Encore Living
You raised your kids. They’re launching their next chapter… but what about yours?
Welcome to Encore Living, the show for empty nesters and midlife moms who suddenly have more time—and are ready to fill it with purpose, passion, and possibility.
If you’re asking yourself, “What now?” or “Who am I without the role of full-time parent?”—you’re in the right place.
Each week, Thor Challgren (TEDx speaker, author, and New Thought minister) shares heartfelt reflections, spiritual insight, and practical tools to help you reconnect with who you are and reimagine what’s next.
This is your season of reinvention—your second act, your encore. No more waiting. No more wondering. Let’s create a life you’re excited to wake up to. Subscribe now and start your next chapter with confidence.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 5 minutes
- Episodes
- 151
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
#090: One Trick To Avoid Procrastination
Want to know one way to get over procrastination? Make it easier to start things.
David Allen, in his book "Getting Things Done," discusses the idea of 'Getting Back to Neutral.' Meaning, at the END o…
#089: End Zone Efficiency: Decide to Finish What You Start
Have you heard the football term, "end zone efficency?" It measures a team's success in actually finishing drives with a touchdown. We can think of our own finishing success rate this way. How much d…
#088: Capturing Your Best Ideas: Protect Your Creative Space
How can you discover and protect your most creative space?
In this episode, I talk about the importance of discovering where and when you are most creative, and how to protect that space.
Creativity i…
#087: The Power of Knowing Yourself: Build a Life Around Your Favorite Things
Have you ever taken the time to make a list of your favorite things? In this episode, I encourage you to be more deliberate about your choices and make a list of things they actually like.
Knowing you…
#086: The Power of Why: Understanding the Energy of Gratitude
What is the missing ingredient to gratitude and how can we express it more deeply? In today's episode, I talk about the power of asking one simple question: Why?
In yesterday's episode, I talked about…
#085: Find Gratitude Everywhere: How to Appreciate Your Surroundings
What's the missing ingredient in gratitude? Everything! As in, focus on every-little-thing, not just the big things we usually think about.
In this episode, I talk about the importance of expressing g…
#084: The Power of a Mission Statement: Lessons from "Jerry Maguire" - Part 2
When you write a mission statement and go after what you want, things always work out, right? Just like in the movies. Well...
In today's episode, I look at the movie "Jerry Maguire," where the main c…
#083: The Power of a Mission Statement: Lessons from "Jerry Maguire" - Part 1
"Show me the money!!" -- that's probably the most famous line from the 1996 movie, "Jerry Maguire," starring Tom Cruise, Renee Zelweger and Cuba Gooding, Jr.
But there are three other lines I quote in…
#082: How to Spend $465,000 in 30 Days - Part 2
If you received $1,000 today, $2,000 tomorrow, and an ever-increasing amount every day for the next 30 days, what would you spend it on?
In this episode, Part 2 in my 2-part series, I share my experie…
#081: How To Spend $465,000 in 30 Days - Part 1
If you received $1,000 today, $2,000 tomorrow, and an ever-increasing amount every day for the next 30 days, what would you spend it on?
In this episode, Part 1 of 2, I share my experience playing The…
#080: Change The Energy, Change The Outcome: Getting What You Need
"I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do." Sound familiar? Maybe you've run into a customer service brick wall like this, where the representative says they can't help you any more. Oh sure, you could th…
#079: Turn "What If I Don't Like It?" into "What If I Love It?"
Are you someone who likes to try new things. To be honest, I don't. Generally, I like things I like, that I'm use to. Like lemon-flavored Lacroix sparkling water.
But when I saw a new flavor at the s…
#078: Did Einstein Really Say This?
Albert Einstein supposedly said "If I had to solve a problem, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem, and five minutes thinking about the solutions."
It's an interesting quote that has becom…
#077: We Miss You, Staples "That Was Easy" Button
Remember the "That Was Easy" button you could get at the Staples office supply store? You'd push this button and it way say one thing: "That was easy!"
In this show, I bring back that button (includi…
#076 How To Say "No" (and Actually Be Kind)
In today's show, I talk about how to say no. Yesterday, we talked about saying yes, and I realized that saying no is equally important.
Sometimes saying no is easy, but there are times when you need…
#075: How To Say "Yes" (and Actually Mean It)
In this episode, I explore the idea of saying "yes" and really meaning it.
I talk about how often we say "yes" without really thinking about it and how it can have negative consequences.
It's natural…
#074: Don't Limit Your Potential: Think "Off the Page" Great
Today, I'm going to ask if we're thinking too small. What if we could become "Off the Page" great.
You're probably familiar with the idea of a graph where it has a vertical scale. And if you think abo…
#073: Travel Tuesday: Create A Photo Album of Your Hometown
In this episode, I introduce a new series on the show called Travel Tuesday, inspired by my book "Best Vacation Ever."
With the spring break and summer travel season coming up, I share idea number 22…
#072: From Victim to Victor: The Power of Radical Responsibility
In this episode, I share the idea of radical responsibility. It's a mindset where we take responsibility for everything that happens in our life, even things we can't control.
Adopting this mindset ca…
#071: Tim Ferriss' Fear-Setting Exercise: Like Seeing a Scary Movie Twice
In today's episode, I'm going to talk about facing our fears and how it's similar to watching a scary movie for the second time. When we face something that scares us, it's like watching a movie for …