Once the Kids Leave Home, Make Experiences You Want to Have Happen! Marjorie Schulte is a Scottsdale, Arizona psychotherapist who has counseled hundreds of couples. When I first interviewed her as I was researching my HappiNest book, she stressed the importance of both partners in a marriage pursuing separate interests. When we fully develop ourselves, and partner with someone who similarly complete, it is a far better union. If you are discovering new things on...Read More

Parents Today are more Invested in the Lives of Their Kids:How to be “Involved,” but not “Enmeshed” with Your Young Adults Dr. Michael D. Kaplan is an assistant clinical professor of child psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. He sees children, young adults and parents at his practice in New Haven. He also is an advisor to professionals and parent groups about issues affecting children and families and a consultant to public and private...Read More

Building “Generation Gap” Friendships Jon Nussbaum is a longtime Penn State professor and an expert in intergenerational friendships. He has spent decades studying how people communicate. He has found that cultivating friendships with people from another generation who have similar interests can yield great mutual benefits. People with strong “generation-gap” relationships have a higher quality of life. He connects with his Penn State students through mutual interests like basketball. Cultivating intergenerational friendships between professors and students...Read More

Parenthood is about letting go—giving your kids roots and wings and allowing them to Fly off into The World. Annette Lareau is a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Her ideas are so interesting that Malcolm Gladwell discussed them in his book Outliers. Annette studies family life and is interested in how the social position of children and parents affects their life experiences and...Read More

Age Strongly By Pushing Past Fear, Embracing Discomfort and Leaving Your Comfort Zone Margie Warrell is an Australian motivational speaker who emboldens people to lead braver lives. She is also the author of four books: Find Your Courage, Stop Playing it Safe, Brave, and Make Your Mark. And she has interviewed fascinating characters including British billionaire Richard Branson on her Live Brave Podcast. Margie grew up one of seven children on a small dairy farm...Read More

Develop Close Relationships by Sharing Vulnerabilities and Emotions Margaret Clark is a psychologist at Yale University and one of the world’s leading experts on personal relationships. Margaret and her husband Fred have lots of relationships—especially with students. They are in charge of 400 Yale undergraduates as heads of the Trumbull Residential College. Did you like this episode? Please feel free to share it using the social media buttons below. I’d also be VERY grateful if you...Read More

People Often Banish Loneliness by Sharing Fears with Acquaintances or Relative Strangers Rather than with Close Friends or Family Mario Luis Small is a sociology professor at Harvard University. He is also an expert on personal networks. In his book Someone to Talk to: How Networks Matter in Practice. Mario reveals how people who need to vent or find a sympathetic ear or tend to make surprising choices. Did you like this episode? Please feel free...Read More

When She Lost her Husband After Her Kids Left Home, Mary Ann Frank Launched Her  One-Woman Play: ‘Spinning.’ Mary Ann Frank, a clinical psychologist in New Haven, had much more than the empty nest to cope with after her last child went to college. She also lost her husband of 28 years to a brain tumor, a glioblastoma. He was Ralph Hoffman, a professor of psychiatry at the Yale medical school and a renowned research...Read More

Seeking Eudaimonia: Striving and Contributing to Something Beyond Yourself With Emily Esfahani Smith, a writer, editor, speaker and author of The Power of Meaning: Finding Fulfillment in a World Obsessed with Happiness, an international bestseller that draws on psychology, philosophy and literature to explore why we are the way we are and how we can find grace and meaning in a world full of suffering. Smith’s articles and essays have appeared in the New York...Read More