🌅 Redesigning and Reimagining Retirement

Financial planning answers the question, "Can I retire?" But life readiness answers a much bigger question: "How do I want to live?" Retirement is not about reaching the finish line—it is about designing your next beginning.

Sharmila

October 4, 2026

Feelings and Needs Inventory

This tool builds emotional awareness and strengthens communication by helping you identify your true feelings and needs—especially during conflict, overwhelm, or when seeking deeper connection.

The Center for Nonviolent Communication

April 20, 2025

Forget Retirement. Think “Rewirement.”

If you’re considering what’s next after a long corporate career, shift into a purpose-driven second act like board service, teaching, or starting your own venture.

Kellogg Insight

April 21, 2025

Don’t Be Afraid of Preparing for Retirement

If you're approaching retirement or contemplating your post-career life, this article and podcast episode offers valuable guidance on navigating the transition.

Knowledge at Wharton

April 21, 2025

Parenthood or Childfree?

Deciding whether you want to become a parent, or remain childfree, can feel like one of the most emotionally loaded decisions of adult life. In this chapter, Paige and Abby unpack why the question can feel so pressurized, how to create real space for your own truth, and what it looks like to set boundaries with family, partners, and culture when everyone seems to have an opinion.

Paige

October 4, 2026

How to Prepare Your Nervous System for New Goals

This article offers practical, science-based strategies to align your body and mind before pursuing change—helping you manage stress, build resilience, and approach new goals with clarity and care.

Greater Good Science Center

April 20, 2025

Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health

An exploration of how spending time in nature enhances mental and physical well-being, supported by emerging research in ecopsychology.

Yale School of the Environment

April 20, 2025

Uncovering Your Inner Critic

This reflective practice is for moments of self-doubt or inner criticism, helping you recognize and soften harsh thoughts to build self-compassion, emotional safety, and inner resilience.

Sam

April 20, 2025

Between Two Kingdoms

Between Two Kingdoms is a powerful memoir for those facing illness or change, showing that healing is about rediscovery and meaning-making—not just the body, but the whole self.

Suleika Jaouad

April 18, 2025

Senior Year Success, but for Moms

Founder and CEO Abby Nydam sits down with Sam Expert Raina Gandhi to map how an executive coaching playbook becomes a calm, step-by-step plan for senior year. Raina shares the stadium goodbye moment, the mindset shift from “lasts” to “new beginnings,” and the simple systems that keep momentum and connection at home.

Raina

October 4, 2026

Expressive Writing

Expressive writing is a healing practice for grief, stress, or change, helping you release emotions, ease rumination, and gain clarity—while also boosting mood and supporting overall well-being.

Greater Good Science Center

April 20, 2025

Empty Nesting: Co-Creating What’s Next for You

When your kids leave home, the change can bring a mix of emotions: sadness, freedom, uncertainty, excitement, and the question, What now? In this conversation, Sam Expert Paige Zuckerman, M.Ed., CMHC explores the emotional side of empty nesting and offers a practical way to think about what comes next.

Paige

October 4, 2026