When life throws devastating changes at you, be ready for it with Nancy Juetten’s ‘Life Goes On Roadmap’ . One of your legacies will be no chaos, no crisis, just a clear road to follow in comfort! In this episode we discuss how to get your Stories, your Will, your Valuables, your Passwords , and many other elements of your life organized, so you don’t leave a mess for your family - tomorrow or decades from now.
This new 14-minute episode of the Legacy Café podcast features the story of man who dramatically refocused his life, and you can take advantage of his work. Dennis was a ‘money guy’…. doing very well. But after losing both parents he realized he never asked them about their values, their wisdom, their life stories. So he left his successful 20 year career and co-founded a global initiative that's saving the greatest body of wisdom in history from being lost forever. This remarkable story can aff...
15 years ago, Marilyn Norry challenged women actors to write the facts of their mother’s life. She then turned those stories into a stage play. She’s now helped over 500 women write their mother’s stories. And to ensure many mother’s stories aren’t lost, Marilyn has just published “Writing Women’s History. Starting with your Mother.” It will help every woman take stock of their mother’s legacy. At the end of this conversation Marilyn will give you what you need to get started. And yes, wherever ...
Is there something you’d love to have in your community… that just isn’t there? Would you like one of your legacies to enhance life where you live? But building it yourself is just, well…. a big challenge. It would be difficult to get it done on your own. Here’s my best advice: Walk in the door of your local Community Foundation. In this podcast Brad Ward will tell us a few stories about how Community Foundations work, and how they can help you build some really cool legacies you’ll be proud of....
What is the lasting gift of Legacy? And - who’s giving that gift? Or not bothering at all? My guest in the Legacy Café is Ken Dychtwald, CEO of Age Wave and internationally recognized author and gerontologist. He recently released a landmark study on legacy and aging as a research project with Bank 0f America/Merrill Lynch. In the study titled, “Leaving a legacy. A lasting gift to loved ones” , Ken discovered that 82% of us will likely be remembered with the phrase: “Well, you left a heckuva mes...
Boe Workman argues that many of us 50+ are living a revolution… determined to leave our mark on the world. "We want to disrupt the traditional aging process so we can spark new solutions that will allow us to live the best life we can." Yes, we want to be more independent, with more intimacy and fun, And yes, more legacy building. We want to lead a richer, more self-sufficient life as we age. But (and it's a big 'but'), are we constrained by a cultural view that aging means deterioration and dep...
As a listener to The Legacy Café, you know that a ‘Legacy’ is so much more than money and ‘stuff’ handed down to the kids. But - many are blessed with more resources than they need to lead a happy life. With that comes questions: Are children and grandchildren prepared for the responsibility? Have family dynamics prevented you from having the tough conversations? Will your business thrive under the next generation of leadership? Mostly, do you have an intentional, proactive plan to create a thri...
When a young person looks at a picture on the wall and asks parents and grandparents “Who is that?”, they’ll be off on a journey that will benefit them thru their lives. With a little encouragement, the research and writing of the story of an unknown relative can ignite the imagination and light the fire of ‘social history’; the stories of those who came before us, and our personal relationship with them. The act of finding and telling those stories can be the Trojan horse to change school’s nor...
What’s the secret for a happy family? They talk. A lot. Dr. Marshall Duke, a renowned psychologist, is my guest on this remarkable podcast episode. In a research project at Emory University, he created the Do You Know Scale, which asked children 20 Do You Know questions about their family and its history. The results were quite surprising. Turns out the children who knew more about their family's history had higher levels of self-esteem, lower levels of anxiety, were much better at facing challe...
A Conversation with Steve Marken President of the Stewardship Council So, you’ve got some resources you’d like to distribute through your estate plan? You call them your ‘Legacies’. But when you define them, do they give you fulfillment and joy Now? Do you smile as you think how they’ll affect the future? According the Steve, 99% of family estates don’t incorporate any part of the family’s story, values, goals and characters that give the legacies you want to create the richness they deserve. Mo...
Do you know where your great grandparents came from? Or what they did to live? Or where their kids went and what they did? You might consider becoming a junior genealogist like me. Genealogy? The dictionary says it’s “ a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor”. I knew my great grandparents came from Ireland… but that’s all I knew. Working with a genealogist for 15 minutes I learned they landed in Halifax in 1869, the name of their ship, and the names of the seven kids they brought ...
Starting his career in the early 1900’s, my grandpa was a cowboy, a champion curler, and a beer salesman. But I never learned any of his stories, or wisdom. I spent some time with him in the 60’s, but I was too young to ask: “Grandpa, what do you believe in? What advice would you give me?” 75 yr. old grandpa, John Boden, won’t let the opportunity to talk to his grandchildren escape. He’s ensuring they hear his wisdom, ideas, opinions and stories. He wants to stir their young minds so they become...
I had a brilliant idea once. Put up an ‘interview tent’ in a busy city and invite passers-by to come in and tell their stories. I didn’t do it. But StoryCorps did! 15 years later they’ve collected stories from over a quarter of a million people, each telling stories about their lives, archiving their wisdom to be heard from one generation to the next. Their Mission? Preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. ...
Scott Jeffrey helps CEOs and entrepreneurs reach their full potential. And the key is that they must know their Core Values. Do you know your core values? What's the real benefit of knowing yours... as well as others around you knowing theirs? Scott takes us through a seven-step process to discover our core values. We start with a clean slate... and keep drilling. When we're finished here, and with the joy of more clarity, accept Scott's free gifts to continue your journey.
N 1982 Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner set out to understand those times when leaders performed their personal best. What emerged were five fundamental practices common to extraordinary leadership. Great leaders model the way, share their vision, challenge the process, enable others… and encourage the heart. And that kind of leadership leads to extraordinary legacies. But first, what’s a leader look like? What do they exhibit? And do all of us have leadership potential? (This one surprised me). Join...
My father was nearly killed by a piece of shrapnel long before he landed on France’s beaches. The bomb landed next door, the shrapnel embedded itself in the wall, just above his head. Dad looked at that shrapnel as good luck and put it in his kit bag. I grew up with that shrapnel in the living room. Dad had it mounted with the words “Close Call. Aldershot, England, 1942”. But until only a few years ago I didn’t know its story, so I asked him, and he told me. Want your storyteller’s tales? Ask th...
Imagine that, centuries ago, you were laying a stone for a building that will take 50, 100, 150 years to complete. You won’t be alive when it’s finished. And those who will lay the final stones aren’t even born yet. But you know everything you do now will have a long-term impact. You enjoy laying each stone… knowing generations in the future will thank you for starting with that first brick. Your generation works today, but is tethered to the future. “Cathedral Thinking” is ambitious, long term ...
Want to create legacies that give meaning to your life? Well, think differently. Think ‘Generativity’. Generativity is a mindset, and a process. It’s a mindset that is concerned, and excited, about the future…. and your ability to benefit future generations. It’s a process to arrive at legacies that will enhance lives now, and in the future. Just follow the few steps to ‘Generativity’ that John Kotre outlines here… and you’ll find yourself thinking differently. “I loved this interview with John ...
A few questions about ‘philanthropy’? Is it about giving away all the cash when I die? NO Can I be a philanthropist without a seven-figure estate? YES Are the money guys changing to care about what I want? YUP, SOME ARE. John A. Warnick is the founder of the Purposeful Planning Institute. He says they’re creating a revolution in the way they work with you, your money… and your ‘story’. The money guys are catching up. They’re learning they need to understand your story so they can organize your p...
In the film National Treasure 2, Nicolas Cage’s character said, “Everything I am is because of my ancestors.” Now, was he looking at his family tree… or listening to some family stories? When you say ‘family tree’, that’s Genealogy, tracing the history of your family. These are the hard, cold facts: names, birth and death dates, places, and events like marriage and divorces. And then we ask: does Genealogy help us find those memorable family history stories? Legacy stories that delight us and ou...
HANG ON BOOMERS ! Michael Adams says we’re ‘self-centered spendthrifts, nostalgic tree-huggers, indulgent parents, aging hippies…. and sell-outs!’ YOWZA! Join Robb Lucy as he asks Michael (with trepidation) how we Boomers, and the generations before and after us, are approaching our legacies. Does each generation look at legacy differently? Michael Adams is the president of the Environics group of research and communications consulting companies and the author of six books, including: STAYING AL...
