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The transition into retirement isn't purely a financial event, it's so much more. It's one of those life-changing events that requires you to plan and to adapt. Full of information, tips and guidance, The Retirement Café personal finance Podcast helps you address the challenges and opportunities that arise so you can live a fulfilling retirement. Your host is Justin King, a Chartered Financial Planner and Accredited Later Life Adviser. Contact Justin at hello@theretirementcafe.co.uk with any ...
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187: The Retirement Café Podcast – My Care Hub: Revolutionising Care Planning and Support
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I’m delighted to welcome back Jacqueline Berry, a regular guest celebrated for her passion for making the UK's care system easier to navigate. Jacqueline is the founding director of My Care Consultant, a market-leader in helping people navigate the care system, and she is a fountain of knowledge in all things care related. in episode 40 she explain…
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The Retirement Café Podcast – 186: Thinking your way to lasting health, with Professor Ellen Langer
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Do you believe you can heal faster just by tricking your brain? Could you lose weight with only a change of mindset? Could you think yourself into being younger? Can the power of your thoughts defy ageing? In short, have you ever wondered if you could improve your health by harnessing the power of your mind? When it comes to our health, too many of…
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185: The Retirement Café Podcast – How to be Happy Ever After, with Professor Paul Dolan
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Hello and welcome – today I have the pleasure of sharing a fascinating conversation I had with Professor Paul Dolan – who’s maybe better known as the Professor of Happiness. Paul is a behavioural scientist, advisor to the government and currently Professor of Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He’s publishe…
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184: Pete Matthew fires the questions: Introducing ‘The Retirement Café Handbook‘
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📘 My new book The Retirement Café Handbook - Nine Accelerators for a Successful Retirement, is out now! Get ready for a format twist this week on the podcast as I switch roles from host to guest. I'm absolutely thrilled to introduce none other than the incredible Pete Matthew, a dear friend and fellow Chartered Financial Planner, who's taking the r…
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183 A Taster of ‘The Retirement Café Handbook’, with Rory Sutherland
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📘 The wait is finally over! My much-anticipated book, The Retirement Café Handbook - Nine Accelerators for a Successful Retirement, is now available to pre-order on Amazon! To explore some of the key themes I am bringing back to the podcast a true maestro of understanding human behaviour and the mind-bending world of advertising - none other than R…
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182 What’s so fascinating about getting old?
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Pre-order my new book ‘The Retirement Café Handbook – Nine Accelerators for a Successful Retirement’: https://amzn.to/3Q686I8 In this week’s podcast, Dr Martin Hyde is making getting old sexy. Martin is a renowned gerontologist. In our conversation we delve into what being a gerontologist actually means, and Martin debunks the misconception that st…
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181 Think Yourself Resilient: Harness Your Emotions. Build Your Confidence. Transform Your Life
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James Elliott is a psychotherapist and resilience coach. Using his 14 years in the British Army’s Airborne Forces developing skills in resilience to empower people to tackle a variety of challenges, he works with people ranging from professional athletes to politicians. In our conversation James provides insight into how a loss of identity – either…
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Reading is a huge passion of mine as I am really interested in the insight of others. I love to learn about people’s stories and their lives. I’m driven to read due to a fascination of people’s journeys. In this episode I am sharing with you my must reads for this summer, in my view these books are interesting, insightful and provide much food for …
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179 Pension income options – Annuity versus Drawdown
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As a highly regarded financial adviser and an industry expert with over 30 years’ experience, Billy Burrows first joined me in 2019 to chat about all things to do with annuities. Since we last spoke the annuity landscape has changed significantly and has become harder to beat as a solution for pension income. So, I welcome Billy back to talk about …
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178 Tax Planning and Your Retirement, with Kurt Lee
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This is an information-packed episode! Kurt is a Partner at Lester Aldridge solicitors based in their Bournemouth office and heads up the Tax, Trusts, Wills and Probate team. Kurt was my first ever podcast guest at the Retirement Café back in 2018 and this is his third appearance. Today we are exploring tax and estate planning and how you can plan …
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177 Why an early dementia diagnosis matters, with Dr Ben Hicks
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Chatting to me today is Dr Ben Hicks, Research Fellow at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. I first met Ben 5 years ago and invited him to be on the panel of one of our first Retirement Café events. Back then he was working hard to change the perception that dementia is no longer a death sentence in his role as psychologist and researcher with Bou…
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The FCA has issued a warning about the mismanagement of Asset Protection Trust Schemes. They’re concerned about the number of firms mis selling trusts on behalf of Trustees who don’t understand what they’re invested in or what benefits the trusts actually provide. Asset Protection Trusts are trusts into which you typically transfer assets, often in…
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175 Climbing down the ladder into retirement
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Laura Black successfully climbed the corporate ladder to become a successful attorney. When retirement hit, her descent down that same ladder was marked by loss and marginalization. She no longer possessed the CEO status she placed so much of her worth in, her children fled the nest for lives of their own, and she had to cope with the decline and e…
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174 How Lifetime Allowance Changes May Affect You
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In this episode Kathy & Justin chat about the important changes to the lifetime allowance announced in the Chancellor’s budget in March. It’s fair to say that the extent of the changes has taken the financial advice sector by surprise. It was widely anticipated that the lifetime allowance would be increased, but not fully abolished. We aim to clear…
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173 Three Mental Models for making better decisions
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I want to help my clients make the best possible decisions about their financial future, so over the years I’ve done a lot of research into how to make smart decisions. I’d like to share some of the insight I’ve gathered in this podcast. The topic of decision making is vast, so I’m going to focus on one specific set of tools which I feel are incred…
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172 How the Index Fund changed investing forever, with Robin Wigglesworth
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Robin Wigglesworth is editor of FT Alphaville, the Financial Times’ financial blog, where he focuses on the biggest trends reshaping markets, investing and finance across the world. Robin is also the author of a book called ‘Trillions – How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented The Index Fund and changed Finance Forever’. It’s been described as …
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171 Tackling the delicate questions around getting older, with Dr Lucy Pollock
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Have you ever wondered how to go about tackling the tricky subject of getting older with loved ones who are doing just that? How to start those taboo conversations about whether dad should hang up his driving gloves, or what happens when an elderly friend or relative become incapable of living alone? Then this episode is for you. My guest, geriatri…
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170 The Campaign to End Loneliness, with Robin Hewings
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How, in today’s world, where staying in touch with friends and family is easier than ever, are there STILL over 3 million chronically lonely people in the UK? In my latest podcast I speak to Robin Hewings, Programme Director of The Campaign to End Loneliness. He sheds some light on why it is a serious and growing issue and what is being done to hel…
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169 Becoming a more rational investor, with Cameron Passmore
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Cameron Passmore has been a leading advocate for evidence-based, systemic investing for over 20 years. He is Executive Chairman and Portfolio Manager at Canadian wealth management firm, PWL Capital and co-host of The Rational Reminder Podcast. Cameron’s hugely successful podcast has featured some incredible guests from the world of investing and be…
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168 What life’s really like in a retirement living community
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If you’ve followed the podcast for some time, you’ll know that I’ve spoken with a couple of people from retirement villages about what they offer residents and why people should consider moving in. This week we will hear what it’s like from the inside. I am really pleased to share with you a conversation I had with clients of mine, Nick & Jane Crow…
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167 Pensioner Personal Trainers inspired by Eddie the Eagle
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This week’s interview is with three guests from the retirement home specialists, Inspired Villages. Lawrence Cramer is the People and Culture Director and was involved recently in setting up an initiative called Pensioner Personal Trainers with none other than the UK’s most famous ski jumper, Eddie the Eagle. Eddie is famed for his can-do spirit in…
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166 Busting 10 myths about ageing for the New Year
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Happy New year to you and thank you for joining me in 2023. Let’s start the New Year on a high note, by dispelling some of the more common held beliefs about how awful it is getting older. I feel that many people make assumptions about ageing and what it’s like to grow “old”, or how older age will affect them. The reality is that we won’t know unti…
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As Christmas approached, I started to think about how Christmas changes as we get older so typed ‘Christmas and ageing’ into Google. I was bombarded with results about loneliness and isolation and how Christmas can exacerbate these very real problems. It’s true that a lot of older people do say that their feelings of loneliness increase during the …
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164 Where Digital Assets fit in your Estate Plan, with Jennifer Zegel
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Jennifer is a US lawyer specialising in estates and trusts but what makes her unique is that over the years she has become an expert in Digital Asset Planning. As an expert in this rapidly growing and increasingly complex area, Jennifer is a sought after speaker on digital assets and blockchain technology. She spends her time advising clients on ho…
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163 Celebrating 4 years of The Retirement Café podcast – What makes for a successful retirement
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As the 4 year anniversary of the podcast’s launch was approaching I got to thinking about what I’ve learnt from the dozens of wonderful guests I’ve had the pleasure to chat with, and decided to collate a summary of what - to me - seem to be the things that make for a successful retirement. Looking back over the conversations I’ve had there are some…
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