Rock Your Retirement Show

In this episode of "Rock Your Retirement," host Kathe Kline and co-host Barb welcome special guest Karen Salmansohn, author of "Your To Die For Life." The discussion centers on living life with intention, reflecting on mortality, and finding meaning, all delivered with a dose of humor and practicality. Karen Salmansohn shares herjourney from a successful yet unfulfilled advertising career to becoming a prolific self-help author, and she dives into what inspired her latest book—a combination of personal loss and the wake-up call of realizing how often we live "near" our lives instead of fully in them.Throughout the conversation, all three women reflect on their own pivotal life moments: Barb speaks candidly aboutlosing her mother and the lesson of not waiting for "someday," while Kathe Kline recounts the trauma and enlightenmentthat came from witnessing a fatal motorcycle accident. Both stories reinforce Karen Salmansohn core message that awareness of mortality can spark