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
433 Retiring Together
Retiring at the same time as your spouse or partner can be a challenge. I've heard complaints. My wife and I retired on the same day. I have experience. Here's the story.
00:06:44 |
Sun 12 Jul 2015
432 Relocating Alternative
Retirement brings lots of new opportunities our way. One is that we are more free than ever to relocate our residence. We can move to the big city, the desert, the mountains; the west, the east, the …
00:07:18 |
Sun 05 Jul 2015
431 What Now?
Some of us don't know what to do; when we retire and some before we retire. We seem to be at a loss for what might make us happier in our life. We find it eludes us after we seemingly find success. W…
00:07:24 |
Sun 28 Jun 2015
430 Look Around
My wife focuses down and sees the details of life. But I have a hard time seeing the nose on my face. I'm a scanner. I guess we need both. Retirement is a good time to consider just what it is we wan…
00:06:50 |
Sun 21 Jun 2015
429 Lists
Some of us like to work off of lists. They can help keep us on track whenever impulses try to influence our lives. We need something perhaps not in concrete but none-the-less pretty permanent to stee…
00:06:55 |
Sun 14 Jun 2015
428 Keep Dreaming
Dreams keep us going. We have them when we are young. Sometime along the line they seem to fade away. We live day by day. Retirement is a time for resurrection. We need to make an effort to recreate …
00:07:06 |
Sun 07 Jun 2015
427 Pick A Fight
Picking a fight can be a good thing. It depends on what your fighting for. Sometimes it is a good thing to stand up, be aggressive and bark. Saying something and doing something sometimes requires ag…
00:07:28 |
Sun 31 May 2015
426 Vacation
Being retired doesn't mean we are always on vacation. We do establish routines to some extent. We have a residency, regular hours- sort of - and local businesses we patronize. Some times we throw it …
00:06:16 |
Sun 24 May 2015
425 How Much Is Enough
If we knew how long we were going to live we plan a bit better financially for our retirement. But we don't. And that is probably a good thing. We will just need to make some good decisions - and be …
00:07:15 |
Sun 17 May 2015
424 When Should I Retire?
When should I retire? Or can I afford to retire? We find these questions first and foremost as we age. Does work just become accepted as a way of life that can't be changed? We might want to give the…
00:07:35 |
Sun 10 May 2015
423 Friends
Friends give value to each day. The problem is hanging on to them. They tend to come and go over a lifetime. We face a new challenge when we retire or they retire. Friendship requires duration and th…
00:05:16 |
Sun 03 May 2015
422 Deciding to be Happy
Stumbling on a secret to living well is one of life's pure pleasures. Here is the story of an experience I had with K. Eileen Allen that certainly made me take notice. She was ninety when we met and …
00:06:51 |
Sun 26 Apr 2015
421 Missing Something?
How many choices do we have? It is sometimes hard to know which of the many options would be best. We pause to think. The important thing is to not stop. We need to make a choice and then move on it.
00:05:13 |
Sun 19 Apr 2015
420 Risk
It is easy to fall into a life of doing very little when we retire. It is easy to do the same old thing everyday. Risk is something that may take us into a new stage. We need to keep in mind the joy …
00:05:40 |
Sun 12 Apr 2015
419 Listening
Sliding into a world of silence is a danger of retirement and old age. No one seems to want to listen to us or we find our hearing starting to fail. We are difficult to talk to. Is there a solution? …
00:06:37 |
Sun 05 Apr 2015
418 Looking Ahead: Looking Back
Some of us tend to look ahead in our daily lives and some tend to look back. It seems like one or the other dominate. Do we want to spend our time anticipating or reflecting? Or is there a happy plac…
00:05:44 |
Sun 29 Mar 2015
417 Weather
Weather is one of the elements we talk about all our life. It takes on a bit of different meaning when we retire. Sometimes this is the only factor that seems to matter. People are sure they want to …
00:07:01 |
Sun 15 Mar 2015
416 Great Expectations
We have expectations placed on us all of our life. Some are placed on us by others and some are assumed by our own desires. We plan and work towards fulfillment of these expectations. Retirement is a…
00:07:13 |
Sun 08 Mar 2015
415 Keeping Busy Plan
Some of us plan for retirement and the plan works. Not always but sometimes. This week we hear from a listener who did plan and has been very happy with the results. It required some thought and effo…
00:07:23 |
Sun 01 Mar 2015
414 Change is Possible
We like to think we can always change. Some of us do. And some of us don't. What makes for the difference? Two old friends of mine faced that challenge a few years ago and had very different results.…
00:09:02 |
Sun 22 Feb 2015
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