Tag: Retirement

  • Bruce Hiland + Ted Kaufman on how not to fail at retirement

      They call themselves retirement recidivists. My guests Bruce Hiland and Ted Kaufman tried but failed several times to call time on busy, high-status careers. They’re the authors of the […]

  • Deb Gale + Rich Eisenberg on UNretirement

    I’ve always given the notion of retirement shortest shrift on The Big Middle. What does it even mean in 2022? We don’t retire these days, we shift gears, we make […]

  • Kay Scorah

    We in the so-called rich world are grappling with how to recast our societies to move beyond the obsolete learn-earn-retire-in-your-prime model of life. Deepest hat tip to Professors Andrew Scott […]

  • Peter Mangan

    There’s a silent but alarming epidemic of loneliness and social isolation across the rich world across all ages. The World Health Organization now lists lack of social support networks as […]

  • Martin Hyde

    This time on The Big Middle, we’re homing in on the intersection of rapid population ageing and globalisation – the two biggest social transformations of our times. How does the […]

  • Marc Freedman

    Search How to Live Forever online and you’ll get one billion 30 million hits – most about conquering disease and death, the mind-blowing efforts of longevity scientists. My guest is […]

  • Wilf Blackburn

    This is the second episode from this month’s Longevity Leaders conference in London – the first of its kind. Think of the conference as the equivalent of the World Economic […]

  • Elizabeth White

    When my job disappeared in my 50s, I didn’t worry. I’d been a good saver, the future was exciting, unknown – let the next adventure begin. I hadn’t even heard […]

  • Chip Conley

    Hotelier. Author. Social Alchemist. Disruptor. Student. Sage. Modern Elder. That’s how my guest Chip Conley introduces himself on his website. Click into it and you find this quote: “Young enough […]

  • Thank you AGE Platform EU

    Big thanks to Estelle and the team at the #Ageing Equal campaign of @Age-PlatformEU for the lovely write-up of the podcast. Great to be in such good company raising our […]

  • John Tarnoff

    Time was, as recently as 1900, you were a heartbeat away from your coffin if you were lucky to make it to 50. Now, even a rare, fantasy retirement on […]

  • Andrew Scott

    Patchy at best, must do better – the report-card phrases that fit when assessing how government and big business are responding to the social revolution of healthy, longer lives. On […]

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