Lynda Gratton

Um, well, coaching came much later on and it became, um- Part of a midlife career transition for me.

Uh, Professor Linda Gratton talks about the multi-stage life as part of her research on the longer working lives that we now all face.

So I've moved to the, uh, education, exploration, employment, and transition stages, I think, in her model, and I'm now straddling self-employment and portfolio work stages.

Um, coaching has always been an informal requirement of my role and something I've always loved to do, coaching others to do new and different things.

Who are those people? Amy Edmondson.

Linda Gratton.

Yeah.

Adam Grant.

And guess what? College will be there in five years from now and 10 years from now, if you change your mind.

I'm glad you brought that up because, you know, Linda Gratton, a couple of weeks ago, talking about thinking in terms of a hundred year living.

If you explore welding, let's say, like you talked about on Monday.

Hypothetically.

You go to school, you choose a career, you work for maybe several decades, and then you retire, and you try not to pull your hamstring walking from the retirement party out to the parking lot, right? But that plan was built for a shorter life.

Lynda Gratton has spent years studying what happens when many of us live into our 90s or perhaps reach 100, and that sounds exciting.

It also sounds complicated, expensive, and like significantly more time for us to make some really questionable decisions.

Lynda, welcome to Mom's Basement.

100%.

And the reason I like that is because $500,000, frankly, OG, for 65 to what could be 105 is we're gonna have Linda Gratton on Wednesday, who's a longevity expert, and talking about redefining this whole idea of retirement.

Mm-hmm.

So if you're looking at that amount of time, having as few bumps in the road as possible I think really helps.

I hope we were able to open your eyes on the approach that is far superior to just thinking, "I've got X amount of money.

Can I retire?" A lot of questions to ask first, but you can see that when you begin with that end in mind and work backwards, things get a heck of a lot better for you and your retirement.

Speaking of retirement, Linda Gratton is a retirement and longevity expert, OG.

She's a psychologist, and there's a lot of psychology at play when we start thinking about the fact that you might live to be 130.

Thank you so much, Dr. Naomi Forrester-Soto there.

[upbeat jingle] Now, what if, uh, living, uh, maybe to 100 isn't just about adding years, but, uh, adding bits of life to the years? Uh, put another way, if we're gonna live longer, how are we gonna make the most of it? Uh, most people can't afford decades in retirement, so do attitudes need to change? I've been speaking with, uh, London Business School Professor Lynda Gratton, author of Living to the Year 100.

She told me why we should reconsider our future.

A long life isn't just about the, the, the years that come at the end of life.

And once you've done that, what's next? That's the part that I think is going to be exciting about AI is how quickly can we assimilate to the new adventure that's in front of us.

Because we're going to be living according to, I think it was a book written by Linda, Dr. Linda Gratton, I think, called A Hundred Year Life.

If we're going to be living for a hundred years, which I would love to do, by the way, but I want to live healthily, then I want to make sure that AI is doing an awful lot of the grunt work for me.

So my bones, my collagen can stay in good tact, you know.

So if you buy into this with me for just one second, then we're calling bullshit on the idea that our best years are behind us and that we're getting passionately curious about what we get to do with all of the life that's still in front of us.

And that's the conversation I've been waiting to have, which is why I'm so excited to have Lynda Gratton as our guest.

Lynda is one of the world's foremost thought leaders on the future of work, a professor of management practice at London Business School, and the author of 11 books that have sold more than a million copies worldwide.

Her newest book, "Living the Hundred Year Life: How to Build a Career That Lasts and a Life You Love," challenges the old career script and explores how we can build and rebuild work and life across a much longer timeline.

But the window of kids being seven and eight, that is really precious.

You know, I know, Paula, at the end of every one of these, you asked me, like, what's going on at Stacky Benjamin's? Where can people find me? I want to talk about that actually right now, because we are interviewing next week a woman named Linda Gratton.

And Linda is a psychologist.

You know, I love this idea of thinking through every step.

But you're doing the part that now interests you and lights you up, which, by the way, you and I know between you and I, that could be two totally different parts of the career that light us up.

And then, so we spend our life following our curiosity.

We're continuing our career into our Linda Gratton, by the way, if you listen to this interview, she's, she's in her late seventies and she's lovely.

And she, and by the way, Paula, she has no plans of retiring.