About Denise Linay
I’m Denise – coach, writer, lifelong learner and believer that later life can be a time of growth, challenge and reinvention.
I started 60 is the new 60 in 2015 after discovering fitness later in life while training as a personal trainer. What began as a space to share my enthusiasm for movement quickly became something much bigger.
Within months, my best friend was diagnosed with bowel cancer and I underwent open heart surgery for a serious heart condition. Those experiences changed my perspective profoundly. They taught me not to take health, time or relationships for granted.
Professionally, I spent many years in midwifery and leadership before qualifying as a Professional Coach in 2019. I now work as a Career and Leadership Coach, co-founded Coaches in Mind, and completed an MA in Coaching at Warwick University, where my dissertation explored the ripple effect of leadership coaching.
Fitness remains an important part of my life. Not as punishment or performance, but as a celebration of capability. Running, strength training, endurance challenges and staying active all form part of how I aim to age well.
More recently, I’ve been rebuilding after thyroid illness – proof that healthy ageing is rarely a straight line.
This blog is where I explore what it means to live with purpose, resilience, curiosity and realism.
Because 60 isn’t the new 40.
It’s 60. And that can be extraordinary.
If you’re navigating reinvention, recovery, healthy ageing, or simply wondering what your next chapter could look like, you’re very welcome here.
Book to read. The Alchemist
Thanks Sharon. X
Oh no! Not him again – https://grahamgeorgerickettsinberlin.blogspot.com/
Well done Denise. I am 77 and completed Carrauntoohil 2 weeks ago taking exactly the same route up and down as you did. You have but one more mountain to climb to complete the British Isles Peaks Challenge, and that is Slieve Donard (850m) in Northern Ireland. Good climbing. Chris
Congratulations on completing Carrauntoohil. I hope that I’m still climbing in my 70’s.
Wop Ho! Ever-Sunny Essex, ever-Sunny EU Berlin here, talking with his, er, keyboard. I’m well looking forward to recieving my first ever Christmas Bonus from King Brian’s government next month Matey. It seems my early Coopers Arms (from Jan 75, although I actually started ‚almost daily‘ some 3 years earlier, no less) efforts, have finally paid-off big-time afterall – The Long Game indeed, innit. I’ll hit 67 (the new 55 in early January too). Be Good, and Keep Sproncin. PS: I recall you were a hard graftin Fine Fare girl too – The Sky was indeed your limit, wunnit. Cheers! Young G xx
I saw a report about your favourite Sports Factory based in Sunny EU Stuttgart last night, it’s ‘Business Model’ is obviously doing very well indeed, shy with their prices they ain’t me old china, now are they?. I can also see a big future UK market for them & Co, as more and more schools sell-off their valuable sports fields to the highest bidders (never to be returned of course). Taxpayers money will flow to keep the young fatties moving, here though, I see no chance, only private investment. “Keep Sproncin!”