Retirement Lifestyle Coaching Programs

If you are one of the 316,000 Canadians retiring this year or you are already retired but are struggling, you’re not alone.

Research has shown that almost half of people entering into retirement struggle with the transition into a post-career life.

Retirement is more than just financial. Although many pre-retirees are concerned about finances, money isn’t the only thing on their minds. The impact of the non-financial issues like social, emotional and psychological factors plays a big role in a person’s successful retirement.

Retirement is commonly an emotional time even for those who do plan for it. Whether it’s missing the ‘comfort’ of a schedule, losing their identity or a sense of purpose, it’s common for people adjusting to retirement to experience a range of worries and fears.

If you prepare and plan ahead of time, you can reduce a lot of these fears!

Failing to plan or manage the transition has consequences, and these can be significant from feelings of loss, uncertainty, and sadness to increased levels of stress, low levels of life satisfaction, and loneliness.

It doesn’t have to be this way for you. If you plan for your retirement lifestyle before you retire, you will feel excited and positive about this transition.

Do any of these statements resonate with you?

● I’m not feeling excited about retirement

● I’m not feeling emotionally and/or psychologically ready for retirement

● I don’t feel ready for the adjustments that will need to be made

● I am struggling with envisioning a post-career life

● I am fed up with my current job or career and am ready to leave

● I have fears or worries about retirement

● I don’t know how I will spend my days

● I don’t know what I need to do now to prepare for retirement

● I am not happy in retirement

...then you may want to consider coaching.

As a professional executive and personal coach, I will help kick start your retirement journey into high gear. I will help you generate insights and gain clarity to discover what matters the most in your life. Together, we will create an action plan to help you get there.

We will tackle the big questions that will help you determine what will bring meaning and fulfillment into your life.

You may also experience...

● Greater clarity around your goals and desires

● Increased energy, excitement and motivation about your life

● More confidence

● New and improved habits

● Alleviated fears, worries and concerns

● A shift in limiting beliefs

● The discovery of what is possible

““Great retirement reality check! Helps you assess your current understanding of retirement, gets you thinking about what you would really like it to be, then demonstrates how to start planning to achieve your dreams. Ever so grateful for the enlightenment!” ”

— DW, Program Participant

Retirement Lifestyle Coaching Programs

You can choose from two one-on-one coaching programs:

Your Best Retirement Intensive

Your Best Retirement Intensive is entirely focused on you with the purpose of generating insights, gaining clarity and creating new ideas about what you want in the second half of life. It consists of three two-hour coaching sessions (six hours total) either in person, phone or Zoom.

In this intensive, we will:

● Assess your retirement readiness level

● Examine your current reality

● Uncover and/or reignite your purpose

● Create a powerful vision of what you want in retirement

● Explore fears you may have and design actions to overcome them

● Reframe limiting beliefs

● Create actions to start moving forward

““Marielle’s program helped me understand that I can determine my own timeline and path to retirement in a much less abrupt way with a goal to a much more purposeful life.” ”

— Norm Lalonde, CFP, RRC, Certified Financial Planner, Program Participant

Power UP Your Retirement Personal Coaching Program

This customized coaching program will focus exclusively on you to help you gain clarity and a deeper understanding of what is important to you in retirement.

This coaching engagement consists of 12 sessions of 60 to 75-minutes either in person, phone or Zoom.

You will set goals and create a strategy to achieve the goals.

You will:

● Identify your retirement readiness level

● Examine your current reality

● Explore what your ideal retirement looks like – dreams, goals and expectations

● Uncover and/or reignite your purpose

● Create a vision for your life in retirement

● Explore your passions/interests and hobbies

● Explore fears and self-limiting beliefs

● Examine your relationship health

● Identify potential challenges or barriers to achieve your dreams

Whether your retirement is next month, next year, five years out or you are already in retirement - start planning now for a smoother transition to a fulfilling, meaningful, and exciting second half of life.

““If you think about and plan for your retirement lifestyle before you retire, you will enter into retirement with energy and excitement instead of fear and dread.” ”

— Marielle Gauthier, Executive and Personal Coach

Are You New to Coaching?

Essentially coaching helps a person close the gap between where they are and where they want to be in their life.

Coaching is not consulting, therapy, counselling, mentoring, or training. A coach helps an individual to create the right goals, find their own answers, empowers them to find their own solutions and encourages them to take action.

Coaching:

● Is self-directed - YOU are in the driver’s seat

● Is solution-focused and results-driven

● Helps you uncover your own answers

● Stretches and challenges the client

● Is delivered in a structured fashion with a lot of positive feedback

● Is delivered over time to create lasting change.

Through a combination of coaching conversations and various tools you will:

● Create meaningful goals

● Develop strategies to achieve the goals

● Develop and implement an action plan that works for you

● Analyze progress and results

● Make necessary mid-course corrections

● Receive positive feedback in a safe and respectful manner

● Be stretched to think and do things differently

My Promise to You

By leveraging my experience as a personal and executive coach, along with my passion and commitment, I will provide you with effective and valuable one-on-one coaching to support you as you prepare to transition into retirement. You will make positive changes and get great results fast. I will support you to change unproductive patterns of thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and behaviours.

I want you to be excited about living your happy, meaningful and purposeful retired life.

Marielle is a certified Results executive coach; holds a designation of Associate Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation; a Certified Conversational Intelligence™ Coach; certified in Coach Master Toolkits; and an Accredited Business Communicator with the International Association of Business Communicators.

““Power Up Your Retirement Lifestyle Workshop is filled with ideas and concepts that will have you digging deeper into yourself than ever before. The workshop assists in having you search introspectively delving into your core and finding the true reasons about your upcoming retirement. The ways to visualize retirement and access it are laid out with the help of Coach Marielle. Come ready for this workshop - it will make you think and you will leave empowered to achieve your retirement goal.’ ”

— Mavis, Program Participant