Learning to Navigate Life's Transitions

As a financial advisor or wealth management leader you likely spend a lot of time thinking about life transitions for your clients. We often use the term "money in motion events" to frame the likely change in their financial needs for transitions such as a job change or marriage or retirement. And when it comes to your business, chances are most of your thoughts are focused on financial and logistical transition elements involved in succession planning, changing firms, or buying a book of business.

In this episode of the Modern Financial Advisor Podcast. we are going to explore life transition preparedness and navigation from a series of completely different angles. Our guest Jeff Hamaoui, Co-founder of Modern Elder Academy guides us through a new world in which expanded adulthood has created more opportunities and potential challenges than we might've anticipated. 

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Resources Related to this Episode:
Below is a list of resources mentioned during this episode that we hope will be helpful to you and your community as you navigate your life transitions: 

• What is Your TQ (Transition IQ)? by Jeremi Karnell - This is the article Jeremi wrote after returning from his time at Modern Elder Academy. He puts many of the concepts we covered during this episode into great context for the wealth management community.
• The Anatomy of a Transition by Jeff Hamaoui & Kari Henley - Every transition has three phases: an ending, often a “messy middle,” and a beginning, but few of us have been schooled on how to ease ourselves through this cycle with resilience and adaptability. This framework will help you understand that there’s a reliable cadence to transitions.
• Wisdom @ Work: The Making of a Modern Elder by Chip Conley - This is the book that launched many of the foundational concepts we discussed and led to the creation of the Modern Elder Academy.
• Life is in the Transitions: Mastery Change in a Nonlinear Age by Bruce Feiler - "A pioneering and timely study of how to navigate life’s biggest transitions with meaning, purpose, and skill."
• Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes by William Bridges - "Whether it is chosen or thrust upon you, change brings both opportunities and turmoil."
• Middlescence by Barbara Waxman - "A life stage created by longevity patterns of the 21st century."
• Stanford Center on Longevity - "With over 150 faculty affiliates, SCL employs a cross-disciplinary approach to tackle problems associated with increased longevity in the US and worldwide."