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Who knows more about whether or not you’re ready to retire? Your financial advisor – or you? While you’re diligently planning for your retirement and dreaming to retire happy, the retirement landscape keeps evolving around you. Let’s take a look at what’s happening in the world of retirement with Nate Miles of Allspring Global Investments. He joins us to the discuss key trends highlighted in their latest study on retirement, including happiness in retirement, retirement readiness, what retirees regret – and more.

Nate Miles joins us from North Carolina.

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Bio

Nathaniel (Nate) Miles is head of Global Client Strategy at Allspring Global Investments. As the leader of this business, Nate leads a team of investment specialists centered on client-type expertise, which enables Allspring to be more relevant and impactful with clients. Client-type areas of expertise include Defined Contribution, Pension/LDI, Insurance, Liquidity, Foundations and Endowments, and Wealth. Nate joined Allspring from its predecessor firm, Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM). He joined WFAM from WisdomTree Asset Management, where he served as U.S. head of retirement solutions. In this capacity, he oversaw the creation and execution of marketing strategies and distribution for retirement business across all platforms. Prior to this, Nate worked as a managing director at State Street Global Advisors and as head of U.S. investment strategy with its defined contribution team, where he began his investment industry career in 2005. Nate earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and financial management with honors from Wilfrid Laurier University. He has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation and is a member of CFA Society Boston.

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For More on Nate Miles 

The 21st annual Allspring Global Investments Retirement Survey: A Clear Vision of Retirement

Allspring Global Investments

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Podcast Episodes You May Like

Life in Retirement: Expectations & Realities – Catherine Collinson

Retire Happy – Dr. Catherine Sanderson

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Wise Quotes 

On Happiness in Retirement

“The one thing that we found out every year is our study says and relates how happy retirees are. So that wasn’t new, but we are trying to get to the why. And one of the things we found this year for the first time was that on average retirees could have their spending decline by 25% before it significantly impacted their happiness. So that was a bigger number than I expected, but was corroborated by the fact that when we asked them about their spending on things like their needs, wants and wishes, that only tallied up about 64% of total income. So those numbers actually jive together and I think are a nice story and a nice finding from this study.”

On Retirement Readiness

“Advisors ranked their clients as 40% of them being generally ready for retirement. Near retirees were down below 40%. So there was actually a positive spread. I would say advisors believed them to be a little more prepared, but retirees were up around 77%, so clearly much happier. So overall we had advisors at about 50% of their client base being ready for retirement versus a total population of 64%. But that’s really broken down between those two groups where the retirees were much more confident than near retirees.”

On Regrets

“It was a little bit harder to find regrets because our retirees tend to be generally pretty happy. They don’t tend to have much complaint about retirement. It is generally better than they expected.  One was the too early crowd. We saw some that retired before age 50, 38% suggested that it was too early. They wished they would’ve hung on and worked a little bit longer. So yes, they were able to retire, but I think they thought there’s probably more that they could have done in the workforce and it had that social component to it and could’ve stayed a little bit longer.” So that was one in terms of retiring too early and when they did state they retired too early, it was five years too early.”

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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 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 1.2 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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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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Today’s Building Blocks: Fun and Wellness

Spring is right around the corner and it’s a great time to explore new outdoor activities and re-energize your routines by trying something new. Caroline Paul’s newest book, Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking — How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives As We Age, delves into the science and psychology of the outdoors – and our place in it as we age with real-life stories of women living it today.

Caroline Paul joins us from San Francisco.

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Bio

Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure. Now 60, she expects this new stage of life to be every bit as invigorating and full of high adrenalin escapades as the last. But as she skateboards, paddles a SUP, or surfs in cold winter swell alongside many men her age, she sees fewer and fewer older women. Isn’t the outdoors a vital elixir? Shouldn’t adventure be something we pursue as we age?

Caroline grew up in Connecticut, graduated from Stanford University and originally planned to be a documentary filmmaker. In her adult life, Caroline has been an extremely active athlete: she’s not only been a white-water raft guide and a private pilot, but also has competed in the U.S. Nationals for the sport of Luge, mountain-biked in such places as China and Vietnam, flown her para-glider in Brazil, sea-kayaked in Alaska, and skied the back country of Denali and the Sierras. One of the first women to join the San Francisco Fire Department, Caroline wrote the book, “Fighting Fire“, about her experiences as a firefighter; this book was published, to great acclaim, in 1998.

Caroline is also the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure” and “Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology“, which has been translated into fifteen languages, the middle-grade book “You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World“, and the novel “East Wind, Rain”. Her TED Talk, “To Raise Brave Girls, Encourage Adventure,” has been viewed over 2 million times. A longtime member of the Writers Grotto, she lives in San Francisco.

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For More on Caroline Paul 

Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking — How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives As We Age

carolinepaul.com

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Podcast Episodes You May Like

The Joy of Movement – Kelly McGonigal

The Mindful Body – Ellen Langer

Growing Old, Staying Rad – Steven Kotler

The Power of Fun – Catherine Price

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Mentioned in This Episode

Breaking the Age Code – Dr. Becca Levy

Caroline Paul on The Tim Ferris Show (2016)

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Wise Quotes

On Outdoor Adventure

“Everything about outdoor adventure hits all the pillars that we need for fulfilling aging and – all in one fell swoop. So I realized during the research of this book that we need to have community as we age. We need to have purpose as we age. We need to have novelty. And of course there’s health. And then the final one, which is lesser known, is the positive mindset about our own aging. And if you go outside you actually in one fell swoop hit all of those.”

On Awe

“There was adrenaline, but that wasn’t the actual experience. And what I found was that what I was experiencing was awe. And by the time I handed in my book in there had been other books about it, but I did not know much about it at all when I was writing it. And I realized that awe is what you experience in the face of something bigger than you. And it’s mostly considered a religious word most of the time, but we’re bringing it more into our vocabulary. But all is something obviously that the outdoors often inspires and turns out it’s really good for you. They’ve shown that. They did a study in San Francisco where they asked people, older people 60 to 80 to take walks. But during those walks to look at everything with what they called childlike wonder. They call those awe walks. And then they sent out another control group. Those people just walk like we normally walk, which is thinking about our to-do lists and worrying about things and looking at our phone. And they found that the people who were on the awe walks looking around them with childlike wonder just changed markedly physiologically. Their immune systems were bolstered, their anxiety went down, they did tests to show they felt more compassion. They felt physically better. And there were all these metrics that people you can look into that are astonishing. And so it turns out that awe is really good for us and we should be seeking it more. And so of course, you don’t have to wing walk. Walking makes awe easier. It just happens. It blows your brain, but you can go outside and just practice awe by looking at things with that deep attention and wonderment.”

On Novelty

“I wanted to look into people learning something new at a later age. As we get to a certain age, we stop trying new things, partly because we know what we like, and there’s good in that. But in fact, novelty is really important for our brain as we age to stave off all the cognitive decline that we’re so worried about as well as for our emotional well-being, of course, and giving our lives purpose and spark. And so I thought, well, I think I’m going to go learn to fly a gyrocopter.”

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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 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 1.2 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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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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Today’s Building Block: Personal Growth

If you’re planning for retirement, you’re well-versed in figuring out how to balance work and life. You may be tempted to think you won’t need to worry about that once you retire. But not so fast. If you’re planning an active retirement, you’ll need to be thoughtful in balancing the different domains of life and creating harmony among them. Several practices from Stew Friedman’s Total Leadership model can help you be  intentional about your next phase of life. Start with Stew Friedman’s free tool at Total Leadership.org:

Create Your Four Circles Picture

Stew Friedman joins us from suburban Philadelphia.

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Bio

Stew Friedman, founder and CEO of Total Leadership, is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been on the faculty since 1984.  He worked for five years in the mental health field before earning his PhD from the University of Michigan.  As founding director of The Wharton Leadership Program, in 1991 he initiated the required MBA and Undergraduate leadership courses.  He also founded Wharton’s Work/Life Integration Project in 1991.  Friedman has been recognized by the biennial Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers every cycle since 2011 and was honored with its 2015 Distinguished Achievement Award as the world’s foremost expert in the field of talent. He was listed among HR Magazine’s most influential thought leaders, chosen by Working Mother as one of America’s most influential men who have made life better for working parents, and presented with the Families and Work Institute’s Work Life Legacy Award.

While on leave from Wharton for two-and-a-half years, Friedman ran a 50-person department as the senior executive for leadership development at Ford Motor Company. In partnership with the CEO, he launched a corporate-wide portfolio of initiatives designed to transform Ford’s culture; 2500+ managers per year participated.  Near the end of his tenure at Ford, an independent research group (ICEDR) said the LDC was a “global benchmark” for leadership development programs.  At Ford, he created Total Leadership, which has been a popular Wharton course since 2001 and is used by individuals and companies worldwide, including as a primary intervention in a multi-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health on improving the careers and lives of women in medicine and by 135,000+ students in Friedman’s first MOOC on Coursera.  Participants in this program complete an intensive series of challenging exercises that increase their leadership capacity, performance, and well-being in all parts of life, while working in high-involvement peer-to-peer coaching relationships.

His research is widely cited, including among Harvard Business Review‘s “Ideas that Shaped Management,” and he has written two bestselling books, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (2008) and Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life (2014), now being taught as a MOOC on Coursera. His third Harvard Business Press book was Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life (2020). In 2024, The Wharton School Press published a new edition of his landmark study of two generations of Wharton students, Baby Bust, 10th Anniversary Edition: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family.  Work and Family – Allies or Enemies? (2000) was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the field’s best books.  In Integrating Work and Life: The Wharton Resource Guide (1998) Stew edited the first collection of learning tools for building leadership skills for integrating work and life.

Winner of many teaching awards, he appears regularly in business media (The New York Times cited the “rock star adoration” he inspires in his students).  Friedman serves on a number of boards and is an in-demand speaker, consultant, coach, workshop leader, public policy advisor (to the U.S. Departments of Labor and State, the United Nations, and two White House administrations), and advocate for family-supportive policies in the private sector. Follow on Twitter @StewFriedman and LinkedIn, read his 50+ digital articles HBR.organd listen to his podcast  Work and Life with Stew Friedman, which began in 2014 as a nationally broadcast show on SiriusXM Wharton Business Radio.

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For More on Stew Friedman

Total Ledadership.org

the Total Leadership book

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Podcast Episodes You May Like

The Portfolio Life – Christina Wallace

Working Identity – Herminia Ibarra

Edit Your Life – Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

Live Life in Crescendo – Cynthia Covey Haller

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Mentioned in this Podcast

How Seniors Are Saving the World With Activism – Thelma Reese

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Wise Quotes

On Four Way Wins

“So people come up with ideas for real world experiments toward what I call four way wins. What can you do? What steps can you take within your scope? It doesn’t have to be huge. In fact, smaller is better because it’s more likely to be doable that you believe is going to have a positive impact on your work, your home, your community, and for you personally. And people worldwide have been doing this, hundreds of thousands of them coming up with ideas for innovation that they then try in the laboratory of their real lives. And there’s all kinds of experiments that people try…People come up with all kinds of wonderful creative ideas, but we identified nine different archetypes for the things that people do. And then they try them and they gather data on what works and what doesn’t after creating a simple action plan and a scorecard. And then they learn from these experiments what it takes to create change that’s really sustainable because it works not just for you, not just for your family, not just for your community, not just for your professional life, but for all of those different parts.”

On an Ideal Day in the Future

“The way we do that is real simple exercise that is really powerful. It is to simply imagine a day in the future, and usually we choose 15 years out, which for retirees is pretty scary or can be, but it’s a useful marker because it’s too far out to plan, but it’s far enough that you could sort of see it. So just imagine an ideal day, 15 years from now, what are you doing on that day, morning, afternoon, evening, with whom and why? With what impact do you expect to be having? And so when people do that, very often, even elderly people, they realize, wow, that is the day I want to be living. Maybe I should take some steps to make that the day I’m living right now. So part of the purpose of articulating your vision of an ideal future is to inspire you and then others to be making that more of your life presently. So the revealing and engaging kinds of experiments involve people taking that leadership vision and sharing it with other people and asking them to do the same, or I mentioned earlier about how people uncover their values powerfully by looking at their own life histories and identifying the episodes in their histories, even going back to childhood that have shaped their values to bring those stories and to practice doing so, but to bring them into the real world of real relationships and ask others to do the same.”

On Service 

“Please do the model of Learn, Earn, Serve. In terms of life stages, I think it’s been true for many people, although I think it’s misguided and that we should be learning, earning, and serving in every phase of our lives, even if in different measure across the different phases. So certainly as you have, if you’re lucky, more opportunity to serve others who were in greater need than you, and that’s most of humanity, you’re going to feel better about yourself if you do that, people are going to want to be around you more if that’s something that you care about. There are people who reach old age and they just want to be alone. And certainly there are days when I would rather be on a mountaintop and not interacting with any other human being, and I try to create some space for activities of that sort. You need to just be with yourself sometimes. But in terms of service, I mean, that is a great and noble activity. And again, it keeps you vital and you’re going to feel better about leaving the earth, leaving the world of your real relationships. If you feel like you are using the resources that you’ve got, your skills, your attention, maybe some of your treasure to be helping others, that’s certainly what other people are looking for you to do.”

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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 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 1.2 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.

Let’s delve into one of your most important and longest running relationships – your relationship with food. Like all relationships, it’s emotional. Dr. Jud Brewer joins us to discuss his new book The Hunger Habit:Why We Eat When We’re Not Hungry and How to Stop. He shares how to practice mindfulness, replace judgment with curiosity, change your habits and cultivate a healthier relationship with food.

Dr. Jud Brewer joins us from Rhode Island.

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Bio

Jud Brewer, MD, Ph.D. (“Dr. Jud”) is a New York Times best-selling author and thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery,” who blends over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training and a career in scientific research. He is passionate about understanding how our brains work, and how to use that knowledge to help people make deep, permanent change in their lives — with the goal of reducing suffering in the world at large.

Dr. Jud is the director of research and innovation at Brown University’s Mindfulness Center, where he also serves as an associate professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences at the School of Public Health and Psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University. Additionally, he is the executive medical director of behavioral health at Sharecare, the digital health company helping people manage all their health in one place, and a research affiliate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously, Dr. Jud held research and teaching positions at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts’ Center for Mindfulness. Read more about his research.

As a psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for treating addictions, Dr. Jud has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for anxiety, emotional eating, and smoking (Unwinding AnxietyEat Right Now and Craving to Quit).

Based on the success of these programs in the lab, he co-founded MindSciences, Inc. to create app-based digital therapeutic versions of these programs for a wider audience, working with individuals, corporations, and health systems to put effective, evidence-based behavior change guidance in the hands of people struggling with unwanted behaviors and “everyday addictions.” Sharecare, Inc. acquired MindSciences in 2020.

Dr. Jud has also studied the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness using standard and real-time fMRI and EEG neurofeedback, adding to the understanding of the brain’s “Default Mode Network” and the role of the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) in self-referential thinking.  He regularly gives talks on the intersection of modern science and ancient meditative practices, helping to expose a modern audience to specific techniques and insights first discovered 2,500 years ago.

He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, trained US Olympic athletes and coaches, foreign government ministers and corporate leaders. His work has been featured on 60 Minutes, TED, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, TIME, The Washington Post, Forbes, CNN, BBC, NPR, and more.

His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and American Heart Association, among others.

In addition to The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We’re Not Hungry and How to Stop, he is the author of The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love, Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017) and the New York Times best-seller, Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind (Avery/Penguin Random House, 2021).

Dr. Jud and his wife Mahri live in Massachusetts where they enjoy biking, hiking, and meditating with their cats, Samson, Ananda and Julian of Norwich.

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For More on Dr. Jud Brewer

The Hunger Habit:Why We Eat When We’re Not Hungry and How to Stop

Dr. Jud.com

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Podcast Episodes You May Like

The Mindful Body – Ellen Langer

Self-Compassion – Dr. Kristin Neff

Tiny Habits Can Lead to Big Changes – BJ Fogg

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See our recommended Best Books for retirement here

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Wise Quotes

On Habit Loops

“And the way it works is we get people to map out these habit loops. What type of food am I reaching for because I’m hungry or because I’m bored, sad, angry, tired, lonely? And just to put these into categories, the hunger out of true physiologic need is called homeostatic hunger. We’re out of homeostasis, out of balance. And that which is coming out of emotion. It’s a misnomer. I love the term because it’s a misnomer. It’s called hedonic hunger. We’re not hungry, but we’re eating because of an emotion. So when it comes to the latter, well, when it comes to either, we can start paying attention. And so we can just ask the question, why am I eating? Am I hungry or is it something else?”

On Mindfulness

“Here is how we break bad habits. And how this works is one simple ingredient which is paying attention. We have to pay attention to see that it’s really good or it’s really not so good. And in fact, my lab did a study so we could actually have people pay attention as they overeat. Are you ready for this? It only takes 10 to 15 times of somebody overeating for that reward value to drop below zero, and they start to shift that behavior. Notice how he didn’t mention the word willpower at all. This is about awareness and it doesn’t take that long, which is really good news.So mindfulness is a concept, and it can mean many things to many people…So here, mindfulness is like salt. It’s made up of different elements. The element of awareness is one, and the element of curiosity is another. So maybe salt’s a good analogy here. So you’ve got to be aware, but you also have to bring this attitude of curiosity for it to equal the compound of mindfulness. And so really it’s about this curious awareness…  So it’s really about paying attention.”

On Growth Mindset

“So often we get in the habit of beating ourselves up and judging ourselves, thinking that that’s going to propel us into behavior change. Well, in fact, what it does is it locks us into not being in a place where we can grow. It puts us into a fixed mindset instead of our growth mindset. So bringing kindness to every moment and every step of the journey is really important…I see people struggle with this all the time, change is scary because our brains don’t like change. And so just knowing that our brains going to resist because our brain is set up to say, Oh, this is different. Is it dangerous? And so looking around reminding ourselves, Yeah, this seems scary, but that’s just my survival brain saying, Hey, are you sure you want to do this? And then we can look around and reassure our brains, this isn’t dangerous. It might actually be anti-dangerous, it might be helpful and healthy. That can help us lean in. And the curiosity can go a long way for that as well. So we move into our growth zone instead of getting stuck in our panic zone.”

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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 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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Today Building Blocks: Wellness and Work

Is there something you love to do that could help others?  Harry King, 81, found a way to return to work part-time doing something he loves – helping others get fit.

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Retiring? See our Best Books on Retirement here

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For More on Harry King

This 81-year-old fitness trainer rejoined the workforce after retirement: ‘We can do more than most people think we can do’

See Harry King & Team in Action on Good Morning America

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Podcast Episodes You May Like

The Joy of Movement – Kelly McGonigal

How to Get Stronger After 50 – Dave Durell

The Unretirement Life – Richard Eisenberg

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Wise Quotes

On Purpose

“You’ve got to have a sense of purpose to get up every day. That’s important. If you can’t define that, you’re going to waste some valuable years. Our later years we can do so much and achieve so much and enjoy life so much. Look for things that you enjoy doing. Look for the things that affect you emotionally and define that purpose. Look for it and find it. What do you want to achieve?  What can you do to make the world a better place? And do it. If you can get paid for it, that’s great. If you do it as a volunteer, that’s great too.”

On Challenge

“We need to challenge ourselves on a regular basis. Let’s not be complacent with our lives. There’s so much out there, so much a life we have to live. And the more we challenge ourselves, those mountains we climb, not Everest, but the other mountains we have in front of us that we can climb, that make us stronger. Tthat makes us enjoy the victories and helps us enjoy the victories. We’ve got to pursue those things. That’s my philosophy.”

On Working in Later Life

“Just because we’re aging doesn’t mean we can’t do different jobs. Today, we age a whole lot stronger. I started to say slower, but our mental capacity is stronger. I think for the most part, we’re smarter. I think we’re stronger physically, or we can be, and we should be. We’re living longer, obviously, so let’s give us a chance to be productive as we age. Help that employer…be willing to take a chance on that older guy.”

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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 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.