Purpose

We often hear that "60 is the new 40". But what if you don't feel that way and think your best years are behind you. This is the question that was posed to our Retirement Coach Toni.

Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In her own words, writer Judith Nadratwoski shares her experience in transition from a career in law to becoming a writer.

Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In her own words, author Stella Fosse shares her story of transformation later in life moving from the biotech industry to romance novelist.

There is lots of discussion regarding the importance of having a purpose in retirement. But what if you're happy just doing what your doing?

Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. Meet Adriane Berg a true powerhouse and influential leader in aging. Adriane shares her life lessons and how she stays a lifelong adventurer.

This week in our Ask a Retirement Coach series, Retirement Coach Toni switched seats and shares insights of what she discovered was important in her own first year of retirement.

Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In his own words, author and podcaster Carl Landau shares his experience in shifting to a new career later in life and how he hasn't looked back since.

Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In his own words, writer, author and song lyrist, Billy Mernit shares his life lessons and why he appreciates the age he is right now.

Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In her own words, documentary film maker Melissa Davey shares her fascinating story of how she embraced a totally different career and hasn't looked back since.

Could Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs be applied to the concept of retirement? Mike Drak thinks it can.

Everyone would like to make sure that they have a happy and meaningful retirement, but how do you actually do this? Retirement Coach Toni shares her advice.

Leaving a successful career and entering retirement can be a difficult transition and potentially challenge your sense of identity. Retirement Coach Toni shares some advice on how to handle this.

Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In his own words, author and poet, Brian Prousky shares his journey to becoming a writer and the life lessons he gathered along the way.

After years of working, it not uncommon to want to unwind and relax. But when does too much relaxation become a concern?

Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In her own words, podcaster Wendy Green shares her life's journey and how she now finds fulfillment everyday.

Are you living your best encore? We are delighted to introduce you to some people who are. In her own words, author, traveler and adventurer Maria Coffey shares her life lessons and why she appreciates everyday as she lives her best encore.

Retirement can be a wonderful time of life. But sometimes people find themselves wanting to return to work.

Often people have spent a great deal of time preparing for the financial aspects of retirement and have a pretty good idea of when they are financially able to retire. But what about the emotional aspects of retirement?

Rather than thinking about what you are retiring from there are some compelling reasons to think more about what you are retiring to.

Have you ever experienced "flow state" in your life? It's a powerful state of mind and something that you may want to consider on how you could achieve this into your retirement life.

There are many people who are not really living the life that they either wanted or envisioned. But the bigger question is at the end of our lives will we then have any regrets?

So often we view our life after work as being an ending stage. But here’s another perspective.

Retirement Rebels refuse to follow the old fashion beliefs about “old-people,” and being retired. In fact they are anything but retired.

So many people are aspiring to achieve FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early). But should we possibly call it something different? Possibly a similar objective but with a more purposeful result.

How does someone like Keith Richards survive decades of hard drug use, drink and smoke heavily, not exercise, eat the wrong foods and still be alive and thriving? Maybe that's where work and purpose come in.