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
593 Worries
Worry seems to be part of what living is all about. Memory is steeped in it. From childhood to old age it seems to always be present. Sometime it might be nice to just stop and enjoy the moment, the …
00:09:17 |
Sun 23 Sep 2018
592 Health Care During Gap Years
Health care expenses are a major problem for many of us. It is of particularly importance for those in the gap years before Medicare benefits apply. Here are some ideas for dealing with the issue tha…
00:09:16 |
Sun 16 Sep 2018
591 Planning My Funeral
Sometimes families and friends disagree on how a funeral should be arranged. Planning our own funeral or at least laying out some parameters might save some of the grief associated with death for tho…
00:06:46 |
Sun 09 Sep 2018
590 Priorities
Keeping in mind what we really want to do in life is not easy. Retirement sometimes even makes it more difficult. We are free to choose and can no longer blame someone else or something else for our …
00:06:56 |
Sun 02 Sep 2018
589 Retirement, Weather & News
Spend any time reading, watching or listening to the news or weather? Why? Retirement offers us time to really think about what we are doing with our life. Are we really doing what we want with our t…
00:08:06 |
Sun 26 Aug 2018
588 Tai Chi & the Lost Wallet
Sometimes good and bad come at the same time. We need to keep what is more important uppermost in our minds: our health or our money. That is an easy one for me.
00:09:02 |
Sun 19 Aug 2018
587 Moving to be Near Children
Modern society has a way of tearing families apart. Jobs appear and then disappear. Many times a move is required to stay employed. Retired people many times find living close to children and grandch…
00:06:24 |
Sun 12 Aug 2018
586 The Experience of Others
It is so easy to follow the wrong road when we decide which way to go. Here is a story about listening and changing. We can still go down different roads. We still have choices to make. Perhaps we ju…
00:06:52 |
Sun 05 Aug 2018
585 Home Exchange
It cost a yearly fee to be a member of HomeExchange.com. but the benefits are well worth it. You exchange time in your place for time in someone else's. These exchanges are free. No money exchanges h…
00:06:32 |
Sun 29 Jul 2018
584 Grandfathers/Grandchildren
As we get older we have stories to tell. Stories to pass on to the future generations. Stories of where we went wrong and where we went right. Our grandchildren need to learn to value our history and…
00:07:29 |
Sun 22 Jul 2018
583 The Con (part 2)
The con or scam is an ever present threat in life. It seems to be particularly pointed at the elderly and retired. Perhaps it is because they have the money accumulated during a life time and perhaps…
00:05:32 |
Sun 15 Jul 2018
582 The Con
Scam is what they call it today. We use to call it a con. There is something about it that is insidious and yet something that makes it so intriguing. Retired people are at high risk. Some of us star…
00:07:51 |
Sun 08 Jul 2018
581 Age Gage
How do we determine if someone has lived to a ripe old age? That question has always interested me and does so even more as I move through the retirement years. I'd like to know when I can assume tha…
00:06:49 |
Sun 01 Jul 2018
580 Advantage of Aging
How valuable is it to be a good judge of character? How valuable is it to be able to distinguish between the important and the less important? It seems that we get better at these type of things as w…
00:06:47 |
Sun 24 Jun 2018
579 Move to Mexico?
Here are two examples of people we met who had moved to Mexico. They both chose to live off the beaten track. I'm sure you can find more standard stories of retiring to Mexico in many major sources. …
00:08:43 |
Tue 19 Jun 2018
578 Retired and Traveling by Plane
Retirement means travel for lots of people. We want to take advantage of the off season and the time to visit someplace different. For many that includes Mexico and for many that means air travel. Is…
00:06:46 |
Sat 09 Jun 2018
577 Death & Decision Making (2)
Death has a way of focusing one's mind. Retirement brings us just one more step to this required end. We maker lots of choices in retirement and throughout our life that look to the future. We have r…
00:08:39 |
Sun 03 Jun 2018
576 Death & Decision Making
Death has a way of focusing one's mind. Retirement brings us just one more step to this required end. We maker lots of choices in retirement and throughout our life that look to the future. We have r…
00:08:27 |
Sun 27 May 2018
575 Retirement Without Guilt
Many folks who retire feel a bit guilty about not having a job. Life can feel a bit empty and they cast about for meaningful activity. It is safe to say that guilt can sometimes become crippling. Som…
00:07:26 |
Sun 20 May 2018
574 Second Opinion
Getting a second opinion concerning medical problems is highly recommended. My experience tells me that even that may not be enough. Sometimes a third or fourth opinion might be even better.
00:08:59 |
Sun 13 May 2018
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