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
493 Shifting Gears
Retirement brings forward many opportunities. One of the big possibilities is that we change the way we have been living for the way we have always wanted to live. We have choices. We may wish to con…
00:08:03 |
Tue 27 Sep 2016
492 Feet
Our body takes a little more care as we move into the retirement years. We have to pay attention just a bit more. Moving our health care into the front of our mind pays - "If we take care of our feet…
00:06:10 |
Mon 19 Sep 2016
491 The Sky Is Falling
Retired people have one big advantage over those who are younger. We have lived longer, seen more, and have a wealth of experiences. We have been warned that these were the worst of all times often. …
00:06:46 |
Tue 13 Sep 2016
490 Dream A Little
Sometimes we just don't know what to do. We have time, energy and all we need is direction. Time seems to have deleted our ability to dream or imagine. We might gain by kicking back on a regular basi…
00:07:00 |
Tue 06 Sep 2016
489 Help
We could all use a little help throughout our lives. A special request from a listener prompted this topic. You can lend a hand here. It will help someone else and it will probably help you as well. …
00:04:41 |
Tue 30 Aug 2016
488 Movies
Ever get the feeling that you may have skipped a few experiences in your younger life? One may be movies or the world of video. Now we have time to indulge that desire and fill up that hole. It just …
00:07:07 |
Sun 21 Aug 2016
487 Poke It
Retirement offers us time to step up and out and into a new world. We can disturb the comfort zone of others and ourselves. We can engage in activity where we always have felt limited.
00:07:02 |
Sun 14 Aug 2016
486 Home Projects
Retirement brings us time to do things we never did, or never did well enough or long enough, when work interfered. Now we can explore. Working with our hands or minds during a lifetime of work can n…
00:07:35 |
Sun 07 Aug 2016
485 Money?
Ever go looking in book stores for something on retirement? Find anything other than material on retirement and money? Me either. Is it possible that there are things that matter to the retired other…
00:06:06 |
Sun 31 Jul 2016
484 The Coffee Shop
Good habits are not easily established. But once in place they serve us well. When my work life would not allow it going to a coffee shop on a regular basis is something of which I dreamed. Retiremen…
00:07:17 |
Sun 24 Jul 2016
483 One Thousand Months
What we are doing with our life comes into very clear focus when we retire. We no longer have school or a job dictating to us. We can choose. It does require that we make a conscious effort with our …
00:06:43 |
Sun 17 Jul 2016
482 Kindness, Gentleness and Compassion
Retirement brings with it time to consider what we really think is important in life. It gives us time to focus on what we believe has been our strengths and weaknesses. Now we can choose to be the p…
00:07:07 |
Sun 10 Jul 2016
481 Small Is Beautiful
"Small Is Beautiful" is one of my favorite books. I read it perhaps 40 years ago and it left a lasting mark. Retirement gives us more time to consider what really matters in life. Some of our views o…
00:07:19 |
Sun 03 Jul 2016
480 Talking Across Generations
We pick up lots of experiences and stories as we age. Retirement gives us time to pass some of this information on to our grandchildren and those of younger generations. We might want to spend some t…
00:06:38 |
Sun 26 Jun 2016
479 Ten Thousand Hours
The Ten Thousand Hour Rule has become popularized through a book by Malcolm Gladwell. The idea is that if you spend enough time practicing your desired goal you will arrive. Perhaps there is a bit mo…
00:06:54 |
Sun 19 Jun 2016
478, Technology, Keeping Up
Technology comes at us whether we like it or not. We can ignore it or we can take a ride. What are the consequences?
00:06:28 |
Sun 12 Jun 2016
477 Tai Chi
We have all heard that practicing Tai Chi is good for us. I have practiced it for over the past 20 years. Here is my story.
00:08:18 |
Sun 05 Jun 2016
476 What Am I doing Here
The thought of our own death can be disturbing if not paralyzing. It might be best to give this one a little deeper thought. What may be seen as disturbing can also be seen as our biggest blessing.
00:07:08 |
Sun 29 May 2016
475 Watermelon Burgers
What's it like to be a vegetarian? Why does someone decide to not eat meat? Doesn't it take all the joy out of eating? Isn't their diet very boring? When we retire may be the perfect time to try it. …
00:07:02 |
Sun 22 May 2016
474 Let's Not Go Backwards
We like to think that the longer we live the more we learn. We encourage education in our own children. We tell them stories hoping they learn something from them. We like to think the scientific met…
00:06:56 |
Sun 15 May 2016
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