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The Work-Optional Readiness Checklist

One page. Two minutes. An honest look at where you actually stand.

Fifteen questions across your financial picture and the life you’re planning for. No score, no sales pitch — just the questions worth answering before you decide anything.

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Fee-only
Fiduciary
CFP® Professional
NAPFA member
Licensed Investment Adviser · Maine
What’s on it

Two sections. Fifteen questions. Real answers.

Financial readiness

Income needs
Income sources
Tax strategy
Roth conversion timing
Sequence-of-returns risk
Healthcare before Medicare
Social Security timing
Estate plan currency
Inflation
Investment strategy for distribution

Life & goals readiness

What you want your time to look like
Alignment with your spouse or partner
Where you want to live
Meaningful activities
What you’re stepping toward
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There’s more, if you want it

The full framework, when you’re ready.

The Work-Optional Roadmap goes twelve sections deep — the six financial pillars, the five mistakes we see most often, and the three-step process we use with every client. We’ll send it a few days after your checklist, no action needed.

Brie Pio, founder and lead financial planner at Birch Point Wealth Management, seated on a stone wall in the woods
About Birch Point

Brie Pio, MBA, CFP®

Founder & Lead Financial Planner

Brie has spent more than two decades helping people navigate the work-optional transition. Birch Point is a fee-only, fiduciary planning firm in Rockport, Maine, working with pre-retirees and retirees ready to build a plan around what comes next.

MBA
CFP® professional
NAPFA member
Fee-only fiduciary
Rockport · Maine
Free checklist

Take two minutes.

No cost, no obligation.

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No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. We’ll also send you occasional planning insights — the kind that actually matter at your stage.

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