The Retirement Life Podcast

The team digs into the heart of Unwrapping Retirement: the four cornerstones — support, structure, self-talk, and self-care — that steady any big life transition. They explain why the course asks questions instead of handing out answers, and share the aha moments they've watched, including couples married 30-plus years having conversations they'd never had before.With Deana Arseneau, Madison Justus

Rc, Deana, Madison, and Tony — sits down to share how the Unwrapping Retirement course came to be. Rc watched clients with solid money plans still struggle after retiring, and Deana realized she might be one of them. They walk through how the course works and what they each hope people find in it: fresh joy, better health habits, and real community.With Deana Arseneau, Madison Justus

Kelley King returns to share where his treatment has taken him — through chemo, surgery, and radiation — and what cancer taught him about knowing his why. Nurse Madison Justice adds practical ways to get more from doctor visits, from writing questions down to using the patient portal. It's an honest conversation about speaking up for your health, asking for help, and taking one small step at a time.With Kelley King, Madison Justus

Tony and Madison sit down with co-founder Kelley King, a financial advisor of 43 years, whose wellness-program blood test — taken mostly to earn points toward an Apple Watch — flagged cancer that a clean PSA, lung scan, and mammogram all missed. Kelley pushed for one more ultrasound, and it found stage-two breast cancer in a lymph node. A conversation about persistence, advocacy, and being the CEO of your own health.

The money series ends where most plans go quiet: you have reached the green, you can live on what you saved — and many retirees look up to discover there is no flag to aim at. Rc and Tony talk about why money sitting in an account has zero value until you trade it for something that matters, how splitting expenses into essentials and lifestyle creates both stability and freedom, and where the online calculators quietly stop helping.

Part two of the money series covers the years almost everyone ignores: the short game, roughly three to five years before your retirement date. Rc explains why a bad market at the wrong time — right before or right after you retire — can do the most damage, why the fears people post online usually mean they are still playing long-game rules, and how a three-bucket strategy protects your income before anything bad happens.

Rc and Tony kick off a three-part series on the financial side of retirement with a golf analogy that reframes the whole journey. Retirement planning is not one game — it is a long game, a short game, and getting on the green, each with its own tools and hazards. This episode covers the long game: starting early, letting compound interest work, and taking your next best shot when life lands you in the weeds.

Tony and Rc sit down with Howard Priguson, who retired at 62 and is now 89 — 27 years into retirement and still playing racquetball, tinkering with Alfa Romeos, and adding to his list of universal truths. Howard shares how he rebuilt community after moving to a new city, how he and his wife Anne keep a 67-year marriage working, and why his advice comes down to two words: keep moving.With: Howard Priguson

Once the celebration fades, many new retirees are surprised to find 40 wide-open hours a week and no idea what to do with them. Tony and Rc talk about why losing your work routine is so disorienting, why time is a currency that gets spent whether you mean to or not, and how a loose rhythm keeps the days from blending together. Purpose, it turns out, often shows up in small things like a daily walk or a grandchild's library picnic.

Tony and Rc read through real responses to a simple question about retirement — some people are counting the days, some never want to stop working, and some are quietly heartbroken. They talk about why the same milestone lands so differently, and how support, structure, self-talk, and self-care can steady the transition. Wherever you land, the message is the same: you're not alone.

Tony and Rc introduce themselves and the heart behind the show. After 30 years as a retirement planner, Rc kept seeing clients arrive at retirement with the money handled but their happiness up in the air, so he, his wife Deana, and Tony started opening up the conversations nobody was having. This episode sets the table: retirement is a transition, not a date, and you don't have to walk it alone.