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Retirement Wisdom · Nov 10, 2022 ·

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Planning for retirement? You need to also plan for your longevity. And your lifestyle choices will play be a big role in your longevity and satisfaction in retirement. Mike Drak, author of the new book Longevity Lifestyle by Design, returns to The Retirement Wisdom Podcast for an enlightening conversation on how to upgrade your retirement planning.

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Delaying retirement? Many of my clients are. But they’re using this time to get a jump on their future.

You could wait until you retire and ask What Now? – and then scramble – or drift. Don’t be that person. Instead, start now and design your new post-full-time work life.

Find how how the Designing Your Life process (developed by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans at Stanford) can help you unlock a new direction. Apply the same principles of design thinking that Nike and other leading companies use to design your future. Learn more about my One-on-One coaching and small group programs. Take the first step toward your new life today – schedule a call.

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Bio

Mike Drak is the author of his third book Longevity Lifestyle by Design: Redefining What Retirement Can Be. After a thirty-eight year career within the financial services industry, Mike Drak experienced what he has now termed “retirement shock”. As a result, Mike spent the next 6 years doing research about retirement which resulted in his best selling book “Victory Lap Retirement” based on his realization that full stop retirement doesn’t work for most people.

His second book “Retirement Heaven or Hell: Which Will You Choose?” shares some of Mike’s personal experiences in retirement and highlights how people can design and transition to their own unique retirement lifestyle. This book also outlines the valuable retirement lessons learned from the pandemic and introduces nine retirement principles that can support creating a long, healthy and fulfilling life.

Along with being a best-selling author, Mike is also a public speaker and retirement lifestyle designer. He has received awards for his writing and you can find his articles at Booming Encore.

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For More on Mike Drak

Longevity Lifestyle by Design book: Free Download | Amazon

Mike Drak’s First Visit with The Retirement Wisdom Podcast

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Podcast Episodes You May Like

Independence Day – Steve Lopez

How to Make New Friends in Retirement – Dr. Marisa G. Franco

Thinking Better to Live Better – Dr. Woo-kyoung Ahn

Taking Stock – Dr. Jordan Grumet

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Win the Retirement Game

(It Might Just Be the Most Important Game of Your Life)

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Wise Quotes

On Why People Fail Retirement

“I believe it’s just that they have the wrong beliefs about retirement. They don’t fully understand what’s coming their way. Many people think it’s just a financial situation. If you have enough money, you’re going to have a great retirement. And that’s not true. Many people think transitioning to a successful retirement will be easy. What can be hard about retiring? But it’s one of the hardest things you can do. And it’s one of the most stressful events that you’ll go through, too. People don’t realize that. People think when they retire, all their problems are magically going to go away. Well, guess what? They don’t. As a matter of fact, you’re going to have even more problems. And that’s what concerns me. How I read about the Great Resignation, all these people bailing into retirement early. And I’m going, I don’t know, you better, you think this thing through. And I expect a lot of these people will come back out of retirement because they’re going to find out it’s not right for them. You have to put a lot of thought into it. You have to educate yourself and you have to prepare. And preparing takes a long time, if you want to do it right. The decisions you make about retirement are going to impact the next 30, 40 years of your life. So you want to get it right or you’re going to have problems. And who wants to be miserable for 30, 40 years?”

On Longevity & Lifestyle Choices

“Research has shown, and this really woke me up when I read the research, that longevity is impacted 80% to 90% by your lifestyle choices. Which means we can control how long we’re going to live. Well, we can reduce risk. Now there’s always going to be a Black Swan event that might hit, maybe you get hit by a car or you get cancer or something like that. But we really can mitigate the risk and really increase the odds of us living a long and happy life. And so when I knew that, I said, Wow, okay. this is when I have to start looking at that and start planning for it. And that was again, one of the reasons why I decided to attempt this Ironman thing. One of the things is get healthy again. Right? Health is so important. And then I list seven other inputs that will increase your chances of living longer and better than most people. So I was very excited when I saw that. And then I noticed that a lot of these bad things are reversible. And that was music to my ears.”

On Why Work Can Be a Key Part of Retirement

“I believe that work – the right kind of work – work that you love to do, could be like a fountain of youth to you, a source of longevity, a source of happiness. And the happiness and longevity connection is very powerful. And so what you want to do is find or create work that you love to do. And it can either be paid work or unpaid work, but it gives you real good reason to get out of bed in the morning, Something to look forward to. Like early in our working years, that’s how we felt. And then it changed and now we can get back to doing that thing. So, I love to help a lot of people and I get excited about projects. I’m working on this new book project. I’m getting up at 4:30 in the morning. I don’t set the alarm, it’s just, I get excited and I get out of bed and I have all these ideas.”

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About Your Podcast Host

Joe Casey is an executive coach who also helps people design their next life after their primary career. He created his own next chapter after a twenty-six-year career at Merrill Lynch, where he was Senior Vice President and Head of HR for Global Markets & Investment Banking.

Today, in addition to his work with clients, Joe hosts The Retirement Wisdom Podcast, which thanks to his guests and loyal listeners, ranks in the top 1.5 % globally in popularity by Listen Notes. Business Insider has recognized him as one of 23 innovative coaches who are making a difference.

He’s the author of Win the Retirement Game: How to Outsmart the 9 Forces Trying to Steal Your Joy.

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Intro and Outro voiceovers by Ross Huguet.

Retirement Wisdom · Nov 7, 2022 ·

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A lot changes when you retire, including your social connectivity. Dr. Marisa G. Franco, author of Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make–and Keep—Friends, has research-based advice on making new friends as an adult, and creating new connections.

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Delaying retirement? Many of my clients are. But they’re using this time to get a jump on their future.

You could wait until you retire and ask What Now? – and then scramble – or drift. Instead, why not start now to proactively explore your options and design your new post-full-time work life?

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Bio

Dr. Marisa G. Franco is the New York Times bestselling author of Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make–and Keep—Friends; and she is a professor, speaker, and psychologist. Her research focuses on the powerful role of our communities in shaping who we are and why we flourish.

Marisa uses her expertise to advise clients and companies on how to nurture deeper connections. She believes that connections underlie everything—our health, our motivation, our work, and our sense of who we are.

Dr. Franco holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Maryland and works as a professor there. She writes for Psychology Today and she has been a featured psychologist in The New York Times, NPR, and Good Morning America.

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For More on Dr. Marisa G. Franco

Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make–and Keep—Friends

Website

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Podcast Episodes You May Like

Where to Retire – Silvia Ascarelli

Plays Well with Others – Eric Barker

Thinking Better to Live Better – Dr. Woo-kyoung Ahn

The Emotional Side of Retiring – Kate Schroeder

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How to Win the Retirement Game

(It Might Just Be the Most Important Game of Your Life)

What Readers Are Saying:

“Definitely the best book I’ve read on the non-financial aspects of retirement.”

“I wish I had this book when I retired.”

“…the book is amazingly readable, and chock full of insights.”

“This is a great gift for anyone anticipating retirement years or already in the thick of it.”

Amazon Barnes & Noble Bookshop.org

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Wise Quotes

On Making Friends as an Adult

“So making friends is about having a certain type of setting or environment. Rebecca G. Adams, she’s a sociologist, describes it as having repeated unplanned interaction and shared vulnerability. So that’s school, right? You see someone every day, you have recess, you have gym, you have lunch, right? For some people that’s work, for other people not, because sometimes people go to work and they’re not quite vulnerable, which is why one study found that the more time we spend together at work, the less close we feel. And I think, in general, as we move forward to adulthood, we just don’t inhabit those same types of settings that really foster connection. So if we rely on this concept of making friends that we had when we were kids, we’re just going to be like, it should just happen, right? And then we don’t. We’re not realizing we’re not in that setting anymore. So it’s not going to just happen for you. And in fact, there is a study on older adults that found that people who thought friendship happened based on luck were lonely five years later, whereas those that saw it as happening based on effort were less lonely five years later because they made that effort.”

On Vulnerability & Initiating

“So, in the book I describe vulnerability as sharing something that’s authentic to you that feels risky or feels exposing or feels like someone could like shame or reject you for. So initiating is certainly one of those things, right? That tends to feel very vulnerable for people. But in general, we find in the research, and this is something of a thread that I’m going to pull out, is our brain’s negativity bias. When we predict the impact of our behaviors, our predictions are inaccurate and they’re often more cynical than the truth, right? So I talked about the liking gap as an example of that. But in the research on vulnerability, the example is research on something called the Beautiful Mess Effect. That when I picture someone doing something vulnerable, like talking about the flaws in their own body or confessing to someone that they love them, right? And I evaluate it, I see it more positively. But when I think of myself doing that same thing, I view it more negatively and I think people will view it more negatively. And so we have this bias when we think about ourselves, we’re like, People aren’t going to like this. They’re gonna think I’m weird. But when other people do the exact same thing, we’re like, Oh my gosh, that’s so great. They’re so authentic. They’re so genuine. They really trust me. Something that’s vulnerable that I struggle with is asking for support from other people. So what I’ve started to do is literally ask myself, What if this person asked for support from me? How would I read this? And then I try to use my answer to that question to evaluate the impact of how it’ll come up if I ask for support.”

On Defense Mechanisms

“When the self is involved, our self defensive mechanisms come into play and we don’t actually perceive the world accurately. So it takes us to take a step back and think of what if someone initiated with me? Wouldn’t I feel great that someone was really interested in getting to know me? Or if someone got vulnerable with me and I’d be like, Oh my gosh, I feel so close to them. I’m so honored that they were willing to share. And so we can sort of try to use that same process when we evaluate ourselves to get around the the defensive hijacking that our brain has when our brain is basically in survival mode – protect the self at all costs. Not realizing that sometimes that can really harm our relationships and friendships.”

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About Your Podcast Host

He’s the author of Win the Retirement Game: How to Outsmart the 9 Forces Trying to Steal Your Joy.

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Intro and Outro voiceovers by Ross Huguet.

Retirement Wisdom · Oct 31, 2022 ·

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Am I ready to retire? Should I stay or should I go? Who will I be if I retire? Planning for retirement brings a plethora of questions to ponder. Esteemed LA Times columnist Steve Lopez shares his year-long exploration of these, and other questions, in his new book Independence Day: What I Learned About Retirement from Some Who’ve Done It and Some Who Never Will. His journey included conversations with a wide range of people with different perspectives on retirement that informed his own decision on whether to retire, keep going – or do something else. The observations and insights can help you retire smarter – in a way that’s right for you.

Steve Lopez joins us from Southern California.

Bio

Steve Lopez is a California native who has been an L.A. Times columnist since 2001. He has won more than a dozen national journalism awards for his reporting and column writing at seven newspapers and four news magazines, and is a four-time Pulitzer finalist for commentary – in 2012, for his columns on elder care; in 2016, for his columns on income inequality in California; in 2018, for his columns on housing and homelessness; and in 2020, for purposeful pieces about rising homelessness in Los Angeles, which amplified calls for government action to deal with a long-visible public crisis.

He is the author of three novels, two collections of columns and a non-fiction work called “The Soloist,” which was a Los Angeles Times and New York Times best-seller, winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and the subject of a Dream Works movie by the same name. Lopez’s television reporting for public station KCET has won three local news Emmys, three Golden Mike awards and a share of the Columbia University DuPont Award.

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For More on Steve Lopez

Independence Day: What I Learned About Retirement from Some Who’ve Done It and Some Who Never Will

The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

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Podcast Episodes You May Like

The Unretirement Life – Richard Eisenberg

The Emotional Side of Retiring – Kate Schroeder

Purpose & a Paycheck – Chris Farrell

If You Love Your Work, What Challenges Will You Face in Retirement? – Michelle Pannor Silver

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Are You Ready to Retire?

How prepared are you for the non-financial side of retirement? Take our free quiz.

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How to Win the Retirement Game

(It Might Just Be the Most Important Game of Your Life)

What Readers Are Saying:

“Definitely the best book I’ve read on the non-financial aspects of retirement.”

“I wish I had this book when I retired.”

“…the book is amazingly readable, and chock full of insights.”

“This is the book I didn’t know I needed after retiring!”

“This is a great gift for anyone anticipating retirement years or already in the thick of it.”

Amazon Barnes & Noble Bookshop.org

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Wise Quotes

On the Transition to Retirement

“…there are a lot of things that surprised me. One thing I had not given a lot of thought to, and I was persuaded by among other people, a woman by the name of Nancy Schlossberg, who is in her nineties and lives in Sarasota, Florida. I hope her house is still there after the storm. She talked about how much thought should go into this time in your life, because this is a huge transition. And it’s not just going from work to not working. There’s a transition in every aspect of your life and your relationship, say, with your spouse, or with your colleagues who will become former colleagues – do they still have time for you? Have you developed enough friendships, hobbies or causes that when you do finally leave your job and have all of that extra time, do you know what you’re going to do with it? Do you know if it’s going to be fulfilling? Do you think that you’ll still matter in the world? And I had been thinking more about a binary you’re working or you’re not working [question] and she opened my eyes and my mind to the nuances. Things like how your relationship with your spouse does change.”

On Lessons from the Pandemic

“And in my case, because of the pandemic, our office was closed. The newsroom was shut down. We’re owned by a doctor, and he did not want people in there. He did not want the office to become the venue of a super spreader event. And so we worked from home. And in my case, I’m out on the road a lot interviewing people, but essentially my home became my office – and my wife, Alison works at home. This is her office. And we would bump into each other a lot more than we [previously] did. And I said, You know what, Alison? This is kind of a preview of my retirement. And she said, if this is a preview, I don’t want to see the movie.”

On Conversations That Made Him Think

“…one is a priest by the name of Father Gregory Boyle. And Father Greg works in Los Angeles with a group called Homeboys, and he’s trying to rescue and redirect the lives of youngsters who have been in trouble as kids in Los Angeles and give them job skills and whatever other training they might need. It’s a two-year program. And Father Greg is legendary in the Los Angeles area. He reminds me of Sister Mary Scullion in Philadelphia, who’s another hero of mine I got to write about and get to know when I was at the Philadelphia Inquirer. In fact, Sister Mary visits Father Greg when she’s in Los Angeles, and she’ll check in with me, and I’ll go over there and have lunch with her or a cup of coffee. But these are living saints, the two of them, Sister Mary and Father Greg. So I went to see Father Greg. I was actually working on a column about an award he had just won. Father Greg had briefly discussed retirement a couple years ago, and and I said, By the way, I’m really beginning to think about it now, much more seriously. How about you? And he looked at me kind of surprised, like was he really hearing me say that I might retire? And he said that he has [given] no consideration whatsoever to retiring now or ever. And I felt, I got to tell you, I felt pretty wimpy in that moment. Here I am ready to check out, and Father Greg, the same age as I am, sounded as committed and as energetic as ever. And he said, the work that he does is a passion, and it gives him a sense of relevance. And that’s what life is. Finding something that that gets you out of bed that serves others. And he just couldn’t quite understand how somebody like me, who can write stories about people like him and other people, would ever want to give that up. That’s sort of my religion – to try to find interesting people to write about and try to shine a light on people’s experiences, their struggles, their triumphs. And he just couldn’t think of what I might find in my life better than that. And I said, Really, Father Greg, never? You’re never ever going to retire? And he said, I’m a Jesuit. I’m going to retire in the graveyard. And so I felt like I think I love my work as much as Father Greg loves his, so it really stopped me. It had me wondering if I was making the right decision, if I ended up deciding to retire.”

On Meaning

“So I think what I discovered is that I really love what I do, and that if I do less of it or don’t do it at all, that I do have to carve out a life for myself where I can still give something. Be a better husband, be a better dad. Those are not things that I necessarily gave a lot of thought to in the last half century because I’ve just been racing, racing, racing to the next column. So, I think that I want to find a way to matter, and I don’t really know what that way is yet, but it makes a lot of sense to me. Nancy [Schlossberg’s] argument is that she finds that people who are unfulfilled and unhappy in retirement didn’t find that reinvention, they didn’t find new purpose, the relevance that Father Gregory Boyle talks about. We’re on this planet such a short time, do something with it that you could feel good about and serve others in ways that enriches their lives and yours as well.”

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About Retirement Wisdom

Delaying retirement? Many of my clients are. But they’re using this time to invest in their future.

You could wait until you retire and ask What Now? – then scramble to play catch up.

Isn’t now a better time to proactively explore your options and intentionally design your new life?

Schedule a call to find how how the Designing Your Life process (developed by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans at Stanford) can help you unlock a new direction. Apply the same principles of design thinking that Nike and other leading companies use to design your future. Learn more about my One-on-One coaching and small group programs. Take the first step toward your new life today.

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About Your Podcast Host

He’s the author of Win the Retirement Game: How to Outsmart the 9 Forces Trying to Steal Your Joy.

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Intro and Outro voiceovers by Ross Huguet.

Retirement Wisdom · Oct 24, 2022 ·

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You may be familiar with cognitive bias from behavioral economics. But being aware of common thinking traps and how to elude them can help you in your retirement planning and in your day-to day life, including making you a wiser consumer. Dr. Woo-kyoung Ahn, a Psychology professor at Yale, is the author of the new book Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better. She joins us for an enlightening conversation about how we can be more keenly aware of our cognitive tendencies, sharpen our thinking and duck thinking errors that can have real-life implications.

We discuss:

How confirmation bias works – and how it gets in our way
Negativity bias – and why loss aversion carries more weight than gains do
Overconfidence and the fluency effect
Estimating better and the planning fallacy
How marketers use cognitive bias – and how to be a wiser consumer
Applications of the research in daily life
How cognitive psychology can help at the individual and societal levels

Dr. Ahn joins us from New Haven.

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Bio

Woo-kyoung Ahn is the John Hay Whitney Professor of Psychology at Yale University. After receiving her PhD in Psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she was Assistant Professor at Yale University and Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University. Her research on thinking biases has been funded by NIH. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science.

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For More on Dr. Woo-kyoung Ahn

Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better

Website

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Breaking the Age Code – Dr. Becca Levy

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How to Win the Retirement Game

(It Might Just Be the Most Important Game of Your Life)

What Readers Are Saying:

“Definitely the best book I’ve read on the non-financial aspects of retirement.”

“I wish I had this book when I retired.”

“…the book is amazingly readable, and chock full of insights.”

“This is the book I didn’t know I needed after retiring!”

“This is a great gift for anyone anticipating retirement years or already in the thick of it.”

Amazon Barnes & Noble Bookshop.org

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Wise Quotes

On Estimating & Planning Better

“…what I do to overcome the planning fallacy in myself is I just basically add 50% of the time that I initially estimate. And I try not to negotiate with myself on this. And sometimes 50% was not enough. My favorite story was I was planning I was preparing for a lecture on the planning fallacy, and I thought It’ll be done within four days. And I said, Okay, that means a week. No. It took two weeks, because there’s so many studies that I read and then I said, No, this one doesn’t work. No, this is not interesting. So it took two weeks. So, I think the best thing to do is just to assume the planning fallacy always happens a hundred percent – and then just double the estimate.”

On Negativity Bias

“…some researchers say that we have actually evolved to be more sensitive to loss and negative information. And it’s because throughout most of our human history, the resources have been really scarce. So in that case, any loss, even if it’s a small one, can be a direct threat to our survival. So we have evolved to protect what we possess, what our family has. We have to be very, very sensitive to that. And so this loss aversion shouldn’t be such a big deal in the current society because most of us, we can lose [a bit]. If there’s a jug of expired milk, if it expired yesterday, for instance, you should be able to let it go. It’s not a direct threat to you, but we may feel like, Oh, I can’t really let it go to waste, I might be able to use it for pancakes or something else. It might not be a big loss, but we can’t really let it go.”

On Cognitive Psychology

“The subfield of cognitive psychology that I study is a higher level reasoning processes, the thinking processes, basically. And many students take my course thinking that they want to think better because they can outsmart everybody else in the room. They want to have an edge, or a head start. But I don’t want them to want them to learn that kind of thing. To me, thinking better means being more fair to oneself as well as to other people.”

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About Retirement Wisdom

Delaying retirement? Many of my clients are. But they’re using this time to invest in their future.

You could wait until you retire and ask What Now? – and scramble to play catch up.

Isn’t now a better time to proactively explore your options and intentionally design your new life?

Schedule a call to find how how the Designing Your Life process (developed by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans at Stanford) can help you unlock a new direction. Apply the same principles of design thinking that Nike and other leading companies use to design your future. Learn more about my One and One coaching and small group programs. Take the first step toward your new life today.

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About Your Podcast Host

He’s the author of Win the Retirement Game: How to Outsmart the 9 Forces Trying to Steal Your Joy.

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Intro and Outro voiceovers by Ross Huguet.

Retirement Wisdom · Oct 17, 2022 ·

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Delaying retirement? Use this time wisely to prepare well for the transition.

If you wait until you’re asking What Now? you’re behind the curve.

Don’t lag behind.

Ask a better question:

How can I design the retirement I’ve worked so hard to earn?

Schedule a call – get well-prepared for your graduation from full-time work.

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About Your Retirement Podcast Host

He’s the author of Win the Retirement Game: How to Outsmart the 9 Forces Trying to Steal Your Joy.

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Why Brains Need Friends – Ben Rein

Re-Visioning Retirement – Susan Reid, PhD

What Matters Most – Diane Button

Less is Liberation – Christine Platt

A Serendipitous Second Act – Richard Moran

Healthy to 100: Lessons From Abroad – Ken Stern

The Art of Relationships with Adult Children – Francine Toder, PhD

The MasterChef Dentist’s Fight vs. Cancer: Food as Medicine – Chris Walinski

Life in Three Dimensions – Dr. Shige Oishi

Joyspan – Kerry Burnight, PhD

Grandparents’ Day – Kerry Byrne & Ted Page

Strengthen Your Emotional Fitness – Dr. Emily Anhalt

Resurface – Cassidy Krug

You Still Are Somebody – Carl Landau

The Inspired Retirement – Nathalie Martin

50 by 70: A Big Goal in Retirement – Joe Tarantino

Rewire Retirement – Cyn Meyer

Reinventing Yourself in Retirement – Lee Gale Gruen

Shifting From Saving to Spending in Retirement – Richard Sheffield

Why Retirement Was Just the Beginning – Neal Lipschutz

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Make Your Next Years Your Best Years – Harry Agress, MD

Why You’ll Want a Hobby – Ashley Merryman