Logic: Life after Work

Logic: Life After Work with Michelle Garwood: Making Space for What Matters

What happens when life changes and we realise that the things we've accumulated no longer fit the life we want to lead?

In this episode of Logic: Life After Work, we meet Michelle Garwood, a professional organiser and declutterer who helps people navigate major life transitions, including retirement, downsizing, bereavement and moving home.

Michelle is a member of the Association of Professional Declutterers and Organisers (APDO) and brings a background in project management to her work. Her approach is about much more than simply tidying a house. She helps people make practical decisions about what they need, what they want to keep and what they are ready to let go of.

For people approaching retirement, downsizing can be both exciting and challenging. Moving to a smaller home can create freedom, but it can also mean confronting years of possessions, memories and emotional attachments.

Michelle supports people through that process with a non-judgemental and compassionate approach, including clients with ADHD, autism and hoarding behaviours.

And that makes her story particularly relevant to Life After Work.

Because retirement isn't simply about leaving a career behind. It's about creating a new way of living and sometimes that means asking ourselves what we really need for the next chapter.

Can letting go of possessions help us make space for new experiences? And what happens when we stop organising our lives around what we've accumulated and start organising them around what matters?

Join us for a conversation with Michelle Garwood about decluttering, downsizing, retirement, life transitions and making space for whatever comes next.

Logic: Life After Work with Dennis Harhalakis: Changing Our Relationship with Money

What happens when a career spent working with money leads you to discover that our relationship with money is about much more than numbers?

In this episode of Logic: Life After Work, we meet Dennis Harhalakis, a Certified Money Coach and founder of Cambridge Money Coaching, whose journey from a 30-year career in financial services to a completely different approach to money offers a fascinating perspective on changing direction later in life.

Dennis spent three decades working in financial services, building extensive experience and knowledge of how money works. But his own journey eventually led him to look beyond the technical side of finance and towards something much more personal: the beliefs, behaviours and emotions that shape the way we deal with money.

After discovering money coaching, Dennis trained as a Certified Money Coach and went on to establish Cambridge Money Coaching. His work focuses on helping people understand the patterns behind their financial decisions, rather than simply telling them what they should do with their money.

Because our relationship with money often starts long before we earn our first salary.

What did we learn about money growing up? What did our parents teach us about spending, saving and security? Why can two people with similar incomes have completely different relationships with money? And how much of what we do with money is driven by habits and beliefs that we may not even recognise?

These questions have become central to Dennis's work.

But his story is also about reinvention.

After 30 years in an established professional career, Dennis could have simply stepped away from the world of finance. Instead, he took the experience he had accumulated and combined it with a new understanding of behaviour, psychology and personal development to create a different kind of career.

Today, Dennis works with individuals, couples, business owners and professionals, helping them explore not just what they do with money, but why they do it. He also trains other money coaches, sharing his experience and helping to develop the growing field of money coaching.

And that makes his story particularly relevant to Life After Work.

Because retirement or a career change can give us something that working life doesn't always provide: the opportunity to stop, reflect and ask what really matters.

What happens when the expertise you've spent decades developing becomes the foundation for something new? Can a change in career also lead to a change in perspective? And what can we learn about ourselves when we begin to question the assumptions we've carried throughout our working lives?

Dennis's journey suggests that the next chapter doesn't necessarily mean leaving everything behind.

Sometimes, it means seeing what you've already learned in a completely different way.

So what happens when a lifetime of working with money leads you to a deeper question: not simply how does money work?, but how does our relationship with money shape the lives we choose?

Join us for a fascinating conversation with Dennis Harhalakis as we explore money, behaviour, career change, self-awareness and the possibilities that emerge when one professional chapter becomes the starting point for something entirely new.

Logic: Life After Work with Sarah Tancell: Rethinking Work, Identity and What Comes Next

What happens when you begin to understand yourself differently? And how can that understanding change the way you think about your career, your relationships with work and what you want from life beyond it?

In this episode of Logic: Life After Work, we meet Sarah Tancell, a neurodivergent HR leader, consultant, speaker and founder of Neuro-D, whose career has taken her from senior international HR roles to helping organisations rethink the way they approach neurodiversity and inclusion.

Sarah has more than 20 years of experience in senior HR, including working as an International HR Director and founding an HR consultancy. Today, she works with organisations to embed neuroinclusion into their culture, leadership, recruitment and talent strategies.

But Sarah's story is about more than professional achievement.

As a triple-neurodivergent professional, she brings her own lived experience to her work. Her focus is on helping people and organisations move beyond simply being aware of neurodiversity and towards creating workplaces where people can be themselves, advocate for what they need and have the opportunity to thrive.

Through Neuro-D, Sarah works with HR teams and leaders on everything from neuroinclusive recruitment and workplace policies to leadership, training and psychological safety. Her approach combines her experience of senior HR with firsthand understanding of what it can mean to navigate a workplace that isn't always designed for different ways of thinking and working.

Sarah also speaks openly about her own journey of discovering her neurodivergence and the impact that understanding had on her life. One of her talks, "Neurodiversity and Me: How Neurodiversity Saved My Life," explores the challenges, misconceptions and breakthroughs that shaped her personal and professional journey.

And that makes her story particularly relevant to Life After Work.

Because our relationship with work is rarely just about a job.

Work can shape our identity, our confidence, our routines and our understanding of ourselves. For many people, leaving a career can create an opportunity to ask questions that may have been difficult to ask while they were busy working: Who am I without my job? What have I learned about myself? What do I want the next chapter to look like? And how can I use what I've learned to help others?

Sarah's experience offers a fascinating perspective on those questions.

Her career demonstrates how professional experience can evolve into something different: from managing people and organisations to helping employers understand their people better; from navigating her own experiences to using those experiences to create greater understanding for others.

It also raises a bigger question at the heart of Life After Work: does leaving one phase of your working life mean leaving behind everything you've learned from it?

Perhaps not.

The skills, experiences and insights accumulated over a career can become the foundation for something entirely new. And sometimes, understanding yourself more clearly can be just as important as understanding the organisation you work for.

Join us for a fascinating conversation with Sarah Tancell as we explore neurodiversity, identity, career, inclusion, self-understanding and the ways in which our experiences of work can continue to shape us long after the working day changes.

Because life after work isn't necessarily about leaving your working life behind.

Sometimes, it's about understanding what it taught you and deciding what to do with that knowledge next.

Logic: Life After Work with Ellen Froggatt: Learning, Community and a New Chapter

What happens when working life comes to an end and you suddenly have something many people spend their careers wishing for more time? How do you decide what to do with it, and where do you find new sources of purpose, friendship and connection?

In this episode of Logic: Life After Work, we meet Ellen Froggatt, a trustee of Ridgeway U3A, to explore the opportunities that retirement can create and the important role that community can play in this next stage of life.

U3A, which stands for the University of the Third Age, is a movement built around the idea that learning and discovery don't have to stop when your working life does. U3A groups bring people together to learn, share skills, pursue interests and take part in activities simply because they are curious and want to connect with others.

At the heart of U3A is the idea that everyone has something to contribute. Members can learn from one another, share experiences and skills, and create activities around their own interests. There are no exams, no qualifications to chase and no pressure to turn a hobby into a career. It is learning for the pleasure of learning—and for the friendships and connections that come with it.

For Ellen, her involvement with Ridgeway U3A offers an opportunity to explore what this kind of community means in practice.

U3A is also a reminder that retirement doesn't have to mean becoming less active or less engaged with the world. Instead, it can be a chance to decide for yourself what you want your days to look like, which interests you want to pursue and what contribution you want to make.

That raises some of the central questions at the heart of Life After Work.

How do you replace the structure of a working week? Where does purpose come from when you no longer have a job defining your role? And how important are friendship, learning and being part of a community to building a fulfilling life after work?

For many people, retirement is presented as an ending. But organisations like U3A suggest another possibility: that it can be the beginning of a period of exploration, learning and connection—with the freedom to choose what comes next.

In this conversation with Ellen Froggatt, we look at the world of U3A and what it can offer people entering or already enjoying retirement. We explore the importance of staying curious, meeting new people, sharing experiences and continuing to learn throughout life.

Because perhaps life after work isn't about finding another job.

Perhaps it's about finding new reasons to get up in the morning.

Join us for a conversation with Ellen Froggatt about retirement, lifelong learning, community, friendship and discovering what comes next.

Logic: Life After Work with Leon Daniels: Moving beyond the Journey

What happens when a career spent shaping how millions of people move through a city comes to an end? Do you step away from the pressure or find a new way to keep making a difference?

In this episode of Logic: Life After Work, we meet Leon Daniels OBE, a transport leader whose career has been defined by ambitious projects, major events, public service and an extraordinary understanding of how cities work.

Leon spent much of his career at the highest levels of transport and government. As Managing Director, Surface Transport at Transport for London, he was responsible for the delivery of billions of pounds of road, light rail and transport services, as well as major infrastructure projects across the capital. He worked with two London Mayors and played a key role in the successful delivery of transport for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, described as the most successful public transport games ever.

But Leon's career stretches far beyond TfL.

Before joining Transport for London, he built and sold his own venture-capital-backed business before becoming Commercial Director UK Bus for a major international transport group. Along the way, he was involved in ventures ranging from Aircoach and Greyhound to innovative bus and tram projects, while developing experience across business development, governance and major operational delivery.

Since retiring from TfL in 2017, Leon's story has continued to evolve. He remains a Trustee of the London Transport Museum, advises and contributes to international thinking around road and vehicle safety, autonomous vehicles and the future of transport, and continues to work with governments, local authorities and organisations around the world. He was awarded an OBE for Services to Transport in 2019.

But this isn't simply a conversation about transport.

It's a conversation about leadership, purpose, reinvention, public service and what happens when an intense professional career changes shape. Leon's experience raises an important question at the heart of Life After Work: when your working life has given you a sense of responsibility and purpose, how do you carry those qualities forward without simply trying to recreate the career you left behind?

From London's streets and public transport network to the future of cities, Leon has spent decades thinking about how the world around us can work better.

So, what does life look like after you've spent a career moving a city forward?

Join us for a fascinating conversation with Leon Daniels OBE—and discover what happens when retirement isn't about stopping, but about finding new ways to contribute, influence and keep looking towards the future.

What happens when a career that has been defined by pressure, leadership and responsibility comes to an end? Do you slow down—or finally discover what you're capable of?

In this episode of Logic: Life After Work, we meet John Peck, a former senior London police officer whose life after retirement is anything but conventional.

From leading officers through some of London's most challenging situations, John went on to become a leadership coach, mentor, adventurer and author. His second act has taken him far beyond the boardroom and into some of the most demanding environments on the planet—including Himalayan peaks, the Arctic, the Sahara Desert and the Atlantic Ocean.

John's book Restless: Dispatches from a Lifetime of Adventure charts a remarkable lifetime of challenges and expeditions. His follow-up, How to Add Adventure to Your Life: The Seven Cs to Success, goes further, asking a question that sits at the heart of this episode: what if adventure isn't something reserved for the young, but a way of approaching life at any age?

But this isn't simply a story about climbing mountains or crossing oceans.

It's a conversation about purpose, resilience, risk, reinvention and the courage to keep challenging yourself when the traditional working life is over. John believes we all have untapped potential—and that discovering it requires us to step outside what feels comfortable and have a go.

So, what does life really look like after work when you refuse to see retirement as the end of the story?

Join us for a fascinating conversation with John Peck—and discover why the next adventure might just begin when the working day ends.