381: How to Thrive in Retirement and Not Fade Away with Celia Dodd

Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast

Casey Weade

Investing, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.7 • 564 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Today, I'm talking to Celia Dodd. After 30 years of contributing to publications like The Independent, the Times, the Guardian, Country Living, and Good Housekeeping, Celia started writing books about parenting and life transitions.

Celia is the author of All Grown Up: Nurturing Relationships with Adult Children, The Empty Nest, and Conversations with Mothers and Daughters, but today's conversation is focused on her book Not Fade Away: How to Thrive in Retirement.

In this conversation, Celia and I discuss many topics, including her keys to a successful retirement transition, empty nesting, and the top three challenges every retiree faces. If you're approaching or in retirement, there's sure to be something here for you.

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In this podcast interview, you'll learn:

What made Celia's father's retirement so sad–and how his depression made successful retirement so near and dear to her heart.
How to better navigate the complex emotions that come with leaving the workplace and the regrets that can come with life transitions.
The value of slowing down–and even learning to love boredom.
Why finding purpose is at the very top of Celia's retirement checklists.
How to transition from being a hands-on to hands-off parent as your children reach adulthood.
How to reduce your risk of gray divorce as you enter retirement.

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0:00.0	I think coaching is really helpful, both for couples and for people on their own.
0:04.1	I mean, that may sound a bit drastic, but I certainly think being able to talk things through
0:09.5	with an objective person is invaluable because it's a good way to work out what really has
0:16.2	meaning for you, which is the key, and how you're going to find value beyond when you're not being paid
0:22.1	for what you do, because we're so used to valuing things in terms of how much we're paid.
0:27.1	And if we're not going to be paid, you have to find mission to help deliver clarity and purpose and elevate meaning in your life through personal and practical financial strategies. We do that in a couple of different ways.
0:54.9	We do that every single Friday with Marshall Johnson and myself. We get together and we discuss
1:00.5	a trending topic around retirement, both financial and non-financial. And then every other Monday,
1:06.3	what we're here to do with you today is we bring on one of our world-class guests and we deliver
1:10.7	to you a
1:11.4	conversation that could be financial, could be non-financial. Today, it's going to lean into that
1:17.1	softer side of retirement. And we're doing that with Celia Dodd. Celia comes to us as a journalist
1:24.0	with three decades of writing experience in UK newspapers and magazines.
1:29.2	She has been featured in The Independent, The Times, The Guardian, Country Living, Good
1:33.1	Housekeeping.
1:34.1	And after 30 years, as a journalist, Celia turned to authoring books, writing about topics like
1:39.3	parenting and major transitions in life, such as Empty Nest and Retirement. She is the author of four books,
1:45.9	including Not Fade Away, How to Thrive in Retirement. That'll be a main focus of our conversation
1:51.4	today. She also just released a new book titled All Grown Up, Nurturing Relationships with
1:57.0	Adult Children, and is also authored the empty nest and conversations with mothers and
2:02.5	daughters. I am excited to cover many of her checklist with you, top three retirement challenges,
2:08.7	eight keys to a successful retirement transition, marriage and retirement, empty nesting,
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