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Retirement Wisdom · Sep 13, 2021 ·

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It’s a blast to dream about your retirement. Freedom. Flexibility. Fun. Just like you see in the commercials and the brochures. But if you want to truly retire happy and lead a life of fulfillment, you’ll need to prepare better. You’ll want to go beyond the highlights and take a serious look at what your day-to-day life will really be like – and what it will be about.

Tony Hixon, author of the new book, Retirement Stepping Stones, joins our retirement podcast to share his experiences and insights on how you can prepare for the stumbling blocks that can arise in retirement – and how you can find a new purpose after you leave the world full-time work.

We discuss:

The tragedy that forever changed how he sees retirement – and why he’s on a mission to help people prepare differently
The most challenging stumbling blocks people face in retirement
The key solutions to those challenges
Why you should dream big about your retirement – but why you should look past your highlight reel version of it
How career burnout can get in the way of a great retirement
Why retirement isn’t for everyone – and why you need a Plan B
How your legacy should be part of your retirement planning

Tony Hixon joins us from Ohio.

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On Transitioning to Retirement

“You retire one day and [on] the last day they throw you a party. Your email is still active and you get probably a hundred to three hundred emails. And then the party’s over. The cake has been eaten. You had the weekend to kind of recoup and Monday morning rolls around. And you open up that email account. It’s been deactivated. You switch to your personal email and there are only two [emails ] there, and both of them are junk. So it kind of messes with your mind. You’re not quite sure what this new phase of life should look like. You’ve had the ideal version of what retirement will be based on all the commercials and the Americanization of what retirement is, but perhaps you haven’t done the correct work on what you’re retiring to. You certainly know what you’re retiring from, but you don’t necessarily have an idea of what you’re retiring to. So that loss of meaning and purpose is certainly a stumbling block that we see many clients face in retirement. Just not knowing for sure if they’re needed anymore.”

On Purpose and Legacy

“However, we often encourage our clients to think more deeply about the kind of emotional impact they want to make on their family and their friends and their community. We ask them questions – and I’d ask your listeners these questions:

What lessons do you want to impart?
How do you want people to feel when you interact with them?
What do you want to be remembered for?

These questions are certainly as important – if not more so – than planning for the financial strategy to care for your loved ones. Remember you get to define your legacy. How you live each day builds the legacy that you want to leave behind. Don’t be afraid to start living with purpose. It’s never too late – or too early – to start.”

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Bio

Tony Hixon, CIMA®, RFC® is the author of the new book Retirement Stepping Stones: Find Meaning, Live with Purpose, and Leave a Legacy.

Mr. Hixon is co-founder, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Compliance Officer of Hixon Zuercher Capital Management. As Chief Operating Officer, Tony is responsible for overseeing the administration and compliance of the firm. In addition to managing the firm’s operations, Tony serves on the firm’s Investment Committee and is a co-Portfolio Manager, an Analyst, and Trader. Tony has experience providing investment services since 2003 and providing financial advisory services since 1999. Prior to co-founding Hixon Zuercher Capital Management, Tony worked at a CPA firm for nearly four years specializing in accounting, tax planning, and tax preparation for high net worth individuals.

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For More on Tony Hixon

Retirement Stepping Stones: Find Meaning, Live with Purpose, and Leave a Legacy

Proceeds from the book will go toward the Pamela M. Hixon Memorial Nursing Scholarship Endowment Fund at University of Findlay that Hixon and his wife, Keri, set up in 2017 to honor the legacy of his mom. The scholarship is awarded annually to a nursing major who displays financial need and good grades

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The views and opinions expressed by guests on The Retirement Wisdom Podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect the policy or position of the host or Retirement Wisdom, LLC. The Retirement Wisdom Podcast covers the non-financial aspects of retirement. From time to time we invite guests who discuss other aspects of retirement planning, solely for educational purposes. Listeners are advised to consult qualified financial, medical and/or mental health professionals on those matters.

Retirement Wisdom · Sep 6, 2021 ·

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What’s more important than Wellness? You want a healthy portfolio when y0u retire, but most importantly, you want a healthy you. This Best of The Retirement Wisdom Podcast episode highlights valuable practical advice from our guests on wise moves to take charge of your wellness and fitness.

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Retirement Wisdom · Aug 30, 2021 ·

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What will help you retire happy? After a long career, are you looking for a retirement life that has more variety and flexibility? And a rich, diverse set of activities and interests that you can build gradually and adjust as you go? Our guest on this retirement podcast is Andy Robin, a retired technology executive who’s doing just that. He’s joining us to share insights from his book Tapas Life: A Rich and Rewarding Life After Your Long Career.

Andy joins us from California.

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Bio

Andrew Robin, known to most as Andy, was born in Chicago and raised in Mexico City. He holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Harvard University. He has been happily married to Carole for 35 years, and they have two fine kids, Nick, 33, and Molly, 31.

Andy was an entrepreneur with his dad in the computer industry in the early ‘70s in Mexico City (his dad moved the family there from Chicago to pursue an opportunity). He was in the semiconductor industry for 22 years (at Mostek, Monolithic Memories, AMD, and Lattice), mostly in marketing, but also as a general manager, and most recently as VP of New Business Ventures. He was a house dad from 2002 to 2007 until Carole and Andy’s youngest went off to college.

Today he retains the duties of shopping/cooking, household maintenance, travel planning, and finances. He also plays a lot of classical piano, some golf, enjoyed 6 years on the Board and Executive Committee of his large synagogue (Congregation Beth Am of Los Altos Hills), where he was also co-chair of raising an endowment, was part-time CEO of a promising tech start-up for 6 years (and remains on the Board), is an Executive Coach and Life Coach, serves on the Board of a foundation in Palo Alto and a NYC hedge fund and enjoys day-trips, lectures, and concerts around the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley.

Andy wrote Tapas Life to do some good for others.

Andy’s wife, Carole Robin, wrote a terrific book for Penguin RandomHouse with her colleague David Bradford: Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships With Family, Friends, and Colleagues. It distills the combined 70 years she and David enjoyed teaching the Interpersonal Dynamics course at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She believes that when more people embrace the learnings in her book, the world will be a better place.

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On a Tapas Life

“For those who don’t know is it’s one of the foods of Spain. It’s the concept that instead of having an American style, large porterhouse steak on your plate with some potatoes and a veggie, instead you have a bunch of little dishes, and often times the table orders six or eight little dishes as you go. You order a few more and so on. And so it’s almost like a little buffet that you make yourself at your own table. And that’s kind of how I think about the Tapas Life. During what I call my long career decades of working in an office, that was my big job. And I probably did that 45 to 60 hours a week for decades. My plate was very full for decades. And now that I’m done with my long career, instead, I like to assemble a number of smaller activities that comprise my life today. It’s rich and rewarding. It’s tasty and interesting. It’s varied and enjoyable. And also one of those Tapas is meaningful. So I’m also doing some good for others on the planet.”

Examples of a Tapas Life

“I’ve seen others who have done important things about social connection for Tapas. What I write about in the book that I just loved is one couple I interviewed who said that once a month they get together with another couple for a weekend. And they alternate each month. It’s one couple’s responsibility to figure out, within a three-hour drive, where to go to book someplace to stay, figure out where it will be good to eat and to figure out what adventures to do while in that area. And then on Saturday morning, they go pick up the other couple. The other couple doesn’t know where they’re going or what they’re doing. The couple in charge takes them there. They have a great weekend together. And after brunch on Sunday, they drive home. And I love that because it’s a nice way to keep in close touch with another couple. It’s a Tapa, and it’s not a very frequent one, but it fits in the category of social connection, which is critical to remaining in good health and avoiding depression. And I thought it was super creative. Another fellow I know has a Tapa of flying airplanes, flying small craft airplanes with another friend in a very used small airplane. And I had a boss, my boss’s boss when I was in the industry, who had been a Marine Drill Sergeant. This guy could be pretty refined or he could be pretty gruff, and he controlled the dial on that pretty well. And after he left his long career, to my astonishment, he took up painting – and he loved it. And of course, I’ve seen a lot of volunteerism amongst people, and that’s Meaningful Tapa. That’s doing something for others selflessly. And when you have a Meaningful Tapa then you’re no longer just a consumer of resources and a hedonist, you’re now a useful human doing something that benefits another. And without that, after a while, I learned life felt enjoyable, but a little bit hollow.”

On the Value of a New Structure

“If you think about building your life after your long career, as with building a house, the first thing you want to do is, is build a foundation and the framing for the house before you can put in the plumbing and the electric and the drywall and the appliances and so on. And so [structure] is the foundation and the framing for the house. And what it means is you need to put some regular things on your calendar. Some people like a lot of them, some people don’t like many, some people like them to be very prescribed in terms of their day and time, some like them to float. So there’s a variety of things you can put on your calendar. You can decide to get your butt up out of the house and have a lunch scheduled with friends a couple of times a week. That adds structure and it serves as a social connection. And if those people are interesting, then it may lead to activities together, and it may lead to inspiration for something you want to try yourself or do with a friend. And so getting some structure like that in place keeps you from feeling adrift. And the good thing is unlike during your long career, if there gets to be too much of it, you can take some things out. And if one day you decide, ‘well, it’s my regular exercise time, but yeah, I’ve got a great opportunity to go to lunch with Jane. So I’m going to do that instead and I’ll exercise tomorrow.’ So it doesn’t have to be super restrictive and rigorous, but it has to be enough, so you don’t feel adrift and untethered.”

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Tapas Life: A Rich and Rewarding Life After Your Long Career

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Retirement Wisdom · Aug 23, 2021 ·

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Can you get stronger after 50? Strength training, done properly and safely, can bolster your wellness. It’s a key component of an overall fitness plan. Our guest, Dave Durell, shares his experience on how to do it right.

Dave joins us from Florida.

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Bio

Dave Durell has formerly worked as a Strength and Conditioning Assistant with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a Strength and Conditioning Consultant to the Jacksonville Jaguars, and the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at Southeast Missouri State University. He has been published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research and has written 2 books on strength training. He holds a Master’s Degree in Health Fitness Administration and is a Master Level Personal Trainer and a licensed Physical Therapist Assistant.

After turning 50, Dave started feeling the effects of age-related wear and tear on his body, just as many people do. Knowing he had to figure out how to change his own workouts to overcome these limitations, Dave called upon the knowledge and experience he had gained over 35+ years in personal training, athletic strength and conditioning, and physical therapy, and created the Stay Strong Forever program, a unique strength training system that is especially suited for those over 50.

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Wise Quotes

On Why You Need Strength Training

“Once we get into probably our forties or so, there’s a physiological process called sarcopenia that begins to manifest itself. And it sticks with us for life. Sarcopenia is age-related muscle loss and experts estimate it causes us to lose around half a pound of muscle per year. On average, that’s about five pounds of movement producing muscle tissue per decade. This would be like the engine in your car shrinking and losing horsepower every year. It’s not a good thing. And it gets worse. Assuming we maintain the same eating habits throughout the years that lost muscle will be replaced by stored body fat.”

On Recovery

“Strength training is going to give you the biggest bang for your buck time-wise and done properly. It requires very little time under 45 minutes, a couple of times a week. Another point is strength training is instrumental in reducing the risk of injuries. So people that regularly engage in sports-type activities, whether they’re runners or they’re in the local cycling club, or they play tennis, strength training is important to help make you more resistant to the injuries you might possibly inflict during those types of activities. So it’s important for that reason. Of course, I’m not saying people should only do strength training and be sedentary the rest of the time. I’m a big believer that we rust out faster than we wear out. So I want everybody to be active, at least engaging in low moderate intensity, leisure activities or exercise on their non-strength training days.”

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Retirement Wisdom · Aug 17, 2021 ·

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Positive aging can bolster your retirement. It includes cultivating your mindset, your engagement, creativity, and gratitude. Author Stephanie Raffelock shares her insights on positive aging and explains how you can reclaim what you love.

Stephanie joins us from Austin, Texas.

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On Reflection

“There are these wonderful arcs in our life. We don’t get a chance to reflect upon them when we’re in the midst of them. When you’re in your thirties and you find a way to make a mortgage and marriage and kids work, we don’t really reflect on what that is. But I think when you get to be 70 years old, you can sit back and go, Wow, I did good. We both tried our best when I say we both. I’m thinking of my husband. So I think that’s one of the gifts of growing older. I think another gift of growing older is that we don’t have to be the center of attention anymore, not the way that we did in more youthful days. We can kind of sit back a little bit and become the observer and become the appreciator. …That’s part of the gift of aging that you can actually sit still long enough to ponder these things.”

On Reclamation

“I also think that there’s a period or an opportunity for reclamation. And what I mean by that is as we were growing up and becoming mature adults, there were things that we put aside because they just didn’t fit into the responsibilities and obligations that we needed to run our lives. For example, my husband was a musician and a bass player and loved the bass. And yet during most of our marriage, he didn’t touch the bass, but then we hit retirement years and suddenly he started playing the bass. Again, he reclaimed that for himself and the music keeps him mentally young and because of the magic of the internet he can play with any bands now online, he can go online and take online courses in the bass. And so there’s this great period of reclamation to you. We can reclaim those things. I think too that creativity is something that we can embrace in older years. We can give ourselves to the creative endeavor without having to worry about the accolades of fame and fortune around our art, our master gardening, our expert cooking, our writing. We can just do those things for the sake of creating and for the sake of art. And that definitely keeps us feeling, I think, vibrant and younger and gives us a sense of purposefulness in our life.”

On Creativity

“I think it’s a matter of surrendering what is it that you love to do that makes things, That can be master gardening, that can be music. It can be art, it can be any of those things. And I don’t think we’re as judgmental of ourselves at this phase of life as we were in our youth. So it doesn’t really matter what the picture looks like. You’re not trying to get into the Met. It’s just a matter of giving yourself to the process. It’s the process of creativity that I think speaks to our brain and our heart.”

On Power

“I think the big thing that we learned from women is that the word power means something different to women. And I think that as a culture, men and women have to redefine power for meaning more than it currently does. Power has been traditionally a male word. Men have power over something. It’s a warrior kind of word. Power means I can do what I want. I can take this from you. Power is for winners, that kind of power. When women talk about power, it’s more the sense of knowing themselves, standing in the knowledge of self, and approaching the world from a place that is more heart-oriented. Now, I don’t believe that men have to become like women or that women have to become like men. But what I see in the word power is that we have to find a greater balance with that word, that that word doesn’t necessarily have to mean I have power over you. That word can mean the power of self-confidence, the power of being kind, the power of giving ourselves, and giving of ourselves in the world. So I think that’s what men can learn from women at this particular time. And you will notice that women politicians use their power differently than men do.”

Bio

Stephanie Raffelock is a graduate of Naropa University’s program in writing and poetics. She has penned articles for numerous publications, including The Aspen Times, Quilters Magazine, Care2.com, Nexus Magazine, Omaha Lifestyles, and The Rogue Valley Messenger. Currently, she writes a monthly column for SixtyandMe.com. A recent transplant to Austin, Texas, she enjoys life with her husband, Dean, and their Labrador retriever, Jeter (yes, named after the great Yankee shortstop). Raffelock lives an active life that she fills with hiking, Pilates, and swimming in an attempt to offset the amount of time that she spends in her head thinking up stories and essays.

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