FOR WOMEN 40+ PLANNING WHAT COMES NEXT
Get clear on your money.
Define what you want next.
NEXT PHASE FLOURISH helps you connect your finances, work, lifestyle, and priorities so you can make more intentional decisions about retirement, semi-retirement, and the life you want to create.
PLANNING FOR MORE THAN A DATE
Your next phase is about more than when you retire.
The financial questions matter. But so do the life questions.
How much will the life you want cost? What role do you want work to play?
Where do you want to live? What do you want more or less of in an ordinary week?
NEXT PHASE FLOURISH helps you bring those questions together, so your financial decisions can support the life you're actually planning for.
MONEY I WORK I LIFESTYLE I PRIORITIES
Thinking About Semi-Retirement?
Semi-retirement doesn't have to mean stopping work completely. Part-time employment, consulting, freelance work, a small business, or seasonal and project-based work can all be ways to rethink work in your next phase. The Midlife Money Map walks you through what that could look like for your own numbers and your own next chapter.
What Will Your Everyday Life Actually Look Like?
Retirement isn't just a savings number... it's how your mornings begin, what fills your ordinary Tuesdays, and who's part of your daily life. Before you plan the finances, it helps to picture the life those finances need to support. The Midlife Money Map walks you through both sides: the vision and the numbers behind it.
Do You Know Your Retirement Number?
Retirement planning starts with real numbers, not guesses. Your monthly income, expenses, debt, and savings all shape what your next phase can actually look like. The Midlife Money Map walks you through the four numbers that matter most, so you can stop estimating and start planning with an actual figure.
Debt & Financial Planning
Retirement isn't just a number... it's what's left after debt stops eating into it. If you're carrying a mortgage, credit cards, or loans into your 50s, the moves you make now matter more than the ones you'll make after you retire. Here's where to start: which debts to tackle first, the money moves that actually move the needle in midlife, and what financial freedom really looks like once the noise is gone.
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The Midlife Money Map
Best if you want a quick starting point.
Best if you're ready for a more complete financial picture.
A simple financial snapshot to help you see the big picture. You'll look at:
A 36-page guided workbook designed to help you understand your numbers and connect them to your next phase. You'll work toward:
- Monthly income
- Monthly expenses
- Debt
- Retirement savings
- Seeing where your money stands today
- Understanding what may need attention
- Connecting today's financial choices with what's next
- Identifying realistic priorities and next steps
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Price: $27
The Midlife Money Map
Turn your financial picture into a practical plan for what comes next.
The Midlife Money Map is a 36-page guided workbook for women who want to understand where they stand financially, identify what deserves attention, and make more intentional decisions about their next phase.
$27 · Instant Download · Print or Fill Digitally
Work through six areas that shape your financial readiness.
01
Income & Expense Clarity
See what comes in, what goes out, and what your current lifestyle actually costs.
02
Debt Inventory & Strategy
Understand what you owe and decide which debt deserves attention.
03
Purpose & Income Alignment
Consider how your income and work choices fit the life you're planning.
04
Retirement Snapshot
Bring your retirement savings and future income picture into view.
05
Spending Reset
Identify spending you want to protect, reduce, or redirect.
06
90-Day Action Plan
Turn what you've learned into a focused plan for the next three months.
SEE HOW THE PIECES CONNECT
Meet Ava. She's planning for more options... not just a retirement date.
Ava is 49. She's not planning to stop working anytime soon, but she is thinking more intentionally about what she wants the next several years to make possible.
She'd like the option to work less eventually, build income in ways she enjoys, travel more, make time for the people and activities that matter to her, and feel confident that her finances can support those choices.
The question isn't simply, “When can Ava retire?”
It's what needs to happen now so she has more choices later.
HOW AVA FITS INTO NEXT PHASE FLOURISH
Throughout NEXT PHASE FLOURISH, you'll see Ava working through many of the same questions you'll be considering.
In the Midlife Money Map and select NPF planning tools, Ava shares examples of how she thinks through decisions about money, work, lifestyle, and what she wants next. You'll see what she considers, where she has tradeoffs to make, and how one decision can affect another.
Ava isn't there to show you the “right” answer. Her examples are there to make the questions easier to understand and apply to your own life. Your circumstances, priorities, and answers may be very different from hers.
Here's a glimpse of what Ava is thinking about:
01 MONEY
What Would Give Ava More Financial Flexibility?
Ava may eventually prefer working two or three days a week rather than stopping completely. That changes how she thinks about income, timing, and retirement.
Ava starts by understanding what her life costs today, what she's saving, what debt deserves attention, and what she may want her future lifestyle to cost.
02 WORK
What Role does she want work to play?
03 LIFESTYLE
What Does She Want More Flexibility to Make Possible?
04 PRIORITIES
What should she work on now?
Travel matters to Ava, but so does her ordinary life... time for exercise, volunteering, relationships, personal interests, and a pace that feels right to her.
Ava doesn't need every detail of her future figured out. She needs to identify the decisions and actions that can create more options over time.
Ava's plan doesn't start with a retirement date. It starts with the life she wants her money and work to support.
Ava's answers aren't a blueprint for yours. They're an example of how the pieces can come together.
A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO WHAT COMES NEXT
Planning tools designed to help you think more clearly... not tell you how to live.
NEXT PHASE FLOURISH creates educational tools for women 40+ who want to make more intentional decisions about money, work, lifestyle, and what comes next.
The goal isn't to prescribe one version of retirement. It's to help you understand your situation, consider your options, and make decisions that fit the life you're planning.
CLEAR
CONNECTED
PRACTICAL
Understand where you are today.
Consider money alongside work, lifestyle, and priorities.
Turn what you learn into realistic next steps.
NEXT PHASE FLOURISH provides educational information and planning tools. It does not provide individualized investment, tax, legal, or financial advice.