Hi, I'm Jeanette
I’m Jeanette Brown, a writer and course creator based in Australia. I write about the questions retirement brings into our lives: Who am I without my work? What matters to me now? And how do I want to spend the years ahead?
My career began in the classroom and took me into executive leadership in the education sector, where I led diverse teams through change and transformation. My education and coaching background taught me a great deal about helping people navigate transitions. My own retirement showed me how deeply personal those transitions can be.
I thought I had prepared well. The finances were organised, and there were trips to look forward to. Yet when work ended, I became unexpectedly anxious and ungrounded. I had planned what I would do, but hadn’t understood how much of my identity and sense of direction had been held together by work.
That experience helped shape the work I do today. I have created self-coaching courses for navigating life’s transitions more broadly, and my focus now is helping people prepare for and navigate a modern retirement. This includes people planning ahead in midlife, those newly retired and those rethinking life after several years of retirement. Through my articles, YouTube videos and course, Your Retirement, Your Way, I explore four ingredients that can help this chapter feel fulfilling: energy, connection, purpose and vision.
I want to help people move from wondering what comes next to shaping a life that feels like their own—with meaningful relationships, room for curiosity, and time for the people, interests and experiences that matter most to them.
Design a retirement you actually recognise as your own
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