Loneliness Awareness Week invites us to pause and acknowledge something most people carry quietly: the ache of feeling unseen, disconnected, or out of rhythm with the world around us. It’s a week that doesn’t ask for grand gestures. Instead, it asks for honesty — the kind that lets us admit that even in a crowded…

“Our first half is about how to make a living. And our second half has the promise of being about how to make a life.” So said Bob Buford in his book, Halftime: Moving from Success to Significance. Working for a Living was the title of our previous session, which introduced Chapter 4 of the…

Are you working because you want to or because you have to? During our early careers we work to earn enough money to support ourselves and our families. As we journey into the second half of life, our feelings about work may change. In this chapter of the book, we explore working for a living…

Is it time to transform your money mindset or rewrite your money story? Appreciating Money is the third chapter of the book, Midlife, New Life: Living Consciously in Midlife and Beyond. Living consciously requires us to be increasingly conscious about our money: making it, saving it, managing it, spending it, and leaving it behind. Read…

Listening to a recent Modern Elder Academy Midlife Mastery recording, I was taken back a few years to my safari experience with purpose guru Richard Leider, walking across the Serengeti in East Africa. Richard talks about “fortuitous encounters.” I was introduced to Richard by my good friend Craig Neal. I certainly consider my introductions to…