The Grandparenting Blueprint – Richard Eyre (Part Two)

The Grandparenting Blueprint – Richard Eyre (Part Two)

From The Retirement Wisdom Podcast by Retirement Wisdom

April 23, 2026 · 27 min · Season 9 · Episode 410

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Richard Eyre discusses his grandparenting project and the life lessons he aims to pass on to his grandchildren.

Part Two is a solo conversation with Richard Eyre about the most personal project of his grandparenting work: the body of distilled life wisdom he has spent years developing for his 34 grandchildren — now published in the second half of The Grandparenting Blueprint . This conversation moves from the framework to the practice of how to translate a lifetime of learning into something children can actually carry with them. ( Part One is here ). This second part of the conversation opens with Richard’s vulnerability, sitting on a beach, feeling like a “spare tire” next to Linda’s natural grandmothering, and asking what role he wanted to play. What emerged was a question every thoughtful grandparent eventually confronts: What do I actually want to pass on? Richard’s answer became a multi-year project of identifying, refining, and teaching age-appropriate life lessons, first as “principles,” then as “tips,” and finally, when the branding breakthrough happened, as Secrets . Richard shares the Harvard Business School case study method he adapted for nine-year-olds, the silver-dollar memorization incentive (he calls it bribery…

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