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Welcome to The Raad Life

Redefining Midlife. Reclaiming Freedom.

A Cultural Platform and a personal invitation
to live beautifully and boldly.

The Raad Life is a Gen X movement redefining midlife - bold talks, soulful design, and real-life insights to help you create a life you love living.

Articles

Raad Reads

Podcast

Book Circle

The wHealth Report

Raad Recommends

The Uncomfortable Truth

Coaching

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Our Latest Publication

The Raad Life is more than a platform - it’s a cultural movement. Rooted in design, storytelling, and reinvention, it explores what it really means to live intentionally in a time when success is being redefined. At the heart of the latest digital magazine is a powerful theme: the new American Dream. It’s a story of Gen X stepping into a new chapter, redefining success not by accumulation, but by freedom. Designing a life that feels expansive, mobile, and deeply personal. A life built around meaning over milestones. This is the decade of doing things differently. Designing a freer life. One space, one story, one suitcase at a time. The Raad Life invites a generation to rethink the blueprint and design a future that feels fully their own.

Raad Ghantous

The Raad Life: Redefining How a Generation Thrives

The Raad Life began as a podcast. But it’s always been more than that. Born from Raad Ghantous’ design atelier, the brand has evolved into a cultural platform, a lifestyle ethos, and a personal invitation to live beautifully and boldly.

Whether he’s restoring a classic Thunderbird or designing soulful spaces, Raad is helping a generation rewrite what it means to thrive in midlife — with intention, style, and the luxury of freedom. From nostalgia to nuance, Raad’s lens is rooted in design, but his mission is transformation. For Gen Xers ready to shift the script, this is your space. Welcome home.

Podcast

Real Talk for a Reimagined Life

Each episode of The Raad Life podcast brings you unfiltered conversations with bold thinkers, and reinventors living life on their own terms. We talk design, freedom, aging with intention, and everything in between. Tune in to hear stories that remind you—you’re not behind, you’re just getting started.

Featured Episodes

Stephen M. R. Covey Featured in The Raad Life Podcast

Jerry Colonna Featured in The Raad Life Podcast

Greg Scheinman Featured in The Raad Life Podcast

Derek Gehl Featured in The Raad Life Podcast

Igor Turkusic Featured in The Raad Life Podcast

Giles O’Malley Featured in The Raad Life Podcast

Playlist for Freedom

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The Raad Life Playlist

The Soundtrack of Reinvention The music of Gen X hits different—raw, rebellious, and real. These aren’t just songs; they’re anthems for freedom, identity, and transformation. Our playlists channel the spirit of mixtapes, Walkmans, late-night drives, and finding your groove again. Plug in, press play, and get back to the sound of your own life.

The Raad Life

Raad Reads

Fuel for the Curious Mind

From timeless wisdom to fresh voices reshaping how we think about life, work, and reinvention—these are the titles that have lit a fire in us because sometimes it’s not just the book, but the conversation it starts within you.

Favorite Books

Zero Hour for Gen X

Zero Hour for Gen X, Matthew Hennessey calls on his generation, Generation X, to take a stand against tech-obsessed millennials, apathetic baby boomers, utopian Silicon Valley “visionaries,” and the menace to top them all: the soft totalitarian conspiracy known as the Internet of Things. Soon Gen Xers will be the only cohort of Americans who remember life as it was lived before the arrival of the Internet.

Reboot

One of the start-up world’s most in-demand executive coaches—hailed as the “CEO Whisperer” (Gimlet Media)—reveals why radical self-inquiry is critical for leadership development, professional success, and healthy relationships in all realms of life. Jerry Colonna helps start-up CEOs make peace with their demons, the psychological habits and behavioral patterns that have helped them to succeed.

Loving Bravely

Real love starts with you. In order to attract a life partner and build a healthy intimate relationship, you must first become a good partner to yourself. This book offers twenty invaluable lessons that will help you explore and commit to your own emotional and psychological well-being so you can be ready, resilient, and confident in love. Many of us enter into romantic relationships full of expectation and hope, only to be sorely disappointed.

Whealthspan

ulton’s analysis of more than 55 million Americans over 90 years is revealing in many ways. Achieving the top 10% of lifespan is well within reach for almost everyone, but most will needlessly throw tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars away in hard-earned equity and fall far short of their active longevity potential. Thankfully, life’s Triple Crown doesn’t rely on longevity genetics, bio-hacks, or unrealistic diet and exercise regimes.

Book Circle

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The Raad Book Club

The Freedom Always Book Circle is a small, guided literary experience for people ready to translate insight into action. Each month, 20 participants explore one transformational book through structured reading, reflection, and weekly live conversation designed to fit into real life and spark real change.

Freedom Always Book Circle

Raad Recommends

Tools for a life well lived

A curated collection of products and experiences we actually use, love, and trust—chosen to elevate everyday living.

Recommendations

Relax. Restore. Renew with Sunlighten.

Stepping into my Sunlighten M-pulse sauna feels like I am giving my body and mind a reset every time I do it! It’s become my daily go-to for deep relaxation and renewal from the inside out. Use Promo Code: THERAADLIFE

Luxury and wellness crafted into every detail

Every time I step into a spa I’ve designed with Living Earth Crafts items, you can feel the difference. Their craftsmanship is an invitation to luxury and
calm. Use Promo Code: THERAADLIFE

Ride free, ride light—movement made joyful.

Gliding along the coast on my Urtopia Carbon 1 Pro e-bike always reminds me that movement can be as joyful as it is freeing and
sustainable. Use Promo Code: THERAADLIFE

Personalized service that opens unexpected doors.

With I Concierge, I’ve experienced true personalized lifestyle management—services tailored to support clients’ needs in
every way imaginable. Use Promo Code: THERAADLIFE

Consulting

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Design Your Next Chapter

Feeling stuck in a story that no longer fits? It’s time to flip the script. The Raad Life offers reinvention coaching—one-on-one and in small groups—for those ready to reclaim their narrative. This isn’t life coaching. This is life re-design. Through guided conversations, design thinking, and signature narrative prompts, we help you create a blueprint for your next act—aligned with who you are and where you’re going. Midlife isn’t the end. It’s the edit that makes the story better.

Life Re-Design