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On this episode of The Retirement Wisdom Podcast, we explore the transformative mindset that can reshape retirement from a winding-down phase into a period of renewal and growth. Cyn Meyer unpacks why purpose and energy—not just finances—should drive your post-career life, sharing the Rewire Retirement Method and the neuroscience behind deliberate reinvention.

What You’ll Learn

  • Cyn’s backstory that led her to get involved in the retirement space
  • Why your retirement can be a spiral upward, not a slow fade down
  • How her Five Rings of Retirement redefine life after work
  • The science of neuroplasticity and how it supports intentional change
  • How tuning into your inner energy can spur you forward
  • How daily gratitude practices, especially with your partner, can deepen connection

Cyn Meyer joins us from California.

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Bio

Cyn Meyer is the creator of the Rewire My Retirement program and is a modern certified life coach committed to helping older adults turn their retirement years into their best years, full of purpose and passion. She founded Second Wind Movement in 2018 as a valuable resource dedicated to older adults who are striving for healthy, active, and engaged retirement lives.

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For More on Cyn Meyer

The Rewire Retirement Method

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Podcast Episodes You May Like

The New Happy – Stephanie Harrison

Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You – Teresa Amabile

Growing Old, Staying Rad – Steven Kotler

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About The Retirement Wisdom Podcast

There are many podcasts on retirement, often hosted by financial advisors with their own financial motives, that cover the money side of the street. This podcast is different. You’ll get smarter about the investment decisions you’ll make about the most important asset you’ll have in retirement: your time.

About Retirement Wisdom

I help people who are retiring, but aren’t quite done yet, discover what’s next and build their custom version of their next life. A meaningful retirement doesn’t just happen by accident.

Schedule a call today to discuss how the Designing Your Life process created by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans can help you make your life in retirement a great one — on your own terms.

About Your Podcast Host

Joe Casey is an executive coach who helps people design their next life after their primary career and create their version of The Multipurpose Retirement.™ He created his own next chapter after a 26-year career at Merrill Lynch, where he was Senior Vice President and Head of HR for Global Markets & Investment Banking.

Joe has earned Master’s degrees from the University of Southern California in Gerontology (at age 60), the University of Pennsylvania, and Middlesex University (UK), a BA in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and his coaching certification from Columbia University.

In addition to his work with clients, Joe hosts The Retirement Wisdom Podcast, ranked in the top 1% globally in popularity by Listen Notes, with over 1.6 million downloads. Business Insider recognized Joe as one of 23 innovative coaches who are making a difference. He’s the author of Win the Retirement Game: How to Outsmart the 9 Forces Trying to Steal Your Joy.

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Wise Quotes

On Gratitude

“When we are in a state of gratitude, fear is obliterated, right? They are polar opposites. The fear cannot exist while you’re in a state of gratitude.  I always say you have your own passions, purpose, and growth path in retirement. Your spouse has theirs, and then you have your couple’s activities together, right? And so sometimes things get intermingled and very challenging. And we feel that we don’t have control over our spousal dynamic, right? Because we have ours, they have theirs, and then, but we’re sharing life together. And so I highly recommend Gratitude Journaling , but gratitude, gratitude journaling about your spouse specifically, because that really changes the dynamic. And you really end up focusing on, you know, the wonderful aspects about them, and it really obliterates the annoyances while you’re in that state. So if we like literally put in our reps and practice that, it changes the dynamic in addition to you doing your own work on your own growth path. That just makes it more seamless I have found.”

On Retirement

“Retirement is not the end—it’s the beginning of a new growth journey.”

On Energy

“What energizes you are your authentic wants; what drains you are the external ‘shoulds.’”

On Identity

“You may leave the workforce, but your uniqueness has never left you.”

 

 

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What if you stepped out of your comfort zone? Lee Gale Gruen shares her inspiring journey from 37 years as a probation officer to becoming an actor, author, lecturer, dancer, and a Physics Club member in retirement. Initially lost after retiring, she stumbled upon a senior acting class that changed everything—helping her find a new identity, connection, and new pursuits. Her story offers the template for a roadmap for retirees who may be struggling to find purpose by stepping up to try new things, overcoming fear, and staying curious. Because let’s face it,  retirement is not the end of the line — it’s an opportunity to reinvent yourself.

You’ll Learn:

  • What it’s like to be a docent
  • How volunteering can unlock new purpose

  • The importance of trying new (and returning to old) interests

  • What to do when fear holds you back

  • How to find opportunities using local resources

Lee Gale Gruen joins us from California.

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Bio

Lee Gale Gruen (Lee Gale is her first name) lives in the East San Francisco Bay area. She has two children and three grandchildren. She graduated from UCLA and had a 37-year career as a probation officer. After retiring, she became an actress, author, speaker, and blogger. She has appeared in television, films, commercials, theater, and print. She performs regularly at medical schools, portraying patients for student training, and was one of six supporting exercise/dancers in the  Jane Fonda Prime Time Firm & Burn” workout DVD. Her transition to becoming an actress in her senior years has been written about in Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times newspaper, AARP Life Reimagined, and in Marlo Thomas’ book, which profiles women who have reinvented themselves. Lee Gale has had several articles and short stories published, including in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. She is also a public speaker, lecturing on senior reinvention. She has published a memoir as well as a self-help book that complements her public lectures on senior reinvention. She has written a screenplay of her memoir titled the same as the book: “Adventures with Dad.” Lee Gale blogs at LeeGaleGruen.wordpress.com under the same title as her lecture and self-help book, “Reinventing Yourself in Your Retirement Years.”

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For More on Lee Gale Gruen

Reinventing Yourself and Your Retirement Years: Find Joy, Excitement, and Purpose After You Retire

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Podcast Episodes You May Like

The Second Fifty – Debra Whitman

Make Your Next Years Your Best Years – Harry Agress, MD

Retirement Rookies – Stephen & Karen Kreider Yoder

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About The Retirement Wisdom Podcast

There are many podcasts on retirement, often hosted by financial advisors with their own financial motives, that cover the money side of the street. This podcast is different. You’ll get smarter about the investment decisions you’ll make about the most important asset you’ll have in retirement: your time.

About Retirement Wisdom

I help people who are retiring, but aren’t quite done yet, discover what’s next and build their custom version of their next life. A meaningful retirement doesn’t just happen by accident.

Schedule a call today to discuss how the Designing Your Life process created by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans can help you make your life in retirement a great one — on your own terms.

About Your Podcast Host

Joe Casey is an executive coach who helps people design their next life after their primary career and create their version of The Multipurpose Retirement.™ He created his own next chapter after a 26-year career at Merrill Lynch, where he was Senior Vice President and Head of HR for Global Markets & Investment Banking.

Joe has earned Master’s degrees from the University of Southern California in Gerontology (at age 60), the University of Pennsylvania, and Middlesex University (UK), a BA in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and his coaching certification from Columbia University.

In addition to his work with clients, Joe hosts The Retirement Wisdom Podcast, ranked in the top 1% globally in popularity by Listen Notes, with over 1.6 million downloads. Business Insider recognized Joe as one of 23 innovative coaches who are making a difference. He’s the author of Win the Retirement Game: How to Outsmart the 9 Forces Trying to Steal Your Joy.

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Wise Quotes

On Finding a New Direction

“Find something that excites you, that sets you on fire. That will motivate you.”

On Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone

“Try something you’ve never done before. You may discover a whole new world that you never knew about…I had no idea. I stumbled my way through and I discovered all kinds of things. And I hope some of the things that I’ve said today will. help people and encourage people to take that giant step. It’s not a wilderness, it’s full of opportunities.”

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It turns out that one of the hardest habits to break in retirement isn’t work — it’s saving. Richard Sheffield joins us to share his deeply personal and sometimes humorous story of transitioning from a performance-driven corporate career to a more intentional and enjoyable life in retirement. A former executive at UPS, and author of Spend Your Damn Retirement Money!: Beat the Spending Fear to Find Your Dream Retirement, Richard opens up about his struggle to shift from a lifelong saver’s mindset to embracing enjoying the money he worked so hard to accumulate.

He discusses how outdated retirement plans, old success signals, and societal expectations can lead us astray, even long after we’ve walked away from work. But through self-reflection, rewriting his financial plan, and reconnecting with what brings him joy, Richard found the freedom to spend boldly, live fully, and say yes more often.

You’ll discover:

  • Why many retirement plans need to be reviewed periodically – and sometimes reworked
  • The emotional blocks that prevent smart people from moving from accumulating to spending
  • Why your intentional spending matters more in retirement
  • The surprising benefits of getting creative with how you spend
  • Why it can be wise to give now, not just later

Richard Sheffield joins us from Miami.

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Bio

Richard Sheffield is a former executive and writer who shares thoughtful essays on retirement, identity, and personal reinvention. After a long career in the corporate world, Richard turned to writing as a way to make sense of his experience — and to help others navigate their own journeys into retirement. He’s a popular contributor on Medium, where his honest takes on life after work resonate with thousands of readers.

Now fully embracing a bigger, bolder, and more intentional approach to life, Richard writes about finding meaning beyond metrics and spending in ways that spark joy.

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For More on Richard Sheffield

Richard Sheffield on Medium

Spend Your Damn Retirement Money!: Beat the Spending Fear to Find Your Dream Retirement

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Podcast Episodes You May Like

How to Retire – Christine Benz

Unretired – Mark S. Walton

Your Next Years Your Best Years – Harry Agress, MD

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About The Retirement Wisdom Podcast

There are many podcasts on retirement, often hosted by financial advisors with their own financial motives, that cover the money side of the street. This podcast is different. You’ll get smarter about the investment decisions you’ll make about the most important asset you’ll have in retirement: your time.

About Retirement Wisdom

I help people who are retiring, but aren’t quite done yet, discover what’s next and build their custom version of their next life. A meaningful retirement doesn’t just happen by accident.

Schedule a call today to discuss how the Designing Your Life process created by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans can help you make your life in retirement a great one — on your own terms.

About Your Podcast Host

Joe Casey is an executive coach who helps people design their next life after their primary career and create their version of The Multipurpose Retirement.™ He created his own next chapter after a 26-year career at Merrill Lynch, where he was Senior Vice President and Head of HR for Global Markets & Investment Banking.

Joe has earned Master’s degrees from the University of Southern California in Gerontology (at age 60), the University of Pennsylvania, and Middlesex University (UK), a BA in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and his coaching certification from Columbia University.

In addition to his work with clients, Joe hosts The Retirement Wisdom Podcast, ranked in the top 1% globally in popularity by Listen Notes, with over 1.6 million downloads. Business Insider recognized Joe as one of 23 innovative coaches who are making a difference. He’s the author of Win the Retirement Game: How to Outsmart the 9 Forces Trying to Steal Your Joy.

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Wise Quotes

On Rewriting Your Retirement Plan

“I was watching my net worth go up and patting myself on the back — but I realized I was living the wrong plan. It was time to update it. None of the bad things happened. Why was I still playing defense?”

On Breaking the Productivity Trap

“You have to find a way to break that productivity cycle. Your worth isn’t tied to being useful anymore. Sometimes, it’s okay to just have a day where you don’t do anything.”

On Giving While You’re Alive

“If someone’s going to spend that money on something dumb, it might as well be you — and it might as well be fun.”

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The views and opinions expressed by guests on The Retirement Wisdom Podcast are solely those of the guests and do not reflect the opinion of the host or Retirement Wisdom, LLC. The Retirement Wisdom Podcast primarily covers the non-financial aspects of retirement. From time to time we may invite guests who discuss other aspects of retirement planning, solely for educational purposes. Listeners are advised to consult qualified financial and/or medical professionals on those matters.

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What comes after a long, successful career at the top of your field? More and more, people are redefining retirement—saying No Thanks to a traditional retirement and instead exploring new pursuits. And for some, it’s a chance to dive into something they’ve always yearned to do.

In today’s conversation, meet Neal Lipschutz. Stepping away from a distinguished career, he discovered a surprising new purpose—writing fiction. With his debut novel No Write Way to Die just released, Neal shares the lessons he’s learning in a second act.

What might your second act look like? Like Neal, you may discover a path that draws on your skills in a new way- and brings unexpected joy.

Neal Lipschutz joins us from Ridgewood, New Jersey.

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Bio

Neal Lipschutz, a long-time journalist, was formerly a deputy editor-in-chief at The Wall Street Journal. He also previously served as WSJ’s ethics and standards editor. He also at one time was the top editor at Dow Jones Newswires. His short fiction has appeared in a number of publications. “No Write Way to Die” is his first novel and the first in a series of mysteries.

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For More on Neal Lipschutz

No Write Way to Die

“This debut thriller from award-winning journalist Neal Lipschutz, former deputy editor in chief of the Wall Street Journal, combines a gripping, good old-fashioned murder mystery with the ethical consideration of just how far a person should go to protect their family.”

From Headlines to Whodunits

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Podcast Conversations You May Like

The Vintage Years – Dr. Francine Toder

Edit Your Life – Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You – Teresa Amabile

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About The Retirement Wisdom Podcast

There are many podcasts on retirement, often hosted by financial advisors with their own financial motives, that cover the money side of the street. This podcast is different. You’ll get smarter about the investment decisions you’ll make about the most important asset you’ll have in retirement: your time.

About Retirement Wisdom

I help people who are retiring, but aren’t quite done yet, discover what’s next and build their custom version of their next life. A meaningful retirement doesn’t just happen by accident.

Schedule a call today to discuss how The Designing Your Life process created by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans can help you make your life in retirement a great one – on your own terms.

About Your Podcast Host

Joe Casey is an executive coach who also helps people design their next life after their primary career and create their version of The Multipurpose Retirement.™ He created his own next chapter after a twenty-six-year career at Merrill Lynch, where he was Senior Vice President and Head of HR for Global Markets & Investment Banking. Today, in addition to his work with clients, Joe hosts The Retirement Wisdom Podcast, which thanks to his guests and loyal listeners, ranks in the top 1 % globally in popularity by Listen Notes, with over 1.6 million downloads. Business Insider has recognized Joe as one of 23 innovative coaches who are making a difference. He’s the author of Win the Retirement Game: How to Outsmart the 9 Forces Trying to Steal Your Joy.

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Wise Quotes

On the Transition to Retirement

“The transition – it’s a big one. One of the things I really liked about my plan to go directly from a full-time work in journalism for a big company to being on my own and trying something that no one was asking me to do, was that I didn’t know I would be devoted to the process. And I knew that I would be devoting every day that wasn’t taken up with something else to doing this. So in other words, I believe that for a lot of people contemplating or just entering retirement, at least it would be for me, but I imagine for others as well, there’s that uncertainty about, Okay, I know what I’m doing tomorrow, but what about the next day? What about the next day? And for me, that problem was solved. On any given day, if I don’t have anything else planned, I’m putting in five or six hours of writing or editing or revising, or now trying to do some promotional work for the book now that it’s published. So it’s not that elongated day, but it is a different kind of work too. And as I said, to me at least, there’s some comfort in knowing what I’ll be doing tomorrow and that it’s something I’m looking forward to doing.”

On Taking on a Different Kind of Work

“I know that there is no traditional retirement, but one thinks of the sort of old fashioned notion of a traditional retirement of going from working full time to a period of time that are almost entirely made up of leisure type pursuits. I knew that wasn’t for me, at least not now. So I thought that looking at it as going from one type of work to another type of work was meaningful for me and I think helped in the transition. Obviously, going from an important role at a big news organization to something where I’m pretty much on my own with a laptop, where I said not exactly anybody cares in a sense if I work that day or don’t work that day. But knowing that it’s something I wanted to do for a long time and saying it’s not “retirement.” It’s switching from having worked a certain way for decades to a different kind of work in a different setting.”

On a Second Act

“The first thing I would say is absolutely go for it…people are generally living longer and hopefully healthier. So, if you’ve got the wherewithal and you can do it, I think a second act different from what you did much of your career is really worth pursuing. I think whatever it is, whatever you choose, whatever makes sense to you, I think could be extremely rewarding…if there are skill sets that you develop in the working world that with maybe a little bit or maybe a big twist can serve you in that second act, it seems to me that’s a kind of a step up, right?”

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Retirement is about so much more than money.

But where do you begin to build the life you want after you leave full-time work?

Here’s what we’ve discussed with our interesting expert guests:

  • The critical choice you’ll want to make – now – about the years ahead
  • Why retirement is really about creating a new life structure
  • How to use retirement as a catalyst to edit your life
  • The four steps in a reinvention roadmap
  • Why happiness requires knowledge and skill
  • What longitudinal research reveals as the keys to a long and satisfying life
  • How creating a Portfolio Life can open up new possibilities in retirement
  • How your beliefs can affect your longevity

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Want to explore any of these ideas further?

Dive into any of the full podcast conversations here:

Cynthia Covey Haller

Teresa Amabile

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

Joanne Lipman

Arthur C. Brooks

Marc Schulz

Christina Wallace

Becca Levy

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Explore our Best Books on Retirement

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About The Retirement Wisdom Podcast

There are many podcasts on retirement, often hosted by financial advisors with their own financial motives, that cover the money side of the street. This podcast is different. You’ll get smarter about the investment decisions you’ll make about the most important asset you’ll have in retirement: your time.

About Retirement Wisdom

I help people who are retiring, but aren’t quite done yet, discover what’s next and build their custom version of their next life. A meaningful retirement doesn’t just happen by accident.

Schedule a call today to discuss how The Designing Your Life process created by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans can help you make your life in retirement a great one – on your own terms.

About Your Podcast Host

Joe Casey is an executive coach who also helps people design their next life after their primary career and create their version of The Multipurpose Retirement.™ He created his own next chapter after a twenty-six-year career at Merrill Lynch, where he was Senior Vice President and Head of HR for Global Markets & Investment Banking. Today, in addition to his work with clients, Joe hosts The Retirement Wisdom Podcast, which thanks to his guests and loyal listeners, ranks in the top 1 % globally in popularity by Listen Notes, with over 1.6 million downloads. Business Insider has recognized Joe as one of 23 innovative coaches who are making a difference. He’s the author of Win the Retirement Game: How to Outsmart the 9 Forces Trying to Steal Your Joy.

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Wise Quotes

On Reinvention 

“One of the ways to start actually, and I just wrote a piece in The New York Times about this [is] the idea of thinking about your possible selves. Now that’s a psychological term, but essentially what it means is to imagine what you might be, what you could be, and to go beyond the daydream to take some sort of action on possible selves. So that means if, let’s say I’m pivoting in a career, take a course or shadow someone, or do an informational interview. Don’t just like sit with it and cogitate. You’ve got to  get out of your own brain.”

– Joanne Lipman

On Purpose & Meaning

“Purpose or meaning actually requires challenge and trauma and hardship and pain – and actually requires unhappiness paradoxically. So these are kind of complicated phenomena, but altogether, everybody can get better at getting happy if you’ve got the knowledge and skills.”

– Arthur Brooks

On Relationships

“The finding that we talk about most in our book, The Good Life, is that it’s very clear across this 86 years of research, and hundreds of papers, that the most important predictor of health and happiness throughout the lifespan is the quality of our relationships with others. How connected we are, how much we can rely on other support, and how much we’re able to do that are really key predictors of how happy we’ll be and how healthy we will be. And it’s all kinds of relationships. It’s not just the person who you may have been lucky enough to spend a good portion of your time with. So it’s not just our marital partners or our intimate partners, it’s friends, neighbors, people we work with, people in our communities, it’s all types of relationships that matter.”

– Marc Schulz

On Creating a Portfolio Life

“And so it can be hard in that transition because not only have you lost the routine of what do I do with my day, you’ve also lost the community of here’s who I talk to on a regular basis – and then you’ve lost this identity. How do I describe myself? Who am I when I get out of bed? And as terrifying as it is to go through that transition and losing all three things at the same time, it’s a huge opportunity because for so many people at that cusp of retirement, they’re thinking, I’m not dead yet. I’ve got a whole life ahead of me. I still have something to offer. And, very likely, I saw a lot of things I’m really curious about that I haven’t had space for. So rather than replacing one thing for another, the opportunity here is to really think about your portfolio, literally like your financial portfolio, and you map out what do I need for this chapter? Do I need a community that will challenge me and push me to grow? Do I need that community to be in person versus one that might be online or over zoom? So you start mapping out what you need. And honestly, a lot of times you don’t know what you need until you don’t have it. So sitting in that really awkwardness of those first few weeks or months and saying, oh, I hate this. Why? What are you missing? And then after you map out what you need, you have that same opportunity to say, okay, well what do I want? What comes next? What are the things that I am interested in or parts of my Venn diagram that I haven’t been able to make use of in a while? And then you just sort of, it’s a little bit like a mashup, a mix tape.”

– Christina Wallace