Kitchen Table Talks

Retirement is meshing our outside life choices with our inside emotions. Poets communicate that process so much better than we can. Carol and Mary Helen in this episode of Kitchen Table Talks celebrate National Poetry Month and pick some of their favorite poems to share. Celebrating ourselves,

With a nod to comedian Joan Rivers, Retiree Rebels ask, Can We Talk?  Because talking about your retirement is important. Talking can even save lives. In this Kitchen Table Talk, Mary Helen and Carol talk about talking, and how hard it is for retirees to speak the truth about their lives,

Boomers are on the other end of the generation gap now, often scratching their collective heads about the behaviors of young people. Writer and speaker, Sarah Gibson travels the world helping employers and elders work with the Gen-Xers and Millennials. In this Kitchen Table Talk, she sat down

What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? It's time to ask that question again. What are your goals for the next 10, 20 or 30 years? Without a goal, how will you know what steps to take in the future? In this edition of Kitchen Table Talks, Mary Helen and Carol talk about how dreaming new

Know someone who just retired? It might be time to check in and find out how they're coping. January may be a logical time to retire, but it can also be the worst time. For that reason, we combined 4 podcasts for newbies to inform them of the new realities of retirement, both the lows and the

Even people who research and plan out their retirements --like our guest Barbara Boustead-- can be surprised by the reality of their new life. To deal with the unexpected demands made on her time and energy, Barbara devised The Power of Three, a rule for setting boundaries. She shares her new

Got Confidence? Maybe not. Any big life transition can undermine a person's confidence in themselves and in their path in life. Dolores Kokinos of The Empowerment Cafe has studied confidence, and divided that essential trait into five building blocks: Belonging, Acceptance, Respect, Purpose and

What the psychologist Carl Jung called “The Afternoon of Our Lives” (retirement) is finally being recognized by the American media as a new active stage of life. Wow! In this Kitchen Table Talk, Mary Helen and Carol review news reports from 2016 to discuss hopeful trends for retirees in 2017,