Retirement Readiness - Beyond Finances

Virginia Bennett Room. Enjoy Your Retirement Are you ready to retire? Having enough money is part of the equation, but factors that determine your happiness - purpose, relationships, identity, daily structure, and mental resilience - can play a much bigger part. Retirement isn't just a math problem—it's a human behavioral and life philosophy challenge. In this eye-opening session, we'll stop obsessing over the financial factors and address the non-financial factors that will lead to happy, high-quality life. Discover and Learn: Why retirement "freedom" often becomes retirement "frustration," and what you can do to prevent it Learn the retirement invisible risks and the free preventative care playbook No Registration. Drop in. About our speaker: After retiring early from a finance career that included experiences at PwC, Tesla, Meta and Amazon, Amber Ma has begun a second career as a financial literacy instructor. Passionate about early retirement strategies, Ms. Ma is a personal finance instructor at University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, where she teaches courses on retirement planning. Library staff may take photos, videos, or audio recordings at our events. Please tell us if you do not wish to be photographed, video-recorded, or audio-recorded. We will always respect your requests! An ASL (American Sign Language) interpreter can be provided for this program if requested at least seven (7) days in advance. For assistance, please contact your library or accessibility@aclibrary.org.