The Encore Project Podcast
The Encore Project Podcast features thoughtful conversations and practical insights for senior men navigating retirement, purpose, health, relationships, and personal growth in the digital age.
This podcast is an extension of The Encore Project — a platform created to encourage men in life’s second half to remain engaged, curious, reflective, and connected.
Each episode explores the emotional, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions of aging with intention. Through stories, reflections, and guided discussions, we examine what it means to move beyond simply “retiring” and instead reimagine the years ahead as a time of renewal and contribution.
Topics span ten core areas central to a fulfilling later life: coping with grief and loss, creative pursuits, faith and fulfillment, financial empowerment, health and wellness, inspiration and personal growth, relationships and companionship, retirement reimagined, tech-savvy living, and travel and adventure.
Rather than offering quick fixes or generic advice, The Encore Project Podcast invites thoughtful exploration. Episodes are designed to feel warm, conversational, and reflective — like sitting across the table from a trusted friend who understands both the challenges and opportunities of aging.
Many episodes draw inspiration from deeply researched written pieces, allowing us to distill essential ideas into accessible, meaningful conversations. Others focus on storytelling — highlighting resilience, rediscovery, and quiet transformation in the lives of senior men.
At its heart, this podcast exists to affirm a simple truth: growth does not end at retirement. Purpose does not expire. Curiosity does not age out. The second half of life can be one of depth, clarity, contribution, and renewal.
Hosted by The Encore Project.
Episodes
92 episodes
Turn Down the Volume: Effective Stress Relief Strategies for Senior Men
Retirement was supposed to be calmer — and for many men, it is. But stress doesn’t disappear with the end of a career. It shifts. Health concerns, financial uncertainty, loneliness, the loss of identity tied to work — these are the stressors th...
Blood Sugar and Beyond: Managing Diabetes in Later Life
Diabetes affects nearly 30% of Americans over 65, and for many senior men it’s a condition they’ve been living with for years. As you age, diabetes management becomes more complex: blood sugar targets shift, medications interact with other pres...
Protect Your Engine: Heart Health Strategies for Senior Men
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men in the United States — and the risk increases significantly with age. But it’s not inevitable. The lifestyle choices you make in your 60s and 70s have a measurable impact on your cardiovascula...
Don’t Wait Until It Hurts: The Case for Regular Health Screenings After 65
The most dangerous thing about many of the conditions that affect senior men — high blood pressure, diabetes, colon cancer, abdominal aortic aneurysm — is that they develop silently. No pain, no obvious symptoms, until the situation is serious....
Mind and Body Are One: The Mental Health and Physical Well-being Connection for Senior Men
Most men think about their physical health and their mental health as separate concerns. They’re not. The research on this is unambiguous: depression slows physical recovery, anxiety elevates blood pressure, loneliness increases the risk of hea...
Eat for the Life You Want: Nutritional Needs for Senior Men
What you eat in your 60s and 70s has a more direct and measurable impact on your health than at almost any other stage of life. The aging body processes nutrients differently, absorbs certain vitamins less efficiently, and requires different am...
Built for Your Body: Tailored Exercise Routines for Senior Men
The same workout routine that served you at 40 won’t serve you at 70 — and trying to force it will hurt more than help. The good news is that exercise in later life, when properly tailored to where your body actually is, delivers extraordinary ...
Hit the Trail or Hit the Sidewalk? Hiking vs Walking for Weight Loss After 50
Both hiking and walking are excellent forms of exercise for men over 50 — but they’re not the same, and the differences matter when weight loss is your goal. Hiking burns more calories, challenges more muscle groups, and offers the added mental...
Keep Moving: Practical Arthritis Pain Management for Older Men
Arthritis affects more than 58 million Americans, and older men are among those hit hardest — yet many continue to undertreat it, either pushing through the pain or assuming nothing can be done. Both approaches are wrong. In this episode, we ta...
Why You’re Exhausted: Understanding and Managing Sleep Apnea in Later Life
If you’re waking up tired no matter how long you sleep, snoring loudly, or your partner keeps noticing that you stop breathing during the night, sleep apnea may be the reason. It’s one of the most common and most underdiagnosed conditions in ol...
Make Your Money Last: Smart Retirement Fund Allocation for the 2030 Retiree
By 2030, every baby boomer will be over 65 — and the financial landscape those men are retiring into looks significantly different from the one their parents navigated. Healthcare costs are rising, Social Security faces uncertainty, and market ...
Spend Less, Live More: Frugal Living Secrets for Men Over 60
Frugal living in retirement isn’t about clipping coupons or giving things up. It’s about making intentional choices with a fixed income so that your money goes toward what genuinely matters to you — and stops leaking out through habits yo...
Your Experience Is Your Capital: Starting a Nonprofit in Retirement
Retirement gives you something most aspiring nonprofit founders never have enough of: time, wisdom, and a lifetime of skills. What it may not give you is capital — but that’s less of a barrier than you might think. Thousands of successful nonpr...
Leave on Your Own Terms: The Best Early Retirement Plans Explained
For many men, the idea of retiring before 65 is less a fantasy than a serious plan — but getting there requires understanding the financial vehicles that make it possible. 401(k)s, IRAs, Roth IRAs, Health Savings Accounts, pensions, Social Secu...
The Money Reality Check: Financial Planning for Men in Their 60s
Your 60s are when financial planning stops being theoretical. The decisions you make now — when to claim Social Security, how to draw down your accounts, what to budget for healthcare, how to structure your estate — have consequences that compo...
Borrow Smart: Understanding Secured vs. Unsecured Debt After 50
Borrowing money after 50 is a fundamentally different calculation than borrowing in your 30s. With retirement on the horizon and income likely to shift to a fixed basis, the type of debt you carry — and the risks attached to it — matters more t...
Who Should You Trust with Your Estate? Finding the Right Inheritance Tax Advisor
You’ve spent decades building your estate. The last thing you want is for a significant portion of it to disappear in taxes before it reaches the people you intended to provide for. Inheritance tax planning is one of the most consequential fina...
Money Back in Your Pocket: Understanding the Elderly Tax Credit
The Elderly Tax Credit is one of the most underused tax benefits available to senior men — largely because so few people know it exists or understand how it works. Unlike a deduction, this credit directly reduces the taxes you owe, which makes ...
Keeping the Peace: How to Handle Family Conflict Over Inheritance
Few things unravel a family faster than a disagreement over inheritance. What begins as a legal and financial matter quickly becomes personal — old wounds resurface, siblings stop speaking, and relationships built over decades can fracture in t...
The Number That Will Shock You: Planning for Retirement Health Costs
Here’s a number that stops most men cold: according to Fidelity, a 65-year-old retiring today will need approximately 65,000 just to cover healthcare costs throughout retirement — and that figure has more than doubled since 2002. For men over 5...
Give More, Live More: How Serving Others with Faith Brings Daily Joy
There’s a quiet paradox at the heart of service: the more you give to others, the more fully you live. For senior men navigating retirement, that insight isn’t just philosophical — it’s practical. Men who serve others with genuine faith-driven ...
The Gift That Outlasts Everything: Leaving a Spiritual Legacy for Your Family
The most enduring things you pass on to your children and grandchildren aren’t in a will. They’re in the values you modeled, the faith you practiced, the stories you told, and the way you faced difficulty. A spiritual legacy — the transmission ...
Where Do You Belong? Finding Your Spiritual Community in Later Life
One of the quiet losses of retirement is the erosion of community — the colleagues, the routines, the built-in sense of belonging that work provided. For senior men, finding a spiritual community isn’t just a faith matter; it’s a health matter....
Faith That Works: Walking the Spiritual Path with Practical Feet
There's a version of spirituality that stays safely abstract — beliefs held in reserve for Sundays or crisis moments, never quite touching daily life. And then there's the kind that actually changes how you move through a Tuesday. For sen...
Live What You Believe: Exploring Ethical Living in Your Senior Years
The later years of life offer something the earlier decades rarely did: the time and the perspective to be intentional about how you live. Ethical living — making choices that align with your deepest values and contribute to something beyond yo...