There are two things nobody really warns you about when you get older. They don’t show up in the brochures for retirement or the "gold watch" ceremonies. They […]
Job Loss & Retirement / Mental Health After 50 / Reinvention & Second Act
The Life Mortgage: Why ‘Nobody Cares’ Is Your New Superpower After 50
Many years ago, I was buying an apartment in England. The banker showed me a chart that stayed with me for decades. It was a visual representation of […]
Job Loss & Retirement / Job Loss After 50 / Mental Health After 50 / Reinvention & Second Act
You Can Always Make More Money. You Cannot Make More Time.
There is a graph they show you when you take out a mortgage. For the first ten years, most of your payment goes toward interest. Very little touches […]
Job Loss & Retirement / Job Loss After 50 / Mental Health After 50
A LinkedIn Notification Brought It All Back. 10 Months Later, I Wasn’t Ready.
I’m 57, and 10 months ago at the age of 56, I lost my job. It’s been a long 10 months. I’ve been building this channel, writing, connecting […]
Job Loss & Retirement / Job Loss After 50 / Mental Health After 50
Losing Your Job After 50? You Need To Hear This.
Losing a job is never easy, but losing your career in your fifties or sixties is a different experience altogether. It is not just the loss of income […]
Mental Health After 50
The Sunday Morning Question: Why February and Aging Are About Pacing, Not Pushing
It's Sunday, February 8th, and if you're anything like me, you're looking out the window with a coffee in hand, feeling that particular February energy. Or maybe it's […]
Job Loss After 50 / Mental Health After 50
Job Loss After 50: 1.2 Million Laid Off, 40% Face Depression: The Real Cost of Identity Death
I was reading the news this morning, and it struck me just how much of the conversation around layoffs is about numbers. Big, loud numbers. Layoff percentages, stock […]
Job Loss & Retirement / Mental Health After 50
When the Title Vanishes and the Mirror Feels Unfamiliar
Sunday evenings used to have a particular weight to them. That familiar mix of weekend's end and Monday's approach, the mental shift from personal time back to professional […]
Job Loss & Retirement / Mental Health After 50
Why LinkedIn Feels Like a Parallel Universe These Days
I opened LinkedIn this morning and was immediately greeted by someone celebrating their "incredible journey" from redundancy to "dream role" in just six weeks. Complete with a photo […]
Mental Health After 50
EO50 Sunday Coffee Chat: Coffee and Connection
Sunday morning. Coffee’s hot. Phone’s quiet. Let’s talk about something that matters. That’s how I kicked off this week’s thought on social media, and honestly? It landed differently […]