419: Live Life in Crescendo Toward a Purposeful Retirement with Cynthia Covey Haller
Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast
Casey Weade
4.7 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Today, I'm speaking with Cynthia Covey Haller. Cynthia is an author, teacher, and speaker. You may recognize her name from her contributions to books by her father, Stephen Covey, best known for writing The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, or her brother, Sean, who wrote The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens and The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make.
In our conversation, we delved into her book Live Life In Crescendo: Your Most Important Work is Always Ahead of You, which she co-authored with her father Stephen, and was published posthumously as his final book.
We talk about the life lessons Cynthia learned in the Covey household, how to live life with a perennial sense of purpose and play to your strengths, and how having some stress in your life isn't necessarily a bad thing and can actually improve longevity.
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In this podcast interview, you'll learn:
- How Stephen Covey truly lived his values–and proved it to Cynthia when he brought her along on a speaking tour.
- Why people like Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, and Julie Andrews embody what it means to live in crescendo.
- How to shift your priorities, focus on your strengths, and spend more time doing what you love–especially if you're rebuilding in the wake of a professional or personal tragedy or loss.
- The unique value of "eustress" and how good stress helps to stay driven and ambitious even in retirement.
- Simple ways to make a contribution, even if you don't want to be a mentor or influencer.
- Why it took over a decade after her father passed for Cynthia to finish Stephen's final book–going from inspiration to millions of copies sold.
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| 0:00.0 | In Live Life and Crescendo, we talk about a longevity study that it was an 80-year-old study on 1,500 kids that these professors from Harvard and Stanford followed through their lifetime. |
| 0:14.2 | And they interviewed them every so often to see who lived happier and healthier lives and what the factors were. |
| 0:19.9 | And one of the findings was stress |
| 0:22.6 | isn't so bad. You've got to have some stress in your life to accomplishing things and a purpose |
| 0:28.6 | that helps keep you alive. Happiness is a result, not a cause. In other words, you bring |
| 0:34.5 | your own weather with you. |
| 0:49.3 | Welcome to the Retire with Purpose podcast, where it is my mission to deliver clarity and purpose and elevate meaning in your life. And we do that in a couple of different ways |
| 0:53.3 | here on the podcast. |
| 0:54.2 | It's not just about IRAs and 401ks and all those acronyms, all that financial stuff that while |
| 0:59.6 | is very, very important as you do your retirement planning, it's also about the softer side |
| 1:04.6 | of life and retirement. And we bring you a lot of guests and conversations around those |
| 1:09.1 | variety of different topics that are going to impact you in this phase of your life. |
| 1:13.2 | If you're new to the show, I want you to know what to expect. |
| 1:16.2 | Every single Friday, we get together with you in short form and we discuss a trending topic in the financial planning space. |
| 1:22.8 | Typically, that is covering an article or a blog post that our team has mined throughout the week and put in this email that you get every single Friday. |
| 1:31.4 | Four articles on trending topics. We pull one of those out. We take a deep dive on Fridays. |
| 1:36.2 | And if you're not familiar with that resource, you have to get it. You have to get yourself signed up. |
| 1:40.8 | Because not only you're staying up to date on the latest trends, which we know that we |
| 1:44.6 | have to in this stage of our life, but you're also going to receive all kinds of other resources. |
| 1:50.0 | We have an amazing toolkit that we're going to provide you with. |
| 1:52.8 | We have all kinds of other webinars we're going to invite you to and educational resources |
| 1:57.5 | that'll be right there at your fingertips. |
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