Reed Dewey | Retirement Coaching

Transitions Can Be Challenging.

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Reed helps clients address challenges and seize opportunities - especially during times of transition. He specializes in coaching those over age 50+ who want to explore and prepare for what's next after a main career. Reed provides companies/organizations with customized workshops and individual coaching to help employees determine their readiness to retire by using a life planning approach.

Retirement Coaching
Explore thoughts, feelings, and expectations about retirement and how to productively and positively chart a way forward. Get support on how to reduce anxiety and look at opportunities for life fulfillment. Coach Reed knows everyone's situation is different and has the tools and approaches for concrete results. He also helps couples adjust to being better together. Meetings are done by ZOOM or phone.

Retirement Readiness Assessments
Reed is a certified Retirement Options™Coach and administers individual online assessment tools assessing retirement readiness across 20 lifestyle and attitudinal dimensions. Both tools were developed by Richard Johnson, Ph.D., a world expert in non-financial retirement planning. He also uses an assessment to explore client character strengths to help with volunteer and encore career options.

Presentations (Virtual)
Geared for company/community/civic groups, Reed provides a variety of engaging and informative presentations in such areas as:
- When is the right time to retire?
- Is an encore career in your future?
- Finding dynamic volunteer positions.
- Getting through major life transitions.
- Finding fulfillment and balancing life.
- Creating a life action plan,
- Turning dreams into reality.

One-Shot Life Planning Retirement Seminar
Reed offers virtual seminars of variable length that cover the basics of non-financial retirement and life planning. Customized programs can include the Life Options Profile that assesses participant retirement readiness in 20 key arenas and assistance in interpreting the results. This 2.5 hour seminar is a great addition to any retirement planning program. See more about all programs designed to help employees determine their level of readiness to retire.

The 5 Week Explorer Course - For Your Organization
This five-week live video program provides a cost-effective way for participants to learn about retirement transitions culminating in the creation of encore Life Action Plan. Explore your level of retirement readiness in 22 key life areas including: work/service, relationships, leisure, personal growth, health/wellness, environment, and financial/legal matters. The seminar includes weekly handouts, mini-lectures, group exercises, and highly interactive discussions with seminar participants.

Recent Articles

Perhaps you’re like me. This time of year triggers introspection about what’s important in life – especially moving forward. I am passionate about how our generation has the chance to live our later years with even more life satisfaction and meaning than our parents did. Given this is a “family” time of year, let me …

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From Status Quo to Status GO!

By Reed Dewey | Nov 3, 2021

You may find yourself staying in the same job or life situation even though you have bigger dreams. Below are tips and resources to move from status quo to status GO! While transitioning to later life brings opportunity, it also challenges us to step into new ways of being. I’ve also included one of my …

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4 Tips To Get Unstuck

By Reed Dewey | Aug 26, 2021

We’ve all been waiting for COVID to end to get on with life. For me, I put off a number of projects and goals during the last 20 months. None of us are happy with the “new normal” but life goes on. Being able to adapt and go with the flow is certainly easier than …

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Time To Take Action?

By Reed Dewey | Jun 22, 2021

We’re often too hard on ourselves. We’ve survived these past epic times of isolation, not seeing smiles in public, fear of getting sick and much more. If you were lucky enough not to endure the loss of a loved one, why has it been hard to snap back now that you’ve been vaccinated? You might …

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Getting Unstuck – Through Momentum!

By Reed Dewey | May 25, 2021

I’m stuck when I’m not taking some kind of action. I keep looking for things to change, but thinking about it isn’t getting me there. Funny how that happens. Then, I can go to a place of feeling bad about not doing what I think I want to do. Most of us have these thoughts …

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FROM Languishing TO Loving Life!

By Reed Dewey | May 7, 2021

Here we all are, facing yet another transition – somewhat out of COVID times yet many of us aren’t feeling jazzed about it. A recent New York Times article on languishing went viral and hits the mark for many. In short it means, “I’m OK but not feeling focused or motivated.” You are not alone …

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Book Review – Life Is In The Transitions

By Reed Dewey | Apr 14, 2021

If you’re feeling like major changes seem to happen for you every couple years, you’re not alone, according to the book, Life Is In The Transitions by Bruce Feiler. He writes major “life disruptors” – both positive and negative – happen on average every 12-18 months. And, the pace of life changes are happening faster than they used …

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Video Introduction from Reed…

By Reed Dewey | Apr 13, 2021

Three Questions to Ask During Times of Transition…

By Reed Dewey | Apr 1, 2021

Sometimes transitions are anticipated – and other times, like with COVID or being let go from a job, they happen suddenly. In either case, change isn’t easy and often brings up feelings of self-doubt and questioning. It’s how we respond to the challenges that arise that helps us come out the other side stronger – …

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Check Out Oprah’s Personality Quiz for Insights

By Reed Dewey | Mar 18, 2021

Two thumbs up for Oprah’s very cool personality quiz that I think is totally worth your time to complete – and you don’t have to give your email address to take it – to get the results! The process of figuring out what’s next in your life is a journey that takes time and insights. …

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A Good Time to Think about the Future…

By Reed Dewey | Mar 1, 2021

Maybe the key these days is to think more about the future. Here the world is, caught up in the horror of covid-19. It’s hard to get away from all the chatter from friends, media social media and even in our own homes. But research suggests that it’s a good idea to think about the …

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There’s A Happiness Curve For Those 50 and Over!

By Reed Dewey | Feb 15, 2021

Perhaps you’re familiar with the book, The Happiness Curve by Jonathan Rauch. It’s a fun read and basically says life gets better starting around age 50. He writes that as we get older the research shows we shift away from competition and striving for success toward compassion and reframing how we look at life. We change our …

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Ways to Grow, Stay Connected & Get Stuff Done!

By Reed Dewey | Jan 15, 2021

The pandemic has certainly forced us all into a major life transition that calls for coping strategies. Here are some ideas I’ve found helpful to adjust to the new normal that you may not have considered: Try new stuff. What hobbies or interests might you explore? You probably are already walking and jogging a lot …

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Could An Encore Career Be In Your Future?

By Reed Dewey | Dec 26, 2020

Did you know that American workers are retiring at about the same age as in the 1970s, yet are living longer and healthier lives? At the same time, defined pension plans are mostly a thing of the past. And our 401Ks, especially now with the market – bring new uncertainty to our financial future. For …

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Is Volunteering in Your Future?

By Reed Dewey | Dec 17, 2020

Clients often come to me initially because they want to figure out what kind of volunteer or paid role they’d like to have after leaving their main career. While it may sound easy, finding the right business or nonprofit that is a good fit takes time. For example, with nonprofits the opportunities to serve range from …

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Keys to Making the Transition to What’s Next…

By Reed Dewey | Dec 1, 2020

We all know family members and friends who seem to step into retirement or major later life challenges with apparent zest and excitement. But, based on my own experience and working with clients, it’s more common to have fears and limiting beliefs about the future. Life planning is the antidote to simply reacting to life. …

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From Happiness To Well-Being…

By Reed Dewey | Nov 29, 2020

As we go through life transitions what is a good way to look at how we want our life to look like? For me, as I get older, I think more about how I can live my life as fully as possible, but what does that mean? I’m reading Martin Seligman’s book Flourish and it’s about this …

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Tips Getting Through the Hard Times

By Reed Dewey | Oct 18, 2020

Change is hard enough when we intentionally decide on a career or life change. If you’d like to see my summary as a video click HERE. When change is forced on us – like losing a job or having to spend countless months on end working from home, it’s even tougher. The well-known Bridges Transition Model …

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Are You on the Learner Path?

By Reed Dewey | Feb 1, 2020

We all know Robert Frost’s “Two paths diverged in the wood” poem. He takes the one less traveled. For me it’s been more about being intentional about the path I want to take. To put it positively, when I’ve focused on what I want, more opportunities come my way. Marilee Adam’s book, Change your Questions, Change …

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Reed Dewey | Retirement Coaching

Transitions Can Be Challenging.

Explore and create the life you want.

Retirement Coaching

Retirement Readiness Assessments

Presentations (Virtual)

One-Shot Life Planning Retirement Seminar

The 5 Week Explorer Course - For Your Organization