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Retirement is a time of new beginnings, but without joy, purpose, and fulfillment, it can feel empty and directionless. Yasmin Nguyen, author, Joy Ambassador, and co-founder of the Retirement Innovation Lab, shares how you, in your professional or personal life, can transform your approach and life satisfaction by activating joy in retirement planning.

Through the Game of Joy, Yasmin introduces “Joy Activators” — experiences that nurture well-being and vitality — and reveals how they help retirees thrive. He also highlights the role of “Joy Blockers” — emotional, psychological, and social barriers that prevent joy — and explains how you can support your clients and yourself in overcoming them.

In addition, whether you're dealing with retirement or not, we'll also focus on how to develop "joy activators, " so you can bring joy into your life during these challenging times.

In this program, you'll discover:

The 5 Principles of Joyful Living and how they provide a foundation for a meaningful retirement and life.
“Joy Activators” — practices and experiences that unlock happiness, well-being, and fulfillment.
"Joy Blockers” and how addressing them helps you move past emotional and psychological obstacles.
How the Retirement Innovation Lab provides financial advisors and coaches with tools, training, and insights to seamlessly integrate holistic planning into their practice.

Join this insightful conversation to learn how embracing joy as a guiding principle can elevate both retirement planning and life satisfaction.

About Yasmin Nguyen:
Yasmin Nguyen is an author, Joy Ambassador, and the co-founder of the Retirement Innovation Lab. He believes that through the innovative tools, transformational experiences, and aligned partnerships, we can create significant impact.

His journey from the brink of burnout to becoming a beacon of joy is nothing short of remarkable. After hitting rock bottom, he embarked on an 18-month road trip that transformed his outlook on life, teaching him the invaluable lessons of creating joy in the simplest moments. His discoveries became the foundation of his book, The Game of Joy, a guide to cultivating fulfillment amidst life’s storms and transitions.

Witnessing his parents face the challenges of retirement, Yasmin, alongside his mentor Kathleen, dove deep into understanding the unique struggles of the retirement journey. Through heartfelt conversations with hundreds of retirees, they uncovered a widespread need for guidance and support during this transitional phase of life.

Now, Yasmin dedicates his life to inspiring joy, particularly among retirees and financial advisors, empowering them to embrace this new chapter with possibilities and purpose.

Get in touch with Yasmin Nguyen:

Buy Yasmin’s book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/yasmin

Visit Yasmin’s website: https://retirementinnovationlab.com/

Download Yasmin’s handout: https://retirementinnovationlab.com/revolutionize-retirement/

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George Kinder's latest book, The Three Domains of Freedom, draws on the work of his lifetime, empowering readers to experience profound freedoms and aspires to change civilization. Drawing on his expertise in mindfulness and financial life planning, he offers a transformative guide to living authentically, discovering one's purpose, and contributing to creating a humane and just society. The book lays the foundation for a new social contract between consumers and institutions.

Kinder says, "It's time we established civilization as a fiduciary culture. I'm pitching a particular fiduciary legislative proposal that takes the essence of ESG and expands to include the planet, humanity, democracy, and the truth, and argues that it should be written into law, not just voluntary."

Kinder aims to bring trustworthiness to every large institution, whether a corporation, government, or nonprofit, by ensuring they prioritize the truth, democracy, the planet, and humanity over their self-interest.

In this episode, you'll discover how to:

Experience the present moment through simple mindfulness practices and their connection to your freedom.
Design and deliver a clear vision of a profound and meaningful life using life planning techniques.
Appreciate and celebrate the gifts of civilization so that you are in a position to address its challenges best.
Get involved with the FIAT movement to advocate for fiduciary standards across all institutions.

About George Kinder:

Author and international thought leader, George Kinder is known in the financial industry as the Father of Life Planning. George authored three books on money as he revolutionized client-centered financial advice through experiential training courses for thousands of advisors from over 30 countries.

A mindfulness teacher for 35 years, Kinder has led weekly meditation classes and residential retreats around the world. Kinder is a published poet and photographer.

His recent books focus on civilization, understanding civilization as both human evolution and the evolution of environments of freedom. His passion is to foster the very best of humanity.

Get in touch with George Kinder:

Buy George’s book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/domains

Visit George’s website: https://www.georgekinder.com/

Reflections on Spectacle Pond series: https://www.georgekinder.com/subscribe-reflections-on-spectacle-pond

Subscribe to George’s Substack publication: https://georgekinder.substack.com/

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Surprisingly, many older adults approaching retirement feel a sense of dread – even when they have sufficient financial security and are reasonably healthy. In a project sponsored by Harvard Business School, Teresa Amabile’s research team spent a decade researching retirement to understand people’s attitudes toward, decisions about, and experiences of retiring.

She and her colleagues, Lotte Bailyn (MIT), Marcy Crary (Bentley University), Douglas T. Hall, and Kathy Kram (both of Boston University), interviewed 120 knowledge workers in successful companies, including some who were still working, some who had retired, and some who were about to enter the retirement transition. The 14 people approaching retirement in the near term became the “Stars” of this research because they agreed to be interviewed multiple times as they finished their careers, officially retired,

In this episode, you’ll discover:

The “work” of retiring and how to approach the necessary tasks in a way that increases the likelihood of a smooth transition into a satisfying retirement life.
The major identity challenges people face in retirement, and some creative ways you can meet those challenges.
The upheavals to personal and professional relationships that can occur during this life transition and how you can maintain and build a mutually supportive relationship network post-retirement.

About Teresa M. Amabile:

Teresa M. Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Her most recent book, Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You, presents insights from a decade of research on the psychological, social, and life restructuring challenges of retiring. Her colleagues Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall, and Kathy E. Kram collaborated on that work. Before turning her research interests into retirement transition, Teresa devoted over 40 years to researching creativity and innovation. Extending that work, she studied how everyday life inside organizations can influence people and their creativity by affecting inner work life - the confluence of motivation, emotions, and perceptions. The findings of that research appear in her coauthored book with Steven Kramer, The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work.

Teresa's work has appeared in over 100 scholarly journal articles and a variety of other outlets, including Harvard Business Review. She has presented her work to audiences in a variety of settings, including Pixar, Genentech, TEDx Atlanta, Apple, Pfizer, and the World Economic Forum in Davos. She consults with companies and nonprofits, and has served on several boards. She has received a variety of awards, including the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Management's Organizational Behavior Division, and election to the 2024 Thinkers50 Hall of Fame.

Get in touch with Teresa Amabile:

Buy Teresa’s book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/amabilebook

Connect with Teresa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresa-amabile-8542727/

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This is a story about Renewment®, a word Helen Dennis and her co-founder, Bernice Bratter, made up.  The word is a combination of retirement and renewal.  So, what is it?  It is a small movement, process, and forum that inspires and supports career women from work to retirement…and beyond.  Over the past 25 years, 35 to 40 small in-person renewment forums spread virally across the country, concentrating in Southern California, where Bernice and Helen live.  Groups have lasted anywhere from 2 to 25 years, most often meeting in someone’s home.

Since the pandemic, they formed virtual renewment roundtables talking about topics and issues related to transition and change, and relevant to our life stages, with roughly 100 women across the country participating.  Again, this has been viral growth.

Renewment groups have addressed topics such as “Who am I without my business card?”  and “What does productivity mean at this life stage?” A common characteristic of all renewment women is that they are not satisfied with the status quo for themselves or their communities.  

In this program, you'll discover:

The most important issues facing later-life career women
The impact of renewment, and some intended and unintended consequences.

Note: Much of the content is also relevant to men. Yet, since the work trajectories for the boomer and silent generations are somewhat different for men and women, we have focused on women.

About Helen Dennis:

Helen Dennis is a nationally recognized leader in aging and new retirement. She has received numerous awards for her university teaching at the University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology and for her contributions to the field of aging, the community, and literary arts. As one of the nation's leading experts on preparing for the non-economic aspects of retirement, she has worked with over 25,000 employees at corporations and universities to do just that. Some of her other work engagements have focused on employment opportunities for older adults, expert witness work on large class action age discrimination cases, and more.

Additionally, Helen is a syndicated columnist on Successful Aging for the Southern California News Group and has published over 1,000 columns reaching 1.2 million readers weekly. She is co-founder of Renewment® and co-author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller, Project Renewment®: The First Retirement Model for Career Women, and has been recognized by PBS Next Avenue as one of the 50 Influencers in Aging.

Get in touch with Helen Dennis:

Buy Helen’s book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/renewment

Visit Helen’s websites: https://www.renewment.org/ and https://www.helenmdennis.com/

Download’s Helen’s Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/dennis2024

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Leaving middle age and approaching retirement is often portrayed as a time to settle into comfortable patterns and perhaps explore grand adventures. The common view suggests that after you've spent a lifetime building satisfying relationships, now there's time to sit back and enjoy them, to lean into the habits you enjoy, to stop working so hard at everyday things.

Unless everything in your world gets turned on its head and all the familiar, comfortable things start to disappear. What do you do if death or divorce, or both, kick your comfortable world into the gutter, if your golden years threaten to turn into lead? Is there an alchemy that can turn those lead years back into gold?

Szifra Birke and Jay Livingston feel they have done just that.

They've forged a rich 25-year marriage from the detritus of four divorces and a spouse's death. In their insightfully revealing and quirky book, In Tandem: Pedaling Through Mid-life on a Bicycle Built for Two, they share how they took the scattered pieces of their two very different lives and worked to create a joint, satisfying experience where, as two very different people, they each could thrive. These two are both intensely committed to growing ever more aware of their internal speedbumps and the opportunities to laugh themselves into tears.

About Szifra Birke and Jay Livingston:

Szifra Birke is an Executive Leadership Coach and the country's first Financial Behavior Specialist. For her groundbreaking work with financial professionals and their clients, Szifra has appeared in Business Week, in addition to industry publications such as Investment News. In her first career, she co-authored Together We Heal, a book about psychotherapy for adults with parental alcoholism. She coauthored with Jay Livingston, In Tandem: Pedaling Through Midlife on a Bicycle Built for Two.

Jay Livingston is retired from an eclectic career as an executive coach, a prize-winning antique boat restorer, a renowned dog behaviorist, and Director of Development for a Harvard Hospital. He is the author of Simple Steps to Change Your Business, Your Life. His dozen other vocations and avocations are a case study in excellence run amok. He has appeared on NOVA and, in the 70s, an automotive garage he managed was recognized by Ralph Nader.

Get in touch with Szifra Birke and Jay Livingston:

Buy Szifra and Jay’s book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/tandem

Visit their website: https://birkeconsulting.com/

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Since the early 2000s, Lynne and Josh Berrett have been pioneers in developing a holistic approach to aging that transforms it into a dynamic process of renewal. Their initial venture, Music and Happiness, combined Josh's expertise as a musician and musicologist with Lynne's training in Positive Psychology coaching to focus on "mindful listening" for brain health.

By 2015, this had evolved into the Ageless Mind Project, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that offers a variety of ways for members to engage online with experts on aging as well as learn from one another and participate in activities designed to enhance their overall well-being as they grow older.

In this episode, you'll:

Discover how aging can be a period of significant growth and transformation for you, not just a time of physical change.
Identify and engage in activities that align with scientific research on aging well and personally resonate with you so that they become sustainable parts of your lifestyle.
Learn how you can actively participate in a supportive, vibrant online community that promotes continuous learning and personal development. Josh will give you a live sample of an activity!

About Lynne and Joshua Berrett:

Lynne Berrett, MA, MSW, is executive director of the Ageless Mind Project and of Whole Brain Health, a center for lifelong learning in the virtual world of Second Life since 2013, where she has been widely recognized for her leadership in lifelong learning.

Joshua Berrett, Ph.D. teaches music history courses for the Lifetime Learners Institute in Norwalk, CT, and on Zoom for AMP. He also teaches a sociology of music course online for Mercy University in Dobbs Ferry, NY, where he is Professor Emeritus. He has published several books on music and culture.

Get in touch with Lynne and Joshua Berrett:

Visit Lynne and Joshua’s website: https://agelessmindproject.org/

See them on Substack: https://substack.com/@agelessmindproject

Join their Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/807402954397807/

Listen to unison phrase "for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsStp0XKPpA

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Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle will reflect on the valuable process of life review for Elders focusing on her recently published memoir titled, Ley Lines of Love: Adventures Along the Spiritual Path.

In this program, you will:

Explore the process of life review as a valuable undertaking for Elders
Discover new meanings in the arc of one's life
Find a sense of completion through the telling of one's stories

About Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle:

Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle is a writer and dharma teacher whose work has been inspired by over fifty years of practice in Buddhist meditation, psychology, and wisdom traditions. For over twenty years, she has been offering talks and courses on elder issues. She is the author of Aging with Wisdom: Reflections, Stories & Teachings and the award-winning book Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows: A Couple's Journey Through Alzheimer's. Her recently published memoir is titled, Ley Lines of Love: Adventures Along the Spiritual Path.

Get in touch with Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle:

Buy Olivia’s book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/leylines

Visit Olivia’s website: https://www.oliviahoblitzelle.com/

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Creativity is an innate, generative, evolving process of self-expression. One application of creativity requires an individual to be open to new ideas and approaches to seek an original solution to a problem or challenge. Adjusting to retirement presents significant challenges to an individual's emotional, mental, social, and, therefore, physical health. Pursuing creative activities is essential to securing and maintaining a vibrant, healthy retirement lifestyle.

In this interview, Hugh Willard will provide an in-depth exploration of the role and application of creativity in the lives of retirees. This will include:

a broader and deeper understanding of creativity as a tool for psychological health beyond the historical aesthetic application
identifying the basic components and tools of creativity and seeing the ways these support the retiree's process
exploring the central role of environment, including relational supports, in fostering (or inhibiting) creativity.

About Hugh Willard:

Hugh J. Willard is a psychotherapist, singer-songwriter, and author with a career spanning more than thirty-five years. He has developed and taught courses on exploring identity, meaning, and creativity in the second half of life for numerous Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes, including those at the Universities of Duke, Georgia, North Carolina State, and UNC-Asheville.

Hugh's first nonfiction book, Finding Beauty in the Gray: Stories and Verse from the Third Age, was published in November 2023. His other published works include a children's chapter book series, The Goodwill Vulture's Club, a YA novel, Degotoga, and a novella, Clive's Crossing. He is currently working on his MFA in creative nonfiction at Bay Path University. Hugh also has a podcast series titled Aging Well: Finding Beauty in the Gray.

Get in touch with Hugh Willard:

Buy Hugh’s book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/willard

Visit Hugh’s website: https://hughwillard.com/

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Women now live six years longer than men, yet for most, the last decade of life can be plagued with cascading poor health and a lack of purpose. In other words, women's healthspans and lifespans are out of sync. What if there was a way for women to extend not only their longevity but also their quality of life?

In this interview, Maddy Dychtwald will discuss her cutting-edge research that helps women take advantage of scientific, psychological, and physical knowledge and tools to feel vital, youthful, and purposeful into their 60s, 70s, 80s, and beyond. We are currently in the beginning stages of a longevity revolution with women at the forefront. Women hold the power to change the aging narrative once and for all by emphasizing the gifts of long life and taking steps to minimize physical and mental decline.

Maddy will share simple and actionable steps to help women increase their healthspans, brainspans, and lifespans, including tips, techniques, and hacks (many of which are low-cost or free). Although focused on women, Maddy's presentation is helpful for everyone.

About Maddy Dychtwald:

Maddy Dychtwald is an internationally acclaimed author, public speaker, and thought leader on longevity, aging, the new retirement, and the ascent of women. She co-founded Age Wave, the world's leader in understanding and addressing the far-reaching impacts of our aging population, and has led numerous acclaimed studies on women and money. In addition, she has been involved in more than 25 thought leadership research studies worldwide on aging, longevity, retirement, health, family, caregiving, housing, and leisure, which have cumulatively garnered more than 14 billion media impressions.

Maddy has been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Newsweek, Time, Fox Business News, CNBC, NPR, and others. She has written many blog posts for the Wall Street Journal and Huffington Post. Maddy is the author of three previous books: Influence: How Women's Soaring Economic Power Will Transform Our World for the Better, Gideon’s Dream: A Tale of New Beginnings (a children’s book), and Cycles: How We Will Live, Work, and Buy. Her newest book is Ageless Aging: A Woman's Guide to Increasing Healthspan, Brainspan, and Lifespan. She lives in San Francisco with her family.

Get in touch with Maddy Dychtwald:

Buy Maddy’s book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/agelessaging

Visit Maddy’s website: https://maddydychtwald.com/

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Change happens! Are you ready for what may appear on your horizon in midlife and beyond? Eileen Caroscio will present 3 key strategic ways to navigate those changes and bounce forward from the book, Midlife New Life: Living Consciously in Midlife and Beyond.

Eileen's father died suddenly when she was a teenager. This made her realize that life could change unexpectedly and steered her into a fulfilling career as a registered nurse. She helped people adjust to health status changes and achieve next-level health goals. Her deep interest in supporting people's total well-being and their potential for moving forward beyond change and uncertainty expanded into helping individuals navigate the challenges and opportunities of the second half of life.

Being a nurse, consultant, and coach gives Eileen a unique perspective on presenting ways to address changes and challenges that can show up anytime. The program will provide you with a new perspective on resilience and an easy plan to bounce forward.

In this program, you'll discover how to:

Look at resilience in a new way
Identify and build upon the 4 main building blocks of resilience
Navigate typical transitions of midlife and beyond
Incorporate resilience tips from those we interviewed for the book
Create your own personal resilience M.A.P to bounce forward

About Eileen Caroscio:

Eileen Caroscio is a multi-certified coach, consultant, and a registered nurse. She is passionately dedicated to helping individuals achieve their goals and live their best life, especially those in midlife and beyond. Referred to as the "midlife muse," she engages you beyond your titles, jobs, and formalities to get to the core of what will enrich your midlife, making it more resilient, meaningful and magical.

Midlife New Life: Living Consciously in Midlife and Beyond is the Amazon bestselling book she co-authored with Sandy Demarest and Paul Ward. The book supports the value of giving conscious thought to how you want to live out your second half of life. It emphasizes the importance of developing a plan for having more joy and resilience to bounce forward into an enriched future.

Eileen holds a baccalaureate of science degree in nursing from Catholic University and a Master of Science degree in Nursing from Mary Mount University, totaling over 35 years of diverse experience. Eileen adds to her nursing, 19 years' experience as a consultant and coach for life transitions.

In her free time, Eileen can be found in nature walking, hiking or kayaking. She has a fondness for foxes and can often be found with her camera capturing their antics and escapades.

Get in touch with Eileen Caroscio:

Buy Ellen’s book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/caroscio

Visit Ellen’s website: https://passagewayscoaching.net/

Download Eileen’s handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/carosciohandout

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In her book, There Was an Old Woman: Reflections on These Strange, Surprising, Shining Years, Andrea Carlisle describes what it means to her to live a long life. She examines why her experience as an older woman is so different from what she expected it to be and realizes that her expectations came not from older women themselves but primarily from a culture that misled her from an early age right into the present day.

Through children's stories, art, literature, and common stereotypes that pop up in everyday conversations, we are told what an old woman is and needs. In her view, we can only challenge misperceptions through speaking up, telling our own stories, and supporting one another in facing what these years actually are: the hard truths as well as the perspective and often profound complexity that come with growing older.

In this episode, you will discover:

Why Carlisle is not afraid of the word "old" and is willing to apply it to herself while also recognizing that others may not feel the same way and have their reasons.
The fact that we're all lumped together because of one shared physical reality is as wrong when it pertains to the old as it is with any other group that shares a single physical characteristic.
Why a lot of the misunderstanding, not to mention fear, we have about older women is because for centuries, men told their stories, painted their pictures, and constructed fantasies about them that are just as dangerous and damaging as the ones they built around nubile, ever available younger women.
Who are we really? Just as proved to be the case in every other era of our lives, living in old age is an individual experience. The opportunity we have now, as opposed to other times in history, is to create more honesty about these years by pushing ourselves to own and share our unique reality with others.

About Andrea Carlisle:

Andrea Carlisle is the author of There Was an Old Woman: Reflections on These Strange, Surprising, Shining Years. Her work has been published in literary journals, newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and by independent presses. Go Ask Alice . . . When She's 94, her popular blog about her mother, brought attention to aging and caregiving before they became subjects of national interest. She has received fellowships from the Oregon Institute of Literary Arts and the Oregon Arts Commission. In March 2024, Electric Lit published her most recent essay, 7 Novels about Women Over 60 Who Defy Societal Expectations.

Get in touch with Andrea Carlisle:

Buy Andrea’s book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/carlisle

Visit Andrea’s website: https://andreacarlisle.com/

Read Andreas’s 7 Novels About Women Article: https://electricliterature.com/7-novels-about-women-over-60-who-defy-societal-expectations/

Read Andrea’s 50-Year Portland Friendship Article: https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2024/03/friendship-aging-portland-oregon

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It is time to reframe how we think about midlife, the transition period of life between young adulthood and old age, as not a "crisis" but a chrysalis - where a profound transformation happens. In his book, Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age, Chip Conley offers an alternative narrative to the way we commonly think of our 40s and beyond, and reminds us that life begins at 50 with the best of our days still ahead of us.

He began exploring the physical, emotional, mental, vocational, and spiritual transitions that happen in our 40s, 50s, and 60s with a desire to share his learning freely. People are living longer than ever before, and because of this midlife becomes even more of an important time in our life. This life stage opens the door to embracing new perspectives and ways of thinking that have the potential to change our lives.

In this program, you'll discover how to:

Prevent anticipation of your future regret as a form of wisdom that you can embrace any time in your life
Grow comfortable in your own skin
Redefine what a successful life looks like
Let go of our emotional baggage, mindsets, and obligations that no longer serve us as a part of the "Great Midlife Exit"
Feel a part of something bigger than ourselves and growing whole

About Chip Conley:

Chip Conley is on a midlife mission. After disrupting the hospitality industry twice, first as the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, the second-largest operator of boutique hotels in the U.S., and then as Airbnb's Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy, leading a worldwide revolution in travel, Conley co-founded MEA (Modern Elder Academy) in January 2018 in Baja California, Mexico. Inspired by his experience of intergenerational mentoring as a "modern elder" at Airbnb, where his guidance was instrumental to the company's extraordinary transformation from fast-growing start-up to the world's most valuable hospitality brand, MEA is the world's first "midlife wisdom school" and has a campus opening on a 2,600-acre regenerative horse ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico in April 2024.

Dedicated to reframing the concept of aging, MEA supports students to navigate midlife with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility. A New York Times bestselling author, Conley's seventh book, Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age, is about rebranding midlife to help people understand the upside of this often-misunderstood life stage.

Get in touch with Chip Conley:

Buy Chip’s book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/midlife

Visit Chip’s website: https://chipconley.com/

Visit Modern Elder Academy: https://www.meawisdom.com/

Download An Anatomy of Transition Digital Guide: https://www.meawisdom.com/free-resources/ebook/the-anatomy-of-a-transition

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We live in a culture that believes anyone beyond midlife is on a slippery slope towards their demise. The truth is, you can harness the authorship of your next chapter to become your best self for the longest time possible and for what matters most.

If you both look forward to and live in fear of retirement or know someone approaching this stage, join master coach and gerontologist Barbara Waxman to learn how to harness your wisdom and energy to do this differently, including:

Shift from the old-school mindset of retirement-learn, earn, and retire-to embrace what it means to be age-agnostic.
Embrace a new language pattern that will enable you to see the possibilities of a life stage that is multi-dimensional and aspirational.
Gain the clarity you need for your next chapter to live authentically and aligned with your core values.
Understand the Seven Lifestyle Levers™ that integrate body, mind, and spirit to create alignment between your healthspan (the quality of your years) and your lifespan (the quantity of years).

About Barbara Waxman:

Barbara Waxman, the founder of The Odyssey Group, is a highly sought-after longevity and leadership advocate, advisor, coach, speaker, and author. Barbara translates cutting-edge research and collective wisdom in ways that enable individuals, groups, media outlets, and others to understand how the dynamics of our aging world impact individuals, communities, companies, and the planet.

Barbara's leadership as a gerontologist in the coaching field has culminated in the transformative coaching model Entrepreneurship Turned Inward™ (ETI), the evidence-based Seven Lifestyle Levers Assessment™ and the Longevity Roadmap™.

Barbara is an Advisor to the Stanford Center on Longevity, Stanford Lifestyle Medicine and is a faculty member at Chip Conley's Modern Elder Academy. She is the author of two books examining aging, including The Middlescence Manifesto: Igniting the Passion of Midlife and How to Love Your Retirement. She recently authored a chapter on avoiding burnout for healthcare professionals in the book The Successful Health Care Professional's Guide.

Barbara holds a master's degree in Gerontology and Public Administration from the University of Southern California, is a Colgate University graduate, and is a Wexner Heritage Foundation Fellow. In addition, she earned her coaching certifications from the International Coach Federation and The Hudson Institute.

Get in touch with Barbara Waxman:

Buy Barbara’s book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/waxman

Visit Barbara’s website: https://barbarawaxman.com/

Take Barbara’s 7 Lifestyle Levers Assessment: https://sevenlifestylelevers.com/

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Why are so many people so easily misled by mistruths, partial truths, blatant disinformation, false portrayals, slick glosses, obvious reframing, misleading whataboutisms, frauds, scams, and outright lies? Where did this Post-Truth "infodemic" come from, and why now?

Drawing on his studies and experience with strategic thinking, psychology, business and government communications, culture, and education, Donald Officer has watched the reconstructed spread of Post-Truth, drawing some surprising conclusions. Putting his experience as a media observer and researcher to the test, he remains astonished at the extent of the chaos. You may be all too familiar with this paradox, but his discoveries might shock while they also encourage. If we can just survive this first wave....

In this program, we will uncover a few tentative answers to these pressing questions:

What should I listen for and contribute to this webinar?
What might I expect to learn or unlearn today?
What are the main sources of Post-Truth in my world?
How does Post-Truth affect me, my family or community?
As an elder what can I do to influence Post-Truth impacts?

About Donald Officer:Donald Officer, MA, is a non-fiction writer, independent researcher, strategic thinker and proud senior. He builds his practice as a facilitator, webinar moderator, and consultant while working on two book projects: the first exploring media literacy and positive social transformation, the second building meaningful connections among emerging contexts in collaboration with three other experienced professionals. He continues to freelance as a reviewer and writer with an extensive credit list.

Over the decades, Don has expanded his skillset by critiquing, consulting, teaching, coaching, and dialoguing. He holds certificates in facilitation, dynamic reading, hypnosis, systems. and procedures. A serious student of Positive Psychology, he belongs to the CPPA and volunteers for the IPPA.

Teaching at almost every level of formal education from elementary through post-secondary, including both community college and university, he would develop, adapt and deliver courses for the degree stream plus the continuing education arms of both university and community colleges.

Don remains particularly interested in helping workforces and multiple publics better understand change and where their contributions fit into larger schemes and systems. In policy development, administration, or communications, he spent his 19 years in the Canadian federal government pursuing those goals. He saw gaps and closed them.

Get in touch with Donald Officer:

Visit Don’s website: https://theintentioncoach.com/

Check out Don’s Positive Psychology articles: https://positivepsychologynews.com/news/author/donald-officer

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Why are older entrepreneurs four times more likely to start a successful new company than founders in their 20s? How do new businesses with a social purpose consistently outperform venture-backed startups?

Dr. Mary Cronin will discuss her studies of entrepreneurship success and business growth at over 2 million US companies and survey data from entrepreneurs worldwide. The surprising results add up to essential ingredients for startup success in the 21st century.

In this program, you will discover:

When it comes to entrepreneurship, age and experience are an advantage
Why older founders are so successful in achieving their business goals
The personal and financial rewards of revolutionizing retirement through entrepreneurship

About Mary Cronin:

Mary J. Cronin, Ph.D., is a social entrepreneur, a research professor, and a consultant for purpose-focused organizations, especially companies founded by encore entrepreneurs. Working with these older founders inspired Dr. Cronin's latest book, Starting Up Smarter: Why Founders Over 50 Build Better Companies. Contrary to the widespread perception that entrepreneurship is dominated by the young, her research shows that older adults are the fastest-growing category of business founders. What's more, older entrepreneurs are far more likely to create profitable, socially valuable companies.

Dr. Cronin teaches Entrepreneurship at Boston College and coordinates an Entrepreneurship program designed for nontraditional students. She is the Founder and President of 4Q Catalyst, which provides consulting and advisory services to help entrepreneurs of all ages make a positive impact on the world. Her earlier books include Managing for Social Impact: Innovations in Responsible Enterprise with Tiziana Dearing; Smart Products, Smarter Services; and the international bestsellers Doing Business on the Internet and The Internet Strategy Handbook.

Get in touch with Mary Cronin:

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Connect with Mary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryjcronin

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Legacy can seem far off and out of reach, but it doesn't happen at the journey's end, and it's not only for the rich and famous. Legacy is now, and Dr. Jann Freed shows how you can find and leave meaning daily. Jann will introduce her Breadcrumb Legacy™ framework, a radical but pragmatic approach made up of small actions you consciously take over time that accumulate into the trail or legacy you'll leave behind. Breadcrumb Legacy™ is also a mindset, an awareness of your impact on your relationships, your organization, and your family in every communication and interaction.

In this program, Jann will share her journey of writing her last two books, Leading with Wisdom: Sage Advice from 100 Experts and Breadcrumb Legacy: How Great Leaders Live a Life Worth Remembering. She will describe her breadcrumb legacy concept in more detail and why it is important for people of all ages and stages to understand how this concept can change their lives.

About Jann Freed:

Dr. Ruth is one of Dr. Jann Freed's sheroes. Dr. Ruth, a sex therapist, professor, author, and professor, was talking about sex in the 1980s, a taboo subject when no one wanted to talk about it. Dr. Jann Freed wants to talk about retirement when people don't want to talk about it and are scared to even think about it!

As a former professor for decades, Dr. Jann decided to practice what she was teaching and preaching. She says she is out to retire the word "retirement." We are not retiring from life but moving on to something else. Jann believes it takes time and intentional thought to successfully move on to what's next in life.

This awakening led her on a research journey that resulted in her book Leading with Wisdom: Sage Advice from 100 Experts. One chapter that really resonated was Leaders Live Their Legacy, so she did a deep dive into legacy work and set out to interview gurus. From this work, she created the concept of Breadcrumb Legacy™, which became her latest book, Breadcrumb Legacy: How Great Leaders Live a Life Worth Remembering.

Dr. Jann also hosts the Becoming a Sage Podcast, where she interviews thought leaders on the wisdom of life and work. She also writes the Leading Edge column for Training Magazine, which is published in print and online.

Her mission is to be a seeker and learner who leaves a Breadcrumb Legacy for herself and others. She lives in Des Moines, Iowa, with her husband and dog, Grover. She is proud of her three adult sons, who are thriving in this ever-changing world.

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From his working-class roots in New Jersey to the "tune in, turn on, drop out" cliffs of Big Sur and the pinnacles of the human potential movement; from launching his company Age Wave and coming to terms with his own aging process, Ken Dychtwald's Radical Curiosity makes sense of his first 70 years of life, offering invaluable life lessons through the lens of a man constantly seeking truth and self-discovery- giving readers a glimpse into a visionary's extraordinary world, and a guide for claiming a powerful vision of one's own.

Although Dr. Ken Dychtwald is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on aging and longevity, Radical Curiosity offers an entirely different and far more personal perspective. Triggered by the deaths of his parents and motivated by his cutting-edge research into the importance of leaving a legacy, Dychtwald dives deep to examine the arc and legacies of his own life through fantastic stories, mind-stretching adventures and his unique encounters with many of the world's great leaders and influencers, to show readers his keys to a meaningful, magical and purposeful life.

Ultimately, Radical Curiosity is a call to action that demands that we add more curiosity, purpose, interdependence, and discovery to our lives, regardless of age.

About Ken Dychtwald:

Over the past 45+ years, Dr. Ken Dychtwald has emerged as North America's foremost visionary and original thinker regarding the lifestyle, marketing, health care, economic, and workforce implications of the age wave.

Ken is a psychologist, gerontologist, and best-selling author of 19 books on aging-related issues. He was the executive producer and host of the highly rated/acclaimed PBS documentary, The Boomer Century: 1946-2046, which aired over 2,000 times on PBS stations nationwide. Sages of Aging is Ken's latest national public television program featuring profound conversations with twelve of the leading pathfinders in the field of aging.

Since 1986, Ken has been the Founder and CEO of Age Wave, an acclaimed think tank and consultancy focused on the social and business implications and opportunities of global aging and rising longevity. His client list includes over half of the Fortune 500. In 2023, Ken received the American Society on Aging's President's Award for evolving the world's understanding of what aging means.

During his career, Ken has addressed more than two million people worldwide in his speeches to corporate, association, social service, and government groups. His strikingly accurate predictions and innovative ideas are regularly featured in leading print and electronic media worldwide and have garnered over twenty billion media impressions.

Get in touch with Ken Dychtwald:

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The key considerations for staying healthy, happy, and enjoying the second half of life can be related to various age-old Japanese philosophical concepts of well-being. For example, Ikigai, a popular concept talked about and used widely today, is not new. It has existed in Japanese culture, along with the other concepts, as far back as the Heian period, 794-1185.

Okinawa, Japan, a renowned "blue zone,” region whose inhabitants live to a happy, healthy, vibrant old age regularly follow and practice these beliefs in their daily lives. Renée visited the area in the 1980s while living in Japan and observed and learned many of these simple well-being exercises and spiritual beliefs from the people there, enough for her to create a well-being roadmap on how to use them to enhance health, happiness, and longevity. She noticed that not just in Okinawa, but throughout Japan, these philosophical concepts for well-being were actively embraced by the older population. When Renée returned home, she incorporated her roadmap, based on these well-being concepts, into her counseling practice to guide her clients through the stresses related to aging and retirement.

In this episode, you will discover:

the five most prominent Japanese philosophical practices for helping to enrich health, happiness and success in the second half of life.
simple steps to create an ongoing practice to include each of these powerful, ancient Japanese concepts in your daily activities.

About Renée Rosenberg:

Renée Lee Rosenberg, MA, Positivity Pro, is a Career Management Counselor, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Emotional Intelligence Coach and Intergenerational Communication Speaker who works with organizations and individuals to foster engagement, multi-generational understanding, well-being, and career happiness at work. An eighteen-year member of NSA-US, Renée presents virtually and in-person, and has been interviewed in media, print, and online (ABC Eyewitness News, MSNBC, Italian TV, and Forbes.com, to name a few).

Renée lived in Japan in the 1980s where she studied Japanese metal making, worked for fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto and met David Bowie. While there she learned valuable Japanese insights and perspectives for sustaining happiness and well-being, which she incorporates in her national and international presentations as well as in her virtual and in person career counseling practice. Her book, Achieving the Good Life After 50, has helped many overcome the stresses of aging and approaching retirement. Clients describe Renée , a native New Yorker, as passionate, authentic, inspiring, and funny.

Get in touch with Renée Rosenberg:

Download Resources Discussed: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/rosenbergresources

Visit Renée’s website: https://positivitypro.com/

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Wondering what you should do with the rest of your life? Wishing you could rediscover a sense of purpose and passion? Want some hi-test inspiration for reclaiming your dreams, launching novel enterprises, or engaging in work others might find unthinkable in the second half? Join us for a conversation with Bruce Frankel, author of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life: True Stories of Finding Success, Passion, and New Meaning in the Second Half of Life. In addition to talking about astonishing models for achieving significant goals in the second half of life profiled in his book, he'll also discuss current research into the power of dance/movement to protect the aging brain.

In this episode you’ll discover:

How to discover in which direction to focus your efforts
How to leverage your personal assets to stake your claim on the future
How to find your tribe and why it's critical to successfully achieving your dreams
How to become more resilient
How dance, movement, and other improvisational arts can protect your brain and stimulate the growth of new neural networks at any age
Why exercise, movement, and novelty are critical to your well-being

About Bruce Frankel:

Bruce R Frankel is a partner in Redstring, a community-building technology and business, and its chief content officer. He is also co-president of The Life Planning Network and of LPN's New England Chapter, author of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life?, and co-editor of Live Smart After 50! The Experts Guide to Life For Uncertain Times. He also wrote World War II: History's Greatest Conflict. Before turning his attention to aging issues, he was a prize-winning journalist, the New York-based national reporter for USA Today, and a senior writer and editor for People magazine. He earned his MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College at age 53.

Get in touch with Bruce Frankel:
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Buy Live Smart After 50 book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/livesmart
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If you're over 50 and pounding the pavement for a job these days, you can face certain challenges. On average, it takes someone aged 55 or older three months longer to find a job than a younger person.

Your struggle to find employment results in disappointment at a gut level. Others are furious, discouraged, and dumbfounded by their inability to land a job that suits their experience and desired salary. They pick up part-time consulting jobs to keep afloat, zap resumes into the black hole of online resume bins, wait for a response, and pull their hair out. They have graduate degrees and once held executive and management positions.

If you're 50+ and looking for a job, feeling inferior isn't so unusual. You feel like a castoff in today's job market.

What are you up against? Some employers figure your salary demands are out of their ballpark and that if they hire you for less, you'll resent it and probably jump ship if you get a better offer. They often perceive, true or not, that you're set in your ways or lack the cutting-edge skills or even the energy to do the job. Then, some hiring managers might surmise that you have age-related health problems or are likely to, and that will be a problem if you take too much time off for periodic sick leave.

In this episode, you'll discover:
how to prepare both professionally and financially to start out on a new adventure
where the best opportunities for new employment lie
how to find profitable and rewarding jobs to save for retirement
how to cast a wide net to find an opportunity that fits different workers who want different things from their jobs
incredible insights into working after 50

About Kerry Hannon:
Kerry Hannon is a workplace futurist and a leading strategist on career management, entrepreneurship, personal finance, and retirement. She is a frequent TV, podcast, and radio commentator and sought-after keynote speaker at conferences.

Kerry is the bestselling and award-winning author of 14 books, including In Control at 50+: How to Succeed in the New World of Work and Never Too Old to Get Rich: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting a Business Mid-Life, a number one bestseller on Amazon and selected by the Washington Post for its Book-of-the-Month Club.
Kerry is currently a senior columnist and on-air expert at Yahoo Finance. She was previously an expert columnist, opinion writer, and regular contributor to the New York Times, MarketWatch, and Forbes, and was the PBS website NextAvenue.org personal finance and entrepreneur expert. She has also worked as a writer, columnist, and editor for USA Today, US News & World Report, and Money magazine and as a contributor to the Wall Street Journal.
Kerry lives in Washington, DC, and Boston, Virginia, with her husband, documentary producer and editor Cliff Hackel, and her Labrador retriever, Elmore "Elly."

Get in touch with Kerry Hannon:
Kerry's website: https://kerryhannon.com/
Buy Kerry's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/greatjobs
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Jan Hively and Moira Allan and several of their country liaisons, Hans Kristjan Gudmundsson from Iceland, Dieter Zwicky from Switzerland, and Cullen T. Hayashida from Hawaii, will discuss the history and evolution of the Pass It On Network. The vision of the Pass It On Network is to promote positive, productive aging worldwide and encourage older adults to share their strengths with others to help themselves, each other, and their communities as much as feasible. The mission of the network is to spread information worldwide about Positive Aging programs led by older adults who share their strengths to help themselves, each other, and their communities.

About Jan Hively:

Dr. Jan Hively, Ph.D., USA, International Consultant and Country Liaison for the U.S. and Co-Founder. Jan Hively describes herself as an "Encore Entrepreneur" in Minnesota, after a city planning and administration career, Jan Hively earned her Ph.D. in 2001 at age 69 with a dissertation on Productive Aging in Rural Communities. Since then, she has focused on transforming expectations for aging - realizing the potential for positive aging based on twenty-first-century trends and research. Jan has co-founded several thriving networks that support positive aging, including the Vital Aging Network and a global program exchange, the Pass It On Network. As a Purpose Prize Fellow, she is an internationally known presenter and consultant for programs that engage older adult leadership and support "meaningful work, paid or unpaid, through the last breath." Jan's academic degrees were earned at Harvard University and the University of Minnesota.

About Moira Allen:

Moira Allan, France, International Coordinator and Co-Founder. Moira Allan is the co-founder and international coordinator of the Pass It On Network, an Internet platform that connects positive aging advocates from around the world so they can share their strengths to help each other, their communities, and themselves. She serves on the councils of EURAG, Europe's oldest federation of senior organizations (155 in 32 countries), the International Longevity Center-France, and is the international liaison for Old'Up, the cutting-edge French association leading the way for the 80+.

She started in journalism and public relations and acquired skills that have served throughout her career as a life coach (University Paris 8), trainer, and manager. Moira is from South Africa and has lived in Paris for the last 40 years. She coordinates the Too Young To Retire network in Europe, started after the first Positive Aging Conference at Eckerd College, Florida, in 2007, where she met Jan Hively, Ph.D. Together, they set out on a collaborative exploration of the longevity revolution. They co-created with World Café Europe, the European Voices for Active Aging (EVAA) project in 2012 during the European Union's Year for Active Aging, and went on to launch the Pass It On Network in November 2013 in Paris.

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Have you experienced religious/spiritual abuse or betrayal? Do you feel spiritually disillusioned? Do you want to complete spiritual unfinished business before you die?

In every tradition, saints and poets speak of the soul's search for the beloved, the seeker's yearning for the divine, for the Self beyond ego. This holy longing is a secret feeling with many disguises, leading us to pursue a higher union in spiritual practice, religious discipleship, and even romantic embrace. It guides us to timeless wisdom and transcendent experiences.

But it also can go awry when we project the divine onto a therapist, teacher, priest, guru, rabbi, or roshi who is all too human - who has unhealed wounds, undeveloped empathy, or authoritarian tendencies. In effect, a woman or man who has a shadow. If he or she abuses power -- sexual, financial, or emotional coercion -- we feel the shock of betrayal, our innocence lost, our faith destroyed.

Today, we have witnessed many contemporary teachers of Buddhist, Hindu Hasidic, Muslim, Catholic, and Protestant groups act out their shadows in destructive ways, leaving their followers traumatized and lost. This can be viewed as a mythological moment of ordeal or dark night of the soul.

Suffering spiritual disillusionment, we can learn to apply the tools of depth psychology and spiritual shadow work to help us recover and rekindle the flame of longing in our souls.

This episode explores personal and archetypal projection, spiritual bypassing, as well as the evolution of consciousness, the nature of awakening, and the role of the Shadow.

In this episode, you'll discover why we are drawn to charismatic leaders, what we unconsciously give away to them, and how to reclaim it for our own treasury.

About Connie Zweig:

Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired therapist and coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow. Her award-winning book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. It won the 2022 Gold COVR Award, the 2022 Gold Nautilus Award, the 2021 American Book Fest Award, and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction. Her latest book, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening, is available now. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. After all these roles, she's practicing the shift from role to soul.

Get in touch with Connie Zweig:

Buy Connie’s Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/shadowspiritual
Visit Connie’s website: https://conniezweig.com/
Read Connie’s articles: https://medium.com/@conniezweig

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Bruce Frankel and Paul E. Nagle will discuss the creation of Stonewall Village NYC, which aims to build a movement for LGBTQ-friendly housing and an intergenerational community to protect and care for NYC's LGBTQ elders, who are among the city's most lonely, impoverished, excluded and threatened citizens.

About Bruce Frankel and Paul Nagle:
Bruce R. Frankel is a partner in Redstring, a community-building technology and business, and its chief content officer. He is also co-president of The Life Planning Network and of LPN's New England Chapter, author of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life?, and co-editor of Live Smart After 50! The Experts Guide to Life For Uncertain Times. He also wrote World War II: History's Greatest Conflict. Before turning his attention to aging issues, he was a prize-winning journalist, the New York-based national reporter for USA Today, and a senior writer and editor for People magazine. He earned his MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College at age 53.

Paul E. Nagle is the executive director of Stonewall Community Development Corporation, which seeks to partner with commercial developers to create affordable housing for LGBTQ elders. He is directing the creation of Stonewall Village NYC, a vibrant virtual village to support the elder LGBTQ population of New York with education-facilitation for LGBT housing opportunities, programs and services to support aging in place, health, and socialization to end isolation, and more. Paul was previously the executive director of Cultural Strategies Initiative in NYC and director of communications and cultural policy for a member of the NYC Council. He has a background in international cultural policy, which he studied at NYU.

Get in touch with Bruce Frankel and Paul Nagle:

Visit Stonewall Village Website: http://stonewallvillagenyc.org/

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Are you at the threshold of a new phase in your life, ready to rediscover (and redefine) how you will continue to work and find purpose in your next chapter? New York Times bestselling author Bruce Feiler joins us to chat about how to find meaning, balance, and joy at a time when many of us feel stuck, confused, and unsure about our next steps.

America at large is at a once-in-a-generation turning point in work: 70% of Americans are unhappy with what they do. A million people a week quit their job-that's a third of the workforce. Another third question how they work, where they work, and when they work. The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World is a timely and revelatory portrait of today's workers that offers a bold new roadmap for finding work you love based on the life stories of hundreds of Americans.

The Search reveals that many of us are using an outdated operator's manual around work. We've been told you need to have a career; there is one path to success; you should always be reaching higher and wanting more. Few ideas have squandered more potential. The Search offers a new model of success that is flexible, personal, and designed by each individual to meet their own needs.
Bruce will share some of the key ideas that emerged from his work on the book, in addition to questions you can ask yourself to help you find the path that will guide you towards a truly meaningful life, inside and outside of the workplace.

In this program, you'll discover:

Statistics that help identify this unique turning point in American work.
Aggregate insights from over 1,500 hours of interviews with Americans from all walks of life.
21 questions you can ask yourself to find work you love.

About Bruce Feiler:

Bruce Feiler is one of America's most thoughtful voices on contemporary life. He is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers. His three TED Talks have been viewed more than four million times, and he teaches the TED Course How to Master Life Transitions. His latest book, The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World, is a bold new roadmap for finding meaning and purpose at work based on insights drawn from hundreds of life stories.

Employing a firsthand approach to his work, Bruce is known for living the experiences he writes about. His work combines timeless wisdom with timely knowledge to allow people to live with more meaning, passion, and joy. For two decades, he has explored the intersection of families, relationships, and well-being.

A long-time columnist for the New York Times, Bruce Feiler writes the popular newsletter The Nonlinear Life about navigating life's ups and downs. He has contributed to The New Yorker, Parade, and Gourmet, where he won three James Beard Awards. He has been the subject of a Jay Leno joke and a JEOPARDY! question, and his face appears on a postage stamp in the Grenadines.

A native of Savannah, Georgia, Bruce lives in Brooklyn with wife, Linda Rottenberg, and their identical twin daughters.

Get in touch with Bruce Feiler:

Bruce's website: https://www.brucefeiler.com/

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What will happen to the wisdom you've gained from experience and the stories of the life you alone have lived? Do you keep promising yourself to write them down but never quite get around to it? Do you delete almost as many words as you write? Do you write things that never get shared?

Nobody is born knowing how to write. Like any skill, writing improves with deliberate practice and attention. Although there is no single recipe that works for every writer, there are common ingredients that recur in successful writing practices. One of the best ways to discover your own recipe is to adopt an experimental mindset and try various approaches until you find what works for you. This month's guest, Kathryn Britton, has helped hundreds of writers get past writer's block and find their own voices.

In this program, you'll discover some of the techniques in her book, Sit Write Share, which includes:

13 Sit experiments to help you get your writing started, escape writer's block, defeat internal gremlins, build habits, and find inspiration.
26 Write experiments to help you imagine your message, create a rough draft, and then edit in phases until your polished version emerges.
16 Share experiments to help you get support, publish, and spread your message to those who need it.

About Kathryn Britton:

Kathryn Britton did not start out intending to focus on writing. In her 30-year career as a software engineer, it was a surprise to find herself writing more prose than code, producing design documents, patent applications, and papers.

In 2006, Kathryn earned a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) degree in the pioneer class for the program at the University of Pennsylvania. Searching for a new career that would contribute to worldwide well-being led her to work with writers. In 2013, she ran her first writers' workshop. Since then, more than 140 people have gathered in regular workshop meetings. More than 3700 writing submissions have gone through this process. She also coaches individual authors and has edited several of their books. Some of her clients call her "the midwife of words."

Kathryn continues to write with zest herself. She has published more than 100 articles online. Her books include Smarts and Stamina: The Busy Person's Guide to Optimal Health and Performance, Character Strengths Matter, Thriving Women Thriving World, and Sit Write Share.

A resident of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Kathryn is overjoyed to be the close-by grandmother of two preschool boys.

Get in touch with Kathryn Britton:
Buy Kathryn's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/britton
Visit Kathryn's Website: https://sitwriteshare.com/
Connect with Kathryn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sitwriteshare/
Connect with Kathryn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SitWriteShare

Resources from Kathryn:
7 Experiments to Liberate Your Voice https://revolutionizeretirement.com/brittonhandout
Blog Article: Book Launch Reflections: Get

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Why is it important to have a non-financial plan for your retirement? Almost everyone has some sort of financial plan because that's what we see on TV and billboards. Do you have enough money to retire? For those who do, that's not the only important question. What you do with your time and how you find a new social network, purpose, and fulfillment are also of critical importance to a happy retirement.

In this program, you'll discover:

9 areas that need to be addressed for a smooth transition from a career to retirement
8 key categories to a full and balanced retirement

About Larry Jacobson:

"Retirement is not the end, but rather the opportunity for a new beginning," says Larry Jacobson, a leading authority on non-fiscal retirement planning. Jacobson uses his successful business career, retirement from the corporate world, and achieving his personal dreams as a proven model for his coaching. His experience has attracted coaching clients from all walks of life, including entrepreneurs, CEOs, doctors, attorneys, teachers, and public figures.

Jacobson believes retirement is not a time to stop growing, and he coaches clients to discover untapped passions. He then combines these passions with their past knowledge and experience to build a plan of action for a retirement of fulfillment and purpose. Jacobson is also known for leadership, entrepreneurship, and public speaking coaching.

Successfully transitioning from CEO to sailor, Jacobson achieved his lifelong dream of sailing around the world. After that accomplishment, he transformed himself into a six-time literary award-winning author and motivational speaker. Now Buoy Coaching & Training focuses on coaching programs that rethink and redefine retirement. The groundbreaking program Sail Into Retirement combines home study and personal coaching feedback has quickly achieved notoriety in the field.

A California native, circumnavigator, and adventurer, Jacobson has over 50,000 blue water miles under his keel. His books include the six-time award-winning memoir of his six-year circumnavigation, The Boy Behind the Gate, and his recent Let's Go! -- a children's version of his journey around the world. He also recently published Navigating Entrepreneurship, in which he shares solutions and practical steps to success in an online video training course. Larry lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Get in touch with Larry Jacobson:
Buy Larry's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/gate
Visit Rick's Website: https://larryjacobson.com/
Get Larry's Free Tools: https://larryjacobson.com/5-free-gifts/
Explore Larry's Courses: https://buoytraining.com/

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Rick Moody, an advocate for climate change action, will discuss the importance of acknowledging and addressing the threat of climate change, particularly in the context of aging. Individuals should acknowledge their fears in this arena but use humor to confront anxieties and take action to prepare for both mitigation and adaptation to climate change.

In this program, you will discover:

How personal experiences motivate people to act and how connecting with younger generations is crucial.
How individuals can contribute to addressing climate change as consumers, investors, and citizens
The ongoing struggles and the importance of personal connections and intergenerational work in climate change
A message of hope and the belief that everyone can take action to address the climate crisis.
Resources about several organizations focused on aging and climate and how to find other resources, including Third Act, Elders for Climate Action, Gray is Green, Friends of the Earth, and Sierra

About Rick Moody:

Harry (Rick) Moody, Ph.D., retired as Vice President for Academic Affairs with AARP and is currently Visiting Faculty at Fielding Graduate University and Tohoku University in Japan. He previously served as Executive Director of the Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College and Chairman of the Board of Elderhostel (now Road Scholar). He is the author of many scholarly articles and books, including co-author of Aging: Concepts and Controversies, a gerontology textbook now in its 10th edition.

Doubleday published his book, The Five Stages of the Soul, and has been translated into seven languages worldwide. He is the editor of the Human Values in Aging newsletter, with 5,000 subscribers monthly. In 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society on Aging, and in 2008, he was named by Utne Reader Magazine as one of the "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." His current book, Climate Change in an Aging Society, will be published next year by Routledge. He lives in San Mateo, California.

Get in touch with Rick Moody:

Buy Rick’s Books: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/moodybooks

Visit Rick’s Website: https://climateandaging.org/

Visit Rick’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-moody-b1a660b/

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Whether you're seeking something traditional or more flexible, Kerry will offer tips and resources for finding work that will support you intellectually, financially, and spiritually and create a second act that matters.

Join career expert Kerry Hannon, a recognized authority on career and workplace issues, for an interactive session on how to craft a meaningful second (or third!) act. Learn where the opportunities are to make a living and a difference. Many older people continue to work - some out of choice, some out of necessity. Unlike many of our parents, most don't have pensions to fall back on to fund not working for a decade or more. Find out how to prepare for today's digital marketplace.

Kerry is currently a senior columnist and on-air expert at Yahoo Finance. She was previously an expert columnist, opinion writer, and regular contributor to the New York Times, MarketWatch, and Forbes, as well as the PBS website NextAvenue.org personal finance and entrepreneur expert. She has also worked as a writer, columnist, and editor for USA Today, US News & World Report, and Money magazine and as a contributor to the Wall Street Journal.

Kerry lives in Washington, DC, and Boston, Virginia, with her husband, documentary producer and editor Cliff Hackel, and her Labrador retriever, Elmore "Elly."

Get in touch with Kerry Hannon:
Visit Kerry's website: https://kerryhannon.com/
Buy Kerry's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/whatsnext

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What are the unknown forces that shape how we think? Join Jan in this "edutaining" discussion about why our thinking is often "predictably irrational." We'll explore the cutting-edge area of behavioral economics, discover the secrets of our decision-making, and learn how to apply them to our everyday lives, including retirement.

Jan will include a discussion of:

Anchors
Loss Aversion
Hyperchoice
Future Discounting
Framing
Status Quo Bias
Hedonic Adaptation
Confirmation Bias
Overconfidence Bias

About Jan Cullinane:

Jan Cullinane is a recognized expert on holistic retirement. Her books include two previous editions of the best-selling The New Retirement: The Ultimate Guide to the Rest of Your Life, the award-winning The Single Woman's Guide to Retirement, and Retire Happy. She is the Healthy Living columnist for ideal-LIVING magazine and a contributor to Everybody Has a Book Inside of Them and The Weekend Book Proposal.

Jan has given numerous presentations about retirement. Her clients include AARP, The Smithsonian, In-N-Out Burger, Wells Fargo Advisors, and the U.S. Federal Government, among others. She is frequently interviewed for print and online media and has appeared on national and local TV and radio shows.

Her educational credentials include a B.S. and an M.Ed. from the University of Maryland and an ABD from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She lives in Palm Coast, Florida, with her husband Roger, has three married children, and five adorable grandchildren. She sincerely believes these years are the best years if you're prepared. And she can speak backward fluently!

Get in touch with Jan Cullinane:
Visit Jan's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-cullinane-31a9544/
Buy Jan's books: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/single and https://revolutionizeretirement.com/newretire
Download Jan's Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/cullinanehandout

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For millions of Americans, the COVID shock has brought retirement saving to an abrupt halt, and now it's time to get back on track. Even before the pandemic, a large share of households by Americans over age 50 faced the threat that their living standards would decline sharply in retirement. In the wake of COVID-19, these numbers will surely worsen.

In this program, you'll discover practical strategies for Americans to improve their retirement prospects.

About Mark Miller:

Mark Miller is a journalist, author, and podcaster who is a nationally recognized expert on trends in retirement and aging. His writing offers a holistic view of retirement security, including healthcare and Medicare, Social Security, retirement investing, midlife careers, and housing.

He also writes frequently about retirement-related public policy issues, including reform of Social Security, Medicare, and workplace retirement plans.

Mark's work appears in Reuters, The New York Times, Morningstar, and WealthManagement.com. He also publishes a free Substack newsletter and podcast on retirement.

Mark's latest book is Retirement Reboot: Common Sense Strategies for Getting Back on Track.

Mark is the former editor of Crain's Chicago Business and Sunday editor of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Get in touch with Mark Miller:

Visit Mark's website: https://retirementrevised.com/

Buy Mark's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/retirereboot

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Talking to your adult children about all the issues you will face as you get older is often very difficult. This episode will give you a practical and empathetic approach to working with your children to discuss and plan all the decisions you will have to make. Bob will lay out the steps to prepare and hold a family meeting to open the lines of communication. He will address such critical areas as legal issues that can impact the family, end-of-life planning, health care planning, and passing on a legacy to the next generation.

About Bob Mauterstock:

Bob Mauterstock is an accomplished speaker, author, and sought-after authority on the financial concerns of baby boomers and their adult children. For over 35 years, Bob has helped families achieve a worry-free, comfortable retirement. He has inspired baby boomers and their adult children to give each other the gift of communication and preserve their legacy for future generations.

He set up his first registered investment advisory firm in 1982 (Financial Action Plans, Inc.) and began doing financial planning for clients. In 1987, he became a Certified Financial Planner specializing in retirement income planning, long-term care planning, investment management, and legacy planning and worked with hundreds of families throughout New England.

After selling his practice in 2009 and officially retiring as a financial planner, Bob began to focus his energy on coaching financial advisers to learn the skills to advise their clients on eldercare issues. He has been quoted in several publications and appeared on several radio programs. In addition, he has spoken to groups of financial advisors and their clients throughout the country.

Bob has also authored four books, Can We Talk? The Financial Guide for Baby Boomers Assisting Their Elderly Parents, Passing the Torch, Critical Conversations with Your Adult Children, Financial Advisor Safeguard Volume 1: How to Protect Yourself, Your Practice and Your Aging Clients Who Have Diminished Mental Capacity, and Caring for Your Elderly Parents: Timely Tips for Baby Boomers.

Bob received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and a master's from UCONN. After graduating from Princeton, he served in the US Navy for over 4 years as a pilot in Helicopter Support Squadron 4. He holds the CFP®, ChFC, and CLTC designations.

Get in touch with Bob Mauterstock:

Visit the Bob’s Website: https://plan4lifenow.com/

Download Bob’s Handouts:

Digital Estate Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/digtialestate
How to Hold a Successful Family Meeting Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/familymeeting
Lifefolio Handout: https://giftofcommunication.com/lifefolio-system/

Buy Bob’s Books: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/torch and https://revolutionizeretirement.com/safeguard

Website Mentioned During Interview: https://theconversationproject.org/

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Baby Boomers look forward to retirement with a healthy dose of excitement and anxiety. They tend to be unprepared for the realities of retirement--neither do they anticipate the challenges nor have they planned sufficiently to take full advantage of the opportunities. In addition, many Boomers have perceptions of retirement that are, in essence, myths. Your Retirement Quest helps prospective and current retirees understand and address the challenges, recognize and debunk the myths, and set the stage for developing a holistic life plan that increases the odds of a fulfilling retirement.

In this episode, you'll discover:

Challenges of Retirement
Myths about retirement
10 key elements to a fulfilling retirement
And more!

About Keith Lawrence and Alan Spector:

Keith Lawrence has been a student of success for over 40 years, learning about how individuals, teams, and companies achieve their full potential. During his 32-year career at the Procter & Gamble Company, he traveled over three million miles to over 100 companies on his quest. Since "graduating" from P&G in 2009, he has consulted extensively, published several articles, spoken at numerous conferences, and sat on several boards and advisory councils. Keith catalyzes the book Your Retirement Quest and is one of the country's few certified retirement coaches. His wife, Sue, and he live in Cincinnati, Ohio, and enjoy spending time with their family, which is quickly growing with the arrival of grandchildren. He aggressively pursues his bucket list, strengthening his well-being and giving back to others to improve the world.

Alan Spector retired from a 33-year career with the Procter & Gamble Company in 2002 as Director of Worldwide Quality Assurance, having begun "practicing retirement" five years before. In retirement, Al pursues two of the passions of his youth: baseball and books. He continues to play baseball at age 70 and has coached his grandson's team. Al has written and published several books, including Your Retirement Quest, and numerous magazine and newspaper articles. He also consults extensively for companies and non-profits, works out daily, is an active community volunteer, leads a mentoring program at the high school from which he graduated, has sat on several boards, and is an active blogger. Al and his wife, Ann, live in St. Louis, travel widely, and enjoy their four grandchildren.

Get in touch with Keith Lawrence and Alan Spector:

Visit Keith and Alan’s Website: https://yourretirementquest.com/

Download Keith and Alan’s Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/retirequestassessment

Buy Keith and Alan’s Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/spector

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Music is a whole-brain food. It can nourish an ageless mind, one that is flexible and growing. People who enjoy listening to music have direct access to all the major ingredients for keeping their brains fit. By its very nature, music has a powerful effect on the brain, body, and spirit. Music that you choose to listen to can play a role in helping you develop a consistent lifestyle that supports brain health and overall well-being.

Researchers are finding that more than medications, specific lifestyle choices can make a real difference in optimizing brain functions and minimizing the risk of dementia.

Music can stimulate both hemispheres of the brain when people are guided to listen with close attention and focus on complex music of many kinds. Learning to do this introduces novelty and challenges the brain, stimulating the growth of new neurons.

Music also affects our brains from the limbic system outward to the neocortex. It can help us eat and sleep better. In a May 2013 article in Scientific American, Let's Get Physical: The Psychology of Effective Workout Music, it is referred to as "a type of legal performance-enhancing drug" enhancing the effect of exercise. It plays many other roles in keeping the brain awake and alive.

Join Joshua and Lynne and discover your own recipe for brain fitness that can work for you consistently and evolve with changes in your life over time.

About Lynne and Joshua Berrett:

Joshua Berrett, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus of Music, musicologist, jazz and classical music studies author, and violinist in area music groups. His retirement career's purpose is to teach an appreciation of many types of music and their tangible benefits to people's brain health and lives through lifelong learning classes in person, by phone, and online. He relishes helping students of all ages expand their horizons and improve their well-being through music. He has recently been appointed to the Lifelong Learning Committee of the American Society on Aging.

Lynne Berrett, MA, LCSW, is a life coach and a co-leader of the MentorCoach Alliance for Positive Psychology. She is a certified Total Brain Health coach. She has taught writing and literature in higher education, been a special counselor for at-risk college students, and a psychotherapist in private practice for adults and couples for over 30 years. She is deeply interested in literature, music, and dance's role in improving people's brains and lives, especially as they age. Their blog, The Ageless Mind Project, reflects Lynne's training in Positive Psychology as well as their joint contact with current neuroscience researchers about lifestyles that support brain fitness.

Get in touch with Lynne and Joshua Berrett:

Visit the Berretts’ Website: https://www.agelessmindproject.org/
Download the Berretts’ Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/barrett

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Travel awakens our senses and makes life vivid! In contrast to our daily lives, where habits and familiarity blunt our awareness, travel heightens our senses and makes us pay attention to new surroundings. If we are willing to look closely, we may see what has been hiding in plain sight: our emerging self!

Our culture softens our edges by offering us comfort and security in trade for experimentation and purposeful risk-taking. Worse, we can believe the time for self-rediscovery or dramatic change is past, belonging only to those younger than us. Intentional travel, whether by armchair, hydrofoil, or caravan, demands active listening to the life around us and our inner response to it. What do you make of the fact that your hotel was overbooked, served only cold food, and was so noisy you couldn't sleep? Did those things impede your learning from the moment, or did they accentuate your appreciation of hospitality under duress, the delicious subtlety of Spanish tortilla, and the resurgence of your interest in meditation?

Travel presents us with unpredictable, offbeat situations for which we need to improvise. In so doing, we are reacquainted with aspects of ourselves forgotten, misremembered, or rarely noticed. If we can look without initial judgment at our responses, we may see the learning inherent in those moments. Such learning can suggest a new synthesis of interests and skills or the stirring of insight into how our lives may be shifting.

Lastly, travel can happen at home by using fresh eyes to see our days, by recording what we experience in journals, and by creating a process of inquiry that leads us to reflect on more life in a manner that extracts from our life story, the materials with which to create a move vivid future.

About Kendall Dudley:

Kendall Dudley has been a career and life design consultant in private practice for over 25 years. He presents at academic and professional settings, including Harvard, Lesley, and Tufts Universities, the National Career Development Association's annual conferences, the Life Planning Network, and Pendle Hill. He's also the recipient of several arts grants for his work on issues of war and peace in the Middle East. He's also traveled to 36 countries and lived in 5 of them.

For over 20 years, he has run two businesses, LIFEWORKS Career & Life Design and Concord Avenue Writing Center. He has also worked as a Peace Corps volunteer, economist, project manager, photographer, staff writer, and teacher.

Get in touch with Kendall Dudley:

Visit Kendall’s Website: https://www.lifeworkscareers.com/
Download Kendall’s Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/dudleyhandout
Buy the book mentioned in the interview: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/obrien

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The 21st-century world of work is as unlike the 20th-century world of jobs as the modern drone is to the horse and buggy of great-grandfather's day. Suppose you coach clients in career or life planning. In that case, if you are a psychologist or sociologist helping people navigate this very different world of work, or if you are wondering about your job situation, this episode is for you!

Hard facts underscore this episode and make the case that how we work (and will work) has forever structurally changed. Ideas for you to incorporate into your practice or life will be presented. Come and be part of the call and discover resources and knowledge about the changes you may encounter along the highway of 21st-century work for boomers.

About Carleen MacKay:

Carleen MacKay is a multi-generational emergent workforce expert with particular emphasis on boomers. She has authored or co-authored four books on work/boomers and is a contributor to the Life Planning Network's book, Live Smart After 50.
Carleen has been a national keynoter in multiple media and Director of Mature Workforce Initiatives for Career Partners International, the talent management company with the largest global footprint. She has also been a product/service developer for nationwide clients from New York to Hawaii!

Get in touch with Carleen MacKay:

Buy Carleen's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/mackaybook
Download Carleen's handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/mackay

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What are you doing with your life's stories?

We reach a time in our lives during the third stage when we still envision what we seek to accomplish or discover, but more of our lives are devoted to reflections on the journey that has brought us to this point. In this interview, Alan C. O'Hare discusses his journey as a community psychologist, university educator, actor, playwright, and director, all woven together in his calling and artistry as a "Seanchai/storyteller."

These skills are also integrated into being a "curator" who highlights moments from a person's life that can be honored through the art of a story, a journal, a performance piece, music, dance, or visual art form. His model can also be adapted to the life journey of a family, clan, community, or culture.

About Alan O’Hare:

Alan C. O'Hare is a community psychologist, university educator, actor, playwright, and director. He's both a Celtic storyteller and a Seanchai storyteller. Alan has an incredible history at the Centre for Community Counseling and Education. He was the director of the Girls Center in Walpole, Mass.

He's done consultation in addition to training, instructional design, organizational development work, educational media, as well as community development work. He is a gifted playwright and has both acted and written many plays.

Get in touch with Alan O’Hare:
Email Alan: bridges95@aol.com

Download Alan’s Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/oharehandout

Buy Alan’s Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/lovemary

Watch It Takes a Village Video: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/takesvillage

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In 1976, when he was forty-four years old, Henri Nouwen co-authored a book entitled Aging: The Fulfillment of Life. One of Nouwen's colleagues who worked in the field of gerontology extolled the book as the best he had read on aging. Nouwen responded, "I know nothing about aging." Because he was only forty-four at the time his answer was probably correct. But if you are a baby boomer, someone born between 1946 and 1964, you now know something about aging!

In 1968 we baby boomers first started graduating from college. We were, are, and will continue to be people asking questions, people questing for the truth and the meaning of life just as they were during their college years and the social, political, and institutional upheavals of the 1960s. Now we face a new round of upheavals and new questions occasioned by our aging. For example,

Are you wondering what is to come as you notice changes in your physical health?
Are you nearing the end of your career and beginning to ask yourself "Who am I, really?" and "What next?"
Are your priorities changing as you experience the loss of family, friends, and peers?

At the same time:

Are you experiencing greater freedom to live as your responsibilities and demands subside?
Are you looking forward to creating a new life thanks to the wisdom of your lived experience?
Are the questions of life's meaning and purpose becoming more important?

We cannot dodge the realities or the questions these upheavals of aging provoke and evoke. If we try to evade them, there are just too many reminders that we are aging. There is no denying the reality that we are aging and that we have lived more years of our lives than remain to be lived.

What can we do and how can we live fully in the face of such profound and sometimes frightening realities? We can re-envision our aging and seek the opportunities for growth that aging holds for us.

In this program, we will focus on the spiritual dimension of our life's journey. We will explore some of the spiritual opportunities and paths that are present in our aging.

About Bob Weber:

Recipient of the American Society on Aging's 2014 Religion, Spirituality, and Aging Award, Robert L. Weber, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Psychology, part-time at Harvard Medical School and a former Jesuit. He also serves as a Massachusetts General Hospital's Department of Psychiatry faculty member.

Bob has had a long-standing interest in the integration of psychology and spirituality. This interest is born of his profession as a clinical psychologist and his lifelong commitment to personal spiritual development as both a lay Catholic and former Jesuit. He has been working to integrate a third dimension, aging.

At his private practice, located in Cambridge, MA, he conducts psycho-spiritual issues groups. Bob also leads seminars, days of reflection, and retreats in a variety of settings that integrate aging, spirituality, and mental health.

Get in touch with Bob Weber:

Buy Bob’s Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/spirituality
Download Bob’s Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/weberhandout

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So often, family caregivers are overwhelmed, but they won't ask for or accept help. Discover tools and communication strategies to help caregivers get past their barriers and begin to ask for and accept help. The goal is to ensure that caregivers are supported so that the person they care for is also safe and secure. The other outcome of ensuring the caregiver is supported is that they can make better future decisions because they come from a place of strength instead of weakness.

In this program, you’ll discover:

Viki's 4-Step Process for getting caregivers to ask for help.
What is care-grieving, and how it may limit the caregiver's ability to ask for help
How to help someone who is in denial or is overwhelmed by guilt to keep their balance through their caregiving journey

About Viki Kind:

Viki Kind is a clinical bioethicist, professional speaker, and hospice volunteer. Her award-winning book, The Caregiver's Path to Compassionate Decision Making: Making Choices For Those Who Can't, guides families and professionals who are making decisions for those who have lost capacity. Viki is known as "The People's Bioethicist" because she is a rare individual who bridges two worlds: the health care professional and the family struggling to make the right decision. She is an honorary board member of the Well Spouse Association and has been a caregiver to six family members for many years.

Get in touch with Viki Kind:
Buy Viki's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/kindbook

Visit Vicki's website: http://kindethics.com/

Access Viki's handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/kindethics

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In an era where we're living longer, families are far away, and we want to stay independent, self-help programs like the Caring Collaborative fill a gaping hole, whether you live in the suburbs or a city.

The Transition Network's Caring Collaborative program channels the goodwill of our community into practical help with health issues. Grocery shopping, sharing medical experiences, an escort to your rehab session, a note-taker during a doctor's visit - they're all on the Caring Collaborative's menu of ways participants can support each other. You'll learn about TTN's program - and how you can bring its benefits into small and large groups in your life.

In this episode, you will discover:

About The Transition Network's Caring Collaborative program, which taps into our community to transform goodwill into practical help
How to import Caring Collaborative activities into your own large or small groups
Success factors in launching a CC program

About Betsy Werley:

Betsy Werley, former Executive Director (2005-2013) of The Transition Network, is proud to be an "encore career" role model. She joined TTN in 2005 after spending 26 years in the for-profit sector, first as a corporate lawyer and then leading business projects at JPMorgan Chase. Her volunteer service as President of the Financial Women's Association was the catalyst for her decision to pursue a nonprofit job. She has also served as Director of Network Expansion for Encore. Org from 2013-2020 and is currently a freelance liaison to the Pass It On Network.

Betsy is a regular speaker on transitioning to the nonprofit sector and career transitions in general. Her transition story is featured in What's Next? How to Follow Your Passions to a Fantastic and Fulfilling New Career, by Kerry Hannon, AARP's Job expert; and The Big Shift by Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Encore.org.

Get in touch with Betsy Werley:
Visit The Caring Collaborative Website: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/caringcollab

Connect with Betsy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bwerley/

Download Betsy's Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/werley

Buy Book Betsy Recommended: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/womendontretire

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In her professional world, Andrea has seen her share of conversations between seniors, service providers, and family caregivers. In particular, when caring for an older adult, she sees how difficult it can be for others to really know what would bring that person joy and satisfaction.

Getting to the bottom of what is important to an individual's feeling of independence, happiness, and well-being is often obscured by how we go about those conversations. Where family caregivers may lack training, even professional service providers frequently enter into a dialogue that makes a senior feel embarrassed, disempowered ..or even worse, uninvolved in their own care.

Building on her years of nonprofit experience with seniors and their family caregivers, her own experience being cared for, and her understanding of what it means to be vital at any age - Andrea developed THE CARDS I'VE BEEN DEALT™.

THE CARDS I'VE BEEN DEALT™ uses a simple card game to gently shape the dialogue between families, care networks - and the individuals they support - to uncover what is truly important to the person. The Cards prompt players to express their wishes and goals in a way that invites conversation among all parties.

The goal is to use the three sets of cards to create a Life Plan that uncovers a path to joy and satisfaction in everyday living.

Join Andrea and Dorian to learn more about this innovative process that is being used in case management, in hospice care, and with adult children caring for an aging parent.

About Andrea Gallagher:

Andrea Gallagher, CSA®, is a for-profit and nonprofit corporate leader and change agent. Applying her twenty-five years of executive leadership and transformation experience, Andrea is innovating the senior and caregiver services world today.

Ten years ago, Andrea and her husband Peter "adopted" elderly neighbors and acted as caregivers for the couple as well as financial, legal, and medical powers of attorney. After their passing, Andrea became attracted to the idea that life planning could make inevitable life transitions much easier for individuals and their families. Since then, Andrea has dedicated her professional life to understanding the best practices to assist others in a positive aging experience.

Andrea is a Certified Senior Advisor®, Past President of the Life Planning Network, President of Senior Concerns, Life Transitions Chair, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Annual International Positive Aging Conferences, and editor and co-author of LIVE SMART AFTER 50! The Experts' Guide to Life Planning for Uncertain Times, creator of THE CARDS I'VE BEEN DEALT™, and seminar and workshop leader under RethinkingYourFuture™.

Get in touch with Andrea Gallagher:
Buy Andrea's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/livesmart

Visit Andrea's Websites: https://www.thecardsivebeendealt.com/ and https://rethinkingyourfuture.com/

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The kids are grown, the mortgage is paid, and the career is topping out. Does this mean immediate settlement into old age? Absolutely not! Thanks to the longevity revolution of recent decades, today's 55-75-year-olds are living and working longer and healthier than ever before. This generation is the first to experience the period of personal renaissance between middle and old age, "My Time." It is a whole new developmental stage in the life cycle during which 50-somethings reinvent themselves as inspiring students, artists, travelers, friends, lovers, and so much more.

Longevity is imposing a "new normal" of love and intimacy that has radical implications for the definition of marriage, including committed relationships between legally married and those who are not, as well as the formerly married. It includes all the members of our intimate circle, a network of people we cannot imagine our lives without -friends, adult children, siblings, and even old flames.

In this episode, you'll discover:

The Second Adolescence: How "My Time" is a sort of second adolescence during which My Timers break away from middle adulthood, just as teenagers break away from childhood.
The importance of experimentation during "My Time," whether going back to school, going on trips, taking a new assignment, or exploring new relationships.
Why recovering friendships and cementing relationships from the past is a huge trend in "My Time."
How "My Timers" have gained enough strength from life empowerment to give truly of themselves to others, and why "Giving Back" is important during "My Time."
How sexuality, romance, and falling in love - in and out of marriage -is possible during "My Time" as "My Timers" rewrite the rules of what makes a relationship flourish.
How to deal with difficulties of love in later life: incorporating past relationships into new ones, dealing with a partner's illness, "retired spouse syndrome," sexual turmoil, and divorce.

About Abigail Trafford:

Abigail Trafford - author, journalist, and public speaker - focuses on the new life cycle stage after midlife but before traditional old age. Her book, My Time: Making the Most of the Bonus Decades after 50, chronicles the social revolution of living longer, healthier lives. In her Washington Post column entitled My Time, she explores the potential of this new stage for both individuals and society. She has been a commentator on health and social issues for Washington Post Radio, host of an online health talk program, and syndicated columnist with Universal Press syndicate. She gave a keynote address at the White House Conference on Aging in 2005.

Trafford has a bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. She received a journalism fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1982 and 2002 and was a visiting scholar at the Stanford Center on Longevity, Stanford University, in 2007. She lives in Washington, D.C. and Vinalhaven, ME.

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Visit Abigail's Website: https://www.abigailtrafford.com/

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Julie's message challenges women to open their minds to the endless possibilities that can result in a fulfilling next act. She begins by permitting them to dream again, as Julie finds that too many women have buried their dreams in some dark closet. Sometimes, that means rediscovering old dreams that have gone dormant over the years; sometimes, it means imagining new ones. But her message doesn't end with the Imagining. She also provides practical advice on how to Do It and begin the journey towards fulfilling those dreams.

As Julie says, "Imagining without the doing is just daydreaming." Using her personal story, interspersed with the stories of the many remarkable women she has interviewed, she challenges women to take a personal inventory and walk away with a renewed sense of purpose. Although Julie's work is geared toward women, please listen to the episode-whether you're a woman or man - and you'll find ideas about this next stage of life.

About Julie Shifman

Julie is a non-profit leader, inspirational speaker, and author. She started her career as a professional ballet dancer and then became a successful lawyer in New York City and Cincinnati. Before becoming the Executive Director of Last Mile, which she co-founded with Tom Fernandez, Julie served as the Executive Director of Adopt A Class. In April 2023, Julie stepped aside as Executive Director, and Eileen Budo became the Chief Executive Officer of Last Mile. Now, Julie serves as the Vice President of External Relations at Last Mile.

Before that, Julie founded the company Act Three, an organization that helped women define their next stage of life. She also authored the book Act Three: Create the Life You Want and spoke on this topic at women's events around the country.

Julie's formal training includes a B.A. from North Central College, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Colorado, and a Masters in Tax Law from New York University.

Julie is the mother of four sons and three grandchildren. She and her husband, Steve, are actively involved in the Cincinnati community. Julie served as the Chairperson of the Board of Talbert House (the largest social service agency in Southern Ohio). She was the creator of CincyInNYC, the Chair of the Tax Section of the Cincinnati Bar Association, and a board member of the United Way of Greater Cincinnati (serving on the Executive committee). She currently serves as a trustee emeritus for the Cincinnati Ballet Company.

Get in touch with Julie Shifman:
Visit Julie's website: https://lastmilefood.org (Note: the site mentioned in the interview is no longer active)

Buy Julie's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/shifman

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We're surrounded by examples of women working well past the traditional retirement age. In fact, the fastest-growing segment of the workforce is women aged sixty-five and older. In today's challenging economy, men over the traditional retirement age are the second-fastest growing group of workers (just behind older women).

In this episode, we'll explore:

Why older women and men are staying on the job past conventional retirement age
What's driving this trend; gender differences
Working late by choice or necessity; advantages and disadvantages
Traditional role models, expectations; loss of identity
What does "older" mean; age stereotyping
Giving back--mentoring, volunteering

About Elizabeth Fideler:

Elizabeth F. Fideler earned her administration, planning, and social policy doctorate from Harvard University. She is a founding member of the Sloan Research Network on Aging & Work, at Boston College. With a background in classroom teaching, senior management positions at non-profit organizations, and education research, she successfully redirected her research and writing skills to address the extended work-life phenomenon. She is the author of several books, the most recent being Aging, Work, and Retirement.

Get in touch with Elizabeth Fideler:

Connect with Elizabeth on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-fideler-95566832/

Purchase Elizabeth's books, Men Still at Work: Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job, https://revolutionizeretirement.com/menwork and Women Still at Work: Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job, https://revolutionizeretirement.com/womenwork

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Lifestyle and money intersect at almost every turn, and they are the things that make us happy. Holly P. Thomas - behavioral economist, personal CFO, and author of The Mindful Money Mentality: How to Find Balance in Your Financial Future- will explore ten essential questions about whether money and lifestyle choices can make us happy and keep us happy.

During this episode, you will:

Gain greater insight into the relationship between lifestyle and money;
Learn strategies for mapping our lifestyle goals to our money goals;
Walk away with the basic pillars of a plan to take charge of your life and your money now and through retirement;
Learn how to get help if you need it.

About Holly P. Thomas (now Holly Donaldson):Holly Thomas has been a featured speaker on behavioral finance, economics, and the banking system in diverse venues, from college classes to large groups of business owners. She has developed instruction courses at the university level and as CE for CPAs.

In 2006, based on her experience gained over 20 years as a corporate and private banker, Holly concluded that small business owners and successful executives often have substantial unmet needs for integrated personal and business financial plans. Holly has built her practice around providing these clients with sophisticated financial planning and access to professionals who implement this integration.

Holly has enjoyed volunteering as an Advisory Board member of the Tampa Independent Business Alliance and Junior Achievement, chairing the local United Way's Audit Committee, and speaking on behalf of LifePath Hospice. Holly is a 2001 Leadership Tampa graduate and was chair of the NAPFA Leadership Development Committee and NAPFA South Regional Board.

Get in touch with Holly P. Thomas (now Holly Donaldson):Visit Holly's website: https://www.hollydonaldsonfinancialplanner.com/

Buy Holly's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/thomas

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Ten thousand people are turning 65 daily, and by 2030, all Boomers will be at least 65. Are you ready for retirement? Here are some things to consider:

"Fun" Retirement Vocabulary words
Importance of 6,570
Reflections about relocation
Working in Retirement (and the five Ps)
Money and Your Brain (behavioral economics)
Purpose and Values
Retiree Regrets
Summing it up: Secrets for a Successful Retirement
Shed your skin/molt!

About Jan Cullinane:Jan Cullinane is a recognized expert on holistic retirement. Her books include two previous editions of the best-selling The New Retirement: The Ultimate Guide to the Rest of Your Life, the award-winning The Single Woman's Guide to Retirement, and Retire Happy. She is the Healthy Living columnist for ideal-LIVING magazine and a contributor to Everybody Has a Book Inside of Them and The Weekend Book Proposal.

Her educational credentials include a B.S. and an M.Ed. from the University of Maryland and an ABD from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She lives in Palm Coast, Florida with her husband Roger, has three married children, five adorable grandchildren, and sincerely believes these years are the best years if you're prepared. And she can speak backward fluently!

Get in touch with Jan Cullinane:Visit Jan's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-cullinane-31a9544/

Buy Jan's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/newretire

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In this episode, Mary O'Brien Tyrrell will describe the satisfactions and challenges of a new type of business: helping older clients capture their life stories in published memoirs that become cherished family heirlooms. Based on the author's long firsthand experience working with elders as a memoirist and gerontological nurse, Tyrrell will offer a wealth of interesting stories and invaluable advice on working with elders, conducting interviews, composing memoirs, and creating and maintaining a successful memoir business with minimal financial investment.

In this episode, you will discover:

Acting on an idea that came from nature
A home business model for interviewing elders about their life story
Several failed marketing models for this business
A cost-effective process for tracking marketing strategies
Major elements in a marketing package

About Mary O'Brien Tyrrell:With the goal of designing a progressive model to honor elders, in 1994, Mary O'Brien Tyrrell founded Memoirs, Inc. and has assisted hundreds of older individuals in publishing a life story in limited-edition hardcover books that are distributed at a family book-signing party. The company has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, VFW Magazine, and Kiplinger's Retirement Report.

Mary has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master of Public Health in Community Health Information. A Vietnam veteran, since then, she has specialized in gerontology. She is past president of the International Institute for Reminiscence and Life Review and provides a 4-day continuing education intensive training as a memoirist/personal historian at Bridgewater State University Cape Cod.

Get in touch with Mary O'Brien Tyrrell:Buy Mary’s Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/tyrrell

Read Mary’s Article in the International Journal of Reminiscence and Life Review https://revolutionizeretirement.com/tyrrellarticle

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Listeners will learn about the National Center for Creative Aging and how every individual can flourish through creative aging. Note: The agency mentioned in this interview closed in 2017. Whether in or approaching retirement, participants will discover that approaching the possibilities and potential of aging equips us with resilience and a remarkable capacity for vitality in the world.

Participants will:

Learn about a remarkable paradigm shift in aging that is embracing creativity as a vital factor that fosters life satisfaction, contributes to improved health, and enriches connection and resilience
Explore the concept of flourishing through creativity
Learn ways creativity can be introduced in daily living to stimulate positive physical, mental, emotional, and social impact
Learn about resources to bring creativity into the caregiving process for adults as they age
Discover resources of the National Center for Creative Aging to embrace creative aging throughout your lifespan

About Dr. Greg Finch:For more than 20 years - as organizational strategist, medical school and university educator, and ICF ACC certified coach – Greg Finch has skillfully equipped executive leaders across high-impact organizations to powerfully shift and align their greatest strengths to confidently navigate the dynamic opportunities and ever-evolving challenges of optimal leadership, life, and enterprise.

As a catalyst, guide, pragmatist, coach, educator, and accountability partner, Greg crafts judgment-free zones - brimming with compassion and humor - where clients discover and then forge their strengths and potential into remarkable impact.

From C-Suite and Senior Executives to high-potential, Mid-Career, and Succession Candidates - Greg's clients continue to advance and flourish as leaders and change agents within demanding national and international environments.

Dr. Finch's expertise in psychosocial behavior, racial and gender equity, somatic and aesthetic practice, and multicultural communication accelerates learning and application across multiple contexts. With university adjunct appointments to The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Mason University Center for the Advancement of Well-Being, and The Georgetown University School of Theology, Greg brings evidence-based rigor, vibrant curiosity, and experienced pragmatism to each and every client, project, and organization.

Having lived on both coasts - with stops in between including Washington DC, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Princeton, and Harpers Ferry - Greg continues to cycle, Zumba, yoga, kayak, chorus, write, and photograph his way around this great big world from his home base in the sky above Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

Get in touch with Dr. Greg Finch:Visit Greg's website: https://www.wildgeeseamongus.com/home. The agency mentioned in this interview closed in 2017.

Download Greg’s handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/creativecaregiving

Download program slides: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/finchslides

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Anyone who began working 20 or 30 years ago has witnessed astonishing changes in the workplace during their career. When the global pandemic hit, older workers fortunate enough to retain their jobs once again had to navigate enormous upheaval virtually overnight. Working from home, often in isolation, over-fifties found themselves facing daunting technological and social challenges.

Influenced by the profound changes in the workplace spurred by the pandemic, Kerry Hannon will discuss the five major trends that are here to stay, the rise of the multi-gen workforce, the fundamental demographic changes, and how the most forward-thinking organizations are tapping into the benefits for experienced workers.

About Kerry Hannon:Kerry Hannon is a workplace futurist and a leading strategist on career management, entrepreneurship, personal finance, and retirement. She is a frequent TV, podcast, and radio commentator and sought-after keynote speaker at conferences.

Kerry is the bestselling and award-winning author of 14 books, including In Control at 50+: How to Succeed in the New World of Work and Never Too Old to Get Rich: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting a Business Mid-Life, a number one bestseller on Amazon and selected by the Washington Post for its Book-of-the-Month Club.

Kerry is currently a senior columnist and on-air expert at Yahoo Finance. She was previously an expert columnist, opinion writer, and regular contributor to the New York Times, MarketWatch, and Forbes, and was the PBS website NextAvenue.org personal finance and entrepreneur expert. She has also worked as a writer, columnist, and editor for USA Today, US News & World Report, and Money magazine and as a contributor to the Wall Street Journal.

Kerry lives in Washington, DC, and Boston, Virginia, with her husband, documentary producer and editor Cliff Hackel, and her Labrador retriever, Elmore "Elly."

Get in touch with Kerry Hannon:Kerry's website: https://kerryhannon.com/

Buy Kerry's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/incontrol

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Dr. Karl Singer is a family physician and geriatrician who recently retired from active practice in Exeter, NH. Over more than 40 years in practice, he has seen enormous changes in the patterns of illness in his older patients. The changes reflect both advances in medical care and a new understanding of the importance of lifestyle on illness and quality of life.

In this episode, Dr. Singer will discuss strategies for optimizing health and function in older adults based on current research. He will also outline some of the challenges of the new frontier of caring for patients in their 80s and 90s and attempting to maximize function in these patients.

When you tune in, you should have a better idea of the steps you and your patients or clients can take to remain active and engaged through the fourth and fifth age.

About Karl Singer:Dr. Singer graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1967 and completed his training in medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston in 1972. Since then, he has practiced as a primary care physician in Exeter, NH. He recently retired from his office-based practice. Dr. Singer is board-certified in Family Medicine and Geriatrics as well as Internal Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family Practice.

Dr. Singer's interest in older adults began when he joined the staff of Rockingham Nursing Home, a 220-bed county facility, in 1975. Dr. Singer has over 200 publications on a wide variety of medical topics. He has been the chairman of the education committee at Exeter Hospital for more than 30 years and has taught at Harvard Medical School and Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel.

Get in touch with Karl Singer:Karl's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karl-singer-b6609425/

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Denise Archie will share her 5 keys to personal success - how many balls are you juggling? Denise's approach to life, work, and play is a combination of "loving what I do" and anything I do must pass my "five non-negotiables” test:

Is it fun?
Do I like who I am being in this relationship?
Does it make a difference to others?
What can I learn?
What can we learn together?

This highly engaging and interactive session will allow you to laugh, share, and consider your 5 keys to your personal and professional success.

About Denise Archie:

Denise Archie is an entrepreneur and is recognized as a “pioneer” in vocational education and training, coaching, mentoring, and e-learning. Over the last 20 years, Denise has founded and built several businesses, including one of the first in Australia in online learning. (Imagine during 1998 explaining to potential clients how online learning works and could change how training was delivered - she was viewed with much skepticism.)

Denise is recognized as a leader and one of Australia's learning, development, and innovation experts. During this time, Denise has worked successfully with over 40,000 people from many blue-chip companies across Australia and New Zealand. She has conducted workshops, and as a professional coach and mentor, has created powerful transformational results both personally and professionally for her clients, allowing empowering life changes to occur.

Get in touch with Denise Archie:Visit Denise's website: https://coachingcollege.com.au/

Get Denise’s handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/archie

Read Denise’s blog post: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/how_many_balls_are_you_juggling/

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Discover how adjusting your thoughts can change your health—from the "mother of mindfulness" and the first female tenured professor of psychology at Harvard.

When it comes to our health, too many of us think that a medical diagnosis describes a static or worsening condition. We live our lives as though our ailments—our stiff knees, frayed nerves, or failing eyesight—can only change in one direction: for the worse.

Ellen J. Langer’s life’s work proves the fault in that logic. She has spent more than forty years testing the limiting effects of our negative assumptions as well as the healing power of being mindful—present in the moment and not distracted by memories or projections into the future.

In this program, you'll discover:

how our thoughts and perspectives have the potential to shape our well-being.
her colorful experiments illustrate the influence of mindfulness on how our bodies function, how we heal, and how we age
how discouraging health news can lead to a worsening physical state
that a true understanding of health begins with our mindset

About Ellen Langer:Ellen J. Langer was the first woman to be tenured in psychology at Harvard, where she is still a professor of psychology. The recipient of three Distinguished Scientists awards, the Arthur W. Staats Award for Unifying Psychology, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Liberty Science Genius Award, Dr. Langer is the author of eleven books, including her newest book, The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health, as well as the international bestseller Mindfulness. Her trailblazing experiments in social psychology have earned her inclusion in The New York Times Magazine’s “Year in Ideas” issue. She is known worldwide as the “mother of mindfulness” and the “mother of positive psychology.” She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Get in touch with Ellen Langer:Ellen's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/mindfulbody

Ellen’s website: http://ellenlanger.com/

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In this episode, David will discuss the organizational story behind his non-profit organization, All Hands Volunteers. He'll talk about how and why he founded it, the challenges of starting a small international program, and some aspects of volunteering. He'll share his personal experience of Katrina, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and the 2011 Japan tsunami, in each case personally arriving in the disaster zone in the first week to decide how to launch a project.

About David Campbell:David Campbell has been a technology executive, corporate board member, and humanitarian field volunteer. He went to Thailand immediately after the 2004 Asian tsunami and became one of the founders of HandsOnThailand.org, which brought over 200 volunteers and several hundred thousand dollars to assist in the rebuilding of five Phuket fishing villages.

After Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, David joined with several other volunteers to establish Hands On USA. After one week on-site, the team had an operations center in Biloxi, MS, fifty volunteers committed and en route, and dozens of projects launched. In total, over 1,500 volunteers helped serve the victims of Katrina. In 2010 this volunteer response model became known as All Hands Volunteers and has now executed many projects in the US and overseas. The organization merged with Happy Hearts Fund in 2017 and is now known as All Hands and Hearts. David Campbell stepped down as chair of the AHAH board in December 2021.

Get in touch with David Campbell:Visit David's website: https://www.allhandsandhearts.org/

Buy David’s book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/campbell

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Crossing the threshold into late life can feel like a high-wire act without a net. But, if you are retiring or rewiring, ill or caregiving, feeling purposeful or disoriented, yearning to serve or do spiritual practice, you can learn to cross over from denial to awareness, from distraction to presence, from role to soul.

How do we explore who we are beyond work? How do we uncover the unconscious material that erupts around losing our roles, losing our loved ones, losing control of our bodies, and losing our faith? And how do we overcome the denial, resistance, and distraction that arise with these changes?

If you want to move past denial, fear, and resistance to discover your dreams and opportunities for this stage of life, join us to redefine "age" and to help you reimagine and reinvent it for yourself.

In this episode, you will discover:

Retirement as a Rorschach Test
Hearing the call
Denying the call -- What stops us from stopping?
Heeding the call -- Who am I now?
Liminal space
Release of the Doer
Role of shadow-work
Role of spiritual work: meditation and ritual
Shift from hero to elder
Crossing the threshold from role to soul

About Connie Zweig:Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired therapist and coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow. Her award-winning book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. It won the 2022 Gold COVR Award, the 2022 Gold Nautilus Award, the 2021 American Book Fest Award, and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction. Her new book, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening, is available now. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. After all these roles, she's practicing the shift from role to soul.

Get in touch with Connie Zweig:Visit Connie's website: https://conniezweig.com/

Connect with Connie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/connie.zweig

Buy Connie's books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Connie-Zweig/e/B000APYJ8E

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Interested in turning healthy eating into a simple, delicious, and sustainable daily practice? Been burned by "diets" and looking for a sensible approach to eating that fits your tastes and busy, on-the-go life?

In this episode, you'll discover:

What the experts have to say about eating to feel better NOW, lose harmful belly fat, reduce sugar and inflammation, improve digestion, and prevent and manage disease
Three easy shifts you can make to move beyond a diet and kick-start a sustainable approach to healthy eating that fits your tastes and lifestyle
An exciting program to get nutrition info and eating skills to eat well and feel better daily!

About Sue Levy:Sue R. Levy founded Savory Living, a nutrition and healthy eating company. She works with clients worldwide, providing nutrition education, cooking classes, and healthy eating inspiration. She created the Anti-Inflammatory Diet, a proven 12-module behavior change program that teaches people nutrition science, food skills, and simple behavior changes to eat well and feel better daily. With her curriculum running online and in several Fortune 500 companies, Sue is on her way to achieving her "1 million lives made better" goal.

Get in touch with Sue Levy:Visit Sue's website: https://www.savoryliving.com/

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Douglas Goldstein, CFP, will present the research that he's done over the past five years with World Chess Champion Susan Polgar about how high-level participants in any field often miss critical information in their decision-making process and how investors can use the same strategies that chess grandmasters use in order avoid the common downfalls.

In this episode, you'll discover:

What is holding you back from financial freedom
How to apply the strategies that Susan Polgar used to win 10 Olympic medals to managing your money
Several strategies that can make you as "Rich as a King!"

About Douglas Goldstein:Douglas Goldstein is the co-author of Rich As A King: How the Wisdom of Chess Can Make You a Grandmaster of Investing. He's a Certified Financial Planner, a college lecturer, and a radio show host. When he started on Wall Street, his favorite client was his grandmother. She had been a stockbroker many years earlier, among the first women to earn the license. Following in her footsteps, his mother also became an investment advisor, helping clients plan and build wealth throughout her 17-year career. He joined her as a partner in 1992, and the #1 lesson he learned from her was the importance of educating clients about handling their money wisely.

He is a 20-year Wall Street veteran and head of a major international financial services company but views himself as a financial educator. He writes extensively, using easy-to-understand language so everyone can realize that investing isn't only for the professionally trained. He also writes newspaper columns and is the author of four other books, teaches college courses, and even hosts a personal finance radio program, The Goldstein on Gelt Show.Get in touch with Douglas Goldstein:Visit Douglas' website: https://profile-financial.com

Buy Douglas' book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/goldstein

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There are 75 million Americans over the age of sixty, many of them looking to continue the personal growth journey that has been the hallmark of their generation. They want to grow old, not just get old. The path of purposeful aging is accessible to all - and it's fundamental to health, happiness, and longevity. Just floating along from one year to the next, accepting things as they present themselves without question or intention, is a surefire recipe for dissatisfaction and despair in later life.

The traditional milestones of old age - retirement, the death of one's parents, grandchildren, etc., are no longer definitive of what it means to be old. It's more about choices; we're freer now to decide for ourselves what being old means and how we intend to live our later years. But that requires us to confront default choices and reject easy answers. It means exploring tough questions like, "Am I living my life or someone else's version of it?" and "What's missing in my life?"

Discovering who you want to be when you grow old starts first with determining your purpose. The purpose is a verb; it is action-oriented and dynamic. It answers the question, "Why do you get up in the morning?" If there's something you love to do - write, solve technical problems, or cook - that is likely one of the gifts you need for your purpose. When you combine that gift with your passions and values, that can be an indicator of your purpose.

In this episode, you'll discover the three-step framework for unlocking purposes:

Find out how you want to help
Find out who you want to help
Find out what energizes you (and what drains you).

About Richard Leider:Internationally bestselling author and coach Richard Leider is the founder of Inventure-The Purpose Company, whose mission is to help people "unlock the power of purpose" and answer that question. Forbes ranks him among the "Top 5" most respected coaches. Along the way, Richard has written eleven books, including three best-sellers selling over one million copies. The Power of Purpose and Repacking Your Bags are considered classics in the personal growth field. His latest book, Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old? defines the power of purposeful aging.

Widely viewed as a pioneer of the global purpose movement, his work has been featured in many media sources, and his PBS special, The Power of Purpose, was viewed by millions of people. He has taken his purpose message to all 50 states, Canada, and four continents, advising everyone from AARP to the National Football League to the U.S. State Department. Richard has addressed more than two million people worldwide in his speeches to corporate, association, and social service groups during his career. He and his wife, Sally, live in the Minneapolis, MN area.

Get in touch with Richard Leider:Visit Richard's website: https://richardleider.com/

Buy Richard's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/growold

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Newspaper columnist and beloved pediatrician Dr. Marilyn Heins, MD, has fashioned a pathway through the transformative senior years of life after having entered the octogenarian years herself. Marilyn takes on her role of tour guide through this new terrain with her typical poise and acumen while offering a healthy dose of humor. Approaching the aging journey as a landscape in an unfamiliar country, Marilyn imagines us all to be immigrants in the land of Geriatrica. During the voyage, she visits somewhat familiar yet not-quite-known stops along the way.

In this episode, you'll discover:

dangers and perils of the journey
preparations for the journey
scams to be attentive of
downsizing and housing need changes
the importance of simplifying physical and mental health, safety, and finances in Geriatrica

About Marilyn Heins:Dr. Marilyn Heins graduated from Radcliffe College (now part of Harvard University) and received her MD degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. She interned in pediatrics at New York Hospital and completed a residency in pediatrics at Babies Hospital in New York. Marilyn served as Director of Pediatrics at Detroit Receiving Hospital and Director of Project RESCAD, a federally funded program to provide comprehensive health services for medically indigent children. She was the associate Dean for Student Affairs at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Vice Dean and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.

Marilyn was a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Medical Association, served on the National Board of Medical Examiners, chaired the Committee on Medical Education of the American Hospital Association, and served as the first woman Chair of the Group on Student Affairs of the Association of American Medical Colleges. She has been active in many professional and community organizations focusing on women's and children's health, parenting education, and women's issues.

Her special interests in pediatrics include helping parents and teaching health professionals how to help parents. She published 58 scientific papers and is the co-author of Child Care/Parent Care and author of ParenTips for Effective, Enjoyable Parenting and A Traveler's Guide to Geriatrica.

Marilyn produced and hosted a weekly call-in radio program called The Parenting Show, which aired on KNST, Tucson's leading talk radio station, for two years. She has written over 1,100 parenting columns for the Arizona Daily Star and continues to write.

She met her husband, a veterinarian, Dr. Milton Lipson, while on vacation in Jamaica. They moved to Tucson in 1979. They were married for 47 years until his death in 2007. A friend introduced Marilyn to Dr. Milt Francis, a recent widower, seven years ago. The two have been together ever since. She has a son and a daughter, three grandchildren, two stepsons, and three step-grandsons.

Get in touch with Marilyn Heins:Visit Marilyn's website: https://www.a3dimpressions.com/geriatrica-book

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One unique way to help seniors feel great about themselves is via memory training. In this episode, Dana Steinova discusses her memory training approach based on mnemonics. Its power is in its ability to change the mindset of people who suffer from memory lapses and people who are giving up, accepting their memory problems as inevitable or something that belongs to the natural aging process. Her program convinces the participants that, in reality, they have tremendous mental potential. They activate special circuits in the brain that people unfamiliar with such techniques leave idle. The program works because cognitive and social effects are so connected. People learn to remember well and usually don't resist performing their new skills in front of family members or friends.

Once people get proof that they can remember well, they start to approach any new information with a positive expectation that they will remember it, which affects the result. The outcome is that they minimize memory lapses in daily life. They do not need any calendar because they keep the entire year in their mind and can tell you what day of the week is any date in the current year. They can easily remember a shopping list with 150 items or any line of digits, and they improve their ability to remember faces and names.

In this episode, participants will discover how to:

Use mnemonics rather than memorization to make memories more durable
Minimize memory lapses.
Exercise new parts of the brain and build our brain reserve to help in the case of stroke, brain injury, or onset of dementia.

About Dana Steinova:

Dana Steinova travels the world training memory trainers. Based in Prague, she is a specialist in organizing educational activities. She is also the very active secretary general of the European Federation of Older People (EURAG), created in 1962, with 156 member associations in 33 European countries.

She holds degrees from the Institute of Enlightenment, the Economics University, and the Charles University in Prague. She has, over the past 30 years, initiated a wide variety of programs, including the U3A movement in the Czech Republic (1986), reciprocal senior student exchanges with more than 42 exchanges within its first ten years (1991), and founding the first intergenerational non-vocational "University of Free Time" (1993) in the Czech Republic.

She is fascinated by neuroscience and has been deeply involved with memory training since 1993. She founded the Czech Society for Memory Training and Brain Jogging in 1998 and later, the EURAG Memory Training Center in Prague in 2002 with the objective of making training opportunities available worldwide. Since then she has traveled the world extensively to achieve this objective. She organized the first National Day of Memory Training as a part of Brain Awareness Week, the worldwide event launched in 2005 by the DANA Alliance of the Brain and which takes place in March every year. In 2008 it became the National Week of Memory Training and has been growing ever since. In 2016, 309 free lectures were held throughout the Czech and Slovak Republic, attended by 7,781 persons.

Get in touch with Dana Steinova:Visit Dana's website: https://www.trenovanipameti.cz/eurag-memory-training-center/

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Does the prospect of retirement daunt you? Do you and your partner have dreams for this significant transition? Can you envision a meaningful life beyond work?

Kim Potgieter believes that creating your best life cannot be left to chance. In her book, Retiremeant: Get More Meaning From Your Money, she demonstrates that taking an active role in preparing for retirement enables you to live without regrets.

Join us for this program with this Financial Life Planner as she expands on really practical ideas from her book:

Explore your relationship with money: What is your first money memory that still influences your decisions today? Is money your servant or your master? Putting money in its proper place gives you the freedom to live life on your own terms.
The Wheel of Balance is an excellent tool to measure your holistic approach to life: just small shifts can change your whole perspective and experience.
Keeping a balanced approach to life, you can use the Bucket Wheel (yes, not List) to set goals and achieve your dreams in every area of life. Retirement is not just about a new destination to visit every year.
Finally, the secret that undergirds all these valuable ideas is to plan ahead!

About Kim Potgieter:Kim Potgieter believes that you cannot plan for your money without planning for your life first and advocates that life planning is integral to financial planning. This allows her clients to live their best possible lives by aligning their money with purpose and meaning.

As Director and Head of Life Planning at Chartered Wealth Solutions, she can combine her two passions: helping people with their relationship with money and guiding clients to get the most life from their money in their second chapter.

As an author, Kim has written three eBooks and two books. Her message is clear; by understanding your relationship with money, you can shift your mindset to create positive and powerful transitions.

Kim is an inspirational speaker and active media personality and is regularly invited to speak at events. Using her Money, Meaning, and Mindshift approach, she shifts individuals and groups to pay attention to their lives and give intention to their money.

Get in touch with Kim Potgieter:Visit Kim's website: https://kimpotgieter.com/

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Buy Kim's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/potgieter

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This "other Dr. Ruth" will gently guide you through the intricacies of parenting your adult children. With the wisdom of a scholar and the humility that only the mother of four grownups can bring to the subject, she deftly addresses issues of communication, in-laws, stylistic and cultural differences, grandparenting, disappointment, adult sibling relationships, money, and more, while encouraging us to acknowledge and utilize our children's expertise.

Dr. Nemzoff will share vivid vignettes and make sound suggestions to help us create satisfying mutual relationships. Dr. Ruth Nemzoff's books are useful as an adjunct to therapy or a part of retirement planning.

About Ruth Nemzoff:Dr. Ruth Nemzoff is the author of Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children and Don't Roll Your Eyes: Making In-Laws into Family and is a resident scholar at Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center.

She has lectured over 350 venues on emerging adulthood, parenting adult children, empty nests, intermarriage, grandparenting, and family dynamics in intergenerational families.

She is an advice columnist for the American Israelite and a frequent blogger for The Huffington Post and Betterafter50. She serves on Interfaith Family and Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center boards.

Her papers are archived at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, which granted her a doctorate in social policy. She has served three terms in the New Hampshire Legislature and was New Hampshire's Deputy Commissioner of Health and Welfare.

She is the mother of four adult children, four in-law children, and a grandmother of eleven. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Harris Berman, Dean of Tufts University School of Medicine. Get in touch with Ruth Nemzoff:Visit Ruth's website: https://www.ruthnemzoff.com/

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What is The Attention Factor®? Why is it important to know about it? How can it change lives?

The Attention Factor® presents the concept of attention in a completely new way. Attention is not about focus or concentration (although these things are part of it). The Attention Factor® teaches us how to use attention to improve our emotional well-being and the emotional well-being of others.

"You've basically saved my daughter's life."
"I've changed the way I've looked at my son and talked to him."
"My relationship with my adult son has become so much better."
"Now I know what's been wrong in my marriage for 43 years."

Alice March didn't initially know anything about attention. Today, she says it's only the most essential part of our lives. Alice has taken the Attention Factor® around the world, and consistently, her audiences have asked her, "Why haven't we heard this before?"

Attention is multi-dimensional
Attention is a kind of energy
We all need different kinds of attention
No one knows what kind of attention we need; we have to ask for it
It's never too late to be happy, but it's all up to you and no one else
No one is in charge of your happiness but you
Attention is the most powerful tool we have to change our lives

About Alice March:Known as The Attention Lady, Alice Aspen March has invested over 20 years in the study, documentation, and teaching of attention and the consequences brought on by its lack. With the information gathered, Alice Aspen March created The Attention Factor®, a body of work that provides the user with tools and a skill set to enable enriched living.

She believes that the feelings and behaviors you experience and exhibit today are directly related to the type of attention you received as a child and throughout your entire life.

Alice is an engaging speaker who has educated and motivated people around the globe. Through staff training workshops and seminars, keynote addresses, and service on education and work panels, she has taught thousands of people how to enrich their lives and improve business and personal relationships through advanced communication.

Get in touch with Alice March:Visit Alice's website: https://www.theattentionfactor.com/home

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Meg Newhouse, Ph.D., co-founder of the Life Planning Network and author of Legacies of the Heart: Living a Life that Matters, will discuss her unique perspective on legacy as a compass for enriching our lives and leaving behind evidence that our lives mattered and "left the world a little better than it was." She will share a few of the many stories in her book that illustrate the various dimensions and kinds of legacy we all receive and leave and consider the potential role of conscious elders.

You'll come away from this episode with:

an eye-opening and empowering understanding of the legacy
a desire to reflect more on your legacy inheritance and your own past and ongoing legacies
some ideas and inspiration for future legacies, created as a potential conscious elder.

About Meg Newhouse:

Meg Newhouse, Ph.D., CPPC, is a nationally known pioneer in Second-half LifeCrafting, an author, and a seasoned and gifted group facilitator, teacher, coach, and program designer. Currently, she is most focused on legacy, the topic of her recent book, Legacies of the Heart: Living a Life That Matters, and on the potential of "conscious elders" in addressing our current cultural and political crisis.

In both her professional and personal life, Meg Newhouse has sought to call out "passion and purpose" in her students, coaching clients, and even friends/colleagues. In 2003 she founded The Life Planning Network, a national professional association serving an inspired group of professionals from diverse fields who are committed to helping people navigate the second half of life with intention and a holistic perspective.

She co-led LPN for five years, led the organizing of the first LPN national conference, served on the national LPN Board until 2017, chaired or co-chair committees, and helped plan six national Positive Aging Conferences. Her professional interests have evolved to focus on the potential of "conscious elderhood" and the value of living and acting from a legacy perspective. Meg is a founding member of the Conscious Elders Network.

Get in touch with Meg Newhouse:Visit Meg's website: https://www.megnewhouse.com/

Buy Meg's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/hrhg

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Place plays a significant but often unacknowledged role in health and happiness. The right place elevates personal well-being. It can help promote purpose, facilitate human connection, catalyze physical activity, support financial health, and inspire community engagement. Conversely, the wrong place can be detrimental to health. For many of us, the pandemic has raised the importance of where you live but evaluating and finding the best place for you can be challenging.

In this episode, you'll discover:

The key tenets of successful aging, including the role of place as a direct and indirect driver for a long, healthy, and financially secure life
How to think broadly about place - it is much more than the four walls of your home
Tips on evaluating the fit of your current place
Next steps to improve your current place or how to find and move to another place
How to talk to family about possible changes in place

About Ryan Frederick:Ryan Frederick focuses on the intersection of place and healthy aging. He recently released his first book, Right Place, Right Time: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Home for the Second Half of Life, an Amazon bestseller.

He advises real estate and health organizations on creating better places to help people thrive. He provides regular content for consumers to make wise choices about places to live a long, healthy, and financially secure life.

Ryan is a Princeton University and Stanford Business School graduate and lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three teenagers.

Get in touch with Ryan Frederick:Visit Ryan's website: https://www.here.life/

Buy Ryan's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/ryanfrederick

Take Ryan's Assessment: https://www.here.life/assessment

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Which is changing faster, the chicken or the egg? It isn't a question of which came first anymore. Or which goes next. It's the question of being able to keep up with both simultaneously in a world of continuous and discontinuous change.

In today's episode, you will discover:

an overview of the history of retirement
the context and environment in which we are experiencing and trying to plan retirement
how to identify the tangible assets we're going to have to develop and maintain beyond our finances
some predictions that may surprise you about the importance of extended work and education in our lives
specific recommendations for the next steps our audience should consider and take
Retirement isn't "mono" anything anymore. Nor are there fixed, identical steps for all of us to take that will guarantee success.

About Dr. George Schofield:

As a Developmental Psychologist, George Schofield has long been interested in the period beginning at age 50 as a developmental ramp for our later quality of life. His research and writing have led to a significant body of popular publications. His groundbreaking book, After 50 It's Up to Us, Developing The Skills And Agility We'll Need, eloquently explains why and how we all must face, head-on, the new realities that await us as we age. His latest book is, How Do I Get There From Here? Planning For Retirement When The Old Rules No Longer Apply.His educational credentials include a BA in Business, an MA in Counseling/ Rehabilitation, an MA in Adult Learning/Human and Organizational Development, and a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Development.

George is also an Organizational Psychologist and practicing entrepreneur. He is the Founding Principal of The Clarity Group, LLC, a consultancy that helps businesses succeed in the 21st century and individuals and couples create new and accelerated professional lives. He has been an adjunct faculty member in the College of Education and an adjunct faculty appointment for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida Sarasota- Manatee.

A native of Seattle, George is based in Lakewood Ranch, near Sarasota and Bradenton, Florida. Get in touch with Dr. George Schofield:Visit George's website: http://georgeschofield.com/

Buy George's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/howdoigetthere

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Episode Description:This program is for anyone in a position of influence in an organization or those who train these individuals. It's also for those who feel they are drowning in information but starving for wisdom about what behaviors nurture people, organizations, and communities at large.

In this episode, you'll discover:

how to define sage-ing
how sage-ing influenced my leadership book
why my book is about life as much as leadership
why wisdom is essential in leading one's best life

About Jann Freed:Jann Freed, Ph.D., is a leadership development consultant and speaker organizations hire to improve employee engagement, navigate change management, or develop leaders at all ages and career stages. She is particularly interested in helping employees 50+ find meaning and purpose beyond their careers. She does this through the use of a concept she developed -- The Breadcrumb Legacy -- in which people create new meaning for themselves and others through small daily actions.

Jann is the author or co-author of five books. On her website, she blogs weekly about leading, living, and sage-ing or conscious aging. She also has a monthly podcast series, Becoming a Sage, where she interviews top thought leaders in conscious aging.

Passionate about helping individuals and organizations go from where they are to where they want to be. Jann is also certified as a Sage-ing Leader through Sage-ing International. Sage-ing work is focused on positive aging so that people are inspired to use their wisdom and life experience for their benefit and the benefit of organizations and communities.

Jann is a Professor of Business Management Emerita and the former Mark and Kay De Cook Endowed Chair in Leadership and Character Development at Central College, Pella, Iowa. After 30 years of college teaching and administrative responsibilities, she left to become a senior consultant with the organizational development firm, Genysys Group. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of Iowa.

Get in touch with Jann Freed:Visit Jann's website: https://jannfreed.com/

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How do we age better? Societies are unprepared to handle the changes their longer-aging populations create. How can we create a new paradigm that is practical and yet easy to implement? The Legacy of Wisdom program was started in 2008 with input from several people, most notably Roshi Joan Halifax, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ram Dass, and others. With two successful congresses in New York (2011) and Colorado (2013) and a "Driving Longevity" program launched at Harvard Medical School in October 2014, Legacy of Wisdom has been active in formulating effective approaches to the new issues of aging. Mary Catherine Bateson reminds us, "we have had a new phase of life added to our lives, a phase of 20 years of Active Wisdom." Little did we know what we were saying when we said, "Go with the flow."

In this program, participants will:

Understand the Legacy of Wisdom themes of aging.
Experience the interview archive of Legacy of Wisdom.
Be presented with the data underlying the seriousness of the issues of mobility and falling.
Be introduced to the basic components of the Driving Longevity multi-modality intervention.
Experience a personal example of the programming we are developing.
Recognize and be able to express the basic principle of Tai Ji and Qi Gong.
Learn how this Tai Ji/Qi Gong intervention was tailored into a unique fitness program in collaboration with Harvard Medical School.

About Jay Goldfarb:

James (Jay) Goldfarb did his undergraduate work at SUNY Stony Brook and his graduate psychology work at SUNY Albany. In 1976 he founded the Living Tao Foundation, along with Chungliang Al Huang and others, and was its director (1976 - 1991). Jay was also the Dean of the Lan Ting Institute at Wuyishan in southeast China (1982 - 1986). Moving to Switzerland (1987), Living Tao Foundation was created (1987), and he remains its Executive Director. In addition to his research and Tai Ji teaching and meditation, he has a 45-year business management background.

He is a senior Congress, Conference, and Meetings management professional with two advanced Degrees and publications. He was a senior consultant with American Express in Germany, Brazil, England, and New York and joined the Swiss Waldhaus Foundation (1992), transforming its Waldhaus Zentrum into a successful European seminar center.

The non-profit Legacy of Wisdom Association offers a growing archive of answers to basic aging issues - making "Wisdom the central theme of aging." Within its "Health Care section," Legacy of Wisdom collaborated with Harvard Medical School to create a new mobility intervention protocol to maintain independent mobility and reduce serious falls in seniors. He lives with his wife Ursula in Basel, Switzerland, and has two grown daughters and a grandson.

Get in touch with Jay Goldfarb:Visit Jay's website: https://livingtao.org

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As those of us born in the Baby Boomer Generation are expected to live longer than our parents, there are a number of behaviors in which we can engage that make that life expectancy a joy rather than a burden. These include physical, emotional, and empathetic activities that will help Boomers flourish in their later years.

In this episode, participants will discover:

Six behaviors that have a strong impact on healthy life expectancy (nutrition, physical activity, tobacco, alcohol, sleep, and healthy thinking)
Six building blocks of well-being (emotional & mental, social & interpersonal, financial, career, physical, and community)
Three behaviors that increase one's own well-being and well-being in others (reflections of gratitude, acts of kindness, expressions of thankfulness)
Martin Seligman's 5 components of flourishing (positive emotion, engagement, positive relationships, meaning and purpose, and accomplishment.

About Dr. Tom Kottke:Dr. Tom Kottke is a cardiologist and health services researcher in the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. After 17 years practicing at Mayo Clinic Rochester, he moved to HealthPartners, now Medical Director for Well-Being, while continuing to practice cardiology. Currently, his research and program development focuses on how individuals can increase their healthy life expectancy and increase their sense of well-being.

Get in touch with Dr. Tom Kottke:Visit Tom's website: https://www.healthpartners.com/knowledgeexchange/display/person-Kottke-T-E

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We are witnessing a broad transformation of our economy and society. The old idea of "retirement" is disappearing. The boomer generation, poised to live longer and be well educated compared to previous generations, is experimenting with "unretirement," including work in the traditional retirement years.

The unretirement years may include part-time work, flexible jobs, temp work, contract work, a new career, or even starting an entrepreneurial venture. Their experience, wisdom, and, significantly, their continued earnings will benefit the American workplace, dramatically ease financial worries, and enrich communities and our whole society.

About Chris Farrell:Chris Farrell is currently a senior economics contributor at Marketplace, American Public Media's nationally syndicated public radio business and economic program. He is also the economics commentator for Minnesota Public Radio and host of its series Conversations on the Creative Economy as well as a columnist for PBS Next Avenue and the Star Tribune. He has published five books on personal finance and the economy.

Get in touch with Chris Farrell:

Visit Chris' website: https://chrisfarrell.net/

Buy Chris' Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/farrell

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Are you concerned about finances but dislike talking about money?

If so, you are not alone. Almost half of Americans say that the most difficult topic to discuss with loved ones is their personal financial situation, so much so that they would rather discuss death, politics, or religion. . But, in a world where money can grant love, respect, self-worth, freedom, and power, there is a very real price to pay for money silence.

But what price do you pay for staying quiet? Money silence may be costing you a fortune.

In this program, you'll discover:

The toll of money silence on relationships
How to change unhealthy money mindsets
The myths about gender and money
Practical advice for money conversations
·A new vision for how we understand, communicate about, and plan for money

About Kathleen Kingsbury:

Wealth psychology expert and coach Kathleen Burns Kingsbury, founder of KBK Wealth Connection and host of the Breaking Money Silence® podcast, is an internationally published author and speaker. Breaking Money Silence®: How to Shatter Money Taboos, Talk More Openly about Finances, and Live a Richer Life is Kathleen’s fifth book.

Named one of nine amazing conference speakers by InvestmentNews, Kathleen is a sought-after keynote speaker, consultant, and coach on the topic of women and wealth and couples and money. Her mission is to empower women, couples, and families (and the advisors who serve them) to shatter money taboos and communicate more effectively about financial matters.

As an expert on financial psychology, Kathleen has appeared on television and written for consumer and trade publications. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, PBS News Hour, Money Magazine, TODAY Money, Forbes, and CNBC. Kathleen served as an adjunct faculty member at the McCallum Graduate School at Bentley University from 2009 to 2019, where she taught the Psychology of Financial Planning in the CFP® program. She currently teaches in the Business and Management School at Champlain College.

When she is not working, Kathleen is an avid alpine skier who lives for the next powder day. In the off-season, she enjoys mountain biking, kayaking, and laughing with her friends. She lives with her husband and in the beautiful Mad River Valley of Vermont.

Get in touch with Kathleen Kingsbury:

Visit Kathleen's website: https://www.breakingmoneysilence.com/

Buy Kathleen's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/kingsbury

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Many financial products and services are available in today's marketplace for investors and retirees. While investing can be exciting, addressing and getting "the basics" right is essential. During his fast-paced and multi-faceted presentation, David Holland will share his practical insights from 20+ years of advising and planning for individuals and families.

In this episode, you'll discover:

Emergency Funds (How Much and Where to Keep)
Debt (How to Manage During Retirement)
Long-term Care (A Critical Look at the Funding Options)
Income (How to Create Diversified, Reliable Sources)
Investing (How to Prepare for the Next Market Correction)
Taxes (How to Minimize Them for You and Your Heirs)

About David Holland:

David Holland is the founder and owner of Holland Financial, a diversified financial services firm located in Ormond Beach, Florida. David has helped over five hundred families since starting his firm in 1997. To broadcast his message that "retirement planning doesn't have to be hard, complicated, or stressful," David has produced over 1,000 radio shows and written a weekly financial column since 2011.

David is the author of two books and the host of PlanStronger TV, which airs weekly on public television (currently WDSC channel 15 in Daytona Beach, Florida). David is a heavily credentialed adviser holding the CPA, PFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, and CTFA designations. In 2016, David was recognized by Retirement Advisor Magazine as one of the top 5 advisers in the nation. David lives with his wife, Toni, and their three teenagers in Ormond Beach, Florida.

Get in touch with David Holland:

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Author, speaker, reinvention coach, and branding expert Wendy Marx will describe how to brand yourself in a changed world. The world has changed, and you need to also -whether you want to work part-time, volunteer, or start a new career. Marx will explain how you can take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to show your value and how you can help.

In this program, you will discover:

The 5 key personal branding strategies
How to become a director of your life, not a passive onlooker
Other tips to engage people, find more meaning and purpose
Insights from her book Thriving at 50+: The 7 Principles to Reinvent and Rebrand Yourself

About Wendy Marx:

Wendy Marx is a marketing and branding authority sought after for her ability to turn virtually unknown people into brands of distinction. As founder and president of Thriving at 50+, her proprietary coaching program is designed to help Baby Boomers discover their point of differentiation, then rebrand and retool themselves toward a more rewarding "Second Act." Drawing on Wendy's over 30 year's experience in marketing, journalism, public relations, and counseling- her programs provide a unique mix of marketing and PR savvy blended with psychological wisdom. She will take you from a stage of uncertainty to assuredness, confidence, and success.

Wendy holds an MSW, MS in journalism, and an MBA in marketing. Her articles have appeared in Fast Company, Inc., job-hunt.org, Advertising Age, The New York Times, and others. She is the author of Thriving at 50+: The 7 Principles to Rebrand and Reinvent Yourself.

Get in touch with Wendy Marx:Visit Wendy's website: https://www.thrivingat50plus.com/

Buy Wendy's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/marx

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When wisely understood, the change inherent in the aging process becomes stepping-stones to actualizing our best human qualities. In this program, David Chernikoff will distill lessons from across contemplative traditions to invite listeners to embrace seven essential elements of conscious living.

These elements culminate in wise elderhood--a state celebrated by indigenous cultures worldwide yet largely unacknowledged in contemporary Western society. For those of us who aspire to live fully and to love well as we age, Life, this program will help empower you to thrive personally and to contribute with ever greater clarity and purpose.

In this episode, you'll discover how to:

Embrace the mystery
Choose a vision
Cultivate intuitive wisdom
Commit to inner work
Suffer effectively
Serve from the heart
Celebrate the journey

About David Chernikoff:

David Chernikoff is a meditation teacher, spiritual counselor, and life coach who taught psychology and meditation at Naropa University for many years. In the early 1980s, he worked at Ram Dass's Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and then became the director of Mesilla Valley Hospice in Las Cruces, N.M. He later spent three years in Nepal doing public health development work for the Seva Foundation and studying with Tibetan Buddhist teachers.

After returning to the U.S., he became the education and training director for the Spiritual Eldering Institute, now called Sage-ing International. He taught conscious aging programs throughout the U.S., Canada, and Ireland in that role. David is currently one of the guiding teachers of the Insight Meditation Community of Colorado and has a private practice in Boulder. He is the author of Life, Part Two: Seven Keys to Awakening with Purpose and Joy as You Age.

Get in touch with David Chernikoff:Visit David's website: https://www.davidchernikoff.com/

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Studies have shown that the highest success rates in entrepreneurship come from founders in middle age and beyond. It's a global movement. Says Paul Irving, chairman of the Milken Institute's Center for the Future of Aging: "We are just beginning to see the economic power of older adults-- and the wisdom and experience that they bring to the workforce as entrepreneurs."

Kerry Hannon provides action steps, insights, and resources from her new book, Never Too Old to Get Rich: Starting a Business at Mid-Life. She will discuss the rewards and challenges for those starting businesses, from their passion and hobbies to senior-junior partnerships, start-ups by social entrepreneurs, and women-led ventures.

In this program, you'll discover:

What factors motivate someone to start a business mid-life?
How someone prepares to launch their own business
Risks of starting a business in retirement
Joys of being an older entrepreneur
Eight tips on how to become a successful entrepreneur in mid-life.

About Kerry Hannon:

Kerry Hannon is a leading authority and strategist on career transitions, entrepreneurship, personal finance, and retirement. She is a frequent TV and radio commentator and sought-after keynote speaker at conferences.

Kerry is the best-selling and award-winning author of 14 books, including Never Too Old to Get Rich: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting a Business Mid-Life and In Control at 50+: How to Succeed in The New World of Work.She has spent three decades covering all aspects of careers, business, and personal finance as a columnist, editor, and writer for the nation's leading media companies. She is a workplace futurist and senior columnist for Yahoo Finance.

Kerry is a National Press Foundation Fellow, a Fellow of the Columbia Journalism School, and the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center's Age Boom Academy. She is a former Metlife Foundation and New America Media Fellow on Aging. She has testified before Congress about the importance of older workers.

Kerry received a bachelor's degree from Duke University, where she is an editorial board member. Kerry lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, documentary producer, and editor Cliff Hackel, and her Labrador Retriever, Zena**.

Get in touch with Kerry Hannon:**Kerry's website: https://kerryhannon.com/

Buy Kerry's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/hannonrichbook

Download Kerry's handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/nevertoooldhandout

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The longevity revolution and concept of having an encore life are here. This Revolutionize Retirement conversation will focus on four game changers happening "on the ground." Separately and collectively, they are influencing the age and retirement experience: The Village movement, encore careers, technology, and a response to retiring career women. Join us for an informative, lively, and "fun" conversation.

In this program, you'll discover:

We are in a new life stage, but we can't decide on its name
How this new life stage affects men and women
What are some game changers -- The Village movement, encore careers and technology?
What is Project Renewment and why now?

About Helen Dennis:

Helen Dennis is a nationally recognized leader on issues of aging, employment, and retirement. She has received numerous awards for her teaching at the Davis School at USC's Andrus Gerontology Center and for her contributions to the field of aging, the community, and literary arts. Editor of two books, author of over 50 articles, frequent speaker, and weekly columnist on Successful Aging for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, reaching 1.3 million readers, she has assisted over 10,000 employees to prepare for the non-financial aspects of their retirement.

In her volunteer life, Helen has served as president of five nonprofit organizations and continues to serve on several boards. Fully engaged in the field of aging, she was a delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging and has extensive experience with the media. She is co-author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller, Project Renewment: The First Retirement Model for Career Women.

Get in touch with Helen Dennis:Visit Helen's websites: https://www.helenmdennis.com/ and https://www.renewment.org/

Download Helen's handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/dennishandout

Helen’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SuccessfulAgingCommunity

Buy Helen's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/renewment

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Roads Taken is less a map than a meandering, less a history than a reflection, less a presentation than a prism, less a how-to guide than a journey.

Fred Mandell will review his work journey as an outgrowth of a series of animating questions. He will share what motivated him to launch The Global Institute for the Arts and Leadership as a response to the world in which we live. He will reflect on his current arts-based leadership consulting to enliven organizational culture and unlock innovation. Through these reflections, he will provide the opportunity to hold up a mirror to each of our own personal journeys. Fred will share his mistakes, vulnerabilities, insights, and surprises in a search for wholeness.

In the spirit of Max Beckmann, the great 20th-century German artist, Fred sees art as a paradigm through which we pursue "the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make."

In this episode, participants will understand and appreciate:

The connection between work/life choices and what matters in our lives and those of our clients
Work in the second half as a Creative Choice
The role of animating questions in making work/life decisions
The creative power of choice

About Fred Mandell:

Fred Mandell is a founder and principal with Creating Futures That Work, a consultancy that draws on the precision and focus of science and the insights and skills of the arts to elevate leader effectiveness in the areas of collaboration, innovation, organizational culture, and professional development.

Before establishing CFTW with Harvey Seifter, Fred served as a senior executive with American Express, building leading marketing and sales businesses and running a multi-billion-dollar investment company. During his tenure, he introduced new business models for fee-based financial planning in a large financial services institution.

In 2014 Fred launched The Global Institute for the Arts and Leadership, a not-for-profit entity whose mission is to build a more peaceful, sustainable, and beautiful world by using the arts to catalyze social change. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board.

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Aging issues won't disappear, despite whoever is in office. Second, we can't expect more federal funding or new entitlements. But this could be good if it pushes us to think out of the box, particularly regarding aging in place, by focusing on the situation facing older middle-income Americans.

While low-income older adults desperately need funding and support, 70% of older Americans (70 million people) do not qualify for government or not-for-profit programs but, at the same time, cannot afford expensive retirement communities or 24/7 care. These people have some resources, and most want to age in place. Many own their homes and spend out-of-pocket for care, which is often challenging to locate and manage. Without question, this is a cadre that needs better support.

In this program, Louis Tenenbaum will discuss several out-of-the-box options that businesses, government, and baby boomers can do to ensure their housing meets the needs of an aging population

About Louis Tenenbaum:

A leading authority on aging in place, Louis Tenenbaum is the founder of HomesRenewed, a coalition of business, government, non-profits, and consumer stakeholders. Uniquely straddling the building, aging, healthcare, and policy worlds, Louis was named a 2016 "Influencer in Aging" by Next Avenue and won a prestigious HIVE (Housing, Innovation, Vision, and Economics) award. His article, Aging in Place Needs Out of the Box Thinking, appeared in Forbes and received more than 4000 shares.

Get in touch with Louis TenenbaumRead Louis's article on Forbes: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/tenenbaumforbes

Visit Louis's Website: http://www.louistenenbaum.com/

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Scholar and mystic Dr. Carol Orsborn will shed new light on the entire arc of life, revisioning age not as diminishment but as the fulfillment of life's promise. Bursting through the stereotypes into a world of old souls, Orsborn will share how to embrace the luminous spirit within that beats steadily beyond the wounds of childhood, beyond the unintended consequences of your best intentions, beyond the twists and turns of fate over which even at the peak of the developmental pyramid you have no control. Her vision of aging affirms that seekers of all ages and circumstances have what it takes to grow not just old, but old souls.

About Carol Orsborn:

Carol Orsborn, Ph.D., is a recognized thought leader in the field of Conscious Aging and author of 30 books translated into 15 languages, including her most recent bestseller, The Making of an Old Soul: Aging as the Fulfillment of Life's Promise. Orsborn earned her doctorate in adult development from Vanderbilt University and is chief archivist at Fierce with Age, the Digest of Boomer Wisdom, Inspiration, and Spirituality housed at CarolOrsborn.com. She also founded and co-leads the Sage-ing International Book Club. For the past 40 years, Orsborn has been a compelling voice of her generation, interviewed on Oprah, The Today Show, CBS Morning News, The Shift Network, and the New York Times. She has spoken frequently at the American Society of Aging, Sage-ing International, and the Positive Aging conferences.

Get in touch with Carol Orsborn
Buy Carol's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/oldsoul
Visit Carol's Website: https://carolorsborn.com/

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In her book, Achieving the Good Life After 50, Renée guides readers through the ups and downs of learning to cope positively with transition and change. In her over 30 years of experience working with clients in job search and career change, she has developed strategies and interventions to assist individuals to:

Decide how to live the rest of their life
Identify the "purpose " that will drive them
Combat ageism stereotypes while seeking employment

In her entertaining and humorous manner, she will introduce her 9 P Pie recipe and discuss some of her unusual and positive interventions to assist individuals 50, 60, and 70 to focus and facilitate a positive journey in whatever career or life alternative that they choose.

About Renée Rosenberg:

Renée Lee Rosenberg, MA, Certified Career Management Coach, Author, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Professional Speaker, Trainer, and Workshop Facilitator, with over 25 years of experience in both individual and group counseling (including ten years of phone and virtual counseling), helps individuals achieve positive career outcomes, navigate change and cope with workplace stress. Renée has helped hundreds of individuals create a personalized plan that de-stresses the job search process helping them to redirect their lives and achieve successful career and life outcomes.

She offers informative, results-driven programs for organizations and individuals and has worked with audiences from 30-300 nationally and internationally (Amsterdam, Paris, Munich). Her areas of expertise include: resume preparation, interviewing, cold calling, salary negotiation, positive presentation skills and redirecting retirement, and inter-generational communication. Her book, Achieving the Good Life After 50: Tools and Resources for Making it Happen, has helped readers to learn to cope with change and focus on a positive job search.

She maintains a private practice in NYC.

Get in touch with Renee Rosenberg
Visit Renée's Websites: http://positivitypro.com/ and http://retirementutor.com/
Download Renée's Program Guide: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/rosenbergguide
Buy Renée’s Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/rosenberg

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Have you ever found yourself wanting to scream with the piles of paper on your desk, unable to remember all the "to-do's" running through your head, or tripping over one too many items or pieces of furniture? We all have at one time or another. So why do we get in our own way? Why can't we just settle into a rhythm or routine and conquer our clutter? Listen as Sallie explains why we have clutter and how to get rid of it....one step at a time.

About Sallie Felton:

As featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX News affiliates, Sallie Felton, President of Sallie Felton LLC, is a professional life coach, former international radio talk show host, best-selling author, facilitator, international speaker, former hypnotherapist and deep imagery therapist who has helped thousands overcome limiting beliefs that hold them back from achieving goals and living more fulfilling and authentic lives. Sallie has co-authored books with Stephen Covey, Deepak Chopra, Dr. John Gray, Les Brown, and other great thought leaders of our time.

In her #1 Amazon best seller, If I'm So Smart, Why Can't I Get Rid of This Clutter? she gives readers the practical tools they need to get organized. As a personal challenge and impetus for the book, she de-cluttered her entire house for one full year. In this book, she shares her own private stories of her wins and struggles when dealing with the three types of clutter we all have: mental, emotional, and, of course, physical. She said, "I put myself out there; I wore my heart on my sleeve. It doesn't get more honest than this."

But this is no simple "how-to" book. Sallie will go into the `why' and uncovers the hidden reasons why it can be so hard to get clutter-free and how to stay that way!

Get in touch with Sallie Felton
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The challenge of this life stage is getting to know ourselves in a new context. It's a process somewhat similar to adolescence but with a greater perspective and wisdom. We have the opportunity to rediscover our values and priorities, our bodies and our relationships, and, in the process, to uncover new aspects of ourselves and discover "that we're not who we were when we were younger."

This stage of life is a time for all of us to open up to new possibilities and reinvent ourselves. But, to do so, we need to confront some of our own internalized ageism and a society that values youth.

In this month's episode, Suzanne Braun Levine discusses reinventing our lives. We'll discuss some of the challenges and rewards women and men face during this exciting and often challenging journey and some of the "life lessons" and "milestones" along the way.

About Suzanne Braun Levine:

Suzanne Braun Levine is a writer, editor, and lecturer on women, families, and changing gender roles. The first editor of Ms. Magazine, she is the author of Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood, Fifty Is the New Fifty, How We Love Now, Father Courage: What Happens When Men Put Family First, and You Gotta Have Girlfriends. She is a contributor to More magazine and blogs for AARP, Huff/Post50, and others. She is an advisor to several women's and media groups and organizations dealing with midlife transitions. She is on the Board of Encore.org - second acts for the greater good - a think tank on boomers, work, and social purpose.

Her book, Can Men Have It All? What the '"Daddy Track'' Means for Women examines the changing role of fatherhood and the state of the work-life balance for modern couples, a subject she introduced in her pioneering book, Father Courage: What Happens When Men Put Family First. She lives in New York with her husband, Robert F. Levine, an attorney. They have two adult children.

Get in touch with Suzanne Braun Levine:
Visit Suzanne's website: http://www.suzannebraunlevine.com/
Buy Suzanne's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/daddytracki

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The importance of purpose in life to well-being in retirement is considered. Long-held assumptions and beliefs about health and change are reconsidered. Using his book, On Purpose: Lessons in Life and Health from the Frog, the Dung Beetle, and Julia, Dr. Strecher takes us on a journey through ancient and modern philosophy, literature, psychology, genetics, and neuroscience. Healthy retirement through "repurposing" is the theme of this interview.

In this episode, you will discover:

A better understanding of the science and philosophy of purpose in life.
Health benefits of purpose in life in retirement.
How you can create a more authentic purpose in your life.

About Vic Strecher:

Dr. Victor Strecher received his Ph.D. in Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in 1983. Since 1995, Dr. Strecher has been a Professor in the UM School of Public Health and until 2009, Director of Cancer Prevention and Control at the UM Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Strecher founded the UM Center for Health Communications Research, a collaborative research-focused organization of health and behavioral scientists, educators, software engineers, and artists. Dr. Strecher has been a leading investigator on over $45 million in grant-funded studies of computer-based interactive communications for health-related behavior change and decision-making through this Center.

Dr. Strecher's latest research and book are related to the importance of developing and maintaining a strong purpose in life. His book, On Purpose: Lessons in Life and Health From the Frog, the Dung Beetle, and Julia, is written for the lay public by a professional comic illustrator as a graphic novel and is accompanied by a free iOS app, a website, and smartphone and web apps. Dr. Strecher also has a regular blog on the Huffington Post related to purpose and meaning in life.

Get in touch with Vic Strecher:
Visit Vic's websites: https://www.vicstrecher.com/ and https://www.kumanu.com/
Buy Vic's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/strecher

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Eldera is all about bringing forth the Era of the Elders. Eldera.ai is a virtual multigenerational village where generations come together to connect, learn from each other, have fun, and create a better future for all. Eldera connects kids worldwide with vetted older mentors for weekly virtual connections, which may include conversation, storytime, and activities.

The kids benefit from social-emotional learning and increased resilience, elders benefit from a sense of purpose and expanded community, and most importantly, everyone experiences more joy. Eldera is the opposite of eldercare -- it is built on the belief that elders want and need to care for the next generation -- it is in our DNA.

In this episode, you'll discover:

How do we define the social capital of older adults?
How can technology make it available at scale?
How can it impact societal change?
How can we envision a new intergenerational societal infrastructure?

About Dana Griffin:
Dana Griffin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Eldera.ai, the purpose-driven global platform for older adults. She is on a mission to tap into the time and wisdom of one billion elders worldwide as a new natural resource for the next generation. Dana was raised by her grandparents in Transylvania, Romania, and has been guided by elder mentors throughout her life.

A former data and advertising executive turned age-tech entrepreneur, AI for Good advocate, and author of multiple trademarks and patents focused on aging and wisdom, Dana serves on BrightFocus Foundation and AI Commons boards. She has been advising, consulting, and speaking internationally about principled uses of AI for innovation, policy, and social impact and was recognized by AdAge as a "40 under 40 Changing the Advertising Industry." A Vedic meditator and outspoken fan of interesting people and good food, Dana spends her time cooking, training in Krav Maga, and exploring human consciousness.

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Visit Dana's website: https://www.eldera.ai/

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Social innovation is much more than having an idea. Real innovation is recognizing the value of that idea and operationalizing it through social enterprise. Research demonstrates that, contrary to the media image of an entrepreneur as a tech-savvy youth, senior entrepreneurs (aged 50+) are creating more businesses worldwide than any other age group, and an overwhelming number are creating social enterprises, including green businesses.

That being said, we should bear in mind that while experience fuels innovation, experience is also regenerative, so the opportunity is at hand to intentionally facilitate knowledge transfer across generations and foster dynamic, innovative decision-making. Catalyzing multigenerational experience generates new insights, perspectives, and multiple paths to solutions.

In this episode, you will discover:

how senior entrepreneurs activate and scale social innovation;
how older adults can be more innovative than their younger counterparts;
how shared intergenerational knowledge is a unique social and economic opportunity to drive innovation, boost workplace engagement, productivity, and profitability, and successful new business startups that can result in healthier societies, a more sustainable environment, and robust economies - and provide specific examples.

About Elizabeth Isele:
Recognized globally as a pioneering senior and intergenerational entrepreneurship expert, Elizabeth Isele is leading a movement to transform the culture of aging and retirement. Her passion to ignite a Silver Economy by unleashing the experience and the potential of 50+ year-olds to drive economic markets and generate social and environmental impact is grounded in data and metrics. Elizabeth embodies the Silver Economy. As a septuagenarian, after a distinguished career as an award-winning editor and author, she founded The Global Institute for Experienced Entrepreneurship, a comprehensive, cross-sector (business, government, education, and research) ecosystem to catalyze and support intergenerational experience in the Future of Work, Entrepreneurship, and Artificial Intelligence.

She is also a Senior Fellow in Social Innovation and Entrepreneur in Residence at Babson College in Wellesley, MA, and an Associate Fellow in Finance and Global Economics at The Royal Institute of International Affairs: Chatham House in London, UK.

In the fall of 2021, she was interviewed by Globant for their Be One of a Kind series to share the one-of-a-kind VALUE of workers aged 50+. She has also published numerous reports, articles, and op-ed pieces on 50+ entrepreneurship and is continually quoted and profiled in the media and publications such as the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, etc. Elizabeth was named a Journalism in Aging Fellow by the MetLife Foundation and the Gerontological Society of America, a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Foundation Fellow, and an Influencer in Aging by PBS NextAvenue.org.

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Visit Elizabeth's website: https://experieneurship.com/

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As we enter the years beyond midlife, our quest for an approach to aging takes on added urgency and becomes even more relevant in our daily lives. Empowering a new generation of seekers to view aging as a spiritual path, authors Robert Weber and Carol Orsborn reveal that by engaging with the difficult questions about loss, meaning, and mortality -- questions, we can no longer put off or ignore --that we continue to grow. In fact, the realization of our full spiritual potential comes about not by avoiding the challenges aging brings our way but by working through them.

In this episode, you'll discover:

The spiritual path is wide, and the spiritual tent is very large. If religion assists your spiritual growth in aging, be grateful. If you are spiritual but not religious, be grateful and continue to seek the path of spiritual opportunities inherent in your aging.
You, readers and listeners, are invited to grapple with the same 25 questions as the authors and to "live the questions" until you live your way through to your own answer, hopefully, encouraged by Bob and Carol's conversational and candid style, their insightful and compassionate guidance, and their anecdotes, inspirational readings, and spiritual exercises.
Grow whole and resilient, learning not only learn to cope--but also to soar - by engaging deeply with both the shadow and light sides of your own aging experience and by discovering that the spiritual opportunities of your life occur, not in spite of, but because of what you are facing and living.

About Bob Weber:
Recipient of the American Society on Aging's 2014 Religion, Spirituality, and Aging Award, Robert L. Weber, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Psychology, part-time at Harvard Medical School and a former Jesuit. He also serves as a Massachusetts General Hospital's Department of Psychiatry faculty member. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has a psychological practice.

About Carol Orsborn:
Carol Orsborn, Ph.D., is the founder and editor-in-chief of Fierce with Age: The Digest of Boomer Wisdom, Inspiration, and Spirituality. The author of more than 20 books for and about the Boomer generation and popular blogs on Huffington Post, PBS's NextAvenue.net, and BeliefNet.com, Carol has a doctorate in the History and Criticism of Religion served on the faculties of Georgetown University and Loyola Marymount University. She lives in Madison, Tennessee.

Get in touch with Bob Weber and Carol Orsborn:

Buy Bob and Carol's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/spirituality
Visit Bob and Carol's website: http://spiritualityofage.com/

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Think about it. Most decisions throughout life are an implicit tradeoff between time, money, and happiness. At this critical juncture, an explicit, step-by-step process could create the epiphany you desire while avoiding the outcome you may fear!

What does "retirement" look like for you? The devil is in the details. How will you actually spend each day when 40+ hours become available? Are your cash flows well planned and what are reasonable assumptions to use in your calculations? Do you know what will likely drive your happiness? Rather than a trial-and-error approach with seemingly endless options, it may be best first to determine what will actually work in your life!

Join award-winning financial advisor Glenn Frank while he walks you through his approach to define your next steps as discussed in his retirement planning guide, Your Encore - How to Balance Time, Money, and Joy. There are thousands of wonderful books on time management, finances, happiness, and purpose. This book uniquely connects these interrelated topics for people at their "What's Next" crossroads.

In this episode, you will discover:

How "The Joy Matrix" can simplify choice management (what you do and who you do it with) to boost your happiness.
How to roughly calculate "Your Work Optional Number."
Common financial and emotional pitfalls.
How to begin maximizing your "Happiness per Dollar" and "Happiness per Hour."

About Glenn Frank:

Glenn Frank is the Director of Education at Lexington Wealth Management. He maintains the website TimeMoneyAndJoy.com for his outside educational endeavors and to provide resources for his followers. As a financial advisor and educator for over 30 years, his work has centered on helping people maximize happiness within the confines of their personal time and financial limitations.

Glenn received the 2019 "Planner of the Year" award from the Massachusetts Financial Planning Association. He was listed by WORTH Magazine for ten years as one of the top advisors in the US. In 1996 Professor Frank was the founding director of Bentley University's Master's Program in Financial Planning.

Professor Frank has authored and has been interviewed for numerous articles, white papers, books, newspapers & magazines, and is the author of the book, Your Encore Retirement Planning Guide - How to Balance Time, Money and Joy. Glenn is a sought-after speaker at conferences, podcasts, and webinars.

Get in touch with Glenn Frank:
Buy Glenn's book, https://revolutionizeretirement.com/GlennFrankbook
Visit Glenn's website: https://www.timemoneyandjoy.com/
Access Glenn's handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/frankslides
Access 10 Toughest Questions to Ask an Advisor: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/10questions

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An affirmative approach to aging takes into account that new parts of us are always clamoring for airtime. The soul and spirit don't "retire" even if our careers do, and there's a difference between getting older and growing older.

These parts of us could be passions and creative leaps, service projects and leadership roles in the community, a new line of work or an exploration of some non-work modes of expression, or simply rediscovering the sense of wonder and love of learning. They ask us to continually reinvent ourselves and stay close to our deepest sense of passion and purpose.

In this episode, we'll explore the nature and nurture of passion as we age - what inspires it and what defeats it, how we lose it, and how we get it back.

In this episode, you'll discover:

Passion can be cultivated and turned on as well as turned off
Passion is in the risk-the willingness to step from the sidelines onto the playing field.
Passion breeds passion, and disinterest breeds disinterest. If we lack passion in our own lives, our other relationships will be denied that energy.
Passion is more than exuberance; it's endurance.
Passion is intimately related to health. To the degree passion is vitality, honoring our passions enhances our vitality.

About Gregg Levoy:

Gregg Levoy, author of Callings: Finding and Following An Authentic Life (rated among the Top 20 Career Publications by the Workforce Information Group) and Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion, is the former behavioral specialist at USA Today and a regular blogger for Psychology Today.

He has presented at the International Conference on Positive Aging, Smithsonian Institution, Environmental Protection Agency, Microsoft, American Counseling Association, National Career Development Association, and many others. He has been a frequent media guest, including ABC-TV, CNN, NPR, and PBS.

A former adjunct professor of journalism at the University of New Mexico and former columnist and reporter for USA Today and the Cincinnati Enquirer, he has written for the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Omni, Psychology Today, Fast Company, Reader's Digest, and many others.

Get in touch with Gregg Levoy:
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Visit Gregg's website, https://gregglevoy.com/

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As a bioethicist, Viki Kind gets a lot of questions asking, "Did I do the right thing?" or "Is it time to.?" Her goal is to ensure caregivers make better decisions at the beginning so they aren't left with doubt and regret. Here are some typical questions she gets: I buried my mother and she wanted to be cremated; was I wrong? I don't know if I did the right thing when I told the doctor to take my husband off life support. Is it time to move my partner who has Parkinson's to a skilled nursing facility? Is it time for me to take my aunt's car keys away? There is an unrepresented patient and no conservators/guardians available, so who should make the decisions? I feel so guilty about … I think I made a mistake about ...

The great thing about bioethics is that it has great decision-making tools that create person-centered, respectful, and compassionate decisions. She will share these strategies and approaches so you can be an empowered caregiver and decision-maker.

In this episode, you'll discover:

Bioethical strategies and approaches for making the tough medical decisions.
How to get past your guilt so you can live in peace.
How to recognize your role and obligations when making decisions for others.

About Viki Kind:
Viki Kind is a clinical bioethicist, professional speaker, and hospice volunteer. Her award-winning book, The Caregiver's Path to Compassionate Decision Making: Making Choices For Those Who Can't, guides families and professionals who are making decisions for those who have lost capacity. Viki is known as "The People's Bioethicist" because she is a rare individual who bridges two worlds: the health care professional and the family struggling to make the right decision. She is an honorary board member of the Well Spouse Association and has been a caregiver to six family members for many years.

Get in touch with Viki Kind:
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Visit Vicki's website, http://kindethics.com/
Access Viki's handout, https://revolutionizeretirement.com/kindresources

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Some library systems are changing their approach to better serve older adults. In this interview you will learn how the King County Library System (KCLS) in Washington State is participating in and initiating community partnerships with individuals and organizations. You will learn how the Aging Well Learning Community was a key influence in this movement. You will learn how other community organizations have become partners as well. At the present time, KCLS offers abundant programs on positive aging and welcoming meeting places that support the community.

In this episode, you'll discover:

The story of the Aging Well Learning Community
The development of the KCLS Older Adults Program
The definition and practice of community partnership
The engagement of KCLS community partners and implementation of Older Adults Programs

About Nancy Walton-House:

Nancy Walton-House is a semi-retired counseling psychologist and organization development consultant. She is an alumna of Seattle University, the University of Washington and the Organization Systems Renewal Program. She is a trained facilitator with the Northwest Center for Creative Aging. She taught in 4 universities, worked in seven medical centers in clinical and organization development roles and consulted with multiple organizations. She founded the Aging Well Learning Community in 2009 and continues to lead it today. The community meets monthly for an interactive program focused on positive aging with consciousness, courage and contribution. Members select by consensus a variety of literary, music and art projects for their programs, and the King County Library System hosts these programs.

About Wendy Pender:

In addition to her MLS from the University of Pittsburgh, Wendy Pender has a Certificate in Gerontology from the University of Washington and is a trained facilitator with the Northwest Center for Creative Aging. She has over 25 years of experience as a librarian and branch manager, and now serves as Older Adults Program Coordinator at the King County Library System (KCLS) in Washington State, one of the largest and busiest library systems in the U.S. In 2016, the Urban Libraries Council honored Wendy at its annual conference in Kansas City as one of the recipients of a 2016 Top Innovator Award.

Get in touch with Nancy Walton-House:
Read Nancy’s article: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/agingwelllearning
Visit the Older Adults Program: https://kcls.org/older-adults/
Get in touch with Wendy Pender:
Read Wendy’s article: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/penderarticle

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We all dream, but not all of us remember our dreams, and many of us are puzzled by what dreams might mean. In this program, we'll consider dreams as an "inner GPS system," giving us clues about who we are and who we might become in later life. We'll look at dreams during retirement and coping with illness, as well as dreams about creativity, family relationships, and memories of where we have come on the journey of life, including anticipations of life's end.

The dreams shared in this presentation are drawn from an article Rick wrote, "Dreams for the Second Half of Life," and are drawn from many years of conducting dream workshops. As the Talmudic phrase states, "A dream uninterpreted is like a letter unopened."

In this episode, you will discover more about how to open and read these nightly letters to ourselves, as well as:

Develop an appreciation of dreams as an "inner GPS system"
Understand some of the clues dreams give us about who we are and who we may become as we age.
Learn more about how to open, read and understand our dreams

About Rick Moody:

Harry R. (Rick) Moody recently retired as Vice President and Director of Academic Affairs for AARP in Washington, DC. A graduate of Yale (1967), he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University (1973). He is currently a Visiting Professor at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California.

Dr. Moody is the author of over 100 scholarly articles, as well as many books, including The Five Stages of the Soul, now translated into seven languages worldwide. He was named by Utne Reader Magazine as one of the "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World."

Dr. Moody is at work on a new book, Leaving a Legacy: Our Aging Society and Future Generations, focusing on public pensions and environmental protection. He is currently the Board President of Gray Is Green, the National Senior Conservation Corp.

Get in touch with Rick Moody:
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In her talk on the work motivation of mature workers, Dr. Gill will discuss what older workers want out of work as they transition into the second half of life. Based on her research, which is part of her Ph.D. thesis, she will discuss how people determine whether they should continue to work beyond age 65 or retire. She'll also focus on the importance of achievement as people age. Lastly, Dr. Gill will share her findings regarding "generativity," its importance for an organization's competitive advantage, and why it requires a work environment that nurtures and values expertise.

In this episode, you'll discover:

What the number 65 signifies to older workers
Why achievement still matters, and to whom
About "generativity": the corporate "sweet spot" for aging workers and their organizations

About Gillian Leithman:

Gillian Leithman, Ph.D., is a corporate trainer specializing in health and wellness seminars and workshops. Gillian has facilitated programs for some of Canada's premiere businesses and organizations, such as Bell Canada, Air Canada, TD Canada Trust, Federal Express, Novartis, Telus, Hollis Wealth, HSBC, the RCMP, and Exxon Mobil.

Dr. Leithman is best known for her pre-retirement seminars, which focus on the psychological and social aspects of retirement planning to ensure a smooth and fulfilling transition. When she is not facilitating seminars, she teaches in the management faculty at the John Molson School of Business, where she is an Assistant Professor. Her research focus encompasses the career motivation of older workers, the retirement transition process, age-friendly workplaces, and knowledge-sharing cultures.

Her research has been featured at the Canadian Psychological Association, the Ontario and Canadian Gerontological Associations, and The Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. She has twice received the Best Paper Award from the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. She has also been featured in the Montreal Gazette, Reader's Digest, and the National Post and has been a guest on the Tommy Schnurmacher radio show and on CBC.

Dr. Leithman is the founder of Rewire to Retire and Life Skills Toolbox.

Get in touch with Gillian Leithman:

Visit Gillian's website: https://rewiretoretire.com/
Access Gillian's 4-part webinar series: https://rewiretoretire.com/homepage/webinars/
Access Gillian's Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/leithman

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Jolts can derail us - or they can propel us into reclaiming and remaking our lives. They prompt us to ask questions about our values and purpose.

Psychologists have been studying this phenomenon for some time; one research team at the University of North Carolina Charlotte back in the mid-1990s named the phenomenon "post-traumatic growth" (PTG). Since then, PTG has emerged as an important field of study for psychologists and social scientists.

Jolt explores a range of PTG experiences - -the death of a child, life-threatening illness, plane crashes, terror attacks, natural disasters - and also a wide range of growth responses.

In this episode, you will discover:

What is the process of change that trauma survivors experience as they grow?
What does the process of change look like from the inside for jolt survivors?
What is the role of spirituality and faith? Who is most likely to experience growth after trauma - and who is not?
And, what is the meaning of these stories of trauma and growth for the rest of us?

About Mark Miller:

For over a decade, Mark Miller has researched and written about what motivates people to reinvent their lives. He is a nationally recognized expert on retirement and aging; he writes a column for Reuters and contributes to The New York Times and other national news outlets.

Mark is the author of Jolt: Stories of Trauma and Transformation, which tells the stories of people transformed by growth following trauma, and the new paths they pursue.

Some are on missions to help others or to make things right in the world, while others embark on new careers. Some people simply find that their relationships grow deeper or seek a stronger spiritual dimension in their lives.

Get in touch with Mark Miller:
Visit Mark's website: https://retirementrevised.com/
Buy Mark's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/jolt

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A remarkable development during the 20th century was an impressive extension of the average life course. In America, the average life expectancy gained 30 years, from 47 to 77. That's a 30-year life bonus. Average life expectancy here is nearly 80 and rising. The fastest growing cohort is centenarians - from 3,000 in 1965 to over 90,000 in the early 21st century. We have experienced a longevity revolution and many of us will live into our 90s and reach 100 or beyond. In addition, in the 21st century the old paradigm of aging has been changing and a newer view of aging has emerged, which is radically different from the old paradigm.

What might a huge increase in longevity mean to you? What can you do with all the added years ahead? How will this change the legacies you will live and leave? So, what's new about aging? In navigating life after 50, a major question is: how can you create the life you want? This leads to a question about our emerging identity: who do you want to become?

Dr. Sadler has learned from the people he has studied and discovered they are shaping a new identity by developing a life portfolio that answers another question: what do I want to put in my future? (and what leave out?) Dr. Sadler has been helping students in his Osher Life-Long Learning Institute (OLLI) classes work with each other in shaping their distinctive life portfolios. Seeing how they are growing and renewing their lives has been a very inspiring experience for him. It's a challenge for all of us to think intentionally about the years ahead and create our own life portfolio.

In this episode, you will discover:

What's new about aging in the 21st century
Ways to think about adult development IN aging
How to "change course" and create your life portfolio

About Bill Sadler:

Since receiving his doctorate from Harvard, Bill Sadler has been teaching sociology, business, and interdisciplinary courses for fifty years in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. For the past 26 years he has been at Holy Names University in Oakland, California, where he is Professor of Sociology and Business, and for 10 years at the University of Southern Maine.

In addition to teaching, he has held administrative posts in four institutions, serving three times as a Department Chair, College Dean, and Chief Academic Officer. He has also been a consultant in higher education and in the business world for leadership and organizational development. In addition to his professional career, he has served on various boards, such as: Spiritual Alliance for Earth, The Center for Third Age Leadership and North Oakland Village.

As an author, he has published dozens of articles and six books, the last three focusing on the third age, based on his ongoing longitudinal research. Those books are Third Age: Six Principles of Growth and Renewal after 40, Changing Course: Navigating Life after 50 (with James Krefft) and Why Retire? Career Strategies for Third Age Nurses (with Fay Bower). He has been a key speaker at local, national and international conferences on Positive Aging.

He and his wife Sallie have raised five children, have six grandchildren, and live in Oakland CA and Bristol, ME.

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Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH, is a retired, highly decorated full colonel, former chief flight surgeon at the Air Force Surgeon General's Office in Washington, and preventive medicine physician who has spent over a decade smashing stereotypes of aging and redefining the possibilities of older adulthood.

He has conducted extensive practical research on the influence of lifestyle on the aging process and compiled his findings in his book Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging, which AARP has endorsed, was a top pick by MORE magazine, and received gold award honors by Living Now Book Awards.

During today's episode, Dr. Landry will be discussing:

Ten empowering tips to age successfully
Authentic health that we can rediscover from our ancestors
The importance of staying socially, intellectually, physically, and spiritually engaged with life
How to grow new brain tissue and make dementia less likely
How to recognize and address personal risks that may limit health and independence
How stress "rots us from within"
How to never again fail at making healthy lifestyle changes
Why our elders are part of the solution to society's challenges rather than the problem: a resource rather than a liability
Changing public policy and how it will affect how we view and treat older adults

About Roger Landry:
Dr. Roger Landry is a preventive medicine physician, author of award-winning Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging, and President of Masterpiece Living, a group of multi-discipline specialists in the field of aging who partner with organizations to assist them in becoming destinations for continued growth and Centers for Successful Aging. Trained at Tufts University School of Medicine and Harvard University School of Public Health, Dr. Landry specializes in building environments that empower older adults to maximize their unique potential. For well over a decade, Dr. Landry has focused his efforts on older adults as a lecturer, researcher, consultant, and author.

Get in touch with Roger Landry:
Visit Roger's website: https://www.livelongdieshort.com/
Buy Roger's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/landry

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Who am I meant to be now? How do I live a vital life? How can I live my legacy? These are questions that many of us ask ourselves throughout our lives. We are always in the process of changing and growing. At this point in your life, what do you care about? What brings you joy? What values do you want to model and share with children, grandchildren, friends, and colleagues? What gives you meaning and purpose?

Join us for an insightful conversation about how you can use your unique interests and gifts to live a life of even greater joy and purpose. Gain new skills and strategies to chart your course, uncover your passions, and choose your next direction. Whatever your age, living your legacy starts now!

In this episode, you'll be invited to explore opportunities and challenges to live a life of personal fulfillment, resilience, and broader social engagement, such as:

Explore how you can live (and not just leave) a legacy that reflects your values and issues of importance to you.
Enhance your philanthropy and happiness by identifying your passions and skills and getting "hands-on" with causes you care about.
Learn her 10 -step approach and tools to create social change in an informed and creative way.
Share this legacy with children, grandchildren and other family members, colleagues, and friends through inter-generational Legacy Clubs.

About Barbara Shaiman:

Throughout her career, noted educator, businesswoman, and social entrepreneur, Barbara Shaiman, has used her skills and ability to empower others to create social change. In 1995, she founded Champions of Caring, a non-profit organization that has empowered over 10,000 youth in Philadelphia and South Africa to become leaders in public service and active, engaged citizens. She has created programs that have inspired and motivated young people with the skills to create service projects to address local and global issues and create cultures of caring within their schools and communities.

The success of Champions of Caring with young people, combined with Barbara's professional experience, entrepreneurial spirit, and over thirty years of public speaking, led her to create Embrace Your Legacy.

Through speeches, workshops, and consulting, she shares her approach to providing participants with the necessary tools to create social change in an informed and creative way. From corporate team-building and community outreach to organizational culture-changing, public and private high-school classrooms to university seminars, faith-based programs to community women's and men's groups, she has presented this message to audiences of all ages and backgrounds, locally, nationally, and internationally, changing the world, one person at a time.

Get in touch with Barbara Shaiman:

Visit Barbara's website: http://embraceyourlegacynow.com/
Download Barbara's Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/shaimanhandout
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Wondering what's next in your life? Thinking about doing work you feel good about? Join us for a conversation with Marci Alboher, author of Encore Career Handbook: How to Make a Living and a Difference in the Second Half of Life. Alboher, a former New York Times careers columnist is a vice president of Encore.org, a nonprofit making it easier for millions of people to move into second (or third) acts for the greater good.

In this episode, you'll discover:

How volunteering or pro bono consulting can lead to paid work
How to network effectively and harness the power of social media
How to find the most age-friendly jobs in nonprofits, government, education, healthcare, and socially-minded businesses
How to combat age discrimination
The pros and cons of going back to school
How to financially plan for your transition

About Marci Alboher:

Marci Alboher, one of the nation's leading authorities on career issues and workplace trends, is a vice president at Encore.org. Marci's current focus is on the power of connecting, collaborating, and innovating across the generations. A former blogger and columnist for The New York Times, her latest book is The Encore Career Handbook: How to Make a Living and a Difference in the Second Half of Life.

Marci is regularly called upon for commentary in media outlets around the world, and she has been interviewed by countless news organizations, including NBC's Today and Nightly News, National Public Radio, AARP, and USA Today. She is a Senior Advisor to Girls Write Now and serves as a mentor-editor for The OpEd Project. Earlier in her career, she spent a decade practicing law. She lives in New York City with her husband, Jay.

Get in touch with Marci Alboher:
Visit Marci's website: https://www.Encore.org
Buy Marci's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/echandbook

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Episode Guest: Dr. Carolyn Walter, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Widener University, Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Teaching Coach, Author, and Consultant on Grief/Loss/Chronic Illness

Episode Description:

Whether expected or unexpected, life transitions are the changes we face throughout every life stage, whether we like it or not. Every transition involves loss and a personal process of healing that precedes growth and reinvention. Grief and loss are inevitable passages we each experience in our lifetimes. The loss of a spouse, partner, parent, child, or loved one is a personal and unique grief journey. Losing a dream, a career, health, or abilities can also bring about profound sadness and fear of the unknown.

The truth is that any transition through grief and loss can be lonely and difficult without support and understanding.

During this episode, you will:

Learn how the literature on grief, loss, and transformation helps us understand some of the dilemmas faced by those retiring and working on the reinvention process.
Understand why the transition from retirement to reinvention is often filled with fear, anxiety, and frustration.
Understand how an adult moves from retirement toward reinvention by meaning-making.
Understand the various losses and emotions faced by those retiring such as:
- Loss of or change in identity
- Loss of routine and search for balance
- Loss of or change in work relationships, relationships with friends, and within the marital/partner relationship

About Carolyn Walter:

Carolyn Ambler Walter, Ph.D., LCSW, is a counselor, author, and Professor Emerita with 40 years of professional experience serving clients and organizations. Her extensive expertise in grief and loss and life transitions includes work with hospitals, hospices, and community groups.

As a guest speaker and renowned authority in the field, she has spoken at numerous conferences on grief, chronic illness, and women's health issues. She also conducts workshops for healthcare staff, counselors, and other helping professionals. In addition to professional journal articles,

A Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University Center for Research and Disease Prevention, Dr. Walter created and led two series for fibromyalgia patients. Locally, she has led numerous groups for fibromyalgia patients and families.

Dr. Walter has more than 25 years of experience in higher education, including 23 years at Widener University, where she co-founded the Center for Social Work Education. She currently offers Teachers' Coaching workshops to support educators and administrators in building stronger educational programs.

Dr. Walter sits on the program committee of Peter's Place, a non-profit center for grieving children, teens, and families in Radnor, PA. She is a member of the Steering Committee and Peer Group Committee for the Philadelphia-based non-profit, The Transition Network, which helps women over 50 discover new beginnings.

Get in touch with Carolyn Walter:

Visit Carolyn's website: http://www.drcarolynwalter.com/index.html

Buy Carolyn's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/walter

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Episode Guest: John C. Robinson, Psychologist, Interfaith Minister, Mystic, author, and speaker

Episode Description:

Are you frightened of aging? Do you worry about every new physical symptom, memory lapse, or mistake? Do you keep busy to avoid thinking about being "old" or brag about how happy you are in retirement when you secretly feel pretty low? Do you believe aging is about waiting to lose everything that matters? For most of human history, we viewed aging like this - as inevitably grim, depressing, and hopeless. A radically new kind of aging is on the horizon, one that can change us, the culture, and the world. And millions of us are getting ready for this new adventure.

The first wave of 76 million "Baby Boomers," representing 28% of the American population, began turning 65 in 2011. Every day ten thousand more join this extraordinary tsunami and will live longer than any previous generation in history - at least 15 years more than their parents! - creating an entirely new stage of life. As a psychologist, interfaith minister, author, and aging Boomer, John Robinson believes that twenty-first-century aging represents a new and largely uncharted psychological and spiritual development stage.

In this episode, you'll discover:

The mystical vision John has followed for over two decades
A new developmental stage in the human life cycle.
The mystical nature of aging is comprised of three mystical forces: Initiation, Transformation, and Revelation
How conscious elders are becoming spiritual activists and creating sacred communities
Three paradigms of aging: the Old, the New, and the Mystical
The "Great Work" of Creation calling to all of us.
Four dimensions of responding to our current global crisis
Asking our ancestors, angels, and other Divine Beings for help.

About John Robinson:

John C. Robinson is a clinical psychologist with a second doctorate in ministry, an ordained interfaith minister, the author of nine books on the interface of psychology and spirituality (along with numerous articles, book chapters, and guest blogs), and last but not least, an aging Boomer with grown children and a gaggle of grandchildren. A full-time writer now, his interest has turned to the psychological, spiritual, and mystical potential of the New Aging.

His book, The Divine Human, argues that our new longevity has become a new developmental stage in the human life cycle, offering humanity profound opportunities for psychological, spiritual, and mystical transformation, expanding our lifespan and awareness of God.

John's growing audience comes to his work through talks and workshops at conscious aging conferences and webinars with The Shift Network Summit on Aging, CSource, and Sag-ing International, a website hosted by the Authors Guild, radio and video interviews and presentations, and five conscious aging books published by John Hunt Publishing.

Get in touch with John Robinson:
Visit John's website: https://www.johnrobinson.org/
Buy John's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/divinehuman
Download John's Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/robinsonhandout

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Episode Guest: Robert Laura, author, The Naked Retirement, and founder of The Retirement Coaches Association

Episode Description:

Too often, retirement planning assumes that people have 20-30 years to do whatever they want when they want. However, that's not the case because retirement can change quickly and only comes with one true guarantee --that you will die at some point during it. That may sound like the perfect conversation to avoid, but it can change how you think, act, and invest in retirement.

In this episode, you'll discover how to:

Reunite with your life's passions, goals, and dreams
Receive hope and direction for any situation and season of retirement
Strengthen relationships and prepare your body, mind, and spirit for a successful transition
Recognize retirement's true purpose and opportunities
Afford more things than money could ever buy
Remove the burden, worry, and stress related to money and retirement
Feel healthy and refreshing because you're taking time out for yourself
Save years of heartache and pain and from figuring out retirement the hard way

About Robert Laura:

Robert Laura is a retirement transition planning speaker and coach, and pioneer of "The New Retirement," which includes planning for both the financial and non-financial aspects, including the need to develop a written plan for everyday life in retirement. He is the author of Naked Retirement, Retirement RX, Retirement Roots. Retirement Challenge, and Financial Karma.

He has garnered a unique look at wealth and retirement by working closely with his clients for the last twenty years and interviewing numerous celebrities, entertainers, and athletes.

Get in touch with Robert Laura:

Visit Robert's website: https://www.retirementproject.org/ and https://retirementcoachesassociation.org/
Buy Robert's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/naked
Download Robert's Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/laurahandout
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Episode Guest: Cynthia R. Green, Ph.D., leading expert in the field of brain health, author, clinical psychologist and founding director of the Memory Enhancement Program at the Mount Sinai Medical Center

Episode Description:

What do advances in neuroscience, increased worldwide longevity, and the obsession with agelessness of the baby boomers have in common? They are all factors in the emerging Brain Age, a time of unprecedented knowledge about the brain, cognition and cognitive wellness. Join Dr. Green to learn more about the revolutionary new science of cognitive health, including what the science really shows about interventions such as brain games and exercise and their impact on brain wellness, and how we can each begin to customize our own path to improved brain vitality. Leave with 9 practical steps you can begin immediately take action to boost your personal brain vitality.

In this episode, you'll discover:

What it means to be brain healthy
How to achieve better brain health
Whether or not the new brain fitness software programs really work

About Cynthia R. Green:

Cynthia R. Green, Ph.D., is a leading expert in the field of brain health, clinical psychologist and founding director of the Memory Enhancement Program at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, where she is currently an assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Green is the president of Memory Arts LLC and CEO of TBH Brands, the parent company of Total Brain Health, which offers training, products and services to improve memory and brain fitness. Core products of Total Brain Health include the Total Brain Health Toolkits line, a series of "programs in a box" designed for use in active aging, fitness and healthcare settings.

Dr. Green is the author of 5 books on brain health, both on her own and in collaboration with major brands such as Prevention and National Geographic. Her collaboration with National Geographic, Your Best Brain Ever, was named a "2013 Top Guide to Life After 50" by the Wall Street Journal. In addition, Dr. Green frequently serves as a consultant to companies on memory and brain fitness (Forest Laboratories, United Healthcare, Lifecare, Marbles) and is a highly regarded keynote speaker for organizational, corporate and association events.
Originally from North Carolina, Dr. Green lives with her family in Northern New Jersey.

Get in touch with Cynthia R. Green:

Visit Cynthia's website: https://totalbrainhealth.com/
Buy Cynthia's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/totalmemory
Download Cynthia's Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/green
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guests: Dr. Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle, author and speaker

Episode Description:
How do we find meaning and beauty in aging, and how do we respond to living in an age-phobic culture? This month's presenter, Dr. Olivia Hoblitzelle, gets to the heart of the matter by providing examples from her own experience as well as from varied wisdom traditions and cultures that revere elders.

In this episode, you'll discover how to:

find the wisdom that lies within all of us, no matter the age
create a mindset to age consciously
cultivate an inner life resilient enough to handle the vicissitudes of aging
embrace life in all its fullness and wonder, even when faced with life's inevitable losses
You'll get the information you need about how to age consciously.

About Dr. Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle:

Dr. Olivia Hoblitzelle, writer and teacher, taught in the field of behavioral medicine, where she pioneered the integration of meditation, yoga, and cognitive therapy with traditional Western medicine. She also trained health professionals in new approaches to health and healing through Harvard Medical School.

For many years she taught a course on conscious aging and mindfulness meditation. Her bestselling book, Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows: A Couple's Journey Through Alzheimer's, won many awards and was translated into four languages. Her most recent book is Aging with Wisdom: Reflections, Stories & Teachings, a finalist for Foreword's "Indies Book of the Year" award.

Get in touch with Dr. Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle:

Visit Olivia's website: https://www.oliviahoblitzelle.com/
Buy Olivia's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/agingwisdom
Download Olivia's Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/hoblitzelle
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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People have been talking about "The Positive Aging Movement" for more than a dozen years, particularly since the first conference in 2007, when the oldest Boomers were turning 61 and approaching the "traditional" retirement age. With a longer life expectancy, notions about aging have been shifting. This year the oldest Boomers are turning 76, and the youngest is now turning 58. We're witnessing the "graying" of our population. In this interview, we'll focus on a broad view of the Positive Aging Movement: How it started, how it's been changing, what it's accomplished, and where it's going.

From this episode, you will:

Get an overview of the Positive Aging Movement over the past 10+ years - its intellectual underpinnings, development, and accomplishments to date.
Understand the central concepts of positive aging/holistic thriving in the second half of life.
Explore what's next. Has the movement outlived its usefulness? What are the current issues? Where might it or should it be heading?
Consider: What would you add? What facet draws you most?

About Jan Hively and Meg Newhouse:

Jan Hively describes herself as an "Encore Entrepreneur." In Minnesota, after a city planning and administration career, Jan Hively earned her Ph.D. in 2001 at age 69 with a dissertation on "Productive Aging in Rural Communities." Since then, she has focused on transforming expectations for aging -- realizing the potential for positive aging based on twenty-first-century trends and research.

Jan has co-founded several thriving networks that support positive aging, including the Vital Aging Network, the SHIFT Network, and a global program exchange, the Pass It On Network. As a Purpose Prize Fellow, she is an internationally known presenter and consultant for programs that engage older adult leadership and support "meaningful work, paid or unpaid, through the last breath." Jan's academic degrees were earned at Harvard University and the University of Minnesota.

Meg Newhouse has sought to call out "passion and purpose" in her students, coaching clients, and even friends/colleagues in her professional and personal life. For nearly 25 years, she has been centrally involved in what could be called the Positive Aging movement as a post-mid-life coach, workshop facilitator, consultant, and author.

In 2002 she founded and co-led the Life Planning Network, a national community of professionals committed to a holistic model for helping people thrive in the second half of life; more recently, she has been engaged with the Conscious Elders Network from its early stages. Meg has helped plan five Positive Aging conferences, written three how-to books, and co-edited LPN's Live Smart After 50. In the past few years, she has focused on later life and legacy, represented by her book, Legacies of the Heart: Living a Life That Matters.
Meg has many other passions--foremost, her family (including four grandchildren) and friends, but also including music (as a serious amateur flutist), yoga, nature, the state of the nation and world, and all kinds of learning and personal/spiritual growth. She lives in the Boston area with her husband of 50 years.

Get in touch with Jan Lively and Meg Newhouse:

Visit Jan's website: https://www.passitonnetwork.org/
Visit Meg's website: https://www.megnewhouse.com/
Download Jan and Meg's Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/hively-newhouse
Buy Live Smart After 50 Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/livesmart
Buy Meg's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/hrhg
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explor

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Episode Guest: Richard Eisenberg, Managing Editor and Senior Web Editor, Next Avenue

Episode Description:
Some people have a much better retirement experience than others. What makes the difference? Having a plan and figuring out what you want out of retirement in advance so you have laid the groundwork for a retirement experience that works for you and your family.

In this episode, Richard Eisenberg outlines the ten ways you can achieve a happy retirement.

He will cover:

How to figure out in advance what you want out of retirement.
If you have a husband, wife, or partner, talk frankly together about what you both want out of retirement.
Plan your transition into retirement.
Come up with a retirement income plan.
Choose when to retire and then follow through (if you can).
Stay engaged and healthy (if you can).
Get a part-time job in retirement.
Learn new things or pursue your passions.
Keep a schedule, but not like the one you had before you retired.
See your children and grandchildren if you have any.

About Richard Eisenberg:

Richard Eisenberg is Managing Editor of PBS' Nextavenue.org, a site for people in their 50s and 60s. He is also the editor of the site's Money and Work & Purpose channels and a frequent blogger there. Previously, he was Executive Editor of Money Magazine and Front Page Finance Editor for Yahoo! He is the author of two books, How to Avoid a Mid-Life Financial Crisis and The Money Book of Personal Finance.

Get in touch with Richard Eisenberg:

Visit Next Avenue's website: https://www.nextavenue.org/

Visit Richard's articles:

9 Keys to a Happy Retirement
When Retirement is a Bad Fit
Next Avenue Picks the 6 Best New Personal Finance Books

Get Richard's list of resources: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/eisenberg
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Mark Freedman, Entrepreneur, Pioneer in the Aging Movement, Founder of Experience Corps, Civic Ventures, and Encore.Org., Speaker and Author

Episode Description:

How to Live Forever is a deeply personal call to find fulfillment and happiness in our longer lives by connecting with the next generation and forging a legacy of love that lives beyond us. In writing How to Live Forever, Marc Freedman set out to answer three critical questions:

With so many living so much longer, what do the increasing years beyond 50 mean?

How can a society with more older people than younger ones thrive?

How do we find happiness when we know life is long and time is short?

These big questions invite us to explore how we live our daily lives. Freedman found insights by exploring purpose and generativity, digging into the drive for longevity and the perils of age segregation, and talking to social innovators across the globe, bringing the generations together for mutual benefit and his own mentors.

In this episode, you'll discover how to find fulfillment and happiness in our longer lives by connecting with the next generation and forging a legacy of love that lives beyond us.

About Marc Freedman:

Marc Freedman, the President, and CEO of Encore.org, is a renowned social entrepreneur, thought leader, and writer. Under Marc's leadership, Encore.org has pioneered innovative programs and sparked a growing movement in the United States and beyond to tap the talent and experience of people past midlife as human resources for solving our most vexing social problems. Programs such as Civic Ventures, Experience Corps, Discovering What's Next and the Life Planning Network are a few examples of programs that have been sparked by Marc's vision.

He was a visiting fellow at King's College, University of London, and a visiting scholar at Stanford University during 2014-15. Marc is a member of the Wall Street Journal's "Experts" panel and a frequent commentator in the media. He was named a 2014 Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum and the Schwab Foundation and recipient of the 2010 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. He co-founded Experience Corps, mobilizing thousands of individuals over 50 to improve the school performance and prospects of low-income elementary school students in 22 U.S. cities, and spearheaded the creation of the Purpose Prize, an annual $100,000 prize for social entrepreneurs in the second half of life.

Marc is the author of several books, including his newest book, How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations, focusing on bringing older and younger people together for mutual benefit and the greater good of society.

Get in touch with Marc Freedman:
Visit Marc's website: https://encore.org/
Download Marc's Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/freedmanhandout
Buy Marc's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/freedman
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Dr. Bill Thomas, author, entrepreneur, musician, teacher, farmer, and physician whose wide-ranging work explores the terrain of human aging

Episode Description:
At both ends of the age spectrum, there is a growing and largely untapped demand for communities designed to foster closer connections, health, and wellbeing. How can we create homes and communities that are inspired by a profound respect for simpler living, energy-conscious building, and human-oriented design?

In this episode, you'll...

Understand what Multi-Generational, Multi-Ability, Inclusive Communities are
Understand how to live in the place and manner of their choosing
Be inspired to flip the declinist narrative of aging

About Bill Thomas:

Named by The Wall Street Journal as one of the top 10 Americans shaping aging, Dr. Bill Thomas is known worldwide for transforming long-term care through The Eden Alternative, The Green House, and Minka models, radical alternatives to institutional care. Thomas designed the nation's first senior ER, now the standard for hospital emergency rooms nationwide. He most recently came off a 125-city Changing Aging Tour that used music and visuals in live performances to promote a new and disrupting understanding of aging.

Get in touch with Bill Thomas:
Visit Bill's website: https://changingaging.org/
Visit Bill's housing website: https://kallimos.com
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Ashton Applewhite, speaker, author, and activist and the leading spokesperson to mobilize against discrimination based on aging

Episode Description:
From childhood, we're barraged by messages that it's sad to be old. That wrinkles are embarrassing, and older people are useless. Author and activist Ashton Applewhite also believed them until she realized where this prejudice comes from and its damage. In this episode, Ashton will trace her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical and, in the process, debunk myth after myth about late life.

In this episode, you'll discover:

the roots of ageism - in history and our own age denial - and how it divides and debases
how ageist myths and stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function
what ageism looks like in the workplace and the bedroom
the cost of the all-American myth of independence
how olders are portrayed as burdens to society
what an all-age-friendly world would look like
a rousing call to action

Whether you're older or hoping to get there, this episode will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride!

About Ashton Applewhite:
Author and activist Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism. In 2016, she joined the PBS site Next Avenue's annual list of 50 Influencers in Aging as their Influencer of the Year. Ashton has been recognized by the New York Times, National Public Radio, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism.

She blogs at This Chair Rocks, has written for Harper's, Playboy, and the New York Times, and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist? Ashton speaks widely at venues that have ranged from universities and community centers to the TED mainstage and the United Nations. Ashton is a leading spokesperson for a movement to mobilize against discrimination based on age.

Get in touch with Ashton Applewhite:
Visit Ashton's website: https://thischairrocks.com/
Buy Ashton's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/applewhite
Download Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/applewhitehandout
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Kerry Hannon, a leading authority and strategist on career transitions, entrepreneurship, and personal finance and retirement as well as a best-selling and award-winning author of 14 books

Episode Description:
When the coronavirus pandemic upended the US economy, many older workers lost their jobs and saw their retirement accounts take a hit. Those who remain employed are grappling with a new way of working: remotely from home, sometimes in isolation, facing daunting technological and social challenges. Work and Jobs expert Kerry Hannon will talk about the way the pandemic has transformed the workplace for workers over 50 and how to find work you love that also has impact.

In this episode, you'll discover how to:

Navigate this new normal
Become empowered to take control of your professional and economic future with hope, confidence, and optimism
Succeed in the workplace and prepare for a financially secure retirement

About Kerry Hannon:

Kerry Hannon is a workplace futurist and a leading strategist on career management, entrepreneurship, personal finance, and retirement. She is a frequent TV, podcast, and radio commentator and is a sought-after keynote speaker at conferences.

Kerry is the bestselling and award-winning author of 14 books, including her newest book In Control at 50+: How to Succeed in the New World of Work and Great Pajama Jobs: Your Complete Guide to Working From Home.

Kerry is currently a senior columnist and on-air expert at Yahoo Finance. She was previously an expert columnist, opinion writer, and regular contributor to the New York Times, MarketWatch, and Forbes, and was the PBS website NextAvenue.org personal finance and entrepreneur expert. She has also worked as a writer, columnist, and editor for USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, and Money magazine and as a contributor to the Wall Street Journal.

Kerry lives in Washington, DC, and Boston, Virginia, with her husband, documentary producer and editor Cliff Hackel, and her Labrador retriever, Elmore “Elly.”

Get in touch with Kerry Hannon:
Visit Kerry’s website: https://kerryhannon.com/
Buy Kerry's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/pajamajobs
Download Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/newworldwork
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Harry Margolis, estate planning and elder law attorney and author who is a passionate advocate for seniors and individuals with special needs and their families.

Episode Description:
Too often, retirement plans fail due to a lack of coordination between financial and estate planning and failure to involve care managers. While we're healthy and cognitively intact, we can continue to work, travel, care for grandchildren (if we're so lucky), and go up and down stairs. Almost no financial and estate planning is necessary as long as we stay healthy. But when a spouse or we become disabled, most plans (or lack of plans) fall apart.

Age 75 is a good time to ask and answer the following questions:

Where do you want to live when you need help from others? Being close to children (assuming you have a good relationship) will make life a lot easier for all concerned. Make sure you can live on one floor.
Who will step in to take over your finances when you can no longer handle them yourself? A revocable trust is an ideal mechanism for managing financial matters.
Who will make health care and life decisions for you when you can't make them yourself? You need a health care proxy, but you must also talk with your agent about your wishes.
Do you care if all your resources are spent down on your care? At age 75, it's probably too late to buy long-term care insurance, but it can be a good time for Medicaid planning.

About Harry Margolis:Harry S. Margolis has been representing seniors, individuals with special needs, and their families since he started ElderLawServices, the predecessor of Margolis & Bloom, in June 1987. Since then, he and the firm as a whole have helped thousands of clients pay for long-term care, grapple with the incapacity of a family member, and plan for safe and productive futures for their children and grandchildren.

For three decades, Harry served as editor of The ElderLaw Report, an attorney's monthly newsletter. His peers have recognized his leadership in the field in his selection as a Fellow of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel. He has been named a "Super Lawyer" since 2005 and, in different years, recognized as one of the top 100 attorneys in New England. In 2015, Best Lawyers named him Best Lawyer in America in the practice of Elder Law and Trust and Estates. He is the only elder law attorney to receive these honors.

He firmly believes that the best legal solutions are achieved through the partnership of well-informed clients and attorneys who combine great technical expertise, experience, and an ability to listen. Most recently, he began answering consumer questions online at AskHarry.info. He is also the author of Get Your Ducks in a Row: The Baby Boomers Guide to Estate Planning.

When not working, Harry resides in Brookline with his wife, college-age twins (when they're home), and a dog of uncertain breed. He loves biking and traveling, both in the U.S. and abroad.

Get in touch with Harry Margolis:
Harry's website: https://margolisbloom.com/
Ask Harry a question: https://askharry.info/
Buy Harry's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/margolis
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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The world has changed dramatically over the past year and a half. For Fred Mandell, this is only the beginning of constant, dramatic, and unpredictable changes. Fred will share his journey from using the creative process of the arts as a model for navigating life transitions (Becoming a Life Change Artist) to his deep exploration of how the arts can prepare us to thrive in our new, rapidly changing world.

In this episode you'll discover:

The implications of living in a constant state of change
How the arts can serve as a deep and practical learning process
The theory and science behind arts-based experiential learning
How Creating Futures That Work is pioneering arts-based experiential learning to help individuals, leaders, and teams navigate the new state of unending change
You will walk away with an understanding of how integrating the arts into leadership development, innovative thinking, and collaborative team dynamics can change both you and the world.

About Fred Mandell:

Prior to establishing CFTW with Harvey Seifter, Fred served as a senior executive with American Express where he built leading marketing and sales businesses and ran a multi-billion-dollar investment company. During his tenure, he introduced new business models for the practice of fee-based financial planning in a large financial services institution.

In 2014 Fred launched The Global Institute for the Arts and Leadership, a not-for-profit entity, whose mission is to build a more peaceful, sustainable, and beautiful world by using the arts to catalyze social change. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board.

Fred is the author of Can Art Save Us? and the co-author with Kathleen Jordan of Becoming a Life Change Artist; 7 Creative Skills to Reinvent Your Life at Any Stage. He has been teaching the number one rated leadership series at MIT Sloan School of Management called The Leader as Artist since 2013. The Leader as Artist series is unique in the way it demonstrates the application of the art-making process to innovative leadership and organizational vitality.

As an artist, Fred has been featured in the national publication Gallery Guide. Most recently his bronze self-portrait has been commissioned for the international conference on "The Self/Le Soi" co-sponsored by the University of Chicago and the Sorbonne.

Fred holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and an Ed.M. in psychology from Boston University. He has three grown children, and six grandchildren, and lives in Lynnfield, Massachusetts with his wife Karen, a writer and teacher.

Get in touch with Fred Mandell:

Fred's artist website: https://www.fredmandell.com/
Fred’s corporate website: https://futuresthatwork.com/
Buy Fred's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/lifechangeartist
Download Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/mandellslides
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Author, speaker, reinvention coach, and branding expert Wendy Marx will describe how to brand yourself in a changing world. The world has changed and you need to also -whether you want to work part-time, volunteer, or start a new career. Marx will explain how you can take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to show your value and how you can help.

In this episode, you will discover:

The 5 key personal branding strategies
How to become a director of your life, not a passive onlooker
Other tips to engage people, find more meaning and purpose

About Wendy Marx:

Wendy Marx is a marketing and branding authority sought after for her ability to turn virtually unknown people into brands of distinction. As founder and president of Thriving at 50+, her proprietary coaching program is designed to help Baby Boomers discover their point of differentiation, then rebrand and retool themselves toward a more rewarding "Second Act." Drawing on Wendy's over 30 years of experience in marketing, journalism, public relations, and counseling, her programs provide a unique mix of marketing and PR savvy blended with psychological wisdom. She will take you from a stage of uncertainty to assuredness, confidence, and success.

Wendy holds an MSW, MS in journalism and an MBA in marketing. Her articles have appeared in Fast Company, Inc., job-hunt.org, Advertising Age, The New York Times, and others. She is the author of Thriving at 50+: The 7 Principles to Rebrand and Reinvent Yourself.

Get in touch with Wendy Marx:

Wendy's website: https://thrivingat50plus.com/
Buy Wendy's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/marx
Download Wendy’s Handouts: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/wendy-marx-handouts/
Check out Wendy’s special offer: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/marxoffer
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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For those with no support system, the thought of aging without help can be a frightening, isolating prospect. Whether you have friends and family ready and able to help you or not, growing old does not have to be an inevitable decline into helplessness. Maintaining a good quality of life in your later years is possible, but having a plan is essential. You'll be empowered to make proactive plans for your own lives rather than entrusting decisions to family and community.

In this episode, you'll discover:

Advice on the challenging medical, financial, and housing decisions to come
Real solutions to create a support network
Questions about aging solo readers don't know to ask
Guidance on new products, services, technology, and resources

About Joy Loverde:
Joy Loverde has a reputation for being a path carver and a visionary when it comes to active aging. She is the author of the best-seller, The Complete Eldercare Planner and Who Will Take Care of Me When I'm Old?

Joy is an expert media source, product spokesperson, keynote speaker, and mature-market consultant. She is frequently in the news. You may have seen her on the Today Show or read about her in the Wall Street Journal.

Joy will share strategies for cultivating trusting and long-lasting friendships as we anticipate the need to rely more on each other as we grow older.

Get in touch with Joy Loverde:
Joy's website: http://www.elderindustry.com/
Buy Joy's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/loverde
Download Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/loverdehandout
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Though most people spend countless hours doing financial planning for retirement, how many people do emotional planning? Retirement is a huge transition, and it's essential to think about how much money you'll have and how you will create the kind of life you want.

Whether you are about to retire, newly retired, or have been retired for a long time, it's never too late to talk openly about how you feel and the difficulties and joys of retirement.

In this episode, you will discover the importance of articulating anxieties about retirement, including:

Making the Decision
Fears of Isolation and Losing a Community
Fears of Losing Your Identity
Trusting Yourself
Fears of Getting Sick
Calming exercises
Maintaining a healthy and fulfilling retirement

About Louise Nayer:Louise Nayer grew up in New York City, received a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin and later a Master of Arts in Humanities from SUNY Buffalo, where she studied with poets Robert Creeley and John Logan. In 1976 she put all her belongings in a '68 Camaro and moved to San Francisco, where she dedicated her life to writing and teaching.

She is the author of five books, most recently Poised for Retirement: Moving from Anxiety to Zen. She kept a journal for the five months before she left her community college teaching job and wrote about the importance of emotional planning for retirement. That book also offers calming exercises to help people through that time. Her book, Burned: A Memoir, was an Oprah Great Read and won the Wisconsin Library Association Award. That book chronicles the devastating effects of an explosion in Cape Cod that burned her parents when she was four years old and left her mother facially disfigured. That book outlines the lasting effects of child-parent separation. She has also written for OZY and the San Francisco Chronicle and has been interviewed in Forbes Magazine.

She is a long-time educator and member of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto. She teaches memoir classes at the Grotto through OLLI at UC Berkeley and works with people individually. She has given readings of her work at universities and bookstores all over the country and has been interviewed widely on radio including on NPR. She has two grown daughters and a stepdaughter and lives with her husband and dog, Ella, in Glen Park in San Francisco.

Get in touch with Louise Nayer:
Louise's website: https://www.louisenayer.com/
Buy Louise's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/nayer
Download Louise’s Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/nayerhandout
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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We often face daily changes, challenges, compromises, choices, and losses as we age. Connie Goldman believed that "inspiration and learning are available through sharing personal stories of adjustment and growth. We can help one another find new meaning as our mobility, availability, and relationships change with the circumstances of later life. Throughout her life and shared in her many books, she's collected stories with the belief that "facts illustrate and stories illuminate."

During this episode, we'll hear stories she garnered over the years and some of her words of wisdom from her own life experiences. This is an opportunity to learn from a "wise elder" and feel richer from the connection and the experience.

In this episode, you'll discover:

How to alter your attitude and expectations as you age.
How to recognize possibilities and growth, even in the face of losses.
Words of wisdom from a wise elder who is also a pioneer in the positive aging movement.

About Connie Goldman:

Note: Connie passed away from stomach cancer at age 91 on March 8, 2022. Memorial donations can be made to the Connie Goldman Scholarship Endowment Fund at https://sage-ing.org/CGDonors.

Formerly on the staff of National Public Radio, Connie Goldman was an award-winning radio producer and reporter. For more than 35 years, her public radio programs, books, and speaking have been exclusively concerned with the changes and challenges of aging and family caregiving.

Grounded in the art of personal stories collected from hundreds of interviews, Connie's presentations were designed to inform, empower, and inspire. Her message on public radio, in print, and in person is clear-make any time of life is an opportunity for new learning, exploring creative pursuits, self-discovery, spiritual deepening, and continued growth.

Her books include The Ageless Spirit; Secrets of Becoming a Late Bloomer; The Gifts of Caregiving - Stories of Hardship, Hope and Healing; Late Life Love-Romance and New Relationships in Late Years; Tending the Earth, Mending the Spirit - The Healing Gifts of Gardening; and Who Am I Now That I'm Not Who I Was - Conversations with Women in Mid-Life and Beyond.

Buy Connie's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/whoami

Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Sky Bergman, Filmmaker, Professor of Photography and Video, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA

Episode Description:

Lives Well Lived celebrates the incredible wit and wisdom of people aged 75-100, who reveal their secrets for living a meaningful life. Encompassing 3,000 years of collective life experience, diverse people share life lessons about perseverance, the human spirit, and staying positive in the midst of life's greatest challenges. Their stories will make you laugh, perhaps cry, but mostly inspire you.

About Sky Bergman:

Sky Bergman is an accomplished, award-winning photographer. Lives Well Lived is Sky's directorial debut.

The film has screened in more than 300 cities, won eight awards, and the theatrical run garnered enthusiastic reviews, including a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is currently airing on PBS and is available on Amazon, iTunes, and PBS Passport.

Sky's fine art photography is featured in permanent collections throughout the world. Her commercial work has appeared on book covers for Random House and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., and in publications including the Smithsonian, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, Reader's Digest, and Archaeology Odyssey.

A professor at Cal Poly since 1995, Sky is the former chair of the Art & Design department (2007-2013) and is currently a Professor of Photography and Video. She has two short films about intergenerational connections currently on the film festival circuit and is working on a feature-length film that is a celebration of love.

Get in touch with Sky Bergman:

Sky's website: https://www.lives-well-lived.com/
Buy Sky's film: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/bergman
Download Film Discussion Guide: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/LWLDiscussionGuide2.pdf
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Bruce Feiler, one of America's top voices on contemporary life, best-selling author of 15 books, speaker, and TV personality

Episode Description:

Bruce Feiler has long explored the stories that give our lives meaning. Galvanized by a personal crisis, he spent the last few years crisscrossing the country, collecting hundreds of life stories of Americans in all 50 states who'd been through major life changes-from, losing jobs to losing loved ones; changing careers to changing relationships; getting sober to getting healthy to simply looking for a fresh start. He then spent a year coding these stories, identifying patterns and takeaways that can help all of us survive and thrive in times of change.

Feiler discovered a world in which transitions are becoming more plentiful and the skills to manage them more urgent for all of us to master. The idea that we'll have one job, one relationship, and one source of happiness is hopelessly outdated. We all feel unnerved by this upheaval. We're concerned that our lives are not what we expected, that we've veered off course, living life out of order. But we're not alone.

Life Is in the Transitions introduces the fresh, illuminating vision of the nonlinear life in which each of us faces dozens of disruptors. One in ten of those becomes what Feiler calls a lifequake, a massive change that leads to a life transition. The average length of these transitions is five years. The upshot: We all spend half our lives in this unsettled state. You or someone you know is going through one now.

The most exciting thing Feiler identified is a powerful new toolkit for navigating these pivotal times. Drawing on his extraordinary trove of insights, he lays out specific strategies each of us can use to reimagine and rebuild our lives, often stronger than before.

In this episode, you'll discover how to:

Start with your transition superpower
Identify your emotions
Shed something
Try something creative
Rewrite your life story

About Bruce Feiler:
Bruce Feiler is one of America's most thoughtful voices on contemporary life. He is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers; the presenter of two prime-time series on PBS; and the inspiration for the drama, Council of Dads on NBC. His work combines timeless wisdom with timely knowledge turned into practical, positive messages that allow people to live with more meaning, passion, and joy. His new book, Life is in the Transitions Mastering Change at Any Age, describes his journey across America, collecting hundreds of life stories, and exploring how we can navigate the growing number of life transitions with greater purpose and skill.
Bruce has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Gourmet, where he won three James Beard Awards. He is a frequent commentator on radio and television. A former circus clown, he has been the subject of a Jay Leno joke and a JEOPARDY! question and his face appear on a postage stamp in the Grenadines.

A native of Savannah, Georgia, Bruce lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Linda Rottenberg, and their identical twin daughters.

Get in touch with Bruce Feiler:
Bruce's website: https://www.brucefeiler.com/
Buy Bruce's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/feiler
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Over fifty, retiring, and childless by choice? Are you among the fifteen million Americans over fifty and childless by choice? Solo aging gracefully and a happy retirement can be yours!

American Baby Boomers are aging, and fifteen million of them never had children. Who will take care of them? Unprecedented in U.S. history, this demographic will create challenges for these individuals as well as for society. This makes retirement planning for solo agers all the more essential, including issues like choices in housing, relationships, legal arrangements, finances, and more. The solo ager needs to plan for the future as though their life and well-being depended on it.

In this episode, you'll discover:

Solo Agers: what, where, and who are they?
Biggest challenges for Solo Agers as they move into the second half of life
Critical choices Solo Agers must make
Planning for later life
Building a support network
Expressing your "voice" through someone else

About Sara Zeff Geber:

Sara Zeff Geber, Ph.D., has made raising awareness of the special challenges of Solo Agers her personal crusade, speaking and writing about it for the past six years. Her book, Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers, is available as an e-book or paperback. With her coaching, writing, and speaking, Dr. Geber helps Solo Agers understand what they need to do to prepare for the future in retirement and beyond.

Sara has a Ph.D. in Counseling and Human Behavior. She is an active member of the Life Planning Network (LPN) and is on the leadership team for the NorCal chapter of LPN. She is also a member of The Transition Network, a national organization that supports women over 50 as they go through life's journey. A Solo Ager herself, Sara is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and lives with her husband and their canine companion in Santa Rosa.

Get in touch with Sara Zeff Geber:

Sara's website: https://sarazeffgeber.com/
Buy Sara's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/geber
Sara's Handout: https://www.revolutionizeretirement.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Sara-Zeff-Geber-Handout.pdf
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Claire Panke, award-winning filmmaker, writer/editor, and neonatal nurse

Episode Description:

Filmmaker Claire Marie Panke will discuss her new documentary film Light Years, which shares the stories of three older adults who have turned their later years into some of their best years. Claire will talk about the filmmaking process and share insights into her three film subjects, revealing how they model the power of purpose, creativity, resilience, and intergenerational connections throughout our lives.

In this episode, you'll discover:

the film's inspiration and development
themes interwoven throughout the film
how the film's subjects embrace challenges and change throughout their lives
the power of story to impact viewers of many ages
how Light Years can be used to shift attitudes about later life

About Claire Panke:

A graduate of Georgetown University, Claire Panke studied film at New York University, earning a Certificate in Film. Her second feature documentary, Light Years, profiles three older adults who infuse their lives with creativity, service, inter-generational connections, and a knack for reinvention.

Claire's first film, A Chance to Grow, was broadcast on The Discovery Channel, National Geographic Television, and other international venues and was awarded a CINE Golden Eagle. She directed three short documentaries, had several audio interviews broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and served on several judging panels, including the News and Documentary Emmy Awards.

Claire also works freelance as a writer/editor, photographer, and nurse consultant. In front of the camera, Claire served as a national spokesperson for a campaign to protect health care funding, appearing in nationally broadcast commercials, print & radio ads, and Congressional publications.

Get in touch with Claire Panke:

Claire's website: https://lightyearsfilm.com/
Claire's Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Light-Years-Handout-Claire-Panke.pdf
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Rabbi Laura Geller, an innovator, social activist, author, the fourth woman ordained as a rabbi in the US, and Rabbi Emerita at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, CA

Episode Description:

We are living and experiencing a convergence of changes that influence attitudes, opportunities, and experiences that place aging front and center in our society. Please join us for a lively discussion on the roles of longevity, technology, the pandemic, employment, community, and more - and how they are affecting us personally and professionally.

In this episode, you'll discover:

The biggest challenges and opportunities with aging
How to be an influencer in your domain
Top priorities in the field of aging

About Laura Geller:

Rabbi Laura Geller, Rabbi Emerita of Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, twice named one of Newsweek's 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America, was named by PBS Next Avenue as one of the fifty 2017 Influencers in Aging.

Prior to becoming one of the first women to be selected through a national search to lead a major metropolitan synagogue, Rabbi Geller served as the Director of Hillel of the University of Southern California for 14 years and as the Pacific Southwest Region's Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress for four years. She was featured in the PBS documentary Jewish Americans. Author of numerous articles in books and journals, including Getting Good at Getting Older, she was on the editorial board of The Torah: A Women's Commentary. She serves as a Fellow of the Corporation of Brown University, from where she graduated in 1971. In addition, she serves on the boards of Encore.org and the Jewish Women's Archives. Ordained by Hebrew Union College in 1976, she is the third woman in the Reform Movement to become a rabbi.

She loves being step-parent to Andy Siegel and Ruth Siegel, parent to Joshua (Janelle) Goldstein and Elana Goldstein (Zach Rausnitz), and grandparent to Avery and Levi Goldstein.

Get in touch with Laura Geller:

Laura's website: https://rabbilaurageller.com/
Purchase Laura's book, Getting Good at Getting Older, at https://revolutionizeretirement.com/gettinggood
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Helen Dennis, one of the Next Avenue's Influencers in Aging and among the Top 50 advocates, researchers, thought leaders, innovators, writers, and experts in the field of aging

Episode Description:

In this episode, you'll discover:

The biggest challenges and opportunities with aging
How to be an influencer in your domain
Top priorities in the field of aging

About Helen Dennis:

Helen Dennis is a nationally recognized leader on issues of aging and the new retirement with academic, corporate, and nonprofit experience. She has received awards for her university teaching at USC's Davis School of Gerontology and her contributions to the field of aging, the community, and literary arts. Editor of two books, author of over 100 articles, frequent speaker, and weekly syndicated columnist on Successful Aging for the Southern California News Group, reaching 1.6 million readers (and publishing 950 columns), she has assisted over 20,000 employees to prepare for the non-economic aspects of their retirement. She is co-author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller, Project Renewment: The First Retirement Model for Career Women, and has been recognized by PBS Next Avenue as one of the 50 influencers in aging.

Get in touch with Helen Dennis:

Helen's website: https://www.helenmdennis.com/
Helen's handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Helen-Dennis-presentation-2.pdf
Purchase Helen's book, Project Renewment: The First Retirement Model for Career Women: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/dennis
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Elizabeth Fideler, EdD, author and Founding Member of the Sloan Research Network on Aging & Work

Episode Description:

"Aging, Work, and Retirement: A Trifecta of Challenges" will explore the trends associated with mature adults working in the retirement years. In the context of changing demographics and the changing modalities of retirement, we will discuss why increasing numbers of women and men bypass the conventional retirement age and stay in or return to the workforce. We will consider age diversity, ageism, and age-friendliness in the workplace. We will look at the impact of the pandemic on older workers, with particular attention to gender and social class differences.

During this episode, you'll discover how:

The older worker phenomenon continues apace.
The older worker phenomenon is global.
There's a big difference between choosing to stay on the job and being forced to by necessity.
Job satisfaction, finding meaning, or a sense of purpose in one's work, can be a more powerful motivator than money.
Aging, work, and retirement each come with their own challenges, especially during a pandemic.

About Elizabeth Fideler:

Elizabeth F. Fideler received her doctorate in administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard University. She is a founding member of the Sloan Research Network on Aging & Work, Boston College. With a background in classroom teaching, senior management positions at non-profit organizations, and education research, she successfully redirected her research and writing skills to address the extended work-life phenomenon. She is the author of several books, the most recent being Aging, Work, and Retirement.

Get in touch with Elizabeth Fideler:

Connect with Elizabeth on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-fideler-95566832/
Purchase Elizabeth's book, Aging, Work, and Retirement: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/fideler
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Connie Zweig, speaker, author, Certified Sage-ing Leader, and Climate Reality Leader

Episode Description:
Most of us learn that being independent, quick, productive, and strong are highly valued and result in rewards of approval and status. On the other hand, we understand that their opposite traits - dependent, slow, unproductive, and weak - are devalued and result in disapproval and shame. So, we dread the loss of these socially acceptable traits as we age, slow down, do less, and need others more. We deny the call to retire.

If our images of and associations with retirement remain outside our awareness, dormant in the shadow, then we are blind to them. By learning to orient toward the unconscious and meet the shadows of age more consciously, we deepen our self-knowledge to include that which has been excluded for so long-a deferred dream, a secret desire, a hidden talent. Now, when the ego no longer reigns supreme, we can open ourselves and allow these banished feelings and fantasies to be heard. When our roles so clearly fall away, retirement is an opportunity for a profound shift in awareness. We can move our identity from doing, achievement, success, and image to our essential spiritual nature.

In this episode, you will:

Identify your unconscious images and fears of retirement.
Identify your romantic fantasies of retirement.
Determine if you are denying the call to retire.
Identify an unconscious inner obstacle or shadow character that stops you from stopping.
Learn some spiritual practices on the threshold of retirement.
Discover the shift in identity from role to soul.

About Connie Zweig:
Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired therapist, co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow, author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality and a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Life of Sufi Poet Rumi. Her newest book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends shadow-work into late life and teaches aging as a spiritual practice. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for 50 years. She is a wife and grandmother and was initiated as an Elder by Sage-ing International in 2017. After investing in all these roles, she practices the shift from role to soul.

Get in touch with Connie Zweig:
Connie's website: https://conniezweig.com/
Connie's Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Inner-Work-of-Retirement-HANDOUT.pdf
Purchase Connie's book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/roletosoul
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Mitch Anthony, Speaker and Author

Episode Description:

More than 15 years ago, Mitch Anthony broke through the ceiling of retirement planning with his groundbreaking book, The New Retirementality. He changed the conversation about retirement from one focused solely on money to one focused on purpose.

Here are the aspects of an E.P.I.C. retirement:

Engagement: If you don't use your body or brain, you lose them.
Purpose: Money can fund purpose, but it cannot create purpose.
Integration: There needs to be a balance between vacation and vocation.
Challenge: Physical, intellectual, and spiritual challenges are the hallmarks of those who continue to thrive as they age.

Mitch has been challenging and inspiring people worldwide for close to 20 years with his unique insights into the pitfalls of traditional retirement. Podcast listeners will walk away from this exciting presentation with a new outlook (and vision) of what retirement is.

About Mitch Anthony:Mitch Anthony is the founder and president of Advisor Insights and the Financial Life Planning Institute, the leading provider of financial life planning tools and programs for the financial services industry.

Mitch and his team have provided training and development for individual advisors and major organizations worldwide for almost two decades. Mitch personally consults with many of the largest and most recognizable names in the financial services industry on financial life planning and relationship development.

Mitch is a consistently top-rated presenter who has spoken to groups ranging from 10 to 10,000. He has been named one of the financial services industry's top "Movers & Shakers" for his pioneering work.

Mitch is a sought-after expert for the media, a regular columnist for Financial Advisor magazine, and the host of the daily radio feature, The Daily Dose, heard on over 100 radio stations nationwide.

Mitch is also the author of many groundbreaking books for advisors and consumers, including perennial bestseller StorySelling for Financial Advisors, cited by Financial Advisor magazine as the number one "must-read" book for financial professionals.

Get in touch with Mitch Anthony:
Mitch's website: https://www.mitchanthony.com/
Purchase Mitch's book, The New Retirementality: Planning Your Life and Living Your Dreams...at Any Age You Want: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/retirementality
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Raines Cohen, community organizer and co-housing coach

Episode Description:

The stereotypical modern ideal of independent solo living and aging is really a new modern experiment that doesn't work well for many people. We can achieve greater independence through interdependence if we're willing to engage with neighbors or housemates to take care of one another. That's what aging in community is all about.

Many structures and ways help people preserve their privacy while they share, such as setting clear limits and building relationships over time. Having a deeper shared purpose or value can support deeper relationships and caring, more than just housemates or places to live. You can get more of what you want or need in a community living arrangement by starting with a clear list of your own priorities, but instead of treating it as a list of demands, use it as a guide to your listening, and then prioritize.

About Raines Cohen:

Raines Cohen, CSA, CLIPP, is a community organizer pioneering the field of Aging in Community. As a Cohousing Coach, he works to help people find and co-create sustainable communities, cohousing neighborhoods, EcoVillages, and all forms of cooperative shared living that blend privacy and community. He has visited over 125 North American cohousing neighborhoods, lived in two, and served as a Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) Ambassador.

As a Certified Senior Advisor (CSA), he loves to connect life planners and folks serving elders with new options for their clients. As a Certified Living in Place Professional (CLIPP), he looks for ways to help folks feel safer and more secure in their existing homes as they age and evolve to incorporate new neighbors and housemates.

He wrote the Aging in Community chapter in the book Audacious Aging, was a founding member of Elders Action Network (EAN), and serves on the boards of Sage-ing International and Gray Panthers of the Berkeley/East Bay Area. He lives with his wife, Betsy Morris, at Berkeley (California) Cohousing.

Get in touch with Raines Cohen:

Raines' Handout: Download his chapter called "Aging in Community" in the book, Audcacious Aging https://www.agingincommunity.com/RevolutionizeRetirement/
Raines' website: https://www.agingincommunity.com/
Purchase the book, Audacious Aging: Eldership as a Revolutionary Endeavor: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/audacious
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Jeri Sedlar, author and speaker

Episode Description:

Retirement used to mean the end of work, a secure self-identity, a life of leisure, and the inevitable onset of old age. Retirement expert Jeri Sedlar will present a new retirement model - rewirement - and discuss the 5 step rewiring process from her highly acclaimed book, Don't Retire, REWIRE! Working with pre-and post-retirees, Sedlar discovered the pain, pleasure, pitfalls, and possibilities associated with planning and living in retirement, plus the lifelines needed for continuous engagement throughout life.

In this episode, you'll discover:

How to identify your drivers or personal motivators and how they impact your future
The dynamics of creating a rewired life portfolio
The health benefits of rewiring

About Jeri Sedlar:

Jeri Sedlar is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and lecturer on the topic of retirement. She is the co-author of the highly acclaimed book, DON'T RETIRE, REWIRE! 5 Steps To Fulfilling Work That Fuels Your Passion, Suits Your Personality and Fills Your Pocket, and ON TARGET: Enhance Your Life and Ensure Your Success.

For more than 20 years, Jeri has been actively researching individuals and organizations on the pleasure, pain, and possibilities associated with an aging society. Her findings led to the creation of the five-step Rewiring process, which focuses on finding new purpose, new passions, new play, and new work possibilities that promote healthy, fun, and fulfilling futures.

She believes that life planning in conjunction with financial planning allows individuals to leverage their personal and professional assets to the fullest. She has emerged as one of the country's leading thought - leaders on "the new way to do retirement," or as she calls it, "Rewirement."

Jeri has served as Senior Advisor to The Conference Board on the Mature Workforce and as a Judge for the AARP Best Employers Award for Workers 50+. She was a Delegate to the White House Conference on Aging and is currently on the AARP Executive Council of New York.
Her passion is the non-profit sector and its related challenges, and she serves on many boards. A graduate of Michigan State, she resides in New York City with her husband.

Get in touch with Jeri Sedlar:

Jeri's website: https://dontretirerewire.com/
Purchase Jeri's Book, Don't Retire, REWIRE!, 5 Steps to Fulfilling Work That Fuels Your Passion, Suits Your Personality: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/dontretire
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Mary Pipher, Ph.D., speaker and author

Episode Description:
Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be.

In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of women's cultural and developmental issues as they age. Drawing on her own experience as a daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, caregiver, clinical psychologist, and cultural anthropologist, she explores ways women can cultivate resilient responses to their challenges. "If we can keep our wits about us, think clearly, and manage our emotions skillfully," Pipher writes, "we will experience a joyous time of our lives. If we have planned carefully and packed properly, the journey can be transcendent if we have good maps and guides."

About Mary Pipher:

Mary Pipher graduated in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969 and received her Ph. D. from the University of Nebraska in Clinical Psychology in 1977. She has worked most of her life as a therapist, and she has taught at the University of Nebraska and Nebraska Wesleyan University. She was a Rockefeller Scholar in Residence at Bellagio and has received two American Psychological Association Presidential Citations, one of which she returned to protest psychologists' involvement in enhanced interrogations at Guantanamo. She is the author of ten books, including Reviving Ophelia and her latest, Women Rowing North. Four of her books have been New York Times bestsellers. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times.

Get in touch with Mary Pipher:
Mary's website: https://marypipher.com/
Purchase Mary's Book, Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/womenrowing
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: George Kinder, Kinder Institute of Life Planning. Internationally recognized as the father of the Life Planning movement

Episode Description:

Author, speaker, meditation teacher, and father of the Life Planning movement in financial advice, George Kinder, will describe how Life Planning delivers an exhilarating and meaningful experience for the client. Kinder will briefly discuss Life Planning's five-phase EVOKE methodology, based on mindfulness, that utilizes deep listening and communication skills to uncover clients' dreams of freedom and then delivers them.

He will share the evolution of his Life Planning work, as described in his latest book, A Golden Civilization & the Map of Mindfulness, and how it is now being used by groups globally to rethink civilization through an interactive visioning strategy that goes beyond the self or even the larger community but considers the entirety of civilization and empowers leaders to develop the world they want to live in right now.

In this episode, you'll discover:

The inner listening/mindfulness skills required for mastery of client conversations and the significance of great listening for successful client engagement.
The efficacy of the Life Planning model when working with groups to vision and deliver outcomes.

About George Kinder:

Internationally recognized as the father of the Life Planning movement, the Harvard-educated George Kinder revolutionized financial advice for over 30 years by training over 3,000 professionals in 30 countries in the field of Financial Life Planning. He founded the Kinder Institute of Life Planning in 2003 after 30 years as a practicing financial planner and tax advisor.

His three books on money are considered by many to be the seminal works in the burgeoning field of Financial Life Planning.

He has written a book on mindfulness, Transforming Suffering into Wisdom, and his latest book, A Golden Civilization & the Map of Mindfulness, challenges the basic concepts of economics, our understanding of democracy, of space-time, and our own hearts. His objective is to bring greater levels of Freedom everywhere.

Get in touch with George Kinder:

Program Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/George-Kinder-Presentation.pdf
Kinder Institute's website: https://www.kinderinstitute.com/
George's websites: https://www.georgekinder.com/ and https://www.agoldencivilization.com/
Purchase George's Book, A Golden Civilization and The Map of Mindfulness: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/goldenciv
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Chip Conley, author, speaker, and entrepreneur, and founder of the Modern Elder Academy

Episode Description:

At age 52, after selling the company he founded and ran as CEO for 24 years, rebel boutique hotelier Chip Conley was looking at an open horizon in midlife. Then he received a call from the young founders of Airbnb, asking him to help grow their disruptive start-up into a global hospitality giant. He had the industry experience, but Conley was lacking in the digital fluency of his 20-something colleagues. He didn't write code, or have an Uber or Lyft app on his phone, was twice the age of the average Airbnb employee, and would be reporting to a CEO young enough to be his son. Conley quickly discovered that while he'd been hired as a teacher and mentor, he was also in many ways a student and intern. What emerged is the secret to thriving as a mid-life worker: learning to marry wisdom and experience with curiosity, a beginner's mind, and a willingness to evolve, all hallmarks of the "Modern Elder."

In a world that venerates the new, bright, and shiny, many of us are left feeling invisible, undervalued, and threatened by the "digital natives" nipping at our heels. But Conley argues that experience is on the brink of a comeback. Because at a time when power is shifting younger, companies are finally waking up to the value of the humility, emotional intelligence, and wisdom that come with age. And while digital skills might have only the shelf life of the latest fad or gadget, the human skills that mid-career workers possess--like good judgment, specialized knowledge, and the ability to collaborate and coach - never expire.

Conley ignites an urgent conversation about ageism in the workplace, calling on us to treat age as we would other types of diversity. In the process, Conley liberates the term "elder" from the stigma of "elderly," and inspires us to embrace wisdom as a path to growing whole, not old. Whether you've been forced to make a mid-career change, are choosing to work past retirement age, or are struggling to keep up with the millennials rising up the ranks, Wisdom@Work will help you write your next chapter.

About Chip Conley:

Chip Conley is a New York Times bestselling author and the hospitality maverick who helped Airbnb's founders turn their fast-growing tech start-up into a global hospitality brand. In Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder, he shares his unexpected journey at midlife - from CEO to intern - learning about technology as Airbnb's Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy, while also mentoring CEO Brian Chesky. Chip is the founder of the Modern Elder Academy, where a new roadmap for midlife is offered at a beautiful oceanfront campus in Baja California Sur, Mexico. He serves on the board of Encore.org and the advisory board for the Stanford Center for Longevity.

Get in touch with Chip Conley:

Program Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Chip-Conley-Resources.pdf
Chip's website: https://www.modernelderacademy.com/
Purchase Chip’s Book, Wisdom at Work: The Making of a Modern Elder: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/modernelder
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Nancy Collamer, speaker, author, and semi-retirement coach

Episode Description:
If you're thinking about the possibility of working during retirement - whether to supplement your income, keep active and engaged, or some combination of the two - join us for a conversation with Nancy Collamer, author of Second-Act Careers: 50+ Ways to Profit From Your Passions During Semi-Retirement. Nancy will share inspirational second-act career success stories and provide concrete advice about how you can profit from your professional expertise, passions and personal interests during your semi-retirement years.

In this episode, you'll discover:

Why so many boomers are choosing to work part-time after retirement
The four main categories of second-act careers
Examples of fun and unusual second-acts
Easy steps you can take to discover your own "what's next"

About Nancy Collamer:
Nancy Collamer is a semi-retirement coach, speaker, and author of Second-Act Careers: 50+ Ways to Profit From Your Passions During Semi-Retirement. She writes a monthly blog for NextAvenue.org (syndicated on Forbes.com) and publishes a free bi-monthly newsletter about second-act careers through her website, MyLifestyleCareer.com.

She offers a digital toolkit and course for professionals who want to work part-time after retirement called Design Your Second Act. In private practice since 1996, Nancy holds an MS in career development from the College of New Rochelle and a BA in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Get in touch with Nancy Collamer:
Check out Nancy's course: Design Your Second Act: https://second-act-school.teachable.com/p/work-after-retirement
Nancy's website: https://www.mylifestylecareer.com/
Purchase Nancy’s Book, Second-Act Careers: 50+ Ways to Profit From Your Passions During Semi-Retirement: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/secondact
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Lori K. Bitter, a seasoned trend analyst in the field of aging who provides strategic consulting, research and development for companies seeking to engage with mature consumers

Episode Description:
Based on foundational research in 2018 with the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers and Gen X, Lori K. Bitter wanted to understand if people are embracing the idea of a 100-year life and if they are, what they are doing to get there. It was a massive project - focus groups, national survey of 3000+ respondents, and personal interviews on new research platform. In her research, she uncovered key motivational differences between the generations.

In 2019, she launched a study looking at five key shifts that emerged from the 2018 work, and she will be sharing these in this episode:

Caregiving
Grandparenting
Aging Single
Career Encoring
Change of Living Situation

About Lori K. Bitter:
Lori K. Bitter provides strategic consulting, research and development for companies seeking to engage with mature consumers at The Business of Aging. Her recent research, Hacking Longevity, sponsored by AARP and Proctor & Gamble, has just launched its second study on key life shifts in later life. Lori was named a Next Avenue Influencer in Aging. Her book, The Grandparent Economy, is a National Mature Media Award winner. She serves as co-producer of What's Next Boomer Business Summit and The Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Summit. Lori has more than 30 years of advertising, public relations, and strategic planning experience. She serves on the advisory board of several start-ups and nonprofits.

A sought-after speaker, Lori has presented research, trends and analysis about mature consumers and the opportunity of the longevity marketplace to more than 200 conferences and events in the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe. She has been featured in Forbes and Entrepreneur's 100 to Watch and appeared on CNBC.

Get in touch with Lori K. Bitter:
Buy Lori’s book: The Grandparent Economy: How Baby Boomers Are Bridging the Generation Gap: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/grandparent
Lori’s website: https://thebusinessofaging.com/
Download Lori’s Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Hacking-Longevity-Talking-Points.pdf
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Chris Farrell, author, senior economics contributor for Marketplace and columnist for PBS Next Avenue and Star Tribune

Episode Description:
Purpose and a Paycheck is the title of Chris Farrell's latest book. The book focuses on entrepreneurship, innovation, and work in the second half of life. Growing numbers of experienced adults are starting their own business and working well into the traditional retirement years. An impressive body of scholarly research strongly suggests that given the opportunity, people in the second half of life can be as creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial as their younger peers, if not more so.
Tapping into the talents of experienced workers and breaking down the barriers of age discrimination holds the promise of boosting the economy's dynamism and household incomes.

In this episode, you'll discover:
The impact on the economy if more people continue working rather than retire
Why more people are working well into the traditional retirement years
The kind of jobs are people getting in their 60s and 70s
How to find a job in the second half of life

About Chris Farrell:
Chris Farrell is senior economics contributor at Marketplace, American Public Media's nationally syndicated public radio business and economic programs. He is economics commentator for Minnesota Public Radio and host of its series, Conversations on the Creative Economy. An award-winning journalist, Chris is a columnist for Next Avenue and the Star Tribune. He has written for Bloomberg Businessweek, New York Times, Kiplinger's and other publications. His most recent book is Purpose and a Paycheck (HarperCollins Leadership).

Get in touch with Chris Farrell:
Buy Chris’ book: Purpose and a Paycheck: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/purposepaycheck
Chris’ website: https://chrisfarrell.net/
Visit Marketplace.org: https://www.marketplace.org/
Visit Minnesota Public Radio: https://www.mpr.org/
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Lynda Smith, a Wisdom Preserver and Connection Specialist who lives and works in South Africa

Episode Description:
Modern life affords us many options to traditional retirement that can provide a financial reward, intellectual stimulation, flexibility and freedom, emotional fulfillment, and overall well-being during your mature years. How do you plan and pursue alternatives to traditional retirement - including coaching, volunteer work, starting a second career, starting your own business, traveling, learning new skills, and enjoying family and friends?

In this episode, you'll discover:

How longevity and technology are changing the landscape
What tools to use to unlock and navigate your unique journey
How money and meaning are both currencies
Tools to help you discover our passion and purpose

About Lynda Smith:
South African Social entrepreneur, Lynda Smith, is at the forefront of a social movement to plan the extended work lives of 50-plus workers in both quality and duration - to benefit both individual and national development - and is regarded as a thought leader and advocate for the 50-plus generation. To this end, Lynda's 50-Plus Skills provides a forum for soon-to-be-retired or retired individuals to plan their future lives, upskill, engage with like-minded individuals or contribute in terms of voluntary mentoring programs or hands-on involvement in the social sector.

Lynda's empathy, passion, socially conscious outlook, and wealth of experience in both education and business provide the perfect foundation for an organization that helps clear the mists of uncertainty around the question commonly asked by retirees, "What now?"

Get in touch with Lynda Smith:
Check out Lynda's four-week course: Navigating Your Unique Second Career 50+ https://www.refirementnetwork.com/finding-passion-purpose-and-a-paycheque/
Lynda's website: https://www.refirementnetwork.com/
Lynda's Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Lynda-Smith-presentation.pdf
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guests: Husband and wife team, Mark Fischer, CFP, MBA, Ph.D., author, and Lucy Rose Fischer, Ph.D., gerontologist and award-winning author and artist

Episode Description:

Picture the freedom to do whatever you want to do. Plus, you have the largest resources of your life to accomplish them - more money and time, your experience, skills, and knowledge.
Does this type of retirement excite you, but you're not sure how to create it for yourself? Are you asking: When can I cut back on working? Will my money last? What can I do to stay healthy? What will I do with my time?

In this epiode, you'll discover the opportunities and challenges of this time of life, with insights and information on transitioning into retirement, as well as Lucy's ALIVE model to help you live more creatively.

About Mark and Lucy Rose Fischer:

Mark S. Fischer, CFP, MBA, PhD, is a retirement coach and the author of Serious About Retiring (2019). Mark had a twenty-year career as a scientist and a thirty-year career as a financial planner. He biked the entire length of the Mississippi in his 60s and started playing cello at age 73.

Lucy Rose Fischer, PhD, is an award-winning author, artist, and social scientist. She has published six books. Her most recent books are: The Journalist (August 2020), Grow Old With Me (2019), and I'm New at Being Old (2010). She is featured on the Twin Cities Public

Television program, Life Changing Art.

Get in touch with Mark and Lucy Rose Fischer:

Mark's book: Serious About Retiring, https://amzn.to/3H9CXwb
Mark’s website: https://www.seriousaboutretiring.com/
Lucy’s book, Grow Old With Me, https://amzn.to/3rXVyVn
Lucy’s website: https://lucyrosedesigns.com/
Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Fischer-handout-2.pdf
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

Serious About Retiring: A Practical Roadmap for a Healthier, Wealthier, Happier Retirement

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Episode Guest: Dr. Ellen Langer, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University and a prolific writer, speaker, and artist

Episode Description:
Living during COVID -19 is turning our familiar life and world on its head. It's a scary and challenging time. It's also a time that is reinforcing ageism rather than promoting intergenerational connectedness. Some of the "silver linings," however, of this time are some resurgences of kindness and help provided to each other, like becoming more mindful about ourselves and others.

During this program, we'll be talking with Dr. Ellen Langer, who has devoted much of her adult life to issues such as mindlessness and mindfulness, decision-making, and possibilities as we age. As she has stated in a variety of her work, we're a product of what we were told we were. When we're uncertain, we stay mindful and open to alternatives. When we're mindless, we're not aware that we're not there. So, part of the question becomes, what are ways to open ourselves to possibilities and shift from being trapped in mindlessness and open ourselves to new ways of thinking and perceiving ourselves and the world?

In this program, you'll discover how to:

Become more mindful
Become comfortable with uncertainty (which is the rule rather than the exception)
See many of your problems as a function of mindlessness
Exert more control over your health and well-being using mindfulness
You will walk away with a renewed sense of competence, relaxation and an ability to see possibilities you haven't seen before.

About Ellen Langer:
Dr. Ellen Langer, Ph.D., is a social psychologist and the first female professor to gain tenure in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. She is the author of eleven books and more than two hundred research articles written for general and academic readers on mindfulness for over 35 years. Her best-selling books include Mindfulness; The Power of Mindful Learning; On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity; and Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. Her most recent book is The Art of Noticing which pairs one-liners culled from her research with her original paintings. She has also edited the Wiley Mindfulness Handbook, an anthology on mindfulness in which leading researchers integrate work derived from her western scientific theoretical base of mindfulness with research on eastern derived forms of meditation.

Dr. Langer has been described as the "mother of mindfulness" and has written extensively on the illusion of control, mindful aging, stress, decision-making, and health. Among other honors, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Distinguished Scientist Awards, the World Congress Award, the NYU Alumni Achievement Award, and the Staats award for Unifying Psychology. Most recently she received the Liberty Science Genius Award.
The citation for the APA distinguished contributions award reads, in part, "...her pioneering work revealed the profound effects of increasing mindful behavior and offers new hope to millions whose problems were previously seen as unalterable and inevitable. Ellen Langer has demonstrated repeatedly how our limits are of our own making."

Dr. Langer is a frequent speaker on mindfulness at academic, professional and public events. She is also the founder of The Langer Mindfulness Institute and is a gallery exhibiting artist.
She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Get in touch with Ellen Langer:
Ellen's book: Mindfulness (25th Anniversary edition) https://amzn.to/3rPuiby
Ellen’s website: http://ellenlanger.com/
Visit Langer Mindfulness Institute: http://langermindfulnessinstitute.com

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Episode Guest: Dr. Teresa Amabile, Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, and a researcher, teacher, and author

Episode Description:
Even if you are healthy and financially secure, you may struggle with the first months or years of retirement because of identity loss. How can you explore important aspects of your identity before fully retiring to achieve a confident sense of self, post-retirement?

In this episode, you'll discover:

What creativity is, and what it isn't
How thinking expansively about creativity, and injecting creativity into your work life and personal life, can enhance pre-retirement and post-retirement life satisfaction
The four developmental tasks of the retirement transition and the different ways people move through them
How aspects of your life structure can shift in surprising ways, post-retirement, and how you can better prepare for those shifts

About Dr. Teresa Amabile:
Teresa Amabile has researched and written about creativity for over 40 years. Beginning with a series of papers in the 1970s and 1980s, she was instrumental in establishing the social psychology of creativity - the study of how the social environment can influence creative behavior, primarily by influencing the motivational state. Teresa's research has examined individual creativity and productivity, team creativity, and organizational innovation. This research program has yielded a comprehensive theory of creativity and innovation; methods for assessing creativity, motivation, and the work environment; and a set of prescriptions for maintaining and stimulating individual creativity and organizational innovation.

Her more recent research investigated how everyday life inside organizations can influence people and their performance by affecting inner work life, the confluence of motivation, emotion, and perceptions. She is currently studying retirement and post-employment life, including the impact of creative activities on attitudes toward aging and experiences in later life.

Teresa's scholarly work has appeared in a variety of psychology, and organizational behavior journals, as well as her 2011 book (with Steven Kramer), The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work. She has presented her work to audiences in various settings, including Pixar, Genentech, TEDx Atlanta, Apple, and The World Economic Forum in Davos.

In 2018, Teresa received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management, the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Israel Organizational Behavior Conference, and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. In 2011 and 2013, she was named to the global Thinkers50 list.
Teresa holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Canisius College and a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University.

Get in touch with Teresa:
Teresa's website: http://progressprinciple.com/
Teresa's book: The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work https://amzn.to/3KI0KFw
Listen to Teresa's TEDxAtlanta Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD6N8bsjOEE
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work

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Episode Guest: Richard Leider, founder of Inventure -The Purpose Company, one of American's preeminent Executive-Life Coaches. He is a pioneer of the global purpose movement who focuses on purposeful living.

Episode Description:

What are we to do to survive and, even, thrive in this volatile, uncertain pandemic world? How can we find some sense of certainty in a world where we can no longer be secure or confident? The pandemic changed everything for almost everyone. We endlessly hear the downside of this crisis. That's one way to look at it but, there is also an upside. We can grow from this crisis.

The science of purpose shows that having a WHY to exist, whatever the level of adversity we face, is universal and fundamental to both surviving and thriving. Purpose is NOT a trend nor a luxury today. In fact, it is FUNDAMENTAL to our health, healing, happiness, community, and, even, longevity! What makes you want to get out of bed in the morning? These days the answer to that question might seem more difficult than ever to answer.

During this episode, you will:

Take a "Purpose Checkup"
Experience three steps to unlocking your purpose
Learn three practices to live and work in ways that fit with your purpose

About Richard Leider:

Internationally bestselling author and coach Richard Leider is the founder of Inventure-The Purpose Company. Their mission is to help people "unlock the power of purpose" and answer that question. Forbes ranks him as one of the "Top 5" most respected coaches. Along the way, Richard has written eleven books, including three best-sellers which have sold over one million copies. The Power of Purpose and Repacking Your Bags are considered classics in the personal growth field. His latest book, Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old? is a defining book on the power of purposeful aging.

Widely viewed as a pioneer of the global purpose movement, his work has been featured in many media sources, and his PBS special, The Power of Purpose, was viewed by millions of people. He has taken his purpose message to all 50 states, Canada, and four continents, and he has advised everyone from AARP to the National Football League to the U.S. State Department. Richard has addressed more than two million people worldwide in his speeches to corporate, association, and social service groups during his career. He and his wife, Sally, live in the Minneapolis, MN area.

Get in touch with Richard:

Richard's book: The Power of Purpose, https://amzn.to/3AGs5DE
Richard's website: https://richardleider.com/
Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Manifesto_card_5.25x7.75.pdf
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better

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Episode Guest: Dr. Louise Aronson, MD, MFA, a Harvard-trained physician, geriatrician, educator, and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco

Episode Description:

Physician and award-winning author Dr. Louise Aronson, a noted Harvard- trained geriatrician, will discuss her book, Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life, and provide an essential, empathic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. She will share stories from her personal and professional life. Drawing from history, science, literature, and popular culture, she will offer a powerful roadmap for how we can approach old age--full of joy, wonder, frustration, and outrage. She offers hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself.

With modern increases in human lifespans, the period of elderhood-what Aronson calls the third and final stage of life, after childhood and adulthood-may now span forty or more years of our lives. But in American society, at the very moment that we are living longer than ever before, we have turned old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, disparaged, neglected, and denied, as we try to avoid the signs of our own aging and mortality.

From her personal and professional experiences, she envisions a large-scale shift in society's - and medicine's - attitude toward aging, made up of crucial adjustments in how we see the changes in each other's and our own bodies, how we care for older people, how we set doctors' salaries and bill patients, and ultimately, how we conceive of the final third of life: not as an ending or decline, but as yet another stage of life with its hardships and challenges, opportunities and joys.

In this episode, you will be challenged to:

Re-examine the meaning of aging

Recognize how our views of aging and medical practices reflect a broken system that often exacerbate aging problems.

Reframe our later decades to better prepare for and thrive in those final years.
Transform our views about aging and lead us to make different choices for ourselves and in policy, ones that improve the experience of elderhood.

About Louise Aronson, MD:

Louise Aronson, MD, MFA, is a leading geriatrician, writer, educator, professor of medicine at UCSF and the author of the New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Aronson has received the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine, the California Homecare Physician of the Year award, and the American Geriatrics Society Clinician-Teacher of the Year award. Her writing credits include her previous book, A History of the Present Illness: Stories, as well as the New York Times, Atlantic, Washington Post, Discover, Vox, JAMA, Lancet, and the New England Journal of Medicine, and she has been featured on NPR's Fresh Air, TODAY, CBS This Morning, Morning Edition, Politico, Kaiser Health News, Tech Nation, and the New Yorker.

Get in touch with Louise:
Louise's book: Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life https://amzn.to/3rPxWlK
Louise's website: https://louisearonson.com/
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D., a pioneer in the aging field and a gerontologist, psychologist educator, lecturer, consultant, entrepreneur, and expert on aging-related issues

Episode Description:
Thanks to extraordinary medical, demographic, and economic shifts, most of us will live unprecedentedly long lives. Consequently, the world is witnessing a powerful new version of retirement-the Third Age-driven by the power and needs of the massive Baby Boomer generation. Consumers over 50 now account for more than half of all spending and control more than 70% of the country's net worth.

How will work, family, health, leisure, money, success, purpose, and retirement be transformed in the years ahead to accommodate two billion people over the age of 60 worldwide?

In this episode, you'll discover how individuals and businesses can best prepare to thrive in a new era where the needs and demands of third agers will set the lifestyle, health, social, marketplace, and political priorities of generations to come.

About Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D:

Over the past 40+ years, Dr. Ken Dychtwald has emerged as North America's foremost visionary and original thinker regarding the age wave's lifestyle, marketing, health care, economic and workforce implications.

Ken is a psychologist, gerontologist, and best-selling author of 17 books on aging-related issues, including his latest book with Robert Morison, What Retirees Want: A Holistic View of Life's Third Age. He was the executive producer and host of the highly-rated/acclaimed 2007 PBS documentary, The Boomer Century: 1946-2046, which aired over 2,000 times on PBS stations nationwide.

Since 1986, Ken has been the Founder and CEO of Age Wave, a firm created to guide companies and government groups in product/service development for boomers and mature adults. His client list has included over half the Fortune 500 companies. Ken has twice received the distinguished American Society on Aging Award for outstanding national leadership. American Demographics honored him as the single most influential marketer to baby boomers over the past quarter-century.

Ken and his wife, Maddy, recently received the Esalen Prize for their outstanding contributions to advancing the human potential of aging men and women worldwide. In 2018 he was awarded the Inspire Award from the International Council on Active Aging for his exceptional and lasting contributions to the active-aging industry and for his efforts to make a difference in the lives of older adults globally.

Get in touch with Ken:

Ken's book: What Retirees Want: A Holistic View of Life's Third Age
Ken's website: https://agewave.com/
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at
https://10keyretirementissues.com/

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Episode Guest: John Leland, New York Times journalist and author

What can we all learn about living better from people who have lived long enough to know something about life? John Leland, an award-winning New York Times reporter, spent a year following six people over age 85, expecting to write about the hardships of growing old. Instead, he got a wealth of lessons that surprised him. In a culture that worships youth, older people are more content, less stressed, and better able to deal with loss than younger people. The good news about old age, as Leland wrote in his book Happiness is a Choice You Make: Lessons From a Year Among the Oldest Old, a New York Times bestseller, is that there is good news of old age.

The answer came from an unexpected place: from the lives of six people age 85 and up. He expected them to educate him in the hardships of old age. Instead, they taught him lessons of resilience, gratitude, purpose, and perspective that apply to people of any age. All had lost something - spouses, mobility, their keen eyesight or hearing. But none had lost everything. And they defined their lives by the things they could still do, not by what they had lost.

Sociologists call this the "paradox of aging." As much as our culture obsesses over youth, older people are more content with their lives than young adults. They're less stressed, less afraid of death, better able to manage whatever difficulties come their way - even when their lives are very, very hard. The good news about old age is that there is good news. And the better news is that we can all learn from our elders' wisdom and experience. Whatever your age, it's not too late to learn to think like an old person.

In this episode, you'll learn their strategies for cultivating:

resilience
gratitude
interdependence rather than independence
purpose
acceptance, including accepting mortality.

About John Leland:

John Leland is a reporter at the New York Times, where he wrote a year-long series following six people age 85 and up, which became the basis for his new book, Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old, a New York Times bestseller. Before joining the Times in 2000, he was a senior editor at Newsweek and editor-in-chief of Details magazine.

Links:

John’s book, Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old
John’s website, https://happinessisachoiceyoumake.com/
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/

Revolutionize Your Retirement Radio: Recent Episodes

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