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Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast

495: Freedom After 50: The World is Ending… What's Next?

Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast

Casey Weade

Investing, Self-improvement, Education, Business

4.7556 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

If you saw the amount of time you had left to live—whether it was one day or one year—how would you spend it? What would you worry about?   

In this episode, we discuss: 

  • How to let go of always trying to control your narrative
  • Why the pursuit of contentment is greater than the pursuit of happiness
  • 5 questions to help you find pure contentment in the present

Listen in as Founder and CEO of Howard Bailey Financial, Casey Weade is joined by Les McDaniel to run through 5 questions that will help you find pure contentment by living in the now.

Show Notes: Howardbailey.com/495

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ABOUT HOWARD BAILEY FINANCIAL: Our mission is to help others gain clarity in purpose and elevate meaning in their lives through personal and practical financial strategies. Our Retire With Purpose™ Framework starts with establishing your unique financial philosophy — the true meaning and purpose for your money in retirement. Through continued education, one-on-one meetings, and a comprehensive team planning approach, we have helped retirees across the country secure their financial futures. And while we can't work with everyone, our goal is to provide value to everyone we meet. Our team of advisors and support specialists strive to deliver the very best experience in pre-retirement and retirement planning. Learn more about our process here: https://howardbailey.com/our-process

Transcript

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0:00.0

What if this is our last year on earth? What if this is our last month? Our last week? Our last day?

0:07.1

What if today is the end of the world? What will you do about it?

0:20.1

Hey, this is Casey. Welcome to the podcast. Today, I am here with my good friend, our very own certified

0:25.8

retirement coach and chief purpose officer at Howard Bailey Financial. We've got Les McDaniel here with me.

0:31.8

If only people could see your face when you say it is so amazing. I'm so excited to see you.

0:36.5

This is the best part of my week. And Les and I get

0:39.3

together every other week for these freedom after 50 episodes. So if you're looking for those

0:44.5

non-financial conversations here on the podcast, you might argue the softer side of retirement,

0:49.8

then look no further for those freedom after 50 episodes. And if you're ready to take the first step and you want to meet with last,

0:58.3

you want to start to do some retirement coaching on that second half of life.

1:03.8

All you have to do is give us a caller.

1:06.1

Just email us.

1:07.0

Email less directly at coaching at howard bailey.com to schedule your very own coaching discovery call now

1:13.5

if you're looking more towards those financial conversations well just look in between these episodes

1:18.7

and that is exactly what you will find today we're talking about the end of the world yes this topic

1:27.2

came to me because...

1:28.3

So ominous.

1:29.3

Not long ago, over spring break, my family and I, we went out and we visited Hawaii.

1:34.3

And we always wanted to do this with the kids.

1:36.3

We wanted to see the volcanoes.

1:37.3

We wanted to see Kauai and going a helicopter tour the island like everybody else does.

1:42.3

And we hopped on this helicopter. And I'm pretty

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