Ed Adshead-Grant has combined a love of geography and travel with working for global businesses in the payments industry. He has now taken on a series of Non-Executive Director (NED) roles and is passionate about providing eldership to those he works with.

In this episode, Trevor and Dave explore with Ed what it meansto provide eldership in the workplace and the rewards that it brings.

Ed’s rich experience across a number of business settings provides real wisdom on how to influence business leaders and add real value in the workplace.

Dave and Trevor shake up the format of the Tap on the Shoulder episodes to date by inviting a guest into the studio to share the microphones with them.

Hazel Valentine is a business coach with a rich and powerful story to tell. As Hazel contemplates retirement, she is actively seeking what it means to become an Elder.

In a deeply personal way, Hazel shares some of the “tap onthe shoulder” moments she has experienced in life to date and how she is approaching this next stage of life.

More importantly, she will help us all understand the journey we have to go on to seek out our purpose and to consider how we can embrace eldering.

This episode helps to bridge the gap between the theory ofeldering into the real, everyday lives we all lead.

When the Beatles sang “All You Need Is Love,” it could easilyhave sounded like a honey-sweet bumper sticker: idealistic, a gooey warm feeling.

However, love is anything but that. It is the strongest, mostinfluential, personally challenging and liberating reality we can embrace.

Love is a term used in so many different contexts. Davetalks about how he loves a croissant on a Saturday morning and how he loves his wife too but in a very different way to croissants!

In this episode Trevor and Dave delve into why elderingothers can often be the greatest act of love. They look at defining “love” in the context of eldering and mentoring others and try to understand the complexity of what this means.

By the end of this conversation we think you might look atwhat it means to love in a totally different way.

Starting with the mythical (we checked it out afterrecording the podcast!) story of the eagle and how it goes through a painful personal transition to prolong life, this is a gritty look at how we may need to go to dark place in order to truly become the best version of ourselves.

Trevor details why we may only experience a mid-life crisisif we ignore the mid-life transition that we all go through.

This is another valuable insight into the processes we needto go through to make life the best it can be.

The proposition of doing this work on ourselves may be unwelcome but the outcome can be truly transformational.

We are most likely familiar with what it means tocrystallise our pension. In simple terms, it is how we put the years of saving for our pension into good use.

But what about our experience?

Surely that is as much of an asset as our pension?

In this episode Trevor explains how all the years of experience we have gained can be put to good use in the second half ofour life and how we go about the process of “crystallising” that experience.

Peppered with great anecdotes to amplify the message and full of practical guidance on how to make the best of what we have been through, you won’t want to miss listening to this episode.

Does our ego get in the way sometimes?

Are we chasing after being the person we think we should be, or maybe someone else thinks we should be, rather than truly being ourselves?

Dave and Trevor help us to understand the work we need to do to understand who we really are and how we can be themost authentic version of ourselves.

Full of personal reflections and searing insights, this is an episode that is full of wisdom and is not one to be missed.

Have you wondered what your calling is?

This isn’t necessarily the same question as what your talents and gifts are, it is more about discovering what it is that truly ignites your passion.

In this episode, Trevor helps set out how we can unpick whatare calling is and why it is so important for us to do so. Think of this as a great detective adventure that will help you direct your time and effort in a way that gives you the greatest sense of purpose and ultimately satisfaction too.

We think you will find this conversation challenging,enlightening and rewarding in equal measure.

Full of personal anecdotes and reflections, this episode sees Trevor talk about why it is so important that our talents and values are seen by others. We will look at the role of parenting in this regard but will also discover why the act of "seeing others" can be so valuable and life affirming.

If we want to get elder and not just older, our ability to impact others by calling out their strengths and gifts can be so powerful.

This conversation will get you thinking .... and could be transformational in the way you interact with friends, family and colleagues.

Sharing some very personal insights, Trevor talks to Dave about why it is so important to respond to the tap on the shoulder that we will all experience at some point in our lives.

Have you ever wondered how you find your purpose? Have you ever thought about whether there is more to life than than the hard work you put in to be successful? Have you ever wished there was something beyond the golf course to appeal when you retire?

If so, you are going to really enjoy listening to Trevor in conversation with Dave in this episode.

Trevor explains what is meant by " a tap on the shoulder" and how we will all experience a tap at some point in our lives.

In this episode you will learn how the tap on the shoulder can be the catalyst to us growing wiser and discovering our true purpose in life.