elderproject The #elderproject – what I learned For the past 10 years I’ve always spent the first few quiet days of the year thinking about the past 365 days and planning for the next. This year, my introspection also turned out to be a good opportunity go through all my #elderproject [https://www.emigal.com/tag/
elderproject The #elderproject #11 – Graham Perolls I first met Graham earlier this year, when he invited me to become a Honorary Patron on the Copaceni fundraising committee for Hospices of Hope. I’m in awe of Graham’s dedication to helping people in South Eastern Europe with services of palliative care, and this was one of
elderproject The #elderproject #10 – Princess Marina Sturdza A week ago in New York, I had the great pleasure to interview Princess Marina Sturdza. She is a member [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturdza_family] of the old, aristocratic Sturdza family, who were exiled by the communist regime in Romania when she was just three years old. Princess
elderproject The #elderproject #9 – Andrew Smart, modest and wise are the first attributes that spring to mind when I think of Andrew, my 9th interviewee for the #elderproject. A Romanian 71 year old that fled to the US during the communist regime, he lived in the US for 20 years and is now living in
elderproject The #elderproject #7: Franco the tailor Yes, I know it’s been a while and no, I haven’t given up on the #elderproject. I’ve just been busy and as it turns out it’s not that easy finding, interviewing and writing about people. That being said, I believe the wait will be worth it.
elderproject The #elderproject #6: David Moore My 6th interview was with David J. Moore of 24/7 Real Media fame [http://www.wpp.com/wpp/investor/financialnews/2007/may/17/wpp-has-agreed-to-acquire-real/] . Dave has been an ad man for longer than I’ve been alive, sold 24/7 Real Media to WPP in 2007 and is currently
elderproject The #elderproject #5: Jeff Hutchinson This week’s elder is the oldest one I’ve interviewed so far, and yet one of the happiest. Jeff is 83, British and has more charisma than Obama & Clooney put together. He had a wonderful, wonderful story about love which was perfectly timed as I interviewed him on
elderproject The #elderproject #4: George Betianu [RO] Apologies for not posting an #elderproject interview in a while. I’ve been doing them at a rate of one per week but converting to mp3, uploading to soundcloud and writing the summary takes longer than I thought and work has been very busy. I’ll try posting a few
elderproject The #elderproject #3: Ewan Today’s elder is a 61 year old British national living in Surrey, named Ewan. There was a bit of nostalgia in his voice while he was talking about the past, as you’ll notice in the interview. He’s had a tough time over the years, Ewan, but despite
elderproject The #elderproject #2: Jagdish Patel I’ve realised over the past week that I don’t have time to post the elder project interviews every day, but I will try to the best of my ability to actually do one every day and post them at a later time. Today, I’d like to introduce
elderproject The #elderproject #1: my dad, Stefan Gal The first person I interviewed for The Elder Project [https://www.emigal.com/2014/12/25/experiments-the-elderproject/] is none other than my dad, whom I love dearly and look up to in many ways. Asking him the questions was rather odd as I already know the answers to many of
elderproject Experiments – the #elderproject Almost every year for the past six years, I’ve taken on a new experiment. In 2008 I was a polyphasic sleeper [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep] for two months. In 2010 I lost 14kgs in two months. In 2011 I lived in London on £300/day for