Your Next Chapter: A Woman's Guide to a Successful Retirement

Your Next Chapter: A Woman's Guide to Successful Retirement is written to help women make sound decisions as they navigate this most important stage in their lives--retirement. This book helps women navigate successfully through this time of major transition in their lives, both emotionally and financially. Your Next Chapter is written by women for women and focuses on issues women need to address so they can have a sustainable and rewarding future.

Your Next Chapter provides important information to help women make the necessary decisions as they consider the many options before them. To illustrate these issues, the authors present detailed scenarios of four hypothetical women in various situations in different geographic locations as they approach retirement. Among the topics examined:

What does retirement mean for me?

How should I revise my investment and estate plans?

How will my emotional and physical health be impacted by retirement?

Why your planning should be flexible and adaptable as your needs and desires change.

Financial planner Alexandra Armstrong, CFP® and psychologist Mary R. Donahue, the authors, have worked with women for decades helping them make sound decisions about their personal and financial lives. Their previous bestselling book, On Your Own: A Widow's Passage to Emotional and Financial Well-Being is now in its 5th edition. In this latest collaboration, Alex and Mary again help women move successfully through a time of major transition in their lives.

Alexandra Armstrong, CFP(R), was one of the first women in the country to become a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER(TM) practitioner (CFP(R)). In addition, she is a Chartered Retirement Planning CounselorSM (CRPC(R)). Alex serves as chairman emeritus of Armstrong, Fleming & Moore, Inc., a financial planning firm based in Washington, DC, which she founded in 1983. Her clients include single women, dual-income couples and those close to retirement as well as those already retired. Alex has held leadership roles at several nonprofit organizations. She served as the chairman of the Financial Planning Association (first female), Foundation for Financial Planning, the Boy Scouts National Capital Area Council (first female) and the International Women's Forum of Washington, DC. She was treasurer of Reading is Fundamental as well as the DC Police Foundation. Alex has written a monthly financial planning column for Better Investing magazine for the past forty years. She is coauthor of On Your Own; A Widow's Passage to Emotional and Financial Well-Being, now in its fifth edition. She has been quoted in virtually every major U.S. financial publication and has appeared on numerous national television programs, including CBS This Morning, Good Morning America and Wall$treet Week. Alex offers securities through her broker dealer, Commonwealth Financial Network, Member FINRA/ SIPC, a Registered Investment Adviser. Her firm is Armstrong, Fleming & Moore, Inc., which is a Registered Investment Adviser. Advisory services and fixed insurance products and services offered by Armstrong Fleming & Moore, Inc., are separate and unrelated to Commonwealth.

Dr Mary R. Donahue has a successful psychology practice in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. Her practice is primarily focused on families in crisis, domestic abuse and women addressing life altering issues such as relationships, career development, and loss. Mary's commitment to women's issues has led her to speak with regularity to both professional and lay audiences. This includes educating the judiciary and professional groups such as the American Bar Association, local county Bar Associations and the Association of Family and Conciliatory courts. She has been a contributor to the Washingtonian magazine and spoken on both radio and television shows with regard to these matters. Dr Donahue is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Maryland Psychological Association. She is the coauthor of On Your Own: a Widow's Passage to Emotional and Financial Well-Being, now in its fifth edition. She is also the coauthor of a children's book titled What's My Job, written for youngsters at a point of transition in their lives.