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How to Have an Epic Retirement
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The bestselling guide for modern retirees, now updated with must-have advice for readers in both Australia and New Zealand. If you are planning to retire or want to make the most of your retirement, this is your essential handbook for navigating your finances, health and wellbeing,...
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The bestselling guide for modern retirees, now updated with must-have advice for readers in both Australia and New Zealand. If you are planning to retire or want to make the most of your retirement, this is your essential handbook for navigating your finances, health and wellbeing, travel and fulfilment.
Bec Wilson is an expert in retirement and modern ageing. A hit podcast host and bestselling author, there is no one who has more insight into what retirees want in their lives and how they can achieve it. Now, she's collected everything she knows in this comprehensive book.
If you're ready to unlock the potential of life beyond work, How to Have an Epic Retirement is here to help. This isn't a dull financial how-to β it's your inspiring roadmap to making retirement your most epic chapter yet. Packed with practical tips, helpful questions to guide your thinking and expert information that you can apply to your own circumstances, this ultimate guidebook covers the six key pillars of a great retirement: time, money, health, happiness and fulfilment, travel and your home.
With no-nonsense insights, Bec demystifies retirement's biggest decisions, teaching you the valuable lessons and simple changes that will make all the difference later on.
Learn how the systems of retirement work in Australia and New Zealand, how to set goals, build your financial security, create purpose and embrace the fun, fulfilling retirement you've always wanted. Whether you're dreaming of adventure or relaxation, if your retirement is just around the corner or still feels far off, Bec gives you the tools to plan well, stress less and set yourself up for the exciting journey ahead of you.
If you want to have your own Epic Retirement, then this is for you!
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780733653629
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 November 2025
Country: Australia
Imprint: Hachette Australia
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Weight: 300g
Pages: 496
About the Author
Bec Wilson is a leading voice on midlife, modern ageing and the future of retirement, in Australia and beyond.
She's the bestselling author of How to Have an Epic Retirement - Australia's #1 retirement book in 2023 and 2024 - and Prime Time: 27 lessons for the new midlife, as well as the founder of the Epic Retirement Institute, a trusted hub for practical retirement education, insights and tools. Bec hosts the Prime Time podcast, one of Australia's top 200 podcasts, and writes a weekly newsletter at epicretirement.net which brings together a large and loyal community of midlifers and retirees. Through the Epic Retirement Institute, she runs the popular six-week flagship course 'How to Have an Epic Retirement' and partners with super funds and organisations to deliver pre-retirement education programs. Bec writes a widely read syndicated finance column for The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and other Nine mastheads, and manages the thriving global Facebook group The Epic Retirement Club. She's a mother of three teens and young adult children, a lifelong learner, and is living her own Prime Time - while dreaming of her Epic Retirement, one day.Also by Bec Wilson
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