The Retirement Wisdom Podcast
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October 6, 2025 • 27 mins
What if the secret to a longer, healthier, and more purposeful life isn’t about diets or exercise routines, but about connection, purpose, and how we approach aging itself? In this conversation, Ken Stern author of the new book Healthy to 100: How Strong Social Ties Lead to Long Lives. He shares powerful lessons from his travels across Asia and Europe, where he studied some of the most vibrant societies with a track record of long...
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September 29, 2025 • 37 mins
Parenting doesn’t end when your kids grow up — it just changes. And for many, that shift can be confusing, frustrating, and even painful. How do you move from being the authority to being a supportive "peer"? And what do you do when your hopes for your adult children don’t align with who they’ve become? Today, we’re joined by Dr. Francine Toder, a clinical psychologist to discuss her new book Your Kids are Grown: Parenting 2.0 - Wi...
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September 22, 2025 • 35 mins
Our guest today, Dr. Chris Walinski, is a dentist, researcher, MasterChef contestant, and prostate cancer survivor. His story is an inspiring one of persistence, adaptation, reinvention and turning adversity into advocacy.
Chris shares how his childhood independence led to a lifelong passion for cooking, how his wife nudged him into the MasterChef spotlight, and how a life-altering cancer diagnosis reshaped his perspective on food...
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September 15, 2025 • 31 mins
Join our group and design your retirement.
Six Fridays starting on October 3rd.
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Is there more to a great life than happiness and meaning? Dr. Shige Oishi thinks so. He's the author of Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life, and he defines psychological richness as a life filled with diverse, interesting, and perspective-shifting ...
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September 8, 2025 • 32 mins
Want to create a retirement your boss will envy? Design it.
New group program starts on October 3rd.
Six weeks to a new direction.
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Most of us know about lifespan and healthspan—but have you thought about your joyspan? Gerontologist Dr. Kerry Burnight is the author of Joyspan: The Art and Science of Thriving in Life's Second Half. She shares her research and practical wisdom on how to ext...
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September 4, 2025 • 45 mins
September 7th is Grandparents' Day!
Celebrate the grandparents in your life or reflect on your own grandparenting journey.
This is a special Retirement Roundtable episode, where we invite previous guests to engage in a conversation with each other. Returning are Ted Page, author of the new book Good Grandpa: Stories from the Heart of Grandfatherhood, and Kerry Byrne, founder of The Long Distance Grandparent. They're bringing di...
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September 1, 2025 • 25 mins
Do you know what you'll be retiring to?
Join us for six Fridays starting on October 3rd and invest in Future You.
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How much time do you spend working out your body versus working out your emotional health? Physical fitness requires daily practice—hitting the gym once won't deliver the results you want. But when it comes to our emotions, we often think we'll "deal with that later" or a...
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August 25, 2025 • 30 mins
How much have you invested for the financial side of your retirement?
How about the non-financial side?
Join us for six Fridays starting on October 3rd and get moving on your roadmap.
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Transitions are rarely easy, whether you're leaving your career or any other life chapter that has helped define you. Cassidy Krug knows this firsthand. A 2012 Olympian in diving, she grew up immersed in the ...
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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.
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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.
The Very Early Bird discount ends today 7/31.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Bio
Michael Long is a physicist, writer, and co-author of the international bests...
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