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Should you delay retirement and keep working? This podcast looks at all aspects of retirement - including not retiring. Let's face it, retirement's not for everyone. And many people are choosing to work longer, for a variety of reasons. For some it is financially driven. But for others it's because they love what they do, enjoy the people they work with and have a sense of mission and purpose in their work. Scott MacKillop shares why he's choosing to continue to work - and how he also enjoys his family life and a variety of interests outside of work.

Scott MacKillop joins us from Colorado.

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Bio
Scott MacKillop is the CEO of First Ascent Asset Management in Denver, Colorado. After 40 years in the financial services industry, he's still driven by seeing if he can do things better and make a difference in the industry. A graduate of Stanford University and George Washington University's Law School, he began his career working as an intern at the Securities and Exchange Commission while in law school and then practiced law in Washington, DC for a little over 15 years, specializing in securities law, ERISA and venture capital transactions. Scott has published over 100 published articles and papers and has delivered over 100 industry conference speaking engagements. He was born in California and grew up in Silicon Valley (before it was called Silicon Valley), has lived on the East Coast and in the South, and in Denver since 1997.  In addition to hanging out with his wife and kids, Scott plays lead guitar for the band at his church, loves hiking and has summited 30 “14ers " (mountains 14,000 feet and higher).

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Wise Quotes


On Balance


"The first thing I, I learned is that there's really no way to perfectly balance work in life. It's an aspirational goal, but you have to accept the fact that there's only 24 hours in a day. And if you're like me, there's way too many things that you'd like to do and so you're never going to be able to fit it all in. So you have to try to screen out as many things as possible to really just focus on your priorities and not let yourself get distracted. Embrace the fact that you're not going to get everything right. You're going to have days when you go, Oh, I spent too much time doing work and not enough time doing things with my family. And there'll be other times when you see it the other way. So just don't stress about that. Do your best to stay focused. And you have to think about it, because it's not going to happen by itself. There's nobody that's going to tell you when it's time to go do your fun things and stop working. So you have to be very intentional about it. I think the key is just recognizing that it's hard to get that exactly right. But I have found, interestingly, that time seems a little bit expandable to me. So if I have relatively few things to do, I'm going to fill up the day. If I have more things to do, somehow or another, I can still get those in."

 

On Guitar Lessons





"I also play guitar. I play in a band. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area back in the sixties. And so there were were a lot of  pretty cool musical influence...