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Marcia Smalley is a Certified Professional Retirement and life coach, author, and facilitator. For more than a decade, she has coached women as they navigate retirement and other life transitions, exploring questions of identity, purpose, and possibility. She is the creator of Still Becoming: A Reflective Companion for Life’s Next Season, a card deck designed to encourage reflection and meaningful conversation. Visit her at https//www.marciasmalley.com.

Latest Posts By Marcia Smalley

9 years ago

3 Reasons We’re More Joyful at 60 and Beyond

A lot is being written these days about the joy we’re finding at 60 and in the decades beyond. But is this counter-intuitive? After all, our lifetime is winding down, we’re facing a lot of endings, and our next chapters are undeniably shorter than our first. Read More

9 years ago

Fighting Invisible Time Bandits: Get the Most from the Time You Have Left

I have a love/hate relationship with time. I used to feel like I had all the time I needed. It could drag on forever. Or maybe that was only true when I was five.

Around the age of 50, I started telling myself a scary story, the one where I’m running out of time. Read More

10 years ago

Is Retirement All About Reinvention?

Our generation likes to turn things on their ears.

We’ve exerted a lot of energy reshaping the world. Women’s rights (hats off to Gloria Steinem), rock ‘n roll (thank you, Woodstock), technology (kudos to Steve Jobs) and politics (sorry).

So it’s no surprise that Baby Boomers are now rethinking The Golden Years. Read More