You have probably done the math. Maybe you have a financial advisor, a retirement account, a plan. And yet, something still feels unresolved.

In Episode 3 of After the Rush, Catherine McDowell goes underneath the numbers to the story most people never examine -- the one that was written for them before they were old enough to have an opinion about it. What you believed about money at ten years old is almost certainly still making decisions for you today. This episode is about finding it, naming it, and deciding whether you want to keep it.

Most people approaching the end of full-time work are ready for the financial transition. Almost none of them are ready for the identity one.

In Episode 4 of After the Rush, Catherine McDowell talks about what actually happens when the professional title goes away -- the grief that nobody names, the questions that surface in the quiet, and why rushing to answer them is usually a mistake.

This is not a crisis episode. It is a clarity episode. And it may be the most important conversation you have not had yet. 

This is the first episode of After the Rush.

I have been telling people for years that the transition is the work. Not the thing you get through to reach the real chapter. The transition itself. That is where the real work happens.

In this episode I introduce myself, the show, and the conversation I have been wanting to have for a long time. Where I came from, what I know, and why I think this chapter deserves more honesty than it usually gets.

No generic advice. No empty optimism. Just a real look at what this chapter asks of people — and what becomes possible when you take it seriously.

Runtime: 14 minutes.

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