Shows
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioTravel as a Mirror and Map: How Travel Changes and Orients Us with Dorian Mintzer and Kendall DudleySend us a textTravel awakens our senses and makes life vivid! In contrast to our daily lives, where habits and familiarity blunt our awareness, travel heightens our senses and makes us pay attention to new surroundings. If we are willing to look closely, we may see what has been hiding in plain sight: our emerging self!Our culture softens our edges by offering us comfort and security in trade for experimentation and purposeful risk-taking. Worse, we can believe the time for self-rediscovery or dramatic change is past, belonging only to those younger than us...2024-01-0946 min
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioWorking in Wonderland with Dorian Mintzer and Carleen MacKaySend us a textThe 21st-century world of work is as unlike the 20th-century world of jobs as the modern drone is to the horse and buggy of great-grandfather's day. Suppose you coach clients in career or life planning. In that case, if you are a psychologist or sociologist helping people navigate this very different world of work, or if you are wondering about your job situation, this episode is for you!Hard facts underscore this episode and make the case that how we work (and will work) has forever structurally changed. Ideas for you...2024-01-0258 min
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioHonoring the Art of Our Lives with Dorian Mintzer and Alan O’HareSend us a textWhat are you doing with your life's stories?We reach a time in our lives during the third stage when we still envision what we seek to accomplish or discover, but more of our lives are devoted to reflections on the journey that has brought us to this point. In this interview, Alan C. O'Hare discusses his journey as a community psychologist, university educator, actor, playwright, and director, all woven together in his calling and artistry as a "Seanchai/storyteller." These skills are also integrated into being a "curator"...2023-12-1953 min
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioExploring Spiritual Opportunities in the Second Half of Life with Dorian Mintzer and Bob WeberSend us a textIn 1976, when he was forty-four years old, Henri Nouwen co-authored a book entitled Aging: The Fulfillment of Life. One of Nouwen's colleagues who worked in the field of gerontology extolled the book as the best he had read on aging. Nouwen responded, "I know nothing about aging." Because he was only forty-four at the time his answer was probably correct. But if you are a baby boomer, someone born between 1946 and 1964, you now know something about aging!In 1968 we baby boomers first started graduating from college. We were, are, and will...2023-12-1258 min
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioGetting Caregivers to Accept Help with Dorian Mintzer and Viki KindSend us a textSo often, family caregivers are overwhelmed, but they won't ask for or accept help. Discover tools and communication strategies to help caregivers get past their barriers and begin to ask for and accept help. The goal is to ensure that caregivers are supported so that the person they care for is also safe and secure. The other outcome of ensuring the caregiver is supported is that they can make better future decisions because they come from a place of strength instead of weakness.In this program, you’ll discover:Viki's 4-S...2023-12-051h 07
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioThe Caring Collaborative with Dorian Mintzer and Betsy WerleySend us a textIn an era where we're living longer, families are far away, and we want to stay independent, self-help programs like the Caring Collaborative fill a gaping hole, whether you live in the suburbs or a city.The Transition Network's Caring Collaborative program channels the goodwill of our community into practical help with health issues. Grocery shopping, sharing medical experiences, an escort to your rehab session, a note-taker during a doctor's visit - they're all on the Caring Collaborative's menu of ways participants can support each other. You'll learn about TTN's program...2023-11-281h 03
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioWhat Do You Know About The Cards You've Been Dealt? with Dorian Mintzer and Andrea GallagherSend us a textIn her professional world, Andrea has seen her share of conversations between seniors, service providers, and family caregivers. In particular, when caring for an older adult, she sees how difficult it can be for others to really know what would bring that person joy and satisfaction.Getting to the bottom of what is important to an individual's feeling of independence, happiness, and well-being is often obscured by how we go about those conversations. Where family caregivers may lack training, even professional service providers frequently enter into a dialogue that makes a...2023-11-211h 00
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioNew Road-No Rules for Work, Love, and Play in the Bonus Decades with Dorian Mintzer and Abigail TraffordSend us a textThe kids are grown, the mortgage is paid, and the career is topping out. Does this mean immediate settlement into old age? Absolutely not! Thanks to the longevity revolution of recent decades, today's 55-75-year-olds are living and working longer and healthier than ever before. This generation is the first to experience the period of personal renaissance between middle and old age, "My Time." It is a whole new developmental stage in the life cycle during which 50-somethings reinvent themselves as inspiring students, artists, travelers, friends, lovers, and so much more....2023-11-141h 01
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioImagine, Then Do It! with Dorian Mintzer and Julie ShifmanSend us a textJulie's message challenges women to open their minds to the endless possibilities that can result in a fulfilling next act. She begins by permitting them to dream again, as Julie finds that too many women have buried their dreams in some dark closet. Sometimes, that means rediscovering old dreams that have gone dormant over the years; sometimes, it means imagining new ones. But her message doesn't end with the Imagining. She also provides practical advice on how to Do It and begin the journey towards fulfilling those dreams.As Julie says, "...2023-11-0754 min
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioDeciding Not to Retire or to Un-Retire with Dorian Mintzer and Dr. Elizabeth FidelerSend us a textWe're surrounded by examples of women working well past the traditional retirement age. In fact, the fastest-growing segment of the workforce is women aged sixty-five and older. In today's challenging economy, men over the traditional retirement age are the second-fastest growing group of workers (just behind older women). In this episode, we'll explore:Why older women and men are staying on the job past conventional retirement ageWhat's driving this trend; gender differencesWorking late by choice or necessity; advantages and disadvantagesTraditional role models, expectations; loss of identityWhat does "older" mean; age s...2023-10-311h 04
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioTen Essential Questions to Ask About Money and Lifestyle with Dorian Mintzer and Holly P. ThomasSend us a textLifestyle and money intersect at almost every turn, and they are the things that make us happy. Holly P. Thomas - behavioral economist, personal CFO, and author of The Mindful Money Mentality: How to Find Balance in Your Financial Future- will explore ten essential questions about whether money and lifestyle choices can make us happy and keep us happy.During this episode, you will:Gain greater insight into the relationship between lifestyle and money;Learn strategies for mapping our lifestyle goals to our money goals;Walk away with the basic...2023-10-2455 min
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioThe New Retirement: Create a Life You Don't Need a Vacation From with Dorian Mintzer and Jan CullinaneSend us a textTen thousand people are turning 65 daily, and by 2030, all Boomers will be at least 65. Are you ready for retirement? Here are some things to consider: "Fun" Retirement Vocabulary wordsImportance of 6,570Reflections about relocationWorking in Retirement (and the five Ps)Money and Your Brain (behavioral economics)Purpose and ValuesRetiree RegretsSumming it up: Secrets for a Successful RetirementShed your skin/molt!About Jan Cullinane:Jan Cullinane is a recognized expert on holistic retirement. Her books include two previous editions of the best-selling The New Retirement: The Ultimate Guide to th...2023-10-1756 min
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioFrom Inception to Retirement: How I Help Elders to Record their Memoirs with Dorian Mintzer and Mary O'Brien TyrrellSend us a textIn this episode, Mary O'Brien Tyrrell will describe the satisfactions and challenges of a new type of business: helping older clients capture their life stories in published memoirs that become cherished family heirlooms. Based on the author's long firsthand experience working with elders as a memoirist and gerontological nurse, Tyrrell will offer a wealth of interesting stories and invaluable advice on working with elders, conducting interviews, composing memoirs, and creating and maintaining a successful memoir business with minimal financial investment.In this episode, you will discover:Acting on an idea...2023-10-101h 04
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioThe Art of Creative Caregiving with Dorian Mintzer and Dr. Greg FinchSend us a textListeners will learn about the National Center for Creative Aging and how every individual can flourish through creative aging. Note: The agency mentioned in this interview closed in 2017. Whether in or approaching retirement, participants will discover that approaching the possibilities and potential of aging equips us with resilience and a remarkable capacity for vitality in the world.Participants will:Learn about a remarkable paradigm shift in aging that is embracing creativity as a vital factor that fosters life satisfaction, contributes to improved health, and enriches connection and resilienceExplore the concept...2023-10-0354 min
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioThe Future of Work with Dorian Mintzer and Kerry HannonSend us a textAnyone who began working 20 or 30 years ago has witnessed astonishing changes in the workplace during their career. When the global pandemic hit, older workers fortunate enough to retain their jobs once again had to navigate enormous upheaval virtually overnight. Working from home, often in isolation, over-fifties found themselves facing daunting technological and social challenges. Influenced by the profound changes in the workplace spurred by the pandemic, Kerry Hannon will discuss the five major trends that are here to stay, the rise of the multi-gen workforce, the fundamental demographic changes, and how t...2023-09-2657 min
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioHow to Maximize Your Health in the Fourth and Fifth Age with Dorian Mintzer and Dr. Karl SingerSend us a textDr. Karl Singer is a family physician and geriatrician who recently retired from active practice in Exeter, NH. Over more than 40 years in practice, he has seen enormous changes in the patterns of illness in his older patients. The changes reflect both advances in medical care and a new understanding of the importance of lifestyle on illness and quality of life.In this episode, Dr. Singer will discuss strategies for optimizing health and function in older adults based on current research. He will also outline some of the challenges of the...2023-09-191h 12
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioYour 5 Keys to Juggling Success for Boomers and Beyond with Dorian Mintzer and Denise ArchieSend us a textDenise Archie will share her 5 keys to personal success - how many balls are you juggling? Denise's approach to life, work, and play is a combination of "loving what I do" and anything I do must pass my "five non-negotiables” test: Is it fun?Do I like who I am being in this relationship?Does it make a difference to others?What can I learn?What can we learn together?This highly engaging and interactive session will allow you to laugh, share, and consider your 5 keys to your personal and professional suc...2023-09-121h 00
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioThe Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health with Dorian Mintzer and Ellen LangerSend us a textDiscover how adjusting your thoughts can change your health—from the "mother of mindfulness" and the first female tenured professor of psychology at Harvard.When it comes to our health, too many of us think that a medical diagnosis describes a static or worsening condition. We live our lives as though our ailments—our stiff knees, frayed nerves, or failing eyesight—can only change in one direction: for the worse. Ellen J. Langer’s life’s work proves the fault in that logic. She has spent more than forty years testi...2023-09-0559 min
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioCreating, Funding, and Running a Volunteer Organization in Your Third Act with Dorian Mintzer and David CampbellSend us a textIn this episode, David will discuss the organizational story behind his non-profit organization, All Hands Volunteers. He'll talk about how and why he founded it, the challenges of starting a small international program, and some aspects of volunteering. He'll share his personal experience of Katrina, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and the 2011 Japan tsunami, in each case personally arriving in the disaster zone in the first week to decide how to launch a project.About David Campbell:David Campbell has been a technology executive, corporate board member, and humanitarian...2023-08-291h 03
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioThe Reinvention of Retirement with Dorian Mintzer and Connie ZweigSend us a textCrossing the threshold into late life can feel like a high-wire act without a net. But, if you are retiring or rewiring, ill or caregiving, feeling purposeful or disoriented, yearning to serve or do spiritual practice, you can learn to cross over from denial to awareness, from distraction to presence, from role to soul.How do we explore who we are beyond work? How do we uncover the unconscious material that erupts around losing our roles, losing our loved ones, losing control of our bodies, and losing our faith? And how...2023-08-2259 min
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioMake Healthy Eating Happen with Dorian Mintzer and Sue LevySend us a textInterested in turning healthy eating into a simple, delicious, and sustainable daily practice? Been burned by "diets" and looking for a sensible approach to eating that fits your tastes and busy, on-the-go life?In this episode, you'll discover:What the experts have to say about eating to feel better NOW, lose harmful belly fat, reduce sugar and inflammation, improve digestion, and prevent and manage diseaseThree easy shifts you can make to move beyond a diet and kick-start a sustainable approach to healthy eating that fits your tastes and lifestyleAn exciting...2023-08-151h 04
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioWhat Investors Don't See That's Ruining Their Portfolios and What They Can Do to Fix It with Dorian Mintzer and Douglas GoldsteinSend us a textDouglas Goldstein, CFP, will present the research that he's done over the past five years with World Chess Champion Susan Polgar about how high-level participants in any field often miss critical information in their decision-making process and how investors can use the same strategies that chess grandmasters use in order avoid the common downfalls.In this episode, you'll discover:What is holding you back from financial freedomHow to apply the strategies that Susan Polgar used to win 10 Olympic medals to managing your moneySeveral strategies that can make you as "Rich...2023-08-0858 min
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioWho Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old? with Dorian Mintzer and Richard LeiderSend us a textThere are 75 million Americans over the age of sixty, many of them looking to continue the personal growth journey that has been the hallmark of their generation. They want to grow old, not just get old. The path of purposeful aging is accessible to all - and it's fundamental to health, happiness, and longevity. Just floating along from one year to the next, accepting things as they present themselves without question or intention, is a surefire recipe for dissatisfaction and despair in later life.The traditional milestones of old age...2023-08-0159 min
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioGeriatrica: A Traveler's Guide with Dorian Mintzer and Dr. Marilyn HeinsSend us a textNewspaper columnist and beloved pediatrician Dr. Marilyn Heins, MD, has fashioned a pathway through the transformative senior years of life after having entered the octogenarian years herself. Marilyn takes on her role of tour guide through this new terrain with her typical poise and acumen while offering a healthy dose of humor. Approaching the aging journey as a landscape in an unfamiliar country, Marilyn imagines us all to be immigrants in the land of Geriatrica. During the voyage, she visits somewhat familiar yet not-quite-known stops along the way. In this e...2023-07-2553 min
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioMemory Training: Developing Confidence in Your Abilities with Dorian Mintzer and Dana SteinovaSend us a textOne unique way to help seniors feel great about themselves is via memory training. In this episode, Dana Steinova discusses her memory training approach based on mnemonics. Its power is in its ability to change the mindset of people who suffer from memory lapses and people who are giving up, accepting their memory problems as inevitable or something that belongs to the natural aging process. Her program convinces the participants that, in reality, they have tremendous mental potential. They activate special circuits in the brain that people unfamiliar with such techniques leave idle...2023-07-181h 05
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioPlanning for No Regrets with Dorian Mintzer and Kim PotgieterSend us a textDoes the prospect of retirement daunt you? Do you and your partner have dreams for this significant transition? Can you envision a meaningful life beyond work?Kim Potgieter believes that creating your best life cannot be left to chance. In her book, Retiremeant: Get More Meaning From Your Money, she demonstrates that taking an active role in preparing for retirement enables you to live without regrets.Join us for this program with this Financial Life Planner as she expands on really practical ideas from her book:Explore your...2023-07-1153 min
Revolutionize Your Retirement RadioDon't Bite Your Tongue and Don't Roll Your Eyes with Dorian Mintzer and Dr. Ruth NemzoffSend us a textThis "other Dr. Ruth" will gently guide you through the intricacies of parenting your adult children. With the wisdom of a scholar and the humility that only the mother of four grownups can bring to the subject, she deftly addresses issues of communication, in-laws, stylistic and cultural differences, grandparenting, disappointment, adult sibling relationships, money, and more, while encouraging us to acknowledge and utilize our children's expertise.Dr. Nemzoff will share vivid vignettes and make sound suggestions to help us create satisfying mutual relationships. Dr. Ruth Nemzoff's books are useful as an...2023-06-271h 02