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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, Adv

Hosted by Steve Gershik · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 12 episodes
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Y our 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.
Steve Gershik hosts Your Third Third, a society show with 12 episodes published.

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, Adv

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

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

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 somewher

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

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 for

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 EvansFrom Strength to Strength by Arthur C. BrooksLife Is in the Transitions

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 accelerat

I spent several days at Spirit Rock Meditation Center not talking, not reading, and not making eye contact. People imagine this is relaxing. It is not relaxing. It's like a haunted house, except the ghost is you from wit

For thirty years, the office was a friendship vending machine. You showed up, pushed buttons, and out came colleagues who knew your coffee order and shared that knowing look when someone said "synergy" for the fourteenth

You're not winding down. You're entering a new chapter, but society's map for this stage of life is blank. Host Steve Gershik argues that the real risk isn't slowing down. It's drift : becoming a smaller version of yours

Your Third Third is the essential guide for navigating life’s next great chapter after 50 with purpose and intention. Host Steve Gershik explores how to find new connection, manage family transitions, and build a meaning
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