Hit podcast host and bestselling author of How to Have an Epic Retirement Bec Wilson presents the ultimate guide to modern midlife. We're now living longer, saving smarter, working more flexibly and seeking more meaning. Bec guides you in 27 practical lessons on money, health, work, purpose, family and travel, so you can make your Prime Time count.

From Bec Wilson, hit podcast host and bestselling author of How to Have an Epic Retirement, comes the ultimate guide to modern midlife. We're now living longer, saving smarter, working more flexibly and seeking meaning at every turn. In 27 practical lessons, let Bec guide you on everything you need to know to make your Prime Time count.

The period from your late 40s well into your 70s is what Bec calls your 'Prime Time'. These years can be some of the best of your life - if you make the right choices. Far from winding down, this is the time to truly live.

In this essential handbook, Bec guides you through the key pillars of power, money, health, work, purpose, happiness, family and travel. This isn't just about adjusting to a longer lifespan - it's about creating a richer, more fulfilling life.

Prime Time: 27 Lessons for the New Midlife isn't just a roadmap to retirement - it's a playbook for a life lived with intention, energy, joy, and financial confidence. With Bec Wilson as your guide, you can embrace this incredible stage and truly make the most of your Prime Time.

Money takes centre stage in this guide, with strategies that go beyond the basics. Learn how to make the most of superannuation, invest with purpose, maximise compounding and franking credits, understand spending and layering of income and how to leverage tax concessions. Beyond simply reaching 'enough to retire', Bec shows you how to build flexible financial foundations that will allow you to enjoy these years to the fullest.

Along with the financial foundations, this guide is packed with insights for building purpose and joy into every day, with practical advice for extending or reshaping your career, crafting a purpose-driven 'second act', creating work-life flexibility, strengthening family ties and looking after your changing body.

Ready to make the most of your Prime Time? Then you need this book now!

Details

ISBN13: 9780733652219
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 352
Edition:
Publication Date: 30 Jul 2025
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Publication City, Country: Australia
Dimensions (cm): 23.4(H)x15.3(L)300
Weight (gm): 300

Author Biography

Bec Wilson is a leading voice on midlife, modern ageing and the future of retirement, in Australia and beyond.

She's the bestselling author of How to Have an Epic Retirement - Australia's #1 retirement book in 2023 and 2024 - and Prime Time: 27 lessons for the new midlife, as well as the founder of the Epic Retirement Institute, a trusted hub for practical retirement education, insights and tools.

Bec hosts the Prime Time podcast, one of Australia's top 200 podcasts, and writes a weekly newsletter at epicretirement.net which brings together a large and loyal community of midlifers and retirees.

Through the Epic Retirement Institute, she runs the popular six-week flagship course 'How to Have an Epic Retirement' and partners with super funds and organisations to deliver pre-retirement education programs.

Bec writes a widely read syndicated finance column for The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and other Nine mastheads, and manages the thriving global Facebook group The Epic Retirement Club.

She's a mother of three teens and young adult children, a lifelong learner, and is living her own Prime Time - while dreaming of her Epic Retirement, one day.

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