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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Episodes
149 episodes
Retirement: Another Graduation with Elizabeth Zelinka Parsons
This episode features retirement transition expert and former lawyer Elizabeth Zelinka Parsons, author of Encore: A High Achiever’s Guide to Thriving in Retirement, in conversation with host Dori Mintzer about how high ac...
Securing Your Financial Future with Kerry Hannon
In this conversation, Kerry Hannon, senior columnist and on‑air expert at Yahoo Finance and award‑winning author of 14 books, including Retirement Bites: A Gen X Guide to Securing Your Financial Future. Kerry explains why Gen X ...
Could Older People Be the Cavalry Coming Over the Hill? with Linda P. Fried
In this episode of the Revolutionize Your Retirement Interview with Experts series, host Dori Mintzer speaks with Dr. Linda P. Fried, a global leader in healthy aging, about why rising longevity is a hard-won success rather than a cris...
Overtime: Reclaiming a Life in Poetry with Bruce Frankel
After surviving a major cardiac arrest at 75 and multiple earlier health crises, journalist and author Bruce Frankel has returned to his first love: poetry. In this conversation, Bruce shares how brushes with death, a long reporting career, and...
The Good Life: 85 Years of Lessons from Dr. Waldinger
Dr. Robert Waldinger, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, shares insights from the world's longest study on happiness, tracking over 2,500 people since 1938. The core finding: A good life comes from caring for your body and rela...
Aging, Climate, and Hope—Why This Conversation Matters Now with Rick Moody
In this episode of Revolutionize Your Retirement, host Dori Mintzer talks with gerontologist, author, and longtime positive aging pioneer Rick (Harry R.) Moody about his latest book, Climate Change in an Aging Society. Rick describes h...
Longevity Literacy, Purpose, and the New Map of Life with Helen Hirsh Spence
In this episode of Revolutionize Your Retirement, host Dori Mintzer talks with Helen Hirsh Spence, founder of Top 60 Over 60, about reframing aging in the 21st century and confronting both external and internalized ageism. Helen shares her own ...
When the Shadow Speaks: Listening to the Inner Voice That Hijacks Your Life with Connie Zweig, PhD
In this conversation, host Dori Mintzer welcomes Dr. Connie Zweig back to explore how “shadow work” can become a powerful inner practice in midlife and beyond. They discuss what the “shadow” actually is, how it forms in childhood, and the many ...
Age Against the Machine: Fighting Stereotypes, Building Power Together With Ashton Applewhite
Author and activist Ashton Applewhite joins Dori Mintzer to expose how ageism, more than aging itself, undermines health, purpose, and connection across the lifespan. Drawing on her book This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and...
What If There Was a Way to Find Joy in Everything? with Steven Petrow
Award-winning journalist and author Steven Petrow joins Dori Mintzer to explore how to “make” joy, even in some of life’s darkest seasons. Drawing on his new book, The Joy You Make: Find the Silver Lining Even on Your Darkest Days, Ste...
Unlock Your Purpose: Grow and Give for Life with Richard Leider
In this inspiring conversation, internationally best-selling author, coach, and keynote speaker Richard Leider explores why purpose is fundamental to health, healing, happiness, and longevity, especially in the second half of life. He explains ...
Making Older Better: The Art and Science of Joyful Aging with Dorian Mintzer and Kerry Burnight
In this uplifting, research-rich conversation, Dr. Dori Mintzer talks with gerontologist Dr. Kerry Burnight, author of JoySpan: The Art and Science of Thriving in Life’s Second Half. Together they explore how to move beyond fear and de...
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Activating Joy: Discover "Joy Activators" and 'Joy Blockers" in Retirement Planning and for Life Satisfaction with Dorian Mintzer and Yasmin Nguyen
Retirement is a time of new beginnings, but without joy, purpose, and fulfillment, it can feel empty and directionless. Yasmin Nguyen, author, Joy Ambassador, and co-founder of the Retirement Innovation Lab, shares how you, in your professional...
Toward a Fiduciary Society: The Three Domains of Freedom with Dorian Mintzer and George Kinder
George Kinder's latest book, The Three Domains of Freedom, draws on the work of his lifetime, empowering readers to experience profound freedoms and aspires to change civilization. Drawing on his expertise in mindfulness and financial ...
Relieving Pre-Retirement Dread and Post-Retirement Turmoil with Dorian Mintzer and Teresa Amabile
Surprisingly, many older adults approaching retirement feel a sense of dread – even when they have sufficient financial security and are reasonably healthy. In a project sponsored by Harvard Business School, Teresa Amabile’s research team spent...
Renewment®: A Retirement Model for Career Women with Dorian Mintzer and Helen Dennis
This is a story about Renewment®, a word Helen Dennis and her co-founder, Bernice Bratter, made up. The word is a combination of retirement and renewal. So, what is it? It is a small movement, process, and forum that inspires and supports ca...
Pedaling Through Midlife on a Bicycle Built for Two with Szifra Birk, Jay Livingston, and Dorian Mintzer
Leaving middle age and approaching retirement is often portrayed as a time to settle into comfortable patterns and perhaps explore grand adventures. The common view suggests that after you've spent a lifetime building satisfying relationships, ...
Designing an Ageless Mind: From Theory to Practice with Dorian Mintzer with Lynne and Joshua Berrett
Since the early 2000s, Lynne and Josh Berrett have been pioneers in developing a holistic approach to aging that transforms it into a dynamic process of renewal. Their initial venture, Music and Happiness, combined Josh's expertise as a m...
Telling Our Stories: The Gifts of Life Review with Dorian Mintzer and Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle
Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle will reflect on the valuable process of life review for Elders focusing on her recently published memoir titled, Ley Lines of Love: Adventures Along the Spiritual Path.In this program, you will:Explore...
From Babies to Rocket Scientists to Retirees: We Are All Creatives with Dorian Mintzer and Hugh Willard
Creativity is an innate, generative, evolving process of self-expression. One application of creativity requires an individual to be open to new ideas and approaches to seek an original solution to a problem or challenge. Adjusting to retiremen...
Increase Healthspan, Brainspan, and Lifespan with Ageless Aging with Dorian Mintzer and Maddy Dychtwald
Women now live six years longer than men, yet for most, the last decade of life can be plagued with cascading poor health and a lack of purpose. In other words, women's healthspans and lifespans are out of sync. What if there was a way for wome...
Build Your Resilience to Bounce Forward with Dorian Mintzer and Eileen Caroscio
Change happens! Are you ready for what may appear on your horizon in midlife and beyond? Eileen Caroscio will present 3 key strategic ways to navigate those changes and bounce forward from the book, Midlife New Life: Living Cons...
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Let's Tell Our Stories: How Older Women Can Redefine Aging with Dorian Mintzer and Andrea Carlisle
In her book, There Was an Old Woman: Reflections on These Strange, Surprising, Shining Years, Andrea Carlisle describes what it means to her to live a long life. She examines why her experience as an older woman is so different from wh...
Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age with Dorian Mintzer and Chip Conley
It is time to reframe how we think about midlife, the transition period of life between young adulthood and old age, as not a "crisis" but a chrysalis - where a profound transformation happens. In his book, Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reas...
From Retirement to Preferment: How to Create the Next Best Stage of Your Life with Dorian Mintzer and Barbara Waxman
We live in a culture that believes anyone beyond midlife is on a slippery slope towards their demise. The truth is, you can harness the authorship of your next chapter to become your best self for the longest time possible and for what matters ...
