 month, reallys the four-star Château de Marçay. This hotel is housed in an actual 15th-century château in the very heart of the region. Surrounded by 15 hectares of parks, lawns and gardens, and even vineyards and truffle grounds, this magnificent accommodation boasts an outdoor pool, boules court, restaurant, shops, tennis court, free Wi-Fi, laundry service and many other facilities. It's fabulous!
nother historic accommodation is the Hôtel Domaine des Hauts de Loire, housed in a hunting lodge dating from 1860. This impressive stone building featuring walls covered with vines and topped by a couple of turrets is surrounded by lakes, vineyards and woods. It's a superb place for anyone looking to get outside and spend some time in nature.
People who want to alternate between visiting historic châteaux and playing rounds of golf may want to opt for L'Orée des Chênes, a four-star hotel in the heart of the Sologne surrounded on all sides by beautiful nature, lakes and wineries. Facilities include everything from a restaurant serving food made with local produce to a swimming pool and sauna, and outdoor pool and bicycle rental service.
Categorised as a "tourism restaurant", AS Hôtel's Le Pique Assiette offers its guests great food in a wonderfully scenic environment. The menu includes an all-you-can-eat section, but also great pizzas, salads and gourmet dishes. A private room is available in case you have something to celebrate.
One of the most peaceful places to go when you're hungry is the Auberge du Tranchoir. Set amid a farm that breeds Vosges cattle and Comtois horses, this rustic inn serves superb traditional food prepared with locally sourced ingredients, including produce grown at the farm itself. This authentic eating venue is open for lunch and dinner.
When visiting Amboise, consider going for dinner at Le 36. This is a wonderful restaurant to go to with friends or family, or with a loved one or colleagues. It features a well-filled menu that has a mix of traditional French dishes and international food. All dishes are prepared according to the gastronomic tradition of this region that loves its wines and food.
Take advantage of the rising temperatures in March to visit one the Loire Valley's most picturesque towns. The historic town of Tours is home to winding medieval streets and alleyways, beautifully cosy squares, and many of those typical half-timbered houses. It's an overwhelmingly charming town, set amid one of France's most beautiful regions. Attractions are plentiful, ranging from museums and art galleries to monuments, gardens and parks. Gourmet food lovers will be in paradiseountless exquisite restaurants dot the town. This is without question one of the best bases for exploring the Loire Valley.
A smaller town, located just southeast of Tours, that is also worthy of a visit is Loches. This surprising town boasts a huge number of historic sites and buildings relative to its size. Attractions include a 44-metre-high keep, the Saint-Ours Collegiate Church, the Logis Royal of Loches and its atmospheric medieval heart. This little town makes for an excellent destination for a day trip.
(00:15): Welcome to the live happier longer podcast. This podcast is equal parts, information, inspiration, education and motivation, all dedicated to increase longevity and improving overall quality of life. I'm your host, Molly Watts and I'm here to help you build the habits of a happier, longer life. Let's get started. Well hello and welcome. Welcome back to the live happier longer podcast. I am your host Molly Watts and I'm coming to you from a fairly gray and cloudy Oregon that was sort of anticipated. It is Memorial day right now, so happy Memorial day, even though you'll be listening to this when it's in the past, and I knew that this was going to be the case, but it does look as though the following week after today is going to be getting very beautiful here in Oregon and I am certainly looking forward to that. It's never really a podcast if we don't talk about the weather first is it?
(01:12): So this podcast is equal parts, information, inspiration, education and motivation and that it helps me bring in different aspects of that whether I'm sharing some ideas or sharing information, sharing science, reading books that are motivational or like today bringing on a guest who is inspirational by the fact that she is living her own version of a happier, longer life. And this particular guest, Deb Cummins Stellato, Deb and I met almost two years ago now at an Amy Porterfield conference and we met because we were in a little subset of people at that conference who were women over the age of 50, but Deb was just someone who I think I probably would have gravitated to anyway. She's got so much energy and she was actually, they're planning on building a course for nonprofit leaders, her own company where she has always been a leadership coach for nonprofits.
(02:14): It's called think good think good company has now taken on a new turn. And that is a podcast and a coaching business that she has created called think courageously. And Deb had has had a lot happened in the last two years and her story is inspiring because at the age of 58 she's doing something totally new, totally different, unexpected, and she's doing it with courage and I love that. So I wanted to share her with you because this is available to you too. It's available to all of us. This idea that you can start something and your life is not over in your late fifties early sixties whenever you can start something too.
(03:00): I love the ideas that Deb has to share and I hope you enjoy hearing from Deb comments stiletto. Hey Deb. Hey Molly, how are you? It's so good to see you. It's so good to talk to you. I'm so excited to have you on the show. I am so excited to be here. I cannot believe that where it's almost been two years since our paths cross. That just seems like ridiculous.
(03:28): It does seem ridiculous and it's been a pretty eventful two years for both of us, but especially for you and I'm, that's really the reason I wanted to have you on the show. You've launched your own new podcast and really you're, I don't know, did you, I mean let's think about that two years ago, did you ever imagine where you were going? What, what this would be like now?
(03:50): I had no idea that this is where I would end up two years ago and I went to that conference in San Diego. We were both lovers of Amy Porterfield and I thought I was going to build a course, a leadership course and write for nonprofit leadership. Yep, exactly. And I'm still doing a ton in the nonprofit space, but I have not built a course Molly, but I've done some other things instead that seemed to seem more important than of course for the time that we're in and then I'm in.
(04:30): Yeah. So let's talk about that because I know, like you said, I mean both of our paths have taken different, you know, which is funny cause I've ended up in the nonprofit sector, which has been an unusual turn of life events as well. But you, how long ago? Like six months ago. Is that about accurate or is a little longer that you completed your coaching certification?
(04:54): I actually, so I got my official certification. I was notified that I got it in January, but I, the program took me exactly nine months to end. So I had started whatever, like nine months before. And got the official, yes, you're a certified coach in January. I was determined to take my final exam before the end of 2019 and I actually recorded that on December 31st, 2019. Nice.
(05:30): You know, set a goal and accomplish it. So tell me about that decision. Where did that come from and, and you know, a life coaching is one of the things that I actually like knew absolutely nothing about when you and I met back then. Honestly, I mean I kind of, I think that's probably maybe one of the first my first for razor or talking to a couple of people that were at that conference and they were coaches. And I think that was kind of one of my first like real upfront crossing paths with that kind of life. And then over the course of my podcast, I actually, in not too long after coming back from that conference, interviewed somebody who was a life coach and, and even then, but she introduced me to the whole, the whole idea of it. And now it's a very, something that's so much a part of the self coaching and things that I do in terms of and following all of that, it has become something very important to me. So tell me for you where it came from, what happened and how you and went down that path.
(06:31): Yeah, so it's interesting. I was doing a lot of consulting and I was calling myself a leadership coach, which I was, I was a certified leadership coach when I started this, which means I was certified with a few assessments and as a facilitator for those programs and as a coach. But there was something from me that didn't feel a hundred percent authentic. I felt like I, I had known somebody and I'd actually been working for somebody who had gone through a certified coaching program and I had seen what heavy lifting that whole program was like. It