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Serendipity (finding things better than that which we were seeking) is easiest to recognize in hindsight. Today the Eyres tell the story of their gathering place at Bear Lake and how, with hindsight, it came about through a string of serendipities. Then they talk about how life unfolds and how God always says "yes" unless He has something better in mind.

The Eyre's had a grandson return home from his mission today! They will resume their regular schedule next week. (Rerun, 06/07/25) In this episode, the Eyres apply the sports or music term "score" to life and to its phases. They make the point that most of us have stewardship both over family members in their childhood and family members in their seniorhood, and that the two are both overwhelmingly important and should both be given highest priority. This is part of https://valuesparenting.com/how-to-live/ which you can join for free.

Today the Eyres are reflecting on the past, present, and future of their lives and trying to explain the "eternal, inclusive, familycentric lens" through which they try to view both their own lives and the Gospel. They discuss their forthcoming book Beholding the Restored Gospel through a Familycentric Lens that they are writing with their Bulgarian Daughter Eva and her husband Adam.

In this episode, the Eyres do a deep dive into the realities of three generation families and the power and influence grandparents can have. They read some amusing quotes from their new book The Grandparenting Blueprint and extend a gift of a 40% discount on the book to Podcast listeners. Simply go to familius.com/eyre/ and use the coupon code EYREFRIEND.

Many listeners know of the Eyres' daughter Shawni Pothier, former national young mother of the year, host of the famous blog 71toes.com, founder of the podcast In the Arena with the Eyre Sisters, mother of 5 and grandmother of 2 (She made Richard and Linda great-grandparents). This episode is a little three way discussion between Shawni, Richard, and Linda about three-generation families and empty-nest parenting.

The Eyres are currently involved in planning a 50th Anniversary Reunion for the 600 missionaries they led and served back in the Seventies in London England, and in this episode they talk about this phenomenon of young 18 and 19 year olds who leave home to serve and give (and preach) in some part of the world for 18 months or 2 years, and about how it matures and prepares them for life.

Today the Eyres are with their middle son Tal in his home is Switzerland and talk with him about the dramatic differences in Swiss and American cultures and about the stunning Swiss landscape and the metaphors it holds for the ever-changing but always beautiful "inner landscapes" of families as kids grow up and grandparents become involved, and three-generation families emerge and thrive amidst all of the upheaval.

In their ongoing effort to acquaint listeners and followers more intimately with each of their children, Richard and Linda today interview their youngest son Eli from his home on the upper West Side of New York City. The Eyres are there for Linda's birthday and for grandson Dean's birthday, and they ask Eli about the Art of Living with Kids in the City, the Art of Adaptability as two-career couples juggle parenting, and the Art of Living in the Moment.

Part Two is here What does it mean to grandparent on purpose? For Richard and Linda Eyre, the answer has been decades in the making. The bestselling authors of Teaching Your Children Values have evolved with their family, from nine children to 34 grandchildren, and along the way have developed a philosophy of proactive grandparenting that mirrors what good leadership looks like at any stage of life. In this 1st of 2 conversations about Richard Eyre’s new book, The Grandparenting Blueprint:How to Teach Your Grandchildren Life’s Most Important Lessons, we discuss: Why grandparenting is where parenting was 50 years ago — a new frontier for intentional engagement The crucial mindset shift: from manager (the parent’s role) to consultant (the grandparent’s opportunity) Their TEAM framework — Trunk, Ear, Assembler, and Matcher — four roles every grandparent can play regardless of geography or circumstance Grammy Camp, one-on-one grandfather dates, and other practices that create genuine connection across generations The Five-Facet Review: a structured conversation with adult children that turns grandparents into informed, effective supporters How knowing your family roots builds resilience in children — and what research from 9/11 survivors revealed about the power of family stories The four types of grandparents — from disengaged to all-in, and why the all-in approach treats grandparenting like a second career Linda brings warmth, insights and creativity to the grandmothering side of the equation, such as music, art, storytelling, and the precious one-on-one moments that reveal what grandchildren are really thinking. Richard brings his Harvard MBA mindset (and toolkit) to the legacy-building and structured side of grandparenting, including how to give financial help without creating entitlement. This episode is a masterclass on how to cultivate meaningful relationships with intention. It's a powerful reminder that grandparenting, like retirement itself, is far too important to leave to chance. Linda and Richard Eyre join us from Utah. _________________________ For More on Linda & Richard Eyre The Grandparenting Blueprint:How to Teach Your Grandchildren Life’s Most Important Lessons (Amazon) Also available from the publisher at the author’s price (40% off) https://familius.com/book/the-grandparenting-blueprint/ Use the coupon code EYREFRIEND at checkout Website Grandmothering: The Secrets to Making a Difference While Having the Time of Your Life – by Linda Eyre Online Grandparenting 101 Course _________________________ Bio Richard and Linda Eyre are among the most popular speakers in the world on parenting and families. Their clients and audiences range from The Young President's Organization (YPO) and major corporations and associations to a wide array of school, civic, church and community groups. They find it remarkable and gratifying that in every one of the 50+ countries where they have presented, parents have similar hopes, dreams and worries about their children regardless of economic, religious, geographic, and cultural differences. The Eyres are authors of more than 50 books, most of which deal with work/family balance and parenting, and one of which, Teaching Your Children Values, became the only parenting book in more than fifty years  to reach #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. In addition to their ongoing work with parents, their latest books are about grandparenting and “Life in Full” for Baby Boomers. Richard and Linda have been frequent guests on national network shows including Oprah, The Today Show, Prime Time Live, 60 Minutes, and Good Morning America; and they once did regular segments on the CBS Early Show. Their parenting website, ValuesParenting.com, provides ideas, guidance and creative programs for families throughout the world. But their most important production is their nine children (“one of every kind”) who, through the years, have helped formulate their ideas for books and speeches. The second generation Eyres and their spouses are an impressive bunch, all with university degrees from the likes of Wellesley, Harvard, Columbia, M.I.T., Stanford, and BYU and all having interrupted their university education to spend up to two years living abroad, studying, doing missionary work and providing humanitarian service. They are also doing their part to expand the importance of family through their own speaking, books, blogs, and websites, and they have presented Richard and Linda with 34 grandchildren. Beyond their speaking engagements, the Eyre's favorite travel projects are humanitarian expeditions to places like Ethiopia, Kenya, Bolivia, India, Romania and Mexico, and the family's Eyrealm Foundation focuses on assisting and strengthening third world families. Richard is a Harvard MBA, president of his own management consulting company (which worked with national political candidates and locally ran campaigns to build Symphony Hall, restore the Capitol Theater, expand the Salt Palace, extend the Central Utah Project and save the Hogle Zoo) and a nationally ranked senior tennis player. He was a mission president for his church in London and a former director of the White House Conference on Parents and Children as well as a candidate for Utah Governor. Linda is a teacher, musician, and co-founder of International JoySchools.com, an in-home, do-it-yourself co-op and program for teaching preschoolers the joys of life. Both Richard and Linda have served on numerous arts, university, and non-profit boards and do a radio show/podcast at BYUradio called Eyres on the Road that is now in its 14th annual season. _____________________________ Retirement Podcast Conversations You May Love Grandparents' Day – Kerry Byrne & Ted Page The Mindful Grandparent – Dr. Shirley Showalter The Art of Relationships with Adult Children – Francine Toder, PhD ______________________________ About The Retirement Wisdom Podcast There are many podcasts on retirement, often hosted by financial advisors with their own financial motives, that cover the money side of the street. This podcast is different. You'll get smarter about the investment decisions you'll make about the most important asset you'll have in retirement: your time. About Retirement Wisdom I help people who are retiring, but aren't quite done yet, discover what's next and build their custom version of their next life. A meaningful retirement doesn't just happen by accident. Schedule a call today to discuss how the Designing Your Life process created by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans can help you make your life in retirement a great one — on your own terms. About Your Podcast Host Joe Casey is an executive coach who helps people design their next life after their primary career and create their version of The Multipurpose Retirement.™ He created his own next chapter after a 26-year career at Merrill Lynch, where he was Senior Vice President and Head of HR for Global Markets & Investment Banking. Joe has earned Master's degrees from the University of Southern California in Gerontology (at age 60), the University of Pennsylvania, and Middlesex University (UK), a BA in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and his coaching certification from Columbia University. In addition to his work with clients, Joe hosts The Retirement Wisdom Podcast, ranked in the top 1% globally in popularity by Listen Notes, with over 2 million downloads. Business Insider recognized Joe as one of 23 innovative coaches who are making a difference. He's the author of Win the Retirement Game: How to Outsmart the 9 Forces Trying to Steal Your Joy. __________________________ Wise Quotes On The Grandparent’s Blueprint “Linda does it by group. So she’ll have her preschool group and then she’ll have her elementary age group and they all get their turn at the Grammy camp. And I’m sitting there, Joe, like, what am I? I mean, what am I doing? This fabulous Grammy is doing all these things with all these kids and I’m just sort of an observer.  And that’s really what led to this new book about these grandfather’s secrets. I thought, well, I want to leave a legacy. There’s certain life lessons I think I’ve learned as a management consultant and all the other things I’ve done in my life. And I want to  somehow condense those concepts into something simple enough that children can understand them. That’s my legacy.” – Richard Eyre — On Listening  “We just recently met with three of our granddaughters. They’re all in university. And so we went down there to meet with them and for breakfast. And it was so fun.  We call them the babes because we have these little separate groups and these are the babes. And it was so fun to be with them. But in one breakfast, we learned more about their life than we could have imagined. And what were the three things you asked? We just said, Look, we just said, while we’re having breakfast, we just want to hear your story. We want to hear your recent story. And they just got going on telling us things. And I thought, if we’d been too specific with our questions, we would have missed part of what they said.  We love to tell stories to grad kids, but what’s really great is having them tell you their story. We’ve found that if we, it sounds funny, but if we pull out a pad or a pen and take a few notes on what they’re saying, they realize we really are paying attention. We really want to know. And they tell their story and they know it’s safe with us.we we know more about them than we would have if we just spent a big family reunion and everybody because we had some one-on-one and not only that we had one-on-ones with little kids.” – Linda Eyre — On Lecturing “But the failure is the lecturing and the other failure I want to mention and I’ve made this more than Linda. Linda is way more sensitive.  I have failed in the sense that I’ve said to some of my own sons or daughters, I think you need to do a little better with this child on such and such. In other words, giving advice that’s unsolicited on parenting to your own children is almost always a mistake. It is. And we found another interesting thing. At one reunion, we did a survey, we had a survey to our adult kids and ask them, you know, do you feel like we’re too involved and not involved enough? Would you like more? Would you like less and all that. And we just saw everybody would just love everything we’ve done.  And then we got a couple of responses like, oops, we have not been very sensitive about this. He comes from a different family with a different mindset. And you really have to be so careful. So we learned so much from that. We backed off, we learned how to ask before we did things and not just blunder into it.” – Richard Eyre __________________________ Watch out for Part Two coming on Thursday on The Secrets section of The Grandparenting Blueprint  

The Eyres are in Switzerland visiting their son Tal, and staying in his 'hut" high in the Alps as they do today's podcast and talk about finding the sequence or "flow" of personal morning prayer that opens the heart and spirit to God's will. They follow up on the last two podcasts by putting the entire sequence into 8 modules, each of which begins with "R" and has seven letters.

In this last episode of March, the Eyres summarize the "How to Live" course they have conducted for the past 7 months, and introduce the podcast's core subject matter for April. In the month of Easter and Springtime, Richard and Linda are focusing on personal prayer, particularly "Morning Prayer" and on how we can make it more authentic, personal, and consequential.

Many parenting and grandparenting approaches to money point toward entitlement, hand-outs, and financial illiteracy in our children. But with a little thought and planning, we can find approaches that lead instead to motivation, ownership, and equity mind-sets. Using their own and other families examples, the Eyres discuss how to create a self-sufficient family economy rather than a welfare family economy.

As the Eyres continue their March theme of how to live the second half of life financially, they focus today on things grandparents can do to assist children financially without fostering attitudes of entitlement. Ideas like an interest-paying Grandparents Bank, Matching Grants, and Custodial Roth IRAs are discussed. All must be done in consultation and agreement with the parents.

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In this episode, the Eyres start a deep dive into the financial questions and dilemmas of three generation families. Whether you are Gen 1 (Grandparents), Gen 2 (Parents) or Gen 3 (Grandchildren) tune in all month as Richard and Linda give us ideas that work whether we are rich or poor.

The Eyres are in Manhattan today with their son Eli and daughter-in-law Julie and their children -- Eli joins them as they discuss three generation families and how to stay close and how to connect generations one and three. Eli and the Eyres share their love for New York City -- even as a place to raise kids.

Today, the Eyres are joined by their daughter Shawni who has made them great-grandparents! As a new grandma, Shawni has some fresh perspectives, and Richard and Linda share a section from their forthcoming book "The Grandparenting Blueprint" which will be released in March.

The Eyres give their podcast followers a sneak preview of their new book, being released in March, called THE GRANDPARENTING BLUEPRINT: How to teach your grandkids life's most important lessons. This episode they share insights into what they call the basics of deliberate, proactive, teamwork grand parenting.

In this episode, the Linda and Richard give us a sneak preview of their book The Grandparenting Blueprint that will be released in March. Perhaps what makes the book unique is that it includes responses and inputs from the Eyres' grandchildren of all ages. Why did they write this book? Answers in this podcast!

In this episode, directly from the Eyres who are currently on Maui, the contention is that no matter how hard we work at parenting (or grandparenting) and no matter how many parenting methods or techniques we have, the greatest help comes not from human sources but from divine sources. As earthly parents, we are entitled to help from Heavenly Parents and we need to seek that help through sincere prayer.

The Eyres begin this episode by reflecting on their history with Hawaii and the role the islands have played in their family life. Then they turn to the month's theme of How To Live the Second Half of Life Spiritually and focus on their grandson's accident that occurred this week and what it taught them about prayer and spiritual answers. For more detail see Instagram @HTLsecondhalf.

The Eyres are back in their Maui retreat and casting today on the continuation of the January theme of How to Live the Second Half SPIRITUALLY. They suggest that, while people call it many things, most believe is something higher and greater; and that our own spirits, which are more eternal than brain and body, can connect with that vaster Spirit, and they use two poems to illustrate their point.

Within their January focus on How to Live the Second Half Spiritually, the Eyres overview a thought-and-prayer sequence that creates a spiritual paradigm for the day ahead: Relaxed, Remembr, Rethink, Release, Request, Receive, Respond, Rejoice... taking some spelling liberties to create the pattern formed by eight seven-letter words that all start with RE.

Happy New Year 2026! Today the Eyres cast from central Mexico where they are staying with about half of their large family in a historic Hacienda that is conducive to deep conversation and the sharing of New Year's Resolutions or dreams. It is also the beginning of a January focus on a kind of spiritual second-half thinking that Richard and Linda are practicing and teaching.

Reflecting on the Christmas Day just passed, what was the deepest thing you felt? In this week following Christmas, the Eyres talk about tne momentum of Jesus' birthday becoming the catalyst for looking deeply into the coming year. Whatever your religion or lack thereof, all have felt connections to the universe, to the divine, and thinking about those, and how to expand them, can be the key to 2026.

The Eyres are casting from Phoenix today where they are spending time with their daughter Shawni and son Josh, and where Richard is playing in a national tennis tournament. They start by saying that Social second-half thinking is all about relationships that matter and that need thought and work to be preserved and improved. They then share some ideas for doing just that.

In the Autumn of our lives, it's not about how to win friends and influence people or about how many contacts we have or how many friends on social media -- it's about the quality of the relationships that matters most. The Eyres talk today about the most important relationships with family and how to gather, how to set relationship goals, and how to have 5-facet reviews.

As November begins, the Eyres introduce the month's theme of a higher way to live emotionally with a question: How can we FEEL MORE of four things: Joy, Love, Peace, and Beauty? Are there things we can do, ways we can think, and attitudes we can cultivate that increase and deepen these four emotions? They suggest that we each search for methods to do so during this Thanksgiving month.

Due to Halloween, grandkids, and travel, the Eyres didn't record this week and asked us to pick a favorite re-run...which we did. Richard and Linda will be back live next week with the latest in their How To Live series. "Casting from Las Vegas today, the Eyres finish a discussion they started last episode about the 3-letter lesson ALM referring to the acts of mercy and compassion that Jesus called alms. An act of service or lifting is called an "almdeed" in the New Testament. They then juxtaposition that word with the 3-letter lesson WIN which is a blessing when we make it a win-win, and a curse when we make it a win-lose."

Today the Eyres suggest that "Independence" is a mindset for the first half of life which proves, in the second half and in the spiritual and emotional and social sense to be a lie. We are dependent on God and interdependent on strangers, as well as on those we love. An alternative mindset called "Synergicity" is suggested and metaphors and examples are given.

The Eyres are devoting their October podcasts to How to Live the Second Half of life MENTALLY, and this episode contrasts the "Ownership mindset" with the "Stewardship mindset. The former leads to comparing and competing on many levels and promotes win-lose attitudes and grows branches of envy, jealousy, superiority and condescension. The latter is about win-win and sprouts cooperation, empathy, and peace.

The Eyres advocate a paradigm-shift in the second half of life that moves away from the desire for control and instead adopts the mindset of Serendipity, defined as being able, through sensitivity, awareness and spiritual guidance, to frequently find something better than that which we were seeking. They tell their serendipity-discovering journey through Sri Lanka and the British Museum and challenge us to join the quest.

In this episode, the Eyres transition from second-half living PHYSICALLY to second-half living MENTALLY which will be the podcast's focus for October. They point out that the fear of mental decline is greater in most people than physical worries, and frame the focus not only on our minds but on our mind-sets, and on getting away from the first-half notions of control, ownership and independence.

Today the Eyres conclude their September theme of "How to Live the Second Half of Life PHYSICALLY" with an episode on how much the PLACES where we spend our time impact our physical health and well-being. Sub-themes are travel, beauty, awareness, perspective, and mother earth. They conclude the show by introducing the October theme of Living life's Second Half MENTALLY.

September is the Eyres month on How to Live the Second Half of Life PHYSICALLY, and in this episode they discuss the management of medical care, taking charge of your own health and using doctors as your consultants, getting the tests that will save you from a catastrophic health surprise, and finding a doctor you can communicate with as a friend. It all ties into https://valuesparenting.com/how-to-live/.

Linda says, "We talked last week about how putting higher quality lower quantity food into your body makes it work better. But you've still got to make your body work! In other words, to be healthier, we need to improve the input and also the output." The Eyres give physical advice connected to https://valuesparenting.com/how-to-live/ and to Instagram.com/HTLsecondhalf.

In this episode, the Eyres discuss the diet book that Richard wrote nine years ago, and the theory that if we can control the quantity of food we eat, our bodies (our appetites) will start to demand quality rather than quantity, and we will begin to crave healthy foods and be repelled by junk food. Like putting a bridle on a horse, when we limit our intake, we train our appetite to work for us rather than against us.

The Eyres are going to devote the podcast during September to the question of how our physical bodies need a different kind of care and maintenance in the Autumn of our lives. In today's episodes they preview how diet, exercise, medical care, and our physical locations should change as we move into life's second half. For more, go to valuesparenting.com and click HTL in the upper right corner.

Today the Eyres are wrapped up in two things: Linda is the chairperson for her 60th high school reunion in Bear Lake, Idaho today, and for Richard has the opening day of registration for the online course How to Live the Second Half of Life at www.Valuesparenting.com. So on this episode they reflect on the joys of the Autumn and Winter seasons of life and laugh a lot about the humor that comes with it.

The Eyres are musing on these two "L" words today, and how much more prominent they become in our thinking as we get older. Some may say that we have little or no control over how long we live or what people will remember about us -- But we actually have more influence on both both than we think, say the Eyres. For more along that line, go to https://valuesparenting.com/how-to-live/

Continuing their topic from last week, the Eyres talk about shifting from the pursuit of Control to the pursuit of Serendipity, shifting from the pursuit of Ownership to the pursuit of Stewardship, and shifting from the pursuit of Independence to the pursuit of Synergicity. For Richard and Linda, this is the core of How to Live the Second Half of Life. More at https://valuesparenting.com/how-to-live/

The Eyres start this episode talking about their family experience of building a log cabin in the Blue Mountains of Oregon; and then move into a discussion of the three false notions or "deceivers" of Control, Ownership and Independence. The conclude with the three replacement paradigms of Serendipity, Stewardship, and Synergicity. Find Happiness Paradox on Amazon, and join https://valuesparenting.com/how-to-live/.

From the midst of their annual family reunion, and with tongue slightly in cheek, the Eyres talk on this episode about the new issue of GRAND Magazine, the national grandparents publication, that features them on its current cover (grandmagazine.com). They urge grandparents to subscribe for free and think the cover article is worth reading because it "glorifies grandparenting" and because the other how-to articles can be so helpful to extended families.

The Eyres cast this episode from their "Motorhome Trip" with five of their teenage grandkids, and talk about the delights of grouping cousins in age-common groups where they can bond and form friend/sibling relationships that last a lifetime. On the second half of the show, young teens Bennett, Peter, Cubby, Poem, and Annina are introduced and have some thoughts about "cousinhood" and some ground-level advice for parents and grandparents.

As July begins, the Eyres open a monthly theme of moving from "First-Half Thinking" to "Second Half Thinking" and introduce the three themes that largely define the first half of our lives: The pursuit of more Control, more Independence, and more Ownership. Most self-help books and how-to books focus on getting more of these three things, and Richard and Linda introduce their belief that, as life progresses, all three of them become "deceivers."

Today the Eyres pick up the theme of "score" from last week's podcast and compare the first and second half of life in 6 categories: Physical, Mental, Social, Emotional, Spiritual, and Familial. If you were to keep score of how well you are doing in these 6 "facets" of life, would you feel that the first half of life is where they peak and are are at their best, or would it be the second half? For a deeper dive, sign up for free to the course at https://valuesparenting.com/how-to-live/.

In this episode, the Eyres apply the sports or music term "score" to life and to its phases. They make the point that most of us have stewardship both over family members in their childhood and family members in their seniorhood, and that the two are both overwhelmingly important and should both be given highest priority. This is part of https://valuesparenting.com/how-to-live/ which you can join for free.

The Eyres talk today about perhaps the most important question we can ask ourselves... and continue to ask ourselves. Richard springs the question to an unsuspecting Linda: If you could give only three answers to the question "Who are you?", what would those answers be? Can we shift in life's second half from a focus on doing to a focus on being, and what roles are most important to play well? For more, visit https://valuesparenting.com/how-to-live/.

Freshly back from Switzerland, the Eyres talk today about an expanded definition of FAMILY, including three generations working together. And they get into their new online course on HOW TO LIVE The Second Half of Life and the benefits it has for parents as well as grandparents. They talk about how the class can be consumed, and invite listeners to join for free at https://valuesparenting.com/how-to-live/.

The Eyres originate this episode from Switzerland where they are working on their online course https://valuesparenting.com/how-to-live/ and visiting their author-and-speaker Tal who lives high in the Alps with his wife and daughter. Tal is a guest on the show and the discussion is about what the "second half" is, and how it begins with new priority on relationships and the seeking of inner joy.