Revolutionize Your Retirement Radio
Retirement isn’t just the end of a career, it’s the beginning of a new chapter filled with opportunity, meaning, and growth.
Revolutionize Your Retirement is a podcast designed to help you navigate this transition with purpose, confidence, and joy.
Featuring insightful conversations with leading experts in retirement and longevity. Each episode explores real-world topics like money, purpose, identity, relationships, lifestyle, and health, all aimed at helping you redefine what “retirement” means for you.
Whether you’re planning ahead or already living your next chapter, these conversations offer practical tools and inspiration for embracing the years ahead with curiosity and vitality. Because retirement isn’t just an age or a financial number, it’s a chance to live well today while building confidence for tomorrow.
More About the Host
Dorian Mintzer, M.S.W., Ph.D., BCC (Board Certified Coach) is a coach, therapist, teacher, and writer with extensive clinical experience. She previously taught in a graduate gerontology program at Regis College in Wellesley, MA , and was part of the faculty for the Certified Professional Retirement Coaching 2.0. program.
She is the co-author of The Couples Retirement Puzzle: 10 Must-Have Conversations for Creating an Amazing New Life Together and a contributor to numerous other books and articles on aging, relationships, and purpose. Her insights have been featured in leading media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, NPR, ABC Evening News, and The Today Show.
Her TEDx Talk, “Embracing Your Bonus Years: A Time to Grow, Learn, and Evolve,” captures her belief that later life is a time for reflection, reinvention, and renewed purpose. Through her podcast, coaching, and teaching, Dr. Mintzer continues to empower people to live their later years with intentionality, vitality, and joy.
Dr. Mintzer also hosts the monthly Revolutionize Your Retirement Interview with Experts Series, an engaging webinar held on the 4th Tuesday of each month, offering fresh perspectives to help professionals and the public alike embrace the opportunities of the “bonus years.”
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Revolutionize Your Retirement Radio
Exploring Your Identity, Creativity, and Life Structure in Retirement with Dorian Mintzer and Dr. Teresa Amabile
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Episode Guest: Dr. Teresa Amabile, Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and a researcher, teacher, and author
Episode Description:
Even if you are healthy and financially secure, you may struggle with the first months or years of retirement because of identity loss. How can you explore important aspects of your identity before fully retiring to achieve a confident sense of self post-retirement?
In this episode, you'll discover:
- What creativity is, and what it isn't
- How thinking expansively about creativity and injecting creativity into your work life and personal life can enhance pre-retirement and post-retirement life satisfaction
- The four developmental tasks of the retirement transition and the different ways people move through them
- How aspects of your life structure can shift in surprising ways post-retirement, and how you can better prepare for those shifts
About Dr. Teresa Amabile:
Teresa Amabile has researched and written about creativity for over 40 years. Beginning with a series of papers in the 1970s and 1980s, she was instrumental in establishing the social psychology of creativity - the study of how the social environment can influence creative behavior, primarily by influencing the motivational state. Teresa's research has examined individual creativity and productivity, team creativity, and organizational innovation. This research program has yielded a comprehensive theory of creativity and innovation; methods for assessing creativity, motivation, and the work environment; and a set of prescriptions for maintaining and stimulating individual creativity and organizational innovation.
Teresa's scholarly work has appeared in a variety of psychology and organizational behavior journals, as well as her 2011 book (with Steven Kramer), The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work. She has presented her work to audiences in various settings, including Pixar, Genentech, TEDx Atlanta, Apple, and The World Economic Forum in Davos.
In 2018, Teresa received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management, the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Israel Organizational Behavior Conference, and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. In 2011 and 2013, she was named to the global Thinkers50 list.
Teresa holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Canisius College and a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University.
Get in touch with Teresa:
Teresa's website: http://progressprinciple.com/
Teresa's book: The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work https://revolutionizeretirement.com/amabile
Listen to Teresa's TEDxAtlanta Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD6N8bsjOEE
Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/
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