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After the Rush Podcast
Designing what comes next — the relationships, the work, the money, and the life you still have time to build. For people who are capable, experienced, and ready for what comes next.
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Episodes
After the Rush PodcastHow to Find Advice Worth Taking
My friend built a house. She designed it, lived in it for years, and then married and moved an hour away into his. Rather than sell, she rented it out. Six…
After the Rush PodcastThe Portfolio Life: When One Thing Was Never the Answer
There is a form in every waiting room in America with one narrow line on it that says Occupation. Two inches. One word for a whole life. I have never once fit…
After the Rush PodcastWalking: The Boring Answer That Keeps Being Right
I went to my doctor hoping for something with more dignity than a walk around the block. A protocol, a machine, a supplement with a name I couldn’t pronounce…
After the Rush PodcastBoundaries With Adult Children Without Losing the Relationship
Everyone tells you to set boundaries with your adult children. Almost nobody tells you what to do with the guilt that shows up right after, or what to do when…
After the Rush PodcastWhere to Live Next: The Framework Nobody Gives You
Everyone hands you a calculator when the question turns to where you’ll live next. Cost of living, property tax, walkability, average January temperature. All…
After the Rush PodcastWhat "Enough" Actually Feels Like
I was standing in the kitchen on a Thursday, holding a mug I have owned for eleven years, and I realized I was not waiting for anything. No next thing on the…
After the Rush PodcastThe Saver's Trap
There are good beans going stale in a jar above my coffee maker. I have been saving them for a special morning that has not arrived in four months, and this…
After the Rush PodcastHow I Choose Where My Money Actually Goes
I had fourteen charity appeal letters spread across my kitchen table last December and I didn’t write a single check for eleven days. Not because I didn’t want…
After the Rush PodcastThe Three Numbers That Actually Matter Now
My doctor handed me a summary sheet at my last physical and I put it in my bag face-down. I told myself I was busy. I kept it that way for two days. If you're…
After the Rush PodcastI Didn't Plan On Getting Old With You
My sister was eight and I was six, in a house with five children, two parents, three dogs, chickens, a duck and rabbits, on an ordinary residential street. It…
After the Rush PodcastThe Technology You Actually Need to Learn
Someone told me recently that people in this chapter need to “get comfortable with technology.” I understood what they meant. I also thought they had the…
After the Rush PodcastStarting Over When You Don't Know What You're Starting
The morning I left clinical work for good, I stood at the kitchen counter with a full cup of coffee, a full day, and a paper folder I had labeled NEXT in my…
After the Rush PodcastI Hate the Gym
I spent my professional life understanding bones. Then mine went soft, and I learned the difference between knowing a thing and living it. This episode is…
After the Rush PodcastThe Conversation Most Couples Are Not Having
Most couples approaching the 55-plus chapter have talked about the logistics. The money, the house, the travel, the rough timeline. Very few have had the real…
After the Rush PodcastWhen Should I Take Social Security? | Episode 5
When I was sixteen, someone explained Social Security to me. She pointed to the FICA line on my paycheck and said: that money goes to the government, and when…
After the Rush PodcastDo You Trust What You Built?
The financial side of leaving full-time work gets endless coverage. The part almost no one covers is the strangest part of all: once you have saved carefully…
After the Rush PodcastThe Money Story You Never Questioned
You have probably done the math. Maybe you have a financial advisor, a retirement account, a plan. And yet, something still feels unresolved. In Episode 3 of…
After the Rush PodcastWho Are You Without the Job?
Most people approaching the end of full-time work are ready for the financial transition. Almost none of them are ready for the identity one. In Episode 4 of…
After the Rush PodcastWho You Are When the Rushing Stops
This is the first episode of After the Rush. I have been telling people for years that the transition is the work. Not the thing you get through to reach the…