Thriving Beyond Challenges: Crafting Hope and Intentional Community
Kathy Tarochione, a trailblazing digital artist and entrepreneur, is redefining life at 78. After personal loss and health battles, she now empowers women 55+ to live with purpose. As founder of the Golden Life Community and creative force behind The Golden Connections and Voices, Kathy is building spaces where mature women thrive. Her mantra—“It’s never too late to reinvent yourself”—drives her mission to fight isolation with creativity, connection, and courage.
In this episode of ‘Age of Reinvention: Redefine Freedom, Lifestyle, and Purpose at Midlife,’ host Emily Bron introduces Kathy Tarochione, a 78-year-old entrepreneur, community leader, and digital artist based in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Despite facing significant health challenges and the loss of her husband, Kathy uses her adversity to empower women over 55 through the Golden Life community. She shares her story of resilience, her meeting with Mother Teresa, and her ongoing efforts to combat depression, anxiety, and loneliness among older women. Kathy discusses her philosophy of positive thinking, her experiences in various professional fields, and her passion for helping others. She also delves into the impactful role of digital art in her life and the innovative initiatives like the Golden Connections and the planned Golden Spaces that aim to provide meaningful connections and support to mature women. Join us for an inspiring conversation filled with wisdom, resilience, and a profound sense of purpose.
TIMESTAMPS:
01:25 Kathy’s Journey: From Healthcare to Helping Women
03:40 A Life-Changing Encounter with Mother Teresa
07:18 Overcoming Health Challenges with Positivity
11:46 The Golden Life Community and Dog Connection
12:43 Navigating a Man’s World in Healthcare
20:01 Resilience Through Adversity
29:51 The Burden of Elderly Care on Women
30:50 Introducing the Golden Life Community
31:08 Challenges of Aging in Place
34:55 Cultural Perspectives on Elderly Care
36:42 Exploring Assisted Living Options in Mexico
40:35 Designing Golden Spaces for Women
45:06 The Birth of the Golden Life Community
50:07 Kathy’s Journey and Advocacy
55:53 Golden Voices and the Mudroom Concept
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Emily Bron: Welcome to another episode of Age of Reinvention. Redefine Freedom, Lifestyle, and Purpose at Midlife. I’m your host, Emily Bron, and today we have an extraordinary guest who embodies the essence of reinvention and resilience. Joining us is Kathy Tarochione. Welcome. A 78 year old entrepreneur, community leader, and digital artist based in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
After a 34 year career in healthcare and the tragic loss of her husband, Kathy faced daunting health challenges. Yet, she used her adversity as fuel to empower women over 55 years old through the Golden Life Community. Her innovative initiatives, like the Golden Connections and the planned Golden Spaces, aim to combat depression and anxiety.
Anxiety and loneliness among all the women at the same time. Her beautiful digital art celebrates mature woman and their pets. Get ready to be inspired by Kathy’s incredible journey, her unwavering positive mindset and her community driven spirit. So sit back, relax and enjoy. And dive into a conversation filled with inspiration and purpose.
Hello, Kathy. I’m so happy to see you and your smile
Kathy Tarochione: today. Good morning, Emily. I’m so happy to be here as well. I can’t wait to share my magnificent journey through this body and in this life. And as a strong woman, just like you are, I am blessed. Looking forward to it. Thank you. Good start.
Emily Bron: And okay, Kathy, your life journey and professional adventures were running as well as the animal shelter to founding the Golden Life Community is fascinating.
What was the driving force behind this? In other transitions
Kathy Tarochione: for you? My the most important and the best driving force that I ever had was that I had the opportunity to meet Mother Teresa in 19 1996 and I met her in Calcutta. I was chosen to be part of a health care delegation to go to India and I was honored to meet her in her own place in her office.
And I might mention that in Calcutta, when you go to Mother Teresa’s office, you go up this stairway that is so small, somebody that’s fat would, would not be able to fit going up to it. But she was up there very modest. I’m five foot seven. And she came up to my breast area.
She walked on her ankles. And she she was just a beautiful person when I was there and she knew that I was there in support of battered women. So there was a domestic violence, supporting women, supporting animals, and then also supporting AIDS victims. This was something that was close to her.
So when I was leaving, she came down the stairs. And she wanted to come up and give me a hug, and also she took my face in her hands, and I asked her, What is it that that you do? Why are you so successful at what you do? And she told me that she never looks back, that she only looks in front of her, and whatever she sees, if there’s someone in need, she acts on it.
So with that in mind, I have followed that through the years. Now I didn’t realize it until that time in 1996, that years earlier, when I had been working with helping animals, I was one of the types that was an animal advocate, or if I saw somebody that was in need, whether it be a a woman or a man or someone that was in need, I was always there to offer help.
I’m the type that couldn’t go back, go by a homeless person without giving them something. And it didn’t have to be money. It could be a ride, it could be find shelter, it could be clothing, it could be housing, it could be whatever. But I always found that wherever I had lemons in my life or catastrophes, whatever lesson I learned from that, I was always willing to give back based on my own personal experiences.
So if you think of just that one common thread through my entire life, I helped animals because I helped those that were in need. If I saw an animal that was being abused or if they were chained to a fence they didn’t have, Proper shelter. I was there to take action to get something done, getting animal control to come out, getting them out of that environment and getting them into a home where they would be loved.
So through the years I did, I had all these episodes in my life that allowed me to take action to help other people. Does that make sense?
Emily Bron: Absolutely. It’s an amazing story. And I really recognize that you had already some You know flame inside as a personality because it’s cannot for some people It’s come after some event and you’ve had several events in your life and meeting with mother Teresa, it’s one of them like big influencers, but you already such a person who reflect different needs probably or different tune to the pain of other people and still My next question, amid significant health challenges, you have continued to lead and inspire.
What roles, role does your philosophy of positive thinking play in your daily life and work?
Kathy Tarochione: What a great question. I can say that, My health has been a major issue for me in the last actually 20 years. It’s diminishing and it continues to keep diminishing. I feel like it’s just being chipped away.
I get more and more challenges. And the more challenges that I have, the deterioration of my health comes into it. And my world becomes smaller and smaller to where I am today, to a place where I’m literally homebound. And I really can’t get out. I have a for your audience so that they know I have it severe COPD, congestive heart failure, rheumatoid arthritis, AFib, and bradycardia.
So I, and I just got out of the hospital having COVID pneumonia. I was in intensive care for two and a half weeks and they didn’t think that I would make it. But then again, I was in the hospital. I went to and a half years ago, and at that time they told me I wouldn’t make it and to put my affairs in order.
So I keep overcoming the statistics and the odds, and I believe that’s all because of my positive attitude. I don’t look at being unwell as suffering. I look at it as a challenge okay, so am I uncomfortable? Sure, I’m uncomfortable. Do I have these things? Yeah. But, what is, where’s the prize? Where’s the prize?
And the prize for me is that I can help other women. Because for everything that happens to me, think about it Emily, everything that happens to me, For anybody in your audience that is listening and they hear it and they might say, Oh my God, that’s me too. I feel that too. If I can resonate with them on any level, even for one minute or 30 seconds of whatever my story is, then I’ve helped someone for that day.
And I call it making it through the rain. We all have our times when we, Are in the rain. We’re in the storm. We don’t know how to get out of it. We have all these issues going on and we look to others to help us out of the rain when it’s so easy to be able to help yourself out. Just pick yourself up, dust yourself off and say, Okay, you know what?
I made it through. I’m still here. May have a little bit more problems, might have to take some additional medication, might have to do some additional meditation too, and make myself stronger. But the healing process, to me, is about mental strength. It’s not about physical strength. If you don’t have, and if I should really say, and I don’t want to stereotype anyone else, but if I don’t build myself up to have a mental strength that makes me happy with who I am, love who I am, and be able to look in the mirror every morning and say, Hi, Kath, glad you’re still here.
And what are we going to do today that we’re going to feel good about ourselves? Because that’s how I look at it. If I can do something to help somebody else, that makes me feel good. And I want to do things that are going to make me feel good.
Emily Bron: Thank you. It was an amazing answer. And I would add only what I understand in addition to your life philosophy and personality.
It’s a sense of purpose. It’s probably this, yes I even cannot say the meaning and purpose of helping others. It’s what give you energy and power to go
Kathy Tarochione: on. It’s funny because there’s a lot of people that say things like God helps those who help themselves and just and I don’t want to bring religion or even spirituality or anything into it.
But the truth is that yes, we can help ourselves, but at times we do need others not to have them. Fix us, but to share with us, one of the reasons why we you’re going to go into the golden life community. So when you go into that, I’ll explain about that. I know you have your agenda set.
Okay.
Emily Bron: Yeah yes, we will speak about your amazing community at the end, because I really would like to put special attention to this, it’s not a topic it’s bigger than life, I would say, and I’m still now, at the beginning, trying to uncover who is Cathy. And going a little bit back you’ve been involved in diverse sectors from health care to pet media production and later to the golden age community.
What are some of the most significant lessons you’ve learned across these different industries, I would say, or different life directions?
Kathy Tarochione: Early on, I learned that it was a man’s world and that the man ruled. In my, now I’m 78 years old, so in my day and age it was always the fun thing to go and take the client out to dinner, have a few drinks have some fun.
It was party time for a woman to be in the healthcare industry or in any industry for that matter. In a managerial or in an executive position, it was very far and few between. So having to get up to that level meant that I had to de sex myself. I had to have people view me. As a person, not as a man or as a woman, and get them to listen to what I had to say, not what I look like or what my gender or my race or my sex was.
And that was a significant thing. That was a lesson that I was able to do. And because of that, I was successful in the healthcare industry because Trying to talk with physicians is very difficult if you don’t have respect. So the respect, the trust, the loyalty, and the knowledge. Of how to do that was very important.
So my messaging was always very clear. I’m here to help you. Either you wanna listen to me or you don’t.
just that simple
Emily Bron: Okay. Yeah. I think you puzzled your vis-a-vis
Kathy Tarochione: Yeah. Which is really true because you know you, you can’t tell the physician, or you can’t tell a man for that matter. You can’t really tell them very readily that they need help. They have to recognize that they need help, and then they will seek whatever you have to offer. And if you, if they’re comfortable with who you are, and they’re comfortable with what you have to say and your purpose, and your reasoning, and you’re not in it for this, quote, money, you’re in it for the actual solution then it works.
So that’s the biggest lesson that I have learned in my entire life and I’ve carried that through. Now, don’t get me wrong, Emily, have I been successful at everything I’ve ever done? No, but I believe that whether I made money or not, if I made a difference in someone’s life, then I was successful. So I would say that the majority of the attempts that I have made to help others have been my successes.
It’s not about how much money I made, what kind of a house I have, what kind of a car I have what environment I live in. It’s, Who are the people that respect me, honor me and look at me as though I am someone that has helped them through the rain. And I love wearing that badge. It’s a badge of courage for a woman.
It’s a badge of loyalty. I’m a great golden friend. I’m wonderful at being able to sit and help someone without trying to fix them, and I love that. And that’s my 18 year old dog. That’s Charlie. Yes. It’s supporting you. He is. He is,
Emily Bron: exactly. And question about different aspect of your multidimensional life.
I know that you’ve had and probably still have dog show. Yes? Podcast. How do your live shows for pets and golden life community contribute to the purpose and wellness of women in their golden
Kathy Tarochione: years. Okay like I said, I’ve been an animal advocate for 58 years, primarily dogs.
And I’ve also run a shelter, I’ve run foster foster rescue plans, and I’ve always been actively involved. In 2012, I started broadcasting the Dog Connection show and this was a show that was just, I’m sorry, Charlie, this was a show that was designed to help people how to live their life. Much happier if they learn from a dog.
So the way we created it was from a dog’s perspective So we would have I would do a little talking heads of dogs and I would do things I’d love to show them to you But I’ll give you a link so you could share them with people and it was things like the dog is Sitting and going wait a minute.
Wait a minute. Why are you upset that I pooped in the house? No, it’s not your, it’s not my problem. It’s your problem because I went to the door. I tried to let you know you decided not to notice me and there it came out. I couldn’t help it. You’re the fault. Oh, don’t you want to hit me? No, I don’t think so.
Don’t hit me. Hit yourself. So it was things like that. And I would create these characters and it really resonated with people. But what I found was that in the Dog Connection show, when we did our analysis and our statistics, 87 percent of our audience was women over 55. So when we went into the Golden Life community, which was based on my own personal experiences, I realized that we have to bring the dog connection into the Golden Life community, because what better mascot than a dog for an aging woman?
And a mature woman. What a great model. What a great companion. So we encourage all women to, even if it’s a stuffed animal, to have a dog, have some kind of a being that is there that can be there for you. So the two came close together, and what happened was the Golden Life Community purchased the company, which is my company, Picture Moment Pet Production, so it purchased it, so now it’s part of the Golden Life Community.
So when we do a show, the show is geared towards aging with a dog. And how people can, how, especially an older woman, she’s worried about, gee, I don’t want to, I don’t want to adopt a puppy and she probably couldn’t adopt a puppy because of her age. But if she did decide that she wanted to it might be from a rescue.
There’s a lot of challenges with that because of, if you’re not in a position where you can walk the dog. The dog and they’ve got a lot of energy and they might destroy things and all that. There’s a lot of precautions that have to be made. So we recommend adopt an older dog, adopt a senior dog or one that will age with you.
We’ll be slower. We’ll be there. We’ll be by your side and we’ll support you. So we’re currently working right now on trying to provide a foster program that will give food. Medical care and help to any senior or any woman that is part of our community that will adopt or even foster one of these animals and the care will be taken care of in terms of financially.
Are you still running this show about dopes? Yes, huh, yes, yeah. Now, I was out of commission for a while, as I mentioned, because I became unwell, and that took me out, so I’m just getting back on my feet now. And I might add, too, that I also had a stroke at the same time I had COVID pneumonia. It’s been a battle, and believe me, Emily, when you get older like this, it’s like, there must be a reason why I’m still here, there has to be a reason, because the doctors were coming in, I almost died three times, and they were astounded that I was still here.
You proved them several times that they’re wrong. A lot. A lot. Really? Yeah. And the truth is that they had, they put me on so much medication and it was like they had me on steroids and then the steroids caused my glucose to go up and then my glucose went up to almost to 500 and then they had to give me insulin shots.
I never had any problems before. But what happened was COVID attacked every single organ, I shouldn’t say every single, my pancreas, my kidneys, my liver, and my heart, and it came after me with a vengeance, and the second I thought I was going to do better, boom, it would hit me again, and I could not function, I died.
Just couldn’t function. And I felt like I was living in a different body. I didn’t even recognize myself. Now I belong to a long COVID group because they say I have long COVID. And I’m learning a lot from these women. I got it, got a a rash. They call it the COVID stress rash. And that’s from all the stresses.
It’s just like hives. Or like shingles. It’s got the itches. It’s got all of that stuff. And the, oh man, and I’m losing my hair, all of the, all of these things that you wouldn’t think would come with COVID. So what am I doing now? I’m also helping women that have gone through COVID. And I decided to join this group.
And now in this part of the Golden Life community, we’re going to invite women that have, that have experienced long COVID. And there’s a ton of them.
Emily Bron: God bless you, Kathy. And I’m just wondering how women find you, or you’re so known in this circles that because you are at home.
So you communicating mostly online, I believe. Yes. People, the women coming to,
Kathy Tarochione: Yes. And also I strongly believe in I have a strong spiritual path and I believe in energy and I believe in manifestation. So I’m like a manifestation station. Power powerhouse
Emily Bron: actually.
Kathy Tarochione: Yeah.
Yes. Which means that it seems as though I the energy that I get from people are energy that seek my services or seek what I, I. I do for them, and then they want me to be on their show or something like that. Now, because of my age and my physical limitations, I can’t do as much as I would like to do.
As an example, when I wake up every morning, I think, as I told you, I look in the mirror and I say, Good morning, Kathy. And I smile and I say, What are we going to do today to help someone else? I got a laundry list. Emily, of all the people that I could help, and I’ve got 15, 20 things, and I have a wonderful brother that he will come forward and he’ll say, Kath, take it easy, take it slow.
You don’t need to do it. Because many of the people that, I had hundreds of people that were following me when I was in the hospital, when they didn’t hear from me, they thought I was dead. They thought I had died and so therefore when you’re out of sight and you’re out of mind, because we’re talking a couple of months that I was absent.
And when you’re gone, they think, oh, but their life goes on. So when I came back in, it was like a whole new entrance and I had to let them know I was alive, but still hasn’t resonated. So now I’m back on What can I do to let them know? So I’m preparing some stories and I’m preparing some things that are letting them know I’m here and let’s resonate with each other.
Let’s share each other’s stories again. So that’s where I am. So I picked myself up and starting all over. So in answer to your question, in terms of the audience, they lost sight of me and they lost track of me. I’ve got a heavy following on a lot of social media just on the dark connection alone.
We got over 300, 000 fans on that we’ve got on LinkedIn. I’ve got quite a number on there and Twitter and Instagram and. We’re pretty well out there, but if you don’t post, if you don’t have content, if you don’t let people know that you’re there, they lose sight of it and then you’re out of the picture.
So I have to go back into that now.
Emily Bron: Who is helping you to manage all this social media and other like aspects of your podcast? Golden Age, there is some
Kathy Tarochione: team support? We did Yeah we did have a lot of volunteers that came forward in the beginning, and then when I became ill, everyone thought, seriously, Emily, everybody thought it’s going to fall because Kathy isn’t around.
And then we realized, Oh, my God, I have to have a successor because for investors to get involved, they’ve got to know that it’s not all about me. And that’s a difficult thing to do. So we’ve been diligently looking for a successor for me. And we’re also looking at those that, those women that want to come forward that may be interested in an equity position, on a sweat equity position where they can help and work with us, but the women that were involved with us to begin with until I got sick, they did Remarkable job of getting the social media out, getting things together.
I do have a VA Jolly Beth. She is wonderful. And she has been with me for a year and a half now. Then with us, I should say I have turned over the the main focus to my partner, who is Scott Winton, and he has taken it over because he knows that I’m limited. You know what my role is now?
And what my role is just to go out and tell my story. So I’m a happy camper with that.
Emily Bron: And actually, it’s very interesting because, again, everyone is speaking about storytelling as a tool, as a topic, as a, but again, your stories really warming the heart, I would say, and it’s not la land, it’s so close to life and real issues.
But with all this, I believe that as a live broadcaster and producer for years you know how to do it. But how do you ensure that content is safe? is still engaging and responsible in these days and times when people are so distracted by different, social media and different news, sometimes harsh news coming from everywhere.
Kathy Tarochione: What I do seriously is I research what the topics are that are, that women are really looking at. Looking at, and I don’t want to say keywords, but topics that really want to resonate with women and not so much resonate with them today, but what is holding them back that they weren’t able to do?
In the past, and they still want to do it, but they say I’m too old. I’m not able to. What is it that held them up? What blockage was that came in and maybe they go to a psych, maybe they go to a therapist of some kind or whatever, but if they open up to a group of women and they share that story, you’d be amazed at how the doors open for them and the healing begins.
Because now they’ve looked at the things that have hurt them, the things that have bothered them. So that’s what I look at. What are the topics that We really don’t want to talk about what we know are there. You can go to all of these things where you talk about makeup, you talk about fashion, you talk about travel, you talk about all these things, but what about the nitty gritty?
What’s the thing that is really holding you back that is bothering you? And that’s what I get on. So for instance, I am a tic tac er. Really? Yeah, I’m a tic tac er. Yeah.
Emily Bron: Okay, nice surprise.
Kathy Tarochione: I did a, right before I went into the hospital, I did a tic tac er because one of the issues that is a big major thing from women between 55 and 50 85 for that matter is what are we going to do with mom and the women will not face that because they got the kids to take care of, they’ve got everything.
But all of a sudden, a woman that’s 55 is looking at her mother and thinking, Oh my God, she just fell. She had, she broke her hip. She’s in the hospital. She needs to come in rehab. Who’s going to take care of mom. When she comes out, who’s going to take care what is going to be needed? All of a sudden she starts getting dementia, or she starts getting, there’s all these issues, what are we going to do with mom?
Although a husband and wife make the decision for her mom or for her mother in law, it generally is the woman that ends up having to handle it all, putting all the plan and everything together. And the truth is, If you look at your mother and you’re happy with where she’s at right now, then God bless.
But if you look at her and you don’t have a clue of how she’s going to be taken care of or what’s going to happen, then you’re in deep trouble. You better look at it now and take a look at
Emily Bron: What do you mean look up? To plant some
Kathy Tarochione: Again how many women don’t know where they’re going to put their mother?
If something happens to her and the mother is going to say, guaranteed, I don’t want to go anywhere. I want to agent. I want to age in place. I want to stay in my own home. So who does the daughter pick up a phone and call or go on to the Internet and search for it? There is no organization, but there is now you mean your organization.
The Golden Life Community yes. Oh, you’re dealing with this aspect as well? We’re dealing with this aspect, yes. Yes, so that, we call it the Golden Housing Facilitator. Many women will, as an example, a woman may want to she, her husband just passes away. She’s in her 60s or 70s. She doesn’t want to go into a an independent living facility.
She wants to stay in her own home. She’s got this big home. What does she do with it? Does she bring in, does she bring in renters, women that are like her, or what does she do? That planning process needs somebody that understands. What it’s like to be her agent and her position. And you also need to know if I’m going to look at these women as potential people coming in to my home, and I’m going to share my life and share my home and share my personal space.
With them, who are these women that are going to come in? So there, there needs to be an assessment of who are you? Who are you, Emily? You want to come live in my house? I don’t know you. Let’s find out who you are. Let’s do an assessment. Are we going to be compatible? Can we live together? Can we have a problem?
Are you a neatnik and I’m a slob? Can we live in going into the common areas? All of these things are all issues that need to be brought up before you make the leap. Now, how do I know this? Because I’ve been through that too. Brought somebody into my home. No problem.
Come on in. Oy yoy. Couldn’t wait to get her out. We were not
Emily Bron: compatible. You know what? And with all the respect, and I understand now how. Big might be the problem for other people. I’m very grateful to my upbringing being, Eastern European from former Soviet Union, or maybe it’s, no, it’s not only for Jewish community, which I belong to, but I didn’t have such a problem and I can tell you.
So I live with my mother in law. She’s 86 years old. And I divorced with her son, but I cannot divorce with her. I know it’s exceptional case. We live all the time, all the years together. At first I came, we are, we used to live kind of several generation in small apartment even, because of circumstances.
And not only circumstances I really know her and I didn’t want her to go to any facility. She wanted, to make me free. She was, and I was refusing it for her, but it was during the COVID actually. She for 10 years, 10, 15 years, she was in a line waiting for this. No, but we live together and it’s it’s good.
One of the reason why I’m here still in Toronto, but it gives me purpose. Of course, that’s wonderful. Good for you, that’s fantastic. No, but I feel really good. But I understand, I know this person my parents passed away, I don’t have my mother, but my mother in law became my best friend, and actually like mother, everyone thinks that she’s my mother, but And I know that different people work through such situation different way.
Not everyone develops such good relationship, or maybe not everyone is happy with such good mother in law like me. Yeah. I would say because it’s important as well. But yes, I I’m more thinking about maybe selfishly where I will be in years in such situation because my children were raised in North America and different.
Kathy Tarochione: Yeah, exactly. That’s the truth. There’s the mentality that, that occurs. And if you think about it Our society is much different than, for instance, I have a Filipino VA and she is, she takes care of her mother and her grandmother, and that’s part of their culture that they are reverent, they’re revered as really the the matriarchs of the family and they should be honored.
And we don’t do that here in the United States, the way that we should. It’s and what I was getting to, I was going to get to the the Tic Tac video about what to do with mom. I did a short little, I think, four minute video about what are you going to do with mom? And I ended up with about 170, 000 views and about 2, 000 comments.
of women coming forward and saying we don’t know what to do with mom, we think we’re going to put her in, and it all came down to we’re going to put her into an assisted living or put her into a facility. When you go back and you ask those women, is that what your mother wants? The answer is no, mom wants to stay at home.
So if you’ve got a disconnect between the daughter and the mother about where the mother is going to stay, 99 percent of the time the daughter ends up winning because there is no choice for the mother. So what if we could, what if we could give her a choice?
Emily Bron: I have a choice. My solution in kind of similar situation from what I heard from other woman here in Canada and United States, and I know that it’s not choice for everyone, but the options that I get.
to and my interest was and still like for years already about independent living and assisted living facilities in Mexico because they’re different. And first of all, they’re not so structured. Structured. Okay. They’re different type of I would say and when people, why majority for elderly people don’t want to go to this facility because it looks like hospital, let’s say, and the care is like hospital and people feel, obviously to live in your own home is best, but even, but in Mexico and I took doctors like gerontologist in age from Canada and we traveled.
Checking different facilities in different Mexican states who are gearing to English speaking retirees or expats. Because the trend is, I would say, one of people coming, like women, by the way, a lot of women and men and couples from United States, Canada, coming with their parents to to emigrating or, First of all, cost of living is different, climate is different, medical care is different, and mostly they are not confined to this big sanatorium life.
Yeah yeah. And treated like cattle. Yeah, they have like home living, like big hacienda or different, up to 30, 40 people. Good format of medical care, they vary. Mostly outside of the home, they have, and the woman who helping them, caregivers different, they have healthy food, a lot of sun, and it’s a different lifestyle, and they live in home, they have doctors who coming to home depending on what they need, and they have the children who are 50, 60, living nearby, maybe in this city.
Yeah, and everyone is happy. And even first of all, they saving a lot of money. They get better quality of life and sometimes. medical care and Mexico government even, don’t care about what status have the parents because they know they’re in good facility and it’s good for Mexico social development, economical development as well.
But what I’ve heard from several people who shared with me the stories of their moms actually even having Taking them from the elderly facility, say, in Oregon, even in California mostly, that they’re happy and they live better life and they feel good and children feel that they can afford and provide better life.
Quality of life for the woman. Again, it’s a long topic. I don’t want to take your time, but you just reminded me that sometimes people don’t aware or, they don’t think or they afraid or some people want to move, but they cannot move because of their elderly parents. They feel responsible to take care and not to be far away.
And there is solution of this kind, some woman and actually people can can consider and it’s Mexican developers and doctors working in this direction, and they really commend them because of, I’m in this research and pool of relocation and expat life in Latin America.
And I can say what they do in Mexico, specifically building for the English speaking people. So they have expats now they have expats coming from Europe and even in other countries of Latin America where expats are moving. 60 plus 70 mostly. We are single woman or single couples. So I believe that Mexico will facilitate people from Panama and other countries as well.
So it’s with some ideas it can work out, but let’s come back to you. Sorry for my long
Kathy Tarochione: story. No. See that’s case in point because it’s all over everyone is experiencing. Everyone is seeking exactly what you’re talking about. It’s not bad to go to an assisted living facility.
It isn’t. It really isn’t. But. Again, they were designed by men, they were designed
Emily Bron: I even don’t say, I’m not a big fan of American medical system. It’s different. First of all, and Canadian is not so far away, because like I had experience with assisted living in Israel, where my parents been, mom, and I can say even it’s big, but it’s a different vibe.
It’s very good. It’s very good. And in Europe, like even it depends how it’s run, what the ideas and what they like about Mexican model and they have different probably, but you can find different kind, you can find a small facility, home like facility and with good care. So it’s, I understand that profit is important.
And To, from the business perspective, but somehow they balance the profit with small amount of people and good care.
Kathy Tarochione: Right. The things that that we have done over the last three years is we’ve very much tried to target and look at what is it that a Aging woman, a mature woman, what is it that she wants when she retires, when she, what, first off, what does a woman who is 55 want for her mother and for herself in the future?
But once you get to the mother side, like somebody like myself, who would be the mother, what is somebody like me, what would I want? And in researching the women in, especially in our network we’ve researched about 3, 000 women to find out where are they at? What do they want? What are they looking for?
And the common denominator is they really want to live alone. But they want access to a common area to women. So they want that private room. They want that private area. And whether that be living in somebody else’s home with a common area, where they’ve got a bathroom inside of their own place.
And if they wanted to have a little oven or a microwave or something in their room, having it large enough so it would be like a master suite. And then if they did want to go out to the common area, they could do that. See, you can’t find places like that. You can find a home that’s got three bedrooms, that’s got one master suite, but the rest of them are small bedrooms.
What we’re recommending is if you want to turn your house into a golden space, And you want to bring in women that will have the exact same thing that you do. Let’s do a redesign of your home. Or, better yet, let’s build one where you have four or five women. And let’s build one that’s going to be satisfactory to all of you together where you can still have your independence.
But on top of that, you don’t want to just have the women come together just to live. Let’s give them something to do. Purpose. Let’s give them something to do. So that’s where we, that’s where the Golden Spaces is connected to the Golden Connections, where they now have the opportunity to be able to co create.
And they can now come together and do things in a virtual manner, as well as a physical manner if need be. And they have a purpose, they have a reason to get up every day. They can do things together, and they don’t have to really go anywhere. The vision of our huge community, the Golden Life community, is about 300 units that are different one bedroom, two bedroom apartment, condo type, that is car free.
So there’s no cars. We don’t feel that women that are our age, we can use Uber or we can rent a car and have a car that’s right on the facility because we don’t go out that often. And if we have a community that has access to everything right there, then we don’t need to have that. We also believe that it’s super, super important to have organic gardening.
So that these women can have the healthy eating that they should have, but also get their hands back in the ground. Get their hands into that, that that earth that has such wonderful energy and let’s have our own organic food. And that, that’s a major thing. So we have an organic garden that we believe an organic greenhouse that is, is part of it.
But the most important thing that we love about the large community is live broadcasting studio. Bringing women in so that everyone can hear their story worldwide and broadcasting. I might give a caveat right now that the home that I’m in, it’s a three bedroom home and we are just going for funding right now where we’re going to convert my home into a golden space.
I’ve got enough room to be able to put three casitas in the back and we’ll have a live broadcasting studio and this will be a prototype for what we’re talking about.
Emily Bron: Amazing.
Kathy Tarochione: I know. Amazing story.
Emily Bron: And again, Kathy, you’ve turned adversity into inspiration to everyone who is
Kathy Tarochione: Thank you. Thank you.
Emily Bron: Can you share how your journey. Especially after the loss of your husband shaped the idea in creation of the Golden Life community.
Kathy Tarochione: The Golden Life community, the thoughts of it came after my husband had passed away, but I might say that The type of relationship I had with my husband was one of pure, true, real friendship.
Although we were lovers and we were husband and wife, we were best of friends to the extent that he was with me no matter what. So when he passed away, I never believed him to pass away. I believe for him to still live in my heart and he’s still there today. So whatever decisions I made, I would say to him things like, you’ve got an upper hand, what’s going on out there.
You got to help me a little here. And when when things would go wrong or my journey was the things that, that held me back, I was able to plow through them. So I won’t go into the details of what had happened to me, but I had a horrific situation happened to me where I moved to Las Cruces and I was exposed to a fraudster, let’s put it that way, a female fraudster that I had known for 10 years.
And. She ruined my life and I lost my home. I lost a number of things. And during that time, I realized that. Oh, my God. If that’s happening to me, it’s happening to other women as well, because when we get older, we trust more, especially if we’ve known somebody for a long period of time without really looking to find out who they really are.
And I didn’t do that. So I suffered the consequences and that’s how the golden life started because I thought, oh my god, I’ve got to let other women know. So through through pure manifestation, I don’t know how, I was introduced to a woman that was experienced the same thing I did with the same woman.
And she had lost, and her 88 year old mother had lost money from her as well. She got scammed with her. So we joined forces and we realized that we had so much in common. We looked at putting together the Golden Life Community and it started out as just a group of women, 300 women on Facebook as a group.
And that was it. And it wasn’t until I was in the hospital because all of the stress that had occurred with this woman that scammed me all the stress that occurred, I ended up in the hospital and that’s when my brother came in and they gave me a year to live and put all my affairs in order and everything else.
I did a video from The hospital with 104 temperature with pneumonia with exacerbations. I was really in bad shape. And I thought I’m gonna do a five minute video to let them know I’m still here. I haven’t croaked yet. But if I do, I want them to know that the whole purpose has to continue to keep going on because these women came together for the purpose of not only wanting to support me, but realizing that they could be in the same situation.
They could have their homes taken from them. They can get involved with financial scams. They can believe in somebody and not know what to do about it and how to protect themselves. So I did this five minute video and it was funny. It was a funny one, Emily. It was joking about here I am in the hospital and supposedly I’m supposed to croak, but I’m not dead yet.
And and the things that we’re going to do and. It ended up that within 48 hours, although it was only on Facebook, I ended up with over 180, 000 views and over 2, 000 comments of women, similar to the Tic Tac thing the women coming forward and saying, Oh my God, do we really need it? And that’s when I realized.
I’m in the hospital. I’m supposed to die. Guess what? Not today, not ever. I’m not going anywhere. I have a purpose. And that’s what brought me over the edge there. That’s how the whole thing started. And It’s been going on now for three years. And there, there’s been buku setbacks and buku things that keep holding us back.
And then we move forward and we hold back. We move forward. But no matter what, My brother keeps saying, are you having fun, Kath? Are you having fun? And I say, yes, I am. I’m having fun. What better? What better gift can you give yourself than to see the smile on someone’s face when you know you helped them through the rain?
Emily Bron: Amazing, amazing story. And as I Lord, now you are TikTok and social media influencer. Influencer. I’m Aker. As an AI influencer in digital artist of what inspires your artwork on platforms like Midjourney. Yeah. I understand mainly your focus on mature women and pets, and I’ve seen your work. I was surprised that it’s all you.
I thought it’s somebody from. Your social, find time and inspiration for, such multidimensional work.
Kathy Tarochione: I’ve actually been a digital artist, self taught digital artist since 2000, a little before that. So it’s been, 24 years that, that I’ve been doing it. But what caught my eye about The AI aspect of it is that an older woman, she can either look at it as something that’s gonna hurt her, or she can look at it as something’s going to help her with the notion of ai.
There are tools and apps and things that will be there to help her through the, through her daily life. But in my case, what it did it allowed me to have my creative expression coming out because. If those in your audience that are not familiar with the AI mid journey or many of the others, you have a thought and then you have an emotion that goes with that thought.
I took the time to learn how to create prompting that would take my thoughts. thoughts and take the emotions that were wrapped around those thoughts and put them into a prompt that would then come out to an image. Now it takes a great deal and it’s not something that happens overnight, but I have created over 17, 000 mid journey graphics, actually 18, 000 mid journey graphics that are all of them.
Every one of them is based on my thoughts and my emotions. So what we’ve done is we’ve taken many of the products that I have created, the artwork. And, oh, I should say that, then I’ll take that image and then I’ll bring it into Photoshop and I’ll manipulate it a little bit, maybe change some hair colors, add some some Aging, add some things to and eliminate some things.
So it’s not pure AI. It’s a manipulated AI, but it started with that thought. And then I’ve created these images that will resonate with the women in our community because of it has something to do with I like to do a lot of abstract stuff, like Salvador Dali type of styles, where you’ve got a woman with her head, and then the tree comes through the head, and then surreal, and then she’s got herself as a child, or as a younger woman beside her, but the world is around her, and she’s, and miracles will happen for her.
So there’s the there’s the emotions. That go into it. And that’s what went into my artwork. And that’s why we have a shop called the golden life shop and the shop has a little over 1200 products in it right now. Amazing.
Emily Bron: 1200. So it’s, and it’s working. It’s different business. Even to have online sale and in printing it on, they have seen bags like purses and different type of
Kathy Tarochione: I’ll give you an example.
There’s one that depends on how you’re going to come to the shop. If you want something that is going to be there to lift you up maybe you’ve got a sad moment. Maybe you’ve got a melancholy moment. Maybe you’ve got it. You’re grieving. Maybe you’re feeling sad. You’re feeling good about yourself knowing that you’ve lost everything.
You, you may even be homeless. You may be whatever you are looking at. We wanted to address all of those emotions that come to a woman and one that I particularly love and it doesn’t resonate with everyone, but we call it the peaceful upset. And what I did is I created a picture of a woman that is.
She’s a professional woman that has now lost it all. She’s not homeless, but she’s in a shabby outfit. She’s sitting on the stairs, and she’s looking up, and she’s in upset. And then that’s the back. The idea is that on the back is, that’s behind you. Now in front of you, if you become a golden and you’re part of the sisterhood, now you have a peaceful upset because you’re feeling good about yourself.
So on the front, it’s a picture of a woman just sitting there peacefully and that’s how it is, so some will say, Oh, that’s very sad. You don’t want it. That’s something I ordered for myself. No, but the
Emily Bron: sadness, it’s part of life. It depends how you process it and and yes. And if it’s imprinted.
And you see it as a good way, it’s all our life, it’s our ups and downs. And we cherish it as well, it’s how I understand at least. Yeah and finally, for this part what motivates you to continue your entrepreneurial work and advocacy and how can our listener join you? On your
Kathy Tarochione: inspiring journey.
Okay, what motivates me is something that we started again before I got sick which is called Golden Voices in our private membership, the Golden Connections. We started doing Zoom calls. That were private and within those zoom calls, I mentioned earlier that women would come together and they would share their stories and we would have a specific topic, not a whole bunch of topics, one topic, and we would share on that.
And that’s where the healing began. Now what we are in the process of doing is taking that Golden voices and bringing it into our private membership, where it will become private for members with a membership fee. And in addition to that, they will have access to be able to go into what we call the mud Room.
Now, the. The mudroom is based on Simon Sinek. If you’re familiar with him, he’s one of my, one of my heroes. He says that the problem with older women is, and not so much older women, but yeah, actually older women is, they don’t know how to be a golden friend. They don’t know how to be one because they’ve lost all their friends, either they’ve passed away or they’ve just lost them, and now they’re in a life where they have very few friends, good friends.
You can have a lot of friends, but not good, true friends that are goldens that will be there for you, where that friend will put you as top priority. So what he said is that if you. If you have a friend and you see that friend is sitting in the mud in pain, if You can walk away, or you can go and sit with them in the mud, as uncomfortable as it is, sit there in the mud for as long as it takes until they feel better, let them tell their story, don’t try to fix them, don’t judge them, don’t do anything, just let them be, and let them do it, and we all know that if we can tell our story, and we can get our emotions out, and we can get those tears out, and we can get the feelings out, we feel better.
We feel better. It’s when someone says to us you know what you should have been doing. You should have been doing this or you should have been doing that. That’s when we start to judge ourself. But if we were just left alone to be able to talk and say whatever we really wanted to say about that particular time that put you in the mud.
Then why not let others come in, hear what you have to say without passing judgment. So we’ve created the Mudroom, where when a woman has a difficult time, we call it instant help. You ring the bell, You let you let somebody in the membership know that you are in the mudroom and you need seven to eight minutes to vent, you won’t be judged, nobody’s going to try to fix you, but know that you have women that are there that will look you in the eye and let you know that you matter, and that you care, and, or that they care about you, and that There will never be any judgment.
And then once you get done with it, you feel better. So that is our golden connections. That’s what it’s going to be about period. So that’s what motivates me is to get that up and running and have that as the flagship. reason why somebody would want to come into the Golden Connections.
Emily Bron: Hi, Kathy, I can listen to you, for hours. Let’s inform our listeners and followers, how they can connect with you and how, or maybe some woman want to join you on your inspiring journey joining your community. What the ways of communicating,
Kathy Tarochione: They can go to the the golden connections.
Not www, just TheGoldenConnections. com. And when you click on that, it will say request to join. You can request to join. There’ll be some questions that will be asked. And there is no charge. There’s what we ask is unlike other women’s networks that you would belong to. It’s not about What we can do for you is what it’s what you can do for us.
In other words, we want you to come to the Golden Connections with a contributing mindset. Saying, Oh my God, I have all these gifts that I can give to these women that are in this group. And I’m a good listener, I can share, I can do these things. We ask that if you’re going to come in at no charge, then you’ll come in With the contributing mindset, once you’re in the Golden Connection, should you decide that you want to take advantage of the programs, like I said before, the Golden Voices and the Mudroom, then there will be a it’s a 49 a month.
A fee for the subscription for you to belong to it, and you’re not bound by any yearly or whatever. Should that you decide that you want to go yearly, then you get two months free. So it’s 10 months and but you can it for the golden life community to find out exactly what we’re doing. Now. That was the virtual community for the the golden life community.
You go to www. Dot the golden life community.com and there you will see everything. You’ll see our partnership programs. We have a a Golden Heart Collaborative Network, which are women who are coming forward that want to volunteer. They fill out an application and let us know the areas that they want to volunteer, and if it’s an area that is more high end, let’s say like marketing and things like that, then we are offering a, an equity position for their contribution.
Or they can have a membership for free. So there’s a lot of things that can happen. I shouldn’t say for free. It’s not for free because they would be contributing their services in exchange for the membership. So there’s different levels of contribution that women can come into, but it also goes over exactly what we’re doing with the Golden Life.
How it’s a dual solution with a virtual community and then having a housing membership community through the golden spaces, how they link together and how they work together. It will let you know about our Golden Housing Facilitator, and then we also have a thing which I didn’t get to mention, which is called our Golden Futures Initiative, and we have, or just putting it up, it isn’t even up yet, and what this is for businesses that are run and owned by baby boomers, that are people that feel that they can still Work with us in what our initiative is.
They can partner with us or they may want to be looking at even selling their business. And wouldn’t it be nice that their business could be brought in to the Golden Life community because it would be a support business. Let’s say it’s a home health agency or something like that. And it might be something that is, is worthwhile looking at in terms of selling the business.
Emily Bron: So you would take over this business and somebody would
Kathy Tarochione: run it? We. We have some partners that have come forward that have said that they would be willing to support the actual financial component of purchasing a business as long as it would be worthwhile in the Golden Life community.
And so we’re looking at that, certain criteria has to be met for it, but even if you’re not looking to sell your business in the future, you may want to partner with us to, so we can share, we can do some shared collaboration. Co marketing sharing expenses on getting the market out there.
For instance, when we’re doing the Golden Housing Facilitator, we have partnered with organizations that do an assessment of a person’s home. The the actual builders. These are all ones that we have formed relationships with. It’s not owned by the Golden Life community, but we’ve, we are contracting out with them.
So we’re really more like the consultants of bringing them together of what it is they’re going to need. And then we have the network of the organizations that can fulfill the needs of the women.
Emily Bron: And now when you are speaking about kind of physical location, your project spread in New Mexico State in your city or have different
Kathy Tarochione: locations?
As we speak right now, we are, we’re negotiating a development of 25 units right, right outside between El Paso and New Mexico. between El Paso and New Mexico. We’ve got a location in El Paso that we could put 25 units into. And then we have El Paso, it’s a
Emily Bron: Texas. Yes.
Kathy Tarochione: Yes. Huh. El Paso, Texas.
Yeah.
Emily Bron: Okay. So you’re looking to serve women In these states, in different
Kathy Tarochione: Yeah, because it’s close. It’s close to me here, yeah. Now we’ve identified 39 different states and that will benefit because they have a lot of single women and there’s women that are looking.
It’s amazing, the women that just don’t know where to do or what to, where to go. And the idea is they can’t afford where they’re living, or they can’t. A lot of the women right now that are in their in their 60s and in their 70s, either where they’re living at, the rent has gone up, And they can’t afford it, but they can’t find any place else.
So they are forced to live with another woman or with another man or with a group. And if they’re going to go into that at 70, They’re set in their ways. They’re totally set in their ways. The chances of them being able to get along with someone else, unless you do an assessment, and you think you’re going to get along with them, it’s not like going and renting an apartment.
Because you are going to see your neighbors, if you go and live in the same house with them. You’re going to go and live with, and see that. Whereas, In the Golden Life community that we’re building, these are all separate units. So you’re in a separate place, but the units that we’re developing are equipped with aging in place technology so that we can hope to see them and, or we can hope to have them stay in their home for a long period of time.
If we build one for them, it will have all the bells and whistles, but it will be on a smaller scale basis. But it still has all the bells and whistles in it. So that if they want to age in place and there’s something about having a home with four or five women in it that is very appealing to many women.
Especially women that have had lifelong friends. And now they are saying, you know what, let’s put our money together and let’s go build something. But they don’t really know how, what to do with it. Because as I said before, building a home is building a home. Build it. But if you don’t have purpose, if you don’t reconstruct just existing home, you don’t exactly.
Yes. Yes. You can do that. Yeah. And that’s what they’re, that’s what they’re craving for. So again, we have different levels of the home development through the housing facilitator program. That’s something that we are outsourcing to organizations that have partnered with us. If we do the Golden Life Community, that’s actually a project that we own, where there’s 300, say there’s 300 units in that.
So there’s two levels of investment. We’ve got builder investment and then we have an actual investor, investors. And all of that is also available. We have our pitch decks and everything all on the website. And
Emily Bron: now when you speak about 39 states where women are in similar condition, I am not speaking about Canada, which is different country, but maybe we will come together
Kathy Tarochione: one day.
Yeah, exactly, it’s a robust concept and proof of concept will end up being my home. Which will be converted for the housing facilitator aspect of it, where it’s not a complete full unit, but it, it won’t be a complete full community, but it will have all the bells and whistles and it will have a little garden and organic and there’ll be four to five women that will be living here, but we’ll each have our private areas.
And we’ll each be able to come together when we want to. And we’ll also be able to work together to co create, so that we can give back to the community.
Emily Bron: And with such a spread and ideas, multiple ideas of different level, I believe it should come to the federal level. Have you thought about it or maybe approach somebody because again government should hear about citizens and actually you resolving by your project, you resolving some of the issues.
So there is a place for collaboration.
Kathy Tarochione: Exactly. Exactly. Emily what we’re really basically now looking for is people that believe. People that want to do it and people that understand that it’s not although it’s about me And it was designed by me and it focused around me. All the me’s are really all the women we’re talking about.
So it’s a woman, it’s a woman’s organization. It’s a lifestyle empowerment organization for mature women. So we would love for women to come forward. And if anyone ever felt that it was, An organization where they could have equity and they want to. We’re open to that opportunity. And we’ve talked about maybe having some crowdfunding where we took a percentage of the company and gave it to the women that would like to be a part of it.
We would love to have women come forward. And men for that matter too, that have something that they can offer that would benefit the organization. We can’t do it alone. And I know I certainly can’t, and I would love nothing more than to see my goal is to empower women and to have a legacy that they know that I will always be with them in spirit and in heart and soul.
And I will always be with them. And that’s me.
Emily Bron: Thank you very much, Kathy. Thank you. And I believe that your story and inspiration and actually necessity of such golden spaces and living facilities. With dignity, as I say for woman, and if it’s really so widespread and in each state, it should be, I believe some woman or man can be inspired by your example and actually case studies and proven model to bring a torch to the different,
Kathy Tarochione: States.
You are absolutely right. And, the other thing too, Emily, is, There is nothing that’s carved in stone. If you decided that you wanted to have a house that was based on the, what you want and the way you want it to be, we’re not offering you a cookie cutter. We’re saying, okay, the only thing that we would suggest is that all the women in the house have the exact same size bedroom and they have a restroom because Nobody if they’re going to buy something together, they want to know that they’re equal in, in, in the housing area and that they all have equal responsibilities and they all have equal involvement.
So think of a circle and then around the circle is you’ve got all of these different rooms with a bathroom and that, and then the common areas where they come into and then outside of that area is where the garden is. And that’s also where you have your dogs or your pets for that map.
It doesn’t have to only be dogs. It could be cats too. Could be a monkey if you wanted a monkey.
Emily Bron: Are you speaking about rent, rent out option or sales option?
Kathy Tarochione: There, there is we have a number of, we believe that there are much more women that want to rent. Then they do want to buy. One of the reasons that we are causing, making it what we call a a Golden Housing Membership.
That’s what Golden Spaces is. If we were to develop a community that was all women, we would first be hit with discrimination.
Emily Bron: Did you hear that?
Kathy Tarochione: From what side? From them? From the fair from fair housing, from the federal government. Yes, we would be hit with that. So in order for us to address that, if we offer a membership, which is the membership to the Golden Connections, that membership gives them access to be able to live in a golden space, when they live in a golden space, then and they have membership rules that, that they would abide by, then that addresses the issue with fair housing and it’s no longer an issue because, oh I’m sorry, we call it a legacy housing membership, meaning that if a woman comes in and she buys it, let’s say her daughter wants to buy it for her, okay, and daughter and son in law want to buy it for her, then She never has to worry about reselling it because it can be handed down to the daughters, any female in that family, that’s part of the legacy.
They, so it can continue to carry on, but if she decided, let’s say she decided I want to get married and I want to leave, then we will buy back the golden space from them. So it’s never a case of having to go to a realtor, put it on the market, paying all these fees. It all stays within the community because this is a legacy housing membership.
Emily Bron: So when you see. A space, you mean it’s a room or the, her personal, private part of the home room. Bathroom and common areas.
Kathy Tarochione: The space that, we’re not selling spaces like that. We’re selling actual conceded type things that they’re indivi, they’re individual houses. The women that are going to come out here, they can either.
rent or they can buy. So I will have two, possibly three, separate casitas, which has a bathroom, a bedroom, a living room, and a kitchen in it for them. But a smaller type kitchen, more of a casita type look to it. And then they have the common area that they can come into, so they can choose to live in their house for a long period of time.
Now if they decide that they want to buy that, then they will buy that unit and access to all the common areas because it’s part of the membership. Okay, so they share in the property, but that particular unit is theirs. Is theirs and then there are some that will want to rent so in that case they will rent
Emily Bron: so now when we’re speaking actually about golden life community And for some listeners whom I join only now Let’s clarify like big picture.
What is the golden life communities? And what are your goals? Okay,
Kathy Tarochione: the Golden Life Community is a dual solution for women over 55. The purpose of the Golden Life Community is to create mental strength, co creation, and a support system for mature women that want to be successful. Heal themselves and to carry on part of the healing process will come there.
There will come a time in their life where they will be faced with housing issues, whether it be through, through somebody dying divorce. They no longer can afford the rent. Some something will happen and they will have a housing issue. So they can either go into an assisted living facility. Or an independent facility, or they can look at going into a golden space of which has a myriad of different ways and opportunities that they can do that.
They can either move into an existing community, or they can actually look at their own house and determine whether or not they want to retrofit their house to be a golden space facility, or they can build one with their friends.
Emily Bron: Yes, and what do you hope a woman after 55 gain from it, other than, better or different living options?
What else they can rely on or contribute?
Kathy Tarochione: Yeah, I was just going to say, yeah, it’s not about what we’re what we’re giving to them. It’s what they’re giving to us. Yeah. It’s a place for it. So what kind
Emily Bron: of woman, so you have probably certain requirements, I would say, what kind of personality. Type or what kind of woman might be happy?
Of work towards be part of
Kathy Tarochione: your community, that’s a very good question because the women that have come forward so far are ones with a contributing mindset where they see the value they’ve got a business they’ve been working with women for many years, their life coaches, they want to contribute, they want to do something so that they are really good about what they do.
Coming into it. But then there are those that say, I’m really very shy. I don’t really have a lot that I can contribute, but I’d like to learn. How to be able to use some of that. So if you can help me to tap into what it is I’m good at, that’s what we go into. What are the things that you wanted to do when you were younger, you were never able to do, but you still would love to do it if you could.
Then what is that? Or maybe you can develop some new skills. Maybe you want to co create a book, writing a book. Maybe you want to create a course about widowhood. Maybe you want to do some things, but why not line up with other women that can share in the responsibility and co create with you.
Nothing is off the table when it comes to co creating. So the woman that comes forward is one that is going to say, Here’s what I have to contribute, and here’s, and if I don’t have something to contribute, I would like to learn, and then they’ll come into it. If they come to it with the idea of with their arms folded and saying, so what’s in it for me?
And oh my God, I’m going to pay 49 a month and what’s in it for me? I’m not getting, I’m not getting dink from this. And they are not in a position to realize that this is a contributing membership, not A taking membership.
Emily Bron: You just reminded me as I started to learn about marketing later in life, I would say recently about business and marketing.
So actually the question, what is it for me? It’s valid question. of any entrepreneurship activity, which I was surprised in the beginning, but I thought, okay, I need to learn. As you say, I’m not in this space yet, but still, and I’m using, and I’m reminded by my coach when I offer something and I’m working now, on different type of community.
You need to specify for your future customers, for people, what is it for them. Because you serving them, even it’s community. And I was coming from my understanding and spirit contribution. And now
Kathy Tarochione: you yeah, validate that because it is very true. And again, now remember, we’re looking at older women here.
We’re looking at women that are aging that have a plethora of wisdom and talent and services that they know how to offer. It’s just been capsulized in them and it’s held in them and they have no place to give it. What we’re giving to them is the freedom to be able to share, the freedom to be able to contribute, and that well being of knowing when you help somebody else, you’re helping yourself.
It’s that, and what we are giving to them as a result is mental strength, and mental strength is really a huge key, because it’s not about mental illness. Thank you. It’s about mental strength. So if you are lonely and you are depressed and you are not feeling good about yourself, wouldn’t it be nice if you could turn that around and create that mental illness and turn it into a mental strength?
And use that strength to help others. So that’s the basis of it, is mental strength. And now, if you’re living in a house, and all of a sudden you’ve come through, and you’ve come through the rain, you’ve made it through, you were in a battered marriage you got divorced, you’re living a new life, and now you’re in here, and you are raring to go, because you’ve got all these experiences that you can take, to the table with other women that have the same, that have shared the same problem.
We don’t have a platform to be able in one cohesive area. We don’t have a platform where we can share our stories that will resonate. It seems as though most women are. feeling that they have to fix someone. We’ve done it all our lives as women. We want to fix someone. We want to fix the man. Oh, marry me and I’ll change your life because you won’t do the terrible things you’ve been doing all your life.
And so we always want to fix it. This is different. Why do we want to fix this beautiful woman who has lived a wonderful life, a long life, and she’s got all these talents and she’s got all these memories and she’s got all of this stuff. Why would her daughter want to put her into a a corner into a, an assisted living facility when she has so much left?
So if we educate the daughter, And then we give options to the mother. And we give options to the sister, to the aunt, to everybody in the family that says, shouldn’t she have a place to call her own? And that’s what we do.
Emily Bron: And now I’m thinking about poor men, because do you know, do you envision that some, for me, like similar project would be created or maybe already exist for men?
We already
Kathy Tarochione: have the golden, we already have the golden guys community. Yeah. There are so many men that have come forward that the problem is that because this was based on my own personal experiences, we need a man that has had a lot of really difficult things that they’ve overcome. And have a survival mentality.
Emily Bron: And I believe there are such men. There are enough such men. How do you envision the future of the golden life community and golden spaces? And what impact do you hope to make in the lives of women entering their golden years? Or maybe elaborate a little bit about the possibility of men joining women.
Similar golden spaces.
Kathy Tarochione: If you can just envision this, if we had a group of women worldwide, on a virtual basis, where these women came together for the purpose of creating an energy where there is this mental strength that they can get from each other based on their own strengths, I And, of course, lifting each other for those that have weaknesses that a woman can support.
If we got together with the purpose of being able to lift each other up, to bring them through the rain, through difficult times, to live with them in housing that supports collaboration, co creation, and healing, the healing portion of it. There’s nothing better than to have a golden friend that you can live with, or a golden friend that you can communicate with, so whether it be on a virtual basis or in a physical base basis, or ideally both together, what we give to women is the opportunity to live their life, the rest of their life in a cohesive way that is contributing to the mindsets of all women and think about it.
If we came together, could you imagine how we would change the world?
Emily Bron: It’s just a dream come true, if it can be. And I believe that some men who spend maybe some time already living alone and feeling loneliness or wish to join, vibrant circle, of women of the same age it will benefit both men and women.
Kathy Tarochione: We agree with that and we start, I started to say before that the women Because this community and the entire concept was created based on my own personal experiences, because I’ve had one hell of a journey and lifetime of a lot of challenges and a lot of setbacks, but the ability to come forward and to be resilient.
And being a widow and and I’ve also been divorced too. So I’ve been both, I’ve been widowed and divorced. So I’ve been married more than once and with a man, the man’s mentality. And I shouldn’t say a stereotype, but typically men want a woman so that they can have somebody to take care of them.
Men like to be pampered. They like to have someone do their cooking and cleaning and everything else. If they were to come into a golden guy community, then if it was side by side with the golden women’s community, then they would be coming to it with a contributing mindset and saying, you know what, I have all these skills, I have all these things that I can offer to other men that will help them and at the same time help women as well.
Women on our end, we look at it as though we’re going to help other women. And let’s face it, if we help other women, we’re helping their men too. Because if somebody’s, let’s say, for instance I’m a woman that became. A member of the Golden Connections, and I’m feeling down and out. I’m depressed.
My husband is feeling, if I was married, my husband is feeling, gee, I wish there was something I could do for her. She’s really feeling alone. She’s depressed. She’s she’s feeling lonely. She doesn’t have the friends. All her friends are dying. And I’m not filling, I’m not filling the gap for her.
So now she comes into the Golden Connections and she’s feeling, Oh my God, this is me. I feel a sense of sisterhood here because I have a lot I can contribute. I can get rid of all of this tension and that, and I’m not feeling as depressed. I can go into the mud room. I can go to the Golden Voices.
I can do all that. I have a place to belong. Then all of a sudden she tells her husband, I’m feeling good about myself now, and I’m feeling good. I’ve got this mental strength that I didn’t have before, and I’ve got these friends now that have become golden, and I feel comfortable that they’re going to be there for me should I need them.
And you know what? I’m going to be there for them too. So now I have a purpose. So I’m going to move forward. That makes the husband feel good. And then he’s going to be curious and want to know what is it that they’re doing that’s so great? And then she’ll be able to share with him. And before you know it, He’s going to spread the word and then that’s going to go to other men in the community.
So what we’re finding now is that men are talking with other men and saying what about us? We want to, we want one for us too. Have you forgotten about us? And the answer to that, Emily, is no, we haven’t forgotten about it. We need to get the women’s one. Really operational, and then we’ll bring in the men.
For those men that are out there that have a contributing mindset, that want to help other men that are feeling lonely and depressed that may need some help, we would love for you to come forward and let’s collaborate. Let’s work together.
Emily Bron: With Maya bringing, and I don’t think that I’m so different, but I used to have men friends during my lifetime, like when I, and it was normal for me in our society to to have friends, women friends and men friends.
Kathy Tarochione: I, I have mostly men friends that I call friends. My true golden friends, the men in my life had been more trustworthy than the women that I had in my life.
Emily Bron: And what I’ve heard and learned somehow, living in North America for so many years, I’ve heard from actually American men that I’ve had contact with.
Even in Mexico, they found that it’s hard for them to develop friendship. And they were speaking about men friendship, which I was very surprised because in our kind of world and society, men friendship is a cornerstone of actually society. And I think it’s a very good. And taking aside my thoughts about how it happens that no, it’s individualistic kind of.
Aspect of culture it was instilled but still based on the books at least and movies Yeah, like friendship should be for me normal part of the life, but something was lost Obviously something was lost, over the years and we are trying to fix it somehow. Connection in between women and your But women are easy with all our kind of emotional sides, but we are easy to get to friendship.
I think so, in this age and stage. For men, we have more obstacles somehow to open up. There is just nature to open up, to be raw, to be vulnerable, you need to be You don’t want to show it, but without it, it’s hard to get, close relationship of trust. And I believe that your initiative would be even inspiring, and it should be, could be, somebody on men’s side who are listening, who know you, and probably would initiate some activity in the men front, I would say.
Yeah. And because I believe that your initiatives like Golden Connection and Golden Spaces evolving because it’s combating depression and loneliness against among people. Sorry again, among older women, which is prevalent in lonely men as well. And I know that you’re reaching out and I hope there will be somebody who listening or maybe already working in such direction.
And I see a lot of options for collaboration, because speaking about even small group men, Would be happy to do something maybe at home if they like drive Actually, I don’t know who is doing, you know shopping and all this but and if they do it with open heart and contribution to the golden space.
I think everyone would be happy. Again, it will give purpose for men and for women to spend more time together and to connect. To get the friendship growing. And who knows, maybe some romantic relationship. We’re still open for this.
Kathy Tarochione: Don’t we? Exactly, and now that you think about it, with having a golden friend is very difficult, and it doesn’t make any difference whether you have a male or a female.
What is a golden friend? It’s one that if you were, if how do I want the, I wanna give an example rather than a definition. An example to me is if you and I are going we’re golden friends and we commit to do something, if something better comes along, let’s say somebody says, oh, Kathy, you’re gonna be on the Mel Robbins Show, or something like that.
And if I give Mel Robbins more importance than you. Then I’m not a golden friend to you, because no matter what, you should come first as my golden friend, and everything else should go around it. If you need me, I should be there. If I need you, you should be there. And that’s how golden friends come together, because no matter what, if a marriage always had a golden friend, Friendship, then there wouldn’t be divorces.
Emily Bron: Absolutely. And when it’s lost, divorce appeared. Not only the reason, but one of the reasons.
Kathy Tarochione: That’s right. So we always should make our friends first. And if it’s a golden friendship, then that means that it’s really treasured. Really treasured. So it’s not that we will always have golden friends, but if you can be a golden friend, which means that you show up showing up is probably the most important thing you say you’re going to be somewhere.
Show up. Don’t sign up for something and not be there. There’s nothing worse than you get all of these invitations to come here and there and here and there. Choose your time accordingly, but make sure you never neglect your friends. Show up for them, and if they have, are you prepared to be there for them during an emergency?
Or during a time when they need you most? Or are you going to fluff them off and say, I’ll put you aside and I’ll take care of this first, because this is more important. It’s more important for me to get my nails done than it is to take care of my friend.
Emily Bron: No, it’s a good example. Very close to
Kathy Tarochione: life. Yeah, it is.
It is. Yeah. And that goes back to Simon Sinek again, too. He teaches about how important it is in business and in your personal life, how he took what he did in business, and then he put it into his personal life, and he realized that he was not being a good friend. Because his friends were not letting him know that they were in pain.
And the reason being is because he was not, they didn’t feel that he would be able to take the time because he was a busy guy. I think one of the
Emily Bron: issues of society as I see it is that business and time and effort most of people put in their professional life or business life, commitment, Overshadow, our responsibilities.
We just it’s North American. Work. We working to live. Living to work. As Europeans look at there is some positive aspects. But we We don’t have time. We’re so possessed by our responsibilities and work and other Commitments. I’m speaking about women as well.
And I know that sometimes we don’t have time and we’ll look for children for family and we are paying the price after then and People started to realize it more And I believe to be open to, to change the lifestyle and perspective and I hope at least for next or for, young generation, by the way, they are more family oriented somehow.
Kathy Tarochione: Right. What’s beautiful about what you are doing is that you don’t enter into it, nor do I. So we share this together. We don’t enter into this with the idea of how much money am I going to make? What’s in it for me? What’s the bottom line? Are they listening? Who’s going to buy this?
Who’s going to get this? It’s not about money. It’s about life. It’s about issues and you are providing a service to those that need What you have to offer and the same thing for me. I’m 78 years old. I’m not in for the money. I’m on the my last leg. So whatever I’m offering, it’s a 100 percent total contribution from my heart.
And I, Welcome women that say, I have the same thing too. It’s not about money for me, although I realize you have to have money and that money is part of it. And that
Emily Bron: we need to pay bills. Yes, we need to support again, family and actually our business to grow, to be, to be on the surface for more people to join, even for the same idea, I mean of money is not important, but at least I feel on stage.
I am. As a starting like new community we need this finances just to be visible, I would say this way. And some people even don’t know that they need it, some people don’t because sometimes you’re coming with a new concept and you need to get through, but okay, it’s not topic about me, but about contribution.
And I think a lot of potential that people have in 55 plus age range.
Kathy Tarochione: And yeah. The beauty of being an older woman too, is that chances are you’re either retired or you’re pre retired. So you’re not thinking about money. You either have the money now, you just don’t know what to do.
And all of a sudden you’re You’re feeling lonely and depressed and you’re losing your friends and all that, but it’s not about money for you. But for some women, money
Emily Bron: is important. What you would say to a woman who actually still didn’t build their financial base, I would say, and they’re looking, as you mentioned, For home, for homes, for, for living opportunities, which now she need to adjust, cost of living, medical expenses we need to balance all this.
Kathy Tarochione: We absolutely do and, When I first started doing all this, there were so many different areas. And I wanted to take care of all of the indigent women. I wanted to take care of the homeless. I wanted to take care of all of this. And it’s just that I can’t. at this point. I can’t. So I had to decide we’re who can we help?
And can we help women to get back on up on their feet? I strongly believe that one of the reasons they are not back up on their feet is because they don’t have the mental strength to do so can I offer them a free opportunity or a no cost opportunity to come in To a membership that is virtual, regardless of the financial situation, so that they can start a stepping stone to come back and build up, to build that mental strength, yes, I can offer that, with the understanding that they come into it with a contributing mindset, knowing that if they are being elevated, that they will want to help to elevate others too.
So that that’s the best that we can offer at this point. It starts with, to me, it starts with mental strength. If they’re seeing a therapist, if they’re on antidepressants, if they’re on mood altering chemicals, if they’re doing things, if they’re seeing all this and they’re still not feeling well, then try this.
Come in to me. The come into the golden connections, start from the bottom, look at yourself, do a self assessment and say, what is it that I can contribute? It can be as simple as.
Emily Bron: I think no psychologist and pills and treatment, which are needed at some time can replace actual social group support and friendly open hearts.
So one of the issues without judgment. One of the issues which I found in North America, and actually Western societies. Why people are turning on to a psychologist and have all these treatments? Because they don’t have enough friendship. They don’t have, family as was support before.
So they complementing this way, but you are creating this Nests of support and not only support mutual support, but rediscovery for women. Actually you’re offering them to find new purpose, new lifestyle.
Kathy Tarochione: Absolutely. Emily, it just excites me so much when I talk to some of our women that are in our group.
We have one, one in particular. I’ve known her for years and I love the fact that she has. His was willing to share with me, but it, she didn’t share with others until she came into the group. And once she did that, I was blown away that she was able to share her innermost secrets. Everybody was in tears and it was like, Oh my God, she’s willing to share that.
When she got done, she immediately contacted me and she said, And now my healing begins. I’ve gone through all these doctors. I’ve been in and out of the hospital with trying to heal. And all it took was one session with these women for it to start opening up. She said, I felt as though the world was off my shoulders.
And all it was 10 women that got together and we allowed her to be herself. There was, and there’s a lot of groups that allow each other to do that and they say that all the time. There’s something magical about the Golden Voices because the prerequisites to even coming into it are You come in with a contributing mindset.
You come in where you’re willing to listen. You’re going to look. You’re not going to turn, you’re not going to come on with your camera off and your video off. You’re going to hear what they say. We don’t want you looking around. We don’t want you looking at your phone. We don’t want you all over the place.
We don’t want you typing and doing your work. If you’re going to do that, then don’t come in. This is 100 percent look them in the eyes, feel their, feel what they are feeling and let them know that you can feel it because if you can feel it. Then they can feel that they matter and that’s all it takes.
That’s all it takes. Absolutely.
Emily Bron: And one of the last questions. Living with health conditions that require continuous care, what advice would you give to others facing similar challenges in maintaining an active and purpose driven life?
Kathy Tarochione: Excellent question. And don’t get me wrong. I’m on the pity pot quite often thinking about, Oh, my God, I’m confined to home.
I can’t get out. I can’t do things. I can’t this. I can’t that. The mindset is for me is Acceptance. Acknowledgement and acceptance. When, and letting go of the fact that, like I have this 40 foot cord that I drag around with me and it’s forever getting caught on everything. It’s it’s a cannula and, but I can’t live without it.
I have to have the oxygen and I’ve got a tank and all that. I can only go out. And the portables only last an hour for oxygen. So what can you do in an hour? Can’t go shopping. You can’t do some things. And even if I could, I can’t, I’m a I use a walker for long distances. I can go a little bit, walking around, but not very often without one.
So it’s the mindset of acceptance and I put it behind me, so to speak. My physical conditions are. Not. knowledgeable and acknowledged to me. What I put forward is my spirit. I put forward who I am and who I am is a soul who is living in a physical body that happens to be unwell and I do the best that I can to take care of it.
But when I can’t, I let my spirit come through and my soul and my survival skills and my passion to want to help others. You have to have a passion. There’s no doubt about it. You have to have a reason to help others. I can’t think Emily of a better reason to be put on this earth if not to help others.
What other reason is there? Is it for money? Is it for fame? Is it for a house? Is it for to have Children? What is it? Other than to help others. What other reason are we here?
Emily Bron: I absolutely agree with you. And I don’t know at what age you got to this vision. But I believe at certain point each of us, Women, men would get to the thought and when doing this, this internal searching, soul searching yes, and I think the same.
It’s the highest virtue to help others and others in need. The question. If you can and we are able it’s a different conversation and you touch a lot of points Answering this question and because sometimes people even don’t know that they can you know They think that they need to have some special light when actually they have maybe small candle already Inside which can lead the light for people Ozos.
Can I make a suggestion?
Kathy Tarochione: Yes. I would suggest that, this is what I do, I would suggest that if you were in an area where you have a lot of homeless people and people with signs around that, please help me, etc. I wonder how many of you have ever really stopped and asked that homeless person why they need money and why they are where they’re at.
I would suggest that you ask them, what puts you in this situation? Why are you, And what is it that you really need? Do you need housing? Do you need do you need food? Do you need, what is it you need? And don’t just say money. What is it that you need? Because if I can help you, I will help you.
Emily Bron: But what would you do with this knowledge? Now I have a question. Okay, and if I know Yeah, they need housing, they need medical help, and I cannot help them. It will be just burden.
Kathy Tarochione: Just think that what you do when you allow another human being to share their story, especially, and you show interest in who they are and what their situation was, you make that person feel good.
So the gift that you gave to that homeless person is that you listened. You just listen to them. And I can’t tell you how many times I have given to a homeless person that I had them in tears. And then I said, it’s a good thing that you’re now aware of why you are at, why you’re at where you’re at. And hopefully, now you might be able to pick yourself up because you know what you need to do.
I think it does. I’ve gone to, and my, I have a niece that does the exact same thing. She goes and she’ll buy, she’ll She’ll buy stuff. She’ll see somebody, she’ll pay for them in line because she sees they’re counting their pennies. She likes to do that with older people too, because the older person doesn’t have, sometimes they’re living on social security and they or they didn’t have enough when they were in line and she will be there and she doesn’t have a lot, but she will find the money to give to somebody else.
So it’s, I don’t think that we become aware of who the people are that are really in our world. We look at them as discussed, oh, homeless. Oh, yuck. They’re, you don’t know how they got to that situation. What happened? Did you lose your job? Did you, are, were you not able to get another job?
What happened that put you in that position? And for the person that is homeless, they notoriously say to me, they don’t want to think about it. They just, they don’t want to think about why they are where they’re at because they’re feeling so humiliated. They can’t provide for their family. They’re just feeling so down and out and everything else.
But once you bring it to the surface again, is what we’re doing with the women in the Golden Life. We’re bringing to the surface of what it is that is holding them back and that is keeping them down. Then all of a sudden you think, you know what? I could do something. I could do something. So
Emily Bron: how can listeners get involved, support your mission, and maybe be inspired and interested in community building like yours?
Kathy Tarochione: Okay go to the Golden Life community.
www. thegoldenlifecommunity. com and you’ll be able to see exactly what we’re doing from our partnerships to our collaborative networks to all of our investor opportunity pitch decks and overviews, what we’re doing, where we’re going. And for those women that want to come in with a contributing mindset, you can go to the Golden Connections.
That’s TheGoldenConnections. com. No www, just plain TheGoldenConnections. com. And you’ll see request to join and that request to join. We’ll require you to answer a couple of questions, which lets us know that you have a contributing mindset and you’re willing to come into the community knowing that we’ll ask you to show up.
We’ll ask you to be a good friend that you will show up. And once you come in, there is no, no charge for. The membership to come into it. And if you at some point want to become part of the golden voices or in the mudroom, then there is a membership fee for that, because that is a specific plan that you would participate in.
And that would be 49 a month. If you take it for a year, that would be a a full. Excuse me, that would be a two months off, two months off with that. And those are the two ways to get a hold of me. Of course, I’m on LinkedIn Kathy Tarchione, T A R O C H I O N E, and it’s Tarchione. Thank you very
Emily Bron: much, Kathy, and it was very enlightening and even Heartwarming for me, and I believe for everyone who listening to you, your stories, our conversation.
And I wish you the best possible health under the circumstances. Your spirit is strong. You’re inspiring. Your eyes are lighting. And I wish all the best to all multiple projects you are leading and
Kathy Tarochione: inspiring others to lead. Okay. Thank you so much, Emily. I really appreciate it. And namaste to the audience.
Thank you very much. I’ve enjoyed it immensely, thank you.
Emily Bron: Thank you.
Kathy Tarochione
🌟Founder 💫GOLDEN Connections💫GOLDENSpaces Membership Housing Communities 💫—Mental Strength ❇️Empowering Golden Minds— Women over 55❇️Widow ❇️Live Broadcaster ❇️Woman In AI Innovator💫
The Golden Life Community LLC is a lifestyle empowerment space for women over 55, founded by Kathy Tarochione. With a passion for mental well-being and heart-level connection, Kathy created this supportive community to help women rediscover their voice, build deep relationships, and live with joy and purpose.
Now home to the beloved Dog Connection Show—focusing on “Aging With Your Dog”—the community blends virtual programs like The Golden Voices Lounge and The MUD Room with future plans for real-life living spaces. Inspired by the loyalty of its golden retriever mascot, The Golden Life Community is more than a network—it’s a family. 💛
In this episode of the Age of Reinvention podcast, host Emily Bron explores the awe-inspiring life of Kathy Tarochione, a 78-year-old dynamo of resilience, wisdom and determination.
Kathy’s journey is a tribute to the transformative power of positivity, community, and life purpose. Her remarkable life includes overcoming personal adversity and pioneering initiatives to uplift mature women by creating Intentional communities of a unique type and nature- https://thegoldenlifecommunity.com.
A Life of Reinvention
Kathy Tarochione’s story begins with personal and professional triumphs and trials. After dedicating 34 years to healthcare, Kathy faced the challenge of losing her husband and confronting significant health issues herself. Turning personal tragedy into community empowerment, she founded the Golden Life Community—a haven aimed at supporting women over 55 through innovative programs like Golden Connections and the planned Golden Spaces.
Finding Purpose Through Positivity
A pivotal moment in Kathy’s life was meeting Mother Teresa in 1996. This meeting instilled in her the belief that looking forward and acting on the needs of others is a path to fulfillment. Despite health challenges, Kathy’s philosophy centers on positive thinking and purpose. She overcomes obstacles by maintaining a robust mental attitude, viewing each challenge as an opportunity to assist others.
Entrepreneurship and Community Building
Kathy’s career spans diverse fields, from healthcare to the arts, each imparting valuable lessons. As a digital artist and animal advocate, her work seamlessly integrates creativity and advocacy. By weaving her interests together, Kathy networks and empowers women through art and community initiatives, providing a platform for healing and growth.
Golden Life Community: A Vision for Women
Kathy’s Golden Life Community is the cornerstone of her mission. It addresses the dual needs of mental strength and housing for women in their golden years. The community promotes resilience and purpose by fostering an atmosphere of co-creation and mutual support. The initiative offers hope and practical solutions to women facing loneliness and depression, bringing them together in a supportive network.
The Role of Art and Innovation
Kathy is a seasoned digital artist who uses platforms like Midjourney to express mature themes through stunning imagery. Her art focuses on women and their pets, celebrating the depth and beauty of mature life. This creative outlet and her entrepreneurial spirit inspire others to find new paths to self-expression and purpose.
Emily’s most profound respect and admiration for Kathy
During my 2 online meetings – conversations with Kathy Tarochione, learning about her life and work, listening to her voice of strength and courage, and looking at the brightest eyes of this beautiful, wise woman I was so impressed that my admiration for Kathy only growing, as I follow the news and updates about the progress of her projects.
This woman’s strength and resilience in forging new paths in midlife are inspiring. Her initiatives show that through community, creativity, and purposeful living, individuals can reinvent themselves and help others do the same.
For those inspired by Kathy’s story and looking to connect, the Golden Life Community, **https://thegoldenlifecommunity.com** awaits. It offers resources for women ready to embrace change and renew their purpose.
Whether you’re seeking inspiration or looking for a supportive network like the Golden Life Community, Kathy’s story is a beautiful reminder that change is possible and empowering.
