Two Roads Retired

A New Conversation For The Next Chapter

Retirement is a funny thing.

For years, you think about it mostly in terms of leaving something behind. The alarm clock. The meetings. The schedule. The constant need to be somewhere, doing something, proving something.

And then one day you are retired.

And you realize retirement is not just about what you left.

It is about what you are becoming.

That is one of the reasons I am excited to introduce a new monthly podcast called Two Roads Retired, a conversation I will be having with my friend Ron Durant from the YouTube channel All Things Ron.

Ron and I both came to retirement from different roads. Different careers. Different experiences. Different rhythms of life. But we have both discovered that retirement is not one single path. It is not a brochure. It is not a hammock in the backyard, although I am certainly not opposed to that.

Retirement is a season of choices.

How do we spend our time?
How do we handle our money?
What do we keep?
What do we let go?
What new things do we try?
And how do we stay curious when the world keeps telling us to slow down and fade into the background?

That is where Two Roads Retired comes in.

Once a month, Ron and I will sit down for a real conversation about this stage of life. We will talk about retirement, decluttering, budgeting, travel, hobbies, YouTube, e-bikes, creativity, and probably a few things we did not plan to talk about at all.

That may be the best part.

This will not be a polished lecture. It will not be two people pretending to have everything figured out. It will simply be two retired guys comparing notes. Sometimes we will agree. Sometimes we may see things differently. But the goal is not to win an argument. The goal is to have the kind of conversation many of us wish we had more often.

Honest. Practical. A little reflective. And hopefully, now and then, funny.

I think many of us reach this stage of life and discover that we still have a lot to learn. We are not finished. We are not done growing. We are not done changing. We are simply traveling a different road than the one we were on before.

And for me, that has become one of the great surprises of retirement.

There is still more road ahead.

So I hope you will join Ron and me for Two Roads Retired. Whether you are already retired, getting close, or simply wondering what this next chapter might look like, I think there will be something in these conversations for you.

Two roads. Two perspectives. One shared season of life.

And maybe, somewhere along the way, we will all feel a little less alone on the journey.

Two Roads Retired will be published on the first Sunday of every month at 10:00 AM EST. Click here to subscribe and turn on notifications so you won’t miss a single episode!