Gap Year For Grown-Ups
by Debbie Weil
May 31, 2024 4:00 pm
A podcast about (b)oldly moving from midlife to old age in a society that devalues old people and/or misunderstands what (b)old age is *really* like. Debbie, who is 72, explores that question in frank 30-minute conversations with best-selling authors, experts, and exceptional individuals. With her guests she delves into the unretired (non-retired) life, ageism, ambition, slowing down (or not), physical deterioration, grandparenting, intergenerational collaboration, grief and widowhood, and more. As well as other stuff that piques her interest such as the craft of writing. She invites her husband, Sam Harrington, on as a frequent guest. He’s a retired physician with a dry sense of humor and he makes her laugh. Debbie and Sam took a grownup gap year at age 61, leaving behind a professional life in Washington D.C. Now in their early 70s, they live a busy and productive “unretired” life on an island off the coast of Maine. Debbie writes for Substack at debbieweil.substack.com. Over 100 previous episodes at debbieweil.com/podcast MEDIA PARTNERS: Encore.org Modern Elder Academy (Formerly) Next For Me
Recent Episodes
Podcast Finale: Debbie & Sam Reflect on Five Years of Podcasting and Ten Gap Years
1 year agoAuthor Sarah Fay on Healing Her Own Mental Illness and Applying Less and Less of More and More to Life and Substack
1 year agoPatty Ivey on Getting Breast Cancer at Age 70 and How It’s Changing What She Will Give Back to the World
1 year agoLyn Slater on How To Be Old and Why She Is No Longer a Fashion Influencer
1 year agoSteven Petrow on His Sister Julie, the Importance of Choice, and Medical Aid in Dying
1 year agoKirsten Powers on Changing the Channel From CNN Political Analyst to Easeful Living and Writing
1 year agoBestselling Author Dale Russakoff on Being a Southern Woman at Harvard, Ambition at 71, and How Family Matters Most
2 years agoBestselling Author Mary Pipher on Forgiveness, Happiness, and Old Age
2 years agoWinifred White Neisser on Ambition, Embracing 70, and What Comes Next
2 years agoBest Of: Debbie and Sam Go Back to France
2 years ago