471: 3 Practices to Strengthen Relationships and Create a Meaningful Holiday Season
Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast
Casey Weade
4.7 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The holiday season is often expected to be joyful, but it can also bring feelings of sadness and anxiety for many. So how can you foster more positivity and elevate your experience this holiday?
In this episode, we discuss:
- How to make holidays intentional with family and friends
- Ways to embrace gratitude to cultivate connection
- What it means to truly be present
We're changing things up today and won't be discussing an article. Instead, Casey Weade is joined by Les McDaniel to talk about 3 practices to strengthen relationships and why this is such a meaningful topic this time of year.
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| 0:00.0 | The holiday season is upon us, and we know this period of time can be full of stress and anxiety, |
| 0:06.9 | but we know what it's really all about. |
| 0:08.7 | It's a period of time for you to strengthen meaningful relationships and create a meaningful holiday season at the end of the day. |
| 0:14.4 | Today we have a conversation about just that. Hey, this is Casey Weed, and it is my mission to deliver you clarity and purpose and elevate meaning in your life. |
| 0:32.1 | We do that through both financial and non-financial conversations regarding this after-50 phase of your life. |
| 0:39.3 | We get together with you week in and week out with our world-class guests and a variety of |
| 0:43.3 | different topics. |
| 0:44.1 | And then every Friday, we like to have a more pointed discussion quite often about a trending |
| 0:49.1 | topic, a trending blog post or something one of our very own has written. |
| 0:53.7 | Today we're going to be doing just that. |
| 0:56.0 | And we're going to be doing that with my good friend and co-host for these Friday editions, |
| 1:01.1 | at least every other Friday. I have our certified retirement coach and chief purpose officer, |
| 1:06.5 | Les McDaniel, here with me. Here we are, sir. Here we are. Right in the middle of all the heat that we all deal with during this time of year. Black Friday just happened. Wow. It's always such a crazy time. I avoid that at all costs. Well, last, I know this is a very important topic to you. It's very close to your heart. And you talk about practices to strengthen relationships and create a meaningful holiday season. |
| 1:28.1 | Talk to us about why this is such an important topic for you right now. |
| 1:32.7 | Well, I mean, there's a lot of reasons for that. |
| 1:34.7 | But I mean, I think probably more than anything, this is our first season, if you will, |
| 1:38.5 | where we've been away from our kids. |
| 1:40.7 | We're 18 hours in any direction from our kids as they are growing up. And so we're meeting back in Austin, Texas, where my wife's family lives. And of course, Texas is where my family is from as well. And I want this time to be meaningful because I cherish the moments where I get to spend with my kids. I want to be able to spend a little bit of time with each one of them. I want to spend some time with my nieces and nephews. I sent all three of them. They're younger. They're 15 of blow. And I've already |
| 2:04.0 | sent them to Texas and say, hey, I want to spend a little bit of time with you, hang out, just check in, see how life's going for you. And they're so pumped about it, you know. And I just want that time to be something where we're expanding our relationships and we don't get caught in the |
| 2:16.4 | Gulfstream of all the world's |
| 2:18.4 | chaos that's happening here because I can really cloud a holiday and it can get controversial. |
| 2:23.4 | And so this is just really about tips and ways to actually create a generative time with your |
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