new generation our generation that's really changing the face of retirement what we're calling it in life two point zero is the new on retirement right and it's for we're focusing really want a professional baby boomer mission we are focused right now was just talking to some fresh baby boomer women and if you don't look here baby boomer you were born in one nine hundred forty six to one nine hundred sixty four but as we said it's really talking about how we're changing the face of retirement you know retirement for us it's not like it was for our parents and ryan or you know where i worked my dad i remember working so many years and getting that watch and then he didn't do anything then do anything right but but the other side to back to jackie is that our life expectancy is so much longer than our parents generation and we're not a what do we do with that time so you know we've we've worked you know many of us who can choose to continue to work others may choose to to maybe do a hobby that they wanted to do or kind of was piddling around with while they're working so what are we going to do with those right or to yours so that's kind of what we want to talk about we want to bring to the show options but at the same time it's not always about careers because we want to talk about other areas and right voluntarily not everybody wants to go back to corporate not everybody wants to start a business and not everybody wants even have a business some people just want to actually volunteer and they're quite happy to do that so our intention is to bring you all those options int on helping people transition into the or i like to go out so we really want to talk about the different parts and parts of we want to talk about health and wellness we want to talk about family relationships we because our backgrounds here de have marketing rights so i really want to show how we are taking our talents and skills and there are no house and creating this new like ronnell for ourselves and to help our community community and to help people that are watching us realize there's more to life more dangerous more to life than what our corporate titles used to be exact and we want to address the person as a whole it so that's why we go through the life wheel that has how many our generation so we were broke downsize and i was downsized from the pharmaceutical industry after twenty seven years and i opted to take my retirement package but with something the back of my mind is saying what else is there for me to do and so i want you to share what your background is and you know just kind of talking about how you now transit sure well i was my background was actually in technology and i was actually i started as a computer programmer moving up to like project leader project management work and after thirty plus years or so in the industry i was down sized last year and at that point i had to make a decision and i had to decide whether or not i wanted to actually stay in the technology arena or even project management or maybe do something on my own because i saw this as more of an opportunity to reinvent myself and i sat down and i did a reassessment of what my values were right  and and i found that family values were very important to me at that yeah and actually being downsized gave me an opportunity to pay closer attention to my family and what the new life were for my family at that right and during this time that took off to evaluate myself i attended different seminars and in those seminars one of them was related to franchising as an option and of course i in the beginning i said no way but after attending the seminar on my point a minute i think i like this concept because the concept allowed me to manage my own time and it also gave me the opportunity to say what is it that you really want to do what do you have a passion for right right and as well as the ability to start my own business like right and  and along with that decision i also had to make a decision on whether or not i wanted a franchise where i had to have employees or whether or not i wanted to be on your own so this particular franchise which is called always a senior advisor i'm a senior living in visor and i actually i deal with families and i help them the understand what their options are when it comes to senior living oh that is wonderful because that is a huge part of what this generation is dealing right yes so bad brings a lot of value chance and it's frustrating to have somebody like you sort of you know ease that stress absolutely and give options is really to sort of value did you know it yeah i have my personal experience and i have another friend who has the same experience now for me it was my dad who has since passed but i remember there was one just prior to him passing there was a full year i believe every single month he was in the hospital and then he got to the point where we know he could not go back home correct but what were our options so we ended up transferring him and and putting him in a nursing home which you know it was the only hard it's all really ever is so hard for me yeah to go there now we were fortunate because we did have a good friend of my dad's who would go during the day and then i would go and alternate you know in the evenings after work but you know what i think what you bring to the table is that it's not really a nursing home kind of i am there i have environment which is right there are other  assisted living communities that will take you and they are wonderful community as well and they assist them with all the things that they would need assistance with as well as provide them with different activities right people and what happens most of the time is they actually thrive in writing these types of communities because now they're stress free the families are stress right so and when you're stressed for you of course you realize you look long right right right so you help them n that yes i guess that selection process yes ashley narrow it down to them i sit down with the families and it's a personalized service that i provide which is free for the families as well and i find out what the geographical location preferences would be as far as the financial to forecast or budget and as well as what the the senior needs was she wires and then i actually match them up with the communities where they would like to be and that meet be able to find the finances for the communities and you find out whether or not the seniors may have long term care insurance and whether or not they were and served in the military because then maybe they'll be able to apply for veterans eight o k ok and there are different ways you you if you're downsizing at that point so you can if you have owned a home you can actually sell your home and then you could pay for the community and that was ok well because this will be your new home ok and you know if any of you are going through this transition and and would like to speak to kani about it you know she is an amazing person that can actually help you through this process step by step right right you know on that and that's a parents so no you i'm free yes exactly then you know then something happens with your parent and then you're not but you have to be there for them because you know that you're carrying so one of the things that i want to find out crowley is after you left corporate and did you jump right into or did you take a little bit of time off for yourself to breathe and i actually took time off like to do in boy i'm free i can get up and i can do what i need to do without the stress of going to the train station every day of action and you did into new york when i was based and isn't it interesting that  so i think so that bridge for her working with sr was probably there for you because before you even started doing this yeah i guess you had that feel for that but but conny connally's back what she did was a little great recession and all of us that everybody is out of a job and then your media reaction is i've got to go and find another job so that's one of the things that i commend you on doing thank you that you didn't do because i didn't do that i did not take the time to say ok i just immediately jumped and said ok i got to start looking for another job but i want to address the fact that now what we're finding and you know there's i need to do something i want to do something and then i see when they see a lot of times go back into looking at different career options same career or whatever but it's a great thing to do to give yourself that time trying to figure it out it's natural it's now right well for you to figure this out some people are ready to jump back in right away and some people need back time to really reassess where they are company i have to say was one of the big parts a big reasons why i decided to go in and do this program to live two point zero and do the seminars and so forth because i would you can move on you can get past it and the questions and things that you asked me were questions that other people were asking i said ok maybe there is something just putting this information together telling people how you can move on and then showing people how and doing it the way you're doing where you look to discover what you were your passions are right try to identify your passions your skills your talents and as you said you like that process as in and just take them through that step by step so even though you don't really connect it to sort of you sort of you know it in an indirect way so right yeah because they first thing they need to know is that there is some place that they can go right and let me provide you with the options as opposed to you going on the internet and i'm just all in just thirty hands or even when you're at the say that we have or you and they tell you here's a three brochures call the places that i'll do that for you ok if you had to give our viewers like maybe maybe three steps like they're confused out they're ready they're what you need to do think about start thinking about for your parents well i would say first of all what we need to do is find out what our parents have in place already and make sure that you know  that you do estate planning that you have that they have wills that they have a living wills and that if they have any insurance policies you want to make sure that you have all of that documentation and i would definitely suggest that that documentation be in a place that it can be found by the people that need that knowledge and that the parent is unable to tell you these things i know on the other side of that you make me remember a point there is that don't they need to also have like the list of medications they attacking taking all those those things are so happy sometimes we forget absolutely i don't know if we don't know what i have or had some people say that what they do they had their parents put a list of their medications and things like that in a place like the very important to know what their medications are you know because they may not be at a point where they can actually relay that information john so first would be to their important document here know where those are and what what it is and the facility is telling you that they can go home that they actually do need assistance at that point if you can reach out to someone that can actually go over the options with you so that and i mean and as a senior living there visor i don't just point i mean i would be able to provide you with resources ok right you know the right contact right and i will also provide you with legal elder law attorney names and things of that nature in order to help you if that the path that you answered there are these houses down here that will actually go in assess the home and tell you what you need to do in order to make the home saying right so that and any other any other thing that you can think of off topic you know just like one more thing well i would say you know once you make that decision of where the you want your loved one to be you just need to check on them and make sure that things are what they appear to be right right and so i just say you know check with them and make sure that they're happy make sure that they're thriving right because that's the main thing at that point you just want them to be happy and to be able to live out the years in a community that is providing them with you know this is a great support system you provide to the parents but i think at the same time we also talk about the support systems that we have when we've made this transition because it wasn't you know we need help you know you're going from you had thirty something years there i had twenty seven with my previous company but if i add in my total number of years in the pharmaceutical industry it's like thirty years in that so it's sometimes interesting because we have the so conny has been one of those people that you know we kind of bounce things off of like and now we've kind of bounce things off each other about what you know how information she may have read and write and  advice that's that community and ron is really having somebody to call on that understand what you're going to tell them times year family members don't really don't understand sometimes they do and sometimes they don't and i think the main thing exam perfect example that you can move beyond that i moved beyond but i will know i remember i vividly remember armont after all of this happened just sitting in the chair knowing know i actually the advantage of that which is again great i commend you for it because i did not do that and it was so bad with me that i told a story that at one point my husband literally  really kicked me up house he said i told you when this happened you need to go away and i mean you want to do and of course me tough corporate you know i don't need any help but i got to the point where i did because i had just like you i think we both had the career placement service but i was actually doing something trying to guard job back in the same industry that was not feeling right what i write tell you so i did go away and i took that time off and and that made a difference for me but so that the message here is i think that whether you took the time or to regroup which is really really important and i really really think that's a good thing to claim or if you did it the process of what to do next like going on some alarms and and learning about franchising and just the whole experience of trying to figure out what industry what i found there franchising i wanted to be in and i met with several different franchises and one of them was technology and as i'm speaking with a representative i tell you it sound familiar and comfortable for me but my stomach was a knot and i know why that was not the industry that i wanted to hear what that is so my gut that is ok i'll tell you this because a week before i actually had booked to go away and get my head together i had actually had an interview that was with another company in management same thing we're coming to the end of the show conny if you want to just say one last word we thank you so much for being here and thank you for all those great tips we're definitely going to write them up and put them on the site and any last words i would just say that you know which if you have ever faced with the downsizing option for you is to take the time out and just you know revaluate yourself and just get to know who you are and what did you really want to do because you want to be able to spend the rest of your life