Retirement & Life Transition Coach

Retirement coaches charge $100-$325 per hour or $1,200-$5,000 for programs.

Coaching 10-20 clients generates $100,000-$480,000 annually with 80-90% margins.

In 2025, baby boomers retiring and facing identity shifts seek coaches helping navigate non-financial retirement aspects.

Services include exploring post-retirement identity and purpose, planning meaningful retirement lifestyle, addressing loss of work identity, building social connections in retirement, managing retirement relationship changes, finding new pursuits and passions, phased retirement planning, and navigating other life transitions (empty nest, aging parents).

Successful retirement coaches understand developmental psychology of later life, help clients envision fulfilling retirement, address existential questions around purpose and meaning, and support emotional transition.

Many work with pre-retirees (5 years before) and newly retired (2 years after).

Note: financial aspects are financial planner scope - focus on lifestyle, purpose, identity.

Programs typically 6-12 months.

Virtual or in-person.

Marketing through retirement communities, financial planners (referral partners), and content about retirement purpose.