Episodes
Feb. 24, 2025
The Well-Lived Life of a Serial Social Entrepreneur
There are many people who work for social service organizations during their lifetime, but few do it with the passion and vision of Paul Arfin. In today’s episode, Paul talks about his long and storied career, starting out in...
Feb. 19, 2025
Can You Find Personal & Professional Success through the “5 Ls”?
As we move through our fast-paced lives, year after year, trying to juggle personal, family and work demands, we inevitably face a pointed question: Has my life been a success? We’d like to think so, but how would we define s...
Feb. 10, 2025
Helping People with Disabilities Lead Independent Lives—with Canine Companions
For people with disabilities, leading an independent life can be an extraordinary challenge—at any age. But one proven way to help the disabled lead lives with greater independence is through the companionship of service dogs...
Feb. 3, 2025
Discovering the Path to Lasting Love in Today’s Troubling World
As we look forward to the end of winter, there’s always a bright spot in February—Valentine’s Day, our annual celebration of romantic love and friendship. But love can be complicated and hard to find (and keep) these days, am...
Jan. 27, 2025
Financial Planning for Childfree Families: A Distinctly Different Script
When experts talk about financial planning for retirement, many of them assume that people are following a standard life script—go to college, get married, buy a house, have kids and a career until traditional retirement. But...
Jan. 13, 2025
Two Old Friends Share their Journeys Helping People Navigate Life’s Changes
Today, on the 5 th anniversary of the 45 Forward podcast, my guest is Dr. Andrea Gould-Marks, a licensed psychologist, entrepreneurial coach, podcaster and seminar leader, based in Arizona—who also happens to be my life-long ...
Jan. 6, 2025
Encore - Can We Stay on the Crest of Ken Dychtwald’s Age Wave?
The first time I met Dr. Ken Dychtwald was in 1989, when I was writing a cover story about older workers as a business reporter for Newsday, Long Island’s daily newspaper. I remember it well. I was interviewing job experts an...
Dec. 30, 2024
How Do We Move on from the Sudden Loss of a Loved One?
As we come to the close of another year, it is a time when we naturally look both backward and forward. In looking back, it is often a time when we (individually and collectively) reflect on passings—the death of important pe...
Dec. 16, 2024
Cultivating a “Growth Mindset” to Help You Age Well and Wisely
Several years ago, as Scott Fisher and Ben Green approached their 70th birthdays, the challenges of aging loomed large for these two lifelong friends. Scott, an organizational psychologist, and Ben, a psychoanalyst, were curi...
Dec. 9, 2024
The Unexpected (and Rewarding) Journey of a Later-Life Actress
When we think about the career track of actresses today, we often envision a challenging path, auditioning for myriad jobs, hoping for breaks, and meeting the right director—but more often than not, working as a restaurant se...
Dec. 2, 2024
Navigating the Challenging Landscape of Mental Health Law
You can’t open a newspaper or go online today without seeing articles about anxiety, depression, burnout or suicide rates—clearly, we’re struggling with our mental health, individually and as a society. But the fact that we’r...
Nov. 25, 2024
A Different Perspective on Family Caregiving—from Hong Kong
As National Family Caregivers Month comes to a close, we have the unusual opportunity to take a different view of caregiving from abroad—from Hong Kong. In today’s episode, we’ll be talking with Grace Cheng, the founder and C...
Nov. 18, 2024
Can We Stay on the Crest of Ken Dychtwald’s Age Wave?
The first time I met Dr. Ken Dychtwald was in 1989, when I was writing a cover story about older workers as a business reporter for Newsday, Long Island’s daily newspaper. I remember it well. I was interviewing job experts an...
Nov. 11, 2024
A Veteran Leader Reflects on How to Better Serve Aging Families
As we celebrate National Family Caregivers Month, it’s important not only to honor the contributions of 48 million family caregivers nationwide, but understand how they fit into our government-supported care system for older ...
Nov. 4, 2024
Want to ‘Age with Attitude’? Check Out Senior Planet
Wherever we go these days, we feel the impact of technology. It’s part of every workplace, in our digital devices, our “smart homes,” cars, virtual reality tools and games, and, of course, the inevitable AI. Sometimes this ma...
Oct. 28, 2024
How to Identify and Prevent Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
If you’ve ever had a loved one living in a nursing home, you may have worried at times about the quality of their care—especially when high-profile cases of neglect and abuse make their way to the top of the news headlines. H...
Oct. 21, 2024
A Substance Abuse Counselor’s Unique Approach to Recovery: S
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to host Asher Rabinowitz, a clinical social worker and credentialed counselor as a guest on 45 Forward. Asher, who has worked in the field of alcohol and substance abuse treatment for ...
Oct. 14, 2024
The Benefits of Social Security & Medicare Planning—Together
As you approach traditional retirement age, you probably know the importance of enrolling on time in Social Security and Medicare—the bookends of retirement planning. But what you may not be aware of is that only a small perc...
Oct. 7, 2024
Advocating for Older People through Grassroots Empowerment
As we kick off October with the United Nation’s International Day of Older Persons, it’s fitting that we begin the month with Maria Alvarez, an iconic leader who has been at the forefront of advocating for older Americans for...
Sept. 30, 2024
Improving Poor Employee Communication Skills—BEFORE They’re Hired
In an age of when technology has become an integral part of virtually every workplace, you might think that STEM skills—science, technology, engineering and math—are the top skills sought by corporate managers when looking fo...
Sept. 23, 2024
Estate & Long-term Care Planning to Alleviate Life’s Unknowns
As we prepare for the second half of life, many of us think about estate planning, our long-term care needs and our legacy. Lots of questions arise about the things we know—and the things we THINK we know—but realize we don’t...
Sept. 16, 2024
What Happens at the Intersection of Technology & Human Behavior?
We’re in an age driven by fast-moving technology, but how do we find ways to intersect these technological changes with everyday human behavior? In today’s episode, I talk with Howard Fields, a former IBM executive whose care...
Aug. 26, 2024
Exercising into Our Older Years—and Overcoming the Pains of Aging
We know that exercise is an essential factor in maintaining our health and overall well-being—and it’s no less important as we get older. But often with age comes pain, the result of accidents, injuries, physical labor or the...