NICE TO MEET YOU

I'm Bec Wilson

I'm an author, podcaster, columnist, educator and one of Australia’s most trusted voices on modern retirement, midlife, and ageing well.

I wrote How to Have an Epic Retirement — Australia’s #1 bestselling retirement book in 2023 and 2024 and 2025 so far — and my new book Prime Time: 27 Lessons for the New Midlife is out now. It’s all about helping you thrive in the powerful, choice-filled years before retirement.

I host the Prime Time podcast (produced by 9Podcasts), write a weekly newsletter at epicretirement.net for Aussies and International.epicretirement.net for my worldwide audience; and run the popular 6-week Epic Retirement flagship course. Tens of thousands read my syndicated finance column in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and other Nine papers each weekend. And our Facebook group — The Epic Retirement Club — is a thriving global community with well more than half a million members sharing ideas, stories, and laughs.

And I'm excited to say, we’re taking Epic global — with new newsletters, courses, and country-specific editions rolling out internationally. The UK edition of How to Have an Epic Retirement launches this year, with more countries to follow. So watch this space. 

At home, I’m a mum of three teens and young adults, a traveller, and someone who’s living her own Prime Time — dreaming of her own epic retirement one day (but not just yet).

If you’re thinking about freedom, financial confidence, lifestyle, and how you want to live in the second half of life — you’re in the right place.

My story

My work in retirement and midlife started with a big experiment: building a digital-first media company from scratch in the very beginning of digital media. In 2013, I was running my own marketing consultancy and my parents were turning 60-ish. As a side-hustle I launched Starts at 60, which over coming years, rapidly grew to become Australia’s largest digital platform for over-60s. It was intense, ambitious, and wildly educational — we reached millions, built a community, attracted advertisers, raised capital, created a travel division and learned in real time what older Australians actually wanted (and what they were sick of being told), expanded into ecommerce, and more. 

That experience showed me just how powerful and exciting this stage of life can be — and how often it’s misunderstood or dismissed.

After I stepped away from the business in 2022, I knew I wasn’t done. I still had so much more I wanted to do to help people earlier; especially to people in their 40s, 50s and early 60s who were starting to ask bigger questions about what comes next. Not just about money, but about freedom, identity, health, purpose — and how to make this next chapter count.

That’s when Epic Retirement was born. A book. A course. A newsletter. A whole new conversation.

Since then, this has grown into a national (and now international) community. We’ve built tools, written columns, launched a podcast, and filled a Facebook group with smart, funny, thoughtful people navigating retirement on their own terms. And I think this might be just the beginning.  

In fact we've turned it all into The Epic Retirement Institute and are professionally growing the education in a way that can help more people, in more places. 

Why I do it

I do this because I enjoy it and I find it very fulfilling.

Fact is, too many people reach midlife and modern retirement feeling unsure, underprepared, or like their best years are behind them — when really, they’re just getting started.

I do this work to give people clarity, confidence and choice. Whether it’s about money, work, lifestyle or legacy, I want you to feel powerful in the decisions you make — not just for retirement, but for right now.

This isn’t just about planning the future. It’s about living well today, and shaping a second half of life that feels truly epic.