What are the keys to a successful retirement? Watch our conversation with Christine Benz, director of personal finance and retirement planning for Morningstar as we discuss her new book, “How to Retire: 20 Lessons for a Happy, Successful, and Wealthy Retirement.” In this conversation we also examined the non-financial lessons outlined in her book, including the value of relationships and approaches to living life without regrets.
Lynda Gratton, professor of management practice at London Business School and author of Living the 100-Year Life, joins Seth Green, dean of the Graham School at the University of Chicago, to discuss longevity and work. The conversation opens with the premise that longer lives change the rules, and Gratton introduces a central shift in the…...
Sean Keilen, professor of literature at UC Santa Cruz, founding director of Shakespeare Workshop, and author of Shakespeare Scholars (Princeton University Press, 2026), joins moderator and Graham School instructor Chris Jones to draw three lessons from the liberal arts out of Shakespeare’s plays. The conversation opens with a foundational question: what does it mean to…...
NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey traces how a reporting assignment at the Potocsnak Longevity Center at Northwestern University led to an unexpected personal reckoning. While undergoing tests measuring biological age through epigenetic clocks and DNA methylation, she arrived at a realization that she had been running too fast and needed to stop. That moment became…...