The Retirement Wisdom Podcast
Retire Smarter
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What does it really mean to take charge of your health? Lucy McBride MD, believes it involves much more than tracking your numbers. Good health is also about understanding the less measurable parts: what’s happening in your life, your relationships, stress, habits, emotional patterns, and your history.
Dr. Lucy McBride, a primary care physician and author of Beyond the Prescription: A Doctor’s Guide to Taking Charge of ...
Listen in to these highlights from four of our best recent conversations on things likely on your mind in planning for retirement: purpose, identity, curiosity – and experimenting your way into a fulfilling next chapter.
They can spark ideas for what’s next for you. Want to go deeper?
Listen to any of the full conversations:
Catch up to your money. It’s often ready for retirement before you are.
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What helps wellbeing endure as our lives change?
Matt Bloom has spent much of his career studying human flourishing. In this conversation, he brings his insights into retirement and combines it with lessons from his own transition from professor to writer, volunteer and what he ca...
A lot of the conversation on retirement runs one way: stay busy, stay productive. Dr. Denise Taylor thinks that could quietly cost some people their best years.
Denise is a Chartered Psychologist and later-life researcher in the UK. She spent 25 years coaching people through career transitions, then, at 61, went back to school herself, completing a professional doctorate on how people reconstruct meaning after full-time work. Her r...
Your money is ready for retirement. Are you?
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What might happen if retirement gives you permission to become a beginner again?
After more than four decades in journalism, including a long career at The Wall Street Journal, Neil Lipschutz began an entirely different chapter—as a mystery novelist.
In this conversation, Neil dis...
Are You the One?
We have one spot left in both cohorts Designing Your New Life in Retirement small group program, beginning in September.
Is now the time to start working on what you’ll be retiring to?
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Prepare for Takeoff:
Is your money better prepared for retirement than you are to live it? Tak...
Time for an Upgrade?
The honeymoon period doesn’t last forever in retirement.
The free Retirement Drift assessment takes five minutes. It’s not a report card. No right answers.
If you want to get started on working on the new Future You, that’s exactly what the Designing Your New Life in Retirement program is built for.
Six group sessions with 6 to 10 people ...
Retirement can create an unexpected form of pressure. With more freedom and fewer work constraints, shouldn’t this be the moment when we finally perfect our health, routines, relationships, and long-delayed ambitions? Steve Kamb argues that this all-or-nothing mindset often produces an all-then-nothing result.
Steve is the founder of Nerd Fitness and author of How to Try Again. In this conversation, he explains why setbacks a...
How clear are you about what you’re retiring to?
Our next group program starts in September and is limited to 10 people.
The Early Registration discount ends on July 31st.
Learn more here.
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We spend years letting our pace be set for us, by employers and the calendar. Then retirement arrives and, for the first time, the tempo is ours to choose. In this conversation, science...
It takes decades to save & invest enough to be able to retire.
But most people find that when the time comes, they’re unsure about what’s next.
That part doesn’t take decades, unless you keep putting it off.
Join our next small group program in September and Design Your New Life in Retirement.
Two 1 on 1 sessions. 6 interactive group sessions. A new direction.
Learn more and sign up today.
Early regi...
You’ve been asked: “So, what are you going to do all day?”
You have an answer. But privately, you admit it’ll cover 2 to 3 hours a day.
You deserve a better, richer retirement.
Join our next Design Your New Life in Retirement small group program in September.
Learn more and sign up today.
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Dr. Jordan Grumet has crafted three books mapping the terrain between money, mortality...
Don’t miss out on a great life in retirement because you fail to prepare for it.
Join our next Design Your New Life in Retirement small group program in September.
Learn more and sign up today.
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Walter Green has spent nearly three decades doing what most of us postpone: telling the people who shaped him exactly why they mattered, while they can still hear it. The founder of th...
There’a a whole half a year to go!
Start the second half strong with new habits.
Free 1 hour workshop July 1 | 12 noon ET
Sign up here
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You’re preparing for retirement. For many of us, there’s another transition nestled within that one. It comes with joy and little instruction – becoming a grandparent. Celia Dodd, a journalist of 30+ years and grandmother of six, has written the book many...
The first half of 2026 is ending. But there’s another whole half of the year ahead. Remember your New Year’s resolutions? A fading memory, but there are aspirations in them that you can bring to life in the second half.
Join me for a free 60-minute FREE small group workshop on how to apply Stanford’s BJ Fogg’s 3-step habits process to three things you’d like to start in the second half of 2026.
Retirement. You could wing it. Why not design it?
Our next group proram starts in September and is limited to 10 people.
The Very Early Registration discount (45%) ends on June 21st. Learn more here.
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In our last conversation, Dan Pontefract gave us a demographic wake-up call. The future of work is aging, and longer lives will require new thinking about careers, retirement...
Take charge of your future. Our next group proram starts in September and is limited to 10 people.
The Very Early Registration discount (45%) ends on June 21. Learn more here.
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Dan Pontefract spent two decades building leadership, culture, and engagement inside high-tech and telecom organizations, and never once thought seriously about age. Then, in his early fifties, he had a wake-up call. It sent him to look under a rock h...
Be intentional. Design Your New Life in Retirement. Our next groups start in September.
The very early registration discount ends June 21st. Learn more.
What if everything you’ve been told about retirement is quietly working against you? John Coleman has spent his career around money and purpose, which makes his message all the more striking: money is a tool, not the point. In his new book, Good Money: Six Steps to Building a...
A retirement is a terrible thing to waste.
Don’t just retire. Design your new phase of life – with intention.
Our next groups start in September.
The very early registration discount ends June 21st.
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Retirement rarely unfolds exactly as planned.
For Jerry Goodstein, retirement began with a clear sense of direction and a meaningful endeavor. But unexpected challenges, a deeply emotiona...
Most of us think of questions as something we ask other people. Dr. Marilee Adams has spent years showing the opposite: the most consequential questions we ask are the ones we ask ourselves. Adams, founder of the Inquiry Institute and author of the half-million-copy bestseller Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, (a new 5th edition has just been published) joins us to make us smarter about our internal questioning. She introduc...
What’s in your backyard that you haven’t explored yet? And what if you decided to treat your own state like a foreign country? Beth Sobiloff and Marcia Rothwell, the co-hosts of Two Grannies on the Road, have set out to visit all 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts. They’re 121 towns in. Along the way, they’ve met second-act bakers, retired leaders turned magicians, mayors, alpaca farmers, and a man with t...
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