I'm Bec Wilson, retirement expert

Hi, I'm Bec. The Founder of the Epic Retirement Institute in the UK. 
I’m expert on midlife and modern retirement. My approach is refreshing, energetic, and grounded in science and evidence. Let me guide you through the second half of life and show how your choices today shape a fulfilling midlife and an epic retirement.

Explore my UK newsletter, listen to the Prime Time podcast, and join the Epic Retirement Flagship Course to get started.
MAKE YOUR RETIREMENT EPIC

My mission is simple... to learn about and share the proven ways you can create a better midlife and a modern, epic retirement.

We're going to have a great time learning together. 

My story

Bec Wilson

I’ve spent more than 15 years helping people navigate midlife and modern retirement, exploring everything from money and health to travel, happiness and fulfilment. Along the way, I’ve written three bestselling books — How to Have an Epic Retirement Australi (Hachette, 2023), How to Have an Epic Retirement UK (Short Books 2025) and Prime Time (Hachette, 2025) — launched the Prime Time podcast in Australia (Top 200), and built practical pre-retirement education programs for organisations delivering at scale.

In late 2025, I began writing for The Times and launched Epic Retirement the book in the UK, expanding my work across Australia, New Zealand and now Britain as the global Epic Retirement community continues to grow.

I write a weekly retirement column for major newspapers and regularly share insights on radio and in the media. Before this, I spent ten years as the founder and CEO of Starts at 60, an experience that shaped the way I communicate, teach and connect with people in the second half of life.

On a personal note, I’m a mother of three teens and young adults, and I’m living my own Prime Time years — learning, exploring and making the most of this next stage of life right alongside my community.
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Why do I educate on retirement? 

For a long time I've had a fascination with how the world is changing as we are living longer, more productive lives. And the more I dug in, the more I felt that there's just not enough high quality, well-researched, and well-created education to help guide people into modern midlife and the complex world of retirement. 

And, with fifteen years behind me building a digital community, three bestselling books and the support of a massive retirement sector, I seemed to have the skillls, knowledge ans support to not only educate, but to communicate through a few different online and offline channels - building courses, books, podcasts, articles and newsletters and speaking to audiences.

Hopefully, through my work I can make modern midlife and retirement a little easier to understand and much easier to navigate so fewer people make regrettable mistakes because they didn't understand their choices.


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What our community members say:

Thank you, Bec. This course has been exactly what I needed when I needed it. I understand the system now and that means I can make plans with confidence. You are filling an information void in an engaging manner which is very much appreciated. 

Jennifer

t has been an intense 6 weeks, and oddly I feel a sense of loss now it is done. I will be going back over the materials again as I take the time to do the work thoughtfully. I appreciate all the insights from you, Bec, your guest speakers, and the community of participants. Pearls of wisdom dropped in so many different ways. The content was on point, the engagement throughout the course was real, the community demonstrated real vulnerability in opening up to you and each other. 

Kerri

I found this course to be invaluable as it covers every aspect of retirement planning. Not just the financial aspect, but the emotional, social, health and travel aspects as well. The workbook will be very useful to remind myself of my goals along the way.

Godber

Are you ready to learn how to have an epic retirement? 

Embrace your choices in the run up to retirement!