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Retirement Wisdom · May 16, 2019 ·

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Prepare for Your Retirement Transition with Research-based Ideas

How do you prepare for retirement when you love what you do? It’s especially hard when your work has become who you are.In this episode we talk with Michelle Pannor Silver, of The University of Toronto, author of Retirement and Its Discontents: Why We Won’t Stop Working, Even if We Can. Michelle shares what led her to research retirement and write her book; how identity can make retirement challenging for some people; and what factors influence the timing of when people in different professions are ready to retire. We also discuss how ageism is costing organizations and societies across the world. We close with her recommendations on preparing for retirement, based on her research. She shares valuable tips that if you’re planning for a transition to retirement you’ll keep top of mind.

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Bio

Michelle Pannor Silver is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto with joint appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health and Society (ICHS).Dr. Silver’s primary areas of research include: 1)Work, Aging, and Retirement; 2) Health Information Seeking; and 3) Perceptions about Aging and Health.

Her book, Retirement and Its Discontents, was published in 2018 by Columbia University Press. Dr. Silver holds cross appointments in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health/IHPME and the Institute for Life Course and Agingat the University of Toronto. Her research has been supported by grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Connaught New Researcher Award, the Mitacs Accelerate Program, the UTSC Research Competitiveness Fund, and the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan.

She received a BA, BS, and MPP from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

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“In my book, I explained that a fundamental tension exists between the autonomy, and flexibility, and the lack of boundaries that are associated with retirement and our instincts to maintain structure, a sense of social connection, and personal fulfillment. I explained and I argued that retirement has been socially constructed in a way that can give rise to feelings of great discontentment as it stymies some things in favor of others. The people that I interviewed, they struggled with that tension. Some reconcile that by drawing themselves into new ways of recalibrating their identity.”

“I do write about people who were discontented, who experienced really dark points in their life, but it’s important to recognize that there is a positivity effect available. If we can just take stock and get rid of the excess and focus in on what’s positive in our life, I think that is going to be a good thing to keep in mind. The other two, I’ll just quickly share are the idea of practicing of preparing for the transition. Like many of us, we don’t take lunch breaks, work all through our adulthood, literally eat at the computer. I’m not saying you have to go for a walk every day at lunch. I’m saying that if you’re planning to retire at a certain point, then prepare for the transition.”

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For more on Michelle Pannor Silver

Please visit her website

Read Michelle’s book Retirement and Its Discontents

Commentary on her book:

University of Chicago Magazine Spring ’19: When what you do is no longer who you are

Times of London Literary Review

Our review of Michelle’s book

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Retirement Wisdom · May 1, 2019 ·

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Do you need a wake up call?

Welcome to the third episode of our Noteworthy Series, where we highlight an article that we think warrants your attention and host a conversation with a relevant guest.

Today’s article is The Power of Wakeup Calls by Gregg Levoy (Psychology Today – July 2017).

Our guest is Richard Losciale, who experienced his own personal wakeup call that changed the way he lived his life – from being focused on the aspirational to being focused on the inspirational. As Rich listened to his inner little voice, he worked hard to recover from being near death and transformed his life by shifting his mindset to his higher purpose and developed a stronger sense of who he is. His company, Neo-Seniors Services LLC, focuses on improving the well-being and mindfulness of those who are looking to optimize their senior years and live better lives.

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On Listening to The Inner Voice

“If you hear the little voice inside you, that’s really your big voice. That’s the voice you have to listen to. That’s what we don’t need a vacation from and that should be our guiding monitor in life. That is the spiritual voice inside all of us. I do believe we’re spirits having physical experiences and not the other way around. If we listen to that intuitive spiritual voice inside of us, however quiet it is … It’s a noisy world. Sometimes we can’t hear it anymore for all the tick-tock that’s out there. We’ll be in better shape collectively, individually, as a tribe, as a species, as a nation and as a global community.”

On Habits

“I really try to balance the inspirational with the transfer of knowledge and to help people break out of old habits. Mark Twain had one thing that he said amongst many wise things. That you cannot throw bad habits down the stairs. You have to walk them down step by step. That’s what I try to help people do. Identify the bad habits and then recognize they can’t just jettison them, they have to walk them away slowly and that it takes practice, commitment, self-trust and the help of others around them. So we’re all in this together.”

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For More on Richard Losciale:

Neo-Seniors Services LLC website

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Retirement Wisdom · Apr 17, 2019 ·

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Can You Pivot & Start Your Own Business?

Forced retirement is a challenging experience but it can open up new possibilities you may not have otherwise considered, such as entrepreneurship.

Join us as we discuss making the transition from corporate life to entrepreneurship with Lorette Pruden, Ph.D., a chemical engineer turned Business Coach and Advisor.

Lorette shares insights and advice from her own transition and her work with her clients, how to avoid common mistakes, how to leverage a virtual organization, and why it takes a different mindset to win as a business owner.

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“(There’s) another formerly corporate outlook that gets people in trouble, which is, “I know what it takes to win.” You might know what it takes to win the game that you used to be playing, but now you’re playing a different game.

One of the things the new business owner has to figure out is what game they are playing. Is it chess or is it checkers? It’s the same board, but you need to know. There are bigger risks if you’re playing chess than if you’re playing checkers, right? Is it cricket or is it baseball? What are the rules? Why is it different? It looks kind of similar, but it turns out it’s not, so there’s some learning, a pretty steep learning curve, to figure out what is the game that you’re playing.”

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Bio

Lorette Pruden, Ph.D., has helped hundreds of small business owners, sales professionals, entrepreneurs and community leaders grow their businesses and manage that growth since 2000. She specializes in the Formerly Corporate—so many small business owners who’ve worked with her come from a corporate background that she finally wrote the book on it.

How does she help? Working one-on-one or in one of her business growth teams, Lorette delivers strategies that work, focus and structure, collaborative teams, and accountability. She is a Princeton chemical engineer turned entrepreneur, who works at the intersection of business and people processes. Her career spans three (so far) phases:

Chemistry—what is that?
Chemical engineering—how does it work? and
People—who’s going to make it happen?

Lorette consults, trains, coaches and inspires her clients to

Create strategic alliances and referral partnerships
Create a customized system of cultivating continuous referrals
Tap the collective wisdom of the mastermind team
Develop a business that is self-sufficient and
Produce enough profitable business to support the life they want to live.

Lorette was President of the National Speakers Association, NJ 2010-11, and has served on the Boards of the Institute for Management Consultants NJ, the NJ Youth Symphony, and the NJ Council for Farmers and Communities. She is a BNI member, and has run the Montgomery Friends of Open Space Farmers Market since 2003.

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For more on Lorette Pruden, Ph.D.

Lorette’s website

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Lorette’s book Formerly Corporate: Mindset Shifts for Success in Your Own Business

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Retirement Wisdom · Apr 8, 2019 ·

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There’s Much More to FIRE Than Frugality

There’s a lot of chatter about the FIRE movement. Chris Mamula, who retired at 41, joins us to discuss his journey to early retirement, the upsides and the challenges of FIRE, why the transition can be challenging, and his advice on what it takes to retire early with the FIRE Movement.

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Bio

Follow Chris at Can I Retire Yet?

Chris’ article in MarketWatch:

This first year of early retirement has been one of the hardest of my life

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On The Transition to Early Retirement

“Like a lot of people planning for retirement, I think I kind of had this vision in my head like I was going to have total freedom and that was really appealing to me. And what I’ve really found in this first year is that I really desire some routine and some structure. I think when every day is like a Saturday, that sounds really appealing when you’re working 40, 50, 60 hours a week from Monday through Friday. But even when I was in my career, what I found was I would get up every morning at like 5:00. I would do my workout, I would shower, I would write for about an hour all before I went to work, and that forced structure caused me to get things done.

A lot of times when I was working, on my Saturdays, I would find my days would just blow by and I wouldn’t do anything productive, and that’s kind of what I found myself doing some of these days. You feel like you’re going to have so much free time, and it just gets filled. And if you’re not very intentional about how it gets filled, you find your days can start wasting away. I actually like structure, and I’m trying to implement that in my life now. We don’t have a set routine yet. We keep modifying things with the move and with the change in seasons and with having a young child, but I’m trying to find that structure and that routine.”

On Purpose

“I think you read a lot as you start to get into retirement planning that you shouldn’t retire from something, you should retire to something, and I think that’s great advice. Because I think in my career as a physical therapist I got to witness people longitudinally. People would come in and then they’d come back years later with a different problem, and I had a particular physician who I became friendly with, and I got to know him fairly well as a patient. He came back years later with a different problem after he retired, and he was always a really jovial, happy guy. And I asked him, “I assume you’re loving retirement?” He said, “Oh, I hate it.” I said, “Well, why?” And he said … he just felt like he lost his purpose, and he said, “The only thing I like to do now … I don’t have anything to do, so go work out five, six hours a day,” and he ends up tearing his rotator cuff, which is why he’s coming to see me because he was over-working out. Now he was really depressed because he lost that. So, I think a lot of people don’t really think … and I think I was this way … with much thought as I put into this. I’ve been writing about this for five years, I don’t think I put enough thought into what it was going to look like. I think we tend to really focus on the financial side, and kind of underestimate the quote, unquote, “Softer side,” of this, but it’s very important, and a lot of people struggle with that.”

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Retirement Wisdom · Mar 25, 2019 ·

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Positive aging takes a different mindset – and a bolder one.

Carl Honoré is an award-winning journalist and author whose revolutionary first book, In Praise of Slowness, was an international bestseller and has been published in more than thirty languages. This excellent book can help you reframe how you think about getting older, learn how to retire well and enjoy life to its fullest.

Carl joins our retirement podcast from London to discuss the benefits positive aging, living more slowly against the cultural pressures for speed and youth – and his new book (B)OLDER: Making the Most of Our Longer Lives.

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On the Advantages Older Workers Bring

“I think is quite surprising to people that – actually – in the workplace, people get more productive as they get older. There’s this awful toxic ageism – especially in the American workplace. But I think you find it all over the world too, this idea in Silicon Valley that they talk about being finished at forty, and anybody over forty gets passed over for interviews and shunted into less interesting work and all this sort of stuff. Yet, people are on an upward curve performance as they grow older. Productivity goes up in jobs that rely on social skills. People get better at dealing with customers and clients, better at things like collaboration, listening, seeing the big picture, creativity holds strong, and there’s a lot of research, in fact, that suggests that it gets better, we become more creative as we get older. We loosen up. We join the dots better.”

On the Power of Language and Aging

“I think so much of the problem with our attitude with aging is bound up with the poisonous language we use. It’s woven into our vernacular, that younger is better and older is worse. When we forget something we call it a senior moment. Or we use that phrase finished at forty, or you’re the wrong side of thirty or the wrong side of forty, or you say you’re feeling your age and that means you feel weak and feeble and inferior or sore. It’s just, every time we use that language, I think it’s reinforcing that stereotype. It’s reinforcing the caricature. It’s reinforcing the wrong idea of aging.

As we know from whether dealing with racism or sexism or any kind of social change, language is one the first steps towards changing how we feel about ourselves and our place in the world, and changing how we behave is the words we use. So I just recommend to people just push pause, think a little bit, check your language a little bit. Just don’t use phrases like a senior moment. Try and use phrases that are kind of neutral about aging, or upbeat about it. I think that can make a difference. There’s a lot of studies that show that if you have an upbeat view of aging you age better. You live longer, you better physically, cognitively, happier, et cetera. So language is a good way I think to do that.”

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Bio

Carl Honoré is a bestselling author, broadcaster, and leader of the global Slow Movement. His TED talk on the benefits of slowing down has been viewed 2.8 million times. Described by the Wall Street Journal as “an in-demand spokesman on slowness,” Carl travels the world to deliver powerful keynotes that put time and tempo in a whole new light. His message is simple but counterintuitive: To achieve peak performance in a fast world, you have to slow down.

After studying history and Italian at Edinburgh University, Honoré worked with street children in Brazil. This inspired him to take up journalism. He has written from all over Europe and South America, spending three years in Buenos Aires along the way. His work has appeared in publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Economist, Observer, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, Time, National Post, and other publications.

Carl’s first book, In Praise of Slow, chronicles the global trend toward putting on the brakes in everything from work to food to parenting. Under Pressure explores how to raise children in a fast world and was hailed by Time as a “gospel of the Slow Parenting movement.” Carl’s third book, The Slow Fix, shows how to tackle complex problems in every walk of life without falling for short-term quick fixes. Published in 34 languages, his books have landed on bestseller lists in many countries.

Carl was featured in a series for BBC Radio 4 called The Slow Coaching which he helped frazzled, over-scheduled people slow down. He also presented a television show called Frantic Family Rescue on Australia’s ABC 1. Carl is an advisor to Jack Media, which makes messaging apps, and sits on the Board of Trustees of Hewitt School in New York City.

Carl’s latest book is Bolder: Making The Most Of Our Longer Lives. It is about ageing –how we can do it better and feel better about doing it. It’s also a rallying cry against the last form of discrimination that dare speak its name: ageism.

Carl lives in London. While researching his first book on slowness he was slapped with a speeding ticket.

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For More on Carl Honoré

Carl’s New Book:BOLDER is available on Amazon

Check out Carl Honore’s 12 Rules for Ageing Boldly

Carl’s Website

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We help people who are retiring from their primary career and are not done yet, discover what’s next. A long retirement is a terrible thing to waste. And a meaningful retirement doesn’t just happen by accident. Schedule a call today to discuss how we can help you make yours great.

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

Prepare for Your Retirement Transition with Research-based Ideas

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