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Wiser with Rob Bialostocki

Rob Bialostocki

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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  • #13
    Jan 6, 2025 · 17 min

    Ep 13 - Conscious Aging: Are we growing up or just growing older?

    There 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 older. Rob discusses the difference and suggests three ways to consciously progress as an adult towards greater maturity. Key points The story of a child growing up in two potentially different ways. Society expects certain cultural norms and these influence how we grow, especially in modern life. By your 50s you can experience dissatisfaction with your life, especially compared with your previous hopes and dreams. We discuss awareness, consideration, and caring about conscious personal development throughout life. You can become happy, content, mature and satisfied with your life…if that’s what you consciously want. We contrast growing up versus merely growing older. You can inadvertently become a 60-year-old version of your 40-year-old self despite having lived much longer! Three suggestions for progress - reflecting on the journey so far and embracing what’s transpired, learning about how and why humans perceive and act, and about self, and learning to meditate/be present/be mindful to raise self-awareness. From this Episode “We’re all biased in our thinking, very much so, and the more you learn about yourself, the more shocked you might become. But, it helps you become more aware and cut others more slack.” Any thoughts or questions? Send me a message! FREE COMPANION GUIDE TO THIS EPISODE Download your beautifully-produced show notes, examples and exercises to help you get more out of the material. Click here to subscribe to Companion Guides. (If you've previously subscribed to these, I will have already emailed it to you.) See you again soon. Rob --------------------------- I'm Rob Bialostocki and I write, present and teach about living a life that matters and growing wiser in the process. SUPPORT THE SHOW This is an ad-free, sponsor-free podcast and I want to keep it that way. So, if this has been helpful in any way please either: ✅ Make a one-off donation, or 🔄 Make a monthly donation. GET FREE WEEKLY WISDOM A short, free email with a message that matters. Subscribe to Wisdomettes here. #LivingaLifeThatMatters #SecondHalfofLife #Your50s #Your60s #IntentionalLiving #GrowingWiser #PersonalGrowth #MidlifeTransition

  • #11
    Jan 6, 2025 · 11 min

    Ep 11 - Life lessons from my grandfather’s very tough life

    Rob shares a more personal episode, talking about the experiences of his grandparents who were forced out of their Polish estate, sent to the Gulags, and then relocated to New Zealand. But the key insight is that while externals can be stripped from you, what’s on the inside cannot be taken away. That, and the reality that none of us have the control in life we think we do. Any thoughts or questions? Send me a message! Support the show Thanks for listening! See you again soon. Rob --------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIBE Get a short, free weekly Wisdomette with a message that matters. SHARE Other listeners regularly share this show with their friends and colleagues. Why not do the same? Plus, you’ll go to bed tonight feeling good about fostering clarity and wisdom in the world! READ Find essays and short articles on conscious personal growth, and living a life that matters at my website here. JOIN WISER+ Support the Wiser podcast with a subscription to Wiser+. You'll get: A beautiful PDF ebook for every episode allowing you to dive deeper and get more out of it. 90-second video reflections and motivations for a life that matters. Access to all previous digital ebooks and videos. Invitations to join the monthly online Wisdom Cafe Zoom catchups. See here for more.

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