Beyond Retirement

Patrick O'Malley is a guitar teacher who teaches people of all ages to play guitar. We had a great discussion about the health benefits of playing a musical instrument. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve ever played anything before or whether you’ve got an innate talent for it, simply DOING it can help you reap these amazing benefits: Improved mood & reduced levels of anxiety and depression Main...

John spoke of a lot of things, but his main focus was the idea that we need to establish office hours for ourselves in retirement. What he meant by that is that we need to have time to tune into the things going on in our lives – the taxes, the groceries, what’s going to be for dinner, what should we do this weekend, etc – but we also need to have time to tune OUT those things and the other “stati...

John Lefebvre is a retired lawyer, an author, a musician, an environmental and social activist, and a philanthropist. He made it big in the dot-com era, only to find himself arrested and charged with various illegal activities stemming from that business. He's now got a lot of time to think about the responsibility of the people in the world who are privileged to ensure that those same privileges...

Everyone wants to have a "great life", it's true, but how many of us really know how to achieve it? It's a matter of deciding what you want and believing you're going to get it.

Lisa Winneke is a speaker, an author, and a connector. She is the host of The Good News Guide, which is transitioning into The Wholehearted Woman. She believes that many people, women in particular, are choosing to settle for less than they can achieve in their lives. Lisa's message is simple at its core, but oh-so-difficult for many people to grasp and follow: Your goal should be to make your lif...

The important idea in today's episode is that you are "enough" and what you hope for and dream for in your life is valid and true... regardless of who you are or what you already have. Getting out and doing something - ANYthing - after you retire is important... to your mental and physical health. WHAT you do isn't as important, so do whatever you want.

Julie is a life coach who thrives on helping mature women prioritize their needs and gain confidence so they can stop worrying about “being enough” and start living life. She’s a self-proclaimed “feel-good junkie,” and she has personally experienced decades of struggling with people-pleasing, over-giving and low self-esteem. She has learned to accept, trust and love herself, and she’s helped hundr...

Making the tough decisions in one's life is what makes life worthwhile - anybody can float along following their whims! It takes some courage and spunk to do the "right thing" and stand up for your own beliefs when others think you're wrong.

Jesus "Eddie" Campa was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. After 27 years of law enforcement experience, Eddie retired from public service and transitioned his experience and expertise to the private sector as a mentor, consultant, and sounding board. He is an internationally and nationally accredited speaker on leadership development, strategic planning, culture change, culture diversity, custome...

In this episode, Jacquie delves into the ideas that Matt Franklin brought up about planning for retirement - having a business plan, taking a practice run at retirement while you can still make some adjustments, and generally getting your ducks in a row.

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...