Retirement advice you can't ignore from a 75-year-old body builder
After Janice Lorraine completed her first body building competition, now almost 20 years ago, she bumped into two teenage girls who’d seen her competition.
She described their encounter as follows:
“Until they met me they didn’t realise that a women in her 60s could be muscular, in shape, and wear a bikini, which seemed to excite them. ‘We don’t have to be like our grandparents. We can be like you.’ In that particular moment those two girls saw a different vision for their future. Stereotypes define what is possible and permissible. You become what you expect to become.”
Janice dropped this truth bomb when interviewed by Andrew Denton on his program, The Interview. That particular episode featuring Janice’s interview first aired mid last year, but Jessica (my partner in crime) and I didn’t see it until the re-run last week.
And perhaps a bodybuilder isn’t the second person (after me obviously) whom you’d get sage retirement advice from. But it’d be easier to beat Janice in an arm wrestle than to diffuse her truth bomb.
All of which gets my puzzler puzzling, because perhaps Janice’s truth bomb resonates with you, as you may have a vision for your future that you don’t like—one defined by ageist stereotypes, not possibility—and want to replace it with one you do like.
If so?
Well, together we can distill your preferred vision into something meaningful and achievable, if that is, you’re prepared to risk uncertainty and adventure, by jumping into my coaching hotseat, located in the privacy of my Retirement Coaching Asylum.
But before you jump in, let me move those dumbbells and bench-press out of your way.
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