Maximize Retirement

Living from the heart and creating a meaningful life, Sharon inspires, collaborates and motivates others to re-purpose their skills, dreams and potential to generate expansive possibilities. “If you can dream it, it is possible.” Sharon Rolph is best known as a retirement coach where she reconnects people with purpose. Baby Boomers used their brain and brawn to pay for the essentials of life. Now the transition into retirement presents never before encountered obstacles and is more challenging than imagined. People are introduced to her work through her What Do I Want to Do in Retirement workshops and on her business site EffortlessVtitality.org. She is also an analyst, communicator and a systems thinker. Her optimist perspective and interactions incite creative synergy. Sharon expresses her unique creative side by bringing her love of color and patterns together with words of wisdom and inspiration. These postcard-sized wall hangings are powerful fabric art creations, encompassing the precision of patchwork quilting with wisdom of the ages. Her art promotes building courage, curiosity and possibility with reverence for spirit and desire. These “Small Space” works of art encourage each of us to: “Follow our dreams. They know the way.” Sharon grew up in the Puget Sound and Eastern Washington, where she pursued an advanced education in Behavioral Science, Administration and Technical Arts. She worked for Boeing in Tukwila as a Business Process Analyst, and 19 years for GTE in Everett and Tampa. (Her creations can be seen in the Etsy store QuiltedPetunia.)