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185. Untethered: The Retirement Shock Nobody Warns You About

185. Untethered: The Retirement Shock Nobody Warns You About

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Why retirement, whether it's the literal kind or one you haven't named yet, doesn't automatically hand you the fulfillment you've been waiting for.There's something in the water lately. Laurie keeps having the same conversation, over and over, with women in their mid-to-late 50s who are planning to retire in 2027. And she loves it for them, genuinely. But there's a question she can't help asking right after she says "bravo" — and it's the question this whole episode is built around.That question: how do you want to spend the rest of your life? Not the checklist version. The feeling version. And almost every time, she gets a blank stare back.This episode digs into why that blank stare happens (hint: decades of fulfillment tied to applause and approval will do that to a person), tells the story of the "laundry pile test," and makes the case for testing your retirement dreams now, in small pieces, instead of waiting for the retirement party to find out if they actually fit.What we cover:Why Laurie's been hearing "something in the water" — a wave of high-achieving women all planning retirement in 2027The question she can't help asking right after she says "bravo": how do you want to spend the rest of your life?Why "everyone I know who's retired says they don't know how they had time to work" isn't actually an answerThe real question underneath it all: how do you want to feel when you're not working, and what does a perfect day look like?Why she's not asking you to build a checklist or a minute-by-minute plan, and what she's actually asking for insteadThe mechanism: why validation and external approval have quietly run your fulfillment for decades, and what happens when that supply disappearsThe laundry pile story: the retired client whose biggest win is that she's finally caught up on laundry, and why Laurie is skeptical that's the win it looks likeWhy "a clean floor and an empty hamper are not a life plan"Why Laurie loves the in-between time: the season where you still have a job, a marriage, a kid at home, but you're starting to ask what's nextWhy literal retirement (a job) and metaphorical retirement (a marriage, a city, a life you've outgrown) run on the exact same emotional playbookWhy we put our dreams and goals on a pedestal for decades, and what that does to them by the time we finally "arrive"The dress-rehearsal idea: testing your retirement dream in small pieces now, before you've quit anythingWhy waiting until "after the retirement party" to start living the life you've been dreaming about sets you up for a shockThe two questions Laurie wants you to ask yourself this week, and the one small thing she wants you to do about themQuotable moments"You can retire from your job, but you can't retire from yourself.""A clean floor and an empty hamper are not a life plan.""It's very difficult to take a hard-charging, high-achieving woman out of a high-stress environment and move her to the point of her day, of her week, of her month that she has no laundry pile.""We've made retirement this very precious season because we've been working towards it with this idea that we'll just figure it out once we get there.""If we don't dip our toe into that proverbial pool we think we wanna be swimming in, then that fulfillment we've been delaying, we might be surprised to find out it's not coming in the way we think it is after we retire.""I feel like you can take the attorney out of the law firm, but you can't really take the law firm out of the girl.""You are a high-achieving, wildly successful woman. You owe it to yourself to make the second half of your life as exciting and as impactful as you have made the first half."Laurie's ask for this episode Laurie wants to know your biggest takeaway from this episode.→ Email here here→ DM her on InstagramResources + links mentionedBEST LIFE Mastermind — Last change to join the Mastermind! Founding member applications open now, launching September (2 in-person retreats: Sun Valley, ID in September + Civana Wellness Resort & Spa, AZ in February)1:1 coaching — Book a call hereConnect with Laurie📩 JOIN MY MAILING LISThttps://www.schoolofmidlife.com/newsletter👉 CONNECT WITH LAURIE:📩 Email Laurie 💻 WebsiteOn InstagramOn LinkedInWork with Laurie
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