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The word retire comes from the French word retirer, which means to retreat or withdraw.

In America, retirement is sold as a reward. Served with a heaping side of surrender, a dessert of humble pie smothered in settle-down sauce. The check comes too soon. They gotta turn the table. Thanks for playing. Au revoir, gramps.

Yeah, f#@k that. Pardon my French.

How about you take the rocking chair. We'll take the high wire. Call it rewire-ment.

We’re not saying we've got it all figured out. All we’re saying is we know we're not ready to go gentle into that good night, but what the hell are we going to do instead?

To answer that central question, we’re on a mission to find the people who’ve figured something out. And to learn from them.

Real stories about real people who refuse to retreat. Famous and unknown. Seasoned but still hungry. On motorcycles, surfboards, skis and skateboards. Making art, making music, making trouble. Reinventing when the world expects retreat. Because there's a lot of life left.

Welcome to Older & Bolder

HOST

Award-winning filmmaker, author, pro skier and entrepreneur Bill Kerig has spent a lifetime tackling transitions and new beginnings with a relentless curiosity.

Now he’s taking on the adventure of aging. Who does it well? How do they do it? Where? Why do some people crush their second-act lives while others flail?

He’s determined to find out, for himself, and for all of us…

Team

Bill Kerig

Creator & Host

Bill Kerig has lived at the intersection of adventure, storytelling, and entrepreneurship. A former professional skier, award-winning documentary filmmaker, author, and startup founder, Kerig has built a career telling compelling stories about extraordinary people.

His films include The Edge of Never and Ready to Fly. As an entrepreneur, he founded RallyMe, a pioneering sports crowdfunding platform that NBC Sports acquired, and has helped build, scale, and position businesses across sports, media, and education.

Now in his 60s, Kerig is combining his filmmaking experience, entrepreneurial instincts, and appetite for adventure to build a media and lifestyle brand: Older & Bolder.

Roxanne Bellamy

Director of Media

Roxanne Bellamy has spent last 12 years crafting narratives for an over-50 audience as editor and editorial director at Vested Magazine. With a subscription base of more than 100,000 high-net-worth readers, Roxanne has developed a keen sense of how to connect with this affluent, over-50 demographic.

She has also finished 20+ marathons and ultramarathons, hiked Haleakala and Trolltunga, and spends her free time diving, snorkeling, surfing, SUPing, and backpacking.

Oh yeah, and she’s also working on a masters in sustainability from Harvard.

Roxanne is managing earned media market penetration.

Steve Haugen is best known for his work in space and heaven. The lead editor on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Star Trek: Short Treks, Star Trek: Picard and Krypton, Steve was also the lead editor on the CBS series Touched by an Angel for nine years.

But his favorite projects are the more earthbound films he created with Bill Kerig: Edge of Never (Showtime), Ready To Fly (Netflix, Apple), and The Grand Rescue (PBS).

Steve and Bill have a shorthand that leads to exceptional storytelling, and they’re thrilled to be working together again.

Producer & Editor

Steve Haugen

With an ethos rooted in the belief that constantly pushing yourself to do things that scare you, Casey has created campaigns for Caribou Coffee, CITGO, Duluth Trading Co., Horizon Fitness, Hydrasports, Jersey Mike’s Subs, Kaplan, Maine Tourism, Panchero’s Mexican Grill, Purina, United Way, USA Swimming, US Performance Academy, and Visit St. Pete Clearwater.

Casey created and oversees all creative brand work for Older & Bolder.

Creative Director

Casey Christian

Leading strategy, content, audience growth, and monetization for National Geographic’s four-channel YouTube portfolio, Ryan grew the channel to more than 36 million subscribers. Ryan also produced and directed premium documentary programming for National Geographic, Disney+, and Hulu, including global productions across seven countries.

After starting his own agency, which he recently sold, Ryan also gained extensive experience in branded content, delivering brand strategy, content development, and end-to-end production for global clients.

Ryan is crafting and managing the O & B series rollout and execution.

Series Strategist

Ryan Fouss

PILOT EPISODE

EP1

Rob Baker: Create Your Wave, and Ride It

At age 64, lawyer and healthcare IT executive Rob Baker eschews a sedate retirement in favor of becoming a surfer. Never mind that he’d never touched a surfboard. The decision will change his life.

At age 78, he’s now younger in most ways than he was at 64. How did it happen? Why was surfing the fountain of youth for this one guy?

He takes us to a surf camp in Nicaragua to show us where it all came together for him.

Episode 1 was shot in August 2026, completed on Oct. 1st, and is available for private viewing upon request.

Ep1 Teaser

PROPOSED EPISODES

EP2

Nathan Rafferty: Risk is Relative

Nathan Rafferty fell in love with motorcycling on the back of his soon-to-be wife’s dirt bike. With her driving. As soon as she turns her back, he hops on her bike and rides toward his destiny.

Barely a decade later, at age 54, he’s ripping across the dunes of Saudi Arabia in the world's most difficult and dangerous motorcycle race: The Dakar Rally.

Handsome, witty, successful in business, and the father of two wonderful kids.Why would Nato risk it all, and for what?

Could tackling outrageous risks be a recipe for a ripe old age?

EP3

North Shore Betty: Can Life be a Playground?

For the first 40+ years of her life, Canada’s Betty Birrell windsurfed, skied, and climbed mountains. Then, at 45, she bought her first mountain bike and became a pioneer of Vancouver’s mountain bike mecca: The North Shore.

It was the last straw for her husband, who couldn’t stand the way she treated the world as “one big fucking playground.” After the divorce, she set off to raise her son on her own. On mountain bikes. There’s no way that’s going to work. The world, after all, is not one big fucking playground. Or is it?

What can North Shore Betty, now 78 and ripping the gnarl with riders who could be her granddaughters, tell us about the power of a childlike fascination with play? And can our host keep up long enough to find out? We’ll find out on Oct. 19th when North Shore Betty introduces him to the North Shore.

EP4

Stacy Peralta: Embracing the Inner Kook

At 16, Stacy Peralta was the world's best skateboarder. At 22, he owned the world’s best-selling skateboard company. Virtually inventing the action sports video to promote his skateboard team on VHS, he decided to become a filmmaker. No film school, barely a high school education.

Stacy’s early efforts—Dogtown and Z Boys and Riding Giants— revolutionize documentary filmmaking. For Stacy, that means it’s time to move on.

Now, at age 68, he’s decided to become a fine art painter. No athleticism to carry him through the lack of training and formal education. Nothing but balls.

In surf-culture argot, Stacy is a kook in the art world. But maybe that’s his secret? Could embracing the eternal kook be a great unlock?

EP5

KRISHNA Thapa - The Warrior Monk

Born in a remote Himalayan village, Krishna Thapa was raised in the spiritual traditions of his ancestors. At 19, however, he became a soldier, first with the legendary Gurkhas and then with the British SAS, arguably the most formidable special forces unit in the world.

For 20 years he thrived in a kill-or-be-killed environment. Until one day, in his mid-40s, he’d had enough. Leaving the military, he becomes a monk.

It would take him 14 years to forgive himself for things he’d done. Then he was ready to rejoin the larger world and lead expeditions on Everest, K2, and other Himalayan peaks. Focused on helping amputees, veterans with PTSD, and people with disabilities, he finds new purpose.

In February 2027, we will join him in Nepal for the world’s highest ski tour and journey of self-discovery.

EP6

Dick Bass: Seven Summits by Sixty

At age 50, Texas businessman and ski resort owner Dick Bass announces that he’s going to climb the world’s highest mountain on each continent. Never mind that he’d never climbed a single mountain before or the other niggling detail: No one had ever accomplished the Seven Summits feat.

Bass enlists an unlikely ally: Frank Wells, then president of Warner Brothers (later president of Disney), and also a mountain climbing novice. Both men have already achieved extraordinary professional success, but instead of retreating from risk, they choose to become beginners at something potentially lethal.

Both men have since passed, and we will tell the story through Dick’s Seven Summits book, co-written with one of America's great adventure filmmakers and writers, Rick Ridgeway, along with other extensive archival materials.

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