Dave and Mary Ellen review the topics covered and guests interviewed in Season 4. Mary Ellen makes some commitments for Season 5!

In Season 3, we introduced listeners to a couple of guests who had chosen entirely new part-time careers after taking an early retirement. This season, we were delighted to meet Rick Fernandes, owner of Junco Brewing Company in Oswego, NY. Rick is a former power plant engineer who turned his hobbies (home brewing beer and DIY home repairs) into a small business in retirement.

Once again, we revisit the challenges one faces when transitioning to retirement.  If you are looking to structure your retired life based on your passions and your dreams, why not consider working with a retirement coach? In this episode, certified retirement coach Jennifer Rovet will tell us all about how a coach can help you plan your best retired life.

Most of us in North America are familiar with the “Dear Abby” column that appears regularly in many cities’ newspapers. Today’s guest, Kiki Keskinen, has built on the concept of offering wisdom to those who seek answers to life’s questions in her latest entrepreneurial adventure, “Sage Advice”.

Hypnotherapy is perhaps a lesser-known and efficient support that anyone, including older adults, can turn to when experiencing loss from a transition, such as a divorce. Today’s guest, certified clinical hypnotherapist Cassandra McLean, shares with us how her Heart Healer’s Protocol is based on current research in the field of psychology known as “post-traumatic growth.”

If you’re a parent of at least one adult child, this is an episode you won’t want to miss! We talk with Gill Tillmann, Life Transition Coach and author of the book, “Pour the Wine - We’re Talking About Our Adult Children…Again”. Gill shares with us how she came to write this book as a result of many conversations with other parents of adult children around a kitchen table, on a friend's porch, and around a campfire, usually with a glass of wine in hand. Listen in to hear what Gill has to share about transitioning from parenting your children to being the parent of a young adult or adult.

As if retirement isn’t a big enough transition, today’s guest, Colleen Kennedy, also chose to take on another huge life transition at the same time: moving to another country! Listen in as she describes what that process entailed in terms of planning and execution, and dream with us of living in sunny Spain!

Most of us have heard of downsizing, and today’s guest, Jeannine Bryant, owner of Changing Spaces SRS, explains why “right sizing” is really what we should be considering as we transition ourselves or our parents into older adulthood and beyond.

Retirement for many people means a transition to a fixed income. With the costs of living continuing to increase, most noticeably at the grocery store, more and more older adults find themselves needing to turn to their local food bank. Turns out that the food bank is also a great place to donate your time as a retiree - and food banks rely heavily on volunteers to keep their doors open, as you’ll hear from today’s guest, Meghan Flindall, Executive Director of the Fare Share Food Bank in Cobourg and Port Hope, Ontario.

For many people, even thinking about creating a will brings up the desire to clean the house, run some errands, start writing that book you’ve been putting off - do anything but sit down to create a will. In today’s episode, we talk with Debbie Stanley of ETP Canada to look at what the role of an executor entails and how anyone can easily prepare a “death binder” to support their estate executor.