# S2E7: Ken Stern on Social Connections and Longevity Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/lizness-school-7066339/s2e7-ken-stern-on-social-connections-and-longevity Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/lizness-school-7066339/s2e7-ken-stern-on-social-connections-and-longevity.md Podcast: [Lizness School](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lizness-school-7066339) Published: 2025-11-06T08:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://mgln.ai/e/211/rss.art19.com/episodes/1ab31e72-4ab1-465a-bdd2-922713273ff2.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Audio file: https://mgln.ai/e/211/rss.art19.com/episodes/1ab31e72-4ab1-465a-bdd2-922713273ff2.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lizness-school-7066339/episodes/s2e7-ken-stern-on-social-connections-and-longevity Duration seconds: 2071 ## Resource Ken Stern visits Lizness School today to talk to Liz Dolan about his new book Healthy To 100: How Strong Social Ties Leads to Long Live s. Ken is the Founder and Chair of the Longevity Project , which he launched in collaboration with the Stanford Center on Longevity . He hosts the podcast Century Lives, also part of the Stanford Center on Longevity . Read Ken's newsletter Three Not-So-Bad Things on Aging and Longevity . Subscribe for free to the Stanford Center on Longevity Magazine . Welcome to our new sponsor Stanford Federal Credit Union .  To use their $620 New Member offer, go to  sfcu.org/lizness Homework: Liz's story about total darkness retreat: Would you ever do this? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/magazine/dark-retreat-meditation-sensory-deprivation-spirituality.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Aaron Rogers Sky Cave Retreat  https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/26/us/aaron-rodgers-darkness-retreat-wellness-ctpr Leah's story about bar with no phones - https://dc.eater.com/restaurant-news/163917/no-phones-bar-hush-harbor-unplugged-opening-h-street#:~:text=Hush%20Harbor%2C%20a%20month-old,small%20watering%20hole%20(1337%20H If you are new to Lizness School , we suggest you listen to Season 1 to hear all about Liz's year as a Stanford Fellow. Everything from Neuroscience and Chinese History to Pickleball! Plus a great community experience with her fellow DCI Fellows. Season 2 is about how she puts her lessons to work in the wild. To listen to Liz +. Leah's  recap of Lizness School Season 1 , go to our  FINALE here . For more on Liz Dolan, go to  ⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠ For more on Liz's work in podcasting, go to  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Satellite Sisters⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Lizness School on all podcasting platforms including  ⁠⁠⁠… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lizness-school-7066339/episodes/s2e7-ken-stern-on-social-connections-and-longevity/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/lizness-school-7066339/s2e7-ken-stern-on-social-connections-and-longevity.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.