» Listen to the Penguin Podcast from the Listening is an Act of Love audiobook, a celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps project.

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Other author podcasts:

» Listen to an interview with Stacey A. Cordery, author of Alice on the Washington Post Book World Podcast.

» Shalom Auslander reads from Foreskin's Lament and Jennifer Belle offers recommendations on The Globe Books Podcast.

» George Saunders reads Isaac Babel’s “You Must Know Everything” on The New Yorker Fiction Podcast; Edwidge Danticat discusses Junot Díaz's "How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)" on The New Yorker Out Loud Podcast.

» NPR: Books Podcast features Stacey Cordery about Alice.

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"Are you telling me not to retire?" "Do you mean I should work forever?" These are some of the questions audiences ask before I begin to give a speech or deliver a workshop on our book, Don't Retire, REWIRE! The answer to both questions is NO. However...that NO is my opening line. It's the reason why people need a whole new way "to do" the future.

Before we wrote our book, we asked hundreds of people what they thought of the word retirement. Almost unanimously we got a "thumbs down." People admitted to mixed and negative feelings about the word...and more importantly what it exemplified..." a step before death" was what one person told us. We found this view quite extreme, but understood where he was coming from. We'd heard variations on his comment before. Today, all Boomers have to go on is an old model of retirement created by Otto Von Bismark in Germany in the late 1880's!

We don't know about you but we thought that it was time to do a retirement makeover on the word and meaning of retirement! Who wants a game plan for the future that was created over 100 years ago! People are moving fast and don't always have the time to figure out their next act. So we made it easier and created a new concept with a new set of ideas so people could create their future...not follow somebody else's. We called ours' Rewirement®.