Do you want to start talking to your parents about money?
Kate Campbell chats with Bec Wilson, an expert on modern retirement.
Bec’s mission is to share the proven ways you can create a better midlife and a modern, epic retirement. This conversation is all about giving you the tools and resources you need to start talking to your parents (or maybe even yourself) about money and having an epic retirement.
Here are just a few of the topics we discuss:
- Tell us a little bit about who you are and why you’re so passionate about helping Aussies have an epic retirement?
- Why this conversation is important – let’s talk about the data, how long are our parents actually going to live versus how long they think they’ll live for?
- What are the pillars of an epic retirement?
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- What does modern retirement look like?
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- From your experience talking to thousands of people in the pre-retirement and retirement age bracket, what prevents people from having an epic retirement?
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- Why do we stop setting goals later in life?
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- Why do you think we struggle to talk to our parents about money?
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- We don’t grow up having money conversations
- Shame, fear, guilt, embarrassment
- Money language barriers
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- How can we kickstart money conversations with our parents?
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- Talking to them about their dreams, hopes, aspirations
- Getting our parents excited for what comes next
- Values based approach
- Giving our parents new ideas for work, e.g. part-time, volunteering, consulting, gap year, mini-retirements
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