In this episode of our retirement podcast, we interview Linda Hardenstein, a Career Reinventionist and career coach in California. Linda works with her clients to reinvent their careers –and often their lives. Her work as a career coach ranges from helping people make a career change, pivot to a new second career or assisting them in designing  an encore career.

Linda shares her insights on what’s involved in making those types of moves, what obstacles people often encounter and how to get around them.

Stick Around for the Noteworthy segment where we discuss a recent article worth reading. This time it’s about why studies are showing that many people are flocking back to work after they retire. What’s up with that?

Noteworthy Segment

The ‘unretired’: coming back to work in droves – Financial Times

https://www.ft.com/content/041c69e0-cf82-11e7-9dbb-291a884dd8c6#myft:saved-articles:page

 

 

 

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There's More to Retirement Planning Than Money

It's about the life in retirement you'll lead. Today on our retirement podcast, we welcome The Retirement Manifesto to discuss the FIRE movement. He highlights how people striving to become Financially Independent and Retire Early (FIRE) can benefit in their individual retirement planning by including the soft side of retirement.

Fritz Gilbert is a corporate commodity trader, aspiring philosopher and lifelong financial hobbyist who is on the cusp of early retirement at 55. Fritz and his wife recently sold their primary home and moved into a cabin in the North Georgia mountains as part of their downsizing strategy for retirement. Fritz created his blog, The Retirement Manifesto, which he sees as “a canvas for helping people achieve a great retirement”, to share their lessons learned during their journey. The Retirement Manifesto focuses on practical Financial Independence and Retirement Planning issues for folks within ten years of retirement. On our retirement planning podcast, he shares what he’s learned and why your individual retirement planning should be balanced and include the non-financial side.

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Wise Quote:

On the Importance of Purpose in Retirement:

“I wrote, for probably the first 6 to 12 months, probably 80% of my articles were around that side of it but as I started reading more and thinking more and discovering more. What I discovered was that it’s the non-financial side that dictates for most people how successful their transition into retirement is going to be. If you read the studies and the surveys about people that struggle on that transition into retirement, it’s really normally not the financial side. It’s the fact that they haven’t given enough consideration and really deep, serious thought about what they want their purpose to be, what’s going to fill their day, what’s going to get them up in the morning, use whatever phrase you want to use but for the first time in your life you’re responsible for filling your day with something that brings meaning and purpose.”

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Noteworthy:

Stay around and listen to Denis and Joe discuss the article Design a Retirement That Excites You by Jeff Giesea – Harvard Business Review (11/2015)

https://hbr.org/2015/11/design-a-retirement-that-excites-you

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Are Role Models Helpful for My Future Retirement?

Our guest today says No, you have to create your own vision for retirement, based on your values and circumstances. And if I'm planning what my future retirement looks like, what’s different in retirement planning for men and women? In this episode of our retirement podcast, we talk with Dr. Thelma Reese, the co-author of two books with the late Barbara Fleisher – The New Senior Woman: Reinventing the Years Beyond Mid – Life and The New Senior Man: Exploring New Horizons, New Opportunities, which was published in 2017.

Topics discussed include:

What’s different about retirement today?

What’s different in retirement for women and men?

Where did all the role models go?

What do I need to know for my future retirement? What does it take to “Man Up” in retirement

Her advice on retirement and retirement strategies

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Bio

Dr. Thelma Reese is the author, with BJ Kittredge, of How Seniors Are Saving the World: Retirement Activism to the Rescue! which will be released in June and is available for preorder now on Amazon.

She also co-authored The New Senior Woman and The New Senior Man, along with Dr. Barbara Fleisher.

Dr. Reese is a retired professor of English at Temple University, advisor and national spokesperson for Hooked on Phonics; former director of the Mayor’s Council on Literacy for the City of Philadelphia; a founder of Philadelphia Young Playwrights and organizer of the World Symposium on Family Literacy at UNESCO in Paris in 1994. Visit her blog at ElderChicks.com.

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Noteworthy

Stick around for the Noteworthy segment where we discuss a recent article worth reading – this time it’s about our ability to change and learn in retirement.  Article: Can an Old Dog Really Learn New Tricks?  MarketWatch.com

 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/can-an-old-dog-really-learn-new-tricks-youre-the-dog-2018-03-12

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UPDATED:

Listen to our second retirement podcast conversation with Thelma Reese on the new book she's co-authored

How Seniors Are Saving the World

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In the first episode of our new retirement podcast, we talk with Leadership and Retirement Coach Jim Frawley, who coaches both Millennials and Baby Boomers. While Baby Boomers often talk about reinventing retirement, Millennials are now ripping up that script. Jim discusses how they think differently about retirement and what Baby Boomers can learn from them (and vice versa). Jim describes how the ‘No Rules’ world that Millennials operate in is empowering – and also challenging -when it comes to retirement.

Stick around for the Noteworthy segment after talking with Jim, where we kick around the idea of YOLO, from an article in MarketWatch: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-retirees-should-loosen-their-purse-strings-and-embrace-the-yolo-2018-02-13#false

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