Wiser with Rob Bialostocki
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Wiser: Honest Talk for Midlife and the Second Half of Life
Wiser is a podcast for anyone navigating midlife - your 50s and 60s - and looking to build a second half that's clearer, freer, and genuinely your own.
Hosted by Rob Bialostocki, each episode is a relaxed, honest conversation about the real stuff of this stage of life: grief and loss, friendship, identity, purpose, relationships, and what it actually means to grow wiser rather than just older. No spiritual fluff, no gurus, no "10 hacks to reinvent yourself" — just grounded ideas backed by real psychology, lived experience, and 25+ years of coaching, delivered like a chat with a trusted friend.
If you're feeling the shifts of midlife — a career plateau, a changing identity, questions about what's next — and want some honest company for the journey, this is that podcast.
New episodes weekly. Subscribe, and come say hi at robbialostocki.com.
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- Ep 31 - Watering the Inside: How to Refresh Your Mind, Emotions and Sense of Self After 60 · 17 min · Épisode 31Do you finish the week feeling flat, tired and done? If you’re in your 50s or 60s, it’s worth paying attention. In this episode of Wiser, Rob shares what a week of giving to…
- Ep 30 - What Matters Most After 50 · 20 min · Épisode 30What mattered at 35 probably doesn't drive you the same way at 55. And that's not a problem — it's one of the most important things that can happen to you. In this episode, we…
- Ep 29 - Staying Vibrant in Your Second Half: How not to shrink as you age · 17 min · Épisode 29Do our lives shrink as we get older, or do we let them? In this episode of Wiser, I look at the natural pull we all have towards comfort, quiet and familiarity. It helps us think…
- Ep 28 - Where'd You Go? Find Yourself Again in Midlife · 15 min · Épisode 28Using the film Where'd You Go, Bernadette as a jumping-off point, Rob looks at how people quietly lose touch with themselves — not through one big decision, but through years of…
- Ep 27 - Whatever Life Throws: Surviving a Brutal Stretch of Midlife · 18 min · Épisode 27When faith, marriage, family and health all fall apart in the same few years, how do you keep functioning? Rob shares a genuinely relentless stretch of his own life — questioning…
- Ep 26 - Change Happens to You in Midlife But Transition Happens Within You · 25 min · Épisode 26Most people confuse change with transition, but they're completely different processes. Change is external—you move cities, lose a job, get divorced. It's the obvious shift from…
- Ep 25 - Learning From Nature in Your Second Half · 16 min · Épisode 25Why Nature Always Wins: Life Lessons from a Fallen Tree That Will Change How You See Control, Humility & Your Place in the World During a routine morning dog walk, I noticed…
- Ep 24 - Midlife Direction: Why 'Follow Your Passion' is Poor Advice (And What Actually Works) · 13 min · Épisode 24Are you interested in finding your passion? Well, the problem is popular advice to "find your passion" doesn't work; it's fundamentally flawed and can be very frustrating…
- Ep 23 - The Oyster-catcher: Turning Down the Noise in Your Second Half · 12 min · Épisode 23In this episode, I talk about my trip to Great Barrier Island, about 95km from Auckland, visiting friends who ditched their corporate lives in their late 50s for a simpler…
- Ep 22 - Midlife Dogma Detox: How Fixed Mindsets Limit Your Second Half · 18 min · Épisode 22Personal growth advice often presents a single "right way" to approach life's challenges, but there are actually multiple valid paths for everything from relationships to career…
- Ep 21 - Healthier Relationships in Your 50s and 60s: You go first · 12 min · Épisode 21If you’re a human being - and I’m guessing you are - then you have lots of relationships. And while many might be healthy, enjoyable and good chances are there are one or two…
- Ep 20 - Happiness in Your Second Half Depends on Alignment · 20 min · Épisode 20Do you feel discontent in your relationships, career, or daily life at times, despite outwardly having what you want? The answer often lies in a values problem - a misalignment…
- Ep 19 - Life is like a pile of blankets: Second Half Freedom Comes from Taking Some of Them Off · 22 min · Épisode 19As we go about life we inevitably move to a script, a narrative, an identity. You would think that this identity is consciously decided. But after many years on the road, the…
- Ep 18 - If You're Over 50 Your BestYears Are The Ones Ahead. · 7 min · Épisode 18Have you ever wished you were younger again? Many people do. However, in my case, that would NOT be a good idea. Because where I’ve gotten to now has been hard-won by time…
- Ep 17 - Navigating Your Midlife: Life is Neither Straight Nor Narrow · 7 min · Épisode 17We discuss the reality that life can be rugged, rough, surprising and wonderful. It's not straight and narrow and we shouldn't expect it to be. Instead, learning to navigate…
- Ep 16 - Wanting the Best for Everyone: Opening Your Heart in the Second Half · 15 min · Épisode 16We humans automatically categorise people as safe or not, friendly or not, ‘us’ or ‘them.’ While this helps us feel more secure and like we belong, it also puts up barriers where…
- Ep 15 - Being mindful in midlife and beyond · 20 min · Épisode 15Every day is precious, filled with possibilities like a blank whiteboard ready for the pen. Like an empty stage ready for the dance, or a lump of clay ready to be molded. For…
- Ep 14 - Freer After 50: Accepting Your Limitations, Adjusting Accordingly · 13 min · Épisode 14Life has phases as we grow. If we don’t adapt to the requirements and capabilities of a new phase, we can get pretty frustrated. To flourish in our second half, we need to accept…
- Ep 12 - Reflecting in Your 50s and 60s: What’s your note to Self? · 7 min · Épisode 12While I don’t advocate planning everything in your life out to the nth degree, I do think it’s wise to reflect on the past and distil a few key lessons and guidelines for the…
- Ep 13 - Conscious Aging: Are we growing up or just growing older? · 17 min · Épisode 13There is a world of difference between someone who continues to grow as a person throughout their life and someone who gets stuck psychologically or emotionally and just grows…
