
The Spiritual Work the Estate Plan Doesn’t Cover
A personal conversation about faith, mortality, and the spiritual preparation that most men never get around to — and why it matters more than the estate plan.

A personal conversation about faith, mortality, and the spiritual preparation that most men never get around to — and why it matters more than the estate plan.

Bill Leighty shares eighty-one years of lessons on prayer, disappointment, and faith that doesn’t demand answers — only a willingness to keep listening.

There’s a quiet paradox at the heart of service: the more you give to others, the more fully you live. For senior men navigating retirement, that insight isn’t just philosophical — it’s practical. Men who serve others with genuine faith-driven

The most enduring things you pass on to your children and grandchildren aren’t in a will. They’re in the values you modeled, the faith you practiced, the stories you told, and the way you faced difficulty. A spiritual legacy —

One of the quiet losses of retirement is the erosion of community — the colleagues, the routines, the built-in sense of belonging that work provided. For senior men, finding a spiritual community isn’t just a faith matter; it’s a health

There’s a version of spirituality that stays safely abstract — beliefs held in reserve for Sundays or crisis moments, never quite touching daily life. And then there’s the kind that actually changes how you move through a Tuesday. For senior

The later years of life offer something the earlier decades rarely did: the time and the perspective to be intentional about how you live. Ethical living — making choices that align with your deepest values and contribute to something beyond

Senior men are among the most underutilized resources in any community. Decades of professional experience, hard-won wisdom, deep local knowledge, and genuine availability — these are assets most communities desperately need and rarely tap effectively. In this episode, we make

For a growing number of retired men, leaving the workforce doesn’t mean leaving behind the work that matters. Encore careers — second careers built around social impact rather than financial gain — are giving senior men a way to channel

Life in your later years rarely stays still. Retirement reshapes your identity. Health changes what you can do. Friends and loved ones move away or pass on. Social circles shrink. For senior men who have always defined themselves by what

What does it take to find genuine joy in the later chapters of life — not the performative kind, not the forced optimism of someone who hasn’t been paying attention, but the deep, abiding joy that persists even through difficulty?

Retirement gives you something most working years never did: the time and the quiet to actually go inward. For senior men who have spent decades focused outward — on careers, families, responsibilities — a spiritual retreat can be a genuinely