Welcome to the Retire with Purpose podcast, a show specifically designed to help pre-retirees and retirees maximize their financial confidence.

Casey Wheat is a certified financial planner and president of Howard Bailey Financial.

His newest book, Job Optional, is a Wall Street Journal

bestseller and is available now on Amazon and at Retirewithpurpose.com. He's your host on

Retire with Purpose. Hey, I'm Casey, and I believe in retirement strategies that are driven by

meaning and purpose. Join me this week and every week as we discuss thoughts and ideas

with some of today's foremost experts in the field of finance and retirement, as well as discussing

trending topics that could impact your bottom line. These discussions can help you make

better financial decisions so you can live the lifestyle you've always imagined and deserved.

Welcome to the show.

Today I'm speaking with Richard Haddock.

Richard is a real-life retiree.

He's not just living out his dream, but he's also helping many others elevate their experience in retirement and test the boundaries

of their own retirement as he's been challenging his own boundaries using the freedom of the

blank slate called retirement to prioritize what matters most to him. In his book, Shifting Gears,

he speaks to 50 Baby Boomers about their journeys

into the world of retirement. And if there's one thing he's learned, it's that retirees have an

unbelievable amount of freedom and a wide range of choices, whether that means summoning

Mount Kilimanjaro at the age of 70 after two hip surgeries or simply volunteering and reading books.

In today's conversation, Richard and I talk about the artificial boundaries of retirement,

how he found the people and stories he decided to include in his book,

creating an amazing family business and the beauty of being able to walk away from what doesn't serve you in

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