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From his working-class roots in New Jersey to the "tune in, turn on, drop out" cliffs of Big Sur and the pinnacles of the human potential movement; from launching his company Age Wave and coming to terms with his own aging process, Ken Dychtwald's Radical Curiosity makes sense of his first 70 years of life, offering invaluable life lessons through the lens of a man constantly seeking truth and self-discovery- giving readers a glimpse into a visionary's extraordinary world, and a guide for claiming a powerful vision of one's own.

Although Dr. Ken Dychtwald is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on aging and longevity, Radical Curiosity offers an entirely different and far more personal perspective. Triggered by the deaths of his parents and motivated by his cutting-edge research into the importance of leaving a legacy, Dychtwald dives deep to examine the arc and legacies of his own life through fantastic stories, mind-stretching adventures and his unique encounters with many of the world's great leaders and influencers, to show readers his keys to a meaningful, magical and purposeful life.

Ultimately, Radical Curiosity is a call to action that demands that we add more curiosity, purpose, interdependence, and discovery to our lives, regardless of age.

About Ken Dychtwald:

Over the past 45+ years, Dr. Ken Dychtwald has emerged as North America's foremost visionary and original thinker regarding the lifestyle, marketing, health care, economic, and workforce implications of the age wave.

Ken is a psychologist, gerontologist, and best-selling author of 19 books on aging-related issues. He was the executive producer and host of the highly rated/acclaimed PBS documentary, The Boomer Century: 1946-2046, which aired over 2,000 times on PBS stations nationwide. Sages of Aging is Ken's latest national public television program featuring profound conversations with twelve of the leading pathfinders in the field of aging.

Since 1986, Ken has been the Founder and CEO of Age Wave, an acclaimed think tank and consultancy focused on the social and business implications and opportunities of global aging and rising longevity. His client list includes over half of the Fortune 500. In 2023, Ken received the American Society on Aging's President's Award for evolving the world's understanding of what aging means.

During his career, Ken has addressed more than two million people worldwide in his speeches to corporate, association, social service, and government groups. His strikingly accurate predictions and innovative ideas are regularly featured in leading print and electronic media worldwide and have garnered over twenty billion media impressions.

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The key considerations for staying healthy, happy, and enjoying the second half of life can be related to various age-old Japanese philosophical concepts of well-being. For example, Ikigai, a popular concept talked about and used widely today, is not new. It has existed in Japanese culture, along with the other concepts, as far back as the Heian period, 794-1185.

Okinawa, Japan, a renowned "blue zone,” region whose inhabitants live to a happy, healthy, vibrant old age regularly follow and practice these beliefs in their daily lives. Renée visited the area in the 1980s while living in Japan and observed and learned many of these simple well-being exercises and spiritual beliefs from the people there, enough for her to create a well-being roadmap on how to use them to enhance health, happiness, and longevity. She noticed that not just in Okinawa, but throughout Japan, these philosophical concepts for well-being were actively embraced by the older population. When Renée returned home, she incorporated her roadmap, based on these well-being concepts, into her counseling practice to guide her clients through the stresses related to aging and retirement.

In this episode, you will discover:

• the five most prominent Japanese philosophical practices for helping to enrich health, happiness and success in the second half of life.
• simple steps to create an ongoing practice to include each of these powerful, ancient Japanese concepts in your daily activities.

About Renée Rosenberg:

Renée Lee Rosenberg, MA, Positivity Pro, is a Career Management Counselor, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Emotional Intelligence Coach and Intergenerational Communication Speaker who works with organizations and individuals to foster engagement, multi-generational understanding, well-being, and career happiness at work. An eighteen-year member of NSA-US, Renée presents virtually and in-person, and has been interviewed in media, print, and online (ABC Eyewitness News, MSNBC, Italian TV, and Forbes.com, to name a few).

Renée lived in Japan in the 1980s where she studied Japanese metal making, worked for fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto and met David Bowie. While there she learned valuable Japanese insights and perspectives for sustaining happiness and well-being, which she incorporates in her national and international presentations as well as in her virtual and in person career counseling practice. Her book, Achieving the Good Life After 50, has helped many overcome the stresses of aging and approaching retirement. Clients describe Renée , a native New Yorker, as passionate, authentic, inspiring, and funny.

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Download Resources Discussed: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/rosenbergresources

Visit Renée’s website: https://positivitypro.com/

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Wondering what you should do with the rest of your life? Wishing you could rediscover a sense of purpose and passion? Want some hi-test inspiration for reclaiming your dreams, launching novel enterprises, or engaging in work others might find unthinkable in the second half? Join us for a conversation with Bruce Frankel, author of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life: True Stories of Finding Success, Passion, and New Meaning in the Second Half of Life. In addition to talking about astonishing models for achieving significant goals in the second half of life profiled in his book, he'll also discuss current research into the power of dance/movement to protect the aging brain.

In this episode you’ll discover:

• How to discover in which direction to focus your efforts
• How to leverage your personal assets to stake your claim on the future
• How to find your tribe and why it's critical to successfully achieving your dreams
• How to become more resilient
• How dance, movement, and other improvisational arts can protect your brain and stimulate the growth of new neural networks at any age
• Why exercise, movement, and novelty are critical to your well-being

About Bruce Frankel:

Bruce R Frankel is a partner in Redstring, a community-building technology and business, and its chief content officer. He is also co-president of The Life Planning Network and of LPN's New England Chapter, author of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life?, and co-editor of Live Smart After 50! The Experts Guide to Life For Uncertain Times. He also wrote World War II: History's Greatest Conflict. Before turning his attention to aging issues, he was a prize-winning journalist, the New York-based national reporter for USA Today, and a senior writer and editor for People magazine. He earned his MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College at age 53.

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Buy Bruce’s Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/frankel
Buy Live Smart After 50 book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/livesmart
Download Bruce’s Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/frankelhandout

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If you're over 50 and pounding the pavement for a job these days, you can face certain challenges. On average, it takes someone aged 55 or older three months longer to find a job than a younger person.

Your struggle to find employment results in disappointment at a gut level. Others are furious, discouraged, and dumbfounded by their inability to land a job that suits their experience and desired salary. They pick up part-time consulting jobs to keep afloat, zap resumes into the black hole of online resume bins, wait for a response, and pull their hair out. They have graduate degrees and once held executive and management positions.

If you're 50+ and looking for a job, feeling inferior isn't so unusual. You feel like a castoff in today's job market.

What are you up against? Some employers figure your salary demands are out of their ballpark and that if they hire you for less, you'll resent it and probably jump ship if you get a better offer. They often perceive, true or not, that you're set in your ways or lack the cutting-edge skills or even the energy to do the job. Then, some hiring managers might surmise that you have age-related health problems or are likely to, and that will be a problem if you take too much time off for periodic sick leave.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• how to prepare both professionally and financially to start out on a new adventure
• where the best opportunities for new employment lie
• how to find profitable and rewarding jobs to save for retirement
• how to cast a wide net to find an opportunity that fits different workers who want different things from their jobs
• incredible insights into working after 50

About Kerry Hannon:
Kerry Hannon is a workplace futurist and a leading strategist on career management, entrepreneurship, personal finance, and retirement. She is a frequent TV, podcast, and radio commentator and sought-after keynote speaker at conferences.

Kerry is the bestselling and award-winning author of 14 books, including In Control at 50+: How to Succeed in the New World of Work and Never Too Old to Get Rich: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting a Business Mid-Life, a number one bestseller on Amazon and selected by the Washington Post for its Book-of-the-Month Club.
Kerry is currently a senior columnist and on-air expert at Yahoo Finance. She was previously an expert columnist, opinion writer, and regular contributor to the New York Times, MarketWatch, and Forbes, and was the PBS website NextAvenue.org personal finance and entrepreneur expert. She has also worked as a writer, columnist, and editor for USA Today, US News & World Report, and Money magazine and as a contributor to the Wall Street Journal.
Kerry lives in Washington, DC, and Boston, Virginia, with her husband, documentary producer and editor Cliff Hackel, and her Labrador retriever, Elmore "Elly."

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Kerry's website: https://kerryhannon.com/
Buy Kerry's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/greatjobs
Download Kerry’s handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/hannonguide

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Conscious Eldering is an approach to aging, grounded in both indigenous wisdom and contemporary understanding, that sees aging as an opportunity for continual inner growth, passion, purpose, and service in whatever circumstances life presents. Conscious Eldering seeks to help modern culture reclaim the honored role of elders and show those who aspire to this role the psychological and spiritual inner work that can help them grow into the conscious elderhood that our world urgently needs.

About John Sorensen:

John Sorensen has had 40-plus years of engineering design, corporate management, and entrepreneurial experiences. He now uses this experience to fulfill his calling as an environmental activist and community organizer in transforming our culture to one that encompasses the wisdom and caring of the conscious elder. He envisioned and founded the Conscious Elders Network. His background includes the following: early career devoted to spacecraft and rocket engineering, including astronaut Moon landing; founded and led a transportation technology incubator company for 20 years; promoted and raised funds for a Vietnam micro-loan program benefitting 75 war victim families; supported home, school, and abuse shelter building projects in Nepal and five other SE Asia countries; and passionate supporter of startup ventures directed at healthy food consumption, sustainable living, and inner growth.

About Ron Pevny:

Ron Pevny is a life coach, Certified Sage-ing Leader, and long-time rite of passage guide who, for many years, has offered wilderness quests, retreats, and other support services for people and organizations in transition. He is the founding Director of the Center for Conscious Eldering and has been offering Choosing Conscious Elderhood retreats to serve as rites of passage into conscious elderhood since 2002. He is also the creator and administrator of the 12-organization Conscious Aging Alliance. Ron is the author of the book, Conscious Living, Conscious Aging.

Get in touch with John and Ron:

Visit John’s website, https://eldersaction.org/
Visit Ron’s website: https://www.centerforconsciouseldering.com/
Buy Ron’s book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/pevny

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Jan Hively and Moira Allan and several of their country liaisons, Hans Kristjan Gudmundsson from Iceland, Dieter Zwicky from Switzerland, and Cullen T. Hayashida from Hawaii, will discuss the history and evolution of the Pass It On Network. The vision of the Pass It On Network is to promote positive, productive aging worldwide and encourage older adults to share their strengths with others to help themselves, each other, and their communities as much as feasible. The mission of the network is to spread information worldwide about Positive Aging programs led by older adults who share their strengths to help themselves, each other, and their communities.

About Jan Hively:

Dr. Jan Hively, Ph.D., USA, International Consultant and Country Liaison for the U.S. and Co-Founder. Jan Hively describes herself as an "Encore Entrepreneur" in Minnesota, after a city planning and administration career, Jan Hively earned her Ph.D. in 2001 at age 69 with a dissertation on Productive Aging in Rural Communities. Since then, she has focused on transforming expectations for aging - realizing the potential for positive aging based on twenty-first-century trends and research. Jan has co-founded several thriving networks that support positive aging, including the Vital Aging Network and a global program exchange, the Pass It On Network. As a Purpose Prize Fellow, she is an internationally known presenter and consultant for programs that engage older adult leadership and support "meaningful work, paid or unpaid, through the last breath." Jan's academic degrees were earned at Harvard University and the University of Minnesota.

About Moira Allen:

Moira Allan, France, International Coordinator and Co-Founder. Moira Allan is the co-founder and international coordinator of the Pass It On Network, an Internet platform that connects positive aging advocates from around the world so they can share their strengths to help each other, their communities, and themselves. She serves on the councils of EURAG, Europe's oldest federation of senior organizations (155 in 32 countries), the International Longevity Center-France, and is the international liaison for Old'Up, the cutting-edge French association leading the way for the 80+.

She started in journalism and public relations and acquired skills that have served throughout her career as a life coach (University Paris 8), trainer, and manager. Moira is from South Africa and has lived in Paris for the last 40 years. She coordinates the Too Young To Retire network in Europe, started after the first Positive Aging Conference at Eckerd College, Florida, in 2007, where she met Jan Hively, Ph.D. Together, they set out on a collaborative exploration of the longevity revolution. They co-created with World Café Europe, the European Voices for Active Aging (EVAA) project in 2012 during the European Union's Year for Active Aging, and went on to launch the Pass It On Network in November 2013 in Paris.

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Visit the Pass It On Network: https://www.passitonnetwork.org/

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Have you experienced religious/spiritual abuse or betrayal? Do you feel spiritually disillusioned? Do you want to complete spiritual unfinished business before you die?

In every tradition, saints and poets speak of the soul's search for the beloved, the seeker's yearning for the divine, for the Self beyond ego. This holy longing is a secret feeling with many disguises, leading us to pursue a higher union in spiritual practice, religious discipleship, and even romantic embrace. It guides us to timeless wisdom and transcendent experiences.

But it also can go awry when we project the divine onto a therapist, teacher, priest, guru, rabbi, or roshi who is all too human - who has unhealed wounds, undeveloped empathy, or authoritarian tendencies. In effect, a woman or man who has a shadow. If he or she abuses power -- sexual, financial, or emotional coercion -- we feel the shock of betrayal, our innocence lost, our faith destroyed.

Today, we have witnessed many contemporary teachers of Buddhist, Hindu Hasidic, Muslim, Catholic, and Protestant groups act out their shadows in destructive ways, leaving their followers traumatized and lost. This can be viewed as a mythological moment of ordeal or dark night of the soul.

Suffering spiritual disillusionment, we can learn to apply the tools of depth psychology and spiritual shadow work to help us recover and rekindle the flame of longing in our souls.

This episode explores personal and archetypal projection, spiritual bypassing, as well as the evolution of consciousness, the nature of awakening, and the role of the Shadow.

In this episode, you'll discover why we are drawn to charismatic leaders, what we unconsciously give away to them, and how to reclaim it for our own treasury.

About Connie Zweig:

Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired therapist and coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow. Her award-winning book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. It won the 2022 Gold COVR Award, the 2022 Gold Nautilus Award, the 2021 American Book Fest Award, and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction. Her latest book, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening, is available now. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. After all these roles, she's practicing the shift from role to soul.

Get in touch with Connie Zweig:

Buy Connie’s Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/shadowspiritual
Visit Connie’s website: https://conniezweig.com/
Read Connie’s articles: https://medium.com/@conniezweig

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Bruce Frankel and Paul E. Nagle will discuss the creation of Stonewall Village NYC, which aims to build a movement for LGBTQ-friendly housing and an intergenerational community to protect and care for NYC's LGBTQ elders, who are among the city's most lonely, impoverished, excluded and threatened citizens.

About Bruce Frankel and Paul Nagle:
Bruce R. Frankel is a partner in Redstring, a community-building technology and business, and its chief content officer. He is also co-president of The Life Planning Network and of LPN's New England Chapter, author of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life?, and co-editor of Live Smart After 50! The Experts Guide to Life For Uncertain Times. He also wrote World War II: History's Greatest Conflict. Before turning his attention to aging issues, he was a prize-winning journalist, the New York-based national reporter for USA Today, and a senior writer and editor for People magazine. He earned his MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College at age 53.

Paul E. Nagle is the executive director of Stonewall Community Development Corporation, which seeks to partner with commercial developers to create affordable housing for LGBTQ elders. He is directing the creation of Stonewall Village NYC, a vibrant virtual village to support the elder LGBTQ population of New York with education-facilitation for LGBT housing opportunities, programs and services to support aging in place, health, and socialization to end isolation, and more. Paul was previously the executive director of Cultural Strategies Initiative in NYC and director of communications and cultural policy for a member of the NYC Council. He has a background in international cultural policy, which he studied at NYU.

Get in touch with Bruce Frankel and Paul Nagle:

Visit Stonewall Village Website: http://stonewallvillagenyc.org/

Buy Bruce’s Books: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/frankelbooks

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