RETIREMENT INTENSIVES

Dedicated time to thoughtfully design what’s next.

For individuals and couples who want a focused, immersive retirement coaching experience designed to create clarity, direction, and a personalized blueprint for the years ahead.

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Retirement deserves more than a quick conversation.

Retirement is one of life's biggest transitions. Yet many people spend years preparing financially while giving far less thought to how they want to actually live once work is no longer shaping their days.

You may be preparing for retirement and wanting to approach it thoughtfully. Or perhaps you're financially ready to retire but keep putting off the decision because you're not sure what life beyond work will look like or what you'll be retiring to. You may be newly retired and realizing the transition is bigger than you expected. Or perhaps you've been retired for years and know there's more possibility, purpose, enjoyment, or fulfillment available than you've experienced so far.

Retirement can be an incredible season of life—but it doesn't automatically become one simply because you've reached it.

Without intention, it's easy to drift into days that feel less purposeful than you imagined. Routines can become repetitive. Social connections can change. Relationships may need to be renegotiated. And over time, boredom, isolation, or a sense of disappointment can begin to take hold.

You worked hard for this season of life. You don't want to leave the most important parts of it to chance.

A Retirement Intensive provides dedicated time and space to step back from everyday responsibilities, focus on the bigger picture, and create clarity about the road ahead.

Rather than spreading the work across months, we'll spend one or two focused days exploring what matters most and designing a retirement that's aligned with your values, priorities, and vision for the future.

You may be wondering…

  • What do I want the next 10, 20, or 30 years to look like?

  • What am I retiring to—not just retiring from?

  • How do I make the most of this season of life?

  • What priorities should guide my decisions moving forward?

  • Where do I begin when there are so many possibilities ahead?

  • How do I move from thinking about retirement to intentionally creating it?

You don't need to have all the answers before we begin. The purpose of the intensive is to create dedicated time and space to explore these questions thoughtfully, identify what matters most, and develop a clear vision for the years ahead.

How a Retirement Intensive works…

Your retirement blueprint.

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Retirement doesn't come with a blueprint. And while you can't predict exactly how the years ahead will unfold, you can be intentional about the life you're building within them.

Using the Retirement Life Architecture™ framework, we'll explore the areas of life that contribute to a meaningful, engaging, and enjoyable retirement.

  • Who are you beyond your career, responsibilities, and previous roles? Together we'll explore what gives this season of life meaning, purpose, direction, and fulfillment.

  • Retirement creates an opportunity to be more intentional about how you spend your time, energy, and attention. We'll identify what matters most and use those priorities to guide future decisions.

  • How do you want your days, weeks, and years to look and feel? We'll think intentionally about the experiences, activities, routines, and opportunities that will shape your retirement.

  • Retirement often changes the way we relate to partners, family members, friends, and others. We'll explore how to strengthen important relationships and navigate changes that come with this season of life.

  • Meaningful connection remains important throughout retirement. We'll consider where you'll find community, connection, contribution, and a sense of belonging.

  • A fulfilling retirement is supported by physical, emotional, cognitive, relational, and spiritual well-being. We'll explore what helps you stay healthy, energized, engaged, and able to fully participate in the life you want to create.

  • Without work providing structure, many retirees discover they need new routines and rhythms. We'll think about what creates momentum, satisfaction, balance, and purpose in everyday life.

  • Retirement creates space to pursue interests, experiences, and opportunities that may have been postponed for years. We'll explore what brings joy, curiosity, excitement, and a sense of possibility.

  • Many people reach a point where they begin asking how they want to make a difference moving forward. We'll explore the impact, contribution, and legacy you hope to create in this chapter of life.

Together, we'll look at how these areas work together to shape your retirement experience. By the end of our time together, you'll leave with greater clarity about what you want this chapter of life to be about, practical next steps for moving forward, and a personalized Retirement Life Architecture™ blueprint designed around your values, priorities, and vision for the future.

Is a Retirement Intensive right for you?

For people who want to make meaningful progress in a focused period of time.

A Retirement Intensive may be a good fit if you…

  • Want to make meaningful progress in a short period of time rather than spreading the work across several months

  • Prefer a focused, immersive experience that allows you to step away from daily responsibilities and think deeply about what's next

  • Are traveling to Fort Collins specifically for retirement coaching and want to maximize your time here

  • Have reached a point where you're ready to stop just thinking about retirement and start creating a clear plan

  • Are financially ready to retire but aren't sure you're personally ready to leave work behind and want dedicated time to envision what a meaningful life beyond your career could look like

  • Want dedicated time and space to explore your priorities, vision, and goals without distractions

  • Value the opportunity to build momentum quickly and leave with a personalized blueprint for the years ahead

  • Appreciate concentrated coaching that allows us to go deeper and cover more ground than we typically could in traditional weekly sessions

A focused intensive isn't about trying to figure out your entire future in a day or two. It's about creating enough space to step back, see the bigger picture, make meaningful decisions, and begin moving forward with clarity and direction.

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Intensive Formats & Investment

In-Person Intensives | Fort Collins, Colorado

Many clients choose to travel to Fort Collins for an intensive, using the experience as an opportunity to step away from everyday responsibilities and focus intentionally on the years ahead. Sessions take place in a comfortable, welcoming office setting that supports reflection, conversation, and planning.

Virtual Intensives

If travel isn't practical, intensives can also be completed virtually. The experience remains focused, immersive, and highly personalized while allowing you to participate from your own home.

What to Expect

Each Retirement Intensive is customized to your goals and typically includes:

• A pre-intensive consultation to clarify your priorities and identify what you'd like to focus on

• One or two days of dedicated coaching with breaks built into the schedule

• A personalized Retirement Life Architecture™ blueprint outlining key insights, priorities, and next steps

• A follow-up session to review your progress, answer questions, and support implementation

Pre-intensive and follow-up sessions may be conducted virtually or in person, depending on your location and preferences.

Investment

Intensives are customized based on your goals and the scope of the experience. Investment typically ranges from $2,500–$5,000. Please contact me to discuss options, availability, and which format may be the best fit for you.

What you’ll leave with…

Creating clarity for the years ahead.

  • A clearer vision for the retirement you want to create

  • Greater confidence about the decisions and opportunities ahead

  • Defined priorities for this season of life

  • Practical next steps for moving forward with intention

  • New insight into the areas of life that contribute to long-term fulfillment

  • A personalized roadmap for building a retirement that's aligned with your values, priorities, and goals

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Design your next chapter.

Retirement deserves more than simply happening by default. A Retirement Intensive provides dedicated time and focused support to create clarity, build a thoughtful plan, and begin creating a retirement that's aligned with what matters most to you.

Whether retirement is approaching, already underway, or well established, you don't have to know exactly what comes next before you begin. Together, we'll create space to think intentionally about the years ahead—and begin building a retirement that feels meaningful, engaging, and genuinely yours.

Ready to start thinking about what's next? Click this link‍ to schedule a complimentary consultation.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

  • Each intensive is customized based on your goals, questions, and stage of retirement. Before we meet, you'll complete an intake process so I can better understand your situation and what you'd like to focus on. During our time together, we'll explore the areas of life most relevant to you and create a personalized Retirement Architecture blueprint to guide your next steps.

    No two intensives are exactly alike because every person, couple, and retirement journey is different.

  • Not at all. Many people arrive knowing they want something more from retirement but aren't yet sure what that looks like. The intensive is designed to help create clarity, identify priorities, and define what you want this season of life to be about.

  • It's never too late to be intentional about the years ahead. Some clients come to coaching before retirement, while others seek support after retirement when they realize they want more purpose, direction, connection, or enjoyment than they've experienced so far.

  • Absolutely. Many couples choose an intensive because retirement affects both partners, often in different ways. An intensive provides dedicated time to discuss individual priorities, explore shared goals, and create a vision for retirement that works for both of you.

  • An intensive provides dedicated, uninterrupted time to focus deeply on retirement planning and design. Rather than spreading the work across several months, we'll spend one or two concentrated days creating clarity, building momentum, and developing a personalized blueprint for the years ahead.

  • Yes. Some clients leave with everything they need after the intensive, while others choose ongoing coaching support as they begin implementing their vision. We'll discuss what feels most helpful based on your goals and situation.

Create Clarity. Build a Plan. Move Forward.

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