“Time to regroup”: Lisette Smith, certified financial planner, on thinking of our work lives in chapters, the best ways to plan for a Midlife Gap Year, and why early retirement may not be as desirable as the occasional long pause. * Download the Midlife Gap Year guide here * Advisory Group SF * Pop Culture Preservation Society Podcast – Nancy riffing on The Early Days of MTV Why worry? Thanks as always to M. The Heir Apparent, who provides the music behind the podcast – check him out here! ***This is a rough transcription of Episode 98 of the Midlife Mixtape Podcast. It originally aired on May 25, 2021. Transcripts are created using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and there may be errors in this transcription, but we hope that it provides helpful insight into the conversation. If you have any questions or need clarification, please email dj@midlifemixtape.com *** Lisette Smith 00:00 When we see these people in their 70s that are still looking for things to do because they’ve retired, maybe we plan in a different way. Nancy Davis Kho 00:09 Welcome to Midlife Mixtape, The Podcast. I’m Nancy Davis Kho and we’re here to talk about the years between being hip and breaking one. [THEME MUSIC – “Be Free” by M. The Heir Apparent] 00:34 This episode of The Midlife Mixtape Podcast is brought to you by a new podcast called Toddler Purgatory. My friends Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson (hosts of the top-rated parenting podcast What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood) are launching their first ever spin-off podcast. It’s called Toddler Purgatory and it is all the laughs and advice you’ve come to expect from What Fresh Hell, but all focused on topics for parents of kids under six. Hosts Blaire Brooks and Molly Lloyd have kids aged 2 to 4 at home so they’ll be solving dilemmas like “How to get kids to sleep through the night” “How to handle your picky eaters” and so much more. Now, some Midlife Mixtape Listeners don’t have little ones in our houses anymore, but that’s only because grandparenting approaches and you’re going to need to refresh on this stuff. Or maybe you know younger parents and you could point them to Toddler Purgatory instead of muttering, “you think you have problems NOW….” Help a new podcast out: search “Toddler Purgatory” wherever you listen to podcasts, and hit subscribe or follow. That’s Toddler Purgatory – for all things little kids. [MUSIC] Hi everyone – happy Tuesday and I hope you’re hanging in there! I’m Nancy Davis Kho, creator and host of the Midlife Mixtape Podcast and author of The Thank-You Project: Cultivating Happiness One Letter of Gratitude at a Time. Were you raised on a steady diet of Stouffers French Bread pizza and MTV? So were we all. Actually that reminds me – you may know me as a podcast host but I also sit in the guest seat fairly often, usually talking about gratitude letters and my book. If you ever want to check out any of those appearances, head over to daviskho.com, click on the Speaking tab, and they’re all listed there. HOWEVER this week I was honored to be a guest on the Pop Culture Preservation Society Podcast – dedicated to preserving and elevating the unsung pop culture nuggets of the classic Gen X childhood. And what did Kristen, Carolyn, and Michelle want me to riff on? The early days of MTV. You may not know that I not only was there as a 15-year-...