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Hi, I'm Christine Benz from Morningstar, and welcome to the How to Retire podcast.

It's a companion to my book, which is also called How to Retire.

Each episode will provide a bite-sized lesson about

how to do some aspect of retirement well. One topic that came up in several of the conversations

in how to retire was the role of work and how the border between work and retirement has become

increasingly porous. Yahoo Finance columnist and author Carrie Carrie Hannan, is focused on careers and personal finance

for most of her career, and she was the perfect person to sit down to discuss the role of work

later in life.

Carrie's a self-described workplace futurist, and she's the author of several books about careers.

Carrie, thank you so much for being here.

Well, Christina, it's a delight.

I am just thrilled to be here having this conversation with you.

Me too.

I want to talk about something that you write a lot about.

You've written several books about the topic of work

and especially work with

respect to older adults people have heard about the benefits the financial benefits

certainly of working longer but maybe you can discuss what we know about the financial

and non-financial benefits of continuing to work maybe past the traditional 65?

Yeah, it's absolutely true. And even people who have retired, there's that big trend to

unretire now, right? So what happens? And again, we're talking a lot about workers who are

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