Revolutionize Your Retirement Radio

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, wher...

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 a...

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 ...

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 ...

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 v...

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 scientifi...

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 ...

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 chil...

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...

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 ...

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 Of...

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 start...

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....

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 ...

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 inhabita...

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...

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 p...

Conscious Eldering is an approach to aging, grounded in both indigenous wisdom and contemporary understanding, that sees aging as an opportunity for continual inner growth, passion, purpose, and service in whatever circumstances life presents. Conscious Eldering seeks to help modern culture reclaim the honored role of elders and show those who aspire to this role the psychological and spiritual inner work that can help them grow in...

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 ...