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Ted came onto my show as a guest to talk about stages of life, namely the 6 stages of retirement. Mr. Carr is a podcaster himself, with the show, Retirement Journeys, which discusses similar topics as this show, but he also includes financial topics on his show.\nIn case you're wondering, the stages of life (retirement life) include:\n\n* Pre-retirement\n* Retirement\n* Disenchantment\n* Reorientation\n* Retirement Routine\n* Termination of Retirement (death)\n\nEd was young (mid-50s) when he retired in 2010 from a biotech company in San Francisco. \xa0Because so many people had asked him how he was able to retire so young he decided to take his story online.\nLet's look at some of these stages of life that Ted went through:\nPre-retirement:\nThis is the time while you are working that you are saving and investing for the time when you will be able to stop working. \xa0Ted did a good job at this, or he wouldn't have been able to retire in his mid-50s. \xa0Many people don't plan far enough in advance, for whatever reasons, and so the other stages of life become more difficult for them. \xa0However, that's not what the Rock your Retirement show is all about so we'll let you reach out to your financial adviser for help with this.\nRetirement:\nThis is fun for most, but can be the shortest stage of life (retirement life) for many. \xa0That's because it's really only a day, a week, a month, or six. \xa0A retirement date. \xa0The retirement stage of life is the party. \xa0You may go out to dinner with your work buddies. \xa0Or you might have a cake on your last day of work. \xa0The parties, balloons, and dinners have become a rite of passage for our actual retirement date.\nIt can be a second “honeymoon” where you hike, garden, bicycle or create art. \xa0Many people read or catch up on their yard work.\nTed took the “honeymoon” path when he first retired, and he describes this in his blog:\n“After I retired in May 2010, I took the \u201choneymoon\u201d path. In Retirement Journeys, I refer to this as \u201cArriving in Retirement\u201d, a bridge from work life to retirement life. My wife and I moved from the Bay Area to Arizona in June 2010. Our first few months were spent settling into a new house and community. We had many home improvement projects to work on. We returned to the Bay Area frequently. When I look back at our calendar, I am reminded of the variety of ways that we spent our free time. We attended financial seminars, concerts, car auctions, baseball games and community-based meetings. In May 2011 we bought hybrid bikes and began riding once or twice a week”.1\xa0\nBut there is only so much hiking, gardening, and bicycling you can do. So that led Ted to the next stage of retirement:\nDisenchantment:\nThis is the letdown stage of life. \xa0The honey moon is over. \xa0It's when many retirees become depressed. They can feel lonely, bored, useless, and disillusioned. \xa0When they were working, people returned their phone calls. \xa0People respected them. \xa0Now, in this stage, many feel disrespected.\nIt's this stage of life that the Rock Your Retirement show tries to help out.\nTed went through this stage too, as we discussed in the interview. \xa0In 2011 he started worrying about whether he had made the right decision. \xa0He didn't feel productive and started writing in his journal to vent. For many, when they hit this stage, marriage problems can ensue.And it was affecting Ted's marriage. \xa0So he \xa0looked at some preemptive steps:\n\n* Volunteer\n* Work\n* Meetup\n* Deeper Confrontation\n\nBecause Ted had started the look inward in this stage of life,