Episode 4: Permission to Have More Fun

Derek Coburn thinks we're in a fun recession. His words: 99% of adults aren't having anywhere near the amount of fun they should be.

Derek is the founder of Cadre, a community for entrepreneurs, and the author of Networking Is Not Working and Let's Retire Retirement. We get into the research that stopped him cold (the time we spend with friends collapses from about 150 minutes a day as teenagers to almost nothing by our thirties), a term he loves called "collective effervescence" and why he goes to twenty-five concerts a year, how a busy middle-aged adult actually makes new friends when the kids' bus stop is no longer doing it for you, and the money reframe underneath his book: if you're going to work longer than you planned, you can stop over-saving and spend more time and money on the people and the fun that matter now, instead of deferring all of it twenty years.

It's an episode about giving yourself permission to have more fun now, not someday.

Derek's community is at cadredc.com, and his book Let's Retire Retirement is at derekcoburn.com.