39 min
Good Grandpa - Ted Page The Retirement Wisdom Podcast
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What are you retiring to? Don’t drift into it.
Design it.
Join us in the next Design Your New Life in Retirement group program starting April 26th.
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I've just completed my second year as a grandfather. Like anyone finishing their sophomore year, I know twice as much as I did a year ago, but still have a lot to learn. In my quest to learn more, I came across this article in the New York Times - How to be a Better Grandfather - and discovered Ted Page. When he became a grandfather at 55, he looked online for guidance and discovered - well, not much. So he created the website and blog Good Grandpa. Ted's writing a book that's coming out next year sharing stories and wisdom from grandfathers on the #1 thing they've learned that will help nurture the next generation.
Ted Page joins us from Massachusettts.
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Bio
Ted Page is the creator and editor of Good Grandpa.
Ted Page is a storyteller, performer and marketing executive. His non-fiction stories have appeared in Boston Magazine and the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, and his book of true family stories, The Willoughby Chronicles, was published by 3 Swallys Press in 2017. Ted is a Co-Founder of Captains of Industry, a leading boutique marketing consultancy based in Boston. Ted won a Telly award for The Institute for Back-up Trauma, starring John Cleese—who looks stunning in a red dress. Ted and his colleagues at Captains of Industry created The Climate Declaration for CERES, which was signed by over 1,700 corporations globally including Apple, Nike, Starbucks, GM and Levis. Ted lives outside Boston with his wife, Nancy, who continues to put up with him after 35 years. They have two children and four grandchildren.
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For More on Ted Page
GoodGrandpa.com
What's the #1 thing you've learned that can help the next generation? Contact Ted Page: ted@goodgrandpa.com
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Mentioned in This Episode
The Parrot Sketch
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Podcast Episodes You May Like
The Long Distance Grandparent – Kerry Byrne PhD
The Mindful Grandparent – Dr. Shirley Showalter
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Wise Quotes
On the Next Generation
"The mission of the blog is to nurture the next great generation. So I'm a Boomer, sort of at the tail end of the Baby Boomers, born in 1959. And for us, we always just kind of looked up to our parents as what Tom Brokaw had dubbed the Greatest Generation. He wrote this terrific book, The Greatest Generation, and that's very understandable. They won World War II, they survived The Great Depression. They were great. They were fantastic. And I revered my father and mother. I revered the one grandfather that I knew. But when I saw these little kids starting to appear on the scene, our grandkids, I thought: What if they're going to be the greatest generation of all time? And what can we do to help them become the greatest generation, not just here in the United States, but around the world. We have tools that our parents didn't have."
On Continuous Learning
"But then of course, I said, Well, John, let me tell you what I'm up to. I'm writing a book and I'm gathering wisdom from elders and asking everyone what the number 1 piece of wisdom is - and he just jumped in and he said, 'Well, that's easy. I'll tell you.' And I'm like: Great! Mr. John Cleese, one of the greats, is going to share his number one thing. And he said: 'It's more important to find the truth that it is to know the truth.' And when I asked him to unpack that a little bit, he said, well, Newtonian mathematics and physics was accepted without q...
What are you retiring to? Don’t drift into it.
Design it.
Join us in the next Design Your New Life in Retirement group program starting April 26th.
__________________________
I've just completed my second year as a grandfather. Like anyone finishing their sophomore year, I know twice as much as I did a year ago, but still have a lot to learn. In my quest to learn more, I came across this article in the New York Times - How to be a Better Grandfather - and discovered Ted Page. When he became a grandfather at 55, he looked online for guidance and discovered - well, not much. So he created the website and blog Good Grandpa. Ted's writing a book that's coming out next year sharing stories and wisdom from grandfathers on the #1 thing they've learned that will help nurture the next generation.
Ted Page joins us from Massachusettts.
________________________
Bio
Ted Page is the creator and editor of Good Grandpa.
Ted Page is a storyteller, performer and marketing executive. His non-fiction stories have appeared in Boston Magazine and the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, and his book of true family stories, The Willoughby Chronicles, was published by 3 Swallys Press in 2017. Ted is a Co-Founder of Captains of Industry, a leading boutique marketing consultancy based in Boston. Ted won a Telly award for The Institute for Back-up Trauma, starring John Cleese—who looks stunning in a red dress. Ted and his colleagues at Captains of Industry created The Climate Declaration for CERES, which was signed by over 1,700 corporations globally including Apple, Nike, Starbucks, GM and Levis. Ted lives outside Boston with his wife, Nancy, who continues to put up with him after 35 years. They have two children and four grandchildren.
_________________________
For More on Ted Page
GoodGrandpa.com
What's the #1 thing you've learned that can help the next generation? Contact Ted Page: ted@goodgrandpa.com
_________________________
Mentioned in This Episode
The Parrot Sketch
________________________
Podcast Episodes You May Like
The Long Distance Grandparent – Kerry Byrne PhD
The Mindful Grandparent – Dr. Shirley Showalter
_________________________
Wise Quotes
On the Next Generation
"The mission of the blog is to nurture the next great generation. So I'm a Boomer, sort of at the tail end of the Baby Boomers, born in 1959. And for us, we always just kind of looked up to our parents as what Tom Brokaw had dubbed the Greatest Generation. He wrote this terrific book, The Greatest Generation, and that's very understandable. They won World War II, they survived The Great Depression. They were great. They were fantastic. And I revered my father and mother. I revered the one grandfather that I knew. But when I saw these little kids starting to appear on the scene, our grandkids, I thought: What if they're going to be the greatest generation of all time? And what can we do to help them become the greatest generation, not just here in the United States, but around the world. We have tools that our parents didn't have."
On Continuous Learning
"But then of course, I said, Well, John, let me tell you what I'm up to. I'm writing a book and I'm gathering wisdom from elders and asking everyone what the number 1 piece of wisdom is - and he just jumped in and he said, 'Well, that's easy. I'll tell you.' And I'm like: Great! Mr. John Cleese, one of the greats, is going to share his number one thing. And he said: 'It's more important to find the truth that it is to know the truth.' And when I asked him to unpack that a little bit, he said, well, Newtonian mathematics and physics was accepted without q...
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