What Are You Retiring To?

The Non-Financial Side of Retirement: How to plan for routine, identity, connection and purpose once working life ends.

A financially sound retirement can still feel unsettled when the structure of working life suddenly disappears.

For decades, work can provide more than a paycheque - it can provide routine, identity, social connection, goals and a sense of purpose. So what happens when all of that changes?

Chris can explore the question behind the retirement number: What are you actually retiring to? How can people think intentionally about how they want to spend their time, stay connected, maintain a sense of purpose and build a life that feels meaningful beyond work?

It's a conversation that takes retirement planning beyond money and into the reality of the transition itself - making it particularly relevant for audiences thinking about their next chapter, rather than simply their next financial milestone.

About Chris Maduri

Chris Maduri, podcast guest

Retirement & Life Transitions Expert

Nearly 20 years Helping people prepare for retirement4 Pillars of sustainable retirement planning3 Buckets in his wealth-building approachSales Director Named by Financial Marketing Group in 2013

Chris Maduri has spent nearly two decades helping people prepare for more than retirement - he helps them prepare for the life that comes after work.

Because retirement isn't simply the day the pay cheque stops.

It can change your identity, your marriage, your relationship with your time, your health, your family and your sense of purpose. And Chris believes that's the part of retirement planning most people don't talk about.

Chris began his career just before the 2008 Financial Crisis, an experience that fundamentally shaped how he thinks about risk. Watching carefully constructed plans come under pressure taught him that assumptions can fail - and that a retirement plan needs to work in the real world, not just on paper.

But after nearly two decades in the industry, Chris has come to see that financial preparation is only one part of the equation.

The bigger question is: What are you actually retiring to?

Chris describes retirement as the "fourth quarter of life" - and, if you've done things right, a little overtime.His work explores what it takes to make that chapter meaningful: having financial confidence, maintaining your health, protecting the people you love, staying connected to a sense of purpose and knowing how you want to spend the years you've worked so hard to create.

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