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Episode #130: How To Retire In Great Places To Enjoy Eternal Spring

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Episode #130: How To Retire In Great Places To Enjoy Eternal Spring

 
 
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How to Retire in Great Places to enjoy Eternal SpringShane Thomas is an expert in how to travel the world on a budget. In this episode Shane shares how to retire to great places to enjoy eternal spring. Take some time to enjoy perfect weather the whole year. Enjoy perfect weather every day 27 celcius (80 F) degrees. Find whatever climate you want in the Americas.

Shane usually hangs out in South East Asia and last year he choose to get away from the tropics to experience and enjoy eternal spring. When you are rich in time you don’t have to be rich in money according to Shane Thomas. Shane is living proof that you can live anywhere in the 3rd world on a budget and live comfortably.

There are many definitions of living in comfort. One is that you don’t have to be cooled down with a fan or airconditioning or be that cold that you need to have the heater on. Part of the experience of living in comfort was fulfilled by Shane when he chose to spend 6 months living in the Americas.

There are mountain cities that have both low hunidity and cooler temperatures all year round. The other reason to enjoy eternal spring is it costs less money. You will not have to worry about being able to aford to pay the heating or cooling bills each month. It is more affordable to live in these countries making your retirement pension last longer.

Join in and hear Shane Thomas, seasoned budget international traveller,  share some of his travel stories on his recent pit stop back in Australia. Listen to part 1 of this 2 part series.

 

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Episode #129: Women Are Afraid To Talk About Money. Here’s How To Break The Taboo

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Episode #129: Women Are Afraid To Talk About Money. Here’s How To Break The Taboo

 
 
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Women are afraid to talk about money. here's how to break the tabooWomen are afraid to talk about money. Here’s How to Break the Taboo through education. Learning about financial literacy can make you a more confident investor. Elizabeth Moran together with the Australian Shareholders Association (ASA) is conducting a series of Financial Literacy Workshops to empower women to learn about money.

Australian Shareholders’ Association (ASA) will be running a project funded by an ECSTRA grant to assist women 55+ to build confidence to participate in financial decision-making.

The goal of this financial literacy project, Own Your Financial Future, is to empower older women with an understanding of basic financial concepts. Another objective is to give older women the confidence to have conversations with their partners, children and financial advisers about how the finances and investments are structured.

More women than men are solely responsible for financial decisions. Yet even today women are still reluctant to take charge of their financial futures. Women are still giving their husbands control of their finances.  Just the fact that more women end up on their own then men should be enough incentive for women to start taking notice of their financial situation.

I became a widow suddendly 10 years. You never think it will happen to you. That’s the point you don’t even consider the possibility. But it happens and I have more than a few friends in their early 60’s that are also widows. At some point have the conversation with your partner as it will be much easier on the surviving spouse when your affairs are in order.

Are women afraid to talk about money? Here’s how to break the taboo by attending one of these free financial literacy workshops. Elizabeth Moran wrote in The Weekend Australian 20th April 2019, ‘…Judith Fox, CEO at The Australian Shareholder’s Association, …wants to provide women with a safe place in which to talk about money….so they can take charge of their financial affairs”.

Listen to Elizabeth Moran,  Nationally recognized expert in Fixed Income products, talk about why women over 55 have been flocking to these seminars. The series of financial literacy workshops will empower women to learn about money. Learning about financial literacy can make you a more confident investor.

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Episode #128: Think Healthy To Be Healthy For Retirement

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Episode #128: Think Healthy To Be Healthy For Retirement

 
 
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Think healthy to be Healthy for RetirementHolestic coach, Kameyl Singh, believes you need to think healthy to be healthy for retirement in part 2 of this look at health habits. If you are tired of feeling stuck with your daily routine then some simple changes can make a huge difference to your health.

Holestic Healthy Habits include:-

  • Eat organically grown food to avoid chemicals
  • Eat less food containing sugar, gluten, dairy and soy. These food can be inflammatory which can affect your bowels and energy.
  • Create good gut health bacteria by taking probiotics, apple cider vinegar, add lemon juice to drinking water
  • Drink herbal teas like peppermint tea
  • Create good eating habits by eating slowly

These are simple ways to help your digestive organs to work efficiently.

Kam believes that our bodies do not deal with stress very well. Especially when we are older pain and diseases builds stress and our bodies cannot deal with it. It can start to spill over into our bloodstreams and affect the organs causing our whole system to go into choas.

Implement Kam’s simple Holestic Healthy Habits to improve your health. Our bodies are exposed to chemical stress every day when we live in cities. Chemical stress can come from either the food choices we make or from our exposure to the chemicals that surround us. After all you need to think healthy to be healthy for retirement.

Listen to part 2 of Kam’s tips for healthy living. Simple changes can make a huge difference to your health.

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Episode #127: Why Health Is The Most Important Part Of Your Life

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Episode #127: Why Health Is The Most Important Part Of Your Life

 
 
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Why health is the most important part of your lifeIf you want to live a long life then you need to know health is the most important part of your life. Kamely Singh, director of Body By Soul in Sydney, Australia, is a holestic body coach and explains how healthy habits increase your happiness in your retired life. Listen to practical tips on healthy habits to establish get great gut health and improve our digestion. After all we are what we eat.

When you reach out to a holistic coach it can be that you are facing problems with a combination of lifestyle factors that together are affecting your health. A holestic coach needs to look at a persons whole lifestyle as opposed to just on particular area. For example if you stress the immune system out  then that can lead to illness.  In a lot of cases it is the little habits that we do on a daily basis that can make all of the difference to our health.

By learning how healthy habits increase your hapiness in your retired life can make the difference to future lifestyle choices. When you learn why health is the most important part of your life then this gives you the tools to enjoy a long life.

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Episode #126: How A Healthy Lifestyle Can Overcome Chronic Illness

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Episode #126: How A Healthy Lifestyle Can Overcome Chronic Illness

 
 
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How a healthy lifestyle can overcome chronic illnessI am learning how a healthy lifestyle can overcome chronic illness. I don’t have the answers but the path to finding a solution is recognizing there is a problem. Overcoming poor eating habits is one of the reasons why health and wellness will secure  a happy retirement for me.

What is a Healthy Lifestyle? The World Health Organization defines health as “not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, but a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being”. Finding what works for me is the main reason why health and wellness will secure a happy retirement.

Wellness has been defined more as the action an individual takes to meet the above definition of health. The older I get the larger my waistline has become. This correlates with the less activity I am also doing. I am on a continuing journey to find what works for me. When I awas young I could get away with eating anything as I was generally more active.

The more online I have become then the less I have participated in sports and outdoor activity. My health is more than what I eat. Wayne Dyer says ‘it’s what we think about what we eat’ that is important. That is why I am taking a more holistic look at myself to create a healthy lifestyle. I now think about and picture myself enjoying that healthy body again.

I thought I did not have any chronic illlnesses but apparently obesity is along with heart disease, stroke and cancer.

It’s back to the drawing board for me and educating myself on how to make appropriate nutritional and lifestyle choices. What I eat does play a role in disease prevention and according to Palemla McDonald, Nurse-Practitioner. Palema states in her book, The Perfect Gene Diet, ‘Good nutrition has a powerful effect on a person’s health, and is the number one integrative-medicine tool.’

I don’t want to end up attached to a bedpan in old age. I would much prefer the image of me attached to a backpack and travelling the world enjoying a healthy lifestyle. How about you?