Today, I'm thrilled to welcome Robert Laura back to the podcast. Back in 2020, we had a great conversation about the ways COVID was impacting retirement. Now, we're shifting gears from a "No-Regrets Retirement Plan" mindset to redefining retirement and improving our retirement intelligence.

Robert is the founder of RetirementProject.org and Naked Retirement. As the Retirement Activist, Robert is committed to changing the way people think about and prepare for every aspect of retirement. In his nationally syndicated columns at Forbes and Financial Advisor, he challenges the status quo of traditional retirement planning. His tremendous work also frequently appears in the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Investor's Business Daily, The Street, and many other publications.

In this episode, we dig into Robert's Retirement Quotient (RQ) test and what he's learned throughout his career, studying why some people succeed and some fail in retirement from an individual–not a financial–perspective.

You'll also learn why so many people underestimate just how intense retirement can be, why retirement is all about envisioning the life you want, and removing the negative stigma that the idea of retirement means happiness is over or that you're put out to pasture.

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In this podcast interview, you'll learn:

• How to use the RQ test to assess your retirement readiness.
• Why so many retirees suffer in silence despite being financially stable.
• Why the "honeymoon phase" of retirement can be such a dangerous time.
• How to create a retirement plan when you don't really want to retire.
• How retirement reorients work, helps us find new communities, and forge new connections in the outside world.

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