The Retirement Wisdom Podcast
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Episodes
August 18, 2025 • 28 mins
Six Fridays This Fall to Design What You'll Be Retiring To
Starts on October 3rd
Learn more here - Limited to 10 participants. Take the first step toward shaping your future - register now.
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On this episode of The Retirement Wisdom Podcast, we’re joined by Carl Landau, creator and host of I Used to Be Somebody. Carl brings warmth, humor, and introspection as he explores the twists and turns of retiring after...
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August 11, 2025 • 32 mins
Don't leave your retirement to chance.
Design It.
Join us for six Fridays starting on October 3rd and get moving on your roadmap.
Learn more here.
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On this episode of The Retirement Wisdom Podcast, we’re joined by Nathalie Martin, author of The Inspired Retirement, an excellent new book that will help you reframe what it means to retire well. In today's conversation, she challenges the assumptions man...
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August 7, 2025 • 25 mins
Design Your Next Chapter
Joe Tarantino joins us to share his retirement journey - going from balancing family and work responsibilities to embarking on an ambitious cycling goal. A lifelong learner, Joe opens up about how setting a personal moonshot goal helped him transition into retirement with purpose. He wrote a book chronicling his cycling experiences. He offers candid insights on caregiving, identity shifts, and why it's e...
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August 4, 2025 • 22 mins
Own your retirement. Design It.
Join us for 6 Fridays starting on October 3rd and get unstuck.
Registration is open for the next two Design Your New Life in Retirement Groups.
The Very Early Bird discount ends on 7/31.
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On this episode of The Retirement Wisdom Podcast, we explore the transformative mindset that can reshape retirement from a winding-down phase into a period of renewal ...
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July 31, 2025 • 24 mins
What's next? Design it.
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What if you stepped out of your comfort zone? Lee Gale Gruen shares her inspiring journey from 37 years as a probation officer to becoming an actor, author, lecturer, dancer, and a Physics Club member in retirement. Initially lost after retiring, she stumbled upon a senior acting class t...
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July 28, 2025 • 37 mins
Are you ready to unlock a great life in retirement — or are you stuck in neutral?
Registration is open for the next two Design Your New Life in Retirement Groups.
The Very Early Bird discount ends on 7/31.
Get unstuck. Learn more here. Register here.
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It turns out that one of the hardest habits to break in retirement isn’t work — it’s saving. Richard Sheffield joins us to share his deeply personal an...
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July 21, 2025 • 29 mins
What's next?
Make time to design it.
Early registration is now open for our next Design Your New Life in Retirement group program.
The Very Early Bird discount ends on July 31st.
Learn more here.
Register here.
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What comes after a long, successful career at the top of your field? More and more, people are redefining retirement—saying No Thanks to a traditional retirement and instead exploring new pursui...
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July 14, 2025 • 26 mins
What's next for you?
Early registration is now open for our next Design Your New Life in Retirement group program. Join us.
The Very Early Bird discount ends on July 31st. Learn more here.
Register here.
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Retirement is about so much more than money.
But where do you begin to build the life you want after you leave full-time work?
Here's what we've discussed with our interesting expert guests:
The c...
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July 7, 2025 • 33 mins
Who will you become in your retirement?
Registration is now open for the next two Design Your New Life in Retirement Groups.
Very Early Bird discount available for a limited time. Take the first step toward Future You today.
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Retirement is not an end — it’s an open canvas. In this episode, Harry Agress, MD, author of Next Years Best Years: Taking Your Retirement to the Next Level, joins us to explore how r...
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June 30, 2025 • 31 mins
Retiring? You could wing it...but that's not you.
Be intentional about your future.
Registration is now open for the next two Design Your New Life in Retirement Groups.
Very Early Bird discount available for a limited time. Take the first step toward Future You today.
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What if I told you the activities you dismiss as "just hobbies" were much more than just fun - and could be one of the most powerful tool...
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June 23, 2025 • 19 mins
Volunteering offers a multitude of benefits. And if you end up retiring sooner than you plan to, it can offer a bridge to what you may decide to do next. Yet, it's easy to take on more than you're ready for too soon. You'll want to learn to set boundaries up front to protect your time and flexibility. Lisa Lewis shares her experiences and lessons learned about volunteering with boundaries.
Lisa Lewis joins us from Tampa, Florida.
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June 16, 2025 • 45 mins
Michael Long, author of Taming the Molecule of More and co-author of The Molecule of More, joins us to discuss the science of dopamine, why we're constantly chasing "more," and how understanding brain chemistry can transform our approach to retirement and finding meaning.
Michael Long joins us from the Washington, DC area.
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Do you know what you're retiring to?
Registration is now open for the two Fall gr...
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June 12, 2025 • 21 mins
Susan Hartzler, author of The Peace Puppy: A Memoir of Caregiving and Canine Solace, joins us to discuss her lessons learned in caregiving and volunteering with Therapy Dogs.
Susan Hartzler joins us from California.
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Bio
Susan Hartzler is a lifelong dog lover and an award-winning writer who has figured out a way to live her life to the fullest as a single woman, not conforming to the social norms of marr...
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June 9, 2025 • 20 mins
It's time for a recap of our best retirement podcast conversations from earlier this year.
As you listen, ask yourself: What if I put this into action?
Ready to learn more?
Here are links to the full conversations:
Stephanie Harrison
Jordan Grumet
Anne Laure Le Cunff
Ethan Kross
Bob Rosen
Judith Nadratowski
Alison Wood Brooks
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June 2, 2025 • 23 mins
Marc Cooper thinks you have an important choice to make. Will you become a wise elder or just someone who's getting older?
Marc Cooper joins us from Portland, Oregon.
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Bio
Dr. Marc Cooper is a former healthcare consultant, for almost 30 years - at the practice, corporate and organizational levels. Prior to his consulting career, Dr. Cooper was an academician, basic science researcher and practicing periodontist...
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May 26, 2025 • 25 mins
You're more than your job. Much more. But it takes some time to transition once you retire. It can be especially challenging if you were forced to retire. Laverne McKinnon knows what it's like to process job loss and what it takes to move forward.
Laverne McKinnon joins us from Los Angeles.
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Bio
Laverne McKinnon’s journey reflects a sincere commitment to helping individuals and organizations rediscover the...
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May 19, 2025 • 22 mins
Retirement is what you make of it. Do you have a second-act story as an entrepreneur in you? Connie Inukai, author of Retirement: Dream Big, Take Action, Make Money: 10 Amazing Second Act Entrepreneurs Tell Their Story, shares her experience in her second act as an inventor and "Grandmapreneur."
Connie Inukai joins us from Maryland.
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Bio
As a serial “Grandmapreneur®”, Connie Inukai speaks to retirees or...
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May 12, 2025 • 39 mins
Is stress bad for you? Yes, but so is too little stress. Sharon Bergquist, MD, author of The Stress Paradox: Why You Need Stress to Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier, shares her research on how good stress, in the right amount and at the right time, can enhance your well-being and longevity.
Dr. Sharon Bergquist joins us from Atlanta.
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Bio
Sharon Horesh Bergquist, MD, is the author of The Stress Paradox...
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May 5, 2025 • 38 mins
Ted Page, founder of the blog Good Grampa, has a new book Good Grandpa: Stories from the Heart of Grandfatherhood coming out on Grandparent's Day. We catch up on what he's learned from others about grandfatherhood today and his own experiences as a grandfather.
Ted Page rejoins us from Vermont.
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Bio
Ted Page is a storyteller and performer. His nonfiction stories have appeared in Boston Magazine and the Bost...
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April 28, 2025 • 27 mins
Use retirement as a catalyst to detach from unhealthy attachments that may be holding you back from living life the way you really want to. Life is shaped by our attachments. Things like security, pleasure, and validation are healthy, but they can be overdone and become a drag on our well-being. Dr. Bob Rosen's new book Detach: Ditch Your Baggage to Live a More Fulfilling Life offers antidotes to 10 unhealthy attachments that can w...
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