Workbook
Who Are You After You Retire
A Workbook for the Identity You Forgot to Build While You Were Building a Career
This workbook builds a documented post-career identity before the career ends and the question becomes urgent.
For the person approaching or entering retirement who built their identity around their career and has never been asked who they are without it. For the person whose answer to "what do you do" is about to change — and who has no answer ready.
The Name It First Experience
Not defining yourself by work is not the same as knowing who you are — this workbook finds out. Who Are You Without Your Job walks you through the identity beneath the career: what you value, what you are good at outside the job, what you have wanted for yourself that the job kept postponing, and who you are when the answer to what do you do is no longer the most interesting thing about you. It is for the person approaching or entering retirement who built their identity around what they do — and needs to know who they are before the doing stops. You finish with a documented post-career identity — what is true about you regardless of what you do for money, and what you are building next.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- Who are you when your work does not define you — have you ever had to answer that question?
- What has your career given your identity that you are afraid of losing?
- What makes you happy that has nothing to do with your professional role?
Research basis
Erikson (generativity vs stagnation) / retirement psychology / narrative therapy / positive psychology / identity theory
Choose your format.
Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.
Print Paperbackpersonalize
A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
$22.99
eBook + journal
The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
Not available
Audiobook
We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
Not available
Hardcoverpersonalize
The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
Not available
Digital Fill + membership+membership
Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
$12.99
Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
Not available
Everything packages
The Paperback Everything Package
[personalize]
Not available
The Hardcover Everything Package
[personalize]
Not available
The Premium Hardcover Everything Package
[personalize]
Not available
Already own this title? Add any other format from your account.
Choose your pace.
The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
Essential path
Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
Full depth
Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
Already own this title? Add any other format from your account.
Buy it for yourself.
Choose your format above.