah, that's just not for me. 61 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 2: But hopefully we keep going and we find something that 62 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 2: you love. 63 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 1: Do you find that one of the sexes embraces aging 64 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 1: more easily than the other? 65 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 2: Any chance? 66 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 1: Well, one of us, one of us. 67 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 3: I don't know what you're talking about. 68 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,959 Speaker 1: I'm thinking men maybe are a bit sort of more 69 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: comfortable with it than women. 70 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 2: Oh look, I think they just don't think about it 71 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: as as we do. Yeah, they probably, you know, just 72 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 2: brush off those aches and pains as it was. It 73 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 2: was a big night out, whereas we think, oh, is 74 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 2: there something more sinister about it? Or do I need 75 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 2: to put some thought into this? And I'd love to 76 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 2: say the Aging Project is taking the thought out of it. 77 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 2: You just got to tune in, find what works for 78 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 2: you and you'll be on your merry way. 79 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 3: When you first thought about putting the Aging Project together, 80 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 3: I'll take it was a couple of years ago. If 81 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 3: you were season two, you're talking about a podcast. But 82 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 3: how did you want to separate yourself from those who 83 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 3: just want to be influencers and flog products and be 84 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 3: influential in that way with their associated social media accounts. 85 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 2: Oh that's one of the beautiful things, clerzy that come 86 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 2: through age, isn't it. You want to be real. So 87 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 2: we've got to embrace all the positives of aging, and 88 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 2: influencing isn't one of them. 89 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: I think the best thing about aging is that you 90 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: just don't give a hoot so much about some of 91 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: the things that you used to care so much about. 92 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: You just don't care about. 93 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 2: Look and that's at about this. It is so liberating 94 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 2: and I think it was one of the greatest epiphanies 95 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,360 Speaker 2: of my life and it happened probably ten years ago. 96 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 2: I'd like to sales an early bloomer in that regard. So, 97 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,720 Speaker 2: you know what, it just doesn't matter. You've got the 98 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 2: people around you who love you for who you are. 99 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 2: And in television it's always been that for me. I 100 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 2: was lucky enough to start off in kids TV and 101 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 2: kids are so much more critical than adults it comes 102 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 2: to what they like and what they don't like. And 103 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 2: they were so honest and open. You know, you'd meet 104 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 2: them at the shows, and you'd meet them at live 105 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,479 Speaker 2: events and they'd go, oh, really didn't like what you're 106 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 2: wearing last week? Or what have you done to your hair? 107 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 2: Or these six year olds, you know, absolutely ragging us 108 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 2: for everything that we did. And I learned very early, 109 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,359 Speaker 2: but fifty percent of the people fifty percent of the time. 110 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 2: So if you neither pretend to be someone you're not 111 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 2: to please fifty percent, well you can just be who 112 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 2: you are and take the mob that love you so 113 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 2: who you are. And yeah, I hope that sort of 114 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 2: held me quite well throughout my career, that people are 115 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 2: going to love you, people aren't going to like you. 116 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 2: Who cares, do what you want to see who you 117 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:39,039 Speaker 2: are and just get on with it. 118 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: Was it Oscar Wild that said be yourself? Everyone else 119 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: has taken it might have been can we talk a little? 120 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:52,679 Speaker 1: Can we talk quickly about the block? It's regional. How's 121 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:53,239 Speaker 1: that going? 122 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 2: Interesting? 123 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 4: It's going to make good Kelly, Oh my goodness, you 124 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 4: know it was. It's something that has been on the 125 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 4: minds of our production team for a few years and 126 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 4: I think it's timed out beautifully with with code. If 127 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 4: anything timed. 128 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 2: Out well with COVID, it was that tree change idea, 129 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 2: possibly working from home, more appreciating your environment and just 130 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 2: needing space around you. So as far as us going 131 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 2: to a you know, around end of July early August, 132 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 2: it really is sort of showcasing what rural life could 133 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 2: be like. We're in Gisbon, which is about forty minutes 134 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 2: northwest of Melbourne, CBD, and the contestants have ten acres 135 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 2: each to work with, still in the same timeframe, still 136 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,159 Speaker 2: with tight budgets, still with all the drama that comes 137 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,239 Speaker 2: with every season of the Block, just ten times bigger 138 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 2: than it has been before, so look for all your 139 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 2: blockheads out there. It is an ad sort of cracker 140 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 2: of a series. We've got some fabulous characters on board, 141 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 2: but the challenge is very different this time. You know, 142 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 2: they still are producing a room a week for the judges, 143 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 2: but all those extra elements of I guess, like everyone 144 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 2: in the building industry and home renow space is feeling 145 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 2: at the moment, you know, product shortages, difficulty finding tradees. 146 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 2: Add the rural essence into that, and everything's just that 147 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 2: a little bit harder, a little bit trickier. And why 148 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 2: not chuck in a Melbourne winter, you know? 149 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 3: And there wasn't there a couple that left after a 150 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 3: week to go home and listen to the Aging Project podcast? 151 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 2: Can you deny that they need some wise words for me? 152 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 2: I don't think they even lasted a week. Oh really, 153 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 2: The Block's not for everybody, And we say it every year. 154 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 2: Who on Earth auditions for this show? Like, there's so 155 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 2: many other ways to get you fifteen minutes, The Block 156 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 2: is not one of them. You've really got to dig 157 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 2: deep and yeah, we see that as it should be. 158 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 2: You know, people have just gone, oh wow, this is 159 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 2: this is tougher than I thought. 160 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: All Right, we can get the aging project now, and 161 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: it sounds like the new season of the Block, which 162 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: kicks off soon, will age some of the arch acres 163 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: in it this year. Shelley, lovely to talk to you. 164 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 2: Thank you so much, guys, anytime, have a good one. 165 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 3: You live into one twenty, We'll catch up plenty of 166 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 3: times between down there and all the best. 167 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 4: Let's do it.