Wishing everyone Happy Holidays and a healthy New Year.

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I'm grateful for the guests who joined us on my retirement podcast to share their wisdom in the fourth quarter of 2022.

If you missed any episodes, don't miss these conversations.

The links to the full podcast conversations are below:

 

Independence Day - Steve Lopez

 

Taking Stock – Dr. Jordan Grumet

 

The Vintage Years – Dr. Francine Toder

 

Thinking Better to Live Better – Dr. Woo-kyoung Ahn

 

Happier Hour – Cassie Holmes, PhD

 

How to Make New Friends in Retirement – Dr. Marisa G. Franco

 

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About Your Podcast Host

Joe Casey is an executive coach who also helps people design their next life after their primary career. 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 1.5 % globally in popularity by Listen Notes. Business Insider has recognized him 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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Intro and Outro voiceovers by Ross Huguet.





Best of 2022 – Part 4

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Self-Improvement

Is it possible to get healthier as you get older? Dr. Michael Greger knows how and why that's possible. He visits with us to discuss his new book How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older.

Dr. Greger joins us from Maryland.

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Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM is a physician, New York Times best-selling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, among countless other symposia and institutions; testified before Congress; has appeared on shows such as The Colbert Report; and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous "meat defamation" trial. In 2017, he was honored with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine with its Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award.

Dr. Greger's most recent scientific publications in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, Family and Community Health, and the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition, and Public Health explore the public health implications of industrialized animal agriculture.

Dr. Greger is also licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition and is a founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He was featured on the Healthy Living Channel promoting his latest nutrition DVDs and honored to teach part of Dr. T. Colin Campbell's esteemed nutrition course at Cornell University. Dr. Greger's nutrition work can be found at NutritionFacts.org, which is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit charity.

Four of his books — How Not to Die, The How Not to Die Cookbook, How Not to Diet, and How Not to Age — became instant New York Times Best Sellers. He is also the author of Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching and Carbophobia: The Scary Truth Behind America's Low Carb Craze. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine.

Dr. Greger is proud to be a Council of Directors member of the global voice for lifestyle as medicine, the True Health Initiative (THI). This is a growing coalition of more than 360 world experts representing 35 countries. It is an unprecedented assembly that includes physicians, university Deans, former Surgeon Generals, Olympic athletes, chefs, environmental professionals and a diverse group of nutritionists. Together they offer clarity over confusion and support the foundational principles of healthy eating and healthy living.

All speaking fees and proceeds Dr. Greger receives from the sale of his books and DVDs are donated to charity.

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For More on Michael Greger, M.D.

How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
NutritionFacts.org

The Daily Dozen

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Mentioned in This Podcast Episode

The Game Changers Movie

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Podcast Episodes You May Like

From Cravings to Control – Revamp Your Habits – Dr. Jud Brewer

The Mindful Body – Ellen Langer

Upgrade Your Sleep – Dr. Raj Dasgupta

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Wise Quotes

On What Motivates Him


"NutritionFacts.org is a free nonprofit science-based public service providing daily updates on latest in nutrition research via bite-sized videos, about 2000 videos on the every aspect of healthy eating with new videos and articles uploaded t...

How Not to Age – Dr. Michael Greger

You're wise to be planning for your retirement. But the best-laid plans can be turned upside down in an instant. Sarah Cart joins us to share her experience and her new book On My Way Back to You: One Couple's Journey through Catastrophic Illness to Healing and Hope.

Sarah Cart joins us from Massachusetts.

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Bio
Sarah Cart was raised and educated in New York and New England. As a freelancer, she wrote for multiple local publications while she and her husband, Ben, raised four sons in northeastern Ohio. Upon becoming empty nesters, the two moved to the Florida Keys, but they returned every summer to the Pennsylvania Poconos, where each had lifelong family connections. Then came Covid. The pandemic, combined with Ben’s health issues, necessitated their sheltering in place in Florida for the entirety of 2020. In the wake of Ben’s undergoing miraculous lifesaving measures, they have been afforded the unanticipated gift of a future and, more than ever before, relish time spent with family and friends.

Sarah Cart’s On My Way Back to You is a first-hand account of the rollercoaster world of lifesaving transplants and the unimaginable challenges Sarah faced as she struggled to manage her husband’s devastating illness and to save his life, their marriage, and her sanity.

Throughout her 42-year marriage, writer Sarah Cart has enjoyed a life of “gloriously controlled chaos,” as she and her husband, Ben, a successful entrepreneur and seasoned outdoorsman, embarked on numerous adventures with their four active sons. Then the unthinkable happened.

In suspenseful and heartrending detail, Cart shares how Ben developed an incurable autoimmune condition that was manageable and under control one minute and threatened to kill him the next, landing him in the ICU as the Covid pandemic closed the world down. Thrust into the role of nurse and caregiver, Sarah joined the ranks of 39 million Americans who champion and care for an ailing loved one.

In addition to confronting doubts, fears, and endless setbacks, aggravations, and red tape, she also had to consent to daunting procedures on Ben’s behalf. Too, there were the months-long Covid-era restrictions on hospital visitations and the post-surgery snafus with home healthcare personnel. Thank goodness for the heartfelt communiques with family and friends, all of which reflect the faith, fortitude, grit, and grace that sustained her.

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For More on Sarah Cart

On My Way Back to You: One Couple's Journey through Catastrophic Illness to Healing and Hope   

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Podcast Episodes You May Like

Ride or Die – Jarie Bolander

The Self-Healing Mind – Gregory Scott Brown, M.D.

Planning for Family Caregiving – Danielle Miura, CFP

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Wise Quotes

On Perfection vs. Good Enough

"Perfection is not always a good thing. I never perfected being a perfectionist, but I like to know that things are done well and right and the way they're supposed to be and the very sobering idea that if we had known before Ben went into the hospital that he had a broken hip, which is the kind of thing I mean, I was his caregiver, how could I not know that? That's unforgivable. But if we'd known it, he wouldn't have been a candidate for transplant. That just blows my mind. Not all the examples are that huge, but well, another one is he probably wouldn't have been a candidate for transplant if it hadn't been the COVID pandemic."

On Gratitude

"Over the course of Ben's being in the hospital, I had taken to sending emails to family and friends on a regular basis to keep everybody on the same page. And I had all those emails, and in the beginning,

On My Way Back to You – Sarah Cart

There are a lot of variables to consider in planning for retirement. A big one is longevity. We don't know how long we'll live, but we should plan for a long life. But there's more to consider than just our lifespan. Rejoining us is Maddy Dychtwald, co-founder of Age Wave, to discuss her new book Ageless Aging: A Woman’s Guide to Increasing Healthspan, Brainspan, and Lifespan, a guide to living better longer by proactively attending to your healthspan, your brainspan and your wealthspan.

Maddy Dychtwald joins us from California.

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Bio
Recognized by Forbes as one of the top fifty female futurists globally, for nearly 40 years, Maddy Dychtwald has been deeply involved in exploring all aspects of the age wave and how it’s fundamentally transforming our lives and the world at-large. This has led her to become an award-winning author, acclaimed public speaker, and thought leader on longevity and aging, health, wellness, and the new retirement.

Maddy co-founded Age Wave, the world’s leader in understanding and addressing the far-reaching impacts of longevity and our aging population. The Age Wave team has worked with more than half of the Fortune 500 in industries ranging from healthcare and medical technology to financial services and consumer products.

With women at the forefront of the longevity revolution, Maddy has dug deep into their specific longevity-related wants, needs, challenges and opportunities. As a researcher and social scientist, she has led numerous acclaimed studies, including the landmark Women, Money and Power sponsored by Allianz and Women and Financial Wellness: Beyond the Bottom Line for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In addition, she has been involved in more than 25 thought leadership research studies worldwide on longevity, aging, retirement, health and wellness, family and social connections, purpose, caregiving, finances, and leisure, which have cumulatively garnered more than twenty billion media impressions. As a blogger and member of The Wall Street Journal’s Expert Panel, Maddy’s posts on leadership, wealth management, and financial planning have topped the most-read lists. Her insights and research have been featured in prominent media outlets, including Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Newsweek, Time, Fox Business News, CNBC, and NPR.

Maddy has written four books, including the award-winning Cycles: How We Will Live, Work, and Buy, Influence: How Women’s Soaring Economic Power Will Transform Our World for the Better, and the children’s/young readers’ book Gideon’s Dream: A Tale of New Beginnings. Her highly anticipated new book, Ageless Aging: A Woman’s Guide to Increasing Healthspan, Brainspan, and Lifespan, (Mayo Clinic Press, May 2024) will provide an insider’s guide to living better longer, covering everything from fitness and nutrition to hormones and ageism, from sleep to purpose, from navigating the healthcare system to the role of finances.

Over the years, Maddy has herself become part of the age wave and has experimented personally with how to increase her own healthspan, brainspan, and lifespan. She is a co-founder of the non-profit Women Against Alzheimer’s and serves as a board member of the non-profit BrightFocus Foundation, which funds cutting-edge research to cure diseases of the brain and eye. She is also a lead partner for Portfolia in the Active Aging and Longevity 2 Fund. She is also a lead partner for Portfolia, a collaborative women-focused investment platform in their “Active Aging & Longevity Fund 2.

Maddy and her husband Ken were awarded the prestigious Esalen Prize for their outstanding contributions to advancing the human potential of long-lived men and women worldwide. An empty-nester, she is highly involved with her adult children and her granddog.

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Live Better Longer – Maddy Dychtwald

It's time to step back and look at the best of our podcast conversations earlier this year with some brief clips to help you retire smarter.

Links to the full conversations are below:

The Balancing Act in Retirement – Stew Friedman

The Portfolio Life – Christina Wallace

Rightsize Your Life for a Brighter Future – Marni Jameson

From Cravings to Control – Revamp Your Habits – Dr. Jud Brewer

Working Identity – Herminia Ibarra

The Emotionally Intelligent Retirement – Kate Schroeder & Nick Wignall

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Other "Best of" Podcast Episodes You May Like

The Very Best of 2022

The Best of 2021 – Retirement Wisdom

Best of The Retirement Wisdom Podcast 2023 – Part Two

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Best Books on Retirement

Here are my recommended books (with short summaries) to get ready for the non-financial side of retirement.

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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 1.2 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.

 


Best of 2024 – Part One

Our memory seems like a mystery. Why can I rattle off the stating lineup of the 1967 Red Sox but can't remember what  had for lunch yesterday? Charan Ranganath can explain. He joins us to discuss his new book Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Mattersand what we can do to strengthen our cognitive fitness.

Charan Ranganath joins us from California.

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Bio
Charan Ranganath, Ph.D, is the author of the new book Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters. He is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California at Davis. For over 25 years, Dr. Ranganath has studied the mechanisms in the brain that allow us to remember past events, using brain imaging techniques, computational modeling and studies of patients with memory disorders. He has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship. He lives in Davis, California.

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For More on Charan Ranganath, Ph.D

Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

Website

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Podcast Episodes You May Like

The Self-Healing Mind – Gregory Scott Brown, M.D.

The Power of Saying No – Vanessa Patrick, PhD

Successful Aging – Daniel Levitin

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Wise Quotes

On Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone

"...I really recommend for people to do new things and get out of their comfort zone. Novelty can be hugely important. It can be anxiety provoking for some people and you've got to be careful about that. But one of the things that we know is curiosity and novelty are associated with activity in these areas of brain that release and process dopamine. Dopamine is a modulator that, as I mentioned, promotes plasticity. Some work even suggests that if you, let's say, put an animal in a box and you let it explore this box that it's never been in before, its brain gets flooded with dopamine. Then if you give it some task, now it will be better at remembering the things that it was doing for this task. So in other words, that dopamine can have this spreading effect. So I think that is something that will improve people's memory, potentially. And also I think that kind of engagement is just good for people in general. There's also just a lot of value in seeing and feeling that you're learning. It can get very easy to get into a rut and then feel like everything is the same. Sometimes you lose that curiosity as you get older. I know because I see this in my colleagues sometimes and I'll say, Hey, what are the findings in your lab that you're most excited about? And they'll say, Nothing's new, it's all the same, we're all just rehashing the same stuff. And I find that so depressing because it is like my whole business is curiosity and I am a big believer in the power of curiosity."

On The Mind-Body Connection

"If you want to improve your cognitive functioning, or you want to retain your cognitive functioning over time and you want protect your brain health, consider that your brain is the seed of the mind and it is a part of your body. I think a lot of people have this idea of somehow I am my mind, and then my brain is separate. And it's not. It is all connected. What this means is that if you're not taking care of your mental health, your emotional health your physical health, it's going to affect your cognition and possibly increase your risk for dementia.... If you want to get in to the positives, sleep and exercise are very important."

On Prioritizing & Memory

"So at a minimum you want to prioritize, right? So I don't hear people telling me, Boy,

Best of 2022 – Part 4

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