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Dave Hughes and Jeff McKeehan had independently moved to Arizona to escape freezing winters. Jeff contends that “snow is for snow globes.” When they got together, they searched for a place that would support their love of playing music and gardening. They chose Chandler, Arizona for its proximity to Phoenix enabling them to enjoy all of its culture but far enough to avail themselves of less pricey real estate. Find out more on Episode 106 of Retire There with Gil & Gene.
Read Dave’s book on The Quest for Retirement Utopia: How to Find the Retirement Spot That’s Right for You. Dave’s additional books on retirement include Smooth Sailing Into Retirement: How to Navigate the Transition from Work to Leisure and Design Your Dream Retirement: How to Envision, Plan For, and Enjoy the Best Retirement Possible.
Check out Dave’s website: Retire Fabulously.
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Dave Hughes was born and raised in Springfield, Ohio. He attended The Ohio State University. Before retiring early at age 56, Dave was a software engineer for 34 years, working for companies such as Intel Corporation, McDonnell Douglas Space Systems, and NCR Corporation. Throughout his career, his assignments included software development, customer support, training, course development, and management. He says he is “happily retired” but he seems to be working as hard as ever. Although now, he is pursuing what he loves, writing. Get this Gene, Dave has written a book on places to retire. [GENE: Gee, why didn’t we think of that? GIL: We did, but I don’t like to write or read for that matter. That is why we are doing a podcast on the subject]. Dave’s book is titled The Quest for Retirement Utopia: How to Find the Retirement Spot That’s Right for You. And he has written two other retirement lifestyle planning books: (1) Design Your Dream Retirement: How to Envision, Plan For, and Enjoy the Best Retirement Possible AND (2) Smooth Sailing Into Retirement: How to Navigate the Transition from Work to Leisure. On top of that Dave created the website RetireFabulously.com, and yes I said FABULOUSLY. Dave says the website enables readers to envision, plan for, and enjoy the best retirement possible. In addition to writing hundreds of articles for RetireFabulously.com, Dave’s work has appeared on US News & World Report, Medium, Yahoo! Finance, CNN/Money, Next Avenue, and others. Last but not least, Dave has published two novels with more on the way. Dave’s website is AuthorDave… Read More
Jeff McKeehan was born in San Diego, California, and as his Dad was in the military, the family moved around a bit, including a stint in Hawaii. As an adult he’s lived primarily in three states: Kentucky, Connecticut and Arizona. He has a bachelor’s in Music Theory from Eastern Kentucky University. For the first half of his life Jeff was a studio musician, nightclub DJ and dance music remix engineer for the DJ subscriber service Hot Tracks. For the latter half he worked in financial services, retail management, training and IT. He is no longer in the rat race and now belongs to two flute choirs at two different community colleges and provides private flute lessons. He does work in audio/video production for the flute choirs as well as non-musical clients. Additionally, he composes and arranges musical works for flute choirs and other small wind ensembles. Jeff’s interests include music, of course, but as he describes, he’s also a gadget-head and loves tinkering with computers, electronics, etc. He also grows vegetables and herbs and loves animals, particularly dogs. Their dog, Maynard, is one of the great joys in his life.
