EP 036: What if we're thinking about retirement all wrong? What if retirement ISN'T exchanging a binge on working for 40 years for a binge of NOT working for 30 years? Many of the clients we talk to as they are in the mid-to-late stage of their career and may have already achieved a certain level of career success  are searching for what is next. But what is next for us? This inflection point leads us to start asking questions in our lives such as "Is this the right time to invest [in myself] and grow?', "Or is it time to exit [something]?" "Or is it time for a change in focus?" 

 

But many times these questions are hard to articulate, hard to share with work colleagues, or even family members, much less work through to find answers. Due to this structural issue, many of us become stuck at this point in our lives. Enter the concept that life is a series of pivots where after each transformation we've created the next version of ourselves. So retirement isn't a hard stop of career life into leisure but a pivot of one version of yourself to another! 

 

Our next guest is an Executive Life Coach and Creator of the YOU PIVOT Program, where her clients have ranged from CEOs and C-suite executives from Inc. 500 companies, Crain’s Fast 50, Chicago Tribune’s Top 100 Workplaces, and Crain’s Largest Privately Held Companies. She has experience as a Fortune 500 company executive (Northern Trust), coupled with a successful pivot from the corporate world into entrepreneurship, that shaped her unique perspective. Every Sunday, she publishes stories about transitions, including sharing the life lessons from the storytellers she interviews. You can read and subscribe to these Sunday Stories on her website. Please welcome to the Retirement Success in Maine Podcast, Elisa K. Spain!

 

Chapters: