Talking About Retirement with Damon Sugden

Episode 8: A Healthy Retirement

What is required to establish the building blocks for a healthy retirement, and what do we need to consider for our physical and mental wellbeing? Many of the episodes in this podcast series have alluded to the fact that our approach to life while working shouldn’t significantly change in our retirement years. This theme continues if we look at the building blocks of establishing health and wellbeing during retirement because what we do today affects the quality of what we have tomorrow. In this episode, Damon [https://capital-partners.com.au/team/damon-sugden/], David [https://capital-partners.com.au/team/david-andrew/] and Barry [http://barrylavalley.com/] highlight that unless we have a healthy approach to our lives, the purpose that you have identified could all but become obsolete. Listen to Episode 8 of Talking About Retirement, A Healthy Retirement below.

Episode 7: Leisure and Balance

In this episode Damon [https://capital-partners.com.au/team/damon-sugden/], David [https://capital-partners.com.au/team/david-andrew/] and Barry [http://barrylavalley.com/]discuss the importance of leisure time and how this may influence our quest to achieve balance. They examine what retirees should be looking at during this stage, some of the pitfalls in our approach to leisure, and the difficulty of finding activities that are fulfilling in time versus filling in time typically referred to as the paradox of leisure. Listen to episode 7 to discover how we define, separate or allocate our leisure time differently – if at all – in retirement.

Episode 6: Stages of Retirement.

In this episode Damon [https://capital-partners.com.au/team/damon-sugden/], David [https://capital-partners.com.au/team/david-andrew/] and Barry [http://barrylavalley.com/] discuss the various stages of retirement and seek to understand what may lie on the road ahead. They do this by looking at the three key stages of retirement as outlined by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [https://www.aihw.gov.au/] and specifically, how looking at retirement as a sense of time is to look backwards. Damon, David and Barry unanimously agree that retiring at the age of 65 has become an artificial concept. Listen to episode 6 of Talking About Retirement [https://capital-partners.com.au/podcasts/] below or via your favourite podcast platform.

Episode 5: The Role of Work

In this episode Damon, David and Barry discuss the role that work plays in our lives. According to Retirement Expert, Barry LaValley, we need to seriously consider the value that work brings us. If we understand this, we may not be so quick to dismiss it as an end of an era and the beginning of a new prolonged leisure. This notion is explored by looking at how much of our identity is often linked to our work.

Episode 4: PERMA (Part two)

This episode is a continuation of the discussion around the PERMA model and its scientific approach to understanding the elements of happiness and what we can do to maximise each element. In this episode, Damon, David and Barry look at Meaning (M), Achievement (A) and the end result of Vitality (PERMA+V). Listen to the worlds’ best thinkers around retirement and prepare to position yourself for a successful and engaging second phase of life. “This is about helping people get on the right track and stay on the right track. The lessons, the psychology that we are talking about isn’t just related to retirement, it’s related to life and if we could help people have the best life possible with the resources they have, that would be a great outcome” – David Andrew.