Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees
Retirement Talk is an audio podcast intended to help people who are retired, or considering retirement, to examine their own lives. We will consider retirement in all its facets - not just financial. We want to examine our own lives and those of others, who seem to have looked closely, made choices, and are pretty happy with the consequences We want to encourage thought and action.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 833
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
727 Attempting a Change
Think about what we are doing with our lives. Is it fulfilling or not? Are we doing what we want with our time? Doubt starts circling in the mind and will not stand still.
00:08:04 |
Wed 12 May 2021
624 Government?
Today I want to give some thought to that famous or infamous statement, “I'm from the government and I'm here to help ”. Retired people have a little history to inform the validity of our relationshi…
00:06:26 |
Sun 12 May 2019
623 Exercise for the Brain
Retirement is usually accompanied by getting older. We age. We become a bit more concerned with our health - physical and mental. What to do? It seems like there is one suggestion that improves both.…
00:07:25 |
Sun 05 May 2019
621 I Love My Work
"I love my work". Many of us have said that more than once. However, when we retire we rarely continue to work for free. Money is part of our relationship to the job we love. There can be exceptions.
00:07:55 |
Sun 21 Apr 2019
620 Suicide
We don't like to think about suicide. It has a stigma attached which we try to avoid. It is not so for many of us under certain conditions. Several states have accepted the practice with just a sligh…
00:08:08 |
Sun 14 Apr 2019
619 Frustration
We all have our moments. Moments that are so upsetting; so unsettling that we lose sleep. Frustration circles in our mind and will not let sleep come. Sometimes we can take action and sometimes we ju…
00:06:30 |
Sun 07 Apr 2019
618 Maintaining a Sense of Self
It is not easy to maintain a sense of self and a sense of direction. The media and the commercialization of our society continually undermine it. Retirement throws us into a new world where we have t…
00:07:04 |
Sun 31 Mar 2019
606 Habits
Falling into or creating new habits are are different. Some times falling into habits can cause problems. It is usually much better to consciously creating habits. We want good habits that have been …
00:07:30 |
Sun 06 Jan 2019
605 New Year List
Lists of new challenges at the beginning of each new year have always eluded me. They always seemed too important to be left to one special day each year. Here is the story of my kind of list.
00:08:04 |
Sun 30 Dec 2018
604 Holidays
Holidays are a time for celebration for many of us. But it doesn't happen that way without planning. Someone needs to look ahead. That seems to be necessary no matter. Some one needs to plan.
00:07:28 |
Sun 23 Dec 2018
603 Getting Around
Getting around town or to wherever we want to go can become a major problem as we retire and get older. What to do? There is only one fix that comes to my mind: picking the location of our retirement…
00:08:56 |
Sun 16 Dec 2018
602 Remembering
Be they good or bad retirement has a way of bringing some of our past actions to mind. We have the time and energy to reflect. We may be surprised at how what we did at one time can change with refle…
00:08:48 |
Sun 09 Dec 2018
601 No Time To Shave
Retirement can be a busy time. It can also be a time when we can choose just exactly what we want to do when we want to do it. We do have time for this or we have time for that. We make the choices o…
00:08:53 |
Sun 02 Dec 2018
600 Casinos
Casinos have sprouted up like flowers or weeds, - blooming all along the roads. They can be dangerous places, especially for retired folks. But that doesn't seem to distract from their popularity.
00:07:52 |
Sun 25 Nov 2018
599 Dogs
Retirement and dogs seem to be a match made for all. The dog gets us out for air and exercise. The dog smothers us with affection. The dog loves us unconditionally. Yet there remains many of us who d…
00:07:24 |
Sat 17 Nov 2018
598 Better or Worse
How can we tell if the world is better off than it was when we were kids? Sometimes it seems like the country is in the worse shape ever. Only by looking a bit closer at the past can we tell if we ar…
00:09:37 |
Fri 09 Nov 2018
597 Alone In Retirement
Social isolation can be a major problem for retired people: no more school or work friends. This is a new field of play. It takes initiative and effort to establish a new network of friends. It can b…
00:08:35 |
Thu 01 Nov 2018
596 The Story
The story we tell ourselves and others about our lives matters. Moments of when we perceive our life as hanging in the balance. We need the story. And so do those we know. Perhaps it is the thing tha…
00:08:47 |
Wed 24 Oct 2018
595 Retirement & Freedom
Freedom has all sorts of limitations. Retirement does open up new doors that were always closed. We now gain an advantage in life we have never experienced. But we must be aware and willing to open t…
00:07:07 |
Sun 07 Oct 2018
594 Technological Challenge
We all know it is impossible to keep up with technological change in everything. We have to pick our battles. Or we could just hide and keep our head down. We can keep up with some areas of technolog…
00:07:19 |
Sun 30 Sep 2018
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