Eyres on the Road

Continuing with their April theme of deeper, more effectual morning prayer, Richard and Linda reflect on a sequence or pattern of eight stages of prayer that can start our days in a higher, more spiritual plane. Acknowledging how busy and distracting most people's mornings usually are, how can we find a meaningful pause for prayer? Here are some ideas...

As April begins and Easter is celebrated, Richard and Linda reflect on their own spiritual perception of eternal families, made possible by Christ's life and resurrection. They offer to listeners a 40% discount on their new Grandparenting book (go to https://familius.com/book/the-grandparenting-blueprint/ and at checkout use coupon code EYREFRIEND) and introduce their April theme of MORNING PRAYER...

In this last episode of March, the Eyres summarize the "How to Live" course they have conducted for the past 7 months, and introduce the podcast's core subject matter for April. In the month of Easter and Springtime, Richard and Linda are focusing on personal prayer, particularly "Morning Prayer" and on how we can make it more authentic, personal, and consequential.

Many parenting and grandparenting approaches to money point toward entitlement, hand-outs, and financial illiteracy in our children. But with a little thought and planning, we can find approaches that lead instead to motivation, ownership, and equity mind-sets. Using their own and other families examples, the Eyres discuss how to create a self-sufficient family economy rather than a welfare family...

As the Eyres continue their March theme of how to live the second half of life financially, they focus today on things grandparents can do to assist children financially without fostering attitudes of entitlement. Ideas like an interest-paying Grandparents Bank, Matching Grants, and Custodial Roth IRAs are discussed. All must be done in consultation and agreement with the parents.

In this episode, the Eyres start a deep dive into the financial questions and dilemmas of three generation families. Whether you are Gen 1 (Grandparents), Gen 2 (Parents) or Gen 3 (Grandchildren) tune in all month as Richard and Linda give us ideas that work whether we are rich or poor.

The Eyres are in Manhattan today with their son Eli and daughter-in-law Julie and their children -- Eli joins them as they discuss three generation families and how to stay close and how to connect generations one and three. Eli and the Eyres share their love for New York City -- even as a place to raise kids.

Today, the Eyres are joined by their daughter Shawni who has made them great-grandparents! As a new grandma, Shawni has some fresh perspectives, and Richard and Linda share a section from their forthcoming book "The Grandparenting Blueprint" which will be released in March.

The Eyres give their podcast followers a sneak preview of their new book, being released in March, called THE GRANDPARENTING BLUEPRINT: How to teach your grandkids life’s most important lessons. This episode they share insights into what they call the basics of deliberate, proactive, teamwork grand parenting.

In this episode, the Linda and Richard give us a sneak preview of their book The Grandparenting Blueprint that will be released in March. Perhaps what makes the book unique is that it includes responses and inputs from the Eyres' grandchildren of all ages. Why did they write this book? Answers in this podcast!

In this episode, directly from the Eyres who are currently on Maui, the contention is that no matter how hard we work at parenting (or grandparenting) and no matter how many parenting methods or techniques we have, the greatest help comes not from human sources but from divine sources. As earthly parents, we are entitled to help from Heavenly Parents and we need to seek that help through sincere p...

The Eyres begin this episode by reflecting on their history with Hawaii and the role the islands have played in their family life. Then they turn to the month's theme of How To Live the Second Half of Life Spiritually and focus on their grandson's accident that occurred this week and what it taught them about prayer and spiritual answers. For more detail see Instagram @HTLsecondhalf.

The Eyres are back in their Maui retreat and casting today on the continuation of the January theme of How to Live the Second Half SPIRITUALLY. They suggest that, while people call it many things, most believe is something higher and greater; and that our own spirits, which are more eternal than brain and body, can connect with that vaster Spirit, and they use two poems to illustrate their point.

Within their January focus on How to Live the Second Half Spiritually, the Eyres overview a thought-and-prayer sequence that creates a spiritual paradigm for the day ahead: Relaxed, Remembr, Rethink, Release, Request, Receive, Respond, Rejoice... taking some spelling liberties to create the pattern formed by eight seven-letter words that all start with RE.

Happy New Year 2026! Today the Eyres cast from central Mexico where they are staying with about half of their large family in a historic Hacienda that is conducive to deep conversation and the sharing of New Year's Resolutions or dreams. It is also the beginning of a January focus on a kind of spiritual second-half thinking that Richard and Linda are practicing and teaching.

Reflecting on the Christmas Day just passed, what was the deepest thing you felt? In this week following Christmas, the Eyres talk about tne momentum of Jesus' birthday becoming the catalyst for looking deeply into the coming year. Whatever your religion or lack thereof, all have felt connections to the universe, to the divine, and thinking about those, and how to expand them, can be the key to 20...

Do you like to be alone with yourself? Are you ever alone with yourself (without your phone)? Do you genuinely like yourself during those alone moments? Enough to crave more of them? How is the best way to feel that secure, inner connection with yourself? Can you, even in this busiest week of the year, pause for a moment, observe, slow time down, feel who you are?

The Eyres are casting from Phoenix today where they are spending time with their daughter Shawni and son Josh, and where Richard is playing in a national tennis tournament. They start by saying that Social second-half thinking is all about relationships that matter and that need thought and work to be preserved and improved. They then share some ideas for doing just that.

In the Autumn of our lives, it's not about how to win friends and influence people or about how many contacts we have or how many friends on social media -- it's about the quality of the relationships that matters most. The Eyres talk today about the most important relationships with family and how to gather, how to set relationship goals, and how to have 5-facet reviews.

The Eyre's having been vacationing in Morocco for the holiday season, so we are revisiting their thoughts from November 2023 on Thanksgiving and Christmas! "This episode (despite the fact that Richard has almost lost his voice from the Thanksgiving revelry) is about Thanksgiving and Christmas family traditions and how these rituals are more than fun little habits--they are the glue that holds fami...

In this episode, Richard and Linda suggest that becoming deliberately and intentionally more thankful (the opposite of "taking for granted") is more than a path to happiness, it IS happiness in its most obtainable form. They share their own history of gratitude journals and thanks-giving traditions and challenge us (and themselves) to center our Thanksgiving holiday around a lasting gratitude list...

As November begins, the Eyres introduce the month's theme of a higher way to live emotionally with a question: How can we FEEL MORE of four things: Joy, Love, Peace, and Beauty? Are there things we can do, ways we can think, and attitudes we can cultivate that increase and deepen these four emotions? They suggest that we each search for methods to do so during this Thanksgiving month.

Due to Halloween, grandkids, and travel, the Eyres didn't record this week and asked us to pick a favorite re-run...which we did. Richard and Linda will be back live next week with the latest in their How To Live series. "Casting from Las Vegas today, the Eyres finish a discussion they started last episode about the 3-letter lesson ALM referring to the acts of mercy and compassion that Jesus calle...

Today the Eyres suggest that "Independence" is a mindset for the first half of life which proves, in the second half and in the spiritual and emotional and social sense to be a lie. We are dependent on God and interdependent on strangers, as well as on those we love. An alternative mindset called "Synergicity" is suggested and metaphors and examples are given.

The Eyres are devoting their October podcasts to How to Live the Second Half of life MENTALLY, and this episode contrasts the "Ownership mindset" with the "Stewardship mindset. The former leads to comparing and competing on many levels and promotes win-lose attitudes and grows branches of envy, jealousy, superiority and condescension. The latter is about win-win and sprouts cooperation, empathy, a...