Retirement Coaching
Retirement is not the finish line. It’s the start of something new and different!
You’ve got the finances sorted, so let’s talk about the rest. Who will you be in retirement? What will the purpose of your life be? How will you spend your time? Having the support of a retirement coach can make your transition more meaningful and joyful:
Your whole self. This isn't just about replacing work. It's about rediscovering who you are. You'll explore what brings you joy, strengthen your relationships, stay physically and mentally active and create a life that reflects your deepest values.
Personalized plans. Through proven tools and exercises, you'll develop a written Retirement Wellness Plan that addresses the mental, social, physical, and spiritual aspects of your life. You'll finally have clarity on how to fill your time with things that truly matter.
A legacy that lasts. You'll create a Legacy Notebook to share your wisdom, values and life lessons with future generations. You can ensure your next years are about building something meaningful that outlasts you.
How Alan Can Help
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Free Resources
A collection of free resources to get you started on your path to career clarity.
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Designing Your Retirement
A guided, three-month journey into your new stage of life. Includes a workbook packed with exercises and one-on-one coaching with Alan.
Designing Your Retirement Coaching Package
Ready to change tracks and figure out what’s next? Start here.
Change doesn’t have to be as hard as we think it is. We often have more choices than we realize. This package is designed to help you navigate change and find your way into clarity and choice.
Thinking about making a change, and looking for some direction? Not sure what to do first, or next? Alan can help you find your way into retirement clarity. See below for more information, or download these details as a PDF.
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Transitions are more effective with a coach at your side, for reframing situations, curating materials, challenging assumptions and providing accountability.
Alan is a Certified Professional Retirement Coach and has helped many of his clients through professional transitions since 2020.
Alan has also learned countless valuable lessons through his own journey of leaving the highest-paying job he’d ever had (with amazing benefits) to devote his full time and attention to his coaching practice.
The Designing Your Retirement package is the result of Alan’s own experience and his work with clients.
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The Designing Your Retirement coaching package is ideal for someone who is considering retiring shortly, or has recently retired. It works well for clients who have already done financial planning toward retirement.
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The three-month Designing Your Retirement package is a structured engagement that walks you through imagining, testing and executing your retirement transition. It includes two 60-minute and four 30-minute individual coaching sessions by Zoom with Alan, plus:
A print copy of How to Retire, by Christine Benz
A workbook with exercises to complete between sessions
Unlimited 15-minute “refills” between sessions
Unlimited access to Alan via email during the course of the engagement
Access to Community Channels
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The client investment for the Designing Your Retirement package is $2,799, payable over two invoices at the beginning and midpoint of the engagement.
Peaceful Direction accepts ACH (bank accounts), PayPal and all major credit cards.
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“Alan is level-headed, honest, forthcoming, smart, and perhaps most importantly: listens intently and intentionally. The exercises he gave me before each session proved both illuminating and practical, helping me clarify three possible career and life paths I could build over the next five years.“
Past Participant
“I reached out to Alan with only the vaguest sense that I wanted to make a change in my career. The fact that I had about 100 ideas and no specific direction didn't faze him at all. To the contrary, he thoughtfully suggested reading and exercises that helped create a vision for my work life that felt both exciting and reachable - and then patiently worked through the design process with me during our coaching sessions. Alan instills a sense of confidence and calm in his clients that will undoubtedly serve them well, no matter the ultimate career path.”
Past Participant
“Alan is a thoughtful guide who will lead you to ask yourself the hard questions you need to move forward. He adapts to each individual based on their needs, strengths and blind spots. Alan listens, processes and then acts with intention to understand each client and to help each client understand themselves.”
Past participant
Free Resources
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Thrive In Retirement With Positive Psychology
Let’s use aspects of Positive Psychology to better prepare for the transition by finding replacements for the things that add value to our lives at work.