What if you’ve always wanted to live somewhere else? 

What if you did it, once, and you remember the freedom and the energy released by fresh places, by a different culture, a true restart. 

What if you’re looking at your post-work act and you’re thinking, would the pressure be less? Would the joy be multiplied? Would my dollar go further? Would my wanderlust be sated. If I… lived somewhere else. 

What would it be like? Would you be lonely? Would you be safe? Would you feel like a new version of yourself? 
We’ve got someone we’d like you to meet. Maggie Lazarre is American. Three years ago she moved, alone, to Panama, in Central America, and she was so bombarded with questions of how she did it - how she retired alone to another country, that she started a community called Single Women Retiring Abroad. 

Whether you’re single or not, and wherever you might be dreaming about heading off to when you don’t have to go to work every day, you’re going to like Maggie’s energy and honesty. Her stories of what’s working, what’s not, what she loves about her choice, what she’d do differently… 

Learn more about Aware Super here.

To follow Maggie’s work, Single Women Retiring Overseas, start here.

For more  info about retiring overseas: https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/before-you-go/activities/retiring-overseas

https://nationalseniors.com.au/news/latest-news/what-to-know-before-you-retire-overseas

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CREDITS:

Host: Holly Wainwright

Executive Producer: Naima Brown

Producer: Tahli Blackman

Audio Producer: Jacob Round

Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

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