A question you may have about Rightsizing Your Home aired on 630WMAL.
How is your wellness program innovative?
What was the need of the older adults? What was the innovative solution to meeting that need?
In May 2008, Eric Stewart co-hosted the broadcast of the first episode of Rightsizing Your Home, a weekly radio program heard on Washington DC’s 630 WMAL. The program was developed as an educational resource to reach older adults whose level of engagement had decreased due to internal and external commitments that may no longer be life enriching. The message is simple, “By putting down the unnecessary you free up time, money, and energy for more meaningful and purposeful pursuits.”
The idea came from a lifestyle survey, conducted by the marketing department, of more than 525 older adults between the ages of 78 and 89, in which 97% of respondents listed “downsizing” as the number one reason why they would not consider transitioning to a more maintenance-free, activity-rich lifestyle sooner.
The show uses six components of wellness (physical, intellectual, vocational, spiritual, emotional, and social) as a frame-work for discussions on everything from how to find one’s purpose to how to eliminate clutter. Using a highly entertaining and almost Zen-like format, co-hosts Eric Stewart and Andrew Morgan have produced shows such as “Letting Go of Clothes Pins,” “Understand the Rightsizing Bill of Rights” and “What to Do with Your Stuff When Your Stuff Stops Loving You.”
Each week listeners are guided through a self-evaluation process designed to increase awareness of their current level of engagement. Tips and ideas are shared about what they can do to reconnect, reengage, and revitalize their lives at this stage. Special guests are brought in from time to time to share their expertise on various topics related to rightsizing, simplifying, and organizing one’s life.
The intent is to approach the topic of living a fully-engaged life from a place of familiarity to the listener, the need to possibly right size or simplify their lives, and then to educate them on the benefits of living a balanced and active life in all six components of wellness.
The show is co-hosted and co-produced by Eric Stewart, one of the top realtors in Montgomery County, Maryland with over 21 years of experience in selling homes, and the host of the radio show Pointing You Home also heard on 630WMAL and Andrew Morgan, Director of Sales and Marketing for Asbury Methodist Village and the former host of Senior Focus: Radio for Today’s Retiree.
