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This Awesome New Book Contains The Gripping Stories of 50 Retirees
- 2021/09/23
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This Awesome New Book Contains The Gripping Stories of 50 Retirees with Richard Haiduck What plans do you have for your retirement? Some don't want to retire and some can't afford to. Some want to play golf, other travel. This book tells the story of 50 different retirees and what their story has been in retirement. Some have ended well and some have not. Some are happy stories and some could be happier. What will your retirement look like? Check these out. About Richard After an executive and mentoring career in life sciences, Richard Haiduck is not pursuing an active retirement. His days are filled with mentoring social entrepreneurs, regular hiking and biking, reading, family time, and a recent relocation to Pacific Grove. His most recent project was writing Shifting Gears; 50 Baby Boomers Share Their Meaningful Journeys in Retirement.” www.richardhaiduck.com www.AGEUcational.com Full Transcript Below This Awesome New Book Contains The Gripping Stories of 50 Retires with Richard Haiduck Fri, 8/20 6:15PM • 47:35 SUMMARY KEYWORDS people, stories, book, interview, life, couple, age, retirement, read, Richard, fun, retired, worked, turned, hear, climb, learning, brain, diplomat, career SPEAKERS Terry, Richard, Roy Barker Roy Barker 00:06 Hello, and welcome to another episode of AGEUcational This is Roy, this is Terry. We are the podcast that brings you information on aging chronicling our journey and, you know things that we're bumping up against as well as our parents things that, you know we run into that may be odd or trying to put as much information out there about this process to help people out. And every now and then we do have guests on from time to time and professionals in their fields, authors, all kinds of people that can speak to different topics around aging, and today is no different. Terry, I'm gonna let you introduce Richard. Terry 00:39 Yeah, after an executive and mentoring career in life sciences, Richard Haydock is not pursuing an active retirement. His days are filled with mentoring social entrepreneurs, regular hiking and biking, reading family time and a recent relocation to Pacific Grove. His most recent project was writing Shifting Gears: 50 Baby Boomers Share Their Meaningful Journeys in Retirement at age seven, he was sure he wanted to be an author. Now 66 years later, that dream has become a reality. Richard, thank you so much for coming to the show. Welcome. Well, thanks for having me. I'm looking forward to this. This will be fun. Yeah. Roy Barker 01:22 So tell us a little bit about about your new book. Well, first off, tell us about your journey just a little bit, you know, how did you get here? And what was able to give you the the time, the energy, I would say that the energy, you know, to, to write a book. And you know, the other thing is, you know, overcoming that page, you know, the blank page that typically mocks you or I don't know, I get so excited I got I'm gonna write something get down and get maybe three sentences like who were at all heard all those great ideas. I have go to delve a little bit about that journey. Richard 01:57 I cheated. Terry 02:00 All right, there we go. Richard 02:01 So I never had to face a blank page. Well, how can you write a book without having a blank page? You interview people, and you get transcripts? So I interviewed about 75 people. They told some amazing stories. I intentionally let them talk. I didn't lead the witness. I'd ask questions like, Oh, really? Oh, tell me more. Oh, why is that? And so they went on and on and on. And at the end of the interviews, I had 800 pages of transcripts. Wow. So I never faced a blank page, what I faced was too many pages that I had to now cut down to one of the really great stories. But backing up. Yes, I did cheat on this. But it still was a lot of work. I never had that kind of writer's block experience. But I had a lot of other challenges along the way. But some of my friends had told me some stories about what they were doing. And things people I'd known for quite a long time. And I didn't know you were doing that. That's really cool. One of my buddies had been in the Senior Olympics, and then won medals, and had been too modest to tell me about it. Once he opened up on the story, it was an amazing story. And this guy, he was into fitness. And he was in several different events. And it was just a fascinating story. Over the next couple of weeks after that, I heard a couple of other friends tell me something interesting they had done. I, at one point, had this kind of eureka moment of saying these stories are terrific. They need to be told. And I'm in the ideal position to do that. I had recently retired, I had the time to do it, I had the interest to do it. And the question was, was there enough material out there to do it with and that turned out to to be the easiest part of all, having plenty of material was was really easy. Terry 04:09...