How to Have an Epic Retirement

Bec Wilson

Jul 2023 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

More than 500,000 Australians plan to retire in the next five years and are in their pre-retirement or 'part-time' retirement years, preparing for the massive life change that signals their move from working every day to living as they choose. In the years before they retire, and the early years of retirement, people want to prepare well and set themselves up for the exciting 30+ year journey that could be ahead of them. This is where How to Have an Epic Retirement comes in.

There is no one in Australia who has more insight into what retirees want and what they need to know to achieve it than Rebecca Wilson, founder of the hugely successful online platform Starts at 60. Armed with information and the best anecdotal knowledge from retirees and those planning to retire, Rebecca has compiled the ultimate guidebook for those who want to make the most of this time of their lives. With examples, common questions and information you can apply to your own circumstances, Rebecca addresses the six key pillars of a great retirement: time, money, health, happiness and fulfilment, travel and your home.

How to Have an Epic Retirement guides readers through the way the systems of retirement work, so you can learn the valuable lessons that modern retirees wish someone had shared with them before they kicked off the changes and stages of life that come after retirement.

Every modern retiree can have an Epic Retirement - and this book will show you how.

About the author

Bec Wilson is a leading voice on midlife, modern ageing and the future of retirement, in Australia and beyond.

She's the bestselling author of How to Have an Epic Retirement - Australia's #1 retirement book in 2023 and 2024 - and Prime Time: 27 lessons for the new midlife, as well as the founder of the Epic Retirement Institute, a trusted hub for practical retirement education, insights and tools.

Bec hosts the Prime Time podcast, one of Australia's top 200 podcasts, and writes a weekly newsletter at epicretirement.net which brings together a large and loyal community of midlifers and retirees.

Through the Epic Retirement Institute, she runs the popular six-week flagship course 'How to Have an Epic Retirement' and partners with super funds and organisations to deliver pre-retirement education programs.

Bec writes a widely read syndicated finance column for The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and other Nine mastheads, and manages the thriving global Facebook group The Epic Retirement Club.

She's a mother of three teens and young adult children, a lifelong learner, and is living her own Prime Time - while dreaming of her Epic Retirement, one day.