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Retirement Segment

• Dave is the creator of RetireFabulously
• Dave’s first book is Design Your Dream Retirement.
• His latest book (Dec 2017) is Smooth Sailing into Retirement: How to Navigate the Transition from Work to Leisure.
  1. It covers the 6 months prior to retiring and into the first year of retirement.
  2. It guides us through the changes that you’ll experience.
• You can find out more about Dave’s books, including how to purchase them, on his website.
• We get into his chapter about Curating Your Retirement which is analogous to how a museum curator selects what to display from the entire collection.
• A great quote: “The self is not something one finds but one something creates”.
• Like the museum curator we need to design our day.
• Retirement is one of life’s top 10 stressful events. It creates disruption.
• When you retire you confront a lot of changes at once.
  1. Time
  2. Cash flow
  3. Relationships
  4. Moving
  5. Social interaction
• A lot of identity and purpose is wrapped up in a job. You can read about my experience in My Identity Crisis.
• It’s better to say I’m something new instead of a former or retired something.
• Dave identifies 8 retirement personality types:
  1. Perpetual worker
  2. Volunteer
  3. Doting grandparent
  4. Traveler
  5. Fun seeker
  6. Self actualizer
  7. Lifelong learner
  8. Decelerator
• Dave plans for 2019 to be his year of no commitments as he is very busy and wants to see what emerges especially regarding travel and writing.
• Designing you day includes what you want to let go of as well as what you want to add.
• How you live each day is how you live your retirement.

Beer Segment

The beer segment begins at the 14:18 mark.

• Dave is a 1 on a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of beer experience.
• He has gone to beer pairing dinners and has enjoyed them.
• He’s more into cocktails and wine.
• He has a bar at home that he refers to as his grownup chemistry set.
• He likes rum and vodka.
• Dave’s favorite cocktails are mojitos and maitais.
• His first drinking experience occurred at a freshman orientation in Ohio.
• The beer was Bush 3.2 which he did not like.
• I selected Sierra Nevada’s Juicy Hazy Little Thing New England style IPA.
• Color is deep gold.
• Aroma is a sweet and fruity.
• Taste = grapefruit and orange.
• IBUs = 40
• ABV = 6.7