Retirement isn’t an ending.
The podcast for the new retirement
A 60-year-old today may have thirty-five years ahead of them. Every week, Kwame Kuadey sits down with the researchers, clinicians, caregivers and people who have lived it — the ones who know how to make those years good ones.
Longevity, health, caregiving, aging in place, purpose, money — and the benefits you have earned.
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What we cover
Not just the money. Thirty more years asks more questions than a financial plan can answer, and more than half of them are about health.
What thirty more years asks of a body and a life — and what still moves the needle starting at 60, 70 or 80.
Strength, balance and what you eat, treated as the retirement infrastructure they are.
What raises and lowers dementia risk, and the early signs families usually miss.
Depression and anxiety are not a normal part of getting older — though they get treated that way.
Isolation carries a measurable health cost, comparable to smoking. Medical as much as social.
One in three older adults lives alone. What that changes, and when staying put stops being realistic.
For a parent, a spouse, eventually yourself. What it costs and where the help actually is.
Thirty years, not fifteen. Second-act income, and making retirement income last.
Claimed for the most you are owed — and where the net stops. Medicare does not cover long-term care.
Your host
Kwame is the co-founder of Next Chapter Media and an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. Through Benefits Insider he has helped more than 365,000 people and counting understand the Social Security and Medicare benefits they have already earned.
He is a Shark Tank winner and a four-time Inc. 5000 entrepreneur, and his work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, Inc. and on NPR. He started this show because the benefits work kept running into a bigger question. Getting every dollar you are owed matters — and it is still not the same thing as knowing what to do with thirty more years.
Who we book
Researchers, directors and clinicians from the organisations that study ageing, fund it, report on it and deliver the care.
AARP
Brookings Institution
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Stanford Center on Longevity
American Society on Aging
Yahoo Finance
MarketWatch
National Alliance for Caregiving
A Place for MomEach guest appeared in a personal capacity. Organisations are named to describe our guests’ work — they are not sponsors or partners of Retirement Navigator, and nothing here is an endorsement by them.
For prospective guests
If you can make one part of the next chapter clearer, we want to talk to you. Thirty to forty-five minutes, remote, no prep required — and a page on this site that is yours to keep.
New episodes every week, wherever you already listen. Curiosity, confidence, and clarity for the next thirty years.
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