Transcripts

Conversations from The Fifth Season Podcast

Apple Podcasts Spotify RSS Feed

Listen on your favorite platform.

The 50% Risk: Why Loneliness is the Greatest Threat to Your Brain

Welcome David Lowry: Welcome to The Fifth Season Podcast, Conversations on Successful Aging. I’m David Lowry, and I’m joined by my friend and colleague, Don Drew. We believe aging is a privilege and we want to have conversations on how to do it well. Don, it’s good to have you on the show today. Don Drew: Thanks David. Christie and I just got back from Santa Fe and we had

Read Transcript »

The Rule Breaker’s Guide to Successful Aging

Welcome and Setup David Lowry: Welcome to the Fifth Season Podcast on Successful Aging. Hello everyone. I’m David Lowry, and today I am joined by my friend and colleague, Don Drew. Don, we believe aging is a privilege, and we wanna have conversations on how to do it well. Don: It is a privilege, David, and I’m pleased to be here to talk about it. Ageism and Cultural Scripts Don:

Read Transcript »

How to Quiet Mental Noise and Reduce Cognitive Overload for Successful Aging

Welcome and Setup David Lowry: Welcome to the Fifth Season Podcast: Conversations on Successful Aging. I’m David Lowry, and I’m joined by my friend and co-host, Don Drew. We believe aging is a privilege and we want to have conversations on how to do it well. Identity to Inner Noise Don: David, last week, we talked about deconstructing our identities. In fact, the last several weeks we’ve been talking about

Read Transcript »

Reconstructing Identity: From Doing to Being

Louisa: Welcome to The Fifth Season. In today’s episode, David Lowry and Don Drew discuss the shift from a life defined by professional output to one centered on true essence. They explore the ‘producer masks’ we wear and how to reconstruct a more authentic identity in the second half of life. Welcome and Identity Focus David Lowry: Welcome to the Fifth Season Podcast, Conversations on Successful Aging. I’m David Lowry,

Read Transcript »

Declutter Your Identity: Simplifying the Self

Worth Beyond Output Louisa: Welcome to The Fifth Season, a podcast where we believe aging is a privilege and today, we’re asking a question that most of us have ignored for decades: Who are you when you stop producing? For years, we’ve decorated our lives with titles, achievements, and “masks” like an overburdened Christmas tree. But as we enter this new season of life, it’s time to move beyond the

Read Transcript »

Kicking Against the Slats: Why We Fight the Reality of Aging

Summary: David Lowry and Don Drew launch The Fifth Season of Life, a new podcast focused on grounded, humanistic wisdom for aging well, inspired by the Chinese medicine idea of a “fifth season” of fullness, stability, and harvest. Reflecting on their earlier Peaceful Life Radio work, they introduce the theme of “kicking against the slats”—fighting the realities of aging—and argue that freedom comes from acceptance without surrender. They discuss physical

Read Transcript »