Thrivve: Retirement Reinvented
Thrivve: Retirement Reinvented
Podcast Description
✨🌿 Introducing the Thrivve Podcast ✨🌿
—Hosted by Riette van der Merwe, it’s your space for real talk, wellness, creativity, purpose & connection — after 50. Completely changing the narrative around retirement.
💬 Real talk. Expert tips. Joyful living.
☕ Tune in during your morning coffee or walk — and let’s thrive together.
www.thrivve60.com
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The podcast focuses on themes of wellness, creativity, purpose, and connection after the age of 50, with episodes that explore various topics such as watercolour painting, mindful living, nutrition, and budgeting for retirement, exemplified by the heartwarming conversations with guests like artist Tienette Koen.

Thrivve is the podcast for people over 50 who want to feel better, live richer, and grow stronger in the next chapter of life. Hosted by Riëtte, Thrivve explores the real challenges and opportunities of life after 50 — from retirement and identity shifts to health, purpose, finances, relationships, and personal growth. Whether you’re starting over, caring for ageing parents, rebuilding confidence, or rediscovering your purpose.
New episodes every Monday. Follow the podcast and join a growing community of people who refuse to fade — and choose to thrive.
How does someone who shared your childhood become a stranger?
In Season 5, Episode 4 of Thrivve, Riëtte explores the quiet grief of growing apart from a brother or sister. Siblings can remember the same childhood differently, carry old family roles into adulthood, and find that caregiving or the loss of a parent brings buried hurt to the surface.
We talk about when a gentle first step towards reconnection may help, why rebuilding trust takes time and effort from both people, and how to find peace when distance is necessary.
If this episode touches something tender, listen gently. You do not have to resolve your whole family history today.
🎧 When Brothers and Sisters Become Strangers | Thrivve, Season 5, Episode 4
Follow Thrivve for honest, compassionate conversations about family, wellbeing and life after 50. 🌿

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