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Victoria Tomlinson – Expiry Date Never (opens the original)
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In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives Podcast, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is joined by Victoria Tomlinson, founder and CEO of Next-Up, to talk about her new book, Expiry Date Never, and the systems quietly pushing experienced people out of work. Tomlinson argues the problem is not age but obsolete workplace design, and that the first thing to fix is recruitment, where candidates are screened out at 50 and increasingly at 40. She makes the case for scrapping the 50-plus label, which collapses 66 years of lif
Jane Duncan Rogers - Living Through Loss - Resilience, Grief and Purpose (opens the original)
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In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives Podcast, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is joined by Jane Duncan Rogers, author and end-of-life planning pioneer, for a wide-ranging conversation about facing mortality with honesty and even joy. Jane makes the case that end-of-life planning is a form of emotional liberation, freeing the energy we tie up in avoidance. They explore grief and widowhood, the ‘after-self’ that emerges from loss, and Jane’s image of the heart as a flowing stream with gates that open and close. T
Richard Smith - ReThinking Retirement - Longer Financial Lives (opens the original)
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In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives Podcast, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is joined by pensions expert Richard Smith for a conversation about money, longevity and the decades we spend planning for a future we can’t predict. Smith explains why the average UK worker now juggles three or four separate pensions across a churning career, and why almost 80% of people have no idea what they hold in total. The two explore the coming UK pensions dashboard, which will finally connect over 100 million scattered record
Anne Button & Rachel Cohen - Change Makers in Midlife, Making Longevity Learning Accessible (opens the original)
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In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is joined by Anne Button and Rachel Cohen to explore how universities can support purposeful midlife transitions at scale. Anne and Rachel co-developed Change Makers, a 15-week programme based at University of Colorado Denver, designed for adults navigating their next chapter. Built for accessibility, the course runs evenings, blends online and in-person sessions, and costs under $4,000. That design choice also brings in people who are still
Jane Moffett - Women Wrote the Map First: Navigating longer lives (opens the original)
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In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives Podcast, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is joined by Jane Moffett, author of What Next? and the Founder of KANGAROO Coaching, for a conversation about the life stage still awkwardly labelled retirement. Moffett argues the adjustment after leaving work can take up to seven years, because stopping work is a major psychological transition involving shifts in identity, values and meaning — none of which can be hurried. She maps six recurring challenges, from the manner of leavi
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