347: How the Retirement Quotient (RQ) Test Helps Redefine Your Retirement with Robert Laura
Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast
Casey Weade
4.7 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Today, I'm thrilled to welcome Robert Laura back to the podcast. Back in 2020, we had a great conversation about the ways COVID was impacting retirement. Now, we're shifting gears from a "No-Regrets Retirement Plan" mindset to redefining retirement and improving our retirement intelligence.
Robert is the founder of RetirementProject.org and Naked Retirement. As the Retirement Activist, Robert is committed to changing the way people think about and prepare for every aspect of retirement. In his nationally syndicated columns at Forbes and Financial Advisor, he challenges the status quo of traditional retirement planning. His tremendous work also frequently appears in the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Investor's Business Daily, The Street, and many other publications.
In this episode, we dig into Robert's Retirement Quotient (RQ) test and what he's learned throughout his career, studying why some people succeed and some fail in retirement from an individual–not a financial–perspective.Â
You'll also learn why so many people underestimate just how intense retirement can be, why retirement is all about envisioning the life you want, and removing the negative stigma that the idea of retirement means happiness is over or that you're put out to pasture.
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In this podcast interview, you'll learn:
- How to use the RQ test to assess your retirement readiness.
- Why so many retirees suffer in silence despite being financially stable.
- Why the "honeymoon phase" of retirement can be such a dangerous time.
- How to create a retirement plan when you don't really want to retire.
- How retirement reorients work, helps us find new communities, and forge new connections in the outside world.Â
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| 0:00.0 | Today I'm thrilled to welcome back Bob Laura to the podcast back in 2020. |
| 0:05.8 | Check out the conversation episode number 186. |
| 0:08.8 | We had a great conversation and largely back then, 2020. |
| 0:12.1 | We're focusing on COVID, how it's impacting retirement. |
| 0:14.4 | And we also talked a lot about his no regrets retirement plan mindset. |
| 0:19.2 | But today we're going to shift gears to something I'm really excited about. |
| 0:23.0 | He is pioneering what is known as retirement intelligence, not EQ, not IQ, but RQ. |
| 0:30.5 | And we have a free giveaway so you can get your own RQ as well today. |
| 0:34.4 | Robert is the founder of Retirement Project.org and the naked retirement blog. |
| 0:40.5 | As the retirement activist of the day, Robert is committed to changing the way people think about and prepare for every aspect of retirement. |
| 0:49.2 | He has a nationally syndicated column at Forbes and Financial Advisor, where he challenges the status quo of traditional |
| 0:55.8 | retirement planning. A lot of those articles have ended up in our weekend Reading for Retirees |
| 1:00.0 | email series. And we also see his work appear in the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, The Street, |
| 1:05.7 | many other publications. In our episode today, we're going to dig into, as I said, that |
| 1:10.0 | RQ, Robert's retirement quotient test in what he's learned throughout his career, studying why some people succeed and some fail in retirement from an individual, not a financial perspective. |
| 1:21.1 | You'll also learn why so many people underestimate just how intense retirement can be, why retirement is all about envisioning the life |
| 1:28.7 | you want and removing the negative stigma. The idea of retirement means happiness is over, |
| 1:35.5 | you're retired, we're putting you out to pasture. And one more thing before we get started, |
| 1:39.2 | if you'd like to save about $30, $29, and get free access to Robert's RQ test. Just join us here. We'll show you |
| 1:48.5 | exactly how to do it because not only are you getting the free test, but you're also going to |
| 1:52.1 | have the opportunity to join Robert Laura himself for a great retirement discussion in a group |
| 1:56.5 | format. So number one, to get that free test and join that discussion, subscribe to the podcast, |
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