The Retirepreneur Podcast

The Consulting Agreement That Protects Your Expertise and Your Income Episode Summary After decades building professional credibility, the last thing you expect to derail your consulting practice is paperwork—or the lack of it. Yet experienced professi...

Episode Summary Here's a statistic that should change how you think about starting over after 55: 70% of ventures launched by entrepreneurs aged 50 and older are still operating after five years, compared to just 28% for younger startups. That's more t...

🎙 How to Reinvent Your Work Without Starting Over Episode Summary What if the skill that built your career is now the very thing holding you back from your best second act? According to AARP research, 53% of professionals over 50 plan to keep working p...

🎙️ Building Real Income Without Risking Your Retirement: The $500 Business Model Episode Summary What if the biggest barrier to starting your second-act business isn't your age, lack of ideas, or limited time—but a completely false assumption about wha...

🎙️ The Wisdom Advantage: Why Starting a Business After 60 Gives You the Edge Episode Summary What if the very traits you think disqualify you from entrepreneurship—caution, skepticism, hard-earned scars from past failures—are actually your unfair compe...

🎙️ The Power of Learning Something New in Your Second Act Episode Summary What if the phrase "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" is one of the biggest lies ever told about aging? Recent neuroscience research reveals that adults over 60 retain signi...

🎙️ What Would I Even Do? Turning Your Decades of Experience Into Your Next Business Episode Summary If you've ever asked yourself "What would I even do?" when thinking about your next chapter, you're not alone—and you're not short on ideas. According t...

🎙️ The Reinvention Formula: Why the Best Entrepreneurs Give Away Their Best Work Episode Summary What if the most counterintuitive business move—giving away your premium content for free—was actually the smartest growth strategy you could make? While m...

Stop Building on Assumptions: Smart Validation for Second-Act Entrepreneurs Episode Summary Here's a sobering statistic that should give every experienced entrepreneur pause: 42% of startups fail because there's simply no market need for what they've b...

🎙️ From Know-How to Legacy: Turn Your 40 Years of Experience Into Your Greatest Business Asset Episode Summary Eighty-five percent of valuable workplace knowledge simply walks out the door when people retire. That's decades of hard-won wisdom, creative...

🎙️ The "Before 25" Exercise: Rediscovering Your Creative Renaissance After 55 Episode Summary What if the key to your most fulfilling chapter lies buried in what you loved before life got "serious"? Striking new research reveals that over 40% of people...

🎙️ From Corporate Wisdom to Second-Act Success: Why 55+ Entrepreneurs Have the Ultimate Advantage Episode Summary What if everything you've been told about starting over after 55 is completely wrong? While conventional wisdom suggests entrepreneurship ...

🎙️ Peak 65: America's Retirement Revolution is Happening Right Now Episode Summary What happens when 11,200 Americans turn 65 every single day for the next three years? You get the biggest demographic shift in American history—and the biggest opportuni...

🎙️ Episode Summary What happens when you do everything right—and still lose it all? In this raw and revealing episode, we revisit the financial collapse of 2008 through the eyes of Retirepreneur founder Curt Roese, who lost his business, his home, and ...

🎙️ Episode Summary What happens when a 62-year-old former CFO walks into an art class—and walks out with a completely new mindset? In this thought-provoking episode, we follow the journey of Curt Roese, founder of Retirepreneur, as he steps outside the...

🔍 Episode Summary What if your real turning point arrived on a random Tuesday—behind the wheel, mid-thought, and out of nowhere? That’s exactly how it happened for Retirepreneur founder Curt Roese. In this deeply personal episode, we explore a moment t...

🎙️ Episode Summary What if your retirement wasn't the end, but the spark for something even greater? In this powerful first episode, we follow the story of Curt Roese, a 61-year-old former CFO whose retirement felt... flat. But instead of settling into...