The Baker Buzz is a Q&A column developed by health and wellness columnist Sheldon Baker, featuring interviews with Hollywood celebrities, musicians, athletes, and published authors, as well as notable health professionals. Many interviews include people in the super-ager category. People who are still going strong after many years in their respective fields. Some Baker Buzz interviews posted here have originally appeared in the quarterly print issues of NaturAlley, while others are exclusive to this website.
You’ve probably seen him numerous times over the years on television and maybe even in Las Vegas. Rich Little, celebrity impersonator extraordinaire is said to be the mimic of more than 200 voices. I don’t think that includes his family, friends, neighbors, or former home room schoolteacher that would put him well over that number.
Susan RoAne, known as “The Mingling Maven,” leads a double life as a bestselling author and a sought-after keynote speaker. Her groundbreaking best-seller, “How to Work a Room” is published in print, audio book, and digitally as an e-book.
Julia Schopick is a health advocate, bestselling author of Honest Medicine: Effective, Time-Tested, Inexpensive Treatments for Life-Threatening Diseases, and the creator of an award-winning blog. When her husband became ill in 1990 with a cancerous brain tumor and was given 18 months to three years to live by his doctors, Schopick found therapies that extended his life significantly.
Sharkie Zartman is a professor of health and fitness at El Camino College in California where she teaches Yoga for Health and Fitness and Power Vinyasa Yoga. She is the author of nine books including her latest, Win at Aging, which emphasizes a proactive, athletic, and holistic approach for stepping up to the challenges of aging and enjoying our lives regardless of age.
Considered by many avid television viewers as America’s most respected television mom, Michael Learned for several years starred in the role of Olivia Walton on the CBS-TV show, The Waltons.
