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Do you know anyone who’s enjoying semi-retirement? It’s an option worth considering.

In this episode of our retirement podcast, we talk with Author, Keynote Speaker and Communications Strategist Sam Horn.  We discuss her new book Someday Is Not a Day in the Week: 10 Hacks to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life. Is semi-retirement the best option for you?

What About Half-Retiring?

Sam shares her wisdom (and her great stories) on a range of topics including what gets in the way of people realizing their dreams in retirement.  She suggests strategies on how to overcome common obstacles and she previews life hacks you can use to move forward. She also explains how the option of Half-Retiring is a way to retire smarter.

Is Semi-Retirement the Best Way to Test a Second Career?

In her view, semi-retirement gives you a path to try out a second career.  It’s a way to transition to retirement gradually – and on your own terms. In Sam’s opinion,  semi-retirement may offer the best of both worlds. Sam also shares tools and quick, powerful exercises in real-time that you can use in planning for the other side of retirement.

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On Semi-retirement

“I’m so glad you brought this up because he part-time is doing the same thing, just less of it. So whatever it is we’re doing, instead of working 60 hours or 50 hours a week, we work for half that. Well, I believe half-retiring is that we don’t keep doing the same thing. We look in our life about what we really love to do and instead of theme that we’ll all have more fun when my work is done or I have my profession and I have my passion, I have my work and I have my recreation instead of seeing those as separate, what if we can blend them? So we have the best of both worlds right now.”

For more on Sam Horn:

Someday Is Not a Day in the Week on Amazon

Sam Horn’s Websites:   (The Intrigue Agency)

Sam Horn’s Happiness Box

 

Bio

Sam Horn is CEO of the Intrigue Agency, an international keynote speaker, author, and book consultant. She has spoken to more than a half-million people worldwide and for hundreds of organizations, including National Geographic, Cisco, Fortune 500 Forum, Intel, Ernst Young, Capital One, and NASA.

She has been interviewed on dozens of network TV and radio shows (NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX) and on NPR and MSNBC and has been profiled, quoted, or published in publications including the Washington Post, the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Huffington Post, Readers Digest, Cosmopolitan, and the Boston Globe.

Sam is the author of several previous books including the Washington Post bestseller Got Your Attention?

 

Sam’s Article On MarketWatch:  How to find happiness when you’re afraid of retirement

 


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Thinking about how to change careers at 50+? In this episode, we catch up with Jeff Tidwell, who is the CEO and Co-Founder of Next For Me, a resource that “connects and inspires our generation to evolve our post-50 lives through new work, a new purpose, or a new social contribution.”

 

Ready for a Career Change?

Jeff shares his insights on the challenges and opportunities faced by the 50+ generation, the resources needed to overcome obstacles and make a midlife career change, build a second-act career, or create a new entrepreneurial path. It’s practical and insightful advice on how to change careers at any age, but especially at 50+.

Jeff also discusses his own experiences as an entrepreneur and his key lessons learned so far.

Are you curious about what’s next for you? Tune in to the story of Jeff Tidwell, his company Next for Me – and what he’s hearing from the 50+ crowd at their events. Share on X

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Wise Quotes

On Mindset

“Well, number one is the mindset. Are you open to new ways of doing things? Because so often we hear, I don’t want to learn Slack, I don’t need another data input. Why are you using Google Docs when I’m so comfortable with Microsoft Word and so we’re getting in our own way because we’re limiting our creativity around ways to do work.

And so you got to step away from the way you’ve been doing things, be open to new ways of doing things, hang out with people who are digital natives. It might be a little confounding to you, ask them – they’re usually wide open to helping out.”

“Be open to new ways of doing things. Lifelong learning is (key). If you’re into that anyway, you already know the benefits of it, but be open to learning new things, trying new things, not getting stuck on the old ways you’re accustomed to doing things. The world’s moving fast and things change, run with it, have fun.”

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Bio

Jeff Tidwell began his career with alternative newspapers and then moved online, where he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York overseeing online communities and user experience for E*TRADE, WebMD, Oncology.com, MarketTools, Chirp Interactive, and many startups via his consulting practice prepop.

Today, he’s the CEO and Co-Founder of Next For Me. He has been a featured speaker at Tech Inclusion, is a regular contributor to Forbes “Chronicles . of a 50+Entrepreneur” and is a regular guest on podcasts and ‘longevity economy’ conferences and events.

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For more on Jeff Tidwell and Next For Me

Next for Me website

Buy Next For Me: A Guide to Startups for Dreamers by Carol McManus & Jeff Tidwell on Amazon

Forbes series on startups and entrepreneurship

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Related Retirement Wisdom Podcast episodes you may like

How to Build a Non-Profit Encore Career – Betsy Werley

Why People Make a Career Change with Purpose Top of Mind – Chris Farrell

How Life Hacks Can Help Make Your Retirement the Best Time of Your Life – Sam Horn

Design Your Life and Get Unstuck – Dave Evans

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About Retirement Wisdom

We help people who are retiring from their primary career – and aren’t 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.

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In this episode, we catch up with retiree, author, and blogger Bob Lowry, who has been blogging about having a productive and fulfilling retirement at Satisfying Retirement.com for the past 9 years.

How to Retire to a Satisfying Retirement

Want to retire smarter? Forge your own path. Bob shares his insights and practical wisdom on the essential ingredients in a satisfying retirement, the key obstacles that need to be overcome, and the lessons he’s learning in his own retirement.  We also discuss the benefits of a short sabbatical and what a Radical Retirement looks like for some people. It’s a conversation that will give you some interesting retirement ideas to consider.

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Bio:

Bob Lowry is the author of Preparing For Your Financial Future After Retirement, Preparing For Your Active Life After Retirement, Preparing To Make The Most of Your Free Time After Retirement and Living a Satisfying Retirement.

Bob has been profiled in Money Magazine & CNN Money, as well as Ad Age Insight White Papers. He is a featured author in the nationally released books, “65 Things To Do When You Retire,” “65 Things To Do When You Retire -Travel,” “70 Things To Do When You Turn 70,” and 80 Things To Do When You Turn 80.” as well as an original contributor to PBS’s website, Next Avenue.

For the past 9 years, Bob has been blogging about having a productive and fulfilling retirement at Satisfying Retirement.com

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Wise Quotes:

On the Transition to Retirement and Adaptability

“There’s fear of the unknown because none of us walked down this path ahead of time. It’s all brand new from the first day you do it. I take it that the fear of the unknown is probably the biggest.

Well-meaning advice of others can get in the way. It’s great to hear what other people think, but you’ll drive yourself crazy if you try to say, “I’m going to have my retirement just like that guy, or just like my father-in-law, or just like whomever.”

Trying to follow what others do is probably the second biggest mistake. I think maybe since retirement really is a journey, you got to be ready to change whatever it is you’re doing, your plans, how you live, where you live, the direction of your life. You got to be able to change that when it’s not working. Assuming everything that you thought was going to happen will happen is wrong, and sticking with a plan you made forever, just because you made the plan, will not work.

It’s just like virtually any part of life or any time of life. It changes and you are going to have to learn to adjust to that change. But I would say that’s an exciting part because retirees are no longer restricted to whatever path has been previously determined. I can decide tomorrow to write a blog about, I don’t know, something else. I can decide tomorrow to move into my RV. I mean, there’s all sorts of possibilities. It’s that ability to abandon a plan, abandon what you think your life is going to be like, and follow the path of what you want your life to be.”

 

For more on Bob Lowry: 

Bob Lowry’s website: Satisfying Retirement

Bob Lowry’s Books on Retirement

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Related Retirement Podcast Episodes

The Soft Side of Retirement

Your Retirement Won’t Come with a Roadmap

How Life Hacks Can Help Make Your Retirement the Best Time of Your Life

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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Wise Quotes

“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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Related Podcast Episodes You May Like

The Joy of Movement – Kelly McGonigal

How Can You Be Better With Age? – Alan Castel

Design Your Life and Get Unstuck – Dave Evans

Tiny Habits Can Lead to Big Changes – BJ Fogg

Retirement Planning Includes Getting Good at Getting Older – Rabbi Laura Geller

The Mind-Body Connection and The Rabbit Effect – Kelli Harding

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ABOUT THE RETIREMENT WISDOM PODCAST

Our retirement planning podcast features conversations with authors, thought leaders, and people creating meaningful second careers and interesting lives in retirement. Our mission is to share the wisdom that helps people retire smarter. We believe that balancing financial planning with attention to how people will invest their time and energy –  especially when retiring early – is a wise move.

Thanks to our guests, our podcast was recently included on a list of 24 Inspiring Podcasts to Help You Thrive in 2020 by Thrive Global.

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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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Wise Quotes

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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A long retirement is a terrible thing to waste. And a meaningful retirement doesn’t just happen by accident.

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