The Retirement Wisdom Podcast

The Retirement Wisdom Podcast

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Episodes

January 12, 2026 28 mins

Don’t just retire.

Design.

Join us in our group program. Two new groups starting on January 22 & 23.

Don’t put off planning for your life in retirement.

Take the first step today.

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What does it truly mean to age well in a world where longevity is increasing, but health spans vary wildly?

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Are you graduating from the grind in 2026?

You could go it alone and wing it.

But here’s what one participant said about our small group coaching program:

“It was fantastic! I got to work with other people and share ideas with others on what retirement could be. It gave me clarity and confidence.”

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December 29, 2025 39 mins

Are you ready to graduate from the grind in 2026?

Then here’s your most important project:

Future You.

Join our small group coaching program and design your new life after work.

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“Eye opening and provocative.”

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Are you ready to graduate from the grind in 2026?

Then here’s your most important project:

Future You.

Learn more

“Eye opening and provocative.”

“Challenged me to get out of the starting blocks and far down the path of really thinking

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Start the new year right with new habits.

FREE 3 session program – 3 Fridays in January at Noon Eastern. Sign up here.

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Are you ready to graduate from the grind?

Then here’s your most important project: Future You.

Learn more.

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December 8, 2025 24 mins

“You are what you repeatedly do.”

Start the New Year strong.

Join my FREE 3 session Tiny Habits program.  Register here

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What’s your most important project in 2026?

Future You.

Don’t wing it. Design it. Learn more here.

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What happens when a financial columnist and CFP® professional suddenly becomes her mother’s caregiver? Beth Pinsker discovered that he...

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December 1, 2025 27 mins

Don’t retire. Redesign.

Join our small group program beginning in January.

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Will your retirement life look like the glossy images you see in the brochures? Wise up. There’s a real transition that happens when the paychecks stop and you move into your new life. But here’s the thing: it presents an opportunity for rewarding personal growth, or even transformation, that may not ...

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November 24, 2025 32 mins

Two New Designing Your Life groups kicking off in January

2026 is coming soon.

Is It Time to Design What’s Next?.

Learn more and sign up today

Early registration discount ends 12/15

“Now I know what I’m retiring to.”

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What if everything you’ve been chasing in your full-time working years—the promotion, th...

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Two New Designing Your Life groups kicking off in January

Retirement by Design:

Create a meaningful roadmap for what’s next.

Early registration discount ends 12/15

Limited to 10 spots per group

Learn more and sign up today 

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Should you hire a Financial Advisor or do-it-yourself ?

Glenn Frank rejoins us with some food for thought.

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Two New Designing Your Life groups kicking off in January

Your Future, Designed: Turn curiosity into action with design thinking.

 Early registration discount ends 12/15

Learn more and sign up today   Limited to 10 spots per group

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What does it mean to age with agility? Dr. Michelle Pannor Silver, University of Toronto professor and au...

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I’m Just Asking for a Friend

Retirement brings so many tough questions.

Share your question (for a friend, of course…) to be answered in an upcoming retirement podcast episode.

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or email me at joec@retirementwisdom.com

What really makes for a successful retirement? Financial readiness is only part of the story. After decades in the financial pl...

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November 3, 2025 33 mins

What if your brain’s health in retirement depended as much on who you see as on what you eat or how you move? Neuroscientist Dr. Ben Rein, author of  the new book Why Brains Need Friends: The Neuroscience of Social Connection, joins us to reveal how social connection shapes your brain. He explains why isolation is as toxic as chronic stress, how friendship fuels brain resilience, and why y...

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What if retirement isn’t the end of something — but the beginning of something better – and deeply meaningful?

Dr. Susan Reid thought she was ready for her next chapter when she retired early from her career as a university professor. But within weeks, she realized she’d gone from 100% full throttle to zero — and felt adrift. That awakening led her on a powerful journey to re-vision retirement — for herself and for the millio...

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October 27, 2025 33 mins

I’m Just Asking for a Friend

Retirement brings so many questions! Share yours (for a friend….)

Click here to leave a voice message

or email me at joec@retirementwisdom.com

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What does it mean to live life fully — without any unfinished business? Today’s guest, Diane Button, knows the answer. As a compassionate end-of-life doula and author of What Matters Most: Lessons the Dying Teach Us About Liv...

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October 20, 2025 29 mins

What if doing less could actually give you more? Author and minimalist Christine Platt, known as The Afrominimalist, joins us to explore how letting go of clutter—physical and emotional—can lead to a life of greater intention, peace, and purpose. Her new book, Less Is Liberating, challenges the myth that our worth is tied to our busyness or possessions. In this conversation, Christine opens up about her own transformation—from atto...

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What happens when a sleepless baby, a Victorian fixer-upper, and a vineyard come together? For Richard Moran, it sparked a multi-year journey of transformation—from corporate boardrooms to wine country. Along the way, he discovered lessons about serendipity, risk-taking, family, and building a place that lasts for generations. In today’s conversation, Richard shares his story of balancing a high-flying consulting career with the sl...

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I’m Just Asking for a Friend

Retirement brings so many questions! Share yours (for a friend, of course…)

Click here to leave a voice message

or email me at joec@retirementwisdom.com

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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 auth...

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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

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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.

Learn more here.

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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 Mak...

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