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
The Jolt Phenomenon with Dorian Mintzer and Mark Miller
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Episode Description:
Jolts can derail us - or they can propel us into reclaiming and remaking our lives. They prompt us to ask questions about our values and purpose.
Psychologists have been studying this phenomenon for some time; one research team at the University of North Carolina Charlotte back in the mid-1990s named the phenomenon "post-traumatic growth" (PTG). Since then, PTG has emerged as an important field of study for psychologists and social scientists.
Jolt explores a range of PTG experiences - -the death of a child, life-threatening illness, plane crashes, terror attacks, natural disasters - and also a wide range of growth responses.
In this episode, you will discover:
- What is the process of change that trauma survivors experience as they grow?
- What does the process of change look like from the inside for jolt survivors?
- What is the role of spirituality and faith? Who is most likely to experience growth after trauma - and who is not?
- And, what is the meaning of these stories of trauma and growth for the rest of us?
About Mark Miller:
For over a decade, Mark Miller has researched and written about what motivates people to reinvent their lives. He is a nationally recognized expert on retirement and aging; he writes a column for Reuters and contributes to The New York Times and other national news outlets.
Mark is the author of Jolt: Stories of Trauma and Transformation, which tells the stories of people transformed by growth following trauma, and the new paths they pursue.
Some are on missions to help others or to make things right in the world, while others embark on new careers. Some people simply find that their relationships grow deeper or seek a stronger spiritual dimension in their lives.
Get in touch with Mark Miller:
Visit Mark's website: https://retirementrevised.com/
Buy Mark's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/jolt
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