Wiser with Rob Bialostocki
Wiser: Honest Talk for Midlife and the Second Half of Life
Wiser is a podcast for anyone navigating midlife - your 50s and 60s - and looking to build a second half that's clearer, freer, and genuinely your own.
Hosted by Rob Bialostocki, each episode is a relaxed, honest conversation about the real stuff of this stage of life: grief and loss, friendship, identity, purpose, relationships, and what it actually means to grow wiser rather than just older. No spiritual fluff, no gurus, no "10 hacks to reinvent yourself" — just grounded ideas backed by real psychology, lived experience, and 25+ years of coaching, delivered like a chat with a trusted friend.
If you're feeling the shifts of midlife — a career plateau, a changing identity, questions about what's next — and want some honest company for the journey, this is that podcast.
New episodes weekly. Subscribe, and come say hi at robbialostocki.com.
Wiser with Rob Bialostocki
Latest Episodes
Ep 28 - Where'd You Go? Find Yourself Again in Midlife
Using the film Where'd You Go, Bernadette as a jumping-off point, Rob looks at how people quietly lose touch with themselves — not through one big decision, but through years of reasonable choices that add up to living a life built for other pe...
Ep 27 - Whatever Life Throws: Surviving a Brutal Stretch of Midlife
When faith, marriage, family and health all fall apart in the same few years, how do you keep functioning? Rob shares a genuinely relentless stretch of his own life — questioning a decades-long faith, separating after 29 years of ma...
Ep 26 - Change Happens to You in Midlife But Transition Happens Within You
Most people confuse change with transition, but they're completely different processes. Change is external—you move cities, lose a job, get divorced. It's the obvious shift from point A to point B. Transition is the inner psychological journey ...
Ep 25 - Learning From Nature in Your Second Half
Why Nature Always Wins: Life Lessons from a Fallen Tree That Will Change How You See Control, Humility & Your Place in the WorldDuring a routine morning dog walk, I noticed something I had walked past many times before. But th...
Ep 24 - Midlife Direction: Why 'Follow Your Passion' is Poor Advice (And What Actually Works)
Are you interested in finding your passion? Well, the problem is popular advice to "find your passion" doesn't work; it's fundamentally flawed and can be very frustrating. Research shows that over 80% of adults don't know what their...
