The Retirement Wisdom Podcast
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“You are what you repeatedly do.”
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What’s your most important project in 2026?
Future You.
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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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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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“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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Should you hire a Financial Advisor or do-it-yourself ?
Glenn Frank rejoins us with some food for thought.
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Your Future, Designed: Turn curiosity into action with design thinking.
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What does it mean to age with agility? Dr. Michelle Pannor Silver, University of Toronto professor and au...
I’m Just Asking for a Friend
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What really makes for a successful retirement? Financial readiness is only part of the story. After decades in the financial pl...
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...
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...
I’m Just Asking for a Friend
Retirement brings so many questions! Share yours (for a friend….)
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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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Is there more to a great life than happiness and meaning? Dr. Shige Oishi thinks so. He’s the author of
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’...
Do you know what you’ll be retiring to?
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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 w...
How much have you invested for the financial side of your retirement?
How about the non-financial side?
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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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