Beyond Retirement

"Beyond Retirement" is a fluid time encompassing all of your time after the flagpost of "retirement" has been passed. This podcast was developed to help listeners figure out their own journey by listening to the musings of the host and her guests as they travelled the road together.

There's no right or wrong journey. There are many detours and U-turns along the way. But in the end, it's the journey that really matters, isn't it. It'...

Creativity, generosity, gratitude...do they play a role in your life? They should!

Start with gratitude. There is always something to be grateful for in your life. Finding that thing, even if it's small, will help you to grow and your happiness will increase.

Last week, Hugh Willard talked about the intentional aspect of generosity - how, in order to be generous, we have to look inside ourselves. Gratitude helps you be generous. When...

Hugh Willard is a psychotherapist, the author of the new book Finding Beauty in the Gray: Stories and Verse from the Third Age and the host of the podcast Aging Well: Finding Beauty in the Gray. Hugh has facilitated numerous workshops and taught courses on several topics relevant to folks in the second half of life.

Today we talk about the importance of generosity in life, as well as its inherent link to gratitude. Hugh mentions tha...

Wanderlust is a strong desire to wander or travel and explore the world. Last week's episode with the hosts of the Beach Travel Wine podcast really sparked my own wanderlust!

This week I talk a bit more about why I believe travel is so important and why it should be part of your retirement plan. You don't have to take off for distant countries; the village next to yours may have some fabulous treasures you've yet to discover. The po...

Leanne and Lyle McCabe are the hosts of the Beach Travel Wine podcast and they share their passion for travel and the importance of experiencing new things. With 62 episodes under their belts, they take us on a journey through Spain, Italy, London, Paris, and Australia. And they're not stopping there - they give us a sneak peek into their upcoming episodes that will feature the stunning landscapes of New Zealand.

Leanne and Lyle inv...

This episode is a reflection on the topic covered in my conversation with Joe Curry, namely identifying your purpose and values in retirement.

It's important to know your values and figure out what your purpose is, but it's not important to keep that same purpose throughout your journey in life. Your purpose can - and probably WILL - change over the course of your lifetime. Understanding this will help guide you in determining how t...

Joe Curry specializes in simplifying the financial lives of people approaching or within retirement. He is the host of the podcast Your Retirement Planning Simplified and is a Certified Financial Planner. Joe is the Owner & CEO of Matthews + Associates, located in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, where Joe and his team help Canadian retirees and those within a few years of retirement (work-optional) achieve True Wealth,...

Barbara Waxman, Founder of Odyssey Group Coaching, is an aging advocate who helped define the Middlescence life stage. Her leadership in the coaching field has culminated in the transformative coaching model, Entrepreneurship Turned Inward© and her science informed the Five Essential Elements™ process. Barbara serves as an Advisor to the Stanford Center on Longevity and Stanford Lifestyle Medicine, as well as the Generations Over D...

Moving to a foreign country is a daunting undertaking, not one to be taken lightly. Do you speak the language? Are you ready for new customs and a new culture? Do you have a support system in place for when things get tough?

But it's not all doom & gloom - the opportunities to expand your knowledge of the world, to learn about life "somewhere else" ... that's an exciting draw for many.

The most important thing is to go into it wi...

Mike Cobb is the founder and CEO of ECI Development. After vacationing in Belize in 1993, Mike saw the opportunity to help others own properties overseas. Realizing that not everyone wants to be in Belize, the company expanded to Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, and Portugal. Over the last 27 years, ECI Development has focused on providing customers with a product that fits their specific needs, rather than try...

Joe Jacobi is a former American Olympic gold medalist in white-water slalom canoeing. He won the gold medal with his doubles canoe partner at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. After retiring from competitive sports, Joe moved to La Seu d’Urgell in Catalonia, Spain, where he immersed himself in the local culture. He learned to speak Catalan and now works as a performance coach online. Joe values deep and meaningful connect...

Adjusting to life in retirement involves creating a purpose or meaning for your life, looking after your health and well-being, and developing lasting connections with friends and family.

The hardest part is often simply accepting that a part of your life is over - that the activity you did for the last 20-40 years is no longer what you do each day. But this doesn't mean you aren't going to be doing ANYthing! There are many other a...

Laura Black is a retired lawyer, an award-winning businesswoman, and the author of Climbing Down the Ladder: A Journey to Another Kind of Happy. After completing law school and beginning her career as a lawyer, she and her business partner built the world's largest legal staffing company.

She joins us this week to share some of her insights into how to make retirement the best it can be:

1. Prioritizing Happiness
2. Finding Fulfillment...

This week I review Sandi Shortt's chat about crossroads in life, mindset, and lifestyle changes, and designing a fulfilling and purposeful retirement.

One critical point that stood out to me was the idea of shifting from a mundane, gray existence to a vibrant, colorful life.

Sandi's work as a psychotherapist and coach reinforces the importance of identifying who we want to be, how we want to feel, and taking action towards those goa...

Sandi Shortt is a Mindset and Life coach and calls herself a Design Coach. By using mindset and other modalities, she helps retired, widowed women re-invent their lives and create their next chapter, designing a life for themselves full of joy, fulfillment, and purpose.

Here are three key takeaways from the episode:

1. Focus on designing the life you want, not just creating one that others expect of you.
2. Mindset plays a crucial ...

There's a lot to be done before we pass off this Earth... how much we do in advance makes a huge impact on those we leave behind.

End-of-life planning isn't just about medical care. It's about ALL aspects of your last days, and hopefully there will be a LOT of them to enjoy before you're done!

Talking about your medical care, estate planning, the legacy you'll leave behind ... this is all important to do NOW, while you're healthy and...

Kimberly Best is a registered nurse who spent over two decades working in various intensive care units, trauma centers, and emergency departments. She pursued graduate school in clinical community psychology but found it unfulfilling and returned to nursing. After her brother introduced her to transformative mediation, she went on to study conflict management and currently specializes in mediation, facilitation, and restorative pra...