Sound Insight

About Sound Insight

Welcome to Sound Insight, the podcast that explores our complex relationship with work and life. I'm your host, Cathy Jacob. For 20 years, I've coached executives, professionals, entrepreneurs, and creators to do the work they love without sacrificing the rest of their lives in the process. For inspiration in an earbud, each episode will challenge your thinking, expand your perspective and offer practical strategies to take you from tired to inspired. For a written adaptation of each episode, visit my blog at cathyjacob.com/blog. You'll find a transcript of the episode plus more articles, recommendations, and practices on the topics I cover here.

Publisher

Cathy Jacob

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Jan 2022

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

57 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026

   Our False Assumptions About Aging May Be Hurting Our Health

   In part two of my series on growth in later life, I explore the impact that our negative beliefs about aging have on the aging process itself. Our culture has us all swimming in ageism. False, negative, and disparaging beliefs about aging are so pervasive that we don't even notice them. According to three decades of research conducted by Dr. Becca Levy of Yale School of Public Health, these beliefs are hurting our health and well-being. Further, they don't only hurt older people; they hurt the young as well. In this episode, I explore three common false stereotypes about aging that can have a powerful effect on how we feel, what we do, and, in some cases, our biology itself.

2. 

   11 Oct 2026

   Elderhood is More Than a Nicer Way to Say Old

   The difference between getting old and growing old may be more important than you think. In this episode, I explore the key differences between our notions of "getting" old, as a process of contraction and the precarity of living with an aging body and mind. And something more empowering. A growing body of research shows us what some cultures have known for centuries. Growing old is entering elderhood, a distinct late-stage of development filled with new possibilities, skills, and capacities in later life.

3. 

   6 Sept 2026

   7 Lessons I Still Haven't Learned.

   Mind-blowing revelations for my 70th birthday. It appears I have officially entered "Elderhood." This is a time when, as a writer and leadership coach, I feel some pressure to spew wise. And as a subscriber to Sound Insight, you deserve, well... insight! I find on this BIG birthday, however, I just don't have it. I hope you can forgive me as I offer you, instead, seven lessons I still haven't learned.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 39 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

54

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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