Beyond Retirement

Matt Franklin is a marketing professional, a video producer, and a serial entrepreneur. Producing corporate sales/training/marketing videos is his bread and butter, and he has been fortunate to work all over the world with smart people and great companies. Matt has invented and co-invented multiple products, including PostureNOW, which earned a Shark Tank appearance and has become a mult...

Something that Carol mentioned in the interview last week was about the Law of Attraction . This is something that I never used to put a lot of stock in – the idea that “what you think about, you bring about”. It was a bit too “woo-woo” for me originally. Of course, I’ve seen the movie The Secret, and read a lot about the idea. And depending on who you follow, there are between 3 and 7 sub-laws to...

In July 2012, Carol founded WoW – World of Women – in the greater Montreal, Quebec, area, to help women work towards a better and stronger future both for themselves. WOW has expanded through Quebec and Ontario since then, now including Ottawa, Toronto, Kingston, Rive-Sud and Gatineau, and early in 2021 to Western Canada. Carol understands the difficulties, as well as the pleasures, of r...

Hi everyone, and welcome to episode 137 of Beyond Retirement. Thanks for taking the time to hang out with me today! If you recall, I spoke with Eric Brotman last week and he talked about how life can be compared to an undergraduate program, with activities to be carried out in your freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years of life in preparation for retirement. And he calls it graduation , not...

Eric believes completely in the idea that retirement isn't the end of the road. He's so adamant about this that he's written a book that treats retirement planning and execution like the years of university. There are certain activities that delineate the Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior years...and when you've done all those activities (and the associated extra credit activities!) you can r...

As I say each week, if you haven’t listened to last week’s interview, stop here and go back to listen now. I was talking with Radon Stancil, a financial planner who focuses on preparing people for retirement. Radon believes that financial planning needs to be both financial and intellectual, so his firm, Peace of Mind Wealth Management, focuses on 3 key concepts – your financial needs, your legacy...

Radon explains how POM Wealth focuses on helping people prepare for retirement in terms of financial and lifestyle planning. They work to help their clients make the plan they need and get into the mindset required to really be "retired". Financial preparation  is fairly straightforward, and provided by most financial planners, to make sure that the funds are in place to allow retirement&nbsp...

TRANSCRIPT: As you know, if you’ve been listening along, after each guest episode, I reflect a bit about what we discussed, trying to figure out how to relate the information or ideas to retirement life or preparation for retirement. Today is no different. Last week I talked with Joseph Hogue, who discovered early in his 9-5 career that he didn’t really want to spend the next 30+ years doing a job...

Joseph Hogue is an investment analyst and an online entrepreneur. He travelled the same road as many people, getting a good education and starting to work in a solid job. He figured that's the way life goes - get an education, get a job, work till you've saved enough to retire, then retire. But then he decided that this couldn't be all there is to life... there are other ways to make money that al...

In this episode, Jacquie does a little deep-dive into the ideas that were brought up last week by Mitche Graf during their conversation. She discusses the Time-Value Pyramid and the overarching idea of "working smarter" instead of "working harder" to get where you want to go.

Mitche Graf is a best-selling author, a public speaker and an amateur gardener. He has been a passionate serial entrepreneur for over 3 decades; from selling used bicycle parts out of his garage in the seventh grade to running three companies today, he prides himself on knowing how to squeeze every drop of potential out of his endeavors. He also knows that life is short - too short not to mak...

In this episode, Jacquie talks about affiliate marketing and some of the ways it can be a useful sideline in retirement.

Hannie Mommers is a Dutch pensioner and she was a graphic designer in the Netherlands for 35 years. After retiring, she and her husband emigrated to Spain. For a year they lived the laptop life while traveling from southwest Spain to the southeast, where they found their dream house.  During her career, Hannie was an entrepreneur with her own business, so she had to spend time networking and...

The idea of working for part of the year and travelling for the rest of it isn't new and many people dream of being able to do it successfully. Some even manage to do it for awhile. But there are a lot of things to consider when you're deciding to take on this lifestyle. One of the biggest considerations, of course, is how you're going to fund it. Saving up for a number of months - and being disci...

France decided early in her career that the regular 2 or 3 weeks of vacation that the usual 9-5 jobs offer simply isn't enough time to do all the travelling she wanted to do! So she set about figuring out how to get more time off. She knew there were a few options for her: ask for extra time off from her employer (probably without pay) save up and quit her job and hope the job would be there...

There are many ways to "live your best life"; it's important to find the ways that suit you best. We all have hopes and dreams throughout our lives... don't get to the end of your life and have regrets over things you haven't done. As Mark Twain said,  "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines!...

Merri Macartney is a 70-year-young widow who is the founder of the Don't Die Before You're Dead Movement. Her message is that in order to avoid living in the Land of Regret, we need to live every day as fully as possible and not put things off till later. Later may never come. Live NOW as that is all we have for certain. Merri has published a couple of books that are in perfect harmony with both h...

The idea of "lifequakes" or "lightning-strike moments" is taken from the book "Life is in the Transitions", by Bruce Feiler. To summarize it, there are moments in our lives that cause upheaval and result in our taking a different path than we were originally taking. We can't see these moments clearly when we're experiencing them, but looking back on our lives, we can identify at least some of the...

Diana Place founded Third Act Quest to help reframe aging for individuals in the workplace and in society in general so they can reimagine lives of joy, meaning, and purpose for the decades to come. She shares with us the history behind Third Act Quest - which is designed to help people go on a journey of understanding & clarity about their llives -  and describes the various programs tha...

In this episode, Jacquie takes a moment to talk about the importance of looking after yourself as you head into the "retirement" phase of life.

Nelia Hutt is  an employee in a medical office setting, a wife & a mother. She is also an author,  a podcast host, a philanthropist...and a force to be reckoned with! Despite her mild demeanor and what seems like an almost introverted personality, Nelia has strong convictions and huge dreams, and she's not letting anything stand in her way on the road to achieving them! Time stamps:...

In this episode, Jacquie digs a little deeper into the idea that Stu Massengill shared last week, as she discusses ways to discover your direction in life.

Stu is a Peak Performance strategist for Tony Robbins and the founder of Finding Direction University. From an early age, he understood that being able to get along with people was the best way to be successful and happy in life. But he was a shy, introverted kid who was often overshadowed by others. Time stamps: 1:10 - A bit of Stu's background to put thing in perspective 4:34 - Finding Direction...

Figuring out what your brand is going to be is tough... sorting out how to advertise it once you've got that brand is no walk in the park either. The best way to go about coming up with activities that interest you is to figure it out while you're still working. This eases some of the stress of finding new hobbies or pastimes. If you wait until you NEED to find something, the pressure is on and th...

Jeremy and his wife Brielle own Command Your Brand Media to help leaders use the power of podcasts to change the world. He's also the founder of Create Your Own Life , one of the top 26 podcasts for entrepreneurs to listen to in 2017 + 2018 by CIO Magazine, the top podcast to listen to by INC Magazine in 2019 and the Millennial Influencer to follow in 2018 by Buzzfeed. The Create Your Own Life Pod...