👂 Do you ever stop growing up? In How to Age Up, Atlantic Staff Writer Yasmin Tayag and Producer Natalie Brennan — alongside a roster of other guest hosts from The Atlantic — take on podcast episodes breaking down all sorts of aging stereotypes, spill some unfiltered tea on how society perceives aging, and give some pretty solid advice on how to keep on growing up as you grow older.

Across eight seasons, How to Age Up answers pivotal questions like how to start over when you think it’s too late, how to identify what you enjoy best and do it, and how to make a house a home at every stage in life. The podcast is seasonal, and each season typically follows a different thematic take on aging, but the core message does not change — there is beauty in being mortal, and that it’s never too late to change for the better. Each episode features insights from experts across myriad industries, imparting their learned — and often peer reviewed — wisdom.

Can you face your own morality? In one particular episode, former Atlantic reporter Becca Rashid and American academic Ian Bogost discuss one of life’s trickiest questions — can we truly hold onto time? What ensues is a discussion on what it means to save your memories, from BeReals to time capsules, and the question: how has time documentation changed across generations? And why are we so obsessed with documenting everything?

“We’re not designed to remember everything.” The episode titled Can We Keep Time features insights from American author Sarah Manguso and UC Davis Professor of Psychology Charan Ranganath. Ranganath notes that not all memories should be documented, and that our minds know which memories to keep, and which to leave on the backburner. The discussion then veers into the human desire to hold everything that has ever happened to us close to heart, and how we try to make that happen in the 21st century — and whether or not we should.

WHERE TO LISTEN- You can find How to Age Up on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Amazon Music.

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