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Your Third Third is the essential guide for people aged 50 and above, pivoting the conversation from anti-aging to "pro-living" with purpose and intention. Host Steve Gershik invites listeners to redefine the years 60-90 as the era of integration, meaning-making, and intentional legacy, not decline.
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Welcome to season two of Your Third Third. This season is about friendship and connection in the Third Third.In this episode: Claude told me my new Circle had a 92 percent success rate, complete with participant outcomes and moving testimonials. One problem: I have never run the Circle.The halluc...
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Thirteen years ago this week, my parents died together in a car accident. This episode isn't mostly about the grief. It's about the part the sympathy cards leave out: the logistics. Four hundred drawers. A saw my dad carried from house to house for a lifetime, and the question neither m...
Why do we keep doing things we know aren't good for us?
In this episode of Your Third Third, Steve looks at six underlying human needs that quietly drive more of our behavior than we realize: Significance, Certainty, Adventure, Love, Expansion, and Return.
Steve explores what happens when t...
This episode is about the difference between reinvention and integration, and why that distinction matters more than most people realize when they're standing at the edge of the third third.
The cultural script says you leave fifty years of experience at the door and start fresh. I think tha...
Episode 9: The Friends You Actually Choose
Show Notes
This episode digs into the science of how friendship works differently after 50. Steve explores what sociologists call "chosen family," the concept of people who aren't connected by blood or law but who become your real support ...
We've all had the moment. Standing in a doorway, phone in hand, no earthly idea why we're there. At 30, that's a punchline. At nearly 60, it feels like something else entirely.
This episode starts there and ends somewhere more hopeful than you might expect.
Stanford researchers fou...
Some friendships don't end in a fight. They end in drift. You know, two people who quietly became strangers while still knowing each other's old addresses.
In this episode, Steve Gershik explores one of the softer, more confusing losses of midlife: the friendships that don't expl...
The Mask Falls with Rabbi Ted Riter
In this episode, Steve talks with former congreationgal rabbi Ted Riter to discuss the professional masks we construct over decades, what happens when it fallas a way, and a simple formula for diagnosing why we stay stuck.
Ted shared his journey from years in t...
In this episode: five books for Your Third Third, five tools you can use this week
Books Mentioned
Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks
Life Is in the Transitions by Bruce Feiler
The Power of Purpose by Richard Leider
The Second Mountai...
In This Episode:
The Supplement Aisle Panic: Why midlife health feels like a high-stakes performance review.
Longevity Fixation: When self-care morphs into self-surveillance.
The Science of Stress: How cortisol accelerates your "GrimAge" faster than skipping the gym.
Orthorexia: When &...
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