In this episode of The Cool Grandpa Podcast, I sit down again with author and creative thinker Don Akchin to talk about his new book, After Work: An Honest Discussion About What Comes Next. Don challenges the old idea of retirement as “the end” and redefines it as the...
In this powerful episode of The Cool Grandpa Podcast, I chat with Sean Webb, the Executive Director of Read With Me Volunteer Programs, based in California’s Coachella Valley. Sean shares how over 600 volunteers—many of them retirees—are making an incredible...
Andre Renna shares his experience as a grandfather with us. We learn about Andre’s reaction to learning that he would become a grandpa for the first time and how he was very excited to meet his grandchildren. I ask Andre about being a grandfather in the same...
Our conversation with Ben Manny Ben Manny is an engaged grandpa, AND he is an engaged volunteer. This week, I discuss how grandfathers can support their community but mainly the children and young adults in their community. We start our conversation with Ben...
Our Monthly One on One “I’m in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn’t get offered before – fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I’m glad because it opens...