The Retirement Wisdom Podcast
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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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April 21, 2025 • 30 mins
What retirement regrets lie ahead? You can learn a lot from other people's experiences and avoid some retirement regrets that have derailed others. Our guest, Noah Sheidlower of Business Insider, joins us to discuss what he learned from a recent series on retirement regrets he and his colleagues reported.
Noah Sheidlower joins us from New York.
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Noah Sheidlower is an economy reporter with Business Insi...
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April 17, 2025 • 20 mins
This podcast covers the non-financial aspects of planning for retirement. But make no mistake - you have to get your money right. Lane Martinsen is the author of 5W Retirement Blueprint: Maximize your Retirement Income through Holistic Planning, which describes his approach of holistic retirement planning.
Lane Martinsen joins us from Arizona.
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Lane G. Martinsen is a Certified Financial Fiduciary®, an ...
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April 14, 2025 • 26 mins
Retirement is a big transition. And for some, there's another to navigate: becoming an empty nester. Dr. Rachel Glik, author of A Soulful Marriage: Healing Your Relationship With Responsibility, Growth, Priority, and Purpose, sees it as an opportunity to reset, recalibrate and strengthen a marriage.
Dr. Rachel Glik joins us from St. Louis.
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Dr. Rachel Glik is the author of A Soulful Marriage: Healing You...
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April 7, 2025 • 38 mins
You're working on your physical fitness, but how about your emotional fitness? Dr. Ethan Kross visits with us to discuss his new book Shift: Managing Your Emotions -- So They Don't Manage You.
Ethan Kross joins us from Michigan.
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Ethan Kross, PhD, is one of the world's leading experts on emotion regulation. An award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top-ranked Department of Psychology...
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March 31, 2025 • 29 mins
After a successful, demanding, and high-stress career, how do you shift gears to a new, more balanced life in an early retirement? Marybeth Crane shares her story and insights.
Dr. Marybeth Crane joins us from Texas.
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Dr. Marybeth Crane is a retired board-certified podiatric foot and ankle surgeon. She specialized in sports medicine in private practice for over twenty-five years and successfully buil...
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March 27, 2025 • 25 mins
In today's complex, fast-paced world, what can we learn from philosophers? John Kaag thinks we can learn a lot. He's created an audiobook Spring Training (for the Rest of Your Life), discussing his ideas highlighting Thoreau, Emerson and William James. He's also the co-founder of Rebind, an AI company transforming classic literature into interactive, guided experiences. Rebind pairs books with original interactive commentary from s...
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March 24, 2025 • 46 mins
Ed Hajim shares his remarkable journey from a tumultuous childhood—moving through foster homes and orphanages after being kidnapped by his father—to becoming a successful businessman and philanthropist. Hajim explains how his experiences became advantages later in life, teaching him adaptability, resilience, and self-confidence that fueled his success at the University of Rochester and beyond. Now dedicated to giving back, he focus...
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March 17, 2025 • 23 mins
Will your next phase be your time? If you're a people-pleaser, or know someone who is, you'll want to hear from Hailey Magee, author of Stop People Pleasing and Find Your Power. It's time to set better boundaries, advocate for your needs and priorities and start living the life you've imagined.
Hailey Magee joins us from Seattle.
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Hailey Magee is a certified coach who helps people around the world break ...
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March 10, 2025 • 35 mins
We spend a lot of time each day in conversation. What if you could get better at it? Alison Wood Brooks, author of the new book, Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves, shares her research and tips on how to master conversation, become a better listener, navigate difficult discussions - and what makes an effective apology.
Alison Wood Brooks joins us from Massachusetts.
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March 3, 2025 • 26 mins
Can an experimental mindset help you navigate your transition to retirement? Anne-Laure Le Cunff, author of the new book Tiny Experiments, discusses how to become a scientist of your own life and unlock new habits, interests, and behaviors for your next phase of life.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff joins us from Austin.
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Anne-Laure Le Cunff is the author of Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World....
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February 24, 2025 • 24 mins
Our guest today notes that "retirement is a little bit like life. It's likely to be different than you think it's going to be." David Horton, MD shares the story of his life wife Dee Dee, and carrying on her mission and legacy. He discusses her book, Layer Upon Layer, which he helped complete.
David Horton joins us from Washington State.
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David Horton, a retired oncologist turned book editor, spent his ca...
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February 17, 2025 • 33 mins
A lot will change once you retire and you may need build a new a social circle. Natalie Kerr and Jaime Kurtz join us to share research-backed strategies you can use to build and strengthen meaningful relationships from their new book Our New Social Life: Science-Backed Strategies for Creating Meaningful Connection.
Natalie Kerr and Jaime Kurtz join us from Virginia.
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Natalie Kerr, Ph.D., is a social psy...
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February 10, 2025 • 28 mins
A great retirement takes work - and learning. In her seventh year in retirement, Judith Nadratowski joins us to share her lessons learned so far in her retirement journey - lessons that can help you plan better for yours.
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Judith Nadratowski is her seventh year of retirement after a 40-year career at Cleary Gottlieb, a top international law firm based in New York where she was most recently Manager, Partnership Resources ...
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February 3, 2025 • 33 mins
What's the current stage of retirement and aging in the US? And how did we get here? James Chappel discusses his new book Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age, the impact of The Gray Panthers and why The Golden Girls is "the most important TV show in the history of American aging."
James Chappel joins us from Durham, North Carolina.
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James Chappel is the Gilhuly Family Associate Profes...
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January 27, 2025 • 24 mins
Are you thinking big enough about your retirement? You'll have time for the things you always wanted to do but didn't have time for in your full-time working years. With a blank canvas to work with, what are the meaningful personal goals you'd like to pursue now? How you start can make the difference. Caroline Adams Miller joins us to discuss her new book Big Goals: The Science of Setting Them, Achieving Them, and Creating Your Bes...
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January 20, 2025 • 25 mins
What's your purpose now? It's a big question, an important one - and one that many people get stuck on when they retire. Dr. Jordan Grumet believes we need to change how we think about purpose. He rejoins us to discuss his new book The Purpose Code: How to unlock meaning, maximize happiness, and leave a lasting legacy.
Jordan Grumet joins us from Illinois.
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Jordan Grumet, born in Evanston, Illinois in...
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January 13, 2025 • 24 mins
What mindset are bringing to this winter season? Kari Leibowitz joins us to discuss her book How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days with interesting and useful ideas on how to make this winter special. Yes, special.
Kari Leibowitz joins us from Amsterdam.
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Kari Leibowitz, author of How to Winter, is a health psychologist, speaker, and writer. She received her PhD in ...
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January 6, 2025 • 27 mins
Happy New Year! What will make you happy this year? Our guest today, Stephanie Harrison, author of New Happy, believes that it's time to retire the old beliefs about happiness. If you're moving on from full-time work, you'll want to hear her research-based ideas to reimagine what happiness will be like in this new phase of life - and how to move on from the "old happy."
In addition to her book, I highly recommend her newsletter, a...
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January 3, 2025 • 33 mins
Thinking of retiring? Start here with our Best Books on Retirement summaries.
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Before we move on to a new season of the podcast, let's catch up on our best conversations with a question in mind:
Which one of these retirement lessons can I apply in 2025?
Click the links below for the full conversations:
How Not to Age – Dr. Michael Greger
The Portfolio Life – Christina Wallace
The Balancing Act in Retirement...
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