Episode #398: Your Retirement and "Pre-tirement" Vision

You’re doing the work. Showing up, serving clients, keeping the wheels turning. But somewhere between the invoices and the to-do lists, a quiet question keeps surfacing:
Is this it? Is this what I built all of this for?

Most of us got into entrepreneurship with a bigger vision in mind. A movement we wanted to lead. A life we wanted to design. An impact we knew we were capable of making. But the daily grind has a way of shrinking our thinking — until we’re so focused on what’s right in front of us that we’ve completely lost sight of where we’re actually headed.

In this solo episode, Lianne Kim gives you permission to step off the hamster wheel and look up. She walks through three distinct phases of the entrepreneurial journey — from building to “pre-tirement” to retirement — and invites you to start dreaming about what each one could look like for you. Not someday. Now.

Because if you can’t first dream it, you can’t possibly build it.

In‌ ‌this‌ ‌episode,‌ ‌you’ll discover:‌

• Why getting caught up in the daily grind quietly kills your bigger vision — and how to zoom back out
• The three phases of the entrepreneurial journey every business owner needs to be thinking about: building, pre-tirement, and retirement
• What “pre-tirement” actually looks like — and why it’s the phase most entrepreneurs never plan for (but desperately need)
• How to think about selling, passing on, or winding down your business so it becomes a financial legacy, not just a door you close
• A powerful visioning exercise to reconnect with the impact you’re here to make — and the number of lives you want to change

Timestamps: 

00:00 – Feeling stuck on the hamster wheel? Here’s your invitation to zoom out

03:00 – Reconnecting with your ‘why’: what movement are you here to lead?

06:00 – Lianne’s mission and how it has evolved over nine years in business

09:00 – Phase 1: Building — what it looks like to be in growth mode

11:00 – Dreaming big: how many lives do you want to change at the peak of your business?

15:00 – Phase 2: Pre-tirement — the intentional middle ground between all-in and done

20:00 – What pre-tirement could look like practically: scaling back, building a team, working remotely

21:00 – Phase 3: Retirement — selling, passing on, or gracefully winding down

26:00 – What Lianne envisions for her own retirement (and why she’s not stopping entirely)

29:00 – Your legacy: building something that benefits your family for generations

30:00 – Book recommendation: Built to Sell by John Warrillow

Links mentioned:

Built to Sell by John Warrillow

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