George Jerjian

17/08/2026

Odysseus came home to Ithaca.

But first… he had to come home to himself.

Many retirees live in the same house they've occupied for decades.

Yet inwardly… they've never truly arrived.

The greatest homecoming is within.

Are you ready to take the first step home? Take my free DARE Taster Course but be quick - it’s only available until 30 August: https://georgejerjian.com/dare-to-discover-your-purpose-taster-course/

14/08/2026

Travel changes your geography, but it's the reflection afterwards that changes who you are: distance gives you perspective and the quiet gives you a clarity you don't get at home.

That's why I tell every retiree to take a Gap Year.

Sometimes you have to leave home to work out what home actually means.

Subscribe to watch my Book Talk, Odyssey of an Elder: https://georgejerjian.com/books/ (scroll down to the bottom)

12/08/2026

Cavafy wrote:"When you set out for Ithaca, hope your journey is a long one."
The destination matters less than the person you become.

Retirement isn't about arriving. It's about becoming.

Listen to Podcast Stacking Adventures – “George Jerjian’s 80-day Trip around the World” https://open.spotify.com/episode/7MSTBmTqdHZ6ZEBzD83nmT

10/08/2026

Odysseus battled Cyclops. Sirens. Scylla. Charybdis.

Retirees battle different monsters. Fear. Loneliness. Loss of purpose. Regret.
The enemy changes. The courage required does not.

Read my Book – DARE To Discover Your Purpose: Retire/Refire/Rewire to help you fight your monsters… https://georgejerjian.com/books/

08/08/2026

I sat down with the Mid-life Men: the mental health podcast to talk about something most men don't see coming: losing themselves the moment the career ends.

For most of our lives we're known by what we do. Work gives us routine, status, a reason to get up. Take that away and a lot of men find there's less underneath than they thought, which is why "finally retired" so often turns into "who am I now?" We talk about why men tie their identity to work without ever realising it, and what's really behind the loneliness and drift that follows.

I also talk about the diagnosis that changed everything for me: I was told I had a terminal bone tumour. It turned out to be wrong, but it forced me to rethink what a meaningful life actually looks like, long before most people are asked to. And why curiosity, not comfort, is what carries you into a good second half.

If you're already retired, or watching it come, I'd ask: what would you lose that nobody warns you about?
Full episode out now:

Podcast Episode · Mid-life Men: the mental health podcast · July 4 · 46m

07/08/2026

Odysseus didn't return directly.

Neither do we.

The second half of life isn't a straight line. It's full of detours. Unexpected storms. New discoveries. And hidden gifts.

Sometimes the long road is the only road that transforms us.

Listen to me speaking about this on the Life In Motion podcast: https://illuminecollect.com/blogs/life-in-motion-podcast/episode-254-when-life-changes-who-are-you-finding-identity-meaning-and-momentum-again-with-george-jerjian

05/08/2026

Odysseus lost his title. His army. His kingdom. His certainty.

Retirees lose something too. Their job title. Their daily structure. Their status. Their sense of identity.

Both journeys begin with the same question: Who am I now?

Read my Book – “Spirit of Gratitude: Crises are Opportunities” >> https://georgejerjian.com/books/

03/08/2026

Retirement is Your Odyssey

For twenty years Odysseus fought battles before he finally came home.

Many people spend forty years building careers. Then one day... they come home.
But they discover they no longer know who they are.

Perhaps retirement isn't the destination.

Perhaps it's the beginning of your own Odyssey.

The best is yet to come. Are ready to discover your retirement archetype?

Take my quiz: https://georgejerjian.com/dare-reinvention-quiz/

31/07/2026

I don't share this testimonial lightly.

When someone tells you that your work pulled them out of depression and gave them a new path, you feel the weight of that. It's not a marketing line. It's a person's life, and the responsibility of being trusted with it is something I carry seriously.

What Judy describes in her testimonial is what I see again and again: the DARE Method is simple to understand but it asks something real of you. It asks you to look at who you've become, to sit with the gap between where you are and where you want to be, and to do the work of closing it. That takes courage, exactly as she says.

The part that stays with me most is her last line. More hope and excitement than she's had in years. That's not a small thing. Hope is what goes missing first in retirement, often so gradually that you don't notice until someone points out it's gone.

If Judy's words resonate with where you are right now, the DARE to Discover Your Purpose course is the same programme she went through. Find out more: https://georgejerjian.com/dare-to-discover-your-purpose-digital-course/

29/07/2026

Are you drifting into oblivion in retirement? You're not alone, and you didn't cause it.

Longevity has broken the old retirement equation, and most of us will now outlive the savings it assumed. The instinct is to solve that with more money, but the real lever was never financial. Retirement can be the best part of your life, if you can find the courage to change the way you think.

That's the premise of my DARE Method course: it shifts how you see this chapter and rewires the beliefs that keep you drifting. Eight weeks, self-paced, lifetime access. Change the way you think, and you change your life.

Sign up: https://georgejerjian.com/dare-to-discover-your-purpose-digital-course/