Retirement Rebels
RETIREMENT REBELS : EVERY DAY MATTERS
If You Can't Find It - Then Create It
Does the idea of coding frighten you? Well here is an amazing story of how one retirement rebel faced and conquered this challenge head on.
Pushing Your Limits As You Age
When was the last time you pushed yourself? Here's a wonderful story of how some women are doing this and building friendships in the process.
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Living Your Best Encore: Brian Prousky
Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In his own words, author and poet, Brian Prousky shares his journey to becoming a writer and the life lessons he gathered along the way.
Retirement Rebels
Reasons to Become A Retirement Rebel
Retirement Rebels refuse to follow the old fashion beliefs about “old-people,” and being retired. In fact they are anything but retired.
Navigating the Transition: From Finance Executive to Retiree
Toni believed that the transition to retirement was going to be easy. But as she embarked on this new chapter she soon realized that building a happy and thriving retirement goes beyond financial planning.
Tatsuo Horiuchi – An Innovator in Retirement
Embracing the Renaissance of Retirement
What if we treated retirement as an opportunity for a renaissance? A time to discover new things, new people and new ways to give back to the world we all share.
If You Can't Find It - Then Create It
Does the idea of coding frighten you? Well here is an amazing story of how one retirement rebel faced and conquered this challenge head on.
Pushing Your Limits As You Age
When was the last time you pushed yourself? Here's a wonderful story of how some women are doing this and building friendships in the process.
"The Spanish King" - It's Never Too Late To Try Something New
Andrés García-Carro lived a quiet life in Spain. Fast forward to today, and this 90 year old is now a fashion model and instagram sensation.
Lessons From A 60 Year Overnight Success
So often we hear about people who become an overnight success. But in reality, these overnight sensations were actually a very long time in the making.
Don't Act Your Age: Sister Madonna Buder - The "Iron Nun"
Meet Sister Madonna Buder. A retirement rebel extraordinaire.
Do What You Love At Any Age
Is there something that you want to do but believe that your age is holding you back?
The Desire to Serve Doesn't Stop in Retirement - It Just Might Be Packaged Differently
Once Mike Mason retired, he discovered the desire to serve again emerged but manifested in a different way.
Discovering and Nurturing Your Passion
What is it that you love to do? Artist Paul Dixon shows us that when you're doing something you love it isn't work at all.
Preserving Family Traditions at 86 Years Old
Family traditions are things that connect the past to the present and no one knows this better than 86 year old Giorgos Hatziparaskos.
Becoming A Grandmother Retirement Rebel
After witnessing the birth of her granddaughter, everything changed for Donne Davis and she launched The GaGa Sisterhood. This is her story.
Chuck Yeager - A True Retirement Rebel
If there ever was an example of a retirement rebel - Chuck Yeager was it.
What’s Your Retirement Vision?
Living The Anti Aging Pill Called Exercise
Meet Ernestine Shepherd. At the age of 74 she was named the oldest female competitive body builder in Guinness World Records.
It’s Never Too Late To Get Healthy
Would you like to be healthier but think it’s too late? Here’s an inspirational story that shows this is not at all the case.
Fighting Back Against Cancer
During the 75+ interviews for my book, Ag’s story showed a remarkable combination of resilience and a sense of purpose.
The Legacy of Charles Eugster
Charles Eugster at the age of 85 decided that he wasn't pleased with his physical health so he began a fitness program and showed us what is possible.
The Value of Having Retirement Role Models
Discovering what type of retirement you would like to have can often be found in the retired role models around you.
By Susan Williams
Move It Or Lose It
Aging doesn't happen overnight. It happens over a lifetime and that is why Lew Hollander shares what we do at 40 will matter when we're 90. So we have to keep moving.
Racing To Beat Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease
When people receive a life altering diagnosis, it’s natural to only think of the negative. This was no different for Catherine Popp and Tony Copeland-Parker. But how they managed the situation was.
Proof That It's Never Too Late
Grace Lee McClure Smith shows us, it's never too late. She graduated from high school at the age of 94.
