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What Is Retirement Coaching? The Part Financial Planning Misses
Retirement coaching is the bridge between financial readiness and life readiness. Financial advisors provide strategic, comprehensive money management; a retirement readiness navigator or coach provides a space for you to explore all aspects of creating a dynamic and rewarding life after work. You know roughly when you can stop working. You have a financial advisor, maybe a 401(k) in decent shape, and a general sense that things will be okay money-wise. And yet something abou
Jhanell Biggs
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Why Retirement Lifestyle Planning Can't Wait Until You Retire
The people who thrive in retirement didn't figure it out after they left work, they built the life before they got there. Retirement lifestyle planning means actively designing five dimensions of life: structure, identity, purpose, social connection, and health. It can't wait until your last day of work, because by then, you're already starting from scratch. Most people have a vague sense of when they might retire. Very few have started building the life they're retiring int
Jhanell Biggs
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What to Do After You Retire: The First Year Survival Guide
The alarm doesn't go off. No 9am meeting. No inbox waiting. For the first few days, that silence feels like relief.
Then something shifts. The novelty fades. A low-grade restlessness sets in, and the question you spent years planning for financially takes on a version nobody prepared you for.
What the first year actually looks like, and what genuinely helps.
Jhanell Biggs
4 min read
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