What's Your Encore?

A Step-by-Step to Retiring with Purpose and Fulfillment

Larry Jacobson

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Buoy Press
01 October 2025

Self-help & personal development; Personal finance; Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem; Retirement

Not your typical book about retirement. Most ask if you have enough money to retire. What's Your Encore? asks, and guides you to find the answer to the question, ""What will you do with your time after you retire?"" What will you do all day? Where will you find your new social connections? Where will you find purpose and fulfillment? By the end of the book, you will have a plan including the first steps to take in order to achieve the retirement lifestyle of your dreams.

Planning to retire soon? Already retired? Wondering what to do next? Former CEO, and now one of the premier non-financial retirement coaches in the country, Larry Jacobson shares how to overcome the hurdles to a purposeful and fulfilling retirement. The exercises in the included Action Guide will solidify your plan.

Turn your dreams into reality. After years of hard work, you probably feel entitled to a satisfying retirement. But where do you start? What does your post-career life look like for you? Rather than trial and error, receive expert advice from retirement coach Larry Jacobson in What's Your Encore? Full of wisdom based on experience, this golden years guidebook shows you how to find your new identity in a post-career world. You can start making the most out of your retirement without wasting time or energy in the wrong direction.

Build the retirement you desire and deserve. Instead of wandering aimlessly, unsure of what to do with your time, Jacobson's effective and easy-to-follow tips and lessons take you on a journey of self-discovery to find your purpose and fulfillment in retirement. What's Your Encore? is a retirement book full of professional experience, research, and real results that will improve the quality of your retirement years. Featuring practical answers and inspiring examples to take inspiration from, you'll soon be enjoying the retired life of your dreams.

What's Your Encore? is not a financial planner. It helps you answer all the other questions you have about retirement. You'll find practical strategies such as:

Understanding the importance of taking risks and how to analyze them

Ways to manage your fears about your decisions and choices

Discovering and pursuing your true passions and new identity Finding and implementing the elements of a balanced lifestyle How to turn dreams into goals, and goals into reality How to find and keep a positive perspective What do the happiest retirees do with their time?

If you liked the books Outlive, Retirement Planning Guidebook, The Boy Behind the Gate, or What Color is Your Parachute?, then you'll love What's Your Encore?

With a forward by Congressman Eric Swalwell, and endorsements by Chip Conley, founder of the Modern Elder Academy, and Robert Laura, president of the Retirement Coaches Association, praise for Jacobson's writing reads like the Who's Who in the field of non-financial retirement planning. Larry Jacobson is truly a thought leader in the field. Based on his successful online video course, Sail Into Retirement, Larry now brings his coaching to everyone with this book.

By: Larry Jacobson
Imprint: Buoy Press
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 345g
ISBN: 9780982878736
ISBN 10: 0982878737
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 01 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

""Retirement is not the end, but rather the opportunity for a newbeginning,"" says Larry Jacobson, a leading authority on non-fiscalretirement lifestyle planning. Jacobson's successful experience of makingthe shift from his own business career, retiring from the corporate world, and achieving his personal dreams is his proven model for coaching.His experience has attracted clients from all walks of life, includingentrepreneurs, CEOs, doctors, attorneys, teachers, and public figures.Jacobson believes everybody has an Encore in them after they retirefrom their career. ""You get a do-over, how cool is that?"" asks Larry. Hecoaches clients to discover their passions, and then helps them combinetheir passion, knowledge, and experience to build a plan of action for aretirement of fulfillment and purpose. ""And don't forget about fun,"" headds.Jacobson is also known for his leadership and entrepreneurshipcoaching and is a certified World Class Speaking Coach.Successfully transitioning from CEO to sailor, Jacobson achieved hislifelong dream of sailing around the world. After that accomplishment, he went on to become an award-winning author and TEDx motivationalspeaker. Now, Buoy Coaching & Training focuses on helping clientsredefine retirement. The groundbreaking Sail Into Retirement(TM) programhas quickly achieved notoriety in the field. Now that same information isavailable to everyone in this book.Larry was recently awarded the coveted Retirement Catalyst Award bythe Retirement Coaches Association, ""for opening new doors, creatingnew boundaries, influencing others, and being a major contributor to thefield of Retirement Lifestyle Coaching.""A California native, circumnavigator, and adventurer, Jacobson hasover fifty thousand blue water miles under his keel. Larry lives inthe San Francisco Bay Area and welcomes new friends and inquiries: larryjacobson.com/contact

Reviews for What's Your Encore?: A Step-by-Step to Retiring with Purpose and Fulfillment

PRAISE FOR WHAT'S YOUR ENCORE? ""As an early adopter of coaching people on the nonfinancial aspects of retirement, Larry Jacobson has earned his national recognition as a thought leader in the field. This book's curriculum really does take one from not knowing what to do with one's time in retirement, all the way through to having a plan and knowing the first steps in that plan. Larry goes deep and asks very good questions. The chapters are topics we all face as we turn retirement age, and through the progress you make in the book, Larry helps you redefine the word retirement for your needs and desires. His creativity shines and the writing is five-star all the way. His take on managing your fears is particularly original and his wisdom comes from real experience. This book brings nonfinancial retirement coaching to the masses, and I'm glad to see that it's Larry doing this for all of us."" -Chip Conley, founder and CEO of Modern Elder Academy (MEA), author of Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Life Gets Better with Age ""Larry Jacobson is an accomplished and well-respected thought leader in the field of retirement coaching and beyond. In his latest work, What's Your Encore? A Step-by-Step Guide to Retiring With Purpose and Fulfillment, Larry provides an engaging experience that helps the reader discover the best of what's next. This is a great addition to your retirement planning library!"" -Robert Laura, founder of the Retirement Coaches Association ""Larry has done it again and the result is a must-read! Combine corporate expertise, decades of experience, wisdom, a six-year sailing adventure around the globe, and practical application coaching clients from broad industries/all walks of life, and the result...a book destined to be an important go-to guide. Don't retire without it."" -Joyce Cohen, career transition and life planning specialist, cofounder of My Future Purpose, author of Diving Into Living...My Way series ""Larry Jacobson's What's Your Encore? is an essential guide for anyone standing at the precipice of retirement. Meticulously crafted, it offers a unique blend of insightful exercises, practical strategies, and heartfelt advice, ensuring your retirement journey is not just planned, but purposeful and fulfilling. Jacobson's expertise shines through every page, transforming the daunting task of retirement planning into an inspiring voyage of selfdiscovery and passion pursuit. A must-read for those seeking a vibrant and meaningful post-career life."" -Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE, former president of the National Speakers Association, author of Deliver Unforgettable Presentations ""What's Your Encore? by Larry Jacobson is a rare must-read in the crowded field of life fulfillment books. Larry powerfully guides you to make the most of your long future with clarity and purpose. Enjoy all the elements of the perfect how-to book coupled with deep emotional intelligence, as you create new possibilities for yourself that are practical, inspirational, and resultful. Larry shows you how to find your passion, prioritize your actions, and realize your retirement dreams. This is not a read-it-and-forget-it book. You will revisit its wisdom repeatedly throughout the fabulous decades ahead."" -Adriane Berg, founder of Generation Bold Consulting, author of How Not To Go Broke at 102 and The Totally Awesome Money Book for Kids, Emmy Award-winning host of Tax Beat, and United Nations representative at the International Federation on Ageing